[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Yep. I've had so many digital CDs and game downloads I've bought on Amazon (not recently, long time ago), and amazon basically went "Welp, we're not carrying this shit anymore, fuck you its gone" so all the games I paid for, gone and can no longer access.

All the music I paid for, gone and can no longer access.

Digital downloads are a scam, digital goods are not owned goods as long as you need to have someone elses server be accessed in the process.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

There has to come a point with this shit where you just roll your eyes and blame the people who were dumb enough to invest in this shit, again.

Hell, this isnt even the first time Amazon has taken away games you purchased on Amazon.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago

And risk getting punched in the mouth by being a sanctimonious twatwaffle in person?

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Power Armor is a miniaturized tank that walks.

Tanks have always been weak against infantry. Its why tanks never operate by themselves. They operate as the anchor of a formation, providing incredible firepower and mobile cover for the infantry, while the infantry screens the tank from ambushes and traps.. Covering eachothers weaknesses to make a big ol strength.

Power armor is certainly scary to tribals and raiders.. and may even seem like a god the walks the earth to them. And certainly in a 1v1 fight verses the average wasteland wanderer, odds are deeply in favor of the power armor.

But to an organized military like the NCR? with mobility and manuver warfare and superior numbers? Its a crackable nut.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 56 points 1 day ago

Is there anyplace in the world that doesnt have lowest common denominators just itching to brutalize and murder in positions of law enforcement?

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Promises are cheap.

same promises they've heard for decades, and seen broken for decades, yet they keep sucking it up because admitting they were wrong is just expecting to much (at least until their farm collapses and their life is in shambles, then they'll release critical videos sobbing about the cruelty of it all)

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Don't worry, for just 50 dollars a month you can subscribe to the basic peasant tier version of GeForce NOW that entitles you to a whopping 4 hours of game play per month, as long as its played between the hours of 3am and 4am local time.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Thats has hardware thats 4+ years out of date, and was already long since showing its age with running newer released stuff.

Its a neat device, but its.. at this point.. an old neat device.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Same reason scalpers struggled to keep stock of cards being sold at 4x the price during covid, which directly lead to nvidia and AMD skyrocketing prices the second stock stabilized.

The world is full of idiots who have more money than sense, who make terrible decisions with no thought of the consequences or ramifications.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago

"I'm not gay, its perfectly natural and totally hetro-masculine to get a boner over chiseled, glistening men.. Its just science!"

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

How any woman could vote Republican is beyond me.

because "The only moral abortion is my abortion"

because " I'm against this because those filthy non-whites use it, but its okay once I need it"

because " I support this because it hurts people that arent me " ( cue inevitable wailing about the unfairness and cruelty of it all when it comes home to hurt them too.)

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

cause they arent pro-life.

they are pro-fetus.

because a fetus is an amazing tool.

They can force any idealism they want on a fetus, and the fetus has no way to say no.

Liking young things that cant say no is kind of a running theme among conservatives.

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Seriously, Can they stop mimicking real life driver behaviors?

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They talk about the next patch, future fixes, and other stuff about the game.

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Doesnt make the game any better, but some of these smaller things that people put actual effort into deserves some appreciation.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.world

I've used these for years to fuck around/experiment with games I've played to excess (single player games with no ranking/etc/etc where my screwing around could give me any kind of advantage, to be clear), and had no problem getting it running/doing what I want..

Until recently... The only thing that changed was that my OS (Nobara, Fedora based) updated from 42 to 43, and now suddenly Cheat Engine (used via steamtinkerlaunch) and PINCE (Native linux cheat engine-alike) stopped working. Even on old games I successfully used them to screw around with in the past. Yes I select the proper process.

Memory View shows nothing but question marks, value searches that used to work fine don't return anything anymore. Like, it can see the process, but has no access to muck around in the memory itself.. Since it happened with an OS update, I can only assume that something changed in the backend thats interfering with these things running, but I'm not a Sysadmin/IT specialist, I'm just a random user, so I've tried to figure this out myself via internet searches and the like, but I've come up blank on everything I've tried.

Anyone else out there with a similar experience who could provide some aid on the issue?

Thank you for reading.

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Without weighing down the post with my opinion on Iceflake games..

I just cant see this being anything but a death call for Skylines II, and possibly the franchise.

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I've seen people report the prices were 70/50, and i'm wondering if the immediate hostility cause them to knock it down 10 dollars each before I could get to steam to see it.

Whats your guys opinion on this? I think the prices are ludicrously stupid and detatched from reality.

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For the past few days I've had a hell of a time logging in. Usually have to try multiple times, had a few incidents where it took me up to an hour or more before i could finally get it.. I cant find anything about any microsoft login server issues or anything, so I dont know whats going on.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

Upscaling and Frame Generation are disasters meant to conceal unfulfilled promises from GPU makers for 4k gaming, and as a coverup for the otherwise horrible performance some modern games have, even at 1080/1440p resolutions.

Upscaling will never, no matter how much AI and overhead you throw at it, create an image that is as good as the same scene rendered at native res.

Frame Generation is a joke, and I am absolutely gobsmacked that people even take it seriously. It is nothing but extra AI frames shoved into your gameplay, worsening latency, response times, and image quality, all so you can artificially inflate a number. 30FPS gaming is, and will always be, infinitely better as an experience, than AI frame doubling a 30fps experience to 60FPS.

and because both these technologies exist, game devs are pushing out less optimized to completely unoptomized games that run like absolute dogshit, requiring you to use upscaling and shit even at 1080p just to get reasonable frame rates on GPUs that should run it just fine if it was optimized better (and we know its optimization, because some of these games do end up getting that optimization pass long after launch, and wouldnt you know.. 9fps suddenly became 60fps)

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My town currently has 4 highway on/off ramps. one on the far right (where the yellow and green lines start), one in the middle right above my industrial area, one in the middle left, between my farms/logging industry, and a 4th one off screen to the further left that goes to a seaport.

I would assume that traffic would follow the yellow line, using the offramps near their destinations.

instead, ALL the traffic coming into my city, is coming in on the far right and weaving through my surface streets (a 4 lane road, not highway, ring road, and 2 lane connector roads), causing massive traffic headaches and even bigger backups as they try to follow the green line to get to the far left through my city.

Why are my Cims dumb and bombing through the middle of my city, instead of taking the highway?

and another topic.. this torrential crush of vehicles coming in off that one far right offramp regularly causes huge backups for 4+ chunks on the right highway. I have lane mathmatics. I have a very long runup where they have plenty of time to get over. I still get idiot Cims taking the furthest lane just to get ahead of the crush before stopping and trying to merge in right before the offramp.

I miss TM:PE traffic lines.

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I have no idea where to post this, I assumed..since its a gaming mouse, the gaming linux community would be appropriate, Apologies if I am mistaken.

I have a g502 hero, and it is giving me no end of grief.. namely with regards to the DPI settings.

First and foremost, it just randomly resets itself to an absurdly high DPI

I use Piper, since everything I've found online says Piper works great for g502 mice on linux, and while I can use it to set the colors of the LEDs.. the DPI settings just don't stick.

I've tried setting all the DPI options to the same DPI I prefer, Doesnt work. I've tried disabling all the DPI settings except one, and doesnt work. I've even tried running piper via sudo and the DPI settings still don't change on the mouse (they change in Piper, though)

It seems like nothing I can set, as far as DPI goes, works. I know it is communicating with the mouse cause, like I said, I can change the LED colors and button configs.. but the DPI settings just wont stick, and worse, randomly change.

and I know, I say random, and some people might thing I'm accidentally hitting the resolution up button since its right there next to m1, but I'm not. I can have the DPI set, via the DPI up/down buttons on the mouse, then get up and walk away.. and when i come back, its back at absurd meth speed again.

Its genuinely not only driving me nuts, but really screwing with my ability to play games.

If anyone has any suggestion or solution, can you please share them with me?

If you got this far, then thankyou for reading this half rant half, half tech plea.

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gamers nexus just dropped a 3 hour video where they talk to various companies involved in the consumer PC space, some of whom really open up about their costs and economics and how operating in america just isnt feasible under the current tariffs

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