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- Comment on ChatGPT can talk, but OpenAI employees sure can’t 12 hours ago:
I may be missing information, but I thought the only major changes is that non-compete agreements were made effectively illegal, but I don’t believe there was anything that affected non-disclosure agreements and non-disparagement agreements.
- Comment on Microsoft Word just fixed its default paste option 5 days ago:
TIL that Word is supposed to support Ctrl+Shift+V starting last year. My work-provided Office 365 version of the app definitely still does not.
I had already disabled the option to paste source format by default, but I am glad that this will hopefully reduce the frequency of surprise font changes from my tech-illiterate coworkers in documents they send.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble 5 days ago:
For what it’s worth, Rebirth is an amazing game that I would honestly consider to be the gold star of anyone making a AAA experience today. If the goal is truly quality, I don’t think it’s feasible to try to make every game better than Rebirth given the breadth of content in it and its overall production quality.
Really what this announcement boils down to is that they won’t be making games like Harvestella, Valkyrie Elysium, Diofield Chronicle, and Foamstars. And maybe they’ll also be a bit more mindful of the budgets of their AAA games like Rebirth instead of taking a “spared no expense” mindset, which could come at the cost of quality, but I hope that’s not the case.
- Comment on Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. 1 week ago:
It would have still been an issue because the root of the problem is that there are a lot of regions where PSN is not supported and you can’t make an account. The game was being sold on Steam in those regions, and so in practice it would have been like saying:
Please note that in a future update we will take away your ability to play with no recourse unless Valve is willing to refund your purchase. Take it up with them.
- Comment on Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. 1 week ago:
The difference is that Helldivers 2 was already a released game; people had paid for a product which was taken away from them. After all the controversy, Sony decided not to follow through with that plan and let people keep what they already had.
This is still scummy, but with Ghost of Tsushima, no one has received anything yet. People put in an order, the order was canceled, and money refunded, so in practical terms there is no loss…other than not being able to buy the game.
It may be possible to set your account to a different region and purchase anyways, but in my opinion, piracy is absolutely justified in this case when the vendor literally refuses to make a product available to you. If there’s no legal option for obtaining it, then there’s no harm in pirating it.
- Comment on Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue 1 week ago:
Well, hard for it to succeed at the box office when movie theaters were still closed/avoided in the midst of the pandemic.
- Comment on Suicide Squad Cost Warner Bros. $200 Million In Revenue 1 week ago:
Lesson learned: there can be no good Suicide Squad title unless prefixed by “The”.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 week ago:
If anything, Nintendo is likely the company about to make lightning strike twice with the Switch successor due to be announced this year. Will be interesting to see what it’s like, but no matter the case, it is going to sell like hotcakes.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 week ago:
Yeah, it is already available.
- Comment on Boring ass planet 1 week ago:
Similar reason why these three photos look like slightly different colors: image sensor type, quality, and postprocessing.
Older images, less accurate. Especially if the type of image a system is capturing is not meant to be consistent with the human eye.
- Comment on Your move, China. 1 week ago:
That’s what I’ve heard. The flag was made with material that bleaches in the sun and so is likely now just solid white.
- Comment on Your move, China. 1 week ago:
Can a bleached white flag still be called an American flag?
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 2 weeks ago:
But it was, so who is going to take responsibility for it? Is Sony going to back down from the requirement? Is Valve going to refund all those users?
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 2 weeks ago:
They shouldn’t.
I am just saying, if the concern is about putting your email on another service, then don’t put your email. You can use a throwaway one if you just want to get through it and play, or if it’s a matter of principle and you don’t want to, that’s cool too.
Just offering my 2 cents on keeping personal information safe on the web. It’s often unsafe to put all your eggs in one basket and email is no exception, so having some “burner accounts” on hand can help.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 2 weeks ago:
Could just make a throwaway account with Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, what have you, then. No real information attached.
Not saying I agree at all with what Sony is doing, but anyone who is concerned about their email/personal information getting leaked by something they didn’t want to sign up for, there are options to protect yourself.
- Comment on Draw your own conculsions 2 weeks ago:
Meaningful if you’re looking for predictors on birth rates, I suppose. Usually I see studies like this used to explain why populations start to decline.
- Comment on Draw your own conculsions 2 weeks ago:
2008 was the beginning of the recession, and in many ways things never really recovered. Cost of college never went down. Housing remains unattainable for most young people. And the job market is becoming more exploitative than ever.
Financial uncertainty creates anxiety. People with too much anxiety don’t have the time or energy for relationships and family. As it happens, countries where this is felt even more, like Korea and Japan, have it far worse.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 2 weeks ago:
FWIW, no need for it to be an attack vector if you just use one of those throwaway email services to sign up for a PSN account you’ll never use anywhere else.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 2 weeks ago:
My company is planning to upgrade to Win11 soon, and we are one of the larger employers in the region. I imagine there may be many other companies following suit as Windows 10 ages more.
- Comment on The choice is yours 2 weeks ago:
There’s also just a certain…musk? It’s immediately noticeable when you enter someone’s house and they have a cat. I feel like the residents must get nose blind to it because they don’t believe me when I tell them, but there is definitely a certain cat smell that just gets everywhere.
- Comment on Vote Justin Kays 2024 #47!!!!!! 2 weeks ago:
I would trust his character (Julian Slowik) to be president. Man would do what needs to be done and then peace out when he is no longer needed. A champion of the working class who understands the cycle of oppression perpetuated by the working class. He would serve revolution on a plate.
!As long as we can overlook all of the sexual assault in his history.!<
- Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Takes $140 Million Hit in ‘Content Abandonment Losses’ as It Revises Game Pipeline - IGN 2 weeks ago:
The PC version of XVI is being actively worked on, Rebirth not long to follow I’d imagine, given that they released less than a year apart.
- Comment on Tim Loughton: MP deported from Djibouti over criticisms of China 2 weeks ago:
China is quickly becoming the new dominant colonial power in Africa.
- Comment on The Rooftop Solar Industry Could Be on the Verge of Collapse 3 weeks ago:
I was on a flight recently with American Airlines and had to sit through a 15-minute speech during/after takeoff from one of the crew about the advantages of signing up for their credit card, and then the flight attendants came around to every seat with forms to try to convince everyone to sign up.
Utterly disgusting.
- Comment on Possible snipers seen at OSU. Administration says they're not snipers but should be treated like they are. 3 weeks ago:
How to get easily shot by a sniper who thinks you have a laser scope.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
I’d prefer to have you as my cousin instead of the one I have who hates brown people and believes Trump won the 2020 election.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
I’d say absolutely, if Cambridge Analytica wasn’t a thing. I’d honestly rather have people not vote than be motivated to go vote because they think the liberal communists are putting fluoride in water to make frogs gay.
It’s somehow always the organizations and individuals who are trying to manipulate people that seem to care the most about people’s voices being heard in politics. Churches, social media, daytime TV, that crazy uncle you don’t like to talk to at family gatherings…
- Comment on If Start menu ads in Windows 11 aren't bad enough, something worse might be on the horizon 3 weeks ago:
Other than the dealer sneaking up in the middle of the night to reapply decals, that is sadly exactly what buying a new car is like.
Or, well, at least from what I’ve seen and heard from others. Who has money these days for new cars?
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 3 weeks ago:
What sort of living do you think users are eking out on Reddit or Lemmy?
Social media commerce is all scams and influencers. There are much more productive things people could do to contribute to the betterment of society without trying to capitalize the brain space of gullible and vulnerable people.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 3 weeks ago:
I would love it if the government banned Reddit.
Lemmy I could live without. If any users are making their livelihoods on Lemmy or Reddit, they should find something more productive to do.