[-] smeg@feddit.uk 84 points 1 month ago

I've seen enough Summoning Salt videos to know that it's never dead

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 125 points 2 months ago

The rest of the article is mildly interesting, but if you just took the bait from the headline:

On a technical level, Xbox One is essentially a PC using a heavily modified version of Windows, and this software simply translates native Xbox applications into a form that can run on standard Windows PCs

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 86 points 3 months ago

As if anyone calling it GNU+Linux would need to ask

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 111 points 4 months ago

You'll know you completed the installation successfully when you look down and see the socks have materialised

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 92 points 7 months ago

Half of those are Unix-like. Don't forget what GNU stands for (literally, not philosophically)!

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 79 points 9 months ago

Compiler: you're skating on thin ice there you fucking maverick

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 115 points 9 months ago

Meta ... can’t guarantee “what a third-party provider does with sent or received messages.”

I'm more concerned with what the first-party provider is doing with my sent or received messages when that first-party is Facebook!

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 84 points 10 months ago

Is this a sponsored post by a bought-and-paid-for shill, or is the writer just so worn down by microtransactions over the years that they're Stockholm-Syndromed into thinking this is somehow OK?

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I was writing this out on my local !letstalkaboutgames@feddit.uk and realised I was basically making a patient gamers post, so here's a copy and paste:

Despite everything you might read from gaming journos about corporate greed destroying the gaming industry I still think it's an amazing time to be into video games. I'm absolutely spoiled for choice with games to play and I think it's just down to not caring about online multiplayer or getting caught up in marketing hype.

You don't have to pay through the nose to buy a fancy machine to play half-finished blockbusters, there are decades of classics that you can still play. Borrow a friend's old console and play some old games-of-the-year, find some random classics on Humble Bundle or GOG, see what random freebies I've posted in !freegames@feddit.uk, stick an emulator on your phone or find one that runs in a web browser.

Example: I played Metroid Prime after seeing a Lemmy post talking about. I could either:

  • Dig out a GameCube or buy a Wii on eBay for £5 and find a copy of the game at CEX if I fancy the retro experience
  • Buy the remastered Switch version if I fancied splashing out
  • Just pirate a ROM if I feel rebellious
  • Dump my own ROM and play it on PrimeHack if I feel like tinkering

This is just one example of a great game that passed me by, there are thousands of others out there. We have a crazy amount of choice not only of what to play but how we choose to play it. The bittersweet part is that this could all change so enjoy it while you can!

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 92 points 1 year ago

If we only had a few more programmers

Poor, poor Epic, a tiny startup barely making it to the next month with their 3000 employees and $5B annual revenue

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 84 points 1 year ago

Here is the original comic, it's got the word fuck in it! Direct link to higher-quality image.

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I've just replayed Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, and I think this video sums up quite well why 2 wasn't quite as good as the original. It's more than it just being more of an expansion than a sequel, it's the little bits that make it feel a bit more special.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 79 points 1 year ago

TL;DR: why does the Steam Deck have a small screen and run Linux? Oh, that's why.

Kind of strange that this article is written like the author was a fool and then learned their lesson, but hey I'm not a writer.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 128 points 1 year ago

You could definitely have raised a bug report in the time it took you to make this

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submitted 1 year ago by smeg@feddit.uk to c/gaming@beehaw.org

Howdy pardners, this is a cheeky self-plug for !freegames@feddit.uk, a community I've created to post limited-time full-game free giveaways. It's been going a month or two and I'm already claiming games faster than I can play them, so come and join me and make your what-game-to-play choice paralysis worse!

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Hello fellow patient gamers, this is a cheeky self-plug for !freegames@feddit.uk, a community I've created to post limited-time full-game free giveaways. The reward for being patient is that sometimes you get freebies; post them here if you spot them first, or comment to say whether it's a must play for everyone or if zero cost is still too expensive!

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