Whitebrow
@Whitebrow@lemmy.world
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 7 hours ago:
I hate that I can hear this as I’m reading.
- Comment on Boing. 3 days ago:
Somebody make this into a free game on steam with some dumb achievements and being able to change the colour of the nub if you do it 100 times or something.
- Comment on New tech pulls lithium from dead batteries cheaper than you can buy it 1 week ago:
Licking batteries has been proven to lighten your mood according to three major scientists with published papers in Nordic countries.
Used batteries just come with the extra benefit of being multi use, first in your regular electronics, and then in your synapses.
- Comment on Deloitte cited AI-generated research in a million-dollar report for a Canadian provincial government 1 week ago:
Isn’t this the same bullshit they pulled in Australia?
- Comment on Brushing teeth before going to the dentist has the same motivator as shaving pubes before going to the gynecologist: If someone's going to be looking inside there, you want it to look nice. 3 weeks ago:
I legitimately have a meal before going to my hygienist appointments, the more random small bits it has like seeds or tiny nori stripes and whatnot, the better.
Supposedly makes their job more interesting when they have something to dig for.
Their words, not mine.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 4 weeks ago:
Not sure how recent we’re talking but within the last year or so my 2 biggest disappointments have been once human and nightingale. I can usually work around jank and weird creative decisions, but unfortunately neither of these two were worth any of the time I’ve spent playing em since they felt like they didn’t seem to want you to progress.
Played once human for about 3 days, nightingale for around 3 hours and then refunded.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
And tarkov isn’t even on steam… yet?
- Comment on Good Halloween Games 5 weeks ago:
Look Outside just had a major 2.0 patch. Solid horror game. And it’s 30% off at the moment.
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 1 month ago:
- Comment on GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders 1 month ago:
Launched the other day if you want to throw a bit of money to their cause
- Comment on Steam Next Fest is back for October 2025. What good demos have you found? 1 month ago:
Releases in like 20 hours from the time of this comment!
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 months ago:
Steam is fine, for the most part, but steam is also DRM. Personally I opt to buy games on GoG, because whatever releases there, you can download the installer and play offline, anywhere, anytime, and due to the platform requirements it strips a lot of the extra nonsense of requiring accounts and launchers and such.
The one downside is some publishers/developers don’t have the latest version on there or release on there later as definitive builds, but it’s better than having to deal with all that nonsense to begin with.
- Comment on Asus ROG Xbox Ally Gaming Handhelds Cost Up to $999.99, Preorders Open Now 2 months ago:
For M$ to subsidize some of the cost of the hardware seeing how it’s their “next leap” for the Xbox? Or something along those lines.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 2 months ago:
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 2 months ago:
I’m not sure steam deck would even be considered “high cost” since you can get a refurbished unit directly from steam for about half the price of a switch 2.
And even a brand new one is still cheaper.
Plus there are parts and instructions available on how to fix and replace pieces yourself should that ever be needed, unlike some drift issues from Nintendo’s controllers where they basically tell you to spend more money or get bent.
- Comment on Humans can't consent to reading. 2 months ago:
Sir, how dare you.
- Comment on Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. 3 months ago:
Almost 100 billion revenue last year.
250 million of 100 billion is what… 0.25%?
Yeah. That’s nothing to them.
- Comment on Remember to dry your filament kids 3 months ago:
I’ve had PLA spools go bad due to age, so I can definitely attest to them eventually crumbling out of existence, good to do the bend test if you’re not sure, if it snaps/breaks when you try and fold it in half, it’s too old and the print will come out much more brittle than you’d want it to be.
True for the location dependency, but even here with about 20-30% humidity, it’s pretty noticeable after a week, granted, that’s assuming you leave it out and open, storing in a dry box or in a vacuum sealed bag with a desiccant between prints will help prolong that period immensely in my experience.
Marketing definitely has had quite a creeping presence into 3D printing in recent years, and similarly to gaming, it seems to be targeting the enthusiast class, so trying to convince people to try printing with more fancy (and toxic, and hydrophobic) materials than just the standard run of the mill PLA and PETG and upsell them on all the accessories before they’re actually needed.
Makes you wonder how much of all of this is gonna end up in the dumpster or in the attic at some point
- Comment on Remember to dry your filament kids 3 months ago:
PLA does not need to be dried. You can dunk it in a water bath overnight and it’ll print fine in the morning.
PETG on the other hand will absorb moisture within a few days of opening, so it needs babysitting if it’s been open for more than a week.
- Comment on When was the first time you cried over an anime? 4 months ago:
One piece has just so many of these…
Here’s mine: Image
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 4 months ago:
Cancel and try to redeem again, I sometimes end up in the dumb loop for no reason as well.
- Comment on what video game deserves to be in a museum? 4 months ago:
Good list.
Vampire the masquerade bloodlines also deserves a honourable mention
- Comment on AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots. 4 months ago:
Not even a good use case either, especially when it spews such bullshit like “there’s no recorded instance of trump ever having used the word enigma” and “there’s 1 r in strawberry”.
LLMs are a copy paste machine, not a rationalization engine of any sort (at least as far as all the slop that we get shoved in our face, I don’t include the specialized protein folding and reconstructive models that were purpose built for very niche applications)
- Comment on Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader dev Owlcat comes out swinging in support of Stop Killing Games: 'Every player deserves lasting access to what they’ve paid for' 4 months ago:
Not sure if this applies to you, but when it just released early on, there were difficulties between versions and save games from earlier ones didn’t play nice after updates, so I struggled to get through act 2, but then I disabled the auto update and played through it pretty much flawlessly, granted I had to start a new save file.
- Comment on Single Purpose Devices - reclaiming control over your technology 4 months ago:
Similarly - PiHole
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 4 months ago:
At the workplace if anybody says “we’ve always done it this way” during a meeting where we tackle a problem, that means it’s time to change the hubris because it clearly doesn’t work for us anymore.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 5 months ago:
As long as people can host a server instance, does it matter?
Hypothetically, even if it costs 1000$ per hour in AWS fees to get the required hardware to run that, at least you have the option to, alternatively have a peer to peer option to play smaller version on a LAN with a max of however many players your own network can support, there could be many implementations, which at the end of the day would still allow you to play the game when the official servers (authentication or room hosts) are shuttered and inaccessible
The main point of SKG is that currently, we, as customers, are not even getting the short end of the stick, we are getting no stick, despite having paid for it.
And ultimately, at the end of the day, not our problem to try to figure this out, the point is we’re unhappy with the current situation and want things to change.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 5 months ago:
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 5 months ago:
“many titles are designed from the ground-up to be online-only”
So change your design? The corporate mind cannot comprehend this.
- Comment on Racist AI-generated videos are garnering millions of views on TikTok 5 months ago:
The next update is going to be interesting…
