pory

pory, 1 month ago

Right? Training data is an absurd blob of everything the algorithm can get its hands on. It’s like trying to assure that there’s no alcohol or coca-cola in a lake.

pory, 3 months ago

maddymakesgamesinc.itch.io/celeste64

There. Instead of a useless blogspam “article”, here’s a link to the game.

pory, 6 months ago

Oil floats on water.

1. cover yourself in water
2. wait for it to oil
3. sink

pory, 7 months ago

Early Access games should never have a battle pass or cash item shop.

pory, 7 months ago

That’s the point though. It’s really good to have a website selling DRM-free FLAC music instead of “streaming” it to you for a subscription fee. If “Songtrdr” fucks up bandcamp I’m going back to pirating indie releases which sucks but if they aren’t gonna sell me DRM free uncompressed files…

pory, 8 months ago

No way in hell they’re gonna still be supporting the Series S in five years.

pory, 8 months ago

BG3 has plenty of bugs, some of them game breaking. Look at the litany of fixes they delivered in each patch. It’s not about that. It’s about releasing a game that isn’t a “service”, and just a purely high quality game - tactical combat that works well, characters with good writing, a solid plot hook, a distinct graphical style, phenomenal voice acting and mocap (which matter more for this genre than they would in, say, a third person shooter).

pory, 8 months ago

I’ve been watching a friend play and absolutely noticed that the romance stuff is a lot slower. everyone wanted to jump my wizard bones about 18 hours in, though it’s very easy to just not flirt with them. Meanwhile she’s 28 hours in and Shadowheart (who was trying to get me in bed with her in the first 10 hours of my play through) still hasn’t propositioned her.

pory, 9 months ago

You don’t need a switch (hacked or otherwise) to use yuzu. The “dump the keys from your own console” stuff is cover-your-ass doctrine, the keys are easily available online

pory, 9 months ago

Your hypothetical strapped 495 people to train tracks, you absolute monster! Statically, about forty of those 495 have serious chronic back pain, too. You obviously don’t care about the disabled. Be more careful next time when changing the number of doors in a Monty Hall problem!

pory, 9 months ago

What do you mean prize? This image is about not murdering your fellow humans and nothing more. This explanation only raises further questions!

pory, 9 months ago

I’m not trying to romance anyone, but generally being friendly with my teammates. I’m about to move to act 2 and only one of the seven companions I’m with has done the video gamey “you were nice to me in the dialogue options and now you’re… So special to me… Do you think… 🥺” routine. I turned the character down but still spent a night drinking wine with her at a party, the way I would if a friend I wasn’t interested in came onto me IRL, and since then she’s shut up about the whole thing as long as I don’t open that particular dialogue tree.

the option to be horny is present in a lot of dialogue trees, but so is the option to be murderous or sarcastic or threatening. just don’t click the options, it’s the core of role-playing.

pory, 9 months ago

They do. Also you can play the pirated version online, there’s no DRM. Good on you for buying it though, it’s the kind of game it’s good to support

pory, 9 months ago

It’s the same game with the same microtransactions and the same community and the same devs. It’s totally valid to leave your negative review on Steam. Nothing he said is fixed by launching the game through steam, lol.

pory, 10 months ago

There’s no good mobile exclusive game, in my experience. There are plenty of great games that are 1:1 ports of their PC or console versions, with buy-once pricing and no microtransactions.

The ones I have installed on Android are: Baba is You, Slay the Spire, Peglin, Downwell, Super Hexagon, SNKRX, and 20 Minutes Til Dawn.

pory, 10 months ago

Oh wow, /r/nintendo stayed down through a Nintendo Direct that announced a new Mario game? That's a lot more chutzpah than I'd expect from a subreddit focused on a game console.

pory, 11 months ago

BitTorrent exclusive in that case lmao

pory, 11 months ago

Peertube is one of the oldest federated software projects. It's a lot less sustainable than ActivityPub platforms because storing HD video is much much more expensive than what Lemmy instances currently do. Lemmy as a platform with a few federated home servers could feasibly replace Reddit, Mastodon could feasibly replace Twitter, but if PeerTube ever got mainstream enough to handle even 0.01% of YouTube's traffic/hosting footprint it'd be impossible to deal with the associated costs.

pory, 11 months ago

Discord is worse than Reddit for anything other than chatting. You can't view a Discord without an account, Discords aren't indexed by search engines or protected by google cache / archive.org, Discord's API usage policy is even more restrictive than Reddit's new one (it's completely against the TOS to create third party discord clients at all)...

Being able to look at the historical threads on a subreddit like hardwareswap is really important for learning the value of what you have. A format where every offer gets its own collapsible conversation thread is much better than every negotiator popping up in sequence.

pory, 11 months ago

I would actually spend money on Lemmy Sync. Though I'd also love if some of the Reddit app devs went grey hat and implemented token spoofing like Twidere on Android has for Twitter - that app lets me view my Mastodon "timeline" and Twitter timeline in the same feed by telling Twitter's API that it's totally the normal iPhone Twitter app.