Notices by Raptor :gamedev: (raptor85@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@killyourfm @codemonkeymike I subbed to netflix back in the early days and it was great, a cheap monthly sub basically replaced renting movies and they had practically EVERYTHING.

These days it's 5x as expensive, they have seasons 3, 7, and 10 of a show (gotta have disney+, hulu, and paramount+ to view ALL the seasons), almost no classic movies or shows (those you gotta rent separately), and on top of all that they also have ADS.

I stopped streaming and went back to the old ways years ago.

@killyourfm get a HDMI splitter, most of them strip HDCP, that's how I used to stream PS3 stuff. Mine was by "ViewHD" but they're cheap and most of them work, look online, plenty of lists of ones people know to work.

@killyourfm oh, and the cheaper chinese ones are in general better, you don't want full HDMI compliant because compliant ones re-encrypt the output.

@nafmo @zwol nothing frustrates me more on a website than all the text being in a little 2 inch strip, 5 words at a time in the middle of the page, with 18 inches of blank space to the left and right of it, even mastodon does that shit by default

@breadcat @MediaActivist @lamb according to their page they have no intent on ever having federation or E2E encrypted rooms either, so anything on it is locked to an external service they run that they can shut down or start requiring payment to access at any time. You can self host but there's no federation so little point in that, it's just over-complicated mumble if you use it that way.

I see no reason to use this over any existing matrix or xmpp client.

@killyourfm looks like what they did was send an invite with that entire message being their "name", i wonder if the broken phone number formatting is just a trivial way to get around detection of phone numbers in a name.

@captainarcee they haven't done one in a few years but they also branched out into publishing for a bunch of the devs that worked with them.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/47590/The_Dread_X_Collections/

@captainarcee @ClarusPlusPlus not exactly the same thing but the dread-x collections had a lot of the same feel for me as oldschool shareware compilations, just a bundle of smaller games by different devs, some of which were one chapter of a multi-chapter game you could buy a longer version of. I loved the whole vibe too of tying each one together with a "overworld" where you actually find the games to play.

A lot of the replies on #fosstodon in response to the recent events are just downright shocking, granted the people involved quickly deleting all their posts does make it hard for people coming in late to figure out the full story but it seems like the picture is trying to be painted demonizing anyone calling for the #fediblock as "overreacting" or just doing it "to see a good server burn", and the mods that caused the problem painting themselves as "victims". 1/2

@killyourfm even Terry Pratchett doesn't recommend it as a starting point, it's pretty rough compared to the rest of the series, though I do love the story. IMHO the abridged version is actually better because it cuts out a lot of stuff in-between and is less chaotic. Sourcery is generally considered the best starting point. I'm partial to the watch and death series though, so I would recommend "guards guards!"

@killyourfm I'm too lazy to copy it across to my deck and test but I'd imagine much like world you can dump it down to 540p and turn on FSR to look virtually idtentical to 800p but get almost double the framerate and battery

@killyourfm it definitely both looks and runs better than beta 1 (and beta 1 was honestly not bad besides the invisible texture glitch). My friends and I are eagerly awaiting this one, only thing we've really been looking forward to for a while...

@killyourfm I mean, it's EA, who multiple times has either had from a studio under them or bought out a game series that was leading the market and driving new gameplay innovations, deciding that they know better than the devs that have shown to make an amazing game 5-10 times already and giving it to some cheaper developers and making it more generic, then when that fails blaming lack of interest in that genre/game series/etc. EA's been out of touch since the 90's hit.

@killyourfm Not sure how long ago that was but I've used it for a while, all my friends have moved over to it as well. (with a bit of prodding tbf), we even have the full voice calls/etc set up on our home server for gaming. It's basically just better discord without all the crap now.

I would never use it to replace a forum or something like masto of course but for chat imho it's the best there is at the moment.

@killyourfm @jsstaedtler funnily i can see someone else replied to this message but my server isn't receiving it so I can't see the reply.

Mastodon is great at a lot of things, making a coherant thread of replies everyone in a group can see is not one of them.

@killyourfm @Jojonintendo @thanius @nausahaver @lyonsinbeta @baltmatrix @TeamLinux01 @chris @Btph @gsquirrel @CleanDesign @tylnesh @jsstaedtler for more "live" discussions, definitely matrix, signal is too much of a pain on the desktop (it works when it wants to, plus needs to be signed up for on a mobile app on ios or android with a phone number) and mastodon doesn't do well for threading group conversations

@killyourfm honestly having seen them actually set up and running...eh, they're not the best build quality, you can source real arcade parts for as much as they cost and it's not hard to get nice printed laminates for the sides/top

@killyourfm it's post-gamecube/gameboy nintendo, ALL of their first party controllers will be uncomfortable after 10 minutes

@gedeonm I kinda hate how everyone keeps screaming about how many fewer people mastodon has. Sure it's not as big, but you say something here and it actually starts a conversation. Twitter, threads, bluesky? They're all just platforms for farming fake internet points (likes) off shouting to the void and hoping the algorithm likes you. People like them for the same reason old people sit at slots staring at flashing lights telling them "you're a winner!" as it bankrupts them slowly.

@jzillw @darth meanwhile, every unity game for some reason seems to look 15 years old but have system reqs that come from the future. It's actually impressive how many games can chug on a 4090 with a 5950x

yes some games had performance issues in the 90's but a lot of that was down to hardware varying wildly without common api's. Releasing a game in the mid 90's that looked like it had been made in 1980 but still has performance issues would have gotten you laughed out of the industry tho