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• Probably, but that’s not happening anytime soon.

  on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 12h ago

• I mean something new as in let someone else have a try. 343 has been failing constantly. Letting them keep trying probably isn’t going to solve the issue. It’s worth trying literally anything else than having them keep at it.

  on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 19h ago

• This is on MS not Activision.

  on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• This isn’t publishing. This is development. Halo will be an Activision developed game.

  on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• I would argue that it probably does give better odds for it at Activision. They already have CoD. They don’t need to turn Halo into CoD. They can just use Halo to do something new.

  I think I remember that they made a CoD with like mech suits or something, and a lot more movement mechanics, and it wasn’t received well. That’s basically what Halo is. Now they can go fully into that without CoD players complaining that it isn’t CoD.

  I don’t have much faith in this, but I do think there’s better odds for a better Halo with Activision probably. 343 didn’t get it. Activision may not, but doing something new has to be better than continuing to fuck things up over and over.

  on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago

• Yeah, it should present a statement, that could be interpreted literally or not, and then ask you to select the closest response to what you initially interpreted, or something like that. I guess that could encounter a lot of error with different cultures and education though.

  on autism rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1d ago

• I don’t think banning it for the underage is specifically bad, but it can’t be enforced without some bullshit that is bad, and won’t work anyway. However, I think it’s plenty bad for adults too. It either needs moderation, or it needs to be not allowed in general. I’m all for people being allowed to do what they want, but there are points where consumers need protections, and algorithms manipulating them, in the way social media does, is very harmful and needs protections against.

  on LGBT tolerance slumps in the Netherlands as debate turns vicious in c/europe@feddit.org · 2d ago

• I’m not a doctor, let alone your doctor, but don’t blindly listen to the other comment recommending medicine. If you want, speak to your doctor about it and get their opinion first. That commenter may or may not know what they’re talking about, but they’re speculating about what’s going on in your body at best.

  on same rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2d ago

• If I’m understanding it correctly, and I’m pretty sure I am, it requires a witness, like I said. That witness has to be trusted to not reveal any information. The receiver doesn’t get any information theoretically, but it requires that someone check your ID. That’s pretty obvious though because how else could it work?

  on EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification che… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3d ago

• Even if it’s secure (no software is ever 100% secure), it can’t be anonymous. How could they verify your ID? Maybe they theoretically don’t store the record, and the checks after the first don’t provide it, it can’t be anonymous or it’s worthless for ID verification.

  on EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification che… in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4d ago

• Sure. Sexual orientation is defined as the innate attraction though. It’s the attraction you have to someone you see walking down the street. Obviously the right kind of interactions can overcome this and make someone attracted to someone they weren’t originally attracted to though, or vice versa.

  on Queer discourse rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6d ago

• No? That’s demisexual. Pansexual is you’re attracted to all (pan- means all) types of people, which is effectively equivalent to bi. Note attraction does not mean you like that person. You don’t even need to know someone to be attracted to them.

  on Queer discourse rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 Sep 2026

• Yeah, the only way pansexual makes sense, to me at least, is if bisexual excludes feminine presenting men and masculine presenting women, but I don’t see why it should. I feel like pan was just created either to make certain people feel like they’re being more inclusive than just normal bi people, or to make bi people feel like they’re being exclusive.

  A lot of the gender and sexual orientation language of recent times is good and removes ambiguity. Some of it though, like pan, feels like people just treating it as a contest.

  on Queer discourse rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 Sep 2026

• My thought is shave soap is about the only thing I’ve used that could create foam like this.

  on Showerule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 Sep 2026

• It’s a good idea for them to say this. It’s “cover your ass” language. They aren’t responsible if you decide to harass someone. They explicitly told users not to.

  on Nearby Glasses: This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026

• Most companies don’t do union busting. Also, there are tons of indie and AA studios that treat employees far better.

  on I'm sick of hearing and even reading about GTA 6 in c/games@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• I wouldn’t be as annoyed by hearing about it if Rockstar were an upstanding company. The union busting though means they should not be given any good PR at minimum, and ideally none.

  I don’t care if people want to discuss big games. We shouldn’t accept positive discussion of games that are made by companies who treat their employees poorly. That should be a bare minimum rule people on this platform hold to. I don’t care how excited you are for the game. You don’t get to promote it.

  on I'm sick of hearing and even reading about GTA 6 in c/games@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• Yeah, this just means, if true, it’s totally ineffective. It’ll be hacked to bypass it if it’s all local, which means people wanting to avoid it will.

  on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026

• Absolutely. It’s stupid that they maybe possibly can. It’s being tested in the courts. They definitely are allowed to abuse it to some extent, but maybe not like they are with these cameras. It doesn’t make any sense either way though.

  The way phone data works, they have to get a warrant. They aren’t legally allowed to obtain it from phone companies until they have one, even if the company is more than happy to provide it. How this doesn’t automatically apply in the same way to these cameras is crazy.

  on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting in c/technology@beehaw.org · 6 Sep 2026

• I’m pretty sure part of why this is all being done is because the police can’t legally do this. A third party company can though, and police can purchase access (in their theory at least, though this is being tested).

  on Flock is canceled—and its competitors are profiting in c/technology@beehaw.org · 5 Sep 2026

• I upvoted your reply until I got to your last sentence. I haven’t been rude. Why are you being rude? Meanwhile telling me not to be a jackass about it…

  on Impersonation rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026

• Well sure. If the requirements are stupid then they’re stupid. That’s not what you said before though. Showing content from the web doesn’t create stupid requirements.

  on Impersonation rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026

• No you aren’t. There are a million ways you could handle this that don’t require a web view. Saying that means anything that retrieves any information from a server needs one. All it needs to do is retrieve the information that needs to be displayed from a server. I don’t know what all they serve through it, but it could easily provide the text and images needed without a web view.

  on Impersonation rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 Sep 2026

• Sure, but if you think the entire French resistance was organized then you don’t really know what you’re talking about. There were plenty of individual acts. Insisting it must be organized, and then insisting that it must meet a certain level of organization, is only insisting that nothing is allowed. All revolution requires a certain amount of disorganization, or everything is centralized and is easy to topple.

  Also, nothing in the above said for it to be unorganized. You previously only insisted acting outside the justice system is wrong, and now you’ve stepped back from that stance. It’s progress I guess, but you don’t see the bigger picture yet.

  The media’s “all violence is evil” propaganda insists that the state has a monopoly on violence. They’re allowed to use it to keep us in line, but we can’t use it to keep them in line. The reality is that there should be no solid line. Every individual will have a certain tolerance and threshold for violence. Literally no one is at zero for both. Everyone knows violence must be used sometimes, but they disagree on when and by whom.

  on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely - ~tildes.official [Reddit Alternative] in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026

• When people no longer trust the justice system to provide justice, they end up relying on alternatives. Is it the ideal solution? Obviously not. However, I’m not going to sit here and say the French resistance was wrong because they didn’t have the backing of their government. There’s obviously a gray area where anyone would agree it’s acceptable and not.

  on Any significant changes to Tildes are extremely unlikely - ~tildes.official [Reddit Alternative] in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4 Sep 2026

• The thing is, they’re a mega corporation. There is zero chance of them being moral. My opinion of them is already that they aren’t moral. It isn’t harmed by this action because morality was never something I thought they’d have.

  on Internal revolt as 'nuts' Apple execs appease Trump: 'There is not a soul who is for it' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• I would be surprised if it’s only 80%. I’d comfortably bet on at least 95%. It’s probably 99+%. If you like the format of Lemmy, then you also like the format of Reddit. Reddit has far more marketing and public awareness.

  on infested rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 Sep 2026

• This shit happens everywhere, and that quote is a perfect example. The system is fucked. It’s a matter of fact that Trump is better off because he didn’t pay taxes. There were no penalties, because that’s the system they designed. There’s plenty to hate him for, and for being a part of creating that system and incentives, but you would be dumb to not abuse it.

  This same thing happens literally everywhere. If there’s something to take advantage of, someone is doing it. Those holes just need to be patched. If you think there’s somewhere that doesn’t have these issues, I’d love to know where.

  on Internal revolt as 'nuts' Apple execs appease Trump: 'There is not a soul who is for it' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• Yeah, for me (who hates Apple), this didn’t reflect poorly on them really. It reflected poorly on our system, where open bribes are applauded instead of punished, and where our leader can be purchased so easily. Apple just made a smart play. It isn’t their fault this was the smart thing to do.

  on Internal revolt as 'nuts' Apple execs appease Trump: 'There is not a soul who is for it' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• Maybe Xenonauts 3 will fix it, or whatever they do next. It’s still far better than Modern XCOM, from what I recall. Modern XCOM does some things well, but it’s also dumbed down.

  on The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff in c/games@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• The reason tutorials are always based on terminal commands is because it’s much harder to describe directions for a GUI, and it’s also a lot more prone to change. When the command is just a single line, not images or dependencies, that’s obviously better.

  on Beautiful. in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• I made a statement on what they should do, for best results from employees, not on what they actually do. It should also be true for all other industries. I think all company profits should be shared with employees, and ideally owned, if not totally then at least in part, by employees. Give them a stake in the company, and a reason to care about how it’s doing, and they’ll put more effort in.

  The fact this is incomprehensible to the capitalist class isn’t surprising though. They view humans as resources (hence the Human Resources Department), not as people with their own wants and desires.

  on The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff in c/games@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• I haven’t played much of XCOM 2, but the late game of all of these games is usually not the best. Honestly, this is true for most strategy games. How many Paradox games actually make it to the end, for example?

  It’s essentially something that’s impossible to balance in a fair way. Either the game scales automatically to match you, in which case your effort is meaningless, or it doesn’t, and it’s either trivial or impossible.

  I just started a new game recently though. When I last played the end game didn’t even exist IIRC, so I can’t comment on it.

  on The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff in c/games@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Honestly, I don’t understand why any studio wouldn’t do this. Not only does it mean you can differ some pay until later effectively (obviously you still need to be competitive, because people don’t like gambling with their livelihood), but it actively encourages devs to make the best game possible. If they’re just working for a salary, they have no skin in the game. Give them a reason to make the absolute best thing they possibly can make.

  on The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff in c/games@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Check out Xenonauts 2. It’s positioned as a spiritual sequel of classic X-COM, rather than modern XCOM, though so there are differences.

  Probably the best difference, and I don’t understand why modern XCOM did this, is classic and Xenonauts have larger squad sizes. This is huge, because the entire genre is about gambling on actions. If you only have four actions, taking a 50% shot, but potentially being in danger, is an issue. If you have 8+ actions (8 squad members minimum, and you’ll often get multiple actions per member), a 50% shot is a lot less risky. It’s more about setting yourself up to get many attacks, rather than one perfect attack. There’s a lot more opportunities to mitigate risk.

  It also has a much stronger strategic game, which I feel is largely lacking in modern XCOM. It’s all about tactical battles. This game, in particular, I think is almost entirely tactical battles, with little strategic opportunity, and no strategic layer IIRC.

  on The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff in c/games@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• Yeah, this isn’t reasonable. A good studio will have been preparing for what they’re doing next before the project is finished. Keeping a team together who knows what they’re doing and already knows how to cooperate together is worth a lot. This is just a sign of bad management, and sadly they’re not the ones losing pay.

  on The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff in c/games@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• For anyone who wants this style of game, but doesn’t want to support this, Xenonauts 2 released version 1.0 a few months ago. It’s trying to be more classic X-COM, rather than modern XCOM, like what this game is copying (and simplifying even more). It’s easily the best of the genre I’ve played, and it’ll also run on pretty much any system you’ve got fine.

  on The studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, which is currently a Steam bestseller, has reportedly furloughed the majority of its staff in c/games@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026

• It has some correlation, though 2008 wasn’t because of the stock market. It was an issue with loans and banks. It affected the stock market, and caused a large downturn, but the stock market didn’t cause it.

  I’m not educated enough in 1929 to make a comment, but I believe it was similar there. The stock market crashed, but it was an effect, not a cause. It can be an indicator of bad things happening in the economy, but it is not the economy.

  on States can regulate prediction markets [gambling] as gambling, federal appeals court rules in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• “The economy,” in this sense, is bullshit. The media uses the term and the stock market interchangeably, but the average person doesn’t. The value of the stock market has zero correlation in the well-being of the average person. It’s only “the economy” for the wealthy, who have significant amounts of money in stocks. Most people care about cost-of-living and income. Neither of those depend on the value of the stock market.

  on States can regulate prediction markets [gambling] as gambling, federal appeals court rules in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• I’m also curious what games you’re talking about. Most work even without official support. The games that don’t are multiplayer where the AC specifically blocks Linux, which are basically just EA games and Chinese games.

  One interesting thing I’ve found is that legacy windows support is better on Linux through WINE/Proton than on Windows. Old games are more likely to be runnable on Linux than Windows.

  on Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• One key thing with switching is knowing you will have trouble with it at first, because it isn’t Windows. You’ve spent probably decades learning Windows. You can’t expect to switch to Linux and automatically understand how it works. Be prepared to learn. Don’t expect it to be Windows. Unless your problems were crashes or hardware failing, it’s probably just that you didn’t have experience with it, and that needs to be ok.

  on Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• I don’t recommend Veritassium anymore. It’s not the same channel it used to be. It was sold to a private equity group, and now makes garbage.

  Here’s an article: arstechnica.com/…/tests-suggest-russian-satellite…

  on World's first GPS-free quantum navigation trial succeeds at sea in c/technology@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026

• There’s no way in hell this guy is handling those bills himself. If it isn’t on auto-pay, he has people who handle the housework I’m sure. If he doesn’t then fuck him even harder. He’s fucking all of us, and he’s not even making insane amounts of money from it.

  on Flock CEO Garrett Langley targeted as address shared online in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• In this case, I bet Putin, and Trump is just the useful idiot, like usual.

  on Trump says Russia is 'not going to attack' NATO territory in c/europe@feddit.org · 28 Aug 2026

• You can’t totally brute force it, but you can brute force certain words IIRC.

  But yeah, it’s basically a Metroidvania where combat is replaced by puzzles, but that’s my point. Souls-like is just a trendy new way to say Metroidvania. I literally can’t think of a functional difference between them. Every Metroidvania I think could just as well call itself a Souls-like, and vice versa, and nothing would change. I remember DS1 being called a Metroidvania originally.

  The difference is almost purely aesthetic. Like I said earlier, possibly the only real distinguishing factor is RPG mechanics, but there are examples of games using either genre description with and without that, so I don’t think it’s required.

  on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• Every mechanic belongs to many genres, especially when you’re talking about subgenres, like this.

  on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• That’s not what I meant. I meant that the core experience will be good if it replicates what the Souls games do, which is why they’re successful. Many “Souls-likes” replicate the combat, and it sucks. Honestly, the DS1 and Demons Souls combat is pretty rough, but they revolutionized gaming, and the boss fights weren’t the unique thing they were doing. Boss fights like them have existed forever.

  If you look at the older FromSoftware catalogue, you can see what makes their games special. The older games have incredibly clunky combat, but they still have the core exploration loop. There’s a hand built world with care and thought put into every detail, and the game gives obstacles that get easier if you engage with the world and explore. This is often with items or levels, but it’s sometimes just with information. This is what makes a Souls-likes, and the copycats that fail are missing this (or they just didn’t make an interesting world to explore). Hollow Knight isn’t great because of the combat. The combat is fine, but it’s the interesting world that’s begging for you to engage with it that makes it compelling. That’s the core of Souls-likes.

  on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• There’s something at the heart of them that makes them interesting. It isn’t just “exploration”, but a particular style of exploration, which will not fail. It isn’t just boss fights with dodging, because having that alone doesn’t have the heart of a Souls game. The exploration alone could, but yeah, obviously it has to be done properly, not just “exploration”.

  Realistically, can’t both combat and exploration be foundational elements of soulslike?

  It could. I honestly don’t think it is. Sekiro is also a Souls-like, and the combat is very different. I’m pretty confident you can make a good Souls-like with no combat. The combat, in my opinion, is there to give you a reason to explore. It’s there to be a challenge, where exploring is the key to overcoming it. There will be items and secrets that make the combat easier if you search for it. It’s not required, but you’d need something else to take the place of this.

  Chants of Sennaar comes to mind of something I’d consider to capture a lot of the spirit of Souls games without combat. They’re obviously very different games, but I think they share a lot. You can try to brute force your way through, but you’re encouraged to explore and engage with the world, and discover it, which makes the critical path easier. This is the goal for both Souls-likes and CoS.

  on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• Yeah, that’s the bad understanding I’m talking about. It’s a purely surface level view of them, and it’s not what makes them interesting or popular. There are plenty of games with that that suck, so it can’t be the foundation of what Souls-likes are.

  It’s also a mechanic that Metroidvanias classically have too, so yeah…

  on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 25 Aug 2026

• Maybe that was just them hitting on you. They were wondering if you were a gay woman or not. They were getting a feel for their chances.

  on Forget Me in c/transmemes@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 Aug 2026