atrielienz

@atrielienz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 is outselling Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I saw. There were a lot of complaints from consumers about the features that existed in the 3DS/other DS’s that didn’t exist in the switch including this one. And even then I think those people have to be your actual friends on the switch 2 rather than just random people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can definitely understand why not selling a game on the most popular marketplace would detrimentally affect a studios ability to make money.

  But a lot of the reason games aren’t successful has as much to do with the quality of the game and the amount of money spent developing it as it does with marketing. And plenty of developers/small indie studios assume that they can ouvert stretch themselves monetarily and with other resources like time, and still come out on top because Indies are becoming more popular.

  But what it often comes down to is if what you’re selling is worth it to the consumer and they know about it. On steam an indie game is just as likely to get caught up in the influx of games and lost in the noise as it is to get noticed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 is outselling Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe it was their attempt to protect children from unknown people online. I have the app and one of the features is that you can talk to people online in certain games (Animal Crossing, Splatoon, SSB’s, Mario Kart, and I think Mario Party).

  There was some public outcry about it specifically from parents who had to download said app and let their kids use it for games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t you heard. Indie games have to launch on steam or they fail miserably.

  Seriously though. This is why I roll my eyes at people who claim steam makes it breaks these games. Humble bundle? Runs sales events where these games get showcased. Itch.io’s whole schtick is selling indie games.

  It’s nice that Valve gives studios a platform to help market their games and all that, and yes, by dint of being one of the largest gaming sale platforms out there launching on steam helps their chances. But most of them weren’t ever gonna reach the success of AAA titles regardless and we pretend that that’s Valve’s fault for reasons I have never understood.

  It’s the same problem with each of the online stores including the Nintendo E-Shop. Your game still has to be decent and be marketed to the people who want to play it.

  Additionally they have to have time to play it. Which means you’re fighting every other game in the category in order to claim each players time.

  There’s a whole lot to making and marketing a successful game at literally every level and not every studio can be a Team Cherry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 is outselling Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Switch OG doesn’t have a mic and that’s the reason they included the phone app. There were a fair number of aftermarket accessories that had mics though but I can’t say any of them were implemented to use first party games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Then they should have to explain understand what law or suspected crime he was detained and his phone was taken as evidence.

  Because otherwise they can’t prove he deleted evidence of a suspected crime. So what is the suspected crime?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook redesign focuses on friends, photos, Marketplace and more⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Too little too late, Meta.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so mad that you took money I rightfully grifted that I’m not going to let you give me money anymore?

  Did he think. Ha. Never mind. I can’t even say it with a straight face. God he’s an infantile lunatic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The tech world is sleeping on the most exciting Bluetooth feature in years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or just let me select a primary device. Hell if you let me prioritize like 3-5 devices that would be good enough. I could prioritize them 1-5 and be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making The Internet And Our Devices User Friendly Once Again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To create an effective burner account you need an effective burner device and a burner network to use it on. Otherwise it is trivial for companies that collect your data to figure out who that data belongs to.

  This is more technologically difficult than the average person is willing to deal with. It’s too high of a bar to clear when your browser is being fingerprinted, your devices are being fingerprinted, every new device you buy has some app or subscription, and algorithms collect and anonymous your data with such recklessness that it’s basically trivial to unanonymize it.

  Use the same network as your parents and you’ll get ads for the toothpaste they use, and maybe what they plan to buy you for Christmas.

  Try to remove or block trackers? That just makes it easy to single you out as a specific individual. Try to firehouse those trackers with garbage data? Same problem.

  If you think using a dummy Facebook account on the same device you use afor regular accounts means Facebook doesn’t track you or know who you are? That’s a pipe dream.

  It’s the same with other apps too.

  Especially Google and their app network.

  Understand that it’s not that I don’t think this is a good idea (to remove certain services from your electronic life, and to curtail the use of others). But I think your strategy will give people a false sense of security.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Says It Would Kill Every Jewish Person on the Planet to Save Him⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tape worms. They’re just performing their natural function. Musk is… Well. Musk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix kills casting from phones⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My understanding is they already made it more annoying. Your devices have to connect to the home accounts “home” wifi within a certain amount of time or that device gets locked out.

  I quit Netflix when they announced the pilot program for removing account sharing in South America, and I stand by that decision to this day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DRAM prices are spiking, but I don't trust the industry's reasons why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The reason why is greed. That’s the only reason for capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan Unveils Human Washing Machine, Now You Can Get Washed Like Laundry⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So a car wash?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone else feel like they are only floating this idea so that data centers in neighborhoods driving up the cost of electricity and polluting everything looks better by comparison?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll need with it one day. Just gotta remember to poke around with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Voyager (and boost, and sync before that). I like Voyager (now that I’m used to it, but I wish the medium sized thumbnails in compact mode were slightly larger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s an awful lot of billionaires. Don’t want it to take too long or we’ll be hacking at necks all day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this belongs on the powertrippinbastards com.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna get the freeware version just for the nostalgia. I used to beat the piss out of my little brother in this game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  neowin.net/…/microsoft-finally-admits-almost-all-…

  On the positive side though, following all that backlash, Microsoft acknowledged Windows has issues, and as if on cue, the company in a new support article has admitted that there are problems on almost every major Windows 11 core feature. The issues are related to XAML and this impacts all the Shell components like the Start Menu, Taskbar, Explorer, and Windows Settings.

  Explorer.exe crash
  shelhost.exe crash
  StartMenuExperienceHost issues
  
  System Settings silently fails to launch
  Application crashes when initializing the XAML views
  Explorer running but no taskbar window.
  other XAML island views fail to initialize.
  ImmersiveShell problems
  

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember one must fall w 2097!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet — And Thanksgiving Dinner | Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Glen and Friends has never let me down. I’d recommend the channel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being able to replay a cutscene would also be nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that you’re right. My thought was it was more likely that they socially engineered their way into getting invited to the chat.

  This is why I said that a lot of people are the weakest link in their own secured communications networks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I dunno man. I’m sorry.

  But like. A lot of the time security/privacy fails like this are user-inflicted. Either because people don’t understand the apps and services they use, or because other people are as vigilant about auditing their networks (the people, the hardware the software).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I said an app like signal. People assume that every app works the same. Telegram had issues with encryption where all parties didn’t have encryption enabled but one or more of the parties involved assumed the chat was still encrypted.

  However I should probably change that to read more along the lines of: know the features and settings of your app and ensure that encryption settings are set to maximize the protection of privacy.

  I’m gonna have to workshop that. It’s a mouthful.

  Either way, thank you for pointing that out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know who still needs to hear this, so I’m going to say it again for the people in the back.

  Assume every form of communication you have is being spied on.

  If you’re using an app like signal or similar, make sure you and everyone else in the chat has encryption enabled.

  Verify the other users in the chat.

  Do not plan any activity that could be considered a criminal enterprise on an electronic device with a connection to the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese court orders Cloudflare to pay ¥500 million over manga piracy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The court ruled that cloudflare made it too easy to register an account and create a domain. And that they didn’t do enough to prevent those domains from being used for piracy.

  Apparently under Japanese law that’s the barrier of proof they needed to cross.