TORFdot0

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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 15 points 7 hours ago

Yet again, pirates get the better experience than the paying customer

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I have yet to play half life 2 (waiting on my son to get the motivation to help me beat decay, I’ve beat the other expansions)

But I can’t imagine that half life 2 doesn’t hold up when the first game is a masterpiece that holds up better than pretty much any FPS released after it

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Lamb is only chewy if you overcook it. Which is easy as the cuts are usually pretty small.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That’s a fair point to disagree on. Fundamentally, I see it as a console that can also do PC stuff as opposed as a PC that can be played in the living room.

The price is probably more competitive for those who think of it as a PC first, I just don’t know if that is a market segment that can lead to a profit.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

They’ve played us for absolute fools

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

On purpose? Not likely. Also I don’t expect them to be able to handle save and open of files using the web versions of M365.

But I think they would use libre office and not question that it wasn’t Microsoft office since it would open their files like they are used too.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (5 children)

With a rumored $1000 price tag, I don’t think it matters how well games run. I think they’ve already priced themselves out of their potential market

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

They just want to see what she’s packing in those jeans

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Apple computers, which is a higher market share than Linux, are more expensive. That’s what I was getting at.

Windows became dominant because of enterprise software sales 20 years ago. Now everything runs in an electron wrapper that can run on any platform or in the browser.

PCs don’t even have optical drives anymore. No normal consumer even knows how to install a program today, let alone is considering legacy program compatibility when making a computer purchasing decision

I am qualifying my statements based on interactions with my coworkers of whom I deploy and manage their PCs. I could probably install mint on 50% of their PCs and the only reason they’d notice is because Microsoft office looks different and is called Libre Office for some reason

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 26 points 5 days ago (5 children)

98% of Windows users, use windows because that’s what the OS that came with the computer they could afford.

98% of windows users probably don’t know what version they are on or even what windows is

 

I have been really into Half-Life 1 and just recently finished the first 2 expansions.

Opposing force was awesome. I loved all the new weapons. The expanded lore into the kinds of research that Black Mesa was doing was nice. And the HECU squad mates were so much more helpful than the scientists and Barneys.

Blue Shift on the other hand was much shorter and didn’t have any new weapons but it did have a bigger focus on the lore of black mesa and had references to Half-Life, Opposing Force, and even Decay. Dr. Rosenberg did a lot of exposition to explain the lore further as well. Overall it was a good experience with very little downtime compared to Half-Life.

I’ve even started playing Decay now with my 8 year old and we are having a lot of fun with that. Its mission structure compared to the unbroken chapter structure of the rest of the games is quite the difference but it works with the co-op gameplay. We are only about 4 missions in but I look forward to experiencing more of it. Dr Rosenberg is back too so I love that it’s another perspective of the events that happened in the other expansions and base game.

I just wanted share my thoughts and maybe here more of the community thoughts as I just love Half-Life despite never really experiencing it until last year

 

On behalf of all the dads, sons, or daughters; if you are a mom, thank you!

Moms are a miracle. My kids remind of that. I just spent an hour wrestling with the kids at the dinner table because they wouldn’t eat the Mother’s Day lunch I prepared them. Thank you to all the moms who put up with us as kids because we are getting it back now. And thank you to the wives’ who this is their daily reality.

 

Do I take the job? This weird guy keeps asking me to choose!

 

A really good explanation that I felt deserved to be highlighted.

 

I know that the source is more focused on retro gaming as a topic but the topic of this post is Google and its pagerank algorithm which is more appropriate for this community.

We’ve all noticed the enshittification of Google Search over the last few months, but it’s still hard to hear how it is affecting content creators and putting them out of business so we can see 20 AI generated spam pages about whatever our query is.

 

As a big Zelda hater as a kid, I skipped the series completely. I’ve been going through to experience them all in order now. I really enjoyed the first two games of the series so I expected to like this one too. What I didn’t expect is was that it really is one of the best games on the Super Nintendo if not one of the best games of all-time.

 

While I’m dubious of the claim due to the robust permissions management in the latest versions of iOS and Android, it is interesting that a company has come out and said they are doing what everyone is thinking.

And yes they are a subsidiary of the parent of Cox Communications, the ISP, so I would be switching to a competitor ASAP if I had their services

 

I’ve been determined to finally beat Zelda II and determine that I would do it without save states and without a guide.

I know Zelda II is considered a black sheep somewhat but I really think in some ways it’s more fun than the original although I’d still pick Zelda 1 over II.

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