carl_dungeon
@carl_dungeon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 4 days ago:
He should know, he fucking killed it
- Comment on My strategy to defeat AI is to be too stupid to realize I'm engaging with it and draining all their resources on the energy it takes to agrue with me. 4 days ago:
Apparently just saying please and thank you on every request is eating yup extra millions in compute
- Comment on Should naming your children stupid names be illegal? 1 week ago:
cbc.ca/…/talula-does-the-hula-from-hawaii-9-gets-…
www.nzherald.co.nz/…/E7OGEDDDEGAWK2V5W4ODX22U24/
So yeah, it should and it is some places.
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 2 weeks ago:
No- is it like a grunt?
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 2 weeks ago:
I really doubt switch 2 games will emulate at all or well for quite some time.
I get the money argument. In that case, get the one that does more for you now now, and save up for the other one later. You don’t need them all at once.
I waited a year before getting the first switch, and almost 2 years for a ps4. I think I waited at least a year for all the other PlayStations too save the 5.
Getting something at launch isn’t all that great- bugs, limited games, max prices, etc… a year or so later and you get bundles and deals and lots of game choices.
I don’t have a deck- but a few of my friends do and I’ve played with it a bit- it’s great and I want one at some point, but I can wait for #2 to come out and then go on sale before I dive in.
- Comment on UK creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill. 3 weeks ago:
It’s great!
- Comment on US cuts may affect FOSS projects funding (F-Droid, Tor, Let's Encrypt, TailsOS) 3 weeks ago:
He’d cut his own dick off if it owned some libs.
- Comment on New 'DRAM+' memory designed to provide DRAM performance with SSD-like storage capabilities, uses FeRAM tech 3 weeks ago:
Oooh! Two “disruptive”’s and a “game changer”!
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 3 weeks ago:
I really truly don’t think so. While there is some overlap, I would never give my 5 yo a steam deck and tell them to just figure it out. And on a steam deck, I’d be really sad to not have any Mario kart, Zelda, etc…
I don’t see the problem with having both- they fill different niches.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 3 weeks ago:
No that movie was great.
- Comment on What is anti-propaganda? 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t it just be facts?
- Comment on Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do? 3 weeks ago:
My understanding is that only some games are a “key in a cartridge” and they are able to be resold second hand.
- Comment on DOGE official at DOJ bragged about hacking, distributing pirated software. 3 weeks ago:
He sounds like a real asshole
- Comment on What if Apple / other brands sold desktop chips? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, from apple’s perspective it cheapens their brand and makes them just another commodity parts supplier. Plus, used outside of their ecosystem, the cups might not shine the way they do on their managed platform which could tarnish the image too. Plus, it kills some of the competitive edge they have on hardware if anyone could slap something together with the same chips.
I suspect keeping their chips and tech to themselves is vital to their strategy.
- Comment on What if Apple / other brands sold desktop chips? 4 weeks ago:
You mean as stand alone parts for purchase?
Because Apple does have m series chips in desktop configurations already- the Mac Studio and iMac.
- Comment on Consumer confidence is sliding as Americans' view of their financial futures slumps to a 12-year low 4 weeks ago:
I wonder fucking why
- Comment on Minecraft's 'Vibrant Visuals' Upgrade the Start of a New 'Graphical Journey' 5 weeks ago:
I feel like all this visual upgrading kinda missed the point of Minecraft. It’s like colorizing black and white movies.
- Comment on DoorDash will let users buy now, pay later for fast food, a possible worrying sign for the economy 5 weeks ago:
Too late to explore the world with on a ship, too soon to explore space, just the right time to finance fucking door dash.
- Comment on Why can’t HVAC be made smarter? 5 weeks ago:
My thermostat has a hot and cold setting that will heat when cold and cool when hot- I can also set it to a mode based on outside temp or time of day. You might just need a smarter thermostat.
- Comment on Multiple Tesla vehicles were set on fire in Las Vegas and Kansas City 5 weeks ago:
Oh no anyway…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You’re thinking of people as a service rather than connecting with a person for being a person. It’s a give and take, you need to give back. Think of the situation in reverse, someone just using you for ass and pep talks.
You should be with someone because you like them and want to do things for them.
- Comment on why was 1995 video games console very pixel art graphics but music was high quality and images were great??, 1 month ago:
It’s bitrate and computation based. Playing back a waveform through speakers takes very little computation and doesn’t really have all that much data.
Computing billion of pixels per second by doing exotic math between thousands of entities with millions of individual physics calculations and then ray tracing all that and doing it 100 times per second… dude, that’s many many many orders of magnitude more complicated.
To put it in perspective- a heavily compressed song almost fits on a floppy disc. A heavily compressed movie almost fits on 600 floppy disks. A decent quality movie takes 4000 floppies. An hd movie- 10,0000. A 4K UHD etc etc film? Close to 50,000 floppy disks. That’s just video, there’s no physics, no ray tracing, no rendering, no bump mapping, no animation, no anything, just displaying data. Now imaging doing all that, but 5x more per second and add all the things I said.
Graphics cards of today are more powerful than an Empire State Building sized computer of the 90s, probably more powerful that most of the computers on earth put together in the early 90s.
Why did games look basic? Because we had basic level computational power. But why was sound so good? Because sound is like stacking wooden blocks when modern games are like colonizing mars. Different orders of magnitude in complexity and scale.
A single smartphone image is easily 3x bigger than a high quality song- and that image needs to be rendered hundreds of times a second for a modern game. It’s not even the same sport.
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 1 month ago:
Good point. I believe it’s $$$ and is tough for smalls. Best of luck on your search!
- Comment on Are there any non capitalistic technology companies still around? 1 month ago:
I’ve worked for a small business in tech for 15 years- it’s a great company that cares for its people. I think some of what you’re describing is just the nature of larger companies. The bigger the machine, the smaller the cog.
- Comment on Amazon's previous VP of Prime Gaming said they "tried everything" to disrupt Steam 2 months ago:
To disrupt stream, you’d need to be better than Steam. Also, what am I gonna do with my existing 1000 games in steam? I DON’T WANT 5 GAME MANAGERS.
All these companies think people want 10 streaming services, 5 steams, 7 spotifys. WE DONT. We just want 1 that does everything we want.
- Comment on Why Power Prices Can Go Negative and What It Means 2 months ago:
This is just further spelling out the case for energy storage. It seems like there would be tons of profit potential for just running a grid scale battery storage facility plant- if you can charge at negative wholesale and sell at peak, then you would not only stand to make a profit, but you’d help even out the problem.
- Comment on Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America 2 months ago:
Is this a fucking joke
- Comment on Take-Two CEO believes AI will actually increase employment and productivity 2 months ago:
So they’re hiring?
- Comment on Do you like the smell of bookstores? 2 months ago:
I love that smell. Libraries too.
- Comment on Is the Nintendo Switch 2 the end of innovative consoles? 2 months 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!