UnfortunateShort

@UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Um, yeah, like, every single OSS one using E2EE

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X launches E2E encrypted Chat⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Platform from a whiny, fascist asshole for whiny, fascist assholes. Not that everyone on that platform is one, some might just have a high tolerance for bs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe the even more important question: Why can you even opt out? Why is this not done on-device, without anything going anywhere to begin with?

  I mean, I know the answer, you know the answer, everyone knows the answer. If this was truly privacy preserving, there would be no need to opt out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And gay men. I'm sorry. I'm weak for it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ice coffee (🍨+☕) or iced coffee (🚮)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cut up those shitposts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I seriously wish there was something better to avoid leftovers. Brushes and whatever this shit is do not seem very sanitary to me, and for sure it’s annoying you have to use them at all. Can’t they do some durable coating and direct the water to hit shit with higher pressure? I feel like there is next to zero innovation in the toilet industry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I heavily support not talking about politics 24/7, I heavily discourage not caring at all

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We gonna fight⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is not public arguments, but groups rejectimg other groups for ideological reasons. I personally know people who are like “you can be a communist and you can be wrong”.

  The reality is that there are left groups, especially far-left groups, who will already dismiss your opinion on everything for not categorically rejecting a social markets economy. Doesn’t matter if you agree in all other points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NATO chief seeks defence spending at 5% of GDP by 2032: Dutch PM⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ingl., I don’t see Germany spending anywhere near 250 billion on the military. Isn’t that already rivaling Russia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a little torn on your comment, because om the one hand you are right and on the other these lawsuits have nothing to do with the designs or art style at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s funny, I would point put the amazing gameplay in particular as their no. 1 selling point, if I had to choose anything. But the discussion what’s good and what’s bad aside, they just didn’t deliver on their promises.

  I was fed the story of a GTA contender. A life-sim where your choices matter, starting with your origin story, which was supposed to already have great impact. And what does reality look like? Well, your origin story gets you a different tutorial mission and you get a few extra dialog options that do nothing. Your character always behaves exactly the same outside of that and it changes nothing about the story. It’s hardly even referenced by other characters at all, something Mass Effect and Dragon Age did better forever ago. The one big difference I noticed is that Jackie matters even less to you as corpo, which makes all the emotional stuff feel even more out of place and awkward, since you lose the offrenda mission. Hurray.

  As for life-sim aspects, you can eat in some select few cut scenes, otherwise eating is useless and doesn’t even come with generic animations. You cannot even eat your useless food at a stall in the city or have a drink at the countless bars in the game just for fun. Except for cutscenes and in your, save for the wardrobe, useless apartment of course. You can also take a useless shower, or wait in bed instead of literally anywhere else. Wow.

  You can randomly date a select few characters out of nowhere by choosing a random dialogue option. At least this yields you an almost sex-scene and a bonus quest… Followed by optional, awkward staring in your apartment and no further impact at all. Funnily enough your gender has a greater impact on the game than your backstory that way.

  NPCs are generally dumb and you can’t really interact much with them at all. Police is dumb and easily outsmarted as well, but also always punishes you by death for anything. MaxTac is really tough actually and beating them yields you… Nothing! Nothing at all.

  You do get a couple of choices throughout the story, but do they really change all that much? I would argue no, they don’t. Most of the time they cause some characters you barely know to live or die. Not the really important ones of course! We need those and there aren’t that many. I think one of the most interesting interactions in the entire game is the one with the ranom Natwatch guy, because you can’t really forsee the consequences for once.

  Then there are a couple of different endings, some of which are actually hard to find. I think in retrospective, they are the main thing, besides the very varied gameplay, offering replay-value. The thing is, you don’t need to replay the game to see them all.

  Is Cyberpunk trash? No, of course not, I’ve had my fair share of fun. I’m actually in my third playthrough to do liberty city, because everyone says it’s amazing. As for the main game only, I can’t help but be disappointed by the countless things this game doesn’t do. Including many low hanging fruits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They arguably did worse, because NMS didn’t just polish the game, they retroactively added most of the content + didn’t release a DLC. Cyberpunk falls short of what has been promised to this day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Campfire Cooking in Another World with my Absurd Skill" Season 2 New Teaser Visual, PV⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funfact: That guy rarely uses a campfire to cook

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can local LLMs be as useful and insightful as those widely available?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Afaik most people who seriously want to have a local LLM start of off a pre-trained one from the internet…?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose a number, 1-5!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  All but 5 look like cheap crap and I don’t like 5 for forks sake

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenPin is an open-source project to revive Humane's dead Ai Pin - Liliputing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine having a thing like that but with a touch screen. Like, a rectangular assistant you can always carry with you! Oh, wait…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just completed rewatch of NGE⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not both

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not time for your point release yet.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Being “up to date” is a lie big Debian tells people to make them feel comfortable about being behind on patches. Wake up people!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  … That’s because it comes with vanilla android, unless you buy the e/OS version or flash it yourself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably don’t want to play graphics heavy games on it. For everything else it’s pretty much like any other phone. Although of course it’s not quite as premium as flagship phones. Hardware wise, a Pixel 8 leaves it in the dust. But you can’t swap your battery or really anything on that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peak⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought this was a meme community, and here you are spitting facts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden King⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds very plausible.

  What’s most shocking to me is the extent. I drink about a single, sugar free energy drink a day, but they act like drinking a couple in a single gaming session is normal. It’s crazy man

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden King⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shangri-la Frontier perfectly captures where the fun in video games lies.

  It also has a weird obsession with energy drinks. To a point where you could think it’s a placement, but apparently it isn’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qwant is working on AI search, search results and resume⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If Axel Springer didn’t own a significant share in the company, I would give them a shot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The GDPR is definitely neither wits end, nor applied reasonably under all circumstances. I have my doubts that these “cutbacks” will be the adequate reforms however.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't wait for the season 3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is, it’s not like we haven’t seen that a thousand times before. I actually liked S1. It was unusually gritty, with an unusually sympathetic and relatable MC who struggled a lot in a cruel world.

  S2 on the other hand is the boring fantasy of some lonely dude. A totally overpowered MC faces a non-obstacle, waits till someone dies to create a false sense of danger, easily overcomes the obstacle while impressing some girl we hardly know and hardly will ever know, get a new summon to make him look even arguably cooler, repeat x3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can't wait for the season 3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait for another supporting character to never have any relevance

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1/3 of the Steam + Linux market, that accounted for an incredible 1.45% of Steam installs in February. This means there were roughly 67 Windows gamers for every Linux gamer (using Steam) that month.

  So even if Linux gamers are 10 times more likely to care (and pay for) for game preservation, you are not even approaching the number of Windows users that might. Suppose 90% of Linux gamers care, while only 9% on Windows do, you still have roughly 6 Windows users for every Linux one. And this is a very generous assumption to make.

  Maybe, eventually, at some point, this makes sense financially. But if your goal is to be profitable, you grab the low hanging fruits first, not invest in maybe 10% more potential users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I told you that the intersection between people who care and the 5% of their potential audience that are Linux users is very small either way?

  I’m not saying Linux isn’t a chance for them, but it’s also an investment and very like not a profitable one for quite a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨frenly warnin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Since you can set temporary, server-only nicknames, you don’t even need to edit the page source or Photoshop to stage that