EvilBit
@EvilBit@lemmy.world
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 1 day ago:
If you like pedantry, people have definitely flown in vehicles and even jumped.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 4 days ago:
That’s great advice. At least for as long as libraries still exist. 😫
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 4 days ago:
I hear good things about Pimsleur as an alternative.
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy - Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
Excuse my ignorance of genre names, but isn’t Rogue Trader a fully blown Warhammer CRPG?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Republicans: “Hey, you suggested it, but now that we’re thinking about it…”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“Own the libs”
- Comment on Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral 3 weeks ago:
True enough, but you’d still be playing legal whack-a-mole because by the letter of the law, you could still be legally relatively poor but have access to an insane amount of money in lots of ways.
- Comment on Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral 3 weeks ago:
In principle, yes, but hiding wealth is also like Rich Bastard 101 stuff.
- Comment on Hotdog for Scale 4 weeks ago:
Corrected. One pedant point awarded.
- Comment on Hotdog for Scale 4 weeks ago:
Knowledgeable identification of an insect from the photo with cited reasoning: nice.
Dick joke : 4x the upvotes.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 4 weeks ago:
The problem is that the winners don’t share. They exploit the others. That’s exactly what got us here in the first place.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 4 weeks ago:
Any economist or data scientist should be able to pretty easily compare the economic course to a forecast of what would have happened with minimal interference.
Will we listen? No, because experts don’t count for shit in the US anymore.
- Comment on Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs 4 weeks ago:
I would say the only silver lining here is that the exploitation of labor puts these giants in a precarious position where all of their critical work is being done by unhappy, extrinsically motivated people who are often only still there because they’re relatively immobile (i.e., they aren’t good enough at their job to find another one easily) or they were kept on because their salary is lower and they’re less experienced. It makes these massively complicated technology ecosystems extremely brittle, which is why software has been shit across the board for the past decade or so. It’s possible there will be a pendulum swing if and when quality becomes an attainable and marketable feature again.
- Comment on Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies 4 weeks ago:
I do. It’s not ideal but it still gives me something better to do than social media.
I’ve heard it’s quirky and kinda mid as a phone, but not unusable.
- Comment on Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies 4 weeks ago:
Color screen and the fact that Onyx, the makers of Boox, flagrantly violate GPL terms.
But it was the Boox Palma getting publicity that made me aware of the form factor and start digging. I’m super happy with the Bigme Hibreak, but I don’t have a SIM card in it. I mostly use it in airplane mode as a dumb e-reader and don’t even install any apps besides the minimum needed to do that.
- Comment on Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies 4 weeks ago:
I got an e-ink e-reader in the pocketable form factor of a phone (Bigme Hibreak Color). Instead of doomscrolling social media, I read a couple paragraphs of the Oppenheimer biography. Next I’ll reread Neuromancer. It’s life-changing. 10/10 highly recommended.
- Comment on Go meet grass or touch your neighbors. 5 weeks ago:
And it’s amazing if anyone hasn’t seen it
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 month ago:
Yo momma so fat her waist size is “Schwarzschild”.
- Comment on Did Trump’s Scientific Advisor Admit That The US Possesses Space And Time Manipulation Tech? Internet Is Wilding 1 month ago:
You callin’ me fat?
- 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? 1 month ago:
True, sure. I’m just saying the overall price of games has gone down significantly over time. An upward correction makes some sense. I’m not cheering it on, just trying to help frame the circumstances.
- 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? 1 month ago:
Ocarina of Time cost $116.91 at launch, accounting for inflation.
- Comment on MIT introduced a smart assistant for LLM 1 month ago:
“We’re having trouble with AI solving problems. Let’s solve the problem with AI.”
It’s not strictly a bad idea or doomed or anything, but it makes me sad.
- Comment on Rocky rock rocking 1 month ago:
It’s a MINERAL, Marie.
- Comment on Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger | Google Cloud Blog 2 months ago:
They’ve been added to the watchlist.
Wait, is that the watchlist?
Yeah that’s the one. Whew, for a minute I thought we added them to the war planning chat.
Wait, fuck.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 2 months ago:
If 6 is the Papermate felt tip, then that one. I like the static tip. Otherwise, probably the upstart Sharpie.
- Comment on Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon 2 months ago:
Repeat after me: LLMs do not have intelligence.
- Comment on Lemmy’s essential 25 PS1 games 2 months ago:
Thanks! There was a lot of wacky fun in the PlayStation generation.
- Comment on Lemmy’s essential 25 PS1 games 2 months ago:
- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night - because it’s literally one of the best games ever made. So good that when it borrowed the Metroid formula pretty much wholesale, they renamed the formula Metroidvania.
- Metal Gear Solid - because it sits in the Goldilocks zone of Kojima-ness. Nutty but not impenetrable.
- Silent Hill - because everyone should know what it’s like for seventeen pixels to make them shit themselves in fear.
- Metal of Honor - because Call of Duty used to be the whippersnapper upstart. Know your roots, son.
- Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2 - because there were THPS games with more, but there were never THPS games that were definitively better.
- Resident Evil 2 - because hitting your stride while defining a genre is a beautiful thing.
- Valkyrie Profile - because the world is ending but I really want this mermaid to be happy…
- Fear Effect - because it’s a seven hour game across four CDs but my best friend and I couldn’t put it down until we finished it on day one.
- Vigilante 8 - because they out-Twisted-Metaled Twisted Metal.
- G-Darius - because sometimes you just gotta blast a giant robot fish in the face with a screen-filling laser beam.
- Incredible Crisis - because we all have bad days.
- Tenchu - because Solid Snake shouldn’t be the only one who gets to have fun sneaking around and killing people.
- Rakugaki Showtime - because before there was Smash Bros, there was bashing the Smiley Ball for super moves and launching ICBMs against your foes.
- Comment on What is your favorite retro racing game? 2 months ago:
Lots of great ones mentioned here and while I don’t know if it’s my favorite, I have a deep soft spot for Super Off-Road. It has an incredible spatial sense and fluidity for its time and still holds up at any barcade.
- Comment on Kindle Is Making It Harder to Switch to Rival eReader Brands. 3 months ago:
FYI, Onyx egregiously violates GPL and basically gives the finger to anyone who complains. Not that anyone is necessarily clean as a whistle and even so they’re miles better than Jeff “I dressed like a fascist before it was cool” Bezos.
I’m a big fan of Kobo, but they also used to have a connection with Walmart.