msage
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- Comment on Israeli strikes hit Yemen as Netanyahu fires warning 4 weeks ago:
The real terrorist.
- Comment on Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD." 1 month ago:
Terraria.
And Calamity mod.
- Comment on LOL 2 months ago:
I played a lot of lol when it got out, as Garena was unbearable, and lol had reconnects and matchmaking.
But compared to Dota, that game just feels hollow. I get that it’s made easier for wider audience, but still, it’s very lacking.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 2 months ago:
LoL sucks, it’s like a shallow copy of DotA. I’ve played around 300 hours, it’s very silly in comparison.
Stellaris is kinda easy once you figure out that expanding is the No1 priority for the entire game. Expand, build ships - nobody will be able to stop you.
There was always a need for a ‘tall’ empire - so you don’t expand, but focus on your small part of the galaxy - but so far it’s always crushed by the expanding ones.
Once you get stargate tech, it’s 24/7 war. For even more territory.
Right now I remembered a game that never was really finished, Stardrive, where you could design your own ships down to the electrical wiring. It had layouts with sections, and you could fill it up to your liking. It was a shame that ground troops could finish the game in minutes.
Sometimes I feel like 4X games are usually more suited for roleplaying than actual challenge of micromanagement.
Anyway, I have a huge jam on my main line in OpenTTD, gotta fix my intersection again.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 2 months ago:
Dota 2.
I’ve played Dwarf Fortress, Stellaris, yet I still find Dota to be the most complex game ever.
It sucks that it’s a multiplayer game, and you need people to play it well with you, but when it works, it’s amazing.
Everything in it has layers of usability, usually componded by the everything else in the game - hero abilities, items, map, neutrals, even the stupid trees play a large role in the game.
I’ve spent hundreds of hours studying the mechanics, and I still don’t grasp everything.
I played a lot of DotA too, but that doesn’t have a playtime counter. But I have over 3000 hours in Dota 2.
My second favourite game is OpenTTD. It’s just so satisfying to optimize the train network and add another 100 trains to it. I’ve tried Factorio, but for some reason that did not scratch that itch.
Or some roguelites, like Slay the Spire (or the Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend), Synthetik (haven’t tried second one yet), they are always fun.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 peaks at 52,000 concurrent players, 20 years after its release 2 months ago:
Artifact? Both of them?
- Comment on Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages 2 months ago:
Boo freaking hoo.
It’s not like there are so many other ways to cheat, actually used in many games with anticheats.
We should all stop pretending it’s necessary to put malware into your computer just so some company can claim they have no cheaters, which is never even true.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 months ago:
The number one reason not to switch is “I don’t want to”. And I dislike that Windows users keep repeating decades old solved issues as excuses instead of being honest.
‘But muh games’ only very few don’t work OOB or at all.
‘I need this software’ most works flawlessly under Wine.
‘It crashes’ exactly as often as Windows with faulty hardware or bug in a driver.
‘Hardware isn’t plug&play’ more hardware works with Linux without installing drivers.
Jusy say “I dont want to give it a shot” or “I’m in the minority that can’t switch”, but don’t bullshit people about Linux requiring cmd to work. And those people then suggest editing registry to remove ads… It’s dishonest and in bad faith.
FOSS is the only way forward to stop complete enshittification of the digital space, like it or not.
I also I hate Microsoft and Apple with all my soul.
I get that most don’t care, but that doesn’t mean supporting those companies is good.
- Comment on Coming on Lemmy and complaining because there are too many Linux users is like going in to a brothel and complaining that there are too many hookers 2 months ago:
So theres BSD, truth.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 2 months ago:
Thats… what Robinhood doesn’t advertise, and (at least used to) always buys options by default.
So fuck Robinhood.
Where is the app that has only one button ‘Buy ESG’?
- Comment on Court Orders Google (a Monopolist) To Knock It Off With the Monopoly Stuff. 2 months ago:
Or what?
- Comment on The Catholic Church Unveils Anime Inspired Official Mascot Of The Holy Year 2025 2 months ago:
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 2 months ago:
Nice story, bro.
I’m also up, more years, not Robinhood.
Then you glance over to Wallstreet Bets, they are the direct opposite on the curve.
Yet still almost everyone loses money on exchanges, for various reasons which I don’t want to spend time writing up.
But market has been irrational for many years, with no signals of slowing down.
- Comment on Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app. 2 months ago:
90% of users lost money while trading
the end result is very much the same
- Comment on bitey 2 months ago:
- Comment on bitey 2 months ago:
Oh, we are bad-ass runners. Top that one!
- Comment on Eat lead 2 months ago:
I remember a time when all of this happens again
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 months ago:
God, I know exactly the sketch
- Comment on Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model." 3 months ago:
My SO switched to Linux with their latest PC, since they don’t need anything specific. Never even noticed much of a difference. They even play old games on it just fine.
I am in a priviledged position to not accept positions of work which hard-require Windows. I did work for companies with soft-requirements, but it was a corporate with solid Linux community, so they had workarounds for everything.
I’m not saying it’s easy to live the FOSS dream, but if one has the priviledge, they should choose to do so.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 months ago:
I’ve seen Breaking Bad, yes
- Comment on Update: Bitwarden posted to X this evening to reaffirm that it's a "packaging bug" and that "Bitwarden remains committed to the open source licensing model." 3 months ago:
As a long time Linux + KeePass user:
FUCK Windows and Microsoft for everything they’ve done to the general public and open-source software with their shit. Yeah yeah they are turning around, but still fuck them.
I have no strong feeling towards Bitwarden, but I will never put my secrets into anything non-FOSS. And I sync it with my Nextcloud.
Stallman was right about software.
- Comment on Nobel Prize 2024 3 months ago:
‘AI hate’ is usually connected with insane claims like ‘we have “reasoning” model’.
That shit needs to die in fire.
I’m still waiting for the full-planet weather model. That will be something.
- Comment on TSMC execs allegedly dismissed Sam Altman as ‘podcasting bro’ — OpenAI CEO made absurd requests for 36 fabs for $7 trillion 3 months ago:
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 3 months ago:
They are not ‘faulty’, they have been fed wrong training data.
This is the most important aspect of any AI - it’s only as good as the training dataset is. If you don’t know the dataset, you know nothing about the AI.
That’s why every claim of ‘super efficient AI’ need to be investigated deeper. But that goes against line-goes-up principle. So don’t expect that to happen a lot.
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 3 months ago:
Wasn’t it proven that AI was having amazing results, because it noticed the cancer screens had doctors signature at the bottom? Or did they make another run with signatures hidden?
- Comment on OpenAI Execs Mass Quit as Company Removes Control From Non-Profit Board and Hands It to Sam Altman 3 months ago:
What is OpenAI doing with cancer screening?
- Comment on OpenAI to remove non-profit control and give Sam Altman equity 4 months ago:
Get plausible deniability, rack in VC cash, lock in the capital, leave everyone holding the bags.
We just had this with Theranos, though that was based on a complete lie, so I’ll wait and see how this goes.
Because LLMs will not form a ‘superintelligence’ or whatever they want to call it.
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 4 months ago:
Hey, block me too!
Since the best course of action is not supporting predatory companies, using Linux is THE solution for such problems.
- Comment on when AI tries to get in my way 4 months ago:
- Comment on OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet 4 months ago:
Old-man-yelling-at-clouds energy :D
