Armok_the_bunny
@Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 days ago:
I have exactly one game and exactly one 2fa app that I would meaningfully miss out on switching to a dumb pbone, outside of those two things I would genuinely consider it.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Were this reddit I would be highly tempted to give that some gold.
- Comment on xkcd #3139: Chess Variant 1 week ago:
I would say you can only move a tile if you have a piece on it as well.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
The worst one I’ve encountered apparently has a secret bench somewhere that makes it much better, and the second worst (the runback that I think everyone is talking about) is about as long as the runback to crystal guardian I think.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
I mean, there are some really bad runbacks, but yeah most of them are fine.
- Comment on Windows Update and SSD Problem is WAY worse than we thought! Full Demonstration - JayzTwoCents 2 weeks ago:
I’ll never touch Mac, partly because I have issues with Apple’s business practices, and partly because I manage to break every single piece of software I touch and I’m not confident I’d be able to unbreak a mac, but if not for those factors I actually would be more likely to use it over Windows on the off chance I encounter things I can’t do on Linux.
- Comment on Windows Update and SSD Problem is WAY worse than we thought! Full Demonstration - JayzTwoCents 2 weeks ago:
God I am glad I switched to Linux.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 2 weeks ago:
Some of the carbon might return to the atmosphere via rot, but far more of it would be put into the soil or trapped in lumber. Besides, the solution is extremely cheap and effectively self replacing, just let new trees grow as old ones die.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Porn is different for many reasons, chief among them being that the age verification laws don’t actually keep kids from accessing it. On top of that, porn is something that most people are embarrassed about accessing for a wide variety of reasons, and for them any requirement that they make available proof that they did so is equivalent to a legal ban on accessing that perfectly legal material.
- Comment on Samsung schedules Galaxy event 5 days before Apple's 2 weeks ago:
Wtf are you talking about, apple is nowhere close to 100% market share no matter how much they wish they were, and FOSS alternatives are sufficiently difficult to install that the vast majory of consumers haven’t bothered.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
Cis effectively means not-transgender, so born as exacly the same gender you identify as. ‘Het’ then means heterosexual, making cis-het someone who is either completely male and into women or completely female and into men.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 3 weeks ago:
Volume of requests and power consumption requirements unrelated to requests made, at least I have to assume. Certainly doesn’t help that google has forced me to make a request to their ai every time I run a standard search.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 3 weeks ago:
Cool, now how much power was consumed before even a single prompt was ran in training that model, and how much power is consumed on an ongoing basis adding new data to those AI models even without user prompts. Also how much power was consumed with each query before AI was shoved down our throats, and how many prompts does an average user make per day?
- Comment on xkcd #3126: Disclaimer 5 weeks ago:
The method I (just now) thought up using to signal humanity was responding to accusations of being an LLM with a “fuck you”. The combination of vulgar language and defiance of the sycophantic tendencies of LLMs feels to me like a pretty effective proof of humanity, at least for now.
- Comment on Calling something "a joke" feels meaner than calling something "a bad joke" 2 months ago:
Something being a joke means it’s [insert negative attribute] enough to be laughable, but it being a bad joke mean it’s [insert negative attribute] but not enough to be funny.
- Comment on McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ 2 months ago:
The risk is that some unknown hacker discovered this vulnerability and abused it before the researchers discovered and reported it. It sounds like the company has confirmed that didn’t happen, but they aren’t 100% trustworthy in that regard, simply because they might have missed something.
- Comment on Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!! 2 months ago:
After giving such a bad answer to it that some other part of the government stepped in and said the answer was dramatically insufficient.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 2 months ago:
I mean that you straight up cannot unlock new equipment, costumes, starting points, and the like while offline and/or disconnected from the game servers. IIRC the game just doesn’t track stage mastery without a connection.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 2 months ago:
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to want a game that I paid for to remain functional long term. In my case I have a copy of the Hitman trilogy in my Steam library, and as it stands when the servers for that game go offline it will become nearly unplayable just because the unlock system is reliant on the publisher’s servers. It would be easy for them to just release a patch as they decommission those servers to allow the unlock system to function offline, but right now there is no guarantee of that happening, nor any real reason to do so besides some consumer goodwill.
- Comment on Does Super Metroid get any better? 2 months ago:
The following post will meander a bit as I wrote it in a kind of stream of consciousness state.
I don’t know where you heard that Super Metroid was originally a remake of the NES game, I’d never heard that and I can’t find anything to back that up. As well, keep in mind that Super Metroid came out a full decade before Zero Mission did, and the original NES game that Zero Mission is a remake of was even lighter on story than Super is. If you aren’t enjoying Super because of a lack of story that’s fine, you won’t miss much if you skip it, though I will warn you that a very common complaint about fusion is that until basically the very end the game is extremely linear. That said, I also think it’s unfair to call Zero Mission an asset flip, it’s much more a full on remake. Back to the Super Metroid thing, I will point out that the Wrecked Ship in Super Metroid is mostly not the Wrecked Ship you traverse in Zero Mission, there’s like one screen that is shared between the two games.
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 2 months ago:
Lies of P is amazing how dare you.
- Comment on Is there a point in the Dark Souls games where you're too high level to be expected to be summoned by anyone? 3 months ago:
You are partly correct about DS2. It did increment even by wiping without spending the souls, but on the other hand the ranges involved meant that there was very likely always someone in range.
- Comment on Scientists in Japan develop plastic that dissolves in seawater within hours 3 months ago:
Looks like it’s not an issue fortunately.
Aida said the new material is as strong as petroleum-based plastics but breaks down into its original components when exposed to salt. Those components can then be further processed by naturally occurring bacteria, thereby avoiding generating microplastics that can harm aquatic life and enter the food chain.
- Comment on Louisiana Becomes First State to Adopt DOGE Voter Maintenance Database 3 months ago:
That whole thing just sounds like a much more stupid version of ERIC, which notably Louisiana withdrew from a few years ago.
- Comment on Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain? 4 months ago:
I always assumed it stood for “thank goodness it’s fridays” honestly.
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 5 months ago:
The shop has a page where it tells you how many you’ve spent as well.
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 5 months ago:
If your account is less than about 5 years old (and you live in the US) you can also just look at the points shop. Each Steam Point corresponds to one cent spent on Steam.
- Comment on Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout 5 months ago:
Never heard of that, I assume it’s an emulator. Emulation is different from running a game natively. Yeah, Nintendo probably could get AMD hardware to work as a replacement for Nvidia hardware, but I would guess either compatibility would be imperfect, there would be a performance hit, or both.
- Comment on Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout 5 months ago:
There is the used games market, if you are willing to engage with it, though that does need you to be really patient.
- Comment on Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout 5 months ago:
Backwards compatibility means they might not be able to talk to AMD unfortunately, depending on how the software is set up I’d assume.