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The "xylo" is greek for wood in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 32 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The vibraphone wants a word. Lionel Hampton is spinning in his grave.

for all the "anti-authoritarians" out there in c/memes@lemmy.ml

Helldivers 2 has now received 84,000 negative reviews in the past day. in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Their justification is that they need the PSN to moderate the community; right now they can't ban anyone, and only didn't launch with this requirement because it wasn't ready. But now the temporary grace period is ending. You need to agree to terms and services by signing up for PSN, including PSN codes of conduct they enforce in every game. Without that, they can't ban you for conduct you didn't agree to.

The counter argument is that they didn't make it clear enough that this was an eventuality, and that they could and should find alternate means to moderate their PC community that doesn't exclude so many players.

I suspect this is more about policing third party monetization than community moderation.

Sins of a Solar Empire II - Coming to Steam this Summer in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

I loved the original, anyone here have it on Epic that can tell me if I should buy this?

Fallout TV show popularity prompts NexusMods to issue traffic warning in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The client software is the big one. ModDB has the others but is all but dead save for a few old titles. Vortex really did Nexus a lot of favours; it's turned into a great program, making modding easy for non-techie users.

With discord planning to show ads, how can the fediverse/lemmy benefit from another proprietary program making itself worse? (Like it was with reddit) in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

Star Citizen's first-person shooting is getting backpack-reloading, dynamic crosshairs, procedural recoil, and other improvements to 'bring the FPS combat to AAA standard' in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

They aren't obligated to use any engine and haven't been using CryEngine for years, it's on their own fork of Lumberyard called Star Engine. No game is legally obliged to use any 3rd party engine. They have a license to use it but that just gives permission, it's not an obligation. That lawsuit was an act of desperation by CryEngine as they faced bankruptcy. They settled for pennies on the dollar out of court as it was less expensive than going to trial.

Star Engine 4.0: https://youtu.be/nWm_OhIKms8?si=UuTM6wuAn9NiwjHC

Lemmy's Image Problem (Updated 02-06-2024) in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

Rainbow Six Siege director says making a sequel after 9 years would be a mistake: 'I'm not going to name names, but you see games go through sequels and just completely drop the ball' in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

That's true for a game like Apex, where the maps are huge and constantly changing. Rainbow Six is extremely difficult to pick up from scratch because every pixel of every map is memorized by your entire lobby. I feel like a sequel here and there would be necessary to keep player counts high.

Anon waits at a bus stop in c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

[–] Cagi@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Not bothering strangers with inane conversation is more friendly to me. Forcing strangers into conversations is rude. But I live in Vancouver, we have similar transit culture to Europe.