makyo
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- Comment on ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree | Official Launch Trailer 1 week ago:
Yeah I stopped about 15 seconds in because it seemed to be showing multiple boss characters.
- Comment on DeviantArt’s Downfall Is Devastating, Depressing, and Dumb 1 month ago:
And photographers when Photoshop was invented
- Comment on Am I supposed to ask stupid questions here, or *not* ask stupid questions? 1 month ago:
Good idea, is it on the same release schedule as fivehead?
- Comment on The Verge shows how Google search is useless 1 month ago:
I second this, this has been my experience exactly. It’s gotten so bad that not only do I not need the Google fallback, but I’m starting to feel like the DDG results are better than the Google ones in the first place.
- Comment on Dating app Bumble will no longer require women to make the first move | CNN Business 1 month ago:
I feel like I saw somewhere that men message dozens of times more women than vice versa. I get their non-nuanced temptation but you can hardly call a system that encourages one gender to incessantly spam the other ‘engagement’.
- Comment on Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return 2 months ago:
There are a lot of problems keeping VR from going big and I think Meta’s strategy of cornering the market is one of them. They think if they get all the exclusives they’ll be the next iPhone but I think instead they’re fragmenting an already tiny market which really needs a bunch of impressive experiences (and there still aren’t a ton right now, even after years of VR development). I feel like the reverse would win them more users - they should win on hardware AND software but make their software available for any VR headset to use. Because right now they need to help create a market for VR because there really isn’t one worth cornering yet.
- Comment on go go gadget sonar 2 months ago:
I need echolocation to read the tiny text on that site
- Comment on ‘It’s catastrophic’: Italian restaurants in London struggle to find staff post-Brexit 2 months ago:
Also to add, many EU nations are going out of their way to attract MORE foreign workers because there’s a shortage everywhere in the developed world.
- Comment on How does South Park get away with trashing identifiable people? Are they sued often? 2 months ago:
If I recall, Weird Al tries to get permission for all his parodies too, just further adding to the point that people mostly are good with that kind of attention.
- Comment on When did breasts become a thing that needed to be concealed in public and why? 2 months ago:
Isn’t the breastfeeding function part of the reason breasts are sexualized? In other words - biologically males seek a female that can provide for her offspring so there’d be an evolutionary advantage for women who can at least appear to be able to do so.
- Comment on Next on the hydraulic press channel! 2 months ago:
Option three - lock tag and then send coworker up, leaving original guy behind at the circuit with the bolt cutters to do as he sees fit.
- Comment on OpenAI’s GPT Is a Recruiter’s Dream Tool. Tests Show There’s Racial Bias 3 months ago:
I was recently at a launch party Q&A and a guy in the audience actually asked whether quotas kept deserving men from the job. I shit you not - the product being launched was an educational game about equal treatment of women in the workforce. I guess that showed they were reaching the right people at least.
- Comment on Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch 3 months ago:
I still use it for some of the niche communities I can’t get here but I’m more than happy to drop it if these new ads somehow manage to get past uBlock
- Comment on A New York Times copyright lawsuit could kill OpenAI 5 months ago:
Unfortunately true, and the long arm of the law, at least in the business world, isn’t really that long. Would love to see some monopoly busting to scare a few of these big companies into shape.
- Comment on A New York Times copyright lawsuit could kill OpenAI 5 months ago:
By unlicensed I mean works that haven’t been licensed IE anything being used without permission or some other right
- Comment on Steam has a new hit game, and it’s Pokémon with guns 5 months ago:
- Comment on A New York Times copyright lawsuit could kill OpenAI 5 months ago:
I always say this when this comes up because I really believe it’s the right solution - any generative AI built with unlicensed and/or public works should then be free for the public to use.
If they want to charge for access that’s fine but they should have to go about securing legal rights first. If that’s impossible, they should worry about profits some other way like maybe add-ons such as internet connected AI and so forth.
- Comment on Waffle Squarf 5 months ago:
‘Denny’s but scuzzier’ describes Waffle House perfectly
- Comment on Challenge accepted 6 months ago:
Me too, it’s better this way than the original
- Comment on Adobe faces big fines from FTC over difficult subscription cancellation 6 months ago:
They’ll keep doing it until we start taking the problem of monopolies seriously
- Comment on USA Will Invest in High-Speed Train to Fight Climate Change 6 months ago:
The 2000 election was such a massive turning point for the US. So many branching consequences, but imagine if we had had an environmentalist in the White House instead of Mr. Buy and Drill Our Way Out of This? At the time of 9/11 I believe it was Tom Daschle of SD on record calling for a Green Manhattan Project which obviously fell on deaf ears quite quickly as the bombs started raining down on Baghdad. Sure there’d still be cries for vengeance, but I also think if POTUS had been saying at the time ‘we win this war by getting ourselves off foreign energy’ it just might have been persuasive enough to embark on some major developments.
- Comment on Senators Introduce ‘Fans First’ Bill Intended to Reform Live-Event Ticketing System 6 months ago:
They should honestly stop screwing around and break up this obvious monopoly. That’s the reason they get away with all of the stuff they get away with. Should have been clear at the merger it was an anticompetitive move and never should have been allowed to get to where it is in the first place.
- Comment on Redditor finds heavy block of iron shavings inside cheap PSU, also appears to lack safety protections 6 months ago:
To me this is the most important reason for building your own PC. If you don’t care or don’t want to research each part then sure, get a prebuilt. Otherwise, it’s really nice to know what’s in it and do your research on each piece so you know it’s quality and will be supported.
- Comment on Light No Fire Announcement Trailer 6 months ago:
It really drives me crazy people defending the CP2077 debacle these days. Like I get it that it’s a fun game but that’s not what anyone is complaining about. We’re complaining about how it’s not and never will be the game they promoted in countless hours of previews in the months leading up to release.
- Comment on Light No Fire Announcement Trailer 6 months ago:
It seems complaining about Cyberpunk has also become downvote-worthy these days. I think people are just all in on a good redemption arc so when a game is finally good they’re willing to overlook all the early promises that will never be fulfilled.
- Comment on Light No Fire Announcement Trailer 6 months ago:
Hello has really come around when it comes to building the framework for a great sandbox game and if you’re diligent about creating goals and tasks for yourself NMS can be fun. Not to mention seamlessly flying off a planet into space was an amazing novelty.
However if they want me to try Light No Fire they need to do two things: turn the page on the NMS gameplay loop ideally with some truly emergent gameplay, and fix the inconsistent and unintuitive UI. I did really enjoy a lot of my time in NMS but to do so I found I always had the feeling I was working against the system instead of with it.
- Comment on [Zelda II]I did it! 6 months ago:
One of my proudest moments as a child was beating this game. Incidentally, fighting the end boss was the first time my parents caught me swearing.
- Comment on YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button 6 months ago:
They’re completely lost at this point I think. The ‘skip ad’ button is brilliant from a marketing perspective, if you ask me. One can get pretty used to tuning out ads but having that skip button keeps you actively interacting. So even if you didn’t see the whole ad, if the advertiser is smart you heard their name before you skipped. Plus the user gets to feel like the ad isn’t shoved down their throat, they have control.
If I were running things I’d quit this dumb battle with the users they’ve declared and make ads extremely easy to skip - I feel like you’d have a lot fewer refugess from the site and a lot more people less motivated to install an ad blocker in the first place.
- Comment on Sokath, his eyes uncovered! 6 months ago:
I always thought it was incredibly absurd that a language would be based on such analogies until memes took over our discourse
- Comment on Activision wants to recommend games to you based on the livestreams you watch 6 months ago:
And even if they did know about it they wouldn’t have room next to CoD on their harddrive