shiroininja
@shiroininja@lemmy.world
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 2 days ago:I think people just want someone to blame. It’s as stupid as blaming a scummy car salesman because you bought a car you can’t afford. You let yourself be talked into it. You let somebody sell you something. They didn’t take the money from your pocket. Maybe I just don’t understand because I didn’t grow in the privilege to have money to waste on digital shit in digital crates. And if my parents did (they didn’t) they would’ve never ever given me access to their banking. Thats foolish. It’s like people who expect things to be censored because they’re too lazy to monitor their children or learn router and dns level blocking. Or for gods sake, don’t give you child a smart phone. 
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 3 days ago:After they start and get addicted. You’re not ill when you start . Unless you have something else going on not related. You have full power not to start. Just play the game, kill the other guy, have fun with your team. Thats all you need to do in any game. Thats all I’ve ever done in a game like CS. I don’t even notice all the other stuff. I play the game. 
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 3 days ago:I don’t really care. Idiots are easily parted with their money. Thats their fault. I’ve played CS for decades and never paid for a chest or whatever. Never had an interest. 
- Comment on With The Sims owners EA selling to Saudi Arabia, and InZOI owners Krafton going "AI First", there is room in the market for a very queer life simulator 1 week ago:The sims 2. 
- Comment on Tragic Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site 1 week ago:There was also a famous ocean explorer on board they were using as a prop for their company. He’d done great work exploring shipwrecks previously and not a billionaire 
- Comment on Has InZoi been better than the Sims in your opinion? 2 weeks ago:I’ll just keep playing sims 2, the greatest sims. And all the old mod sites are still up and I can hoard thousands of clothes mods. There was a free installer that came with all the dlc that got taken down, but I still have it and it works. 
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 3 weeks ago:Good thing I don’t pay attention to reviews. Half of them are people whining about things that aren’t a problem for me. 
- Comment on In the long ago past, people needed to do THIS 4 weeks ago:Depression 
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 4 weeks ago:Short form video is the single best propaganda machine there is. You don’t get context, so it’s easy to manipulate events. Also, for some reason, people really fall for the “authority” of since rando talking into a camera like they know what the hell they’re talking about. Every time somebody shows me a TikTok video as a reference or to make a point, the information is either fake or completely incorrect. Not to mention, The algorithm feeds you more of these talking heads and makes you think it’s the general consensus 
- Comment on Public toilets in China demand ad views for loo roll 4 weeks ago:Effing capitalists Lmao 
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 4 weeks ago:I’m glad I never installed that shitty app 
- Comment on Chairman Comer Invites CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to Testify on Radicalization of Online Forum Users - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 1 month ago:The only one I care about is steam. And the others I know will bend the knee because their policies have already been heading that way, thats why I’m not on them anymore 
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 1 month ago:I just don’t see the appeal. 
- Comment on Palestine was the problem with TikTok 2 months ago:It’s clear to me 
- Comment on The Terminal Demise Of Consumer Electronics Through Subscription Services 2 months ago:I don’t have subscriptions for anything or license keys. What are people doing? 
- Comment on AI companion apps are on track to generate $120M+ in revenue in 2025, and in H1 there were 60M downloads of this kind of app, up 88% YoY 2 months ago:LOL that ain’t it. It’s shifts in society, and the gap in how men and women see the world is widening. Speaking as a man myself, it ain’t looking so good when I look at my fellow men’s behavior and values. Dude’s are sliding to the right and turning inward just because they strike out a few times. It happens, you’re going to have failed relationships. you’re going to get rejected. You’re going to even get divorced at times. It’s part of the process. You can’t turn against women because of it. It’s not a moral failing of society. 
- Comment on Intel collapsing? 2 months ago:How do you fuck up so badly when you the largest share of the market? Like what? 
- Comment on Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ 2 months ago:Like hell I will. I’ll be free until the clankers come for me 
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 2 months ago:So I can’t play battlefield without TPM? I hate tech these days. My Ryzen board doesnt have it. Hence why I’m not on windows 11 
- Comment on Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills 2 months ago:I’d never go outside again 
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 2 months ago:As an open source developer, I’d love to have had contributors to help package my apps. It was killing me maintaining everything by myself. It sounds like the control issues I had when I first had contributors, where I didn’t want others to touch my babies too much when people actually started writing code. 
- Comment on Thinking Is Becoming a Luxury Good 2 months ago:I mean I’d the Stage of Technology we’ve been in since like 2010 has been very detrimental for the individual and destructive to society. Social media, smartphones, surveillance states. AI is an even worse version of these. If social media ran by billionaires are not open, unbiased, non-manipulative emotional-reactaction-over-critical-thinking silos, what makes you think all these LLMs run by millionaires and billionaires won’t be? They’re just the next step in social media. 
- Comment on Hackers prove age verification systems on pornography sites can be bypassed in seconds 2 months ago:It’s more about data collection than it is about verifying age 
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 2 months ago:My only exception to that are uber drivers. But then again we live in an age where somehow better help has become popular, even though they sell your data. 
- Comment on OpenAI’s Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking 3 months ago:But can you do it detectably? Because that’s just as easy. This isn’t 95 
- Comment on OpenAI’s Sam Altman warns of AI voice fraud crisis in banking 3 months ago:My bank uses that and personal info, and I have to be calling from a registered number. 
- Comment on  3 months ago:I had such a pain trying to get a consistent client working on mobile. 
- Comment on  3 months ago:I don’t really worry about that. I treat it like natural conversation, or traditional chat rooms. I mean I don’t need a recap when I show up at a party. I just jump in. I’ve never heard of a bouncer, but I think it would turn it into more of a feed than a conversation, which is the opposite of what I want. I’m tired of feeds and timelines. AOL chat rooms were my formative internet years, and I liked that. I think the old style of internet communication is better than the feed silos we have now. Besides, I hardly ever go back and look at older convos in other spaces. I usually hit mark all as read when I open the app. 
- Comment on  3 months ago:I don’t know why people don’t use irc, I’m in it daily and it’s busier than Matrix, and even busier than some Discord servers I’m in. And there’s mobile clients. There’s even way less bots and spam 
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 3 months ago:I like indie games for walking sim and story heavy games only. Outside of that, 99% of indie games feel like some pixel art bs retro rip off roguelike nostalgia cash grab. I hate garbage ware like meatboy, etc. If AAA studios weren’t so shitty, I feel like half of the indie studios wouldn’t have a chance.