MudMan

Nah, I’d say you’re mostly making my point. Optimizing getting through the game fast is absolutely part of the skillset, and random people noticing something obvious everybody had been ignoring is bread-and-butter for testers.

I mean, for testers that care and are going hard, which is where the “competitive” part comes in.

Meh, debatable. QA finds the bugs, what to do with them is more a development/production call.

But I can compromise: Speedrunning is competitive QA testing. How about that?

Speedrunning is competitive QA.

Prove me wrong.

I guess it depends on what “toxic” means to everybody. I certainly saw a ton of self-centered hostility towards people who saw the platform differently when I was using Masto more. This place is pretty chill and the one bit of Fedi I still use.

My experience on BS was generally fine so far. Some people really block-happy, which I’m fine with, and during the last migration some of the trolls came over to troll and found themselves summarily banlisted almost universally. I don’t expect them to last super long in there.

But as always with social media, experiences are more variable than anybody intuitively thinks.

I’ll say this for her stuff: for a person so willing to argue that mainstream positions on her field are wrong or disregarding data out of conservatism she sure tends to latch on information she agrees with in areas where she’s not an expert and disregard other information.

I’d argue in this specific one her dismissal of “we could argue about how these guys are measuring innovation, but all the papers seem to find the same thing” seems like exactly that, but hey.

I mean, up to you. As I said above, it’s not like owning one of those means actively supporting Facebook or whatever. I find the whole “engaging with these companies products implies endorsing them” capitalist view of money as support very strange, but I know it’s popular these days, particularly in anglo cultures.

But like I said above, it’s not like a Meta account used for a Quest used on PC will give Meta any view on your data, or like they would have made any money out of you from a device they built at a massive loss that you’re then purchasing used. But hey, you do you. There are other older, crappier headsets you can buy used, but Quest 2 listings out there start at sixty bucks, which is absolutely nuts for what they are.

Hah. If it makes the active militant feel better, Meta lost a bunch of money basically giving away all those Quest 2’s and the only thing they’ll get from you by having a Meta account only for your Quest is that you bought one and didn’t buy any software in their store.

Bonus points for your “money is support” tally if you use Steam Link for wireless play instead of Oculus Link.

With the Meta Quest 3S coming out this holidays you may be able to get a used Quest 2 dirt cheap, and that’ll do just fine to play PC games.

Late 90s/early 00’s Windows software was very finicky. Lots of very specific solutions to play back video integrated right into games and other weird dependencies that never carried forward (for good reason). Some decent games in there, too. Discworld Noir is famously picky, and that may be the best of the trilogy.

So yeah, I’m on board with what Gog does to those. If they want to brand that effort, I’m good with that, as long as nothing with the rest of their policies for GoG changes.

Hah. Been there, done that. Partially thanks to the US, actually.

All countries have their history. It’s part of why I don’t feel I’m obligated to watch.

We had enough of them at a time that “the expats” was a relevant group of people you needed to refer to for specific things. Language lessons, HR support, what have you. I definitely heard the anglo guys refer to themselves as that frequently, and that then became the word people used.

I had a chip on my shoulder about telling people I was a migrant, but I was pretty alone on that. The anglo guys mostly said they were “expats”.

I’ve definitely seen it used for non-white coworkers and coworkers from other regions, but typically in the context of relocating for corporate work.

But then, I worked for a western corpo but with a ridiculously diverse group of people during that time.

It was used colloquially, for sure… by rich corporate migrants that didn’t want to self-ID as migrants. Or at least by the HR people and corpo consultants handling the international relocations and avoding the taboo word.

Which is what the previous post is saying and it certainly matches my experience as one of the “expats”. I always self-identified as a migrant myself, though.

Screw that. I am forced to deal with US politics and culture in enough areas of my life to be shamed for refusing to care about their self-harming tendencies. I don’t have a need to care about what the US do to themselves in the same way I don’t have a need to care about what Argentina or Hungary or Russia do to themselves. At least Russians don’t have a real choice.

Admittedly, I did have the compulsion to write that down here at all, as opposed to those other examples. In my defense, that’s because a) I literally wrote that as I clicked the “block” button in this community, and b) it’s insanely hard to not pay attention to the US. It requires active effort. This community isn’t even called “US politics”, it’s just called “Politics”. The US dominating my media is the default stance of the world, I have to take aggressive action to make that not be the case.

That’s fair, I hadn’t considered the scenario of a bunch of old GOG-supported games needing updates.

I mean, in my defense that’s because a lot of the older catalogue is just running under DosBox, but there’s definitely more finicky stuff in there as well.

Well, no shit.

I’ve been phasing out US channels from my social media and I think it’s time to block Lemmy politics and other US-focused politics discussion from here as well. I don’t have much compassion for what Americans will endure the next however many years, but man, it does suck for everybody else.

Yeah, I’ve been confused about this. They are basically branding the games they don’t own but are supporting out of pocket, if I understand correctly.

So no, they don’t own Resident Evil 1, 2 and 3, but they did the work to make them run on modern PCs, so they are now flagging them as part of their preservation program. I don’t think it goes beyond that, but it’s useful to have a flag for them, I suppose. It may make it easier to sell the idea to publishers or whatever.

Yeah, no, we’re on the same page. Whether you pin it on the OP or Piker. There are a bunch of presumably leftist pundits that have been asking to see the left’s management all through this process (and I mean since 2016) and will continue to act offended that anybody would suggest there is a responsibility in not being persuaded when the alternative is a fascist anarchocapitalist cabal.

As last time, the response to any mention of this will be “it’s their fault for not convincing me”, which has never been a legitimate argument but will be outright insulting if (when) things start to go poorly.

A better case is that the entire country shifted right, especially fed by a mass of new protofascist youth, but you don’t get extra credit for only being part of the problem and not the whole problem.

In any case, like I said earlier, I have no obligation to split hairs. The US has failed as a country and as a people. They can apportion blame however they see fit. For the rest of us it is now a matter of how to build an international community of democracies in the upcoming climate. We all have to write off the US and find a new way forward without them.

There will be a lot of this. Same thing happened with Hillary. I’m not American, I don’t need to discriminate here, I’m writing off all of the US.

But if you’re there… yeah, that anger seems justified. When the shit that’s about to happen happens don’t let them hide behind the blame game.

Not being American, I will need some convincing about why the US doesn’t belong in the same bucket as, say, Hungary or Turkey. If you keep self inflicting the rule of strongmen and their oligarch cronies at some point that’s a core feature.