TheFloydist

joined 1 year ago
[–] TheFloydist@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

I've fallen down the hole that is X4 Foundations. It is consuming my every waking thought. It has a frustrating learning curve and a lot of things to criticize but I do so love building my space empire and learning the subtler points of the game.

[–] TheFloydist@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

sorry to get back to you super late on this. Roboquest doesn't seem to have a traditional LAN setup without some sort of modding. I did find out recently that Lethal Company does have LAN multiplayer if that isn't already on your radar. Good luck.

[–] TheFloydist@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's fair. I'll double check this week and let you know if it's got direct LAN multiplayer.

[–] TheFloydist@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

I don't know if it has a LAN specific option. but If you are both playing on Steam or Epic, it supports multiplayer/crossplay between the two platforms. Though you don't access it directly from the home screen. Play through the beginning tutorial section till you reach your home base, then one of the buildings you can interact with is the multiplayer menu.

[–] TheFloydist@beehaw.org 23 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Dyson Sphere Program just got a pretty substantial update adding combat mechanics. If you like other production/logistics games like factorio/mindustry/satisfactory I highly recommend it. The amount of control they give you over sorting/distribution/etc combined with the ability to create blueprints can make for some rapid scalability to your manufacturing operation, and the same mechanics can be leveraged to now wage a competent and scalable offence against the new enemy.

[–] TheFloydist@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

That was the one. Same reaction. I'm not usually against taxes but that post made a pretty compelling argument. Thank you for the Lemmy community recommendation. I'll join it though I'll admit I don't comment much.

[–] TheFloydist@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Voted no on the tax for the "slush fund" as well. Hope it fails. Someone linked to a bunch of reporting about how we're already ignoring lots of federal funds for infrastructure that this new tax was supposed to fund.

[–] TheFloydist@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

iBroadcast. Upload music you have purchased, access it from everywhere. No ads. Not great for discovering new music but it's an underrated service.

[–] TheFloydist@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

didn't see the comments till you pointed them out. But... oof, yeah, its bad, real bad.

[–] TheFloydist@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

This is what I am saying. They don't have to offer the whole back catalog. But they can at least try and offer what is currently working in emulation.

[–] TheFloydist@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

Software emulation is very much possible. There is software for x86 and even ARM processors that emulate PS1, PS2(doesn't work great on ARM I many cases) and PS3 (x86 only currently)which work well enough. If Sony cared to they could develop their own software emulation layer to run on PS5 to run just about everything from the previous generation.

Also Microsoft had similar issues in hardware emulation because, while the original Xbox and the Xbox one were on x86, the 360 was a Power PC architecture similar in some ways to the PS3 which ran Power PC with other proprietary coprocessors. They had to develop a Power PC emulator in software to run 360 games on the Xbox one.

[–] TheFloydist@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you haven't had the joy of perusing it-he.org I highly recommend it for the various "anti-walkthroughs" as the creator of the website has dubbed them. I'm always on the lookout for modern games that are broken in the kinds of ways that allow an anti-walkthrough but it seems quality control has generally improved for most of the gaming industry and it is difficult to achieve such a feat in many games without speed runner like tactics and abilities.

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