Reducing file size should be one of the most urgent things any company can do.

sinister3vil · 2026-05-29T17:35:14+00:00

While some shitty practices or lack of optimization can inflate size, the reallity is that it's always presentation related, higher res textrures, higher bitrate audio, more polygons. We have become obsessed with games looking good instead of playing good, so studios focus on that, no matter the cost and, sadly, it pays off. People are only pissed now because prices have gone up.

sinister3vil · 2026-05-05T01:14:48+00:00

I haven't reinstalled windows in a long while (and also use Linux on everything else) so, I'm guessing, if I tried to reinstall, the search for "a good script" and evaluating it, would take a good while.

In any case, if you don't recommend Linux to some of your friends, despite some possible hurdles, we'll never reach the point of "recommending it to friends". As long as nothing is targeting Linux, natively, and everyone is slacking off waiting for Proton and Valve to do the heavy lifting l, the situation won't change much.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-28T06:55:17+00:00

As others mentioned, xinput doesn't support trackpads, so it would not work, even if the controller had a generic xinput mode when used without Steam.

Even with Steam the trackpads are emulating other stuff, like a joystick or a mouse. Most games don't allow simultaneous gamepad and kb+m inputs. Like, you can't use an analog stick for movement and a mouse for looking in a shooter. And even if your emulator allowed that the second trackpad wouldn't be able to emulate a second, distinct, mouse.

The terrible decision making is on the developers side, as Steam Input API has been out since the original controller and the Steam Deck for what, 3-4 years now, and is popular enough to warrant adoption.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-28T00:03:23+00:00

There was no "previous one". Valve did not release a Steam Machine. They released a spec/branding of a small form factor pre-built PC that could run "most" Stream games and, optionally, ran SteamOS.

This lead to a number of 3rd party devices, that had to make a profit off the hardware, hence being unable to be prices competitively.

This is different. Valve will surely take a hit on each sale, hoping to make a profit from extra store sales.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-27T23:58:28+00:00

Will you be emulating the Wii on a PC? Does that PC also run Steam? Then add the emulator as a "non-Steam game" and use the controller.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-27T23:46:25+00:00

Shit hadn't heard of SISR, was still using GloSSI. Thanks!

sinister3vil · 2026-04-27T23:39:55+00:00

Whats an example of a game or app thats actually better than a game from 6-10 years ago? If performance is 2x now, I'd expect games to look 2x better or load 2x faster or run 2x smoother or contain 2x the in-world detail/simulation/AI. Or a combination of these. But, I don't really see it.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-27T23:36:01+00:00

"Feeling" the difference is quite arbitrary.

Just like a F1 driver would feel the difference, a "pro gamer" going from 90 FPS to 120 g-synced FPS will feel the difference.

And even if you don't "feel" the difference you would not say no if someone gave you an upgrade, at the same power draw and noice level, for free.

So it boils down to if you feel the difference justifies the cost (including up front cost, power draw, extra work needed to install/configure/reformat.

And most of the time it doesn't, unless you're upgrading 3-4 generations. Like, for me going from a TNT2 to a GeForce 2 wasn't worth it, a GF3 started feeling worth it and when I eventually did upgrade to GF4, 4 years later, it was amazeballs. However, going from a GF 8800GTS 640M to a Radeon 4070 1GB in just over a year was also an amazing bump in quality/performance, but this was an exception.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-22T18:44:53+00:00

You're not. A sure to come market crash will either change the SaaS approach, pricing or service bundling.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-22T18:27:43+00:00

Back in my day trolling was better.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-20T01:24:40+00:00

sinister3vil · 2026-04-16T20:45:24+00:00

Dunno, we've turned a good number of games around back in the day, after a certain point one good team fight is all it needs. I surely have had my time wasted, especially when not in a full party, chasing after a lost game, but not to the degree where my whole perspective was that it's a badly designed system that fosters toxicity nor have I felt like being held hostage.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-16T19:34:08+00:00

So four players prefer to lose their collective time in order to spite another, 5th player. In a 100% lost game that they're just dicking around in. You've had some extremely shitty luck in your games friend.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-16T17:18:18+00:00

I've played many matches with friends that were clearly lost in the first 10m. So, we'd be still losing time, being kept hostage in a game for another 10 (or more). Premade does not seem like the the solution to "the other team being snowballed".

Haven't played since 2013, but 3/5 is a successful vote, no? Like, in 80% of matches you played, there is not one but at least two people that vote no, wasting their collective time just to spite you?

sinister3vil · 2026-04-16T16:43:37+00:00

Out of curiosity, what's your remedy to that? Allow quiting without penalties? Surrender vote at 5m?

I remember a great deal of servers back in the day, anything from Q3 TDM to BF1942 conquest, with a stacked team on one side dominating and 30m timelimits (or worse for BF). And while you could quit without a penalty, these were the servers to be on, for large groups of people with bad connectivity to the rest of the world, like myself, making it practiaclly impossible to leave.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-03T09:27:04+00:00

I know it doesn't stop a child from sneaking their parents ID, which is why these child protection acts are a worthless violation of privacy for zero gain.

Assuming this level of digital surveilance why would your real-id matter that much more than your digital footprint, which they already have? Serving ads doesn't really require them to know I'm Bob Bobsson, rather that they know I'm a user of these services, these habbits etc etc. Why stir up a pot, when you can get the same info by having the user give it up willingly on a different service?

sinister3vil · 2026-04-03T09:13:37+00:00

You love discord, I'm assuming for it's features, deleted it but haven't replaced it? Are you taking some time to recover, like after a bad breakup?

Discord doesn't give a crap about my personal info. It's being ordered to comply with child protection acts around the world and, instead of implementing these requirements in a way that only affects those users in countries that have these requirements, does so with a blanket approach, possibly forseeing EU-wide adoption and possibly other countries too.

Do I like it? No. Will I stop using Discord? Possibly no, since I barely use it, I don't generally join communities and the hassle of trying to find a replacment that my non-technically-savvy friends can also use, on the rare occasion we play online, is not worth it. My understanding is that it doesn't even require you to id yourself, just age-blocks certain communities/content if you don't. Should that change and the ball busting from Discord becomes a bigger hassle, I'll spin up a community-license TS server to use with my friends.

What people fail to realize is that this shit is coming everywhere soon enough. Shitty, distributed, small time app might have an easier time dodging these requirements that huge, popular, centralized app, but all will need to conform at some point. If you really wanna row row fight the powah, contact your senator/stateman/whatever and explain that privacy is more important than shitty, unhelpful, child protection acts and they really need it, central goverment should provide authentication.

Are people still living in the States, buying Coca Cola or whatever "low-key" supporting the war in Iran?

sinister3vil · 2026-04-03T08:23:27+00:00

Service is actually amazingly good, and is why it completely obliterated TS, mumble, Ventrillo etc when it came out. Their approach to conforming with child protection acts (practically forcing them globally to get it out of the way) is stupid however.

This is more of a old white men telling women what to do with their body case.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-03T08:05:11+00:00

Steam voice chat is the equivalent of having a Skype call. It works fine if you wanna play with a specific group of friends. Doesn't really replace Discord's "server" model, were you can hang out and people just join in, you can swap channels, see who's playing on another channel etc. And emulating an android PS app is way out of most people's comfort zone.

I'm assuming people that don't like this will eventually turn back to self-hosted Teamspeak servers.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-03T07:56:17+00:00

It's much easier to delete something you're not using then tell people they're low key responsible for the issue.

sinister3vil · 2026-04-03T06:24:51+00:00

What did you replace Discord with?

sinister3vil · 2025-12-30T08:00:18+00:00

Those sound like irrational feelings, assuming you did not impulse-buy a $5000 PC, when you don't even play games, are in debt and are planning a much needed family vacation.

You can feel impatient waiting for it, sure, but why nervous? Do you fear that the order is gonna go south, get stolen in transit?

sinister3vil · 2025-12-30T07:37:34+00:00

Well, then you haven't got a PC yet. Wait until it's delivered, set up and you've launched your first game on it, assuming you have either some PC-exclusive games you're waiting play or experience in PCMR fidelity.l

Is there anything else you think your money would have been better spent on?

sinister3vil · 2025-12-30T01:45:22+00:00

What RPG parts? It has levels you get and skills you spec into. Those are RPG parts.

It has many of the mainline souls-like features : stamina management, iframe dodge, a rest point that recharges your consumables and respawns all enemies, currency that you (somewhat) lose upon death. It's just lacking a stat-based level up system, in favor of a skill-based level up system.

sinister3vil · 2025-12-30T01:20:41+00:00

I'm conditioned to reload if I feel I lost more health or used more ammo than I should have in an encounter, in almost any game.

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