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[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 weeks ago

Oh wow, that ESA letter is just so full of misinformation and misdirection, it's kind of embarrasing. At the same time, the POG Act is clearly getting under some people's skin, so that means the movement is working! Hope Ross & co. can keep up the pressure.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

Screamer! I've been wanting an arcade racing game to sink my teeth into and this is it. It's probably the most technical arcade racer I've played: gas and brake are left and right trigger, no surprises there. The steering is where it gets interesting. The left stick does make your car turn left and right, but only ever so slightly. Steering with just that even in a slightly sharper bend will result with car in wall. Instead, you're supposed to make use of the right joystick, which is basically drift on command. If anyone's familiar with the game Inertial Drift, it's pretty much that. You also have to m

In addition to this, the game is aggressive. After a certain point in the campaign, you get access to the strike mechanic, which is a short boost that insta-kills anyone it comes in contact with. There's also boosting, shields, overdrive (which is the strike mechanic, except it's always on until the gauge runs out, but the slightest contact with the wall will blow you up), etc. AND if that's not enough, each driver has an ability. For example, one driver can get two boosts in a row, another gets bonus boosts and strikes whenever they K.O. an opponent, etc. It's super fun.

If anyone's into arcade racing, definitely try this out. Just sail the high seas first to see if it's for your or not, the game unfortunately does not have a demo.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is for connecting a Dreame vacuum robot to a PC for purposes of flashing Valetudo firmware over their stock firmware. The breakout board is needed because the connector on the robot is not USB, but a 2x8 PIN connector. When connected to the vacuum, it looks like this.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh cool, I was not aware. It's always nice to have options.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

To add to this: unless I've missed some, Mullvad seems to be the only VPN provider that doesn't take your data at account creation. You are assigned a random account number. That's it. No username, email, birthdate, etc.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You're right, but let's be honest: it may as well be.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm running Artix Linux with dinit and worry not, Mullvad does work. It just needs an additional step. I followed the instructions from this Artix forum topic, so I can vouch for that. I later discovered I probably could have just installed this AUR package, but I never tested that. The AUR also seems to have packages for runit and openrc, if that's more your speed. You may want to do a test run in VirtualBox or something.

Anyway, good luck!

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago

Far as I'm concerned, Denuvo just means "play something else".

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago

What's with the random kishin in there?

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Hm, good point, thanks. Post edited.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It feels like people admitting their mistakes is a rarity these days. Good on Gitlab!

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the mention, but I think I'll pass on EVE. I know it fits all the criteria I mentioned, but that game is just so massively intimidating to me.

 

To be specific, I'm trying to find a multiplayer game to play that isn't team-based or co-op, which most of them seem to be.

EDIT: To narrow down the genre a little bit, I'm looking for shooters (first or third person, doesn't matter) or something more on the casual side.

 

What a time to be alive.

 

Doesn't this run counter to EU's rule that all small electronic devices - which the Switch 2 falls under - need to have USB-C chargers? In the sense that even though the plug is USB-C shaped, it's not compliant to the standard?

 

Lately I've been thinking about Voxatron, an incomplete yet fun little top-down-ish shooter game from 2011. I love the way it looks and plays, so I've been wondering if there are any other games with the same aesthetic?

It's a bit hard to explain, but what I liked specifically about Voxatron was how the characters and the environment were animated. Everything seemed to snap to an invisible three-dimensional grid, or in other words, voxels didn't rotate. Here's an example.

What I'm not looking for is a game that is made of voxels, but is animated like polygons, if that makes sense. Like this. I'm not really sure what term to use, because searching for "voxel games" was not very fruitful for me. Search results encompassed everything from Minecraft to Severed Steel.

I imagine animating a game in such a way would be super time consuming, but I still have to ask: are there any games that fit this criteria?

 

Not to say I hate the genre, I actually love me some Dusk or Turbo Overkill, but why, oh why are they called Boomer Shooters?

These games clearly took inspiration from 90s FPS games, which 👌, but they were played mostly by Gen Xers and Millenials, not Boomers. When games like Duke Nukem 3D or Quake were out, Boomers were what? 30 to 50 years old? I'm sure some of them played FPS games, but there is no way they were the majority.

Whenever I see the term Boomer Shooter, my mind goes to games like Shootout! for Magnavox Odyssey. Can't we call them something else, like Retro FPSes or something?

Anyway, rant over. Thank you for your time.

 

This is an email I came across at work. I seriously can't believe they're trying to justify being stressed. It may not be as caustic as other posts you see on here, but it still kinda pissed me off.

 

I mean specifically, what criteria does a webpage have to fulfill for it to be considered web3 compliant?

Because all I see around the web are people waxing poetic about freedom, ownership and whatnot without really saying anything. There's no consensus, there's no whitepaper, just... vague, nondescript ideas.

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