TopHat

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[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

His comment didn't address two key issues for me:

  • The "crunch"/tight scheduling of projects which led to sloppiness to begin with
  • The constant need to correct, ranging from simple mistakes to very problematic methods.

I've been enjoying solely the WAN Show, but hearing about constant mistakes in benchmarks while praising "We want to show factual information on benchmarks for once.", is rubbing me in the wrong way. You can't rush benchmarking without QA and publish those results as fact. You get to choose for accuracy, or fast to churn content.

And Linus not mentioning something concrete on the first issue is worrying to me, not showing a clear intent to ease on rushing those benchmarks.

Not to mention, it's worth taking down a video if benchmarka are wrong even if the conclusion is "most likely to remain the same", which one cannot conclude with certainty without redoing it. It would be better transparency wise to either not knowingly publish wrong information, or put a more clear notice on said videos besides the description and a pinned comment.

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cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/495710

Schedule | Donate | Prizes | Discord

This year's charity is the Netherlands' MIND (Dutch website), a Dutch charity that strives to prevent mental health issues and supports those who suffer from those.

Donations are currently broken on the site because of a PayPal issue - Prime subs are used for BSG themselves for future events.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TopHat@compuverse.uk to c/games@lemmy.world
 

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/495710

Schedule | Donate | Prizes | Discord

This year's charity is the Netherlands' MIND (Dutch website), a Dutch charity that strives to prevent mental health issues and supports those who suffer from those.

Donations are currently broken on the site because of a PayPal issue - Prime subs are used for BSG themselves for future events.

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Don't get me wrong - I think an included battery that's rechargeable through USB is fantastic. Less customer inconvenience. But they should either go with a standard that's easily reproducible or go with regular rechargeable batteries.

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 18 points 1 year ago

Gotta go for ProtonMail. Have been running it for a year and I kinda like how it's doing.

An additional feature is SimpleLogin's "Hide My E-mail" Aliases, which are "burner" e-mail addresses to use with pre-determined SimpleLogin domains (you can add your own domains as well to go around Proton's custom domain limit). Those are included in the full suite and Family subscriptions. (10 a month when subscribing for a year)

There's also a cheaper variant for 3.50 a month but it lacks the SimpleLogin feature. You can get SimpleLogin seperately for 30 a year, however.

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago

If it was so easy to replace them, with each Li-Ion battery being different for every type of device.

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Since I got those from Ikea, I just want devices to go back to those types of batteries instead of internal battery packs. Still got to appreciate the Xbox controllers sticking to that principle (for now).

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Any thoughts on overhauling cross-posting, to allow more interaction with the source interaction?

As far as I'm aware: currently when you cross-post, only the recipient instance gets all interactions (comments, upvotes), instead of duplicating to or having the origin solely receive those.

The current implementation hampers the growth of smaller instances when reposting something to a bigger one. Discoverability is still there due to seeing from which instance the post originates from, but that's arguably not enough.

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to have this issue, but 0.0.8 is now out. Obtanium pulls in that release just fine!

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Try Obtainium, helps if an app isn't on F-Droid or Google Play Store.

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Spotting Super Mario RPG in there, you might appreciate knowing some people actually recreated some songs with the original synths used by Yoko Shimomura herself.

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I'm honestly a bigger fan of the classic DOOM I/II (199X) soundtracks. Despite being obvious parodies of existing rock/metal songs, they had a certain appeal. Especially when someone makes a very good cover.

I get why people like 2016's DOOM's more "metal" approach, but for me nothing beats an adrenaline-rush song when ripping and tearing those damned demons.

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago

any game with a story

Minecraft, Terraria, Factorio, Satisfactory, Rimworld, Starbound...

[–] TopHat@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Super Mario Galaxy (1+2). Orchestrated music should be a must for main Nintendo games at this point, outside of Zelda (and the Pokémon anime, although that one's not strictly Nintendo or used in actual games, sadly).

 

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/194017

Spotted this on the Hackaday blog. This project really impressed me at the effort it must've taken to get this right.

"Irish Craic Party" made a "RetroTV" television network running on a Raspberry Pi 4 with an external 2TB hard drive filled with films, series and commercial bumpers and the like to recreate the older 80's and 90's TV networks, with each own recreations or original (derivatives) of actual TV channels from back then.

Sadly, he does not seem to be willing to open source the project, according to the video description:

"Even without: this is a one-off bespoke project with time / effort exceeding what people would likely be willing to pay, DIY media servers are niche, certain omissions would be made to avoid legal clashes and I don't have time to maintain an open-source project. Most of all, I'm ready to move on to new things."

Regardless, this project piqued my interest into wanting to create the same experience for films and series I've even have yet to watch (to combat the "analysis paralysis" his video mentions) while also putting rewatchable stuff on there as well, to keep it fresh and try to actually re-enjoy my favourites.

A suitable and mostly feature-similar to "RetroTV", is the ErsatzTV project, built by an engineer working at Disney for streaming technologies!

 

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/11221

EXCLUDED TITLES: Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Big recommendation on my part, these either have been good emulations for the Switch console or amazing ports/remasters (Fantasy Zone, Virtua Racing). Some of the emulated titles even got bonus features like a moving border based on gyro along with sound effects to make it seem like you're using the real fancy arcade cabinets.

The series has been developed by M2, a popular Japanese development studio responsible for many emulation collections like that of Castlevania, but also the Virtual Console emulators of the Wii U for the DS, GBA and TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine consoles. Not to forget the SEGA Mega Drive (2) Mini and the PC Engine Mini have its emulation done by them.

 

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/9733

  • Razor Chroma, reactive to button inputs
  • Optical switches + plate is swappable
  • Will have default black, Cammy and Chun-Li editions available at launch
 

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/9434

Game Lowest Tier Highest Discount + Store (IsThereAnyDeal) OpenCritic / MetaCritic Scores ProtonDB Rating / Steam Deck Compatibility Notes
NBA 2K Playgrounds 2 First Tier ($US/€9,36) 85% off (Voidu) 70 - [Xbox One / Switch / PS4] 62/69/73 ProtonDB Gold / Not Compatible Bundled 3 times before ProtonDB: Workaround is to use Proton 5.13-6, otherwise game will crash pretty early on.
WWE 2K Battlegrounds First Tier ($US/€9,36) 86% off (GameBillet) 58 - [Switch / Xbox One / PS4] 56/58/60 ProtonDB Platinum / Not Compatible Bundled 5 times before ProtonDB: Works out of the box, albeit with small looking text.
Lethal League Blaze Second Tier ($US15/€14,04) 40% off (Fanatical) 81 - [Switch] 82 ProtonDB Native Linux build / Gold / Verified Bundled 7 times before ProtonDB: Native Linux build should work out of the box.
Wave Break Second Tier ($US15/€14,04) 34% of (Steam) 63 - [Switch] 54 ProtonDB Native Linux build / Pending / Verified ProtonDB: Should work out of the box through native Linux build, or via Proton 6.3-4.
OlliOlli World Second Tier ($US15/€14,04) 55% off (GameBillet) 86 - 87 ProtonDB Platinum / Verified Rad Edition has been bundled once before in Humble Choice (January 2023).
NBA 2K23 Second Tier ($US15/€14,04) 88% off (eTail.Market) 79 - [PS5 / Xbox Series S|X] 78/80 ProtonDB Gold / Verified
Tape to Tape Third Tier ($US20/€18,72) 10% off (Steam) Steam Rating: Very Positive (91%-93%) ProtonDB Platinum / Verified Game is in Early Access.
 

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/1791

Xbox Games Showcase and the Extended Showcase will air at the following time zones:

  • 10:00 (AM) PT (West Coast United States)
  • 13:00 / 1:00 PM ET (East Coast United States)
  • 17:00 / 5:00 PM UTC (GMT +0)
  • 18:00 / 6:00 PM BST (Most of the United Kingdom)
  • 19:00 / 7:00 PM CET (Most of West Europe)
  • 2:00 (AM) JST (Japan)
  • 3:00 (AM) AEST (Oceania)

You can watch the streams at:

  • Twitch (with and without American, British Sign Language and English Descriptors)
  • YouTube (It is confirmed YouTube will have its broadcast available in 4K)
  • Facebook
 

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/1791

Xbox Games Showcase will air at the following time zones:

  • 10:00 (AM) PT (West Coast United States)
  • 13:00 / 1:00 PM ET (East Coast United States)
  • 17:00 / 5:00 PM UTC (GMT +0)
  • 18:00 / 6:00 PM BST (Most of the United Kingdom)
  • 19:00 / 7:00 PM CET (Most of West Europe)
  • 2:00 (AM) JST (Japan)
  • 3:00 (AM) AEST (Oceania)

You can watch the streams at:

  • Twitch (with and without American, British Sign Language and English Descriptors)
  • YouTube (It is confirmed YouTube will have its broadcast available in 4K)
  • Facebook
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