Benjamin

@ben@mstdn.games
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Game Publishers keep dropping support for games they have sold to consumers, leaving the games unplayable.

The "Stop Killing Games" European Citizens Initiative demands the EU propose a law to force developers to leave games in a playable state!

It has reached 500k of the 1m needed signatures (deadline July 31). We need your support!

EU Citizens Sign here: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home

#EUpol #StopKillingGames #VideoGames #ConsumerProtection

@memoriesin8bit It's so weird, right?
I personally was invested in a game that also released on GOG, only for the devs to bash GOG for not making them more than a hundred bucks.
OTOH, they heavily advertised modding for their game and only ever integrated Steam Workshop, with literally NO replacement for the GOG version.

I mean, sure, you can do that, but that's not GOGs fault then.

@Radgryd People are training by prude USA based websites. It'll take a decade or two to untrain that 😕

Trying to play Palworld on Linux but it'll only give you a black screen? Maybe this helps, it helped me:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1623730/discussions/0/4203615689063513897/

#Palworld #Linux

SOLVED: Black screen on launch problem + CORE REASON (Steam & Game Pass) :: Palworld General Discussions

TL;DR: Simply add '-ngxdisableota' (without quotes) to the Palworld launch options on Steam. For PC Game Pass users: right click the Desktop shortcut and go to Properties. In the Target field, add ' -ngxdisableota' after the quotes (note the extra space). This is a solution for NVIDIA based pre-RTX series graphics cards without DLSS support. The issue is that Palworld is loading an Unreal Engine 5 DLSS plugin from NVIDIA without first checking for support.

@danielholt to be fair, there's a lot to be angry about.

My youngest (18) has just told me:
"finally switched from Windows 11 to Linux, and it's so much better, I'm surprised. Much cleaner and my style, I'm annoyed I didn't do this earlier"
&
"I think my favourite thing is not having windows yell at me about their new ai product or whatever every 5 seconds"

I couldn't be prouder. #Linux

Finished Out of Sight today.
Thnk Perception x Among the Sleep and you're eerily close.

Why do I keep playing horror games with child protagonists? I don't know, but I do.

It's a good game, all in all, tainted by three things:
- Devs have "Can't see shit" confused with "scary". I need to crank the gamma to the max and still squint to see anything.
- Two scenes where you need to run away from death, keep track where you are dragged, aim at a tiny object with the right stick WHILE RUNNING and then start holding the right stick button. I died a lot.
- One level where you need to activate something and IMMEDIATELY hide with no clue where. I dead a lot, again.

Ignoring these, you get a good, creepy story, a mansion to go through ('level" based, no free roaming luckily), puzzles that aren't mindbendingly complicated, secrets to find, and a game that you can finish in 2-3 hours, which is great in my book.

8/10, would recommend.

#OutOfSight

Not that I like, miss or want them, but why doesn't Nintendo have cheevos on the Switch yet?

I hate it when game devs confuse "can't see shit" with "scary atmosphere".
I need to crank up the gamma on Out of Sight to the max to see anything and it just makes the game tedious, not scary.

#OutOfSight

If you're a coder and your native language isn't English, do you name variables/functions/methods/classes in your native language? I've seen people do that and with functions from the programming language/APIs, it usually becomes a weird mix of both. Would love to hear what you think.