chiliedogg

@chiliedogg@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what's a good answer to placate the c-suite if you're accused of lacking motivation and being unfriendly?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When the butchers at a single Walmart store in Texas formed a union, Walmart retaliated by firing every butcher nationwide and switching to only pre-packed meats for all stores.

  They’ll put themselves through a lot to make sure the peons don’t get too uppity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mods - please ban this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when it was under the price of 2 games a year it was a pretty good deal. Thinking of buying the next Halo and Forza? Get gamepass and save money, and have the opportunity to try a bunch of other stuff you wouldn’t have played.

  There’s amazing games like Hades and Slay the Spire that I wouldn’t have been interested enough in to purchase that are now among my favorites because Gamepass let me try them.

  Honestly, I think the better route would be to keep it cheap but not include new releases. Let people access the back catalog affordably with games that aren’t brining in much new revenue anyway. People will discover games and genres they otherwise would not have played, which will create new markets and boost ssales of new releases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's official: EA is going private.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The franchise basically created the microtransaction.

  As much flak as Oblivion got for horse armor, the Sims did it first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JFC, who did this?!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The changed ending for the film is a fucking masterpiece. Even King says it, and he’s famously bitchy about filmmakers changing his storylines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've been playing 'Ruby's Rebalanced HALO: CE' mod and it is fantastic.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  343 is remastering Halo 1 again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But they don’t have the fucking power. They’re letting Trump do whatever he wants, and eroding their own authority in the process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking to get my first 3d printer, any suggestions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As much hate as they get for their recent Apple-like behavior, Bambu is kinda the king of “it just works” right now. An A1 or A1 mini offer spectacular performance for the price for people who want to just start printing stuff.

  If you want something enclosed for printing more advanced materials, however, there is more competition on the pricing front.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their console strategy is squarely aimed at Gamepass, which is a good deal for many gamers even with Steam. My ROG Ally has both Xbox and Steam games on it, and I probably do split time between them 50/50.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles are getting a price bump. Again.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My series S shit the bed literally yesterday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many hands long do they get?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The English measure weights in stone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Patch Due Out Today, PC Performance 'Our Top Priority,' Gearbox Says⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something I’ve kinda come to accept about Gearbox is that Pitchford is an ass and sometimes they farm out products when they shouldn’t (ACM bring the biggest example), but most of the devs actually working on the games really do care about the product and want it to be good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The multi-player maybe. But they’ve consistently delivered excellent single-player experiences with their flagship titles. GTA 3, VC, SA, IV, and V were all amazing. RDR1 was spectacular, and RDR2 may be the most impressive game I’ve ever played.

  At this point, I trust Tockstar to deliver a good single-player game. I don’t really expect much in the way of the quality DLC we got with GTAIV and RDR, but I think the base game will easily be enough for me to justify a purchase.

  I’m still gonna wait and see, of course. They’re not getting a pre-order out of me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arriving⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just live in Texas. That’s all it takes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s say you design a revolutionary widget of some kind, but don’t have the means to to produce it at scale. How do you get it to market? You parter with a larger company. For a share of the proceeds, you have them produce the item. Without a patent, when you go to the manufacturer and show them the design, they can just start making it themselves and tell you to beat sand.

  Also, patents require competitive companies to alter a product design in order to sell it. If everyone could just copy the same product, there would be further incentive to monopolize the means of production to produce the single product at a larger scale, since the only differentiation between products would be the price. Patents allow competition through limited-term protection of their innovations.

  Is the patent system abused by large companies? Absolutely. But removing patents won’t make them.good actors. It’ll just remove any limitations on their theft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t, and I really should. Like, REALLY should. I was college roommates with and took part in the wedding of someone high enough at Gearbox that I can’t say their role without doxxing myself, and we’ve stayed really close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. The out of left field had more to do with what was expected going in. We all expected silly D&D and fart jokes. We didn’t expect a legitimately touching examination of grief and denial to bring depth to a silly character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  BL2 was great. Some of its DLC was even better. Assault on Dragon Keep is one of the best looter shooters ever made. The gameplay was a blast. The jokes were funny…And out of left field it broke your fucking heart by secretly being about a young, traumatized girl’s grief.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Modern medicine is amazing, but that looks pretty much un-surviveable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was last year.

  Now it’s… Tylenol?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it has something to do with how they count users with ad blockers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was rough-cut dimensions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Castlevania date is a little misleading, however.

  Castlevania changed from a simple linear level-based side-scroller to the open world exploration, progression, and backtracking formula of the Metroidvania genre with Symphony of the Night in 1997.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Middle class is a fabrication designed to make the working poor think they’re better off than they really are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re waiting until all the products in the wild can be locked down.

  Right now, they’re struggling to get people.to jump to Windows 11, and people are hoarding their old computers. They want all the products that don’t have TPM or its equivalent to be outmoded before they remove the mask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IME there's nice guys and then there's "Nice Guys"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If your kindness is transactional, you’re not a nice person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'3d-printing a screw' is a way to describe how AI integration is stupid most of the time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re great when you need one or 2 and they’re used properly.

  But if I need 2,000 screws, I’m going to the hardware store instead of spending 82 hours printing screws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So is it bad that I’m on prescription amphetamines and had to do some unexpected work on the wiring on a 3-phase compressor after having a beer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure would be nice to be privileged enough to be able to relocate myself and my family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And, increasingly, there’s no such thing as offline.