BreadstickNinja

@BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 broadcast starts April 2026 with 5 split cours⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t read the source material so I’m not sure if we’re coming up on a massive arc that takes that long to tell. But I will absolutely watch that much Slime if they’re making it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elusive Samurai Season 2 Teaser Visual⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Dang, I just realized I never finished S1. I remember really liking the first several episodes, too! Not sure why I fell off, but this is a good reminder to get caught up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have 16 GB in my 2014 laptop that still serves as my daily driver. 8 GB twelve years later is a joke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Have you ever tried it? It sounds like a ping nightmare, especially for multiplayer. You gotta wait first for the game server lag and then again while you wait for Nvidia to remotely render your draw call?

  I know this service exists but it has always sounded absolutely terrible to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is combined with cutting Blackwell production by 40% and exacerbating a market already dominated by scalpers and AI data centers. Everything is getting enshittified, subscription just one component of it.

  I’ve always held out for PCMR but these companies are making it near impossible - or just prohibitively expensive - to be a PC gamer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is he the guy who was getting paid to play it and it literally crashed to desktop over and over before his whole stream audience?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They were chatting with ELIZA and vibe coded the whole thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2025 Game Awards Results Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the Divinity trailer was the huge highlight for me.

  I enjoyed E33 a lot and there were some very gracious moments, like Broche thanking Sakaguchi. I do wish the love had been spread around a bit more - Hades, Blue Prince, Silksong, The Alters were all fantastic. I also haven’t played it yet, but I hear nothing but good things about KCD2.

  Award shows are kind of a silly format in general. It was a wildly strong year for games, and picking a single winner in any category is subjective and arbitrary when there are so many great works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The second paragraph discusses an incident that occurred at San Francisco International Airport with the same circumstance. Should have indicated that’s what I found weird because it should have been prevented. The southern courts have been less protective of individual freedoms. Might be legal there under the border exemption according to their courts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on port of entry. The ninth circuit, which covers San Francisco, has upheld that non-citizen entrants can refuse to provide a phone pin, but other circuits have found differently.

  So odd that this happened in California because there’s a pretty powerful set of protections in place in the ninth circuit specifically - not that the current admin gives a shit about the law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is hilariously plausible. Someone SCUBA down to Gabe and give him the idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have all these odd pauses in my speech and just realized they’re em dashes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Israel’s IDF Bans Android Phones—iPhones Now ‘Mandatory’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t it also just reported a few weeks ago that Samsung installs Israeli spyware on android devices sold in MENA?

  androidauthority.com/samsung-appcloud-spyware-con…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bartender is sick of your magic tricks everytime you come into the bar⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And avoid paying a tip. What a dick.

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have my mom’s 1967 edition with recipes for muskrat and opossum! And as the spine has completely disintegrated on that one, I also have a newer copy without the instructions on how to prepare small game. Still a kitchen staple.

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend picking up an analog, wood pulp-based copy of The Joy of Cooking. Pretty much any classic western dish is in there and you don’t need to worry about AI slop.

  I also love my copy of The Food Lab by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt. That one is a little more global, and has I think 500+ pages of recipes with minimal irrelevant anecdotes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screw it, I’m installing Linux⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every time anyone rejects Microsoft’s shitty bloatware/spyware it’s a win. I just converted a few months ago. Win11 is going to push more and more people away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You should look it up. It’s a fantastic story with incredible art and design. Reasonably priced with a ton of content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like Nintendo gets a consolation slot with whatever the best game was in their closed ecosystem, but it’s not going to be competitive with the other candidates.

  I also think they’ll give GOTY to an indie given what an unbelievable year it was for indie titles. Probably COE33, just based on the quality and production value they accomplished with a relatively small team and budget. But Silksong and Hades are also outstanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically the slogan for the 2020s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Akasa Ai, I need some help here.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I read “when I try to buy some gems” as “stupid.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers in Silicon Valley stand empty, awaiting power⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in a high power field and we straight up cancel projects because we get quoted six year lead times more and more often. We can’t absorb the lost revenue.

  There are some places that have grown so quickly, like downtown Denver, that capacity is just completely tapped out. And you either pay millions for feeder upgrades that won’t be ready until 2032 or you just move on.

  Sometimes we ride in on the coattails of a data center that pays for the upgrades and leaves a few MW left over, but even electric service equipment never had its lead times fall since the pandemic. Projects that used to take eight months now take two years or longer. Not an easy time to be agile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘5 Centimeters Per Second’ to get live-action film adaptation | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, it’s one of Shinkai’s best. The art is incredible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Heck, the present is ublock origin!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazon recommended me a book by Charlie Kirk. I guess the algorithm hasn’t got me yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, not a bad idea. Synthesizing and iterating, taking things out of context, combining elements you haven’t before - that’s how you get something interesting.

  Ubi’s problem is that their gameplay loops are completely stale. There just isn’t enough new and different, the stories are trite, the dialogue is shit, and everything is boring and predictable.

  I somewhat enjoyed the first Assassin’s Creed, but was a little bitter it wasn’t the Prince of Persia game they’d intended the engine for. I didn’t find “walking slowly to blend in with a crowd” to be as fun as the intense combat and tight platforming of Sands of Time. But I cannot for the life of me understand how the series blew up into a juggernaut of a dozen releases over two decades.

  I’m actually playing The Lost Crown now and - not that I’m the first to observe this - but I feel like it’s the best thing Ubi has done since The Two Thrones twenty years ago. This is the kind of risk that Ubi should be taking. Modest games, smaller budgets, new genres. Diversify and let the creatives create. Let small projects succeed and give them a sequel. If small projects fail, it doesn’t break the bank. But for christ’s sake stop releasing the same three giant boring games over and over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “No, no, hear me out. It’s exactly the same game. The same thing we make every single time. But this time, it’s in… Egypt.”

  “Holy shit! What a maverick! Who is that guy? I like the way he thinks. Give him a corner office and the same budget we gave the Greece one!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually went with Tuxedo OS, which is based on the Ubuntu kernel but has a very noob-friendly desktop environment.

  My daily driver laptop is a 12-year-old Hackintosh MBP that I’ve been repairing for years, but I’ve priced out a Tuxedo laptop for when it finally kicks the bucket. So I started dual booting Tuxedo on that as well to get my bearings.

  Once I’m a little more experienced, I’m definitely interested to check out other distros! Right now it’s a lot of looking up terminal commands and learning the architecture. The firmware fan control in the MacBook is shot - fans blasting at full speed due to a failed GPU temp sensor that makes the computer assume it’s overheating - so I’ve already learned how to write to /sys/ with a custom fan control based on the working sensor in the CPU die.

  It’s been really fun so far. You get the sense of just having vastly greater control over the hardware at a low level and the ability to control how it functions in a way that Windows and MacOS completely obfuscate. I still have very little idea what I’m doing in the terminal, but I’m starting to pick it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3156: Planetary Rings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well Rhode Island is famously tiny so I doubt it’s a problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avatar Legends: The Fighting Game - Official Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, the screen adaptations are all disasters in themselves, so there’s not a good track record there either.

  Personally, I’d rather it just be left as a great animated show and to see companies stop trying to milk an IP where the show ended 17 years ago. We really don’t need cash-grab mobile games, fighting games, mediocre beat-em-up games, or either of the live-action adaptations.