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Patch 01.001.104 (store.steampowered.com)
submitted 1 month ago by NeryK@sh.itjust.works to c/helldivers2@lemmy.ca
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Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” by NeryK in c/technology@lemmy.world
[-] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 42 points 2 months ago

The Epic Games Launcher is so far behind on features compared to Steam it's not even funny. Epic chose not to try and compete with Steam on that front and to try and force users onto the platform with exclusivity deals and sweeten the deal with free games.

The one user-centric killer feature Epic has in their stack IMHO is the built-in multiplayer crossplay. Except it's not even exclusive to their store ironically (you do need an Epic account for it though).

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What goes up must come down (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 months ago by NeryK@sh.itjust.works to c/helldivers2@lemmy.ca
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Only seen this happen once in my 400h of playing.

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64 Bits - Helldivers 2 Demake for Neo Geo/Arcades (video only, not playable) (www.youtube.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by NeryK@sh.itjust.works to c/helldivers2@lemmy.ca
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Cool demake concept video with very strong Metal Slug vibes (also the video ends with an ad for a new Metal Slug).

After Initial Success, Helldiver’s 2 Has Lost 90% Of Its Players With No Signs Of Recovery by NeryK in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[-] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 204 points 4 months ago

Like every PvE game which does not have hundreds of people working to churn out content, its playerbase will dwindle until only those who do not get bored by its gameplay stick around. Whether it's Left 4 Dead, Payday, Deep Rock Galactic or Vermintide, those types of games follow this pattern...

And I for one, see no fucking issue with that. It's a great game, people play it until they have had their fill and then move on. Helldivers 2 is only an outlier because of how hard it hit at launch. It absolutely does not have the content pipeline to keep a large playerbase engaged, so yeah it will not keep printing a lot of money, just a little bit every now and then.

Now excuse me as I go and spread some managed democracy.

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Spear crashes hotfixed (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 months ago by NeryK@sh.itjust.works to c/helldivers2@lemmy.ca
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Reportedly, in patch 01.000.403.

Am i the ass hole here by NeryK in c/helldivers2@lemmy.ca
[-] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 50 points 5 months ago

NTA. Abandoning the team by jumping in the pelican alone is an asshole move. Worse it's an anti-democratic move.

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Took the plunge after 2 years, and replaced the Delta fan with a Huaying one (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 months ago by NeryK@sh.itjust.works to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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Now that my Steam Deck LCD has been relieved of his duties as a daily driver desktop PC, I finally went ahead and replaced the Delta fan with a Huaying one. It turned out to be relatively easy to do ; and lo and behold, it is indeed quieter.

Recent adopters may or may not know there was a medium-sized kerfuffle about disparities in noise profiles of early Steam Deck units. It was proved and narrowed down to a difference between 2 fan models (see Gamers Nexus detailed analysis).

Obviously the one I got was a "bad" one, emitting a high pitched noise when running at full speed. I did not find it unbearable but it was still not ideal, particularly when using the SD in quiet environments.

Took me 2 years to get to the point where I figured it was an acceptable risk to attempt the replacement. How many of you did the same and kicked the Delta out of your unit ?

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Pour les nostalgiques de Nolife, un nouveau 101% surprise ! (www.youtube.com)
submitted 5 months ago by NeryK@sh.itjust.works to c/france@jlai.lu
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PSA: A website called SteamHistory enables stalkers through Steam mass data harvesting. Here's how stalkers found me despite creating a new, private, anonymous account. by NeryK in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[-] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 41 points 6 months ago

tl;dr: Watch what you put online and who you friend, especially on Steam. Once it’s on the internet, it’s there forever.

That right here is very much what it boils down to. Whether it's SteamHistory or The Internet Archive or whatever public or private data store... Any information you publish is out of your control as soon as you do.

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Face au tollé massif, Sony rétropédale sur les comptes PSN obligatoires pour Helldivers 2 (twitter.com)
submitted 6 months ago by NeryK@sh.itjust.works to c/jeuxvideo@jlai.lu
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Helldivers 2 went from one of the most beloved Steam games to one of the most hated pretty quickly by NeryK in c/steam@lemmy.ml
[-] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 36 points 6 months ago

Vocal minority is the assumption when this sort of collective outrage manifests. This time though, thanks to Steam player count we will actually get some hard numbers and see if that has an effect or not.

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Mars Express, à voir maintenant en streaming (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by NeryK@sh.itjust.works to c/cineseries@jlai.lu
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"Mars Express" est un film d'animation français de science-fiction sorti en 2023. C'est le premier du genre depuis "Kaena, la prophétie" (2001) selon son réalisateur, Jérémie Périn.

J'étais passé à côté lors de sa sortie en salle en fin d'année dernière, en raison d'une flemme caractérisée d'aller crapahuter au cinéma. Le film est maintenant disponible en streaming et j'ai pu rattraper le coup. Sans aller crier au chef d’œuvre, j'ai vraiment apprécié ce film et je le recommande vivement à tous les amateurs de SF.

Et puis, "c'est français, c'est la police française."

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Goodbye Roblox on Steam Deck (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by NeryK@sh.itjust.works to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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Well, shit. Unfortunate news from the Vinegar Discord: Roblox will block Wine in future releases.

This is going to end my "Steam Deck as a primary desktop PC for my kid" experiment.

Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones’ $70 price despite its live service leanings, calls it ‘quadruple-A’ by NeryK in c/games@sh.itjust.works
[-] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 61 points 9 months ago

Fuck me, that is some quadruple-A-level bullshit from our man Yves. I played the closed beta and I am sorry to say that this game is going to tank, hard. Its gameplay loop is waaaay too simplistic to be making those grandiose claims.

[@games](https://lemmy.world/c/games) The Suicide Squad may already be dead, with Kill the Justice League game previews not looking so good by NeryK in c/games@lemmy.world
[-] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's kind of amazing they chose to go with that design, when they hadthe benefit of hindsight with recent superhero-backed games:

  • the live service Avengers game flopped pretty hard
  • the singleplayer Spider-man games did gangbusters

"Well duh, let's try and make one of these live service games".

I absolutely love VideoLAN's stance regarding patents by NeryK in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[-] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 132 points 11 months ago

You can hear a more detailed explanation on VLC's stance from the man himself (JB Kempf) in the FOSS pod S1E11 episode around 22:10.

Basically:

  • Not that many threats become lawsuits
  • Patent trolling is countered with publicly accessible prior art
  • Having no money is also a good deterrent
Jonathan Majors Fired By Disney/Marvel Studios After Assault Guilty Verdict – Deadline by NeryK in c/marvelstudios@lemmy.world
[-] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 36 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

They just have to George Lucas that mid-credits scene with all the Kangs. It was pretty dumb anyway with all of them screaming hysterically. Now they have good cause to redo it 😏

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Memory-safe languages so hot right now, agrees Lazarus Group as it slings DLang malware (www.theregister.com)
submitted 11 months ago by NeryK@sh.itjust.works to c/programming@programming.dev
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Forgot your sudo password ? Here is a working fix, quick and painless. (www.youtube.com)
submitted 11 months ago by NeryK@sh.itjust.works to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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TL;DR: watch the 2 minutes video for the fix.

Story time !

It's been a hot minute (~1year) since I needed/wanted to tinker with my Steam Deck. It's currently living its best life paired with the official dock as a desktop PC for my kid (e.g. YouTube and Roblox dedicated machine). So yeah, I went and forgot the sudo password I set back then, and I unhelpfully did not save it in Keepass or anything.

Today I put in the work to reset it... Here goes my journey.

  1. Try out every password variants of mine I can think of for 20 minutes. FAIL.
  2. Google it, stumble on some real stupid "solutions" promoted to the top of the results. FFS Google.
  3. Lots of YT videos seem to agree that recovery media is the way to go. Seems overkill. Cannot we get a root shell at startup or something ?
  4. Find an alternative method that looks suuuper risky (tinkers with the recovery partition) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYBpEysFMDM]. Nope not going to try that one.
  5. Go back to /r/SteamDeck (been a while) again the consensus is to use recovery media. Ok ok, recovery media it is !
  6. Follow instructions at https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1B71-EDF2-EB6D-2BB3 and make a bootable USB drive. Easy Peasy.
  7. Muck about for a while with the dock's USB ports because the drive is too large or the ports are too close together. FFS Valve.
  8. Boot successfully on the recovery media, and start the 3 commands-long procedure.
sudo ~/tools/repair_device.sh chroot
rm -f /var/lib/overlays/etc/upper/passwd
rm -f /var/lib/overlays/etc/upper/shadow
  1. First command fails, which is a shame since the others cannot work if this one does not. Fuck.
  2. Back to googling and redditing (beggars can't be choosers). Find someone with a very similar error in a quite recent post. No answers though, except one by the OP himself who says he found a way AND DOCUMENTED IT. Thank you /u/TheArtfulAardvark for proper Internet etiquette. Obligatory XKCD curse avoided.
  3. Watch the 2 minutes-long video with cautious optimism. Does not seem too hard nor risky... To good to be true
  4. Perform the procedure, goes more or less exactly as described in the video (not exactly the same version of the boot menu, but same items).
  5. Fail to return to gaming mode with CTRL-ALT-F1 for some reason, so trigger a command line reboot.
  6. Check that the parameter added to GRUB was not saved (it was not).
  7. Return to desktop mode and finally set a new password with passwd. Exhales. Thanks for the video and instructions 10 Minute Steam Deck Gamer.
Help me trash my FireTV stick by NeryK in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[-] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 year ago

Be your own streaming service, and keep using the FireTV stick with the Jellyfin app.

What is the motive behind private trackers? by NeryK in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[-] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 111 points 1 year ago

I would say it is more of a practical consideration. Private trackers generally enforce upload/download ratios. This ensures the health of the sharing pool stays good.

Angry Call of Duty Fans Are Review-Bombing the Wrong Modern Warfare 3 by NeryK in c/technology@lemmy.world
[-] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The new MW3 steam reviews are locked until its official release, as is always the case. People are venting where it is both possible and making some sense.

The author likely is aware of this and just likes to poke fun at angry CoD fans.

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Stuff I always have in my pockets when outside the house (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by NeryK@sh.itjust.works to c/edc@sopuli.xyz
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Nothing particularly original, but it's mine, so here goes.

  • Earfun Free 2: good for listening to podcasts on the go.
  • House keys: well, duh.
  • Olight imini: handy and really tiny flashlight.
  • Mini push dagger: oldest thing in there, got it more than 20 years ago. Says "United" & "Taiwan" on the sheath, so it likely is from United Cutlery.
  • Kershaw Launch 11: my current all-time favorite pocket knife. Small enough to fit in a 5th pocket (but not "deep-carry"), yet handles really well with my not-too-meaty hands.
  • Bellroy Card Sleeve Black: small enough to keep credit cards and such in regular pants' front pockets.
  • Zippo Lighter Spectrum: really a fidget toy for me since I do not smoke, so pretty though !
  • Kleenex mini pocket tissues: the runny nose unwavering companion.

Not on picture: Samsung Galaxy S20 with a Spigen Tough Armor case.

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