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  • I used to buy physical as much as I could, but nowadays it doesn’t mean anything, so I don’t care as much about it.

    Flash memory cartridges die, even faster in cases of bad batches. Optical discs have disc rot (again, some worse than others). Many many games have updates, DLCs or patches that won’t be on the physical medium. Plenty of games coming on discs have to be fully installed on the machine’s drive anyway because disc drives are too slow.

    Most indie games, including some of the best experiences out there, never get physical versions, or only very limited ones.

    The only way to preserve is to duplicate and archive everything, even if it’s not easy. Keeping original physical media as a souvenir is nice, but it doesn’t achieve long term preservation.



  • They weren’t nearly so patient with Okami around that time. They barely communicated around it, killed the studio, then commissioned a port they…barely communicated around again, and then they complained the game was doomed to be a commercial failure because… I don’t know.

    It’s basically like one of the better classic Legend of Zelda games, only with a unique universe and charm and about twice the size of those.

    It was criminally overlooked on PS2, but they have zero excuse for not turning it into a major hit for the Wii. One of the best game on a console with an absurd install base and that had almost no competition for it at that point.


  • Bon c’est vrai que comme un commentaire le signale, le budget assistants parlementaires c’est pas à elle. Enfin en théorie hein, François et Pénélope ont une opinion différente sur le sujet, mais elle est pas partagée par tout le monde.

    Mais 100% d’accord pour dire que même sans ça, faut quand même être bien déconnectée pour pas se rendre compte de ce que la somme des indemnités représente.







  • brsrklf@jlai.lutoTechnology@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    18 days ago

    Seriously?

    1,739 jihadi videos, “a phenomenal quantity of scenes of decapitation, throat-slitting, shootings,”

    Oh yeah, you know, being curious online.

    Adult moderators for social networks/content platforms get serious trauma from less than that. The kid needs help, he’s being cut from that shit and followed by educators. And no, that’s not “police custody”.



  • brsrklf@jlai.lutoGames@lemmy.worldSuggestions for mouse only games?
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    20 days ago

    You’d be lacking shortcuts obviously, and very rarely (mostly when you ask for it) you might be prompted to input a name for something, but almost everything else has mouse controls.

    Now that I think about it, there are two keys that might be a bit inconvenient not to have, spacebar for emergency pauses (there’s a screen button but it’s harder to hit in a bind) and shift that let you queue an order instead of replacing the current one.


  • My random suggestions right now for stuff I like and is played with mouse would be:

    • Rimworld. Almost any top-down PC management or (not too fast paced) strategy game should work, but, I really like the crazy random shit that happens to the characters you’re slowly getting to know in Rimworld.

    • Almost any of the Zachtronics games, if you like to torture your brain. Open-ended sort-of-engineering puzzles.The bigs ones like Spacechem, Opus Magnum and Shenzhen IO in particular, last call BBS for a bit more variety inside one game. Not Infinifactory, since while it doesn’t have any kind of fast paced action it still requires navigating in 3D so mouse only wouldn’t work.



  • Humans are bad at probability, and that’s mostly why they gamble too.

    Every wheel draw is supposed to be independent (it’s not totally so because computer “random” is really a pseudo-random algorithm, but close enough). So every time you draw, the odds are 1:4. Previous draws don’t matter.

    On an infinitely large number of draws, you’d see a 1/4 success rate. This doesn’t mean you can’t fail a dozen times in a row (the probability of that is (3/4)^12, about 3%… It happens).