ryathal
@ryathal@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 day ago:
That’s mostly all it’s ever been.
- Comment on Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike 2 days ago:
There is also evidence that an out of court settlement happened between those companies. Notably moving away from cerebrates in SC2.
- Comment on hoarding 5 days ago:
Probably, and piss would be way better in those bags than gasoline.
- Comment on "Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana 6 days ago:
Cross platform games aren’t a buggy mess, everyone else has figured it out. Nintendo could do it as well.
- Comment on "Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana 6 days ago:
Nintendo is heavily reliant on physical media and traditional retailers, they aren’t getting anywhere near 100% of most sales. Brick and mortar takes around a 50% cut, Amazon takes a cut as well. Being on Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam isn’t a significant difference in what they would make.
- Comment on "Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana 6 days ago:
They would still sell a lot of consoles, the super fans are going to buy Nintendo consoles. The people that actually own multiple consoles in the same generation aren’t actually that big of a group, especially compared to non-Nintendo owners that would consider buying a few games if they were available.
- Comment on "Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana 6 days ago:
There’s a few titles that have relied on gimmicks that would be difficult or impossible to do on other systems. It would be a temporary learning curve to get games able to support multiple platforms, but everyone else has already done it and Nintendo consoles have been the least powerful systems so it should be easier.
- Comment on Used cars under $20K have almost vanished from the market 6 days ago:
There’s no sub 20k used cars under 3 years old because there aren’t new cars under 30k. That’s how math works.
- Comment on "Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana 6 days ago:
How many people buy Nintendo for exclusives isn’t super relevant. The important questions are how many more games would they sell if they were multi-platform, and how many fewer consoles they would sell if their games were available elsewhere. They would very likely sell substantially more games, but also likely see a significant reduction in console sales. This would still likely be a win as the games are far higher margin than the consoles.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 6 days ago:
I wish there was one that didn’t require nearly every phone permission all the time.
- Comment on Women are anonymously spilling tea about men in their cities on viral app 1 week ago:
Lots of breaches are entirely preventable, but lots of companies don’t like to pay for qualified employees that could prevent them.
- Comment on energy 1 week ago:
Booby traps are a felony, so I’d stick to the one that doesn’t add manslaughter.
- Comment on If you've given up on Civilization 7, Civ 6 is free with all DLC expansions for a limited time on Epic Games Store 1 week ago:
A crappy game for a crappy store.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 2 weeks ago:
AI is a meaningless term as weli. It generally has meant cutting edge computer research subjects.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 2 weeks ago:
Procedural generation is just an earlier form of AI that’s been demystified and commercialized as a positive thing. The current generative tools aren’t at that level of adoption yet.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 2 weeks ago:
It builds indifference to the disclaimer when it’s too general. The California cancer label is a good example.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
There will be terrorist drone attacks in the US or Europe, but I highly doubt they will be at a 9/11 scale. The destructive power of a drone is nowhere near the power of a fueled jet, you can get close with a swarm, but that adds several new problems.
- getting high yield explosives is pretty hard. 9/11 stole the bombs on the day, which is much harder to respond to. You could try using drones to take out aircraft on takeoff, but that’s already controlled and monitored airspace.
- getting enough drones to be a large attack isn’t trivial even with readily available parts in small numbers. There’s already systems in place to monitor large orders of potentially dangerous materials like fertilizer or smoke detectors.
- coordinating hundreds of thousands of drones is actually pretty hard to do in a clandestine way. Sanctioned drone shows have problems occasionally while not having to hide and having to avoid countermeasures.
- Drone countermeasures already exist and are deployed for large events like the Superbowl. Target selection to be big enough but still insecure is also difficult. Security is more of a priority for iconic places and not all of it is theater.
- Comment on I really hate this... 2 weeks ago:
It’s a pile of child porn to get to the preteen porn
- Comment on what 3 weeks ago:
There’s a lot of people that think 95% of what they paid is a good discount.
If you actually want to sell something mark it at 50% of retail, because that’s the area most things are worth.
- Comment on FTC’s click-to-cancel rule has been struck down by federal judges at the eleventh hour 3 weeks ago:
The problem with subscription services is that it’s fairly easy to argue it’s interstate commerce that states don’t have jurisdiction over.
- Comment on what 3 weeks ago:
I gave up on marketplaces years ago after looking for a reasonably priced PS3. The number of people who thought their original model with 7 Madden games was worth $500 was absurd.
- Comment on what 3 weeks ago:
In the offerers defense that is probably a price at or above current retail for a product with massive deprecation and in moderate to good condition.
- Comment on Game Pass will "either kill everyone else, or give up", says Dishonored and Prey dev Arkane founder 3 weeks ago:
I had a free trial for PC and came to a similar conclusion. It’s a good way to try some games, but the value proposition isn’t great for long term unless you constantly play new games. Also the download speed was atrocious.
- Comment on US debt is now $37trn – should we be worried? 3 weeks ago:
China is the largest foreign holder, but the vast majority of the debt is owed domestically.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 4 weeks ago:
Dread delusion claims to be like Morrowind, but it’s just on my wishlist soni can’t say how accurate it is.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
In the US, school boards and superintendents are a common source of political corruption. Many states allow for local control of districts, so these boards oversee the spending of tens or even hundreds of millions of local tax dollars and government grants.
- Comment on If one were so inclined, could you take your plot of land, parcel it up into 1-meter-squared (or smaller) sections, and sell each of those sections to different people/companies? 5 weeks ago:
No you can’t really do it. The government isn’t going to allow you to divide a plot into that many tiny ones. What you could do is have a company buy the land and sell lifetime leases for small parts.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Theft really depends on who the victim was or what was stolen. Most the time cops won’t do shit, unless there’s tons of easy evidence pointing to someone. For Identity theft, it’s probably even less common, unless it’s a relative or someone you know.
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 5 weeks ago:
It’s the same in female fields, it’s not just prestige. Men face increased scrutiny when working with children. Male nurses are expected to perform the more physical parts of the job almost exclusively.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 1 month ago:
This is a great solution but it has two big problems that make it functionally impossible.
- To the left there is no non-toxic or positive masculinity.
- Feminism doesn’t actually support men, it’s a reluctant talking point. It only helps men if it happens to coincide with benefiting women.