Supervisor194

@Supervisor194@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ska ftw⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  These all represent the good old days to me. Almost like we were manufacturing our own angst because things were relatively nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony’s TV business is being taken over by TCL⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I suspect the quality is not going to be up to your standard, but this is the one I have in my living room, and I think it’s perfectly fine. But if you just can’t live without 120hz or whatever, then I guess you’re stuck.

  Walmart used to have a variety of these, now they’re down to one. All my TVs are either 10+ years old or Sceptre and therefore are all dumb. But I don’t have a purist bone in my body when it comes to AV stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads edges out X in daily mobile users, new data shows⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoever wins, we lose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Epic and GOG work on Heroic just fine and I’ve run two standalone games (Elite Dangerous and ESO) using Lutris with no problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s zero chance there won’t be a Fallout 5 but Elder Scrolls is their next major game, so it won’t be soon.

  If it came out tomorrow it wouldn’t be “soon,” Fallout 4 came out 11 years ago.

  In the meantime there’s a great free Fallout game for anyone who wants it despite it not being titled Fallout 5.

  The game is currently listed for $39.99 on Steam. Reviews are “mixed” after 5 years of Bethesda adding content to the game, which originally released to overwhelmingly negative reviews, so not “great”.

  It doesn’t require a subscription or microtransactions and making it sound like some sort of mobile game only shows you don’t know what it is.

  The game does not charge for a subscription, but you most certainly have to have one, because you have to login to the game. There would be no way for them to try and sell you shit through their microtransaction store every single time you login otherwise. Which they do. You are not obliged to buy them, but you are obliged to view ads for them.

  Now then. Every single thing you just said is demonstrably wrong. What exactly makes you the authority on what Bethesda intends to do with Fallout?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure what your point is - is it that they made Fallout 76 so you could play it for free? Or that Fallout 76 is proof they’re going to make Fallout 5? Or what.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bethesda is not going to make a new Fallout game while Fallout 76 keeps printing money.

  I’ve said this all along, they want subscriptions and mtx, they don’t want to make video games. Starfield was the last one we will get and we only got that because it was Todd’s stupid baby. ESO and F76 are where they want to be going forward. They will keep expanding them and accepting people’s money and license TV shows now I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  All you have to do to see it is find a piece of current but generally ill-regarded media and post something negative about it. Then just sit back and watch all the totally real users flooding in to defend it and talk about how people who shit on it are only doing so for weak personal reasons, and it’s not that bad they’ve always kinda liked it etc.

  Or just go to any halfway popular sub that talks about a food item that comes in a wide variety of flavors and brands. It’s a constant parade of pictures of brands with titles like “Who has tried this stuff and loves it?” or even “I can’t stand this stuff,” with an army of totally grass-roots posters defending it as “not for everybody but I love it” - and so on and so on.

  It’s so obnoxious I can barely stand it anymore. Product subs and media subs are just worthless. I still get some traction out of niche gaming and hardware subs but that’s about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI explosion isn't just hurting the prices of computers and consoles – it's coming for TVs and audio tech too⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For real, all my TVs are Sceptre. They are not easy to find, but they are incredibly reasonably priced and completely dumb perfection.

  If people like us make them popular enough, maybe they’ll realize this is a lucrative niche market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baby teeth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  She probably has an odontoma that redirected the eruption of her adult teeth.

  Or is a vampire.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was in the middle of making a reply like this but yours is better. Closed as duplicate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the real problem is a government structure that lends itself to being captured by monied interests. The problem of capitalism chasing the money is only a problem because we have a government unable to properly tax the wealthy to ensure no one can amass the kind of wealth that makes it possible to capture the government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Trump brags about demanding his own government give him taxpayer money over Mar-a-Lago search: ‘I hereby give myself $1B’⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, as much as it’s possible for me to, I get him. But what the fuck is wrong with these people clapping and cheering for a man seriously suggesting he’s going to just “give himself” a billion dollars from their tax dollars? How do you get from “conservative” to whatever the fuck this is, because it ain’t conservative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to the era of media that cannot die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, yes I will, well Chromium forks.

  Yeah, I’m not going to switch to a Manifest V3 browser because Firefox puts in access to an optional AI agent. If Firefox makes it so you can’t turn it off, which I wouldn’t think is likely, I might switch to something like Librewolf, but Chromium? No.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is gold investing a scam?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A nice M.L.T. - a mutton, lettuce, and tomato sandwich when the mutton is nice and lean and the tomato is ripe…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking of hacks, that title sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is precisely the concept of Asimov’s short story All the Troubles of the World.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey I just did it! I completed my migration today. The only reason I keep a desktop around at all is for gaming and I’ve been locked into Windows for years because of it, but no more. Steam is a given, but I’m running games off Epic and Gog through Heroic and standalone games using Lutris (ESO and Elite Dangerous so far). Not a single problem with any of them.

  Mint is great, the only complaints I have are minor and I can easily deal with them. Like when you launch things, you don’t always get a cursor animation to tell you you successfully set something in motion and you just have to wait for the window to pop up. That kind of thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes, White Christmas. That episode fucked me up. It’s a depiction of hell, straight up. And heaven is depicted similarly in San Junipero - not sure if you have seen that one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top 200 Most Common Passwords | NordPass⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t see it? It’s *******

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘California sober’: marijuana may help you drink less, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very tiny slices of gummies help me greatly with minor aches and pains, I can use it instead of stuff like Aleve. But if I get even 1/4 of a gummy in me it drives me mad. I’m wide awake, my eyes are burning fire, I can’t stop eating and my brain starts doing repetitive loops. It’s incredibly unpleasant to me and I really wish it wasn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, was gonna say - this guy is another one of the “always, in every context, thinking about gay sex” closeted Republicans. Religion does this to them, the systematic and merciless repression of sexuality causes it to become an immense burden.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy After Dark^TM^

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve reveal the new Steam Frame, Steam Controller and Steam Machine with SteamOS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if it’s really under 1K, I’m going to get one as immediately as possible. I’m still rocking my OG Vive.

  I haven’t seen anywhere, and maybe this is a stupid question, but can you use it with Steam Deck? I’m guessing not, and that’s not a problem, I switched to Linux from Windows recently and this was such great news to hear because I’m losing my Vive with Windows.

  But it would be crazy cool if you could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love’s a two-way dream⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well. Robin Williams, a (hilarious) American comedian and actor, gained much of his early fame/notoriety on a TV show called Mork and Mindy circa 1978 in which Robin played an alien named Mork.

  The show was actually a spinoff of Happy Days, where the “Mork” character first appeared.

  “Bjork and Bindi” is clearly a play on words that leverages this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love’s a two-way dream⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I barely managed to understand this and I am from this era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fox star trashes Trump’s 50-year mortgage plan: ‘I do not like this idea’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If 25% of the available buying pool was disappeared, it would create a glut that would probably crash the market. Just like in 2008, people would give their keys back to the bank rather than accept that their formerly $750,000 house was upside down to the tune of several hundred thousand dollars. This is particularly true now because in 2008, so many people did it that the banks couldn’t properly hold it against their credit. They were essentially forced to let them re-buy much sooner than they would have been able to in a normal world (and they were enabled to do so by government bailouts - they’re too big to fail!). So people have been trained that they don’t have to accept their house values crashing, and rightly so tbh. But it means the next crisis would be worse.

  We’d go full RoboCop.

  We’re going to, because money doesn’t know what to do other than attempt to further itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cyberpunk has a city that actually feels like a real city to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the age of LLMs, it’s pretty well guaranteed that it’s going to be far worse than described in a study from five years ago. Anecdotally, it feels to me like closer to half if not more of the responses I get are engagement bait. It’s not just corpo, a lot of it is government trolls trying to shape opinion, our government and foreign governments. I don’t post anymore at all - just read - and that only in my very niche communities that aren’t likely to be targeted for this kind of bullshit.