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New Xbox Feature Could Save Players Loads Of Time (kotaku.com)

Modern games get patched all the time, and there are few things more low-key annoying than sitting down to dig into a meaty RPG or hop into a quick deathmatch only to see you’ve got to download an 8GB update. You start scrolling TikTok or dropping memes in the group chat and by the time you realize the game’s finally ready,...

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Yeah, I was just thinking this sounds like a feature from the 360/PS3 era. Does that not work anymore? Not a console gamer and never paid the necessary subscription for it when I was anyway, since the idea of paying continuously to enable a software feature that costs the entity I am paying nothing to deliver was insulting.

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Reminder that Asimov devised the 3 laws then devoted multiple novels to showing how easily they could be circumvented.

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I would prefer if my software did not attempt to “speak to me” at all. :P Display your information, robot! Don’t try to act like a person.

But I’ve been grinding this axe since Windows Updates started taking that familiar tone.

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Yeah, I mainly take offence when it’s a familiar tone. LLMs can talk clinically to me.

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Interesting word choice. China wants to “dominate”, the US wants to “lead”.

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I wanna cave this guy’s face in. Not because of the milk, sushi, okay sign or lack of eye contact. He just seems like an arsehole and has a super punchable face.

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It was an American company doing a teardown of the vehicle that said it was well built.

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Why is it so shocking? Has the US car industry meaningfully evolved in the past several decades, pre-Musk Tesla aside? :P

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This is true, but compared to the prevailing alternative I’ll take it. Unless there’s a viable FOSS alternative for whatever software we’re talking about at the time, of course. :P

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Even in places with decent internet, people in rural areas tend to get shafted. Starlink is almost reliable enough to game on and fast enough to download said games in a reasonable amount of time; both of which mean it’s good enough for streaming and whatever else mundane people use the internet for. The fact that the company is doing well is the biggest non-surprise.

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You don’t store your dick in your pocket? What on earth do you do with it, then?

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The article says it works by messaging systemd to run the process as the given user, rather than being a SUID binary. So it wouldn’t work without systemd.

Arrowhead CEO says Helldivers 2 balancing patches have 'gone too far' recently: 'It feels like every time someone finds something fun, the fun is removed' (www.pcgamer.com)

Replying to a player on Twitter who said recent patches have made the game “unplayable,” Arrowhead CEO Johan Pilestedt conceded that he’s not satisfied with his studio’s current balancing approach....

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You’re not even wrong tho. It is a co-op game. There’s no need for “balance”. All they need is to have a reason to consider bringing something other than a single standard loadout.

At the end of the day, the type of player who cares will find the single mathematically best loadout and will just use that, even if they nerf everything into the ground.

What they should focus on is making sure all loadouts have their uses. And perhaps work on matchmaking so the kind of person who plays with randoms won’t get kicked from games for not using The Meta; ideally by matching those non-meta-kickers together so the normal people can have fun.

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That’d be rad.

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So long as we’re airing our dreams, I would kinda love if eventually the player faction realised the real problem was the Super Earth government all along and we got to fight the rest of SEAF.

No idea how the hell that would work mechanically, though.

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The legitimate reason is for crossplay. Sony said in the announcement it was for player “protection”, so they could ban people. Plus there is no doubt some data tracking going on.

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Did it? I stand corrected, then.

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This is a fair point. I have seen violent reactions to casual statements, but I have not seen hyperbolic calls for hard modes nearly as much as for easy modes, it`s true.

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Right? :P

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But that`s haaaaaaard tho… :(

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Supposedly it falls back to usermode anticheat on linux. That’s what I heard but there wasn’t a source, so could be BS.

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“Buying American” would be exporting money for me, and there’s no domestic car manufacturing anymore. So I’m sending money overseas no matter what I buy, and it’s probably all made in China anyway… :P

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