QuadratureSurfer

@ QuadratureSurfer @piefed.social

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Stop Killing Games @lemmy.dbzer0.com

QuadratureSurfer @piefed.social 6h ago

Some TVs have a "gaming mode" that must be enabled to avoid laggy inputs when playing games.

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1w ago

EESC debate about Stop Destroying Videogames ECI

1w ago

Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games

Somewhat similar to Skyrim. You can level up, and you also get "talent points" and you can invest those into different categories:

Stealth - For a stealthy play style
Room of Requirement - if you like more of a druid/alchemist approach
Dark Arts - For more of a magic based combat style
Core - For the basics.

You're free to mix and match, but you can only earn a total of 36 points. So, it's best to invest them into certain builds depending on your preferred play style.

1w ago

Subnautica 2 sells 2 million in 12 hours with over 600K concurrent players | Despite a troubled development cycle, the game has enjoyed a hugely successful launch

If you want to dive into the court documents, you can here: https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=392880

But I would just recommend listening to some lawyers comment on the situation, like Opening Arguments: https://www.patreon.com/posts/idiot-ceo-used-153623405?collection=867807

1w ago

Subnautica 2 sells 2 million in 12 hours with over 600K concurrent players | Despite a troubled development cycle, the game has enjoyed a hugely successful launch

That's correct, revenue, not profit.

The CEO of Krafton was the one who signed the deal. He definitely had buyers remorse which is why he ended up ignoring his lawyers and turning to ChatGPT for advice on how to delay the release of Subnautica 2 and avoid the payout.

1w ago

Subnautica 2 sells 2 million in 12 hours with over 600K concurrent players | Despite a troubled development cycle, the game has enjoyed a hugely successful launch

https://gamerant.com/subnautica-2-250-million-bonus/

The judge extended the deadline on the bonus by 9 months (to September).

If Subnautica earns $69.8million in revenue by then, Krafton will need to pay up the full $250million to the team.

Considering it sold 2 million copies in 12 hours, at $30 each, I'm assuming they're very close to reaching that (if they haven't already).

1w ago

Subnautica 2 sells 2 million in 12 hours with over 600K concurrent players | Despite a troubled development cycle, the game has enjoyed a hugely successful launch

Link to the terms of service here: https://subnautica.com/en/policy/tos

I didn't see anything about VPNs.

Besides that, it's definitely an overreaching document. I expect it to get a failing grade at ToS;DR.

Edit: found the part for VPNs listed under the "prohibited uses" (emphasis my own):

use IP proxying or other methods to disguise the location of your use or Device, whether to circumvent geographical restrictions on the use of the Game, the Documentation or Services or for any other purpose or in a way that violates these Terms;

1w ago

Subnautica 2 sells 2 million in 12 hours with over 600K concurrent players | Despite a troubled development cycle, the game has enjoyed a hugely successful launch

https://www.ign.com/articles/judge-slams-subnautica-2-publisher-krafton-in-victory-for-fired-workers-orders-company-reinstate-boss-and-extend-250-million-bonus

The only ones fired were the 3 co-founders. They were the ones who were set to receive the largest amount of the bonus (they had promised to put most of that back into the company and to share with the development team). The judge ordered that only one of them be brought back and for the deadline on the $250million to be extended by 9 months.

1w ago

What is the difference between piefed and lemmy and what are the advantages of this platform?

Some additional features that PieFed has:

You can create posts with polls.
Crossposts will display comments from everywhere that something is crossposted to (organized into their own sections)
Feeds for combining multiple communities into one.
Mods can move posts from one community to another (such as in cases where a post is a better fit for a different community)
You can blur images with spoiler tags instead of needing to use NSFW.
You can tag posts and then filter down posts based on those tags within a community.
You can set a time/date for when something gets posted.

A more complete list can be found here: https://join.piefed.social/features/

2w ago

Single player, open world, fantasy, RPG games

I'm fairly certain that Hogwarts Legacy checks all of those boxes.

2w ago

Engineer creates video game of Alaska’s Tracy Arm landslide, which generated a megatsunami

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAF7k8cSJsk&t=106s

Yeah, the underwater of topography at Nazaré is just right to funnel all of the energy into a single point where the wave then breaks.

Video of current world record holder for largest wave surfed:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFEh_-tYTS0

2w ago

Indie developer who got blocked on Steam for “potential infringement” of his own work finally gets green light after issuing license declaration to himself

https://xcancel.com/Wired_Tokyo/status/2052936931173118320

これが私自身が私自身にライセンスを許可した歴史的な例の書類です。今後同様の問題に直面した開発者のために公開しておくことにしました。重ね重ね、Steamの柔軟なサポートに感謝します。
Daikichi This is a document of a historical example in which I myself granted a license to myself. I have decided to make it public for developers who may face similar issues in the future. Once again, I sincerely thank Steam for their flexible support. Daikichi

2w ago

What brought you to the Fediverse?

https://www.reveddit.com/v/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

Same reason as many other responses here, I came here because of the Reddit API situation. The Reddit app was garbage at the time (likely still is) and losing 3rd party apps with all of their features was frustrating. The API pricing scheme was obviously set high to push out most other applications.

What really pushed me over the edge was the way that Steve Huffman acted towards the Apollo dev (Christian Selig). The Reddit CEO lied about Apollo "blackmailing" them. Luckily Christian had recorded their conversation and could prove what was actually said, even then Steve doubled down.

In the fediverse I started on Lemmy.ml, but then I saw how the Admins treated those with opposing views. I switched to Lemmy.world and stuck with it for a while. Then PieFed came out with all of its additional features. I quickly switched over and felt much more comfortable donating to their development costs.

3w ago

Games with the best storms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OzfPaUWYpY

The Lazarus facilities in Star Citizen have a constant irradiated electromagnetic storm around them. If you fly too deep (past the facility), your ship will be disabled and you'll crash. You can take a tram deeper into the storm and you'll start to receive radiation damage. So you'll either want a special protective suit, or take refuge inside of facility buildings every now and then.

On this particular planet, your ship can also get hit by stray bolts of lightning (a rare occurence) while flying around any storm . It will shut your ship down for a short time.

On some parts of planets, the weather is cold enough to freeze you (if you're not wearing the right protection).

Some planets are very hot and will kill you if you stay too long outside without protection.

There's an underground prison on a hot moon that you can escape from. If you don't get to a vehicle in time, you'll die from the heat (or lack of oxygen).

3w ago

What are your worst tech purchases?

I actually had the opposite experience.

It was the perfect device for going through university for me. I mostly used it for note taking and homework with OneNote. For something like proving my work with matrices I could just copy the last matrix, paste it, then replace the one column/row that I was working on and repeat. In that case, work that took other students an hour or more would only take me a few minutes.

Additionally, since it wasn't just a tablet, I could run whatever software I needed on it for completing projects.

Of course a somewhat recent update from Windows bricked the device, and I haven't gotten around to switching it over to Linux (like I have with my other devices). It does look like there's a great group helping to support that transition though: https://github.com/linux-surface/linux-surface

3w ago

Proton Meet

My guess is that they're trying to fast track services that compete with Google/Microsoft because countries in Europe are looking to switch service providers.

3w ago

[Game] Subnautica 2 Is Steam Deck Verified

Yeah, that comment is /c/lostlemmings material.

3w ago

[Game] Subnautica 2 Is Steam Deck Verified

It's showing up now. Might have been a federation issue for a bit.

3w ago

[Game] Subnautica 2 Is Steam Deck Verified