dinckelman
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- Comment on Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed 18 hours ago:
It would be yet another spit in the face, if they released a 80$ base game, with the typical 2 season passes, totaling almost 300$ in dlcs of questionable quality. But I wouldn’t hold my breath for anything, because it’s 2K and Gearbox we’re talking about
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 2 days ago:
People will inevitably die as a result of this change. Call your representatives
- Comment on Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike 3 days ago:
At some point, it will only be worth it, if you either finish games at an alarming rate, or play so many different games, that buying them separately would make no sense
- Comment on Steam beta gets native Apple Silicon support — the only public Arm version of Steam 4 days ago:
Probably not. Steam for macOS still has no SteamPlay support, so your best bet is installing the regular Steam through a separate Heroic prefix. Works great, but it does still require Rosetta.
That said, Box64 and FEX are both making a lot of progress, so it’d be awesome to see these in action officially soon
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 6 days ago:
If this were an optional “skin” of sorts, it would have been completely fine with me. But this is a forced redesign, and a really bad one at that. There will likely be changes before the GM release comes out, but overall I just don’t like the design direction, nor the performance implications
- Comment on iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original 1 week ago:
Still has an LCD panel, and still has regular sticks. I guess saving 0.10$ per unit adds up
- Comment on Twitch is getting vertical livestreams 2 weeks ago:
I understand that the overwhelming majority of people will still continue streaming at 16:9, or the vertical equivalent. It’s not just about ownership of ultrawide displays. It’s about support for such output format, for people who do want it. But even going by your own example, a ton of phones are 19.5:9, with some models straight up being 21:9
- Comment on Twitch is getting vertical livestreams 2 weeks ago:
We’re getting vertical streams before 21:9 aspect ratio support. Come on
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 2 weeks ago:
And we’ll just watch them either get slapped by an insignificant fine, or watch them weasel their way out of this again, by claiming they made you agree to some perpetual abandonment of rights, like they always do
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 2 weeks ago:
Why is it never the other way around? I’m sick of EULA updates silently enrolling me into things i never asked for
- Comment on $1.5 Billion AI Company That Reportedly Used No Actual AI Goes Belly Up 2 weeks ago:
That’s just the reality of half of these companies. Inflated revenue reports, no actual work done, and at best they are just a shit chatGPT wrapper
- Comment on Game Boy Advance: Incredible tech on just 2 AA Batteries 3 weeks ago:
Going from a GBC to a GBA SP was absolutely unreal. A backlit display, and a rechargeable battery? Say less
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 3 weeks ago:
Doesn’t even need to be dense fog. The other day I saw a video of a Tesla (on newest firmware, mind you) drove off the road into a tree, in broad daylight, with no visual impairments to the sensors. It’s not ready for any kind of driving, let alone fully automated, not to mention that it’s only really trained on American roads
- Comment on Steamdeck or.... 3 weeks ago:
A Deck will likely be a better purchase for you. Shared library, more sales too. The Cities Skylines situation you’ve described would have been enough to make that decision for me
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never known about it until just now, but I wish I had, because my mom definitely needs something like that. Quite a shame
- Comment on Stack overflow is almost dead 3 weeks ago:
Make no mistake. LLMs aren’t killing stackoverflow. LLMs just arrived to finish it off. The stuff that was killing it are the regular posters there, and their passive aggressive bullshit
- Comment on Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries 4 weeks ago:
Play Anywhere ™️
Except for countries where we don’t allow you to
- Comment on On the prospect of an $80-$90 GTA 6, former PlayStation boss says 'it's an impossible equation' for big-budget studios to keep their prices down 5 weeks ago:
Yet again proves that capitalism is a cancer, and they’ll never be happy with anything, except for endless exponential growth
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 5 weeks ago:
Even back around 2006, my biology teacher did exams on paper only, with questions that are free response only. Even AI and cheating aside, people get way too lucky with multiple choice exams
- Comment on The Fitbit Sense line is cooked because it was too good for Google 5 weeks ago:
That’s just the reality of these tech circles. The goal isn’t to complete. The goal is to eliminate your competition, one way or another.
It’s happened with smartwatches, it happened with Nest, it happened with voice Assistant/Home devices, and it’ll continue happening with the rest of what they make too
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 1 month ago:
Yes. I didn’t like it nearly as much, if at all. I’ve heard mods make that game infinitely more enjoyable though, so maybe i’ll try it again some day
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 1 month ago:
For indie and cheaper stuff specifically? The Binding of Isaac is over 1k hours between my two copies. Rimworld, Factorio, and Terraria are all close to 500h as well. If Minecraft counts as one for you, this is an outlier with roughly 4k hours since 2011.
Otherwise, I am quite into MMOs and story-rich singleplayer RPGs, so there’s a handful of them with well over several thousands of hours played too.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 1 month ago:
The amount of options isn’t the issue.
For most 25-40€ games I buy, i can get a great experience for the next 30-50 hours.
Indie games absolutely crush the statistics, where some sub-15€ roguelikes have such insane replayability, that i’ve clocked over a thousand hours into a couple. Not to mention how incredibly creative, unique, and story rich some of them are.
Meanwhile, what used to be 60€, and is now 80€+, is some “cinematic” 20fps on console slop, that you can barely get 5 hours of real gameplay out of. I don’t wanna sit there and watch a movie with an occasional A button press. Or even worse, play something like the Assassins Creed reboot, that had 500 hours of gameplay, 490 of which is just useless collectibles around the map.
- Comment on Intel introduces its newest employee, Chip the robotic inspector, just after announcing mass human layoffs 1 month ago:
It’ll take another massive quality scandal, or just a generation of shit products, but sure
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
I would like for the people, who come up with these ideas, to dogfood their own product. Actually force them to try their own medicine. It would be a single digit percentage of acceptance then
- Comment on The Crew 2: Offline Mode Update 1 month ago:
So they CAN do something nice. Wish it didn’t come down to a gigantic lawsuit for them to do it though
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I used to be a huge fan of Fi, especially as someone who would frequently travel, as it was really cheap to use both at home and abroad.
That was all until they pulled the rug from under me and i got slapped with bills for an inactive plan.
Even Amazon with their AWS would cancel stuff if you’ve clearly not been using your instance, but these guys changed the agreement and said fuck you anyway.
Not that it matters anyway, because genocide supporters don’t deserve any clients
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 1 month ago:
One of the best games I have played in recent years. Finally scratched an itch that Gothic left me with for years
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remaster is real - Eurogamer 1 month ago:
Unlikely to happen, because the leadership behind the project claimed they are in contact with Bethesda, to make sure no one’s stepping on anyone’s toes. Although obviously they can just pull the rug at any time, which would be catastrophic. Given that they’ve remade basically every single asset in the game, and require the original game to be owned and installed, it should be fine
- Comment on Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters? 2 months ago:
Genuine question for PoE1 veterans: What is it exactly, that people want from the sequel?
With my little experience in 1, I was excited about the new gem system, and the idea of not having to deal with stacks of 20 prefixes on high-end mobs, and it seems that at least with the latter nothing has changed