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- Comment on YSK - the crazy questions all jobs on usajobs.gov now ask 5 days ago:
Who the fuck is gonna write four bullshit mini-essays just for a job that pays well below market rate?
- Comment on N++ — 10th anniversary update 1 week ago:
I picked this up on Steam for cheap today just so I don’t have to hook up my PS4. Still a super duper amazing game.
I have no idea how to unlock the TEN++ content, though.
- Comment on BALL x PIT | Release Trailer 1 week ago:
Played this for a couple of hours today thanks to Game Pass. So far, it’s a pretty good time. It has some Binding of Isaac / Enter the Gungeon vibes and interesting meta-progression.
- Comment on They say remote working less productive 1 week ago:
Sleeping for an extra 60-90 minutes is using the time.
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 2 weeks ago:
You have my attention… Does it have a good / comparable app that you can use to view recordings?
- Comment on I wonder what game they're trying to play 2 weeks ago:
Hilariously, the actual Cyberpunk game would work for this. There’s a weapon in the game that’s just a giant dildo, and holding it causes your controller to rumble continuously.
- Comment on Spokesperson 3 weeks ago:
Look, the dude’s an asshole. He shouldn’t be on any talk show because his personal views are not worth listening to. But he has also sold 26 million albums, which is enough to count pretty much anyone as a “music legend”.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 3 weeks ago:
I mean “corpos” in the Cyberpunk sense - mega-huge companies that put profits far and above all else, discarding any notion of ethics, morality, or care about others in the process.
They’re the companies that buy up emerging tech solely so they can kill it (their competition). They don’t give a shit about long-term sustainability - if it raises the bottom line today, they do it. They disregard laws and consumer protections because the only consequences are paltry (for them) fines, which they see as the cost of doing business.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 3 weeks ago:
That’s a good callout - treating these game rental services more like we do with streaming video services by subbing to one for just a few months, then dropping it for another.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 3 weeks ago:
Ehh… PSN isn’t really any better. Their Game Pass competitor is a hot mess. Better to just buy games outright, especially during sales.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 3 weeks ago:
Once upon a time, the idea with subscriptions like this was to have customers set it and forget it. Charge them a small/reasonable amount and they’ll keep giving you money forever. Giving people a reason to think about - or worse, evaluate the merits of - the monthly deposit they’re giving you used to be a sin for companies.
But here we are, seeing the difference between “companies” and “corpos”.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been a big Xbox dude for a long time but I can’t possibly defend this. It’s a garbage move, during a time when everyone’s chief complaint about life is “everything goes up in price way too fast, all the time.”
They call these changes “upgrades” but that’s just PR bullshit. The big value of Game Pass used to be how it was cheaper than buying games outright. Now Ultimate is $360 a year. How many brand new games that you’re interested in come out each year? Would buying them on day one total anything near $360??
The value just isn’t there anymore. - Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 4 weeks ago:
Unless of course the manufacturer hamstrings it well before that time.
See: Samsung
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 4 weeks ago:
“I’m going to spend $1500 so I can save $8/month.”
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 4 weeks ago:
I just use a USB cable. No extra software required.
- Comment on Britain jumps into bed with Palantir in £1.5B defense pact 4 weeks ago:
Nah fuck them. They black box said analytics, making any kind of audit of the decisions impossible. This is HORRIBLE, especially in the contract of government and health care.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 5 weeks ago:
What is this thing supposed to do?
The article says “Gaming Copilot – which provides recommendations, help, insights and more –” but that tells me nothing.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 | Review Thread 1 month ago:
I’m pretty curious (read: leery) about the post-launch monetization. Does the game feel complete or did they obviously hold things back for the battle passes or whatever? Will I have to pay in to enjoy things like a level cap increase?
They were pretty clear about going HAM on paid stuff after launch, and the game is already priced super high, so this might end up being a sale pickup for me.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 month ago:
I also hate, and this is another compounding factor, the complete lack of enemy HP bars.
IIRC, HK1 had a badge that turns these on. I’m not far enough into the new game to have found this yet, though.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 1 month ago:
No. There’s no “hopefully” anything when it comes to this bullshit. It’s bad for the individual, full stop. This is not a thing to compromise on, because any compromise at all will eventually harm the users (though leaks/hacks, or government overreach, etc.) without any actual benefit or offset to them.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 1 month ago:
Okay, so isn’t that exactly the same situation as the Xbox, but then the Xbox gives you the additional option to actually expand the hot storage?
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 1 month ago:
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 1 month ago:
Are you able to expand the PS5’s storage with just a normal USB 3.0 drive?
- Comment on Stardew Valley will be getting another update after all 1 month ago:
LOL. We’re not talking about a “hurry up” kinda dude here. His development story is wild. It’s a miracle that he ever actually released Stardew.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 1 month ago:
Or - hear me out here - it shouldn’t be on anybody to do anything because the law itself is garbage and should not exist.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 1 month ago:
I suppose this means Microsoft will not count Word doc file sizes against users’ cloud storage quotas, right? Right??
- Comment on Atari has acquired five Ubisoft games, including Child of Eden and Grow Home, and will re-release and ‘evolve’ them | VGC 1 month ago:
The five games that are now owned by Atari are:
- Cold Fear (2005)
- Child of Eden (2011)
- I Am Alive (2012)
- Grow Home (2015)
- Grow Up (2016)
- Comment on Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds files lawsuit against ousted founders for allegedly downloading over 170,000 confidential files 2 months ago:
I’m really sad to watch this slow-motion train crash continue to play out. Subnautica 2 was a guaranteed hit thanks to the strength of the first game, and somehow the new studio owners have completely fucked that to pieces. Truly a masterclass in snatching failure from the jaws of success.
- Subnautica studio Unknown Worlds files lawsuit against ousted founders for allegedly downloading over 170,000 confidential fileswww.gamedeveloper.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Change your profile to Clippy (call to action) 2 months ago:
8min video and I gave up after 2:30 of rambling. Anybody have a tl;dw?