hopefully the biggest mods can prepare in advance, the article says a few versions will be released with both OpenGL and Vulkan support, until their Vulkan renderer can reach the stage where it’s good enough to fully replace OpenGL. i’ve heard that the Sodium devs knew (or intuited) of the Vulkan switch in advance, so they already have some work done to support it.

RIP shaders tho, i don’t envy shader developers rn

they fixed this in today’s snapshot, baby zombies can once again fit through 1 block gaps lol

i didn’t have any paywall, maybe it’s a regional thing? here’s a version that shouldn’t have it.

anyways, here’s a screenshot of the Relooted review i talked about. if you check the game’s negative reviews and sort by most pertinent, it’s the 3rd one. it was here yesterday, and despite me reporting it, it’s still here today, and in fact has been here since february 11th. as time of writing, it has 373 people who found it useful, and 115 who found it funny. some of the comments under that review are critical, but most just say “based” and the like.

it’s an anecdotal evidence, but as you said, “you can find articles and reddit posts claiming this same exact thing going back years”, doesn’t that mean it’s a recurring problem?

as the article mentions, if you’d bothered to read it, steam rarely enforces their guidelines, which is the problem here

for a more recent example, the negative reviews under Relooted are fucking sickening. one of the top ones is a joke making fun of George Floyd’s death.

what does steam do? nothing. valve is one of the most profitable companies per employee out there, and they have no pressure from investors to botch their work, they could absolutely moderate.

they actively choose not to, because despite what bootlickers on lemmy would have you believe, gabe newell is a libertarian dipshit who values “free speech” over the safety of marginalized people.

i disagree with you on the ethicalness of emulating current gen games, personally i think there’s nothing wrong with it, but regardless:

emulators for retro hardware often get their start while the console is still in production. for example, gamecube games nowadays are pretty expensive, so if you want to play them without breaking bank you’ll have to use an emulator, and the most mature by far is dolphin.

dolphin started being developed in 2003, while the gamecube was still the most recent nintendo console, and it grew from there. if dolphin started development in 2017, when nintendo discontinued the last console that could play wii & GC games natively, it would no doubt be far less capable today.

same goes for 3DS emulators like azahar, who descend from citra, which started development when the 3DS was recent.

nintendo here is not going after pirates, or even people who play legally backed up games, they’re going after emulator developers. even if it was unethical to emulate the switch now, stopping switch emulator development will ensure that switch emulation won’t be as good as it could be when it would stop being unethical.

in other words, it’s killing game preservation, or at least hampering it. that’s not good, even if you think piracy is unethical.

to save you a click: it’s ethan klein (h3h3productions) and chris chan

it just reminds me of the old fascist reddit clones, like voat or throat or whatever

you could make any shit up about north korea and some people would believe it

“North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has declared himself the only person allowed to do the Macarena. A person had been found performing the dance, and has been personally thrown by the leader into a big pool filled with genetically-engineered superpiranhas.”

i think Undertale would be a perfect fit for a library, it’s an amazing game with a great story (and especially great characters), it encourages compassion, and it’s not too long, so if you play it well you’re likely to finish it before having to return it!

Baba Is You feels like a flash game you’d play as a kid on a school computer, and i mean that in the best way possible

it seems likely, FF7 is one of the most voted for games on their dreamlist and 4 FF games released on GOG recently

you’re right, that’s why i think an organized boycott with a clear demand would be the best, instead of just going around saying “don’t use GOG they use AI”

i want GOG to stop using AI, i don’t want GOG to disappear

i wonder if an organized boycott of GOG would be feasible, boycotting them until they stop using the slop

i would participate. however, until there is a boycott i still think DRM-free games are a good value proposition

that’s still pretty damn far from the 30’000 that’s floating around in western media

fun fact:

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wanna know who wasn’t in the epstein files? 😉

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ok does anyone know what the purpose of a “social network for AI agents” is? does it have any actual purpose or is it just buzzword investor bait

does that launcher work with microsoft accounts? i think i saw that connection with xbox stuff was finnicky, but i never used it myself so idk