I played it on my Steam Deck, 30 FPS average with lots of audio crackling, apparently because of the CPU load. I played the game in hard mode because I was afraid survivor and grounded would break the balance.

The gameplay is great: it was insanely fun outsmarting the infected, circling around the clickers, burning the bloaters. Against those enemies, stealth really was a challenge and I had to manage my stress level (stalkers and runners were especially hard to deal with in the sewer); I'm convinced I would not be able to finish this game in permanent death as certain sequences took me 5-7 tries to do correctly (optimizing to use the least amount of gear or straight up surviving). It was really hard to aim well enough on a controller to be able to do headshot with consistency (this game with a controller and a mouse must feel like heaven to master).

Stealth against humans is way too easy though: you can easily never use your weapons and just throw a glass bottle against the wall, cleanup with a bomb or a Molotov, and you will never be punished when doing a stealthy kill if you take too long which basically means that shiv are useless for anything other than doors (I did not buy the ability to get off the grasp of clickers with shivs).

The hostage mechanic felt so cool, but I rarely used it because I felt like I couldn't afford to waste bullets because of the resource scarcity. I would have loved the game to be more punishing and to force me to spend my gear; I was never spotted and I am horrible at stealth (hello Cyberpunk 2077).

On the writing side, the game shines even more. I was so heartbroken when Sarah was murdered, when Tess sacrificed herself, when Sam turned and Henry killed himself, when Joel said horrible things to Ellie, when he murdered all the fireflies, the surgeon, Marlene in cold blood.

And that's where the game shines! It shows you this great dynamics between Joel and Ellie, this growing bond that is so precious. You despise and love Joel: you despise his lack of moral, his emotional immaturity (not wanting to talk about the hard stuff and lying to Ellie) but you understand where it comes from, you understand why the violence happened.

This constant tension, this gray area makes the game so real and gripping; you can only look with a mix of disgust and support as you're ripping your way through the enemies in the hospital with savagery.

What Joel did is unequivocally wrong and selfish but I cannot judge because I know full well I'd probably have done the same thing in this situation. Well, I'm not sure but I can see it.

This game really made me understand the complexity of moral and decision, the conflicting goals and the harshness of survival. I highly look forward to playing the sequel.

EDIT; I think the right difficulty for me is the "Survivor" one, grounded looks to hard without a mouse.

I have no other beatmaker to work and collaborate with so it's very hard for me to take a fair look at what I'm doing. The last week was especially hard mentally: I felt very bad because my music didn't sound like I expected it to sound like. Don't get me wrong: I'm vibing when I'm working on it, I'm feeling good and I like it but it's not quite something you'd want to listen yet.

The problem is that there's no blueprint that can be learned; you have to fail, again and again, until things finally start clicking together. You gotta select better sounds, be more deliberate with how you mix (fader first, effect chains after). You always have to be self-concious if no one is working with you, looking at yourself holistically to know what works and doesn't.

Here's a few things I've learned:

• start to break out of the 8-bar loop as fast as possible to not get stuck on the arranging
• select good quality sounds because no matter how hard you try, you will never sound good with dogshit sounds
• less is more, try to do as much as possible with simple sounds; it will help you switch things up to make the music more interesting

I love it but it's very tiring. I know I made a lot of progress but the road to mastery is very long. I hope I can be more constant in the future.

I feel so drained after having put all of my critical thinking and creativity evaluating solution to the engineering problems I encounter; when you want to keep improving by doing a little bit everyday, how do you manage to make something decent?

Ça fait un mois que j'ai emménagé dans le 15e et je suis très excité par toutes les opportunités de rencontres et de découvertes dans la ville. Cependant la solitude me pèse un peu... (Pour l'instant j'essaie de faire une expo tous les week-end)

Pour donner un peu de contexte, j'ai terminé le lycée et examens en juillet 2024 et j'ai quitté la fac (ça ne me plaisait pas du tout) pour faire du développement dans une boîte au centre de Paris.

Du coup, plus de potes de lycée/enfance, plus de potes de fac, et totalement perdu dans cette ville, très jolie néanmoins et probablement passionnante.

Si vous connaissez des spots/assos/groupes pour sociabiliser en dehors du taff (et d'Internet) et rencontrer une grande diversité de gens, écrivez un commentaire.

J'aime/je fais :

• de l'open-source
• du beatmaking
• du JdR (je suis maître de jeu normalement mais vraiment la flemme de m'y remettre en ce moment)
• je lis beaucoup (de tout mais pas mal de fantasy et de philo)

Je suis curieux de découvrir :

• les catacombes (faut y aller au moins une fois tant que je peux)
• le monde (je suis jeune donc j'ai encore rien vu)
• des gens différents que ce de mon quotidien

Voili voilou je vous aime les loulous ❤️, ce n'est pas une présentation exhaustif de ce que j'aime donc soyez créatif avec les propositions

Merci d'avance...

Si vous connaissez un peu le slang, l'histoire de Juice WRLD, c'est vraiment une musique frappante. Il faut savoir qu'il a (pratiquement) tout enregistré en 1 take!

Je voulais juste partager ça :)

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/25740453

> Tips: mettez en mode lecteur pour lire l'article sans créer de compte...

(Please when answering, assume I’m not a beginner at privacy/programming :) I know where the good stuff at)

First off, shameful confession: I’m writing this on a dying yellow iPhone XR I bought second-hand three years ago (189€). I absolutely love the look of it: the screen, build quality, are all amazing. The only problem was the locked ecosystem (sideloading Spotify/Torrent client was sooo hard).

I saw the android phone of my mother dying really fast. She currently has a Xiaomi phone that’s ridiculously big for my hands, there’s advertisements in the stocks apps (?!!), the UX is janky and everything. It looks like a bloat, privacy nightmare.

So… because it’s impossible to find a jailbreakable phone nowadays I need to buy an android and ideally I would want:

• Good screen (vivid colors)
• Good build quality (not shitty plastic)
• Don’t care about the camera (I don’t want those ridiculously big cameras they make nowadays)
• Would want to install either GrapheneOS/LineageOS

The things that scare me off:

• I really need my bank app and I need it updated so I have to use Google Play Services but I don’t want it to plague my phone with privacy bullshit (I want to be degoogled)

The things that excite me:

• Customization possibilities
• Learning experience
• Even more privacy than a de-googled IOS phone :)
• F-Droid!! (Maybe I’ll find a beautiful IRC client)
• More choices for Mastodon & Lemmy clients
• Freedom of free software.
• client for open-source git providers :)

But to get all of that, I don’t want Google, I need shitty apps (non-free software) I have to install:

• Instagram (for non-technical friends)
• GitHub (job & open-source)
• No-Ad Modded Spotify from Balatan
• Discord (gamer friends)
• Telegram (cryptobros friends)
• Steam (because I still love gaming)

Any advices? Phone ideas? I’m so lost in this ocean of choice (freedom ✨)

My current phone:

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When I watch certain of his Youtube clips, etc... some things bug me off. What do you think of it?

For me, the first time this happened was with The Royal Assassin Saga from Robin Hobb, and then Metro 2033.

This year, it’s The Witcher saga… (I can’t move on) I love all those introspective books with thoughtful heroes trying to make sense of the world they are forced to evolve into.

Do you have any other book like that?

I have been learning C++/Elixir recently and I’ve made a distributed port scanner & and a streaming platform with Elixir (what an amazing language to work with) and some fun in C++ (also super cool to use).

I feel like I gained basic mastery of the languages, but I’ve been meaning to deepen my knowledge of them. However, I don’t know where to start now…

Can you give me ideas, open-source project that I could help, etc… ? Thanks!

I've been trying to learn a system language because it would enable me to access a whole new world of possibility for games, tools, and potential projects. My main problem when learning the language are:

• can I write modern C++ code using the newer standards and still compile with libraries from older standards?
• how do I even organize a C++ project? Look at the linked project, the CMakeList.txt is so hard to understand, the syntax looks so hard to write.
• how do I install dependencies? You're going to laugh at me, but I always used languages with package managers and I looked again at the linked project, and they write a whole CMakeList.txt to import ImGui (GUI library I wanna try) but if you compare the structure of the files, it's different from the ones on the repository of ImGui.

As you see there are a lot of problems and it pains me to not be able to solve them because Rust is so unfun to use and work with! Do you think I should try C++, carry one with it?

Thanks, hector.

As in, the download speed you provide to the peers.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/12810167

> I've made a full archive of Yuzu > > Hi I've made a full archive of Yuzu. That would include all their Github issues, the git repo on its last version, the latest available release binaries from the Github page, and all of their progress reports from the Yuzu website. The progress reports are good for understanding the general work and weaving a narrative in your mind about the trajectory of the Yuzu project, and the Github issues can outline resolved issues and outstanding ones. > > I do not include any illicit materials in my archive. If you seek keys, roms, firmware, etc, you won't find it here. > > magnet:?xt=urn:btih:404295db91d035ae11395ad1755ab7e5dc8b6f19&xt=urn:btmh:1220f2bd7dbfd7ec2e25c9e848cf0b17d771332e57e3ba109368e111c0a45967966e&dn=yuzu-full-archive&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.opentrackr.org%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.auctor.tv%3a6969%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2fopen.tracker.cl%3a1337%2fannounce&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.torrent.eu.org%3a451%2fannounce&tr=https%3a%2f%2fopentracker.i2p.rocks%3a443%2fannounce > > > While I'm happy to share this torrent for basically as long as possible, I do not have port forwarding available. So if anyone wishes to have these materials and possibly has a seedbox, please assist! Also this is like the first time I've ever created a torrent, but I'm pretty sure I did it right. > > P.S. I am completely unrelated to Yuzu team members. I'm just a saddened user like everyone else.

I was watching the IGN overview on “No Rest For The Wicked” and they say that they abandoned the point-and-click system in favor of WASD because it was not precise enough.

I don’t mind it, either way is fine. However I love the League of Legends type of movement, it’s a factor that makes me still play the game.

(DotA has even better and precise movement mechanics but they are less fun I think)

It’s hard to master yeah, with the unlocked camera and all but I feel like you can be very precise and do exactly what you want: it is very satisfying.

What do you think? Do you know other games that use this point-and-click movement?