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- Comment on Authy authenticator apps for desktop are being discontinued in August 2024 (Apple Silicon not included) 10 months ago:
Made the switch to Aegis a little while back. I like it a lot.
- Comment on Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris 10 months ago:
Haha, he nearly passes out when he realizes he crashed the game. That kid is amazing.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award 10 months ago:
Anyone who expected Starfield to win Most Innovative Gameplay, are you offering divination services to the public?
It was an easy call to make. Steam Awards are voted by the public, so it’s all about name recognition.
The other finalists in that category were Shadow of Doubt, Contraband Police, Remnant II, and Your Only Move Is Hustle. Of all these, I had heard about Starfield and Remnant II.
I’m sure some of these games are awesome and I want to check them out by virtue of being finalists, but it was pretty clear Starfield was gonna win on brand recognition alone.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 has won Steam's 2023 GOTY Award 10 months ago:
Steam Awards, like any publicly-voted award, is a name recognition contest.
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 11 months ago:
Active users in the last six months. It will drop off when the usage peak is no longer included in the six-month period.
- Comment on YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, and it has nothing to do with your browser | The delay is intentional, but targeting users who continue using ad blockers, and not tied to any browse... 11 months ago:
I tried this exact scenario and didn’t see any difference in load times. I’m using an ad blocker and it’s definitely sluggish, but switching to a Chrome user agent made no difference.
- Comment on You can remove Edge and Bing Search on Windows 11 even if you don't live in Europe 11 months ago:
Linux users truly are the vegans of the tech world.
- Comment on Unity warns of likely layoffs following runtime fee decision 1 year ago:
Not disputing your main point, but they fired CEO John Riccitiello over this.
- Comment on Ways of designing intimacy in games - GameDeveloper 1 year ago:
“How dare they show a titty in my murder simulator.”
- Comment on Huawei phones are saying that the Google app is a virus 1 year ago:
It’s also true of Chinese app stores on Android phones. Just companies trying to throw up obstacles for their competition.
Between this and antivirus software flagging cracked software, I wish security apps would focus on security instead of weaponizing consumer trust.
- Comment on People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality 1 year ago:
I tried having a conversation with ChatGPT. It’s annoyingly predictable. Imagine the most boring, chronically helpful therapist who is always brimming with obvious advice, and that’s what you get.
I get that people are lonely, but we’re still much closer to ELIZA than Her.
- Comment on Russia and China-backed hackers are exploiting WinRAR zero-day bug 1 year ago:
Yeah, it just sucks.
- Comment on Why Are Modern Blockbusters So... Not Very Good? | Some More News 1 year ago:
There’s a form of recency bias at play. We tend to compare recent middling movies with the ones we remember from the past, which tend to be the exceptions. But trust me, there were some very shitty blockbusters in prior decades as well.
Give it a decade or two, and people will remember the '20s as a decade of amazing blockbusters. I mean, heck, we had Barbie and Oppenheimer in theaters at the same time just a few weeks ago. The fact these two movies were released the same weekend is gonna blow people’s minds in twenty years.
- Comment on So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off 1 year ago:
It also reminds me of crypto. Lots of people made money from it, but the reason why the technology persists has more to do with the perceived potential of it rather than its actual usefulness today.
There are a lot of challenges with AI (or, more accurately, LLMs) that may or may not be inherent to the technology. And if issues cannot be solved, we may end up with a flawed technology that, we are told, is just about to finally mature enough for mainstream use. Just like crypto.
- Comment on What is a film whose trailer alone presaged its success? 1 year ago:
Just to add to this… When I first saw the trailer, I became completely obsessed with the film. I visited the website and read a bunch of short stories on there about the world of the Matrix.
And besides all that, when I finally sat down in theaters and watched Neo take the red pill, I had absolutely no clue what was happening. Their marketing material 100% avoided even spoiling the very premise of the film. All they did was build a mystery.
- Comment on Elon Musk Allegedly Sent ‘Scorched-Earth Letter’ to Warner Bros. Demanding to Keep Amber Heard in ‘Aquaman 2’ 1 year ago:
Johnny Depp was a toxic boyfriend and a chronic substance abuser. So was Heard, but the fact she’s a dumpster fire of a human being doesn’t make Depp a saint despite what the internet tried to tell you.
Just two shitty human beings who made each other miserable.
- Comment on lemmy.ml has been banned in China mainland 1 year ago:
This but unironically.
I’m moving to China for work, so I’m interested in alternative points of view on Chinese society from the usual U.S. mainstream media CCP hate boner. I checked out lemmy.ml and hexbear, and… my goodness.
They cheer for a version of China that the Chinese themselves would be embarrassed by. It’s clearly driven by 14-year-old white boy edgelords who are enamored with a hardcore Marxist-Leninist vision of China that never existed, most likely in reaction to a dislike of modern Western capitalism. I mean, they referenced “struggle sessions” with nostalgia and cheer for Bashar al-Assad because China is being friendly to him.
Real-life China is quite different from the depictions you see on main Lemmy instances, but it sure as hell isn’t anything like what the tankies are jerking off to, either.
- Comment on She Was Supplementing Her Income 1 year ago:
She was making 42K a year as a teacher and 8-10K a month on OF before she got a boost in subscribers from being exposed.
I think she’ll be fine financially.
- Comment on 'PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie' Beats 'Saw X,' 'The Creator' To Top Domestic Box Office 1 year ago:
I enjoyed The Creator for its visuals but the bad script makes it impossible to recommend it. Might do well as a brainless Star Wars surrogate in streaming, and it might turn into a cult classic down the line, but I’m not surprised it’s bombing.
- Comment on Windows 12 May Require a Subscription 1 year ago:
I’ve been hearing a variant of this since I joined Slashdot in 1999. “Microsoft really messed up this time, mainstream Linux adoption is right around the corner!”
- Comment on Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes – The Markup 1 year ago:
What do you know, every sci-fi movie ever on the topic was right.
- Comment on X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue 1 year ago:
B-but Elon told me advertisers were returning!
- Comment on Cyberpunk patch 2.01 now available 1 year ago:
I’ve played it in January 2022 on PC (so about a year after release), going through a second playthrough on Steam Deck now.
Compared to two years ago, the game is not that different IMO. I enjoyed it immensely the first time, and I’m loving it enough now to just play it again. A lot of very noticeable changes with 2.0, with the entire perks system rebuilt and such. Not a major game changer IMHO but it’s all good stuff.
As for Steam Deck, it’s 100% compatible and looks great. I’ve noticed very few frame rate issues.
I wish people could let go of their resentment towards the game’s launch woes, because this game is a genuine banger with an amazing setting, great gameplay, and a kickass story.
- Comment on Cyberpunk patch 2.01 now available 1 year ago:
Made it possible to properly switch to Arm cyberware by cycling through weapons.
Oh, haha, I was wondering if I was crazy. The only way I could see to equip the Mantis Blades was to hold Y and select it there. Didn’t feel very intuitive.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 player finds “rarest” ending where characters are dogs and cats - Dexerto 1 year ago:
Don’t know if this counts as an ending proper rather than a funny and very rare unintended effect. I doubt the devs planned for it or even realized it could happen.
- Comment on Tinder Launches $499 USD-Per-Month "Tinder Select" Membership 1 year ago:
I’m guessing the only purpose of this is to show you have fuck-me money. Which sounds like it might work very, very well.
- Comment on Mathematicians find 12,000 new solutions to 'unsolvable' 3-body problem 1 year ago:
I thought the first book was pretty meh with big ideas but mid execution, but holy hell was the sequel exciting and leagues ahead in terms of quality. Really delivers on what the first novel sets up.
- Comment on Microsoft's mobile keyboard app SwiftKey gains new AI-powered features | TechCrunch 1 year ago:
I was actually thinking just this morning that if there’s ONE area where AI could really make a difference, it’s in predictive text on keyboards. How many times do I have to type “Roman Empire,” say, before the keyboard suggests “Empire” the next time I type “Roman”? The keyboard doesn’t even recommend my own last name when I type my first name.
Except reading the article, this is anything BUT that. It’s some AI-generated art stuff so you can create custom stickers or some useless shit like that.
- Comment on Microsoft’s big Windows 11 update drops on September 26 with Copilot AI baked in 1 year ago:
Still chasing the dream of mainstream Clippy acceptance.
- Comment on Elon Musk: X/Twitter to charge all users with monthly subscription fees 1 year ago:
Seriously. The world would be a better place if the media stopped reporting on every random shit idea that crosses Musk’s addled brain. It’s the kind of lazy journalism that got Trump ejected.