halvo317
@halvo317@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Merge then review 11 months ago:
You guys review?
- Comment on Checkmate round-earthers 1 year ago:
Interesting if true
- Comment on Microsoft may replace the Start button with the Copilot AI in Windows 12 1 year ago:
And with that, I’m out
- Comment on Checkmate round-earthers 1 year ago:
Can someone do the math on what the circumference of the earth is?
- Comment on TikTok ran a deepfake ad of an AI MrBeast hawking iPhones for $2 — and it's the 'tip of the iceberg' 1 year ago:
At no point did you come anywhere close to anything that can be considered a rational thought
- Comment on How long to grow a community? 1 year ago:
That’s easily one of the faster growing communities on Lemmy. That’s like 0.3% of active monthly users. 1-in-300 people is not bad at all.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It does when the company funding the game development wants a return on investment.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I’m saying releasing it years after the fact when you’re about the roll the next one out is a pretty good move.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I think you aren’t realizing what you implying. Companies that just fund studios for publishing rights are companies like EA, Activision, Take Two, Ubisoft, and Tencent. Every one of these publishers has very aggressive microtransaction platforms. Plus, they all publish predominantly multiplayer games. If the only way for me to get single player games is to buy a console, so be it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I’m not trying to be confrontational. I want to hear your honest takes. Let me put it to you this way:
- If I make an app for Apple, do I have to make it for Android?
- What if I’m not an Android developer?
- What if I won’t make money if I make it for Android because my reach is already saturated?
- What if I know that my app will be heavily pirated as soon as I make it available for Android and there’s nothing I can do about it?
To me, the only reason Sony is doing it with their back catalog is to try to generate new users for their upcoming sequels. The game is at the end of its earning lifespan if they don’t port it, so why not use it to market the upcoming titles?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I currently have 8 computers. 3 for work. 2 for media. 2 old gaming rigs, and my current computer.
- Work laptops last 3 years on average because of how hard backups and CPU usage are.
- Media computers just wind up getting dusty and only last 5-7 years.
- I underspent on gaming PCs growing up and my parts were obsolete pretty much constantly until my newest desktop.
- My last job, I was an on site tech, so construction debris and hazard made that about one a year.
- I spent on average like $250 per used laptop through engineering school, so that was like a year and a half per laptop.
- My family had desktops that had their hard drives fail or got pawned.
I had twelve salvaged hard drives in my stuff before I bought my house, and I started doing that in college, so it’s at least 20.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
If Sony doesn’t invest in their own studios, the consumer just doesn’t get the game those studios make. Without PlayStation, gaming would look significant worse over the last 30 years. Most of my favorite games are Sony exclusives.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
There’s a practical and ethical difference between creating something for a closed ecosystem and taking a product in an open ecosystem and closing it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I don’t think it’s a fair comparison. I’ve never had a PC that has worked for 7 years without replacing significant parts. I’ve only had 5 PlayStations total since I was 5. I’ve had at least twenty computers during the same time frame.
There’s investment made by Sony for games on their hardware. If the hardware were bad, developers wouldn’t use it.
I work for a start up, and I loved getting the opportunity to build a tech platform while not having to build up the business from the ground up. I can’t do human resources, marketing, sales, yaddah yaddah. I don’t have any way of just getting my product into retail. Two years in, and we’re about to land a $125M contact. It’s green energy, so I feel like I’m saving the world.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
That console is ten years old lol
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Buying companies to make them exclusive is anti-consumer. Starting first party studios to facilitate unique games being made on your platform is not anti-consumer. If anything, it should create competition for high quality exclusives by investing in unique game designers. When Microsoft just buys Rare, Mojang, Activision, Blizzard, King, Bethesda, Arkane, Alpha Dog, etc, it’s not to create competition.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I’m shocked. Shocked. Well not that shocked.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
It’s an assembly line. Your job is to part 5 and turn it into part 6. The guy who turns part 4 to part 5 goes on strike. The company says, “we’re not going to pay you because that worker isn’t doing their job”.
- Comment on Streaming TV costs now higher than cable, as 'crash' finally hits 1 year ago:
They have on-demand (sometimes without commercials), DVR, and live sports. It’s kind of a wash at this point.
- Comment on California deploys AI to detect wildfires before they start spreading 1 year ago:
I have a better AI model. I ask it where the start the fire will start, then I go there to start the fire myself.
- Comment on Dungeons & Dragons tells illustrators to stop using AI to generate artwork for fantasy franchise 1 year ago:
On, not by
- Comment on Dungeons & Dragons tells illustrators to stop using AI to generate artwork for fantasy franchise 1 year ago:
Let computers be computery and paper be original art.