[-] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Weird thing is that Fillion is back as Cayde in the final shape promos.

[-] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 27 points 1 year ago

Lots of weird incorrect answers in the comments. MS 100% has changed CPU architectures and needs to emulate old games. The 360 was basically a PowerMac.

My guess - the Xbox One’s launch catalog was trash, and MS doubled down on emulation to build it out. Then they never stopped. They kept plugging away at it, and now they have a giant asset for GamePass.

MS got a head start because they were desperate for good games in the early days on the One.f

[-] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Or you do what MS does. Put the old games in your subscription service. Make money with monthly fees from people who don’t have the disks or don’t have an optical drive.

[-] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Many suspect this one has been trapped in licensing hell.

[-] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago

As other noted, this is not true. The early 360 development kits were literally PowerMac towers purchased from Apple.

360 games require emulation, and MS has been slowing plugging away at expanding its emulation library for years. None of this was easy.

[-] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

The original Xbox, Xbox One, and S/X are all basically x86 PCs, but the 360 was basically a Power Mac. Microsoft was literally using PowerMac G5 towers as early development kits for the 360.

Supporting 360 games is pretty time consuming and requires emulation. MS has been slowly chipping away at it for years.

[-] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

Why do people keep saying the NIF experiment was a net gain? People focus on the laser input at the end of the line, which was 20MJ and produced 25MJ. But the input power to charge the capacitors was 422MJ.

The whole experiment produced 5% of what was put in.

[-] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

None of the above.

I’m the humble contrarian.

You might have a good point, but you’re being self-righteous and smug. I’m ordering a turkey sandwich because your lack of humility irritates me and I want to piss you off.

[-] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Love - auto health or shield regen. When I first experienced that in Halo it made me instantly hate other games that didn’t have some form of that mechanic.

I hate managing health inventory items. It breaks gameplay flow with tedious bullshit that isn’t nearly as fun as focusing on the a combat mechanic.

[-] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

To be fair, often times that question is code for “how can someone contribute to that platform while also paying rent, feeding their kids, etc.”

I think that’s a fair question and IMHO, for a fedi project to succeed, we need some people who can get paid a reasonable wage to focus their full attention on the work.

We’re likely going to continue to see folks who ask for Patreon donations and set up fedi hosting businesses, like Ruud at Lemmy World. We’ll also probably see more folks like the Tapbots gang selling fancy clients for a price.

Individual people will make money so they can live life, but cash cow corporations likely won’t be a thing.

[-] ghostalmedia@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

According to Apple

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Over the past few days many admins have been stickying giant posts, which makes scrolling through Mlem a little rough.

Any plans to have a feed that truncates or completely hides the body of posts?

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