pennomi
@pennomi@lemmy.world
- Comment on PuffPals: Island Skies, a cosy game that earned $2.5 million on Kickstarter, has been slammed with refund requests after its website and online store disappeared 4 days ago:
People greatly underestimate the chances of success of a video game, even with $2.5 million. It’s even easy to fail entirely for reasons unrelated to developing a game, such as corporate governance.
It’s not totally comparable, because we did a physical game, the Kickstarter I created ended up succeeding and shipping (over a year late!), we lost virtually all profits to early company investors and surprise tariffs. It was basically a wash financially.
- Comment on Spotify is finally taking steps to address its AI slop and clone problem 4 days ago:
Hatsune Miku sweating bullets all of a sudden.
Real talk though, there’s a whole genre of non-slop vocaloid music that these policies might affect, if I’m reading the rules strictly.
- Comment on Autism has been announced! 1 week ago:
Don’t hold your breath, it’s by the same devs as Kerbal Space Program 2.
- Comment on Notice is now open source 1 week ago:
AGPL, nice
- Comment on Hue hue hue 1 week ago:
Telegraph lines are longer therefore have a larger effect during a solar flare.
But yeah, at a certain level, a solar flare would fry everything.
- Comment on 2 OP 1 week ago:
Ablative heat shield. Someone call NASA
- Comment on [Episode] Clevatess • Clevatess: Majuu no Ou to Akago to Kabane no Yuusha - Episode 12 discussion 1 week ago:
Agreed, this one looked like “generic edgy fantasy“ but I was regularly surprised at the depth of the worldbuilding. Definitely surpassed all my expectations.
- Comment on Machines might not be able to reproduce themselves 1 week ago:
Ain’t we all!
- Comment on Machines might not be able to reproduce themselves 1 week ago:
It’s a pointless debate anyway, because “free will” is a fuzzy concept anyway, and highly subject to personal opinion.
- Comment on arriving 2 weeks ago:
Nuclear winter because I can wear the bones of my enemies
- Comment on tool to make an stl from 2D image? 2 weeks ago:
Definitely agree, it probably was a non-manifold mesh. There are several ways to fix this, but one of the easiest is to load it up in Blender, apply a voxel remesh modifier to it, and then re-export.
- Comment on tall tails 2 weeks ago:
Sure but also there are some fossils that DO have skin, and some even have preserved organs. And some have feathers, which is a pretty good indicator that there wasn’t some large feature we’re missing.
No doubt we are wrong on lots of counts, but I think we have good evidence for a lot of it as well.
- Comment on Senators demand ICE cease use of facial recognition app 2 weeks ago:
Congress can’t really pass laws, because the system inherently favors obstructionism.
- Comment on What is it called when you believe the U.S. political parties shouldn’t exist? 2 weeks ago:
This is my favorite type of democracy. Why even have representatives in a digital-first world?
- Comment on Civilization VII team at Firaxis Games faces layoffs 3 weeks ago:
Surely that’s normal for a game project? You need fewer people to maintain and make expansion content than you do to create the game.
Not saying it’s ethical but it sounds like that’s the expected timing.
- Comment on Good news. :) 3 weeks ago:
Oh no doubt. Any kind of secession would be resolved with a civil war, and the final borders might not be recognizable.
- Comment on i 💚 animals. 3 weeks ago:
As long as she doesn’t say psychology
- Comment on Good news. :) 3 weeks ago:
When the US falls apart I strongly suspect the nation of Cascadia to form from these states
- Comment on MUCH better 3 weeks ago:
Purrfect
- Comment on Chinese social media platforms roll out labels for AI-generated material 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s dangerous honestly. Because something missing the AI tag will be considered more authoritative even if it’s mislabeled.
If the tags were 100% accurate I’d agree that it would be a good thing, but that’s mathematically impossible.
- Comment on Chhoto URL v6.3.0 is out now: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust. 4 weeks ago:
I love projects like this. Do one thing, super well, without adding a kajillion dependencies. I love the vanilla HTML / CSS approach.
- Comment on bet you can think of more 4 weeks ago:
Specifically obstructing law enforcement (especially ICE) or wasting their time stops them from carrying out fascist orders.
- Comment on IcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixherIcanfixher 4 weeks ago:
Good guy bartender looking out for the viewer
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 4 weeks ago:
It’s evolving, just towards authoritarianism.
- Comment on Messenger signals that cue plants to ‘eat’ and ‘breathe’ revealed for first time 5 weeks ago:
Serious: this is a fascinating discovery that could have enormous implications for agriculture. Being able to command a plant to perform actions on cue could let us optimize growth.
Silly: the researcher’s last name is Assmann lol.
- Comment on Got yourself a deal 5 weeks ago:
I have a big pride flag just inside my front door to keep the Christians away.
- Comment on YOU HAVE NO POWER HERE 5 weeks ago:
🧑🚀🔫🐙 Always have been.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 5 weeks ago:
Because we’re talking about the inherent latency of the connection, obviously.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 5 weeks ago:
Of course. Still, an exception doesn’t disprove expected averages.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 5 weeks ago:
Probably no. Your ping is abnormally high for fiber, I’d expect a sub 10ms ping for you.