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- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 2 weeks ago:
“I literally lost my only friend overnight with no warning,” one person posted on Reddit
It was meant to be satirical at the time, but maybe Futurama wasn’t entirely off the mark. That Redditor isn’t quite at that level, but it’s still probably not healthy to form an emotional attachment to the Markov chain equivalent of a sycophantic yes-man.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 weeks ago:
Here’s a better idea: nationalize SpaceX and tell Musk to go fuck himself first. Not going to happen? Then no grant money.
- Comment on Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue. 4 weeks ago:
It’s a reference to South Park’s S27E01 episode.
- Comment on Should I unplug my smart tv from the internet? 4 weeks ago:
I think we all know the answer to this.
- Comment on Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles 4 weeks ago:
As much as shitting on Nintendo is deserved, the Tegra X1 is only a 10 year old chip, being first announced in 2015. It was, surprisingly, only two years outdated by the time the Switch was released.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 5 weeks ago:
At least in the US, it’s full of regulatory red tape that was designed to pull up the ladder behind the current large payment processors.
Even Musk and his ample bribe money, under the most corrupt administration in decades, hasn’t managed to get full approval for his “
XTwitter Money” payment service. - Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 5 weeks ago:
Are you saying you don’t use The Google anymore? But how do you find all of your baking recipes?
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 5 weeks ago:
Who’s going to win?
SELinux+Seccomp+Containers…
Or the sysadmin with sudo and chmod.Neither! It’s whichever script kiddie that gets lucky first.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 5 weeks ago:
Tea was storing its users’ sensitive information on Firebase, a Google-owned backend cloud storage and computing service.
Every time. With startups, it’s always an unsecured Firebase or S3 bucket.
- Comment on Hand cranked and twisted 5 weeks ago:
Of course. The surgery isn’t free, you know…
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 weeks ago:
Protesting against christofascists in the government isn’t mutually exclusive with protesting a christofascist censorship organization. You can protest two things at once, you know.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 5 weeks ago:
If we’re adding “runs from people trying to ask them questions”, we should be more accurate about it.
runs from people trying to ask them questions, calling them plants put there by political opponents
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 month ago:
Democratic governments should allow all voices to be heard, not silence speech they dislike.
That’s real fucking rich coming from the government that:
- Removed all references to “trans-” regardless of context.
- Retaliates against left-leaning press.
- Calls information they dislike “fake news”.
- Sends immigrants to concentration camps.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 month ago:
Aside from anticheat BS, Linux has come pretty far. It’s not perfect, but it’s not the frustrating mess like it used to be half a decade ago.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 1 month ago:
Switching to TempleOS made me hear the voices again.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 1 month ago:
2: Yes. youtu.be/DEflTJjtn5w
- Comment on the living dead 1 month ago:
Like it or not, there are people with more power that dictate structure and an order of things.
That didn’t work out too well for the French monarchy, did it?
It’s more accurate to say that the average person doesn’t desire a power structure but merely tolerates it. The moment those structures become oppressive, they get violently torn down.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 2 months ago:
Yeah, I agree with you on that.
If discoverability was better, I’m sure Android would way get more ports of good games. With the way it is right now with shovelware and Google pushing microtransaction-riddled crap over one time purchase games, though, it’s treated as a second-class platform because it’s not nearly as profitable as other platforms.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 2 months ago:
Which part of my comment was denigrating indie devs? Indie games are great. Android gaming is not.
If I’m looking for a good non-mobile game, I don’t go looking in the mobile game store. I go looking on PSN or PC, where the focus is on the kind of game that wasn’t designed as a phone-first experience.
The fact that Android has some good traditional games or ports of indie gems isn’t something inherent to Android. The overwhelming majority of thoee games were on PC or console first.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 2 months ago:
Oh, there’s no doubt about that. I’m not disagreeing that Android has some good-looking games. The problem is that games like GRID Legends Mobile are the exception, not the rule.
The Switch is crap, yes.
The Play Store is also overwhelmingly crap, though.If you exclude all of the mobile games from both stores, the Switch simply has a better catalog of games.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 2 months ago:
You’re comparing apples to oranges.
The mobile gaming market is leagues larger than every other market combined. That doesn’t mean the games are even remotely comparable to console games.
It’s an entirely different target audience. Mobile games are focused on quick sessions and design patterns designed to encourage spending money on microtransactions. Games made for the traditional gaming market are mostly designed for longer play sessions with more mechanically complex gameplay. I as well as many others prefer the latter.
Nintendo’s store is full of shovelware, but at least you’ll find more traditional games than just ports of indie hits.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 2 months ago:
The other commenter is really blowing smoke up Android’s ass. Most “top” mobile games are freemium crap riddled with microtransactions.
What it does have, however, is emulators. Including one the Switch itself. Paying $350 for decade-old hardware and $80 for games is just bad value compared to a $300 used S21 and $0 games.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 2 months ago:
5.6% of [respondents] users said they wouldn’t pre-order [on Epic] knowing it would influence exclusivity, 2.7% said they would.
They really brought in those big dollars with making Borderlands 3 a timed exclusive on Epic. A whole 9%. Meanwhile, 91.6% of respondents preferred Steam. Bravo, Randy. Bravo.
Disappointingly, 53.9% still would buy it on Steam if it influenced exclusivity going forward. Even if it is Steam—which has a record of providing better service than its competitors—exclusivity helps nobody.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 2 months ago:
GOG being pushed out of the market. They’re the only store that actually gives you ownership of your games, and they don’t have the same established foothold that Steam does.
It would be all too easy for Microsoft to strangle one of their key markets by taking a loss on sales and offering publishers 150% sales price in exchange for exclusive distribution of 90s and 2000s era PC games.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 2 months ago:
Steam will end up pushed out of the market
This has been explicitly attempted 3 times already, and that really didn’t work out well for anybody who tried it.
Epic Games Store still resorts to bribing people with free games to keep their monthly active user numbers up, hemorrhaging money to attract users who are rarely interested in anything more than freebies.
EA and Ubisoft tried to forgo Steam releases in favor of their own stores and launchers in an attempt to keep 100% of the revenue. They eventually relented, releasing their games on Steam again. Even Blizzard joined in, adding Diablo 4 and Overwatch 2 to Steam.
And Microsoft’s attempt to dethrone Steam by releasing games through the Windows app store just ended up with Valve funneling considerable resources into helping Linux and WINE become a viable alternative to Windows for gaming.
Unless Valve enshittifies or legal shenanigans ensue, they’re pretty unlikely to be pushed out of the market. No single game or game series is good enough to capture the entire market of Steam users and permanently drive them to alternative platforms. On top of that, Steam has a huge following of users who are loyal to the company, which is both insane and insanely hard to compete against.
or they will also become Streaming Platforms
Maybe, maybe not. I don’t see it happening, though. Valve makes money hand over fist from digital sales alone, and they have more to lose in pissing off their customers by selling subscriptions than they have to gain by selling subscriptions.
I am concerned about GOG and PC hardware prices, though.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 2 months ago:
going after trump’s businesses will probably avoid a military response
More likely, it makes the poor baby (-hands) cry and throw a tantrum. Being the malignant narcissist he is, he thinks the resources of the United States government are entirely at his disposal.
He’s absolutely going to demand a military response to any attacks on his businesses. Whether saner heads prevail, all we can do is hope.
- Comment on Reminder that you do not own digital games 2 months ago:
Nintendo: “hold my beer”
Game key cards are the stupidest idea I have seen in a long time.
- Comment on SpaceX's Starship blows up ahead of 10th test flight 2 months ago:
What long weekend? Their asswipe of a boss doesn’t believe in anything but the 80-hour workweek for employees.
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 months ago:
To be fair to Ubisoft, the newest Prince of Persia game was a great metroidvania game.
To be fair-er to Ubisoft, they can go fuck themselves for closing down the studio that made said game only a few months later.
They can make good games. They just clearly would rather rehash the same tired formula that they’ve been running with for the past decade while unreasonably expecting to make more money each time.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Ok, now suppose you want to release a game for any of the modern Nintendo consoles.
You need to get a devkit. To get it, you need Nintendo to approve your request, and you need to pay them for a license to use the devkit hardware. And, to actually use the devkit, you need a PC running Windows.
Sure, to develop a game for PC, you need a PC. But do you know what you don’t need? A devkit or a Windows license.