conciselyverbose

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Special teams are a core part of the nature of the sport.

Field position is football.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This isn't correct. Most Linux systems are designed to never need to be rebooted. Multi-year uptimes aren't unusual at all.

Negligible isn't the word for the power usage. A whole bunch of tiers below that is. If you're turning off your switch or steam deck, you're using it wrong.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social -5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Yes? Turning it off is dumb. It's designed to be on 24/7.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social -1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

There's no reason for or meaningful benefit to it being off.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really hope they try this.

Because it would be hilarious to see all the platforms say fuck it and ban Unity games over this ridiculous cash grab they're very obviously not entitled to.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Games are different. You can set whether you want it to download while you play, or you can just leave it on the download screen plugged in at the end of the day to update everything.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I get your idea, but I don't think I've ever had an update take more than maybe a minute.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

The soldered components are because space.

The framework is fine, but it's an entirely different class of product that's not even sort of in the same neighborhood of portability, and doesn't compete at much else either. The only way you're getting your money's worth is if you actually do use it and its bad display for a bunch of generations.

People are buying Apple laptops because they're by far the best at what they are, to the point that there isn't a single competitor that's not laughable to compare to it.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

That's literally all it takes for an undetectable aim-bot. It is unconditionally impossible to prevent from happening under any circumstance.

If your game is a piece of shit that gives users information they shouldn't have, requiring fucking malware you should be in prison for thousands of life sentences for isn't the solution. Fixing your game so it uses authoritative servers that don't leak information is.

There is no possible scenario where installing a rootkit for "security" doesn't both massively compromise security in every context and prove beyond any doubt that you are an unredeemable piece of shit. It's not forgivable.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Also, the problem with "perfect" as your standard is that it doesn't exist. Everything is inherently tradeoffs. There are games with better gunplay than Starfield. There are games with better story telling. The games that do that are a lot smaller and more contained. As good as BG3 is at writing and presentation, even that's not perfect, and what they did do was only realistic because it's a CRPG and the story is the overwhelming majority of the development work. There are games that are bigger in terms of absolute size of the universe you can discover and land on, but they don't have the same depth of character development and combat options, the same quality or amount of hand crafted story content, etc.

You're always going to be able to point to games that do some specific element better than a given game, and the more ambitious a game is in providing a huge scope, the more things you'll be able to point to and say "X did this better" (because there are more elements to nitpick). Not every game is for everyone, but looking for failings is a bad way to explore or evaluate a game. It dramatically limits what you see.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

lol it actually is what I wanted it to be.

It's a mechanically reasonably modern (it feels very comparable to Deus Ex or Cyberpunk gunplay/stealth wise, with better perk/level-up design) Bethesda RPG. You have to fly around more because it's set in space and most of space is empty, but there are still a lot of places to go and it's easy to get sucked down a rabbit hole.

My complaints are pretty mild. I'd like some kind of speeder for the empty "run a mile" bits, I miss the aimless wandering of terrestrial maps and kind of wish there had been some places set up to feel like that, and I occasionally see issues with texture loading. But it's the game the direct said it was going to be, and I'm personally very happy with it (though if it could get cleaned up enough to run a little better on my steam deck I wouldn't complain).

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

M1 is just a synonym for Apple Silicon at this point.

It could also be affected by the lowest entry point on M2 being higher than M1 was, but I'm pretty sure there isn't any "M1 is better than M2" energy happening.

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