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- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 1 week ago:
It’s worse.
Playtest results inhibit you from disclosing things because they are subject to change. They take gamers’feedback, decide if they want to act on it, and at the end of the day the finished product may look different so it makes no sense for people to loudly state “they have feature X, and they kiss feature Y” because by release it may be the other way around.
Whereas this type of contract says “idgaf what’s bad about the game, you can only sing its praises online”.
Silence > dishonesty.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 1 week ago:
Oh, you want only good reviews? It’d be a shame if people reviewed your game like “I apologize, I have nothing to say - I am under contract to say nothing bad about the game, and I have nothing good to say about it either.”
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 2 weeks ago:
They’re talking about a chicken. Source: they wrote the word “chicken”.
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 3 weeks ago:
/c/fuckcars is that way, thanks for stopping by
Cars will never be dethroned. Yes, trains are cool - choo choo motherfucker. Yes, bikes are environmentally friendly. Yes, the car is a truly fucking horible answer to the question “how to get from A to B”.
But that’s because cars are the answer to the question “how to get from A to B comfortably”. I don’t want my baby and my in-law to get on the back of my bike when we’re going camping. I don’t want to take the train and then walk 2 miles from the station every single fucking day with 20kg of tools in my hand, because shit, the train doesn’t stop next to my house, and it doesn’t stop next to my work. I want to be able to do these thing comfortably.
So the answer will still be the car. Even with everyone crying about it. Cause the cat’s out of the bag with cars, we made them efficient and cheap enough to not be considered luxury items anymore. And some countries (see: US) have their entire infrastructure built with cars in mind. You’re never putting the lid back on this, even if it’s a decent idea.
- Comment on Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road 4 weeks ago:
Yes. As it should be. I’ll buy the car that chooses to mow down a sidewalk full of pregnant babies instead of mildly inconveniencing myself or my passengers. Why the hell would you even consider any other alternative?
- Comment on Tell Borts I said "Hi" 4 weeks ago:
Gotta suck being a teacher for this class when you just know Jorch is gonna end up framed by Tom Riddle for opening the chamber of secrets.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 2 months ago:
It’s a VERY good spiritual successor to titan quest. I’ll recommend last epoch too, if you like the genre and are interested also in multi-player (it has an offline mode as well)
- Comment on there's laundry to do and a genocide to stop 2 months ago:
I hate shit like this. I honestly do.
Yeah my man, congratulations. Biden is better than Trump. Hear ye, hear ye, from the top of the terraces and down to your piss-infested alleys, you should know that today the Democratic party has found us someone you can vote for that is better than Trump. You’re welcome, mortals. Now hurry down to the booths and place that stamp. No questions please, there is no time for your theatrics. Just know that he’s better than the worst president you’ve ever had.
You know what, how about fuck you? How about we let the country burn? I mean, it’ll burn for me anyway. Whether it’s that alt-right fucko, or your shitty party’s “moderate” alternative. But maybe with the other guy, it burns for you as well. Maybe when stocks go down because the orange clown shat out another retarded idea you’ll remember that you offered moderation when people asked for a serious leftist choice. Maybe when the Supreme Court continues to remove rights from women, minorities and oppressed groups they’ll get organized into a party that actually represents them and pushes for social change, instead of just being a shade less dark than their opposition. Maybe when the MAGA retards burn the fucking world down, some rich Democrat fuck’s house just happens to get caught in the fire as well, and they can live to regret pulling the wrong strings for so many years. Because there’s no fucking way the regular people get through any of this shit unscathed, might as well pull a few of the ‘immortals’ down with us and remind them that they too can bleed.
So fuck right off with your shitty choices. You made the retarded decision to have Hillary as the opposition to Trump, you saw how well that went for you. You made the same choice now, offering people another impossible choice. For once in your fucking life, accept responsibility - the Democrats have chosen who should represent them, and they have chosen wrong. If they lose, that’s not on the voters - that’s on the people who made the choice.
- Comment on 'We don't have shareholders, but we also don't think about them,' Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate 2 months ago:
What are you even talking about? I have all of those installed as well, and a few others on top. I’m incredibly wary of any of them though - I don’t know if GoG will be around in 10 years, I don’t trust epic as far as I can throw them, I don’t want to support ubisoft and EA, and Blizzard has made so many questionable choices that I’m at the point where I don’t want to support them AND I don’t believe they can make good games anymore.
It’s about trust. I trust valve to allow me access to my games more than I trust the others. Doesn’t mean I don’t have the others, where did I say that?
- Comment on 'We don't have shareholders, but we also don't think about them,' Larian Studios uses its stage time at the DICE Awards to speak out against a brutal industry climate 2 months ago:
I just hope to christ Gabe Newell’s successor(s) are in line with his actions.
Sorry but I agree with the guy on this. It’s 2024, idgaf about valve IP anymore, they can ruin their games with microtransactions and I honestly won’t care. I use Valve like you and the rest of the world use it: buying and managing a collection of games. And right now, Steam has good practices in that regard. I can get refunds if I play a game for a couple of hours and I don’t like it. I can access any of the games I bought, they haven’t gone Sony on me and restricted my purchases. They’ve proven themselves to be good guys in this and I too fear the day GabeN is replaced by some fuck who just wants to get a quick few million, so he shits all over us and our collections of games.
- Comment on Tipping culture npcs 2 months ago:
If you can’t afford to live on 2.35 an hour, don’t work for 2.35 an hour. Asshole.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg made $29 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge 3 months ago:
Why cook them? Eat them alive.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg made $29 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge 3 months ago:
So basically people are betting that they will be able sell the stock right after Feb 22 before it loses more than $0.50?
Not necessarily. With all it gained, they can even sell tomorrow. Or at any point before it takes the next massive hit.
- Comment on YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix 3 months ago:
my only point is that it will be a toy, or for niche applications.
Your only point is the same point people with no idea of how things work have been making since forever. “It’s just a fad”. This was claimed about cars, about the internet, about computers, about videogames… Literally anyone who’s out of touch with reality and resents their lack of creativity or ability to think of a use for this groundbreaking technology positions themselves this way. It’s not new, and maybe it’s sometimes worth debating, but not when you follow it up with something like this:
this isnt going to be a an ipad-level device.
The iPad? Really? That’s your idea of a gamechanger? If you think ipads are anything except “a toy” and “for niche applications”, you’re living your wildest years, my dude.
- Comment on Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism 3 months ago:
Does the data explain why women don’t go into stem, or does it simply state what women that are in stem report?
Don’t go into stem, you can’t read data. And I say that while honestly not caring about your genitals.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Approves AI Voice Actors, Enrages the VA Community 4 months ago:
It is.
Personally, I’m not against it. Acting means by default imitating something. Pretending you are something you are not. If AI can do it as well or better than actors, I’m okay with that.
Maybe we’re at a stage where the voice actors of tomorrow will be simply those who can configure the AI to output the voice most fitting the role, rather than those who can reproduce it with their own vocal chords. They’re different skillets - I see no reason why one should be important than the other.
This is progress. The only bad thing about progress is that it won’t benefit the many, but the few that can capitalize on it. This, I do regret. But on the other hand - I’m sure all the horse ranchers were very much against cars when they first appeared, and not for environmental reasons, but for more selfish ones. And while it might’ve been sad for so many of them to have to start working in a different field, it’s also undeniable that cars have made a huge economic impact on the world and that living conditions as a whole have improved since their invention.
Idk. It’s a whole thing. I really hope these people can find a way to ride the wave. Because right now it looks like they’ll just be crushed by it instead, and I for one can’t justify impeding progress for the love of the few people stuck in the past.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Approves AI Voice Actors, Enrages the VA Community 4 months ago:
Comparing to actually good VA, Oblivion was awful. But let me tell you, I played that game as a kid and it wouldn’t have been even half as interesting with no VA. When you’re a stealth archer and someone gets close to you and you think you’re safely hidden, but then you hear “you’re not supposed to be here”, it scared the hell out of 15-yo me and made me run away sooo fast. I tried morrowind just after that and couldn’t stomach playing it - no VA? At all? It was awful.
Maybe we sometimes forget, games are also for kids. Kids don’t need the best acting. And while adult me can’t take oblivion VA seriously - it is still one of the best games I’ve ever played as a child, while Morrowind never even made it into the list because I was spoiled by playing Oblivion first, with its VA, bad as it is.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Approves AI Voice Actors, Enrages the VA Community 4 months ago:
Well, indie studios aren’t known for huge budgets - they generally don’t include voice acting at all. Between no voice acting and AI voice acting, which is better?
- Comment on These aren't "feel good" stories, they're "we live in hell" stories. 4 months ago:
Oh, I agree. I was just trying to add some context to the guy’s comment, because it seemed like the question (while avoidable with a quick search) was taken as malicious, whereas knowing the context makes me read it as jokey/curious at most.
- Comment on Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? 4 months ago:
I normally advocate for piracy. In cases like these, where some corpo comes in and STEALS from their customers (because let’s stop pretending this is anything else) I advocate for the other type of piracy, with sabers, cannons, rape, theft, pillaging and making some of these assholes walk a plank.
- Comment on These aren't "feel good" stories, they're "we live in hell" stories. 4 months ago:
It’s very common in Romanian to
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Not know a lot of English and
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Use a Romanian word and make it sound kind of English to make a point
Eg: “I gatated dinner” - ‘a găti’ = to cook -> I gateted dinner ~= I cooked dinner.
This is a bad example, but you hopefully get what I’m explaining.
In this context, ‘a inunda’ is a verb in Romanian, it means “to flood (something)”. If you’re Romanian and you don’t know the word exists in English, ‘inundated’ sounds like one of those made-up “verb+ed” constructions.
So while it’s a silly question for someone who doesn’t know Romanian, it’s also a valid question for someone who has heard these types of bad constructions before, and has never heard of the English verb “to inundate”.
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- Comment on Square Enix’s president says it will be ‘aggressive in applying’ AI 4 months ago:
The ‘why not’ is not from the perspective of the industry - it’s from the perspective of the customer. Can you automate several tasks by using AI during game development? Sure. Will it translate into a better price or a better experience for the end-user? Let’s see.
Let’s say you give AI the unimportant tasks. You manage to reduce a lot of waste and maybe optimize your workflows. You improve efficiency. Maybe you can make more games in a shorter time span. Will you be willing to sell the games for less than the standard $60? I find this unlikely. This impacts me as a consumer - why am I paying for your improved tools with my money?
Let’s say you give AI the big tasks - you make it write story, generate graphics or code. But AI’s current level doesn’t allow for originality, or even cohesive thought. You’ll be churning out garbage until your AI is actual intelligence. This again impacts me as a consumer - why am I sponsoring your experiments with my money?
So - sure, let the companies throw themselves at this. But I’m not investing my own cash in their research.
- Comment on Do Huawei phones have a secret backdoor that the Chinese government can access? 4 months ago:
If the Chinese government asked any of those other companies to give them all the data they have on you in particular, They probably tell them to get bent.
Haha what? You think there’s any chance in hell that China doesn’t get what they want from any US company? Check out this video, this is what happens when a random American says something China doesn’t like. Now go ahead and picture those companies not bending over backwards to kiss Xi’s ass if it means affecting the bottom line.
- Comment on Google maps adding sponsored detours 4 months ago:
Ah, good choice - instead of waiting for the company to become increasingly enshittified, you went with the already 100% completely shit company.
- Comment on Task failed successfully? 4 months ago:
Please don’t suggest to people to call 911. Not in the replies to this article.
- Comment on Top 50 defederated instances 5 months ago:
Maybe its their instances and those are just the way they are
- Comment on Study finds that Chat GPT will cheat when given the opportunity and lie to cover it up later. 5 months ago:
If I were to send you a video of a duck quacking, would you abandon going to the supermarket in the hope that your computer/phone/whatever you watch it on will now be able to lay eggs?
Listen. It was made to look like a duck. It was made to quack like a duck. It is not a duck. It is a painting of a duck. It won’t fly, it won’t lay eggs, it won’t feel pain, it won’t shit all over the floors. It’s not a damn duck, and pretending it is just because it looks like it and it quacks, is like wanting to marry a fleshlight because it’s really good at sex and never disagrees with you. Sure, go ahead and do it - but don’t goddamn expect it to actually give birth, that’s not its purpose.
- Comment on Feds subpoena Ticketmaster over egregious concert ticket prices — A spokesperson for Live Nation, which owns Ticketmaster, said the firm doesn't “feel comfortable” sharing information with Congress 5 months ago:
To be fair, I don’t feel comfortable sharing information with anyone, let alone fucking congress. So I can kinda see their point.
On the other hand, I also don’t feel comfortable with the spokesperson not getting raped with a rake. What now, spokesperson? How shall we solve this little dilemma?
- Comment on Why does it seem like women are more wont to make noise in sexual situations while men don't? 5 months ago:
Do you think they were busy moaning or?
- Comment on YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker 5 months ago:
Opt in?
A Google exec should be shot for any ads longer than 30 seconds.
I was in the shower once and wanted some music. I started the YouTube app on my phone cause revanced was acting up at the time. I had to sit through an x minute ad, I’m not even sure how long. I was seeing red by the time my shower was over.
I’d hazard a guess that this old quora post that was estimating the average American loses 4.2 years of their life on ads would now result in even more time lost on ads, but let’s go with 4.2 years per person. This means that for every 20 people, there’s one person’s lifetime of ads. “A life for a life” is the only fair concept, Google. Start the culling.