Because the game was originally a pve zombie defence game, where the objective was to build a fort to survive many zombie waves during the night.

Right when it came out, PUBG became really popular (most popular game on steam, twitch etc) and they pivoted HARD into being the first free to play battle royale. At the time, it was transparently an attempt to cash in on the BR hype, and it worked because PUBG was 50 entire dollars and Fortnite was free.

This is why it's called "fortnite: battle royale". The old Fortnite has been all but abandoned, and is (was) called "save the world".

I mean that's literally just Minecraft hunger games at this point.

The reason Fortnite is popular isn't it's outstanding gameplay, it's a network effect coupled with the sillyness of the various IPs interacting. People play Fortnite because their friends play Fortnite.

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 140 points 2 months ago

Oh cool then piracy isn't theft.

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 117 points 5 months ago

Technically, it does provide better connection speeds by enabling the router to avoid channel hopping, so it can talk to multiple devices (or the same devices if it has multiple antennae) at the same time. This is part of the recent wifi6 and wifi7 standards so more and more devices will start to gain speeds using this technique

Realistically computers have at best 2 antennae and this is largely marketing wank.

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 173 points 6 months ago

Dril is one of the most influential meme accounts on twitter, "generally a recognizable type: a self-important buffoon who's often raging out (show yourself, coward), or other times preening (buddy, they won't even let me), over some bit of nonsense that we're all meant to realize is absurdly unimportant." Wikipedia

The character (ostensibly not the actual person behind the account) is exactly the archetype of a user who would stay on current twitter.

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[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 127 points 7 months ago

Obviously prohibition doesn't work, but banning disposables specifically should be mandated everywhere. It is insane that a product that contains rechargeable lithium batteries is not rechargeable, or if it is it must be thrown away after less than a month.

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 309 points 8 months ago

There absolutely no way this isn't an ad for upvote buying services lol this is so insane and transparent and the worst part is it'll work

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 142 points 9 months ago

Android: revanced manager

Pc: firefox+ublock+dearrow+sponsorblock

AndroidTv: smartTubeNext

I haven't seen an ad in years

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 167 points 9 months ago

Their engine is called source.

The collection of libraries valve release to use steam (the piping, if you will), is called steamworks.

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[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 292 points 1 year ago

Maybe it's time we invent JPUs (json processing units) to equalize the playing field.

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hey all, i'm looking to replace my isp's router (i know that i can, it's basically just DHCP on a specific VLAN) with my own one and i'm looking for recommendations.

here's what i would need out of it:

  • best price-to-performance ratio. the larger the NAT table it can keep in RAM the better (i run some things akin to ipv4 scanning)
  • OpenWRT support
  • at least one sfp port for internet access, supporting 5Gb/s.
  • at least one 1 Gb/s ethernet port
  • ideally 2-3 100Mb/s ethernet ports
  • wifi support: yes (don't need anything fancy, even 5GHz is optionnal but preffered)
  • LTE modem: dont care but nice to have

i had a look around the OpenWRT supported devices table but since it doesn't really list ports and i need sfp, it takes a long time to go through and read german router pages.

can anyone recommend a router that meets these at least partially?

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 147 points 2 years ago

And other memes made by people who have never used KDE.

[-] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 115 points 2 years ago

Extremely common Firefox W

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If you're a Lemmy dev and reading this, the problem is in pict-rs. I have sent an email to asonix with the needed changes, please tell them to check their inbox (since I can't register on their git server, I can't submit a formal PR).

Send me a PM if the email gets lost and I'll give you the line you need.

If you're not a Lemmy dev: Have you encountered an image that is suspiciously rotated here on Lemmy? Perhaps you even tried posting an image that looks right yourself and found it rotated itself! Why?!

The reason is that Lemmy strips all metadata from images you upload to it. This is because image metadata can contain, among other things, GPS coordinates or where it was taken. The problem is that when you take a picture with your phone in landscape, instead of rotating the image in memory, your phone saves the image sideways (because that's how it came off the sensor) and then adds a metadata tag that tells everyone to rotate the image as they are displaying it. You guessed it, that tag also gets deleted. In most cases, this is fine because either the picture wasn't rotated to begin with, or Lemmy image hosts actually save the properly rotated image before stripping the tag, but in some image formats, this isn't the case due to a programming oversight. I have found the fix and sent it to the person responsible for the image hosting code.

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