skulblaka @ skulblaka @sh.itjust.works

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They are still doing that.

About to fuck around and reboot Van Helsing

I've never once had to wait more than 5 seconds to start loading in to a match no matter what time of day or night it is. Literally no other game has ever done this. They're prioritizing their time-to-game over having actual players in your match, and this definitely means filling slots with bots. How egregious it is will depend on the time and day and current online player count. But when I'm instantly loading a full game of 10 people at 3am on a Tuesday I know something's fucky.

Other people have done actual research into the matter but I had my suspicions, just from playing the game, by the third day or so after release.

Goblins ride dogs into war.

You might need to grind this quest a few times until you get the appropriate result

I just mean one app that bridges all of that together. Having all those services as different tabs on the same window, so to speak. I want to be able to check Lemmy for news and memes, check Mastodon, scroll a couple of Loops, and settle on a Peertube video to watch while I eat lunch without ever leaving the mbin environment.

I didn't even figure this was a realistic ask, so if they're already doing it more power to them, and I might come check it out.

Nice cherry picking of the densest area of detail in World vs an empty open field in Rise.

Rise looks great when you aren't looking for ways to dunk on it.

Besides which, World was such a sluggish beast that I was running the game on minimum settings anyway just to play the damn thing. So uh, I never got to see how beautiful it looks in your photo. Sure, it's detailed, it looks good, it also runs like shit so maybe 10% of players got to actually see that. My point here was that Rise was a very impressive gain in performance for a relatively small loss in graphical fidelity. Good job Capcom, well done.

Shame, too, I actually first joined the Fediverse through Kbin and I quite liked Ernest when I heard from him. Hope he's doing okay these days.

I wonder if the mbin team has plans to turn it into the all-in-one Fediverse app, that can reach out and touch Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Loops, Peertube, et al. Seems like a neat idea. I'll be especially tickled if they can pull that off before Elon Musk manages to do exactly that with X on the corponet side, since he's been talking about wanting to do that for ages.

mbin is a fork of the (now abandoned?) kbin which integrates with Lemmy.

It's pretty much the same as any other Lemmy client unless they added something I don't know about, basically just a front end for the Fediverse.

I have no idea how they pull this off though, because Rise looks damn near about as good as World does IMO, with faster and crazier gameplay, and runs at 80 higher FPS. Either their "fancy PC game" team is trash or their mobile team is legendary, because I don't see how a minor change of art style and small drop in the number of individual grasses per map made such a huge change.

Now, Wilds does look a little crazy and I can understand how exactly the Deck might struggle on that one. But the playability difference between World and Rise without losing much graphical fidelity genuinely blew my mind. World limps along at 14 FPS on the Deck and Rise plays smooth as butter on the Switch as well as the Deck.

All the best games of the last 10 years have been built and published by teams smaller than 20 people.

Smart people aren't talking about it.

Some VR games are really great. Skyrim VR is definitively NOT one of those.

We all lift together. They are "our" people whether we want them to be or not. Looking at someone and saying, they are wrong, they have brought this upon themselves, they deserve their suffering and collapse, is not the way of the empathetic human being.

Correct though it may be, I still disagree with the premise. We could all raise each other up together instead of fighting amongst ourselves.

Unfortunately as with most things, this plan is largely ruined by expecting to include human beings in it. And I'm not immune to that criticism. But I, at least, make a constant and conscious effort to be a part of the rising tide that lifts all boats, and not the crashing wave that destroys them. If more people thought that way then we could turn this entire poem on its head.

I fundamentally reject the premise of this poem. "Everything has been shit forever so you may as well let it go on being shit". Shame on you, Mr Jeffers. The constant struggle for improvement is necessary for our societal progress and, in my opinion, most closely mirrors the actual Meaning Of Life.

All that is required for Evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

I remember being in college and my roommate and I bought a massive, like 200 lb 50 inch CRT TV from the thrift shop a few blocks away for $30. Neither of us had a car so we spent the next two hours limping that thing back to the dorm on foot. Installed it in the living room and played PS3 on it for two years.

This was barely more than ten years ago. Nowadays I want to get a CRT for retro gaming. You're spending $200 for trash or up to $500 for something decent.

It became a real problem on reddit after a while where bots would just go grab the most popular posts of 6 months ago and post them all again. Before the bots, people would do it to farm karma, and the people would get called out for it, but it was never a huge deal because you were still getting at worst like a 60/40 split of new content to reposts. But after a certain point the ratio shifted dramatically in favor of reposts in a lot of bigger communities. I think that's what really galvanized the hatred toward them.

Ahhh, it's always the ones you most suspect.