NightOwl @ NightOwl @lemmy.one

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• HDR can now be enabled in Display Settings if supported by the external display.
• VRR can now be enabled in Display Settings if supported by the USB-C adapter.

Excited for these two.

Sure, but to lot of traditional gamers that means as much as saying reality TV is one of the most profitable shows to someone who doesn't like reality TV.

I just don't see the level of influence as you do when it comes to DRM. DRM is something that was going to be in place and had been in the works, and if it wasn't it would be due to the market not existing to begin with. Epic or any other company deciding to not bother to try to enter digital distribution on a massive scale rivaling consoles for decades is a reflection of how little value companies saw in the PC space despite progress in digital distribution. One even music and movies were quicker to recognize.

I was hoping hall effects could be the solution. Maybe best that can be hoped for is ones that can be popped out for easy replacement like the dualsense edge.

What type of problems?

I'm a nba fan though, and I just stopped playing basketball games because I got tired of paying for roster updates. And now monetization is even worse so genre is dead to me. So as a former fan of 2k I don't understand having to play the games so badly that people keep paying for it every year.

That applies to any game or franchise. If it gets bad enough that I detest it I'd just move on from it even if no option pops up. Especially one so predatory on top of being an annual release.

Then that's something done on a work device with a work account and not a personal one. I don't care what is on a work device, since it shouldn't be used for personal things.

Tell you what, we used to have 6 games and we were happy.

I am happy with the much wider variety of titles I have available. Only area where I still liked physical was consoles, but it was only because I was only buying it for exclusives which ended up being like maybe 10 over the lifetime.

But, if it were my main I'd go for digital too, but with console releases on PC I don't even bother with consoles anymore.

I'm with you there, but maybe the prices are going up because new physical games aren't being released any more, so I can contort my way to blame that on digital gaming, too.

I guess you can go ask consoles why they stopped making games after each new generation, and why Nintendo limited their supply of physical games even before digital compared to Sony to keep their prices from dropping.

For me games have been the cheapest they've been with stuff like humble bundles and being able to buy old games through direct channels as opposed to used sellers a decade later. Being able to buy something like KOTOR or system shock is cool to me over having to buy some used copy sold by a reseller that might not even be legit.

I don't see a situation where digital distribution of games would have led to a space where games having no DRM would have been mainstream. Even with DRM companies continue to associate PC with piracy.

There was also the whole Sony rootkit after all with music CDs, so I'm just not seeing this whole argument of this space could have been different if it weren't for valve. Not even sure PC gaming would have been as big as it is now if it weren't for Valve and it really would have been a situation of PC gaming being dead and for niche titles as opposed to just some clickbait headline.

Owning over a 1000 copies of physical games sounds like a nightmare in managing the space and searching for titles to me. And when I look at the market prices of old retro games and then the counterfeits I'm not too upset about the move towards digital.

What place isn't. If you want unbiased aggregate of news the only option is a rss. There isn't a place for an unbiased social media for news if it is user submitted and driven by voting or algorithm based.

I recommend Connect for lemmy if you have Android. Can put in filters to block communities that contain any keywords and posts that contain key words. And block entire instances.

When it comes to social media filtering is important to curate out the filler you don't want.

Oh crap. Has that been happening? That would be bad.

Has dual joysticks and a dpad while having the kicker of a nice transparent shell. This looks like a nice portable to use alongside my deck when I want something much more compact. Wonder how the battery life is when playing 2d titles.

I went with lemmy.one because it is run by /r/privacyguides and is federated with lemmy.world and beehaw with it being the two instances I wanted to be able to participate in.

Mobile games don't become as lucrative as it is without mtx. People understand the business reason, but it doesn't mean it shields it from criticism. Doesn't need defending either, since as you said money is enough to not care. You don't really start doing that stuff if you care about perception, so I say good for them monetarily speaking. But, that's the extent of my praise.

Personally I avoid videos with variations of the open mouth, confused face, and disappointed look these days. It's just the area of YouTube I've gotten tired of, and those videos usually tend to be pretty shilly playing to the algorithm and tend to be from bigger channels. I understand why its done, but it doesn't shield from criticism. Anyways good for them, but it has manifested in a way where because the algorithm is what dictates the product it feels like AI in a way where the presentation style gets tiring.

Title does not inform the viewer that it is a linguistic explanation of language, which is definitely more interesting compared to the vague title that it was submitted under and would lead to a skip for me without your explanation.

It's why I consider it a bad title, since it makes it seem like the run of mill outrage bait. When in actuality a linguists insight is so much more unique compared to usual videos exploring this topic. Title draws in casual users seeking outrage, but can lead to people ignoring it out of the assumptions that the title illicits.

I don't have the long term attention span demanded of live service games, since once I'm done with a game I move on.

If I used an IPhone my approach would just be to get the cheapest smallest version which is the SE, and it'd just be to use imessage for blue bubbles and Apple wallet.

For that reason I wish there was a ipod nano sized iPhone.