Quazatron
@Quazatron@lemmy.world
A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
- Comment on Waymo raises massive $16 billion round at $126 billion valuation, plans expansion to 20+ cities 1 day ago:
I wonder how many people per year you can move with that amount of money applied to light rail.
- Comment on Day 568 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
I always know it’s Halo when I look at the screenshot and take a moment to understand what the hell is supposed to be pictured.
- Comment on More memory-driven price rises - Raspberry Pi 2 days ago:
Small price to pay for people to have their funny memes and deep fakes.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 3 days ago:
Don’t follow me for advice, I know nothing about this stuff other than “line is down - buy, line is high - sell”
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 3 days ago:
This capitalism looks and smells a lot like good old USSR style communism.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 4 days ago:
Good. Time to buy.
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 4 days ago:
All his decisions can be reversed by the next president.
And then reversed by the next next president. Do you think this kind of trust violation blows over just like that?
The orange Cheeto threatened to annex a fucking European country. And nobody in the US told him otherwise. The Democrats seem to be too busy eating popcorn and waiting for elections.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 4 days ago:
Can someone please put a responsible adult in charge of that damned organization?
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 5 days ago:
Yep, time to wipe my Epic account.
- Comment on Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead 6 days ago:
When you can’t compete, sue.
- Comment on What is immersion to you? 1 week ago:
I can get immersed in incredibly simple games, like Baba Is You. I have simple rules to follow and a world that conforms to those rules. I can tune out reality and immerse fully in the game.
The main thing is that I don’t need hi-res realistic 120 fps graphics for this to work, I don’t know if this is because the way my brain is wired or because I was raised in the 8 bit era and imagination was a significant part of that immersion.
- Comment on Cloudflare shows a massive drop in http traffic 2 weeks ago:
Well, good luck with that. :-)
- Comment on Cloudflare shows a massive drop in http traffic 2 weeks ago:
Whatever it was, it was temporary. Sorry to have wasted your time.
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- Comment on Day 553 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I bought the collection a few years ago and played nearly all the titles.
There’s something about these games that makes them feel “off” for me and I can’t quite put my finger on it.
I mean, there’s guns and aliens to shoot, huge buildings and large terrains to cross with cool vehicles. Yet, it never clicked with me. It feels like the games have no soul.
It’s a weird feeling that I could never explain properly.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 2 weeks ago:
Take all those billions and go unfuck Teams. Thank you.
– millions of office workers
- Comment on SOMA, off the backlog after nine years 2 weeks ago:
Yes, everything you like about the original is there. The storytelling, the philosophical undertones, the brain wracking puzzles. Except that everything is way larger, with much to explore, new gadgets to master and characters to interact. They dropped some of the stuff that annoyed me in the original, like the machine guns and mines.
The puzzle difficulty is spot on, so if you played the through the original you’ll find the first puzzles easy but then they ramp up.
I’ve finished the main story and now I’m going back to get the 100% stars, as one does. I’m sure I’ll buy the DLC for this one as well, as I did for the original. Its is that good.
- Comment on SOMA, off the backlog after nine years 2 weeks ago:
Soma may be my favorite Frictional game, even though I played nearly all the Amnesia series.
I think I’ll install it again after I’m done with Talos Principle II.
- Comment on I spent a year on Linux and forgot to miss Windows 3 weeks ago:
That will most likely never happen, so stop lying to yourself.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
I’m finally playing The Talos Principle II. It has been in my waiting list for a long time. I’m a big fan of the original and I’m currently hooked on the sequel. It has everything I love about the first one, only in a much larger scale. The storytelling is spot on, the puzzle difficulty is tweaked to make it easy for beginners to get the hang of things but gets quite challenging later on even for hardened players. There’s lots of new artifacts and mechanics to learn and some of the old classics like the laser connectors.
If you loved Portal and Portal II, this is for you.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 3 weeks ago:
Bring back Geocities next.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
As they say in my county: “go and die far from here, so I can’t smell you”.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 3 weeks ago:
On the other hand, all I have in my Epic account are the free games. I expect those cost his company money.
Even so, I feel dirty and will close my account. I can get the titles I really like in Gog or Steam.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 3 weeks ago:
Selling artificial intelligence to natural idiots.
- Comment on The MP3 Revolution: How a German Innovation Changed Music Forever 4 weeks ago:
I have the theory that MP3 played a part in the death of rock music and the rise of hip hop.
Guitars and cymbals sound awful when compressed to 128kbps, as it was common in the early days of Gnutella and Napster.
Music with vocals and beats sounds much better at those compression rates.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 5 weeks ago:
Should not have allowed them in the first place.
- Comment on Spotify vs. Anna's Archive 5 weeks ago:
I tried Tidal and could not go back to Spotify.
I guess it also depends on what type of music you are listening to. Simple FM pop or hip-hop works fine compressed. Rock, classical, melodic or more complex music gets the high range completely smashed by artifacts.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 5 weeks ago:
True, idiocy is universal. You can see the roaches crawling out of the rocks already.
- Comment on Dying Light 5 weeks ago:
Started playing Amnesia: rebirth.
Kept me hooked for way longer than I planned for the day.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 month ago:
I don’t think it would be much use other than emulated computers/consoles/arcades.
I heard about Fex for x86 emulation, but never tried it myself.
