I checked out of Fortnite when the brand partnerships started. I really liked the first few seasons though…

It felt like the game had a strong identity that was challenging PUBG’s nonsense. No complicated inventory, just 5 slots. 1 or 2 weapons per category with very well defined playstyles, no incomprehensibly complicated weapon mod system on top. Building is very cool and raises the skill ceiling so high too !

And the style was cartoony and silly : you don’t get cars, you get shopping carts ! Characters have no voices, the “laugh” is a donkey sound !

But when the brand deals started coming, they started wilfully throwing away their identity to replace it with recognizable IP. So I quit.

I buy my games used at the store ! Sometimes that’s even better value than Steam sales !

The result looks more like a photograph than the input, that’s all I’m saying. I absolutely agree that every important aspect of the image is getting destroyed !

What a creative new form of DRM !

Free education for every child, no questions asked.

That’s how you Make America Great, For Once.

I’m watching a 4h video. I can wait 5 seconds for it to load 😂

They show screens about that ? I haven’t seen any !

Next they will mandate a “race” field, and the same kind of imbecile will implement it.

I think the NVIDIA people just saw that it’s «more realistic» and that was good enough for them. And, to be fair, it is.

But they are so drunk on AI that they missed the inconsistencies, the fake imaginary lights, the impossibility of controlling the result, the random addition of makeup, the fact it fucks up color balance and contrast…

And the COST !? Two 5090s when most people couldn’t even afford one !? Even if the results were perfect, just forget about it ! No sane developer will spend any money on a feature less than 1% of their players will even experience, let alone enjoy.

As much as this sucks, it exists because a (stupid) person put (misguided) effort into it, and there was still something valuable in that.

Digital Foundry somehow still praises it 🤦🏻‍♀️

See a clanker, smash a clanker ! Destroy any delivery bot you see.

Oops. Guess I’m uninstalling Lutris.

Personally, I have blocked Claude on GitHub, which helpfully puts a huge banner on any project it has infected.

Then unless I have absolutely no choice but using it, I get rid of it.

In Brookhaven I usually break into people’s houses by exploiting the sleeping bag and the ladder.

I have a “cardboard box” outfit made especially for that purpose so that I can hide and look like a prop.

People get exceedingly mad when you rob their house’s money safebox, even though that doesn’t actually take any money from them in-game at all, and I think that’s hilarious.

I use NixOS on everything ! This way, I can re-use parts of my configuration as a base, and customise only the few things that need to change from one machine to the other.

The only exception is my Steam Deck. I trust Valve on that one, and my usage of it is so different from other computers as to make 95% of my config entirely irrelevant anyway.

I don’t understand why people still buy consoles. There used to be so many reasons to do so, that are all evaporating away…

• Convenience, plug and play…
• Much cheaper hardware
• Games optimised for that hardware
• Unique features for each generation
• Cool exclusive games
• Physical, resellable games

I don’t think there is a point anymore.

The first one was an excuse to get a look at some virtual ass.

Now I don’t necessarily object to that, but maybe also put a well-made story in there, too ? Bayonetta is also an excuse to get a look at some virtual ass, yet no one objects because it makes sense in-universe.

Welp. This comment has completely killed all my enthusiasm for matrix 😅 I had no idea it was such a horrible mess under the hood…

I’m trying to move some communities off Discord to something self hosted but I don’t know enough about SMPP to know if it would do the job.

I really hope he kills a second one of those fuckers, then.

I’ve never cared for Xbox but at least it had a personality before Xbox One. An annoying, idiotic personality that I thoroughly disliked, but it had a personality nonetheless. It was the “fratbro” of the pack.

Ever since Xbox One though, the fratbro graduated and suddenly became the most bland and boring corporate guy you’ve ever heard of. And as every corporate guy nowadays, he now has caught the AI brain rot.