Post ApYFJMLbH0eMxICc2C by coeusprime@social.linux.pizza
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(DIR) Post #ApXzDCc8wwIxlRyytE by alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizza
2024-12-29T19:11:08Z
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I'm not much of a gamer, but a friend gave me his PS4 (he bought the PS5) and I decided to spend some time with it. And here I am, watching a game update... for 10 hours. This is bullshit. Back in the day you just put the game in and that was it.
(DIR) Post #ApY3f4PnQXKGGBkdH6 by blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza
2024-12-29T20:00:59Z
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@alejandrobdn Yeah, pretty much the state of gaming today on any platform other than the Switch, and even there mostly only Nintendo games don't need any kind of extra updating or downloading. Most any "AAA Experience" requires dozens if not 100s of gigs of "updates" because either the game wasn't finished or it's too big to fit onto a disc. Most recent CoD was what, like 360GBs? Shit's gotten out of hand. Besides Nintendo, only other place to go where that's not a thing is the Indie scene. Tons of "smaller" experiences available on all the platforms that don't require huge updates.
(DIR) Post #ApY3rp4tlFbkSR3c1I by coeusprime@social.linux.pizza
2024-12-29T20:03:19Z
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@alejandrobdn hey brother I get that in spades. Oddly I too am not much of a gamer and I completely missed the console wars. Only in my so-called retirement can I access these games I missed the first time..anyhow I think Sony is getting a clue and if you go to run a new game install now it asks you if you want to play straight away and update in background or do you want to wait.What really frosted my cookies was Sony was striving for cpu speed and yet the actual io system is very slow.
(DIR) Post #ApY4OS5CHGsUhBkuqe by alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizza
2024-12-29T20:09:12Z
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@blackknight95857669 Well, that sucks, then. I'm going to have to leave the update downloading all night, it's crazy.
(DIR) Post #ApY4ZmRoty5f2djtZY by alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizza
2024-12-29T20:11:15Z
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@coeusprime The funny thing is that I've moved on from the PS4 and turned on my minipc with Batocera and thousands of retro-arcade games. Here there are no updates or shit here that I don't control.
(DIR) Post #ApY5f6vaHi15xflbSi by blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza
2024-12-29T20:23:26Z
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@alejandrobdn Guessing your net connection isn't all that high? I don't think I've had anything take 10 hours to update, heh.
(DIR) Post #ApY6F3BZfue6mSNpi4 by alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizza
2024-12-29T20:29:53Z
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@blackknight95857669 Yep, I don't have the fastest in the world, but 600 Mb symmetrical should be enough for a faster upgrade. Everything on my network runs fast and light except this crap, so the cause points to the other end.
(DIR) Post #ApY7m5yCRaSsvURrW4 by coeusprime@social.linux.pizza
2024-12-29T20:47:02Z
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@alejandrobdn funnier yet is I had to do a double take when reading your response: it looks like I wrote it. We have a bmax gaming box with a 24 tb drive attached. Batocera runs all my gaming and Kodiak is our interface with the media on that drive. We wouldn't have it any other way..
(DIR) Post #ApYAI11eYuBolbPcW0 by blackknight95857669@social.linux.pizza
2024-12-29T21:15:16Z
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@alejandrobdn Ah, yeah. Despite killing it for over a decade now Sony does seem to not have/enforce the best server speeds.
(DIR) Post #ApYFJMLbH0eMxICc2C by coeusprime@social.linux.pizza
2024-12-29T22:11:32Z
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@alejandrobdn your response, your setup, etc. was so close to mine, it made me wonder how many more of us are there? We have been on my homegrown streaming linux system since '99. Only switched to batocera last year I think. Thing is if you were a Linux advocate back in 99 or so you got used to being odd man out. When we would try to explain why we don't have cable, people would conclude we were poor; that we had a superior system never occurred to them. Their eyes would glaze over...