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million, 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Good quote. Here is more of it for context:

Fable was profitable - “highly profitable”, Lionhead’s Simon Carter told Eurogamer - but in a now too-familiar story, it and its genre was seen by Microsoft as just not profitable enough. “That category is not the biggest category on the planet,” said Robbie Bach, who was the President of Entertainment & Devices Division at Microsoft before Don Mattrick assumed the role. “It’s not soccer. It’s not American Football. It’s not a first-person shooter sized category. So at a commercial level, I would say it was successful, but not wildly so.”

Wildly successful was what Microsoft was after. A pitch for Fable 4 was rejected. “It was like, you’ve reached your cap of players for RPG on Xbox and you need to find a way to double that, and you’re not going to do it with RPG,” Fable’s art director John McCormack told Eurogamer at the time. “I thought, yes we can. I said, look, just give us four years, proper finance, give us the chance Mass Effect has, Skyrim has, the games at the time. They’re getting four years and a lot of budget. Give us that, and we’ll give you something that’ll get you your players. Nah, you’ve had three shots and you’ve only tripled the money. It’s not good enough. Fuck off. That’s what I was annoyed about.” (Worth noting: Skyrim went on to sell 63m copies, as of June 2023, The Witcher 3 over 50m.)

million, 11 days ago

blog.codinghorror.com/are-you-a-digital-sharecrop…

Interesting article from on of the co-founders of StackOverflow.

million, 17 days ago

This even works with some apps that hide the standard part - like Symantec VIP - it’s possible to extract what they are doing and use a standard TOTP app instead of VIP.

million, 17 days ago

It really depends on your threat model. It’s not a one size fits all thing.

For instance in some threat models you shouldn’t have TOTP auth and passwords on the same device, let alone the same app, but the vast majority of people are not going to carry two devices because of how inconvenient it is.

million, 19 days ago (edited 15 days ago)

I read the original mastodon post by the developer of run0 and I am still don’t understand what the problem with SUID is.

Whats an example of an attack that would work with sudo and doas (which also uses SUID) and not on run0?

million, 23 days ago

Flatpaks have been updated.

OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.

wine-ge-8-26-x86_64

Not sure what caffe is? Is that a runner?

million, 22 days ago (edited 22 days ago)

I am starting to get convinced that the game is trying to use my integrated graphics vs my discrete GPU.

No idea how to fix that as I specified in Lutris that it should be using my discrete GPU.

million, 22 days ago

Got it working, this was totally it.

I tried a few wine configuration options, MESA_VK_DEVICE_SELECT and DRI_PRIME but to no avail.

I ended up just disabling my integrated GPU in my bios and it worked fine.

million, 22 days ago

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 8-Core Processor

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX

million, 23 days ago

The Flatpak version works really well once you figure out what permissions to set.

million, 1 month ago

Is that the BTRFS raid mode or something else?

million, 1 month ago

Unrelated aside, I like running torrents on my NAS because I almost always have that on, plus I have ZFS on it so all the data is reasonable durable.

million, 1 month ago

Two libraries sound good, but I heard the Steam Flatpak has issues with libraries on multiple drives. Haven’t had a chance to try it myself.

million, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago)

Keep in mind that Playboy had a reputation as more than just porn. A lot of really respected authors had work published in Playboy.

I not sure of its culture status when the event in question happened, but it would have been different then say, Penthouse.

million, 1 month ago

I don’t have an answer for you, but out of curiosity, is the freeze exactly 25 seconds?

Possibly? How would I do some dbus debugging to confirm that?

Also, while it’s frozen, you might want to check beneath all the open windows to see if a new window has appeared behind them.

I don’t think this is it, because when the UI unfreezes I often move the window around because it goes into drag mode and don’t see anything behind it.

The freeze behaves like, I get a message and I open it to respond and maybe get a letter or 2 types before it just hard freezes.

million, 1 month ago

What permissions would I have to set?

million, 1 month ago

Maybe I will just go back to native, the flatpak stuff is pretty neat, but more useful on a distro with less up to date drivers and kernel.

million, 1 month ago

Are any major Lemmy or Mastodon instances in Fedi Garden?

I was looking through the site and didn’t see any instances I recognized but they also nest everything so it takes like 3 clicks to see 2 severs.

Edit: By type looks like the easier way to see the entire list, which is not huge and I don’t recognize any of the servers but I will admit I am not a big Mastodon person.

million, 1 month ago

It’s cool people are doing this - but it feels weird that they want to get X number of levels done and polish the assets to a level before releasing anything playable.

Seems like they should be releasing a few levels to folks with a few characters, get feedback and iterate from there.

million, 1 month ago

Thanks.

Ended up adding :/usr/lib/pressure-vessel/overrides/share to the end of the XDG_DATA_DIRS environment variable as described in github.com/flathub/…/files.

million, 1 month ago

I get your point but I think you are off base with this one. The lead designer of this game, and the reason it’s getting a press cycle in the first place, is most famous for Bioshock. The comparison to Bioshock is absolutely called for in this case.

If you aren’t familiar with it, then fair enough but it’s more then a game design point of reference, this looks like a spiritual continuation of that series.