echo64 @ echo64 @lemmy.world

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What part of this game fits your statement here?

At the very least I don't feel like I need more out of Firefox than it has today. If it all goes to shit, then a free Firefox Ala chromium would do fine.

given that is what they were seemingly aiming to make, yes. your reaction tells me they nailed it, good job them.

"Around half of all people who played, played in multiplayer" kinda sounds like 25% of sales were multiplayer sales. Still not insignificant and more than I would have thought, but it would be foolish to extrapolate from that and make a mulitplayer only mario next.

It's nintendo that's almost exactly what they will do.

When a nintendo executive I generally trust that theirs truth somewhere past the branding. With Phil Spencer talks I'm just assuming the opposite of everything he says. It's a different thing, he really goes for the lies, to you, to the ftc, everyone

It depends how far it is, and personal preference.

4k makes a massive difference for me on my TV, I'll opt for it whenever I can. But it's all personal preference and circumstance which is good to remember.

Your situation isn't the same as everyone's, theirs a valid use for 1080p but also for 4k

Home cinemas could make use of 8k, but we're talking about 4k in this thread

It really depends on the size of tv. It's like a cinema screen, you want very high resolutions for that even though it's far away, because it's a large size

Okay, but given several other companies, they already made this exact product.

I just want it to be on par with the Roku or it’ll wind up in the trash heap

in the nicest way possible. lower your expectations. or accept the data-selling, or VPN through europe so you can deny the ads.

Look for air mouse. It's basically a wiimote. Uses gyroscope to pretend to be a pointer device. You'll need that because you're basically going to need to use a web browser if you want to go down this path.

It's not a nice experience but all the nice experiences you won't like.

The American government /was/ paying for starlink (as it is not sustainable, nevermind profitable by itself. Shockingly few people in the middle of nowhere can't pay for infinite rocket launches). They said the service wasn't good enough to keep paying for it.

So now Musk doesn't care about trying to apease the Americans and will seemingly let Russia use it. Why not

The writing is on the wall here, and it's plain to see. Also, you really can't trust anything that comes out of Phil Spencer's mouth.

If the goal is indeed for Xbox games to be on all platforms, then the Xbox platform is the only place they don't make money. Super low third-party sales, zero first-party sales. Only gamepass subscription money, which can't pay for all of their company buyouts, never mind paying off the 65 billion actiblizz purchase.

If gamepass is everywhere, then Xbox has no value to Microsoft, it only harms them.

It also exists to weaken any argument they might have to get governments to forcibly allow Microsoft stores on other platforms like the eu apple ruling.

Honestly, at this point, they should really just save whatever for a sequel. It's been two years. As a reminder (though there are extenuating circumstances here), Dark Souls 2 was 2014, and Dark Souls 3 was 2016.

I guess the new reality is that it takes six years to make a game and three years between expansions. I think I'd just prefer smaller games and smaller dev cycles.

If they were going to do it, they would have done it.

So now you think that it's... Ukrainian traitors or pows? You think they don't deactivate clearance for anyone captured?

If you're going to make up fan fiction for Russia, at least suggest something more realistic, like espionage

I'm all for shunning and making fun of reddit but this post is just kinda sad and pathetic. Have fun talking to a bot I guess.

I'm confused. Do you think starlink is free to access? You have to have authentication to use it, spacex is allowing russia to use it.

There's some off-base comments here that ignore why the industry is being hit particularly hard. Note that when it comes to companies like Microsoft, you're right it's pure greed. They don't need to shed those jobs, but that will make shareholders money, so bye-bye livelihood. Fuck Microsoft in particular on this round of layoffs, money for a 65 billion purchase but nothing else, pricks.

But for most of the job losses, it really comes down to high interest rates. High interest rates disincentivizes investing. And the past decade or so has been highly investment based.

A lot of the traditional big publishers like EA and Activision went entirely in-house, so any studio outside of those big ones needed to find funding somewhere. They turned to investment companies.

This works whilst investing is cheap, but when it's hard to come by, suddenly you have to make payroll and can't. This is why Embracer has failed, for example.

I've been around open source for 20+ years and can tell you right now that it don't work that way. An issue tracker and a wiki is not a community.

Most older open source communities were built on irl connections and irc, with some mailing lists thrown in. Hell, we even funded conferences just around the software, not to sell a product but just because it's good for everyone to be talking to each other.

The issue tracker tracks the status of things, the wiki is generally user focused. It's not where development happens or thinks get built.