thatKamGuy
@thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
It’s all the same woman: Stephanie McMahon
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 5 days ago:
I remember the horrendous response times of the original GameBoy’s LCD panel, and when I mentally compare it to modern COLOUR panels…
…all I can think is, never say never!
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 5 days ago:
What you’re looking for are commercial screens. They’re a bit more expensive for a comparable panel, as they are intended for 24/7 use- but are about as dumb as they get nowadays.
- Comment on The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K 5 days ago:
Silly goose, after 8K is 16K!
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Technically, 1000 beats per day - but yes, Swatch tried this back in ‚99:
- Comment on The capsicum paradox: new Australian supermarket pricing a ‘massive transparency fail’ for customers 1 week ago:
I think it’s as much an indictment on falling maths literacy on the population as a whole when converting unit prices to a per-KG price as “complex”.
But that’s really besides the point of the majority of the article, as this is largely about converting customers online orders. If I’m ordering apples online, I’d want to buy on a per-unit basis (eg. 5 apples for the kids lunchbox), I’d be pretty miffed if I ordered 800g online - expecting 5 and only getting 4 bigger ones.
Still, the way this is currently implemented is pretty piss-poor - there generally shouldn’t be a per-unit price; charge per KG based on the final weight of produce selected, even if you give customers an option to buy per unit. But that involves weighing each line individually, slowing down the entire process and staff labour “shopping” for customers is a massive expense.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 1 week ago:
They’re trying to redefine it to Profitable Computing:
- Comment on Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company 2 weeks ago:
I want AI in games; Actual Innovation!
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 2 weeks ago:
I’m in a similar situation with my wife not being particularly interested in games - I’ve had some success in playing LA Noire with her guiding the investigations and interrogations. The jazz soundtrack in particular helped convince her, funnily enough!
Not quite perhaps what you’re looking for, but may work for others with hesitant non-gamer partners.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Such a great game; doesn’t overstay its welcome and has just enough mechanics to keep things interesting.
I’ve replayed it every few years and it’s as good as I remembered it every time.
I feel similarly about Crysis and Far Cry 3 too - but am probably in the minority on those two.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Would you be able to DM me a link to whatever guide or resources you used to get that up and running?
I’d be keen for a similar single-player experience through MOP or Legion.
- Comment on Research Institute Warns Australia's Social Housing Lags Behind Population Growth 2 weeks ago:
No shit; doing so would go against the paypig’s best interests.
Increased supply of cost-controlled housing would put downward pressure on housing prices, endangering all of those speculative investments!
- Comment on ‘As usual, we do what Nintendon’t’: Peripheral firm ‘fixes’ Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons 3 weeks ago:
I thought they were Canadian, though? Weird…
- Comment on Day 539 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
I think it mostly just didn’t feel like a Max Payne game because of the setting. Not New York? Not Max Payne.
Gameplay wise, it was definitely on the right track; and in a way - I remember it fondly as was the last time Rockstar seemingly experimented with game mechanics ahead of incorporating them into the next GTA game.
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 4 weeks ago:
My bad!
How could I literally forget Sega’s last, beautiful disaster? 🤦🏻♂️ I spent so much time playing Street Fighter III: Third Strike on it back in the day…
- Comment on Victoria, SA, NSW brace for 'worst' heatwave since Black Summer 4 weeks ago:
Half-price at Coles until end of today, if anyone else is running low. Legitimately #notAnAd
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 4 weeks ago:
Not just NES; games were largely designed with CRTs in mind all the way through PS2/Xbox/Gamecube console generation!
Legitimately would love a decent CRT TV (and room for it) to be able to authentically play Point Blank again - light gun games of that era only work on CRTs.
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 5 weeks ago:
Started with the first GTA on the PlayStation; I used to rank Vice City as my absolute favourite entry in the series - but as I’ve matured over time, I’ve come to find GTA IV (or more specifically, The Ballad of Gay Tony expansion) has taken over the top spot - though VC is still a close second.
If you haven’t played TBOGT in a while, I highly recommend revisiting it - there are a lot of parallels to VC in terms of overall feel and the general “fun” tone.
- Comment on oi mates wtf is going on over there 5 weeks ago:
We are pivoting, we already have the largest uptake of solar in the world - if I recall correctly - and it’s only ramping up further with the recent battery subsidies.
The reason why it’s not covered more in the mainstream media is because it is beholden to fossil fuel interests, and they want to minimise Labor’s successes in order to try and weaken them ahead of the next election.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 5 weeks ago:
This is an interesting development, for sure - and not one we will be able to accurately gauge the net impact of for a while.
It does feel like CD Project want to move it off their financial documents (P&L, cashflow, balance sheets etc.), while Michael wants to double-down and focus on building out the historical catalog.
Success will really depend on if GOG can remain profitable through lean years without having to ultimately rely on compromising their morals; and whether they will continue to receive support from modern publishers to help fund the more niche projects.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 5 weeks ago:
The only franchises I will pre-order are:
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World of Warcraft Collector’s Editions : even though I stopped playing a few years ago now, I still buy the physical copy collector’s editions to add to my collection - I have every one going all the way back to vanilla.
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Grand Theft Auto 6 : I have both the PS3 Collector’s Editions for IV and V, feels like getting the same for 6 to finish off that ‘trilogy’ would be apropos.
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- Comment on Do you preorder games? 5 weeks ago:
This is a cursed list, but at least 2/3rds eventually lived up to their initial promise!
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 5 weeks ago:
Unironically, you’re missing out.
Android Auto and Apple CarPlay are both just ways to project the smartphone already in your pocket onto an additional screen (like plugging a second monitor to your laptop or PC).
Manufacturers like GM and Tesla hate it because it stops your data from being readily collected and stored with the purpose of building up a profile of ‘you’ that they can then sell to advertisers and insurance companies.
Now if only manufacturers had the good sense to keep things like climate control as physical switches - that’s my own personal bugbear. 🤬
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 1 month ago:
Oh, absolutely - we’re on the Pakenham line and took the trip through the new metro tunnel last weekend, absolutely brilliant!
But there are trips and roles that can’t rely on PT, and for those I would much rather see EV adoption over more gigantic Yank-tank “trucks” with somehow less bed-space than what the Commodore and Falcon used to offer.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 1 month ago:
In the long-term, absolutely, we will need to revisit the fuel levy as we transition towards more EVs.
However I think it would be short-sighted to do anything currently that could disincentivise EV uptake.
I’d honestly much rather see a 1,000 more Model Ys on the road than 100 Rangers.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 1 month ago:
Yeah, in hindsight it really landed at an opportune time.
It’s a crying shame how greedy companies like Nvidia & Micron have gotten from back-to-back runs on their products - it feel like it will take a generational downturn for them to pull their heads in, and return to the more modest profit margins of the past (which even then was around 30%, IIRC).
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 1 month ago:
Ah, completely forgot that Intel 6th gen introduced DDR4 - I would’ve sworn it was much more recent than that!
You’ve certainly gotten your money’s worth out of your system - that’s for sure!
I went from a 3570K, 16GB, GTX 670 -> GTX 1080 (later SLI’d), to my current rig:
5950X, 32GB, RTX 3090 -> RX 7900 XTX
Just before the Ethereum mining rush took off, and with the current pricing due to AI fuckery - I don’t think I’ll be switching up anytime soon.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 1 month ago:
I get where you’re coming from, and in certain situations where you can’t otherwise get around it, you can configure your home network to not allow the Smart TV to phone home with telemetry or to accept any inbound external network traffic, so it can only access local network data such as your PC for Steam link.
I’m not confident enough to configure my home network that well (yet), hence I just opt to have the TV air gapped instead
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 1 month ago:
The thing with smart TVs is that you don’t need to connect them to your network to use them.
LG, unfortunately, still make the best OLED displays at the moment, and Samsung are arguably even worse when it comes to not respecting their customers.
Our C2 65in is hooked up to an Apple TV for all of our media streaming needs.
- Comment on Australia’s roads are full of giant cars, and everyone pays the price. What can be done? 1 month ago:
As a Victorian I am loathe to say it, but this is definitely one thing you guys do a hell of a lot better than us.
Especially with the uptake in EVs, which while better for the environment long-term also pose a similar issue for pedestrians and cyclists, registration costs need to be reviewed and rethought from the ground up.
