carl_dungeon
@carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Do you like the smell of bookstores? 1 day ago:
I love that smell. Libraries too.
- Comment on Is the Nintendo Switch 2 the end of innovative consoles? 1 day ago:
I’ll reserve judgement until I have one, but here’s my $.02:
The Wii U was wildly innovative and a giant flop. In the end, it was a big clumsy prototype for the switch IMO. The switch was the perfect evolution of some of the ideas the U had, like bringing the stationary console into your hands rather than just a tiny pocket console.
The GameCube didn’t do anything really that wildly innovative after the n64, it just had discs and a more comfy controller.
The Wii was pretty fresh, but in the end, relied a bit too heavily on gimmicks, the key parts of which I think were successfully captured by future motion controllers like the joycons.
The DS was super cool, and I love mine, but most games ended up primarily using a single screen, and the other screen just kinda sat there or acted as a map. Switch has a larger touchscreen which makes up for loss of stylus in a lot of ways.
The 3DS was cool for a minute too, but the effect was eye strain inducing and had limited value IMO.
I think it’s great to come up with something totally new now and then, but changing for change’s sake probably isn’t good, and axing a form factor that has been so wildly successful sounds risky.
Nintendo has always operated on a tick-tock pattern (gameboy -> pocket -> color -> advance -> ds -> ds lite & 3ds). Plenty of evolutions between form changes.
Phones, computers, tablets, and now consoles are all reaching their inevitable optimized form- large screens with good I/O. While boring to look at, at the end of the day it’s about the experience of using the device, not how wacky the console looks/works.
I don’t doubt that Nintendo will have more wild ideas in future systems, but I personally dont want a dual screen switch with an attached printer and a VR headset- I want a bulletproof hand held that does what it does very well and provides value. The entire switch concept is so well executed and seamless- don’t take that away! Make it better- battery, heat, graphics power, ergonomics, charge speed, Bluetooth, build quality, etc. make all those things as good as they can be. The switch 2 looks like it improves on many of those things without taking anything away, so I’m pumped to get my hands on one!
- Comment on Most of us trust scientists, shows a survey of nearly 72,000 people worldwide 2 weeks ago:
Why would I trust someone that spends their life trying to understand reality and makes data driven predictions that help improve people’s lives? That’s crazy talk.
- Comment on X raises Premium Plus subscription pricing by almost 40 percent 1 month ago:
Why not make it $1000? In fact, they should charge at least $100 a month for any type of access, we dont want a bunch of povos trashing up Twitter right?
- Comment on DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly 2 months ago:
I think the issue is that Google owns the browser and the search engine and has such market dominance that it can break web standards at will because it’s not like you’re not using chrome right? Right!?
The saddest thing about all the antitrust stuff is that Firefox gets something like 75% of its revenue from Google paying it to default to it, so by making things less monopolistic, they might unintentionally be killing Firefox, the only other major contender to chrome.
- Comment on Is a Quest 3 really worth it? 2 months ago:
No
- Comment on Trying to reverse climate change won’t save us, scientists warn 3 months ago:
I’m pretty sure he said have less children, not start death camps.
- Comment on Elon Musk changes X terms to steer lawsuits to his favorite Texas court 3 months ago:
If you still use twitter at this point, you’re asking for it.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 4 months ago:
People love Amazon music? It fucking sucks.
- Comment on How would I find my phone if I didn't have a phone to find my phone with? 4 months ago:
I use my watch
- Comment on If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics? 4 months ago:
I don’t think the klan votes black.
- Comment on Apple must pay 13 billion euros in back taxes, EU's top court rules 4 months ago:
Good, I’m a fanboy, but corporations need to pay their share and then some.
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 4 months ago:
Fallout 4 wasn’t bad, it was a lot of fun for a few playthroughs. You can make some valid arguments about steps backwards from new Vegas, but it did a lot of things well too.
- Comment on This Is Why You Should Never Store Your Retro Game Collection In A Shed | Time Extension 4 months ago:
It might- but you’d have to worry about the chemicals in the adhesive too.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 5 months ago:
What standard is trump being held to again?
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to implant millions of people with Neuralink brain chips 5 months ago:
Him first
- Comment on Was Elvis Presley a pedo? 5 months ago:
Because no one cared about that 60 years ago
- Comment on Realme’s 320W fast charging can fully charge a smartphone in four and a half minutes 5 months ago:
assuming the phone has a way to dissipate the heat generated.
Yeah that’s a big assumption. My phone gets hot charging at 20w, don’t you think there will be heat dissipation issues at those speeds?
Chemistry has improved, but even a Tesla will not let you super charge all the time- I’d need to see some real data before I believe that a battery charged 100 times fast has exactly the same health as one charged 100x slow.
- Comment on Labour MPs begin quitting X over ‘hate and disinformation’ 5 months ago:
People still use twitter?
- Comment on Why do people complain about multiple streaming platforms existing? 5 months ago:
Because what people really want is an iTunes like service that just has everything for a single price rather than 14 streaming apps that have content overlap but also exclusives and rotating temporary content licenses costing $20+ each with ads.
There was a period of time when I gave up pirating because Netflix+prime was good enough to watch just about everything, and on-device search easily searched both platforms and provided a unified search/watch experience. It wasn’t worth the effort of finding and storing content yourself.
Fast forward to today, you search for something, it belongs to some fucking random service you don’t currently pay $17.99 a month for and then halfway though a season, it drops from the platform and goes to another streaming service you also don’t pay for. It’s just endless bullshit and nickel&diming now.
I’d happily pay $60 a month for a single service that just had everything and saved me from all this bullshit, instead I’d be forced to spend $300 a month for 23 services I barely use just to have access to the catalog of content I want.
Another example of this done well is steam- I just want my whole library in one place, I don’t want 5 different game libraries each with their own crap. Consequently I’ve spent thousands of dollars on steam over the years because of the unified experience.
- Comment on I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x 5 months ago:
You can get gigabit over 5e, you don’t need super expensive cables. That said I ran cat 6 through my whole house and am able to fully saturate the bus, about 115 MBps (920 Mbps) which accounts for the TCP overhead. I haven’t tried 2/5/10G on it bull I’ll probably upgrade in a few years, I don’t expect to have much trouble getting good speeds. Your biggest issue was you might not have had all the cable pairs in your wire, or your cables ends might have been crusty, or you could have had bad kinks in the wire causing packet loss, or some real absolute trash quality wire. In general, 5e and 6 are plenty for most people/situations to get good speeds (1Gb+)
- Comment on Court blocks the FCC's efforts to restore net neutrality... again 5 months ago:
Well duck whatever court that is
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 Has Been Delayed Indefinitely, Pre-Orders Are Being Refunded 5 months ago:
Yeah, looking forward to it!!!
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 Has Been Delayed Indefinitely, Pre-Orders Are Being Refunded 5 months ago:
I loved 1 - but 2 didn’t make any sense to me. Slapping 3D on it didn’t seem like something it needed, and it makes it a very different game. Plus, it’s not made by introversion - that’s where 95% of the humor and novel game mechanics came from.
- Comment on Google Planned to Sponsor IDF Conference That Now Denies Google Was Sponsor 6 months ago:
Fuck Google and fuck Israel. Jack boot wearing nazis.
- Comment on Can't wait for Borat 3 in another 20 years.. 6 months ago:
In 20 years these guys will be 15 years dead
- Comment on AI models collapse when trained on recursively generated data - Nature 6 months ago:
Yes this isn’t news- it’s called AI cannibalism and it’s the high tech version of making a tape of a tape of a tape. It’s part of the great enshitification.
Consider this: a lot of general knowledge is trained into ai using Wikipedia. Since ai bots have a friendly chat interface and natural language processing that makes a decent attempt at understanding context and language intent, asking ChatGPT about something results in an interestingly summarized, cross referenced answer that might draw from 5 or 6 wiki articles that otherwise might have required a couple hours of reading and diving to derive organically (with your meat computer). Since just asking ChatGPT is way easier than spending 2 hours clicking on Wikipedia, people start just using the bot instead of Wikipedia. Fast forward 5-10 years. People don’t even go to wiki anymore because why would you? People stop contributing to wiki because no one goes there anyway, it’s as useless as a serial port gender changer. So now 90% of the web is just the summarized output of ai bots. Wiki goes offline, no one donates, no one visits. Now the latest gen AI is trained on Russian troll bots, Instagram comment sections, and Reddit comments which have all become 90% ai bot spam. The thing that made AI good was the quality of the training data but now all the new data is absolute trash, just SEO ad garbage. The generation of AI model trained on that can’t help but produce total static because who the fuck is taking the effort the put real quality on the net anymore?
I’m really sad about this future… (this present).
- Comment on German Navy to replace aging 8-inch floppy drives with an emulated solution for its anti-submarine frigates 6 months ago:
30 year old? 3.5 inch floppies became standard in the middle of the 80s- 5.25 before that. 8 inch came out in 1971, so nearly 55 year old tech.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Because Elon is a jack boot wearing autocrat wannabe
- Comment on Lawyers Who Argued Against Elon Musk Pay Charge $370K Hourly | Entrepreneur 6 months ago:
So, that’s about $10k an hour per lawyer, and if you take Elon’s pay out over a 10 year period, that works out to be about $116k an hour, so really, they’re under-charging by over an order of magnitude.