Whitebrow
@Whitebrow@lemmy.world
- Comment on Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character 1 week 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 weeks ago:
Sir, how dare you.
- Comment on Tesla said it didn’t have key data in a fatal crash. Then a hacker found it. 2 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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? 1 month ago:
One piece has just so many of these…
Here’s mine: Image
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 1 month 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? 1 month 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. 1 month 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' 1 month 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 1 month ago:
Similarly - PiHole
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 month 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 2 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 2 months ago:
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 2 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 2 months ago:
The next update is going to be interesting…
- Comment on 'Death Stranding 2' proves more video games need to get weird, experts say 2 months ago:
The “experts” in this case are 2 teachers assistants in game design in one university weighing in on a whole swath of reasons such as financial impacts and other stuff, on which they are totally qualified to talk about.
We have reached the stage where if my son does his math homework, he should be referred to as a “math expert”, article’s a joke.
- Comment on Discord's CTO is just as worried about enshittification as you are 3 months ago:
Discord co-founder and CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy wants you to know he thinks a lot about enshittification.
You don’t say.
With reports of an upcoming IPO and the news of his co-founder to hand leadership of the company over to a former Activision Blizzard executive, many Discord users are rightfully worried the platform is about to become, well, shit.
I’m sorry, about to…? As if the developments of the last 2 years weren’t a downward spiral with the game integrations, ads and garbage UI redesigns one after the next? Alright then.
- Comment on IT’S THE FEDS! 3 months ago:
I’m no expert but I heard you can compile the kernels to grow them yourself
- Comment on Night shift ER visitors 4 months ago:
That hole is already busy during regular business hours
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 5 months ago:
Pretty sure it released on both platforms at the same time, as far as I’m concerned any games that show up on GoG with no DRM take a bit of effort from GoG to actually verify and host the installers, more so when the contracts expire and they have to delist them and try to get them back
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 5 months ago:
Does God of War count?
- Comment on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account 5 months ago:
Want to have a airgapped machine? Sure as hell won’t be running win11
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #7 5 months ago:
From the video during a cinematic sequence: “there’s somebody talking but I muted that part”
The visuals are nice but cmon, you can’t play it with no sound :/
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Could also invest in protecting yourself, your family (if applicable) and get to know your community, neighbours and helpers that work in it.
While none of the above will seem like much on a grand scale, at least it will help cover some of your personal bases when/if things go south.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #7 5 months ago:
Happy to see GameInformer back
As for games: two point museum and nordhold
2point Museum has been a blast with all the commentary, announcements and fun descriptions and nordhold scratches that tower defence with meta progression itch
- Comment on Tesla recalls all Cybertrucks ever made over trim falling off | Electrek 5 months ago:
The same bolt. Put it in. Run through the QA test (which is just Bobbie trying to rip it off with his bare hands). If Bobbies’ hands bleeds before the panel comes off, they mark the test as passed, remove the bolt and move on to the next one.
- Comment on Ah shit. Here we go again. 6 months ago:
Wouldn’t a liquid stool in this scenario be preferred?
- Comment on What is best Lemmy App to use on iPhone? 6 months ago:
Voyager is very much Apollo reincarnate
- Comment on Can you actually suffocate to death from holding your breath? 6 months ago:
Correct, yelling and chanting does nothing, they slapped him to a functional enough state that he managed to regain control of his faculties
