Rakonat
@Rakonat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Uncovering Every Lie in MKBHD's Softball Interview; a scathing critique of 'brand safe' influencers 11 hours ago:
Not to defend him (can’t really stand his videos at all) but he’s not a journalist. He’s just a freelance spokesman for products that will sponsor him.
- Comment on Make the switch today before the Windows AI gains sentience 1 week ago:
Sorry, I’m too old for club penguin.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 1 month ago:
Me reading the headline: “Why would Valve make a porn shooter?”
- Comment on Final Fantasy Maker Square Enix Will Aggressively Pursue a Multiplatform Strategy After Profits Tumble 1 month ago:
I just look for people in my friends list that don’t have it yet and curse them with owning a copy, knowing I won’t hear from them for like 2-4 weeks.
- Comment on Never make the mistake of visiting a community for your favorite podcasts 1 month ago:
I will not touch undertale or deltarune with a 10 foot rusty pole due to my exposure to collective fanbase before either game came out. I’m sure they are fine games in their own right but the community has just mentally ruined any desire I had for them long before I would have been able to get them and try them on my own.
I’m so glad I found Portal before I interacted with that community.
- Comment on Xbox president: Studio closures will ensure 'business is healthy for the long term' 1 month ago:
Funny how they praise success these studios achieved before suddenly slamming the door shut and firing those people, but 343 has literally been fucking the corpse of Halo for 12 years now and you still funnel then millions of dollars to keep ruining everything.
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 1 month ago:
Excuse me sir, we are strictly a French Onion kind of bear, thank you very much.
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 1 month ago:
As man, all the men getting offended or angry over the women picking the bear are the exact reason the bear is the correct choice.
I’d be a little disturbed to find out some stranger picked me to roam around the woods lost with. The fuck are you planning?
- Comment on Weight 1 month ago:
Without a space suit each planet has roughly the same survivability.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 month ago:
Their terms of service specifically say if you spoof your location or do not sign up in your country you will subject to review and punishment. Aka permabanned
- Comment on EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 - Release Date Trailer 1 month ago:
6 is a direct sequel to 5, which was a reboot (and partially remake of with how much got recycled) 4.
I don’t think we’ll ever get a continuation of EDF 3/4 (2017/2025) aside from the continuity nod that was World Brothers.
- Comment on EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 - Release Date Trailer 1 month ago:
TO SAVE OUR MOTHER EARTH FROM ANY ALIEN ATTACK!
- Comment on EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 - Release Date Trailer 1 month ago:
Game came out in japan year and a half ago.
- Comment on EARTH DEFENSE FORCE 6 - Release Date Trailer 1 month ago:
Say psych right now
- Comment on All the ways streaming services are aggravating their subscribers this week 1 month ago:
Greeding corporations saw something was popular and profitable 10 years ago and are now doing everything they can to take a slice of the pie and get their fingers it. With more hands in the pan, there is less pie to go around, so they squeezing every last dollar they can out while lying to consumers about why. The income on these ventures is so laughably high and many production costs of the few original programming offered so low that they could cover everything on 5 dollars a month if not less. But if they did that they couldn’t give their executives million dollar bonuses, which is the only reason they are in the business.
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 1 month ago:
Nuclear plants wouldn’t take so long to build if people stopped trying to sue and protest their construction and sabotage it with all the red tape. If permits were approved and certified tomorrow a new plant could be operational in 10 years. 5 if it was actually funded and supported. Building the plant is easy, its cuttinf through the red tape encouraged by the oil lobby that is takes decades
- Comment on We can do all three things at once 1 month ago:
I haven’t the slightest idea what you’re talking about. Nuclear displaces fossil fuels at a better rate than renewables and is just as low carbon impact as them. We could replace the entire fossil grid with nuclear in 10 years if there was public support and demand for it, but fossil giants have been parroting the same antinuclear myths and fears dor the last 70 years and its so widely spread even pro renewable people have been deluded into thinking nuclear is bad for the planet when it might very well be our last best hope of fixing greenhouse emissions without the entire world reverting to pre industrial lifestyles.
- Comment on conservation 1 month ago:
No we’re watching hermit crabs. Get it right.
- Comment on conservation 1 month ago:
Can I come watch the hermit crabs too?
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 2 months ago:
www.cnn.com/2023/06/08/tech/…/index.html
CCP used tiktok data to identify and track pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong in 2018.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 2 months ago:
Yes but not for the reasons stated in the post you replied to.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 2 months ago:
You’re arguing this is bad for free speech defending an app run by a country that doesn’t have free speech.
- Comment on Biden expected to sign the TikTok ban on Wed. 2 months ago:
Apples to Oranges. This isn’t about preventing TikTok users from seeing content the US deems harmful, it’s the delivery mechanism for that content is such a gaping hole of security it doesn’t even qualify as a backdoor espionage. It’s going straight through the front door to gather data illicitly for reasons unknown. Adversarial nations are marked such for good reason and not a title lightly given.
TikTok isn’t the only social media that should be banned here but I’m honestly struggling to understand why people are fighting so hard to defend it, it’s a massive data leaking engine that harvests so much more information that it needs for people to share funny fortnite dances and cat videos. That and siix months from now if the ban goes through some other app is going to pop up to fill the void while existing apps and social media platforms have already been trying to cater to the short video sharing for a long time now.
- Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day 2 months ago:
Seems entirely unnecessary. My units have buzzers that go off when they complete a cycle. I also have a phone with a timer setting, I know a load of laundry will take approx 60min to accomplish per machine. I don’t see the need to spend my time and money to create a more complex system.
- Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day 2 months ago:
Why the fuck does my appliance need wifi? It’s not ordering refills for consumables when low at a great discount nor is it going to schedule it’s own maintenance as it passes lifetime milestones or detects errors.
I don’t want my fucking washer/dryer to text me when the load is done and I definitely don’t want my fridge to alert me I’m low on milk or bread, or the door is open. That’s such a huge backdoor for anyone looking to maliciously gather data and peer into my life, definitely without my consent.
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 3 months ago:
That’s nice, now face the wall.
- Comment on Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌ 3 months ago:
That’s half the problem, they don’t contain themselves to those communities. If they find the faintest way to jam Linux into an active conversation, they’ll do it regardless of the community.
- Comment on Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 3 months ago:
Wireless is only faster if wired is using outdated or underdeveloped gear. If a box has faster wireless than wired connection, then it was clearly designed to cater to wireless. GbE can hit up to 100gb.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 boss apologizes for 'horrible' dev comments, says Arrowhead has 'taken action internally to educate our developers' 3 months ago:
You’re missing the point. Player counts for that game dived because despite fairly regular new content and replay value, the meta and power creep pushed all players into using very similar functioning builds with everything that could be considered an alternate playstyle being so underperforming many people couldn’t even make them work in the 2-3 difficulty range. HD2 has much better variance in maps and enemies, so as long as devs keep the trickle of new content and powercreep under control this game easily has a 6-8 year shelf life. Community will trickle downwards like all games do as they age and new games pop up. But as long as the devs don’t fall into the trap of caving to vocal minority of players demanding any exploits they find stay in the game, we could easily have 100k-200k regular pops a year from now.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 boss apologizes for 'horrible' dev comments, says Arrowhead has 'taken action internally to educate our developers' 3 months ago:
Did you ever played Payday 2, where powercreep made us go from guns with all the best attachments could maybe kill the toughest enemy in the game in half a mag, or about 15 shots, to the devs needing to implement 3 (technically 4) more difficulty levels with new enemies that were just old enemies with more resistances or 10 times the health as their stock launch counterparts, and those things dying in 2 hits from all the meta build weapons. All because they kept introducing more powerful weapons, more attachments that made launch guns more and more obsolete, and general more power creep through skill tree expansions and entirely new jobs for perks. The player counts for that game dove off a cliff after players realized each DLC was just pay 2 win garbage and even using stuff you could get only from the base game and free updates left every weapon feeling samey with the same tactics being used and things not in the meta utterly ignored by anyone playing end game content. Because instead of reigning in the things that overperformed and broke the balance curve, they just kept powercreeping new items into the game.