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- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 3 days ago:
“As Black Friday and the holiday buying season approaches, the American public should know that not only is Steam an unsafe place for teens and young adults to purchase and play online games, but also that, absent a change in Valve’s approach to user moderation and the type of behavior that it welcomes on its platform, Steam is playing a clear role in allowing harmful ideologies to spread and take root among the next generation,” says Warner
What? What the fuck, democrats?
First off - cool letter bro, I’ve always wanted to write one but unfortunately we are in the current century. I don’t know what a pretentious cuntwaffle you have to be to write a letter at this point in time, but apparently it helps if you’re a senator.
Second - really? Valve should moderate user scrrenshots to make sure there are no swastikas? What if I have a swastika tattooed on my face and the pic is closeup shot? Listen, cumstain - if you’re not gonna do your job as a government and moderate extremists by hiding behind your ‘freedom of speech’ bullshit, don’t be surprised when a corporation can’t do it either. What, the KKK is too hard to stamp out for the US government, so let’s put Valve on the job? A Neonazi fuck just won another presidential campaign, you’re telling me your country is against swastikas? Fuck outta here.
And third - I’d really like to know what makes steam “unsafe for teens and young adults”. Is valve impregnating kids now? Do they carry measles in their steam decks? Is gaben running with scissors in school hallways? Or is it just that you’re an out of touch cunt who last understood technology when horse power involved actual horses?
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 3 weeks ago:
It hurts to do this, because you’ve obviously thought out your comment and you obviously like the game and want to believe the devs are doing their best. But I think your entire premise is wrong
To combat Chinese gold farmers, Blizzard started selling gold in a bit of a roundabout way
Why do you think this? Why do you grant a greedy game dev the benefit of the doubt? They’re cashing in on Chinese gold farmers in all possible ways, man:
- By allowing their accounts to exist instead of banning and moving on
- By controlling the value of gold with a cash shop, ensuring economy is in their favor
- The cash shop also brings them monetary value.
They are triple dipping, and you choose to believe they are doing it because they’re a good game dev.
A good game dev would ban accounts guilty of real money trading. A good game dev would fix the in-game economy with in-game methods. A good game dev wouldn’t have micro transactions in a subscription game. You want to believe Blizzard is doing this because of those evil Chinese farmers - I’m here to tell you they’re profiting from this and don’t have the morals to make it right.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 3 weeks ago:
Oh no, the treaty-breaking, nuke-threatening, war-crime-committing invading force is being discriminated against!
Holy shit, gtfo. Maybe don’t be an actual cunt if you don’t want people to “discriminate” against you? The guy didn’t even fire all Russians, only those tied to sanctioned companies. He did less than should’ve been done. But that’s only because what should be done to Russia at this point is assassinating their leader and selling tickets to piss on his grave.
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 4 weeks ago:
Babe wake up, new prime number just dropped.
- Comment on Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts 4 weeks ago:
Is it necessary to pay more, or is it enough to just pay for more time? If the product is good, it will be used.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
Nah man. I’ll rephrase:
Drivers are self-centered because:
- they are one of the leading causes of death, and they convinced the world their convenience is worth it
- they believe that they literally know better than AI and are better suited to have power over life and death
- they’re out here tryna say passengers of AI cars should sign up to die automatically, when drivers are actually the ones who are today responsible for all deaths by car
I made it easier to understand, hope it helps.
- Comment on Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic 1 month ago:
This will never be the case. Because nobody will buy an overpriced “yo, if there’s ever any doubt about, like, anything - just put a bullet in my head” machine. So nobody will sell it.
Face it - you have the same thousands of pounds of metal today, and you’re the only one making decisions. You (drivers, as a community) have killed before, for selfish reasons: because you don’t want to die is the least selfish of them. Other hits include “didn’t wanna not get drunk with the homies”, “I really needed to answer that text” and “I have 10 minutes till home but the game starts in 5, it’s my favorite team, I can make it”. And you somehow seem to want non-drivers (passengers of AI cars) to have the same expectation that they will be a victim even when they get a car?
Drivers are so self-centered it’s goddamn ridiculous.
- Comment on All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch 1 month ago:
If I were on the verge of running a monopoly, I’d be spending my money on making anything that the competition is making, along with my usual product. Because if you let them run with it and it turns out to be the next big thing, you’ve just shot yourself in the leg. Microsoft is no longer just an OS. Google is no longer just a search engine. Amazon is no longer a bookstore.
Diversify your assets.
- Comment on Youtube has fully blocked Invidious 1 month ago:
Right. Call them youtubers! Wait…
- Comment on God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement 1 month ago:
For trying a game, trying it, disliking it and refunding it, a series of events that is completely normal and allowed by steam’s refund policy? Well it’s probably getting changed when gaben dies and someone else takes over, but I’m not sure we should be rooting for that…
- Comment on God of War Ragnarok PC port suffers review bombing on Steam due to PlayStation Network account requirement 1 month ago:
I hope it does. Then they can fuck off and die nameless, cause I’m not buying it if it’s not on steam or gog, and I’ve recently aso begun not buying it if it requires a PSN account. Take your shitty business practices and stuff them up your console’s ass.
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 needs 64GB of RAM for ideal performance — oddly, the game install size is only 30GB 1 month ago:
Oddly? This is not odd at all.
It’s been a while sincce I wrote code, but I’ll try to remember. Basically disk size and ram size have no connection. Disk size is for already generated assets (maybe you need to remember how the planes look like, so you create assets for all the planes. Or you want to have textures for the scenery, or for the Lincoln monument, or whatever).
But then you need to load those resources into RAM to access them faster, because if you try to load them directly from disk, it’s a lot slower. So some part of those 64GB of RAM is because you are loading some premade assets.
But aside from this, there’s also dynamically generated data that you have no way of knowing about at the beginning of the program, so you can’t prepare in advance and allocate memory for it. Like say for example the player wants to begin flying the plane - he’s gonna have some different inputs than any other player. Maybe he drives slower at the beginning, or goes a little to the right when he takes off. Or his destination will be completely different. You now need to remember his velocity, his position on the map, the direction of his flight, his altitude, his plane’s weight and who knows what else, I’m not a pilot. All of this, you allocate memory dynamically, based on user changes, and this uses the RAM as well.
Not to mention - you can make a 1kb program that takes 64 GB of RAM. You just ask the operating system for that much memory. You don’t even need to fully use it. It’ll take you one line of code.
All this to say - nothing odd about the program being smaller than the RAM requirements. It can mean it’s not optimized, but it can also mean it has a lot of dynamic calculations that it’s doing and a lot of stuff it needs to remember (and in the case of a flight Sim this wouldn’t surprise me).
- Comment on NATO official: Ukraine has legal right to strike deep into Russia 2 months ago:
Wowiee, Russia fanbois will literally suck a dick and then claim it’s not gay because it came on their face not in their mouth.
- Comment on Top EU court orders Apple to pay €13 billion tax bill. 2 months ago:
They’re* literally fucked.
It’s a lot harder to pass laws that discriminate vs exactly one business, than it is to sanction one particular country. With shell corporations, hiding accounts etc, there’s no way you can make a law that says “apple has to do X”. But you can pass sanctions against, eg: Russia.
First corpo to buy a country is gonna quickly find out politics is harder than business, and greasing politicians’ pockets is harder when you have literally hundreds of countries you’re negotiating with.
Also, armies. Try getting on the wrong side of country x, might get yourself a nice invasion pretty soon.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
IT does? Damn, didn’t know - my bad. Where I’m from IT doesn’t have the keys, and the people that do have the keys know better than to try entering people’s dorms, unless it’s really something critical. Wifi doesn’t qualify.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
Some WiFi routers can be configured to not advertise their network; annoying because you’ll have to manually enter the network information on every device, but it might keep you from getting caught.
Just name the network something like Samsung S20 Personal Hotspot. They’re not gonna look into why a student created a Hotspot with their phone.
Or, shit - lock the fucking door.
- Comment on Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations. 2 months ago:
Ah, but what you don’t know is that my TOS for when I watch a video is that if the video is bound by TOS, those employed by the company establishing the TOS are pedophiles and child abusers and I reserve the right to shoot them on sight.
This is clearly printed on my router, the megabytes can read it when they enter my room. I also have it somewhere in a doc file on my laptop that’s been uploaded to my Google drive, as well as on this lemmy post that is unrestricted to the public. Google and any other entity have access to read this whenever they want.
Time to go shoot some child molesters, yeah?
- Comment on Toilet specific plungers get the job done faster and with way less effort and mess. 2 months ago:
Does this really qualify as a diagram?
- Comment on CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage 2 months ago:
That’s fucking rich, let me tell you. Because I’m an unwilling crowdstrike user who just today had another issue - we received a company-wide email that our PCs will be slowed down because crowdstrike is experiencing another botched update that makes it take up too much memory/CPU to do it’s shady fucking background work.
I’m getting 5 second delays trying to snap a screenshot and they have the gall to complain about commentary. Here’s some fucking commentary for you: I’ve hired interns who were more principled than your entire company when it comes to pushing to production. Wanna try doing the same for like, 30 consecutive days? Or are you branching out into selling “it has been X days since the last global incident” t-shirts? Cause at least that’d be one useful product climbing out of that shithole of a company.
- Comment on I know Mormons can't have alcohol, but couldn't they just dip their tongue in a glass of beer and not move it? 3 months ago:
Nah
- Comment on obesity 3 months ago:
And yet when I call people retarded lemmy commenter’s go all autistic for some reason?
- Comment on If 1 million people sign a petition, a ban on rendering multiplayer games unplayable has a chance to become law in Europe 3 months ago:
People HAVE BEEN voting with their wallets. Nobody’s out there buying 5000 games they don’t wanna play, people are already buying only what they want. The problems is, all it takes to sustain a shitty game is a few fucking whales that none of us can compare to. Or a lot of people buying into the hype of a well-liked IP releasing a new game. Or a million other ways to get the fucking money without getting your money or mine.
So we can keep on voting with our wallets, but let’s also try to control this cunty behavior from companies at government level instead of basically “thoughts and prayers”.
- Comment on The worst pick-up line I've ever gotten 4 months ago:
I lack reading comprehension up to the point where I may be illiterate: it took me one fucking day to understand your message. You don’t want this. Hell, I don’t even want this, but I’m stuck with myself. Get out while you still can.
O hey. Idk if my first message didn’t show the right nuance of red on the flag, or maybe it didn’t completely send the “turn back now, I’m literally brain dead” idea. So anyway, here’s a second message.
- Comment on noplace, a mashup of Twitter and Myspace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store 4 months ago:
This app is cheugy fam no cap fr fr on God if u download dis you stannin for the boujee this app high key has no drip big yikes if you on it u basic
- Comment on Adopting a stray cat 4 months ago:
If your kids ain’t neutered you better be home schooling them cause if I catch them in school tryna fuck my kids they’re not gonna live to see the pound.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 months ago:
No, he means every opinion you don’t like is automatically a tankie bot. That’s what lemmy is. From tankies, for tankies.
- Comment on Lemmy is the best social media 4 months ago:
Thorbot’s shit hole has expanded to 10x it’s previous size in the past year, thanks to increased usage by members of the public.
- Comment on Everything old is new again. 4 months ago:
My city’s taxi system was completely changed by Uber, as were many parts of the country. So while it might not be true anymore, and taxi drivers with bad attitudes and those fudging the meter might have been mostly weeded out, it’s because of Uber that this happened. And it’s because of their unions that it hadn’t happened before. But the moment there started being some competition in town as opposed to their previous monopoly on the market, they had to back down if they wanted to even survive, let alone come out on top over Uber.
So while yes, uber employees are being fucked over, that has less of an impact on things than you imply. I’ll still get an Uber/Bolt instead of a taxi 9/10 times, because immoral business practices are still better than immoral & illegal practices with a monopoly that you are powerless to change backing them.
- Comment on Starter Guide 4 months ago:
5 years ago
old
Now listen here you little shit
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 6 months 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.