JDPoZ
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- Comment on A Netflix exclusive 18 hours ago:
That first punch that landed on Paul’s face made him stop dancing around like an idiot… but yeah after 2 rounds it became just a war of attrition, where Tyson’s knees (which apparently were in a brace outside of the fight itself) just couldn’t hold up and let him close the gap and deliver any of his admittedly still-fierce punches.
- Comment on AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time 2 days ago:
🦆… 🗞️💥
- Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era 2 weeks ago:
I know it’s in vogue to shit on Apple…
Apple does have a lot of vertical integration which allows first party stuff to function well and they work closely with a lot of their premium 3rd party software partners, but you try running an actual RAM hungry process like a local LLM model, for example, and all but the highest end latest edition MacBook Pro WILL shit the bed.
- Comment on Entire Mac Lineup Now Finally Starts With at Least 16GB RAM, Ending 8GB Era 2 weeks ago:
Completely laughable. Literally had 16 GB of DDR3-1600 for my 2600K from 2011 that I handed down to a kid nephew for their first PC to tinker with. Hell, my local NAS has more than that…
- Comment on What websites still feel like the old internet? 3 weeks ago:
How is it that 2 days after this posted no one has said “Craigslist.”
- Comment on Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse 1 month ago:
There used to be stories (not sure how true) of him going to events like E3, Tokyo Game Show, Gamescom, and other developer-centric game conventions.
He also was a key figure / contributor in some old school PC adventure games like Indiana Jones from waaaaay back in the day.
- Comment on LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking 1 month ago:
Bingo. Shield pro, and blacklist the MAC address of the TV and NEVER update the firmware.
- Comment on Generative AI creates playable version of Doom game with no code 2 months ago:
Because “AI” isn’t actually “artificial intelligence.” It’s the marketing term that seems to have been adapted by every corporation to describe “LLMs…” which are more like extra fancy power guzzling parrots.
Its why the best cases for them are mimicking things brainlessly, like voice cloning for celebrity impressions… but that doesn’t mean it can act or comprehend emotion, or know how many fingers a hand should have and why they constantly hallucinate contextless bullshit… because just like a parrot doesn’t actually know any meaning of what it is saying when it goes “POLLY WANT A CRACKER…” it just knows the tall thing will give it a treat if it makes this specific squawk with its beak.
- Comment on EE warns parents against giving children under 11 a smartphone 2 months ago:
Scrolling to find out what “EE” is… I can’t find anything. Can someone fill me in?
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Oh man, I LOVE introducing folks to Robert Evans from Behind the Bastards. The guy is an internet legend.
I still remember the first time I recognized his voice on an old pre-shit era Cracked video feature about how cops won’t help you when you’re being stabbed. I submitted it to Reddit a while back and it ended up making the front page.
Can’t recommend his stuff enough.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 - Official Teaser Trailer 2 months ago:
For those who don’t know…
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 2 months ago:
Yep. LG OLED disconnected from all web connections - literally has its MAC address blacklisted from my router, changed the launcher from stock Google for my NVIDIA Shield to a non ad-riddled launcher called WOLF, side-loaded SmartTube for ad-free YT, and Plex = non-dystopian media experience.
- Comment on Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha 2 months ago:
Doesn’t seem to be working - I presume because Steam says those chat links are single-use, so once anyone here clicked it, it becomes invalid.
I think a private message with that same kind of link would work though. Messaging you now. 😅
- Comment on Deadlock (Valve's Unannounced Title) Passes 12k Peak Players in Closed Alpha 2 months ago:
Hello fellow gamers! Can I trouble any of you for an invite??? 😁😁😁
- Comment on Logitech has ‘no plans’ for a subscription mouse 3 months ago:
Actually 100% agree. Was more about the meme than real life though.
Communication, honesty, boundaries that are mutually agreed upon and respected is the sign of a healthy relationship… not any artificial external construct set by religion, peers, or some perceived “norm” from society.
That being said, I couldn’t think of a more clever comparison to make. 😅
- Comment on Logitech has ‘no plans’ for a subscription mouse 3 months ago:
Ah yes, the ol’ “joking about a threesome” trick.
“What?! Oh, no I mean… I was just joking, honey. I’d never do that.”
- Comment on Metal Gear Solid's E3 Reveal Had The Syphon Filter Team "Despairing" | Time Extension 3 months ago:
In the long run Metal Gear certainly outshined them, but I think the Syphon Filter games were ultimately very different.
One of my favorite little bits of goofy trivia between both series though was the joke in the dialog of MGS 3 : Subsistence where Snake asks the Colonel why “Sam” (presumably Sam Fisher of the Splinter Cell series) or “Gabe” (presumably Syphon Filter’s protagonist) couldn’t do the Ape Escape side mission instead since Snake said it wasn’t really his “thing.”
- Comment on EU charges Microsoft with 'abusive' bundling of Teams and Office, breaching antitrust rules 4 months ago:
I hate MS Teams so much.
- Comment on Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape 6 months ago:
“Newer” does not necessarily equal “better.”
The real problem is how basically game dev is an untenable long-term career from a AAA standpoint… or at least it is outside of Japan.
Almost every major dev is not being run by anyone with more than 10-ish years of dev experience.
Why? Because studios shut down and fire everyone, or they get bought… and fire everyone… or the grizzled vets get burnt out, or find out that work-life balance shifts when they get old enough to want to start a family, or discover (like I did) that general software pays better, has less turnover, and doesn’t shut down as often.
Look at all the major players in the FPS game for example from the past 15 years… The guys who made Perfect Dark, the original GoldenEye, Killer Instinct, Banjo Kazooie, and Conker’s Bad Fur Day? Mostly not in the industry anymore or struggling while working on small indie projects. Some of the companies still exist, but the guys who’d be in their 60s with 30 years of game dev and design mastery under their belts? Gone.
Cliff Blezinski isn’t working on games anymore. John Carmack isn’t at id. Half of Bungie’s OG staff has moved on to other stuff or switched to 343 or some other smaller studio.
I said “outside of Japan” earlier btw because meanwhile Shigeru Miyamoto is still at Nintendo. Dude’s an absolute elder god of game design, and all he’s been doing is working on them for more than 4 decades at this point.
Kojima’s been making games since the 80s, so has most of the folks at Capcom, and the From Software guys have been doing the same thing for 15+ years at this point.
And then there’s the rare tiny studio or re-org of a once awesome team like Respawn after all the Activision / Call of Duty stuff or indie effort like the guy behind Stardew Valley… but other than those handful of exceptions, there’s no one but 20-something recent grads that pad out the teams at these giant game companies like Ubisoft, Activision, EA, etc. Even Blizzard is a pale shadow of what it once was. And Valve doesn’t really make games anymore b/c they don’t have to…
And every year some $10 million / year bonus paid suit shuts down an Ensemble Studios, or a Telltale Games, or fires half of the team at Square Enix b/c the new Tomb Raider 6-year project didn’t make a bajillion dollars after some exec decided that should be their target since “Clash Royale” only took 1 year to pump out and just basically prints piles of money.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 6 months ago:
This is like saying to any sort of person involved in commercial agriculture “don’t buy a John Deere tractor if you don’t like their draconic business practices.”
Like… there’s not really many other choices if you want to make a game that can do simultaneous cross-platform networked multiplayer and want to be able to launch on any console.
I mean, unless you want them making something that has massive difficulty coming to console… like maybe Lethal Company is the only recent example I can think of that’s a small non-major publisher-backed title that has networked 4-player multiplayer… and even then i’m not sure what sort of challenges that dev had when trying to implement any sort of netcode for gameplay.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 6 months ago:
Said this in another thread :
First off - yes Sony is in the wrong.
Second - Helldivers ain’t Flappy Bird. Making an online multiplayer game that needs the ability to do reliable matchmaking across multiple platforms with hundreds of thousands of players out there needs MASSIVE network and infrastructure support…
So you may say “don’t take money from the mob,” but this is more a situation of where if they HADN’T taken Sony’s support, they likely wouldn’t have been able to have the resources to have done all that themselves which could have made the difference between their great success and failure.
Remember that the first helldivers game was also a Sony published title where everything worked out fine for everyone then… but mostly because it wasn’t near as big a success story and making headlines but was instead a far more niche title lost mostly in the noise of smaller dev Sony titles.
I’m sure arrowhead has learned its lesson now and it will likely able probably to flex its muscles in the future thanks to its success financially - as I’m sure lots of publishers will be now coming at them with much more lucrative and favorable contract deals going forward, but they probably would not have been able to do what they wanted to do at the scale that they have been able to had Sony not been there to help provide that initial capital and infrastructure support.
This is Sony’s fault fully. The guys at Arrowhead are just wanting to have the means to make good games. They needed the resources to launch successfully and pretending it would have been feasible otherwise without said resources is sadly… naive.
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 6 months ago:
Synology’s smaller units are great and with a few docker configs you are ready to go.
- Comment on Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time 6 months ago:
Thread MVP ^
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 6 months ago:
My god… are you… me? Same exact shit. Created my YT account 14 years ago. Made some vids… some got some views… eventually I got a few dollars deposited like for 3 years. Probably totaled the same $100 you mentioned then boom. Shut down.
- Comment on Hollywood writers went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI. Their remarkable victory matters for all workers. 7 months ago:
That was your first thought watching the Halo show? 😅 I mean… yeah that’s important but uhhhh… that wasn’t probably my first thought.
- Comment on Why is there no USB-C (female) to mini-B (male) adapter? 10 months ago:
Ah yes. Good ol JXMOX… a household name in quality electronics.
So glad this is the world we live in where a cat that’s attacking a keyboard can provide company names that fart in and out of existence every month on the monolithic online shopping monopoly site we all basically are forced to use if we need anything since RadioShack, Fry’s, and every single other boutique electronics shop is gone.
- Comment on Finished Rewiring, Very Happy With The Results 11 months ago:
GameCube³
- Comment on Super Metroid 11 months ago:
Is this the non-American cover? As an old Yankee, I may be forgetting a few things, but I remember the corner art (specifically the “only on” bit) looking different.
- Comment on Unity is eliminating 265 jobs and terminating Weta FX partnership 11 months ago:
Again, it’s a snowball effect.
Students and amateurs want to learn how to do something. Their choices are either - (sometimes) get an EDU address, fill out a form, apply for a discount or free version, see the watermark or lose a ton of functionality, and only see tutorials via classes or other a-la-carte method (how many folks are doing Houdini lessons online out there - probably not many if I had to guess considering Houdini’s price), or start paying $20/month for a program that they someday hope will allow them to earn money - knowing that if they stop paying, they lose access to files… OR…
They can download a program for free, that anyone can add stuff to, with thousands of really well done tutorials online on free places like YouTube, that studios will love because there’s no licensing fee or if there is - it’s only when they are really profitable or whatever.
The more that people use it, the more there are people doing tutorials, expanding functionality, etc.
Blender used to be garbage in like 2010, but now - you’d be an idiot not to grab a copy and teach yourself if you used to regular in apps like 3DS Max, Maya, or other premium closed application now requiring a bunch of DRM installers, license tiers, and subscriptions…
Same goes for Adobe’s stuff. I imagine there are more and more people sick of Creative Cloud’s garbage and are ready to find and learn and contribute to FOSS services… All that needs to happen is critical stupid event by bigwig, and suddenly a mass exodus begins.
- Comment on Unity is eliminating 265 jobs and terminating Weta FX partnership 11 months ago:
I always go back to one of my favorite CollegeHumor vids literally making fun of that. 🤣