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fprawn 146 points a year ago

Not sure anyone will find this interesting in the slightest, but in Steam as a developer you configure your game as multiple packages they call Depots. You'd have a base package everyone gets, and then other packages which download on top of that for variations. Language is one of the possible variations, and whoever configured steam for Fallout 3 kindly separated them out, presumably because the audio files are quite large and most players will only ever hear one set of them.

Regional differences are also handled this way, often something like a blood texture will be modified for certain regions, and there may also be a Germany specific depot with Nazi symbols modified. Depending on your Steam settings, and where you are in the world, you end up downloading some combination of depots that combine to make one out of potentially dozens of variations of that game.

I don't know if the Xbox app provides the same functionality, but if so it would be a completely different implementation from Steam and the person who set it up either couldn't or couldn't be bothered.

The Steamworks documentation is public for anyone who likes that sort of thing: https://partner.steamgames.com/...

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fprawn 122 points 2 years ago

Middle aged men today? They’re millennials and that’s called a 1000 yard stare.

You’ll understand soon.

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fprawn 65 points 6 months ago

The article keeps reiterating the viewpoint that not selling art devalues it. That's not necessarily wrong, but it's such a corporate take on the situation, and completely misses the actual issue people had with this. Corporations should not be using their ability to control our personal devices. It's a violation of trust, and that's what people were reacting to.

And further, I think it also completely ignores what is truly devaluing art: allowing executives huge cuts of the profit. They don't do sufficient work to justify the amount they take from the industry, but if they let bands have the money, they'd lose the control that lets them keep it.

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fprawn 45 points 3 years ago

Had this for dinner last night. Paired it with some tortilla chips to help round out its nutritional value. Might do it again tonight. It's called The Mediterranean Diet.

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fprawn 40 points 7 months ago

Have you checked iFixit? they carry replacement 3DS parts and might have what you need.

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fprawn 28 points a year ago

Pretty sure its Hot Fuzz

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fprawn 23 points 2 years ago

Uhh, the point of archeology is wearing cool outfits and escaping devious mechanical traps, obviously.

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fprawn 23 points 2 years ago

The form of this kind of social media has got the same set of upsides and downsides as it does on Reddit. It won’t be exactly the same because the people are different, but the problems aren’t that different and the people aren’t that different either.

As a mostly lurker I find the experience pretty similar. I scroll through and find some interesting articles, bits of news, memes. It’s a slower pace, but I think in time it'll grow faster. People migrate over occasionally, but there may be a critical mass moment when it’s big enough that lots of people start flooding over. Or it won’t and it’ll just fizzle out to nothing over time, who knows. For the moment it’s good enough for me to have replaced Reddit entirely.

As for things that are better: you get a lot more control over how you want to experience it. There’s no singular controller always dragging the experience down toward profitability. There are clients a-plenty, the api is open, you can control what parts of the network you see and which you don’t. It does take some effort, of course.

As for worse, because there’s no singular entity controlling the network, there’s going to be some very dark corners. You can block them (many will be blocked by individual server operators already), but they’re still there and they get to carry the Lemmy name and newcomers are most likely to experience it.

Just my thoughts on the subject, it’s been discussed a lot, I’m sure other people have quite different perspectives.

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fprawn 22 points a year ago

No, this is mostly a Hollywood thing to indicate that the traffic is real bad and the driver is real mad. The reality is that birds aren’t allowed to drive, and probably wouldn’t even want to.

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fprawn 20 points 2 years ago

I think he amassed a fortune legitimizing workplace abuse.

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fprawn 20 points 5 months ago

At no point did she appear in the slightest to be sad or grieving in any way. I don't understand why anyone would need further evidence.

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fprawn 17 points 2 years ago

Been following this series since the 90s, but I have a sinking suspicion that GTA 5 will be the last I want to play. I love 5, I keep replaying it, it's totally my jam. This is despite it checking off all the boxes of things I don't want games to do: requires its own launcher, requires periodic re-activation, pushes microtransactions and begs me to play an online mode that at this point I clearly am not going to.

Rockstar doesn't care about its games anymore, they exist solely as money making vehicles, I'm not expecting much from 6.

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fprawn 16 points 5 months ago

I've been looking to do exactly this, thank you!

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fprawn 12 points 3 years ago

These malicious volunteers are helping to identify problem queries so they can be fixed. In the long term, it makes lemmy stronger.

Would be nice if they could just post an issue report, though.

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fprawn 11 points a year ago

We dressed like this in the 80s and 90s, too, and still do. Despite all the various fashion movements over time, my experience is that most people dress like this most of the time. The fashion of simple comfortable clothing changes very slowly.

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fprawn 11 points 5 months ago path: 0 21631868 21633137, hotness: undefined, score: 11, children: 0
fprawn 11 points 2 years ago

We don't get to vote for a target, just a direction in which to ever so slightly turn. When far off course, every choice will continue to lead in the wrong direction, but over time those small corrections will add up. Hopefully.

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fprawn 10 points 2 years ago

Both speakers advertise similar sensitivity, so if you're happy with the volume you get out of the amp now, should be fine. I'd expect some bass falloff at higher volumes with either of those speakers, though.

The largest difference will likely come from getting the drivers up off the ground and closer to ear height. High frequency sounds fall off off-axis, so unless you do your listening on the floor, you should expect increased clarity from either the taller Q4s or by putting your current speakers on stands.

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fprawn 10 points 2 years ago

I have a pro that I use with a ps5 controller, sunshine and moonlight, but I connect the controller directly to my pc instead of going through the shield. Using the shield results in a different “feel” to the games and android insists on stealing the ps button input for android menu nonsense without any way (that I could find) to disable that and pass it through to the pc.

There’s lots of options for extending Bluetooth and usb to computers further away if yours isn’t close enough. I wouldn’t recommend this setup if you needed to connect the controller through the shield. I am sensitive to that sort of thing, but I think most people would find it pretty bad, especially if they have any experience using it with a console.

The rest works brilliantly (when connected with wired networking), I rarely use my pc directly for games anymore.

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fprawn 8 points 6 months ago

A nice thing about gaming today is that it's gotten so much easier to play all the great games, back then my family had a PC and an N64 and could only sample Playstation games at friend's houses.

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