Evrala

@Evrala@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube devs be like⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fine with having to pick between ads and paying for a service, but when there are ads when I paid not to see them…

  I pay for YouTube premium and have for several years, but if I start seeing ads I’ll go to watching Nebula and listening to podcasts and cut out YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It isn’t a scam, just incredibly mismanaged. Chris Robert’s has a very hard time saying “this is good enough” and that makes the company bleed money as they repeatedly remake things. People then don’t tell Chris no. They weren’t making a good space Sim, they were making the best darn space Sim evah! Their wages aren’t great and now they are trying to push illegal levels of crunch time till they got caught.

  They’ve completely redone the flight model several times to various levels of success. Time frames get so damm long that they have to go back and remake huge chunks of the game in order to keep things up to snuff graphically.

  I get the feeling that they never felt the need to stress out about timelines as the funding kept rolling in, in fact the funding accelerated over time! The game has 183 different ships all designed down to the tiniest detail in the game right now. That’s a fuck ton of work hours, but ship sales gets the funding rolling so they have to keep cranking out new ships.

  I do really like playing the game, but it is really a shitshow for management. There was one point where they had to throw away a massive amount of work because one studio was making things that didn’t fit the metrics for scale and animation of the rest of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If tomorrow it was announced that aliens were real, highly intelligent, and in communication with our governments, no one would be talking about it by Halloween⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be another outrage lever to push in America between Maga and dems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a lesbian, Google has enough data on me to know I’m a lesbian, I live with women, don’t really hang out with men at all. I use a bunch of Google services so I know Google knows this about my living situation.

  SO MANY FUCKING ADS FOR MANSCAPED, WHHHYYYYY. I am not the target market for this Google.

  I’ve taken to blocking the ads, still more Manscaped. Is it cause blocking = engagement? “Oh wow, she interacted with this ad to block it but ignored the others, what a good ad placement!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be honest, one of the parts I really like about the show Jet Lag is when they reccomend channels to watch at the end of the episode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The cost-of-living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming homeless⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t do a lot of highway driving a Subaru Sambar van is awesome and they’re dirt cheap to import. Next year the 1999 models will be available and they’re very improved for safety features compared to the 1998 ones.

  When the Kei Vans were first made they made being able to fold the seats down flat into a bed a big priority because of how high rent was in the 80s and 90s in Japan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I still used Apple products I’d still be using Apple Music. Good sound with the ability to upload my own music library to mesh with it seamlessly to cover the gaps of what wasn’t available? It was my ideal music streaming service.

  Now I’m on Deezer but every streaming service has gaps in their catalog for what I listen to.

  Slowly working on getting my own music library together to get rid of streaming services entirely. Plan on using Plex for now, but eventually I’ll just move to a phone that has an SD card slot.

  Mix of purchases and stuff downloaded and saved from Deezer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First game you played⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pole position on the commodore 64.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 scores dead last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I play quite a bit of timberborn, worked just fine. Had some sound issues but changing to proton experimental fixed them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep coming back to GRID 2 on my steam deck. I’ll go weeks between playing it then get in the mood to work my way through a bit more of the campaign.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I should make a Drow…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ramework Laptop 16 pre-orders are now open⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I also don’t have the money for it… Well shit I’ve got a batch 1 order time to find $2500 somehow.