@Plume The Witness has no menu and no savegames. When you boot it up, you’re instantly exactly where you left off.
This doesn’t work for all games, but I wish more games would do it like that.
🯁🯂🯃🮲🮳 ← If you can see this, you are cool.
Tech nerd with social capabilities. Enjoys simulation games, pen and paper roleplaying, drinking beer and messing with technology while listening to Hatsune Miku.
Engine programmer of We Are Football at https://winningstreakgames.de
#flightsim #aviation #penandpaper #pathfinder #tabletop #ttrpg #linux #steamdeck #selfhosting #postmarketos #cplusplus #cpp #opengl #simd #hatsunemiku #vocaloid #anime #archlinux
searchable #fedi22
@Plume The Witness has no menu and no savegames. When you boot it up, you’re instantly exactly where you left off.
This doesn’t work for all games, but I wish more games would do it like that.
@AnonStoleMyPants @tal And being able to pause a cutscene (That includes putting the system to sleep now!)
@DerpyPlayz18 They are not instant. I also don’t feel comfortable giving my biometric data to some shady company just so I can unlock my phone.
@ijeff I’m never going to use passkeys because they require to have a lockscreen on the device, and I don’t have one.
You might think “Isn’t that kinda dangerous?”
And I say: My devices are never left unattended, so a lockscreen is just an obstacle to get back where I was. Honestly, try disabling your lockscreen. The fact that you can press one button and be right where you left off is priceless.
So, screw passkeys and their stupid rules.
@Sentientted @CookieJarObserver The only gripe I have with the Pixel (4a in my case) is that the file system is so locked down, but that’s just a modern Android thing. I wish I was able to change the default search engine but eh, can’t complain.
I don’t have a Pinephone personally, but #postmarketOS has come a long way and supposedly runs very well on recent hardware. Give it another 1-2 years and it will be rock solid for daily use.
@douglasg14b @fwygon I love Kagi. For technical topics, the search quality is unparalleled. For everything else it’s about the same.
@aksdb @neon_arch Oh yes! I used SearXNG and it was quite slow.
@Lojcs You think so? It must do something on the hardware level. If you install something like @postmarketos and let the deivce just sit doing nothing with its screen off, the battery doesn’t last nearly as long as with Android. There must be some trickery going on…
@pjhenry1216 @MyUnclesSecret Not quite. A gas stove requires gas. I can run it from canisters if I want to. In fact, I know someone who does.
@zachimusprime44 Am I the only one not seeing any image here?
@gaming@beehaw.org @gaming@kbin.social @gaming@lemmy.ml
Update: Most issues were fixed through updates, I guess we just wanted to play in a really unfortunate time.
The locking up problem is related to a DLL mismatch when attempting #Windows/#Linux crossplay. In short: Copy your Windows friends’ ucrtbase.dll
from both the System32
and the SysWOW64
folders to your Windows folder in #Steam’s compatdata
folder and you’re good to go!
We had a great time playing last night.
@sambeastie @OwlPaste What kind of problems did you run into?
@stappern @Talignoram6571 It’s a difficult question. I’m a game developer. We estimate that about 25% of all active copies are pirated.
If all pirated copies would just disappear, would those people go buy the game? I don’t think so. They would just stop playing. They don’t care about the game enough to spend money, or they really just cannot afford it.
But you could argue that more people are playing the game, and they might buy a sequel in the future.
So, do we loose money? Yes, a little.
@klangcola tfw your laptop is more powerful than your desktop. But I’m glad it worked out for you!
Thank you for all the suggestions everyone, I found out that the #OpenSource https://tasks.org app that I already use supports this feature!
@android@lemmy.ml @android@lemmy.world @fdroid @android@a.gup.pe
@CaptainLemmit Thank you for the suggestion. It says it has In-App purchases, is there a subscription?
@Nicodemus_Weal I watch a lot of videos and I play a lot of older/ported games, both are best enjoyed in 16:9.
@CookieJarObserver @Sileem I just want two things, that already rules out the majority of phones in the market:
@Plume Oh yeah and this: Start the game in a neutral area or room where you can test the controls and sound are working properly and ensure the performance is right BEFORE the intro cutscene plays.