Eh, tbh i’m pretty weirded out by most of the anime culture/fandom as well. I pretty much blocked anything anime on the fediverse because i dont want to see it. But the anubis girl didnt even register as anime for me. Even if it did it would be 5 seconds to block that image with ublock.
Anyway, i hope this will be the last time i post about how i dont like certain aspects of anime because nobody gives a shit.
Next year 20 Year old graphics mean Crysis.
But i will still think of 2D sidescrollers.
Hello, i put so far 10 hours into the game and i like it a lot. But you are correct. The style and setting is immaculate. But the gameplay just isnt. It has tons of little issues because they crammed to many mechanics into the game while none of them truly shine. Its alright. But it isnt deep or needs a lot of skill. I’m more than happy with a vibes based game where the gameplay stimulates me just enough while looking forward to progess the story further. But your assessment is just correct. If i leave out the artstyle, setting and story of the equation its a 6/10 game. Maybe 7/10 at best because you could argue it still feels better than the sum of its parts. For me its a 9/10 but i like vibes and you never said i’m not allowed to have that opinion. idk what going on here.
I wasnt even aware that Surface hardware was still a thing.
Microsofts messaging and the news cycles its involved in are such a glorious mess in the last few months.
Nothing adds up.
Funniest shit i’ve seen since someone turned himself into a pickle.
I want to believe. But i have trust issues and the color picture has too many ai telltales. :(
I know i’m just a bitter old man and this isnt a rant worth reading about. I just need to get it out of my system. Feel free not to read it or downvote it after you read it anyway while you realize it truly wasnt worth it.
Its going to be the best racing game of the year probably. Its going to be the choice for most people who just want a fun AAA simcade racer.
But i just watched a preview and it still hasnt improved on anything i was critical of in FH3 10 years ago. Which also means if you unlike me like Horizon you wont be dissappointed. Yay(unironic).
But personally as a bitter old man really dont know why i should pay for the same game 4th time in a row. I’m so whelmed. Also i’m a bit annoyed how the marketing team in the announcement purposefully pushed my buttons as a racing enthusiast and long time Forza fan. They didnt lie. But i still feel a bit cheated after seeing whats what with independent reporting on the preview.
And yeah my comment is as vague as it gets. But i dont feel like writing a 10k word essay about my feelings on the franchise. I just need to vent a bit because i would be so happy about a new title i could be excited about in this almost dead genre.
Also, just fuck Microsoft. Also fuck TAA which is visible through YT compression.
Wah, wah, wah, etc.
Alright, thats it. I hope you guys/gals gonna have a more pleasant day i had today.
Well, i wont watch ads. If it comes to it i’d rather have a program thats recording videos in real time so i can skip the ad segments later in my recording like in the good old vhs times.
10 years ago i bought a used PS3 for 50 bucks pretty much only for GT6. I liked it a lot and even got myself a Logitech G27 racing wheel. I remember that h-shifting with a clutch kinda sucked because of an artificial delay you needed to maintain so the shifts get registered. Like i understood the idea behind it that real cars dont shift instantly and the gears need to fall in place or whatever. But as a european i knew how to drive with a stick. At the time i havent even driven an automatic car at all. That forced delay drove me crazy.
Anyway otherwise its a great fucking game and i really want to get back in to it. But not on the og PS3. I want some upscaling and i remember it couldnt hold the framerate that well even on og hardware. The last time i checked GT6 was still kinda janky on RPCS3 but maybe its time to finally check it out.
When it comes to racing classics i had a really good time with emulated PS1 and PS2 games with retroachievements in the last two years. Colin Mcrae Rally, NFS, Midnight Club 1-3, Test Drive Eve of Destruction, Test Drive Unlimited (PS2), GT2, GT4 Spec II Mod, Enthusia etc.
The 5th and 6th gen era just has so many bangers and the emulation is just rock solid and with retro achievements i have an additional carrot on a stick to actually finish them. 7th Gen emulation is still a bit hit and miss in my experience. Atleast if you also want your games upscaled and with 60fps hacks. But the first Forza Horizon on Xenia is also pretty awesome. But needs a bit reading up and fiddling to get working alright. It actually has a good single player progression unlike later titles in the series.
TDU on the PS2 deserves its own shoutout. I would compare the driving physics to the very best the PS1 has to offer but in a PS2 game with a insanely big map for that hardware. The trade-off is a bit ugly and samey graphics but its good enough. But casually playing through the game until the big race around the whole island was a blast and took me around 10 hours. Completing every single race in the game is a bit of a drag with ~35hrs of playtime from what i’ve read. But i just didnt do that.
Enthusia is also kinda a hidden gem. The career/progression system is a bit odd imho and infirior to GT4. I cant even explain it right now. Atleast its kind of a bit of fresh air. But the driving physics are insanely good and fun.
lmao, didnt know what to expect. but its just a picture where she looks downwards at a turkey and a bit of double chin forms while she’s smiling. probably the most human picture of her i’ve ever seen.
anyway dont get distracted by this bullshit. ice is still terrorizing neighborhoods and a warmongering pedophile is still president.
idk where to find a crashcourse but here are my opinions(!) on top of my head after nearly 3 years on different instances:
otherwise there is stuff like lemdroid with a focus on android or instances with a focus on anime. but tbh just start using lemmy and make your own experiences and feel free to block all the weird shit you dont want to see.
I’m still amazed that people fell for that old ass artificial scarcity through invite links/codes trick when bluesky became the most popular shitter alternative. Made me question the sanity of some people i otherwise respect. Anyway, even if they made a less optimal decision they atleast left elons fucking nazi platform.
For anybody wondering:
Yes and Christie Mack.
Not so funfact: i believe her boyfriend was the guy who punched himself over tcp/ip. Not fun because he punched her too on a different occasion.
Consider:
besides protondb(and maybe contribute).
also:
Their discord is btw pretty awesome and also has a matrix bridge if you dont want to use discord.
Here’s my somewhat recent assessment of the current state of linux vr: https://piefed.social/post/1765677#comment_10094795
Personally i use a Pico 4 (non ultra) standalone headset. Its overall a good enough experience that i dont want to switch back to Windows. I would consider myself a somewhat ‘normal’ user. Huge nerd. But linux and opensource isnt the only thing which keeps me moving in my personal life.
PCVR is still overall just ‘bothersome’. Both on Windows and Linux. I have 6 years of experience with PCVR on Windows with a the Oculus/Facebook/Meta Rift S and and a Bytedance/Pico 4. On Windows its also just a mess. Zuckerbergs software is ass. Pico Connect got pretty good over the years but depending on the game while extracting the best performance can be pretty fiddly. Also sometimes you just want use Virtual Desktop instead. On Linux its maybe a bit worse, i guess? But not by much. Mostly different. It really helped me to be somewhat deep into the rabbithole of PCVR on the Windows side before i tackled Linux PCVR.
Anyway, WiVRn with Xrizer is pretty awesome.
To finally answer your questions:
-VR is IMHO in a acceptable state on Linux (all things considered)
-Pico 4 is pretty good IMHO(!).
-No, VR companies dont provide shit so far. Its all community software(which is pretty good). If thats important to you wait how the Steam Frame turns out.
Eh, the $300 Mac Mini Neo already exists since a decade. It was called a NUC before Intel stopped producing them. Now its Mini-PCs made predominantly by chinese companies like Minisforum and the like. I built my father a NUC barebone for under 300€ like 8 years ago. It has a shitty celeron with 4 cores which boosts to like 2ghz, 8gb of ram and a 256gb sata ssd. When i visit him and do a bit of support on the system i’m surprised again and again how snappy this old ass shitbox feels.