BreadstickNinja
@BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world
- Comment on xkcd #3193: Sailing Rigs 3 days ago:
I bet it’s even faster if you reduce the weight by combining it with the deckhand obliterator!
- Comment on Grok AI still being used to digitally undress women and children despite suspension pledge 1 week ago:
He sold a money-losing business with massive untapped potential to be a psyop to someone with infinite money and a desire for a psyop.
Fucking great deal for both of them. Fucked in the ass for the rest of us.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
Pay for it all over again every 365 days, because now everything is a subscription and you’re not allowed to own even a permanent license to your software, let alone the software itself.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 2 weeks ago:
I would note that every single time I’ve tried to reactivate windows after a mobo or CPU upgrade, it has failed.
I guess it’s supposed to work better if you sign into your Microsoft account ever, which I don’t, because I see literally no reason they would need me to expect to advance spyware and adware.
The phone activation is the only thing that has worked. Good thing I’ve been dual booting a Ubuntu fork for the past six months. I guess after my next hardware upgrade I’ll be Linux only.
- Comment on Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds 2 weeks ago:
Platformers, metroidvanias, soulslikes, puzzlers… some games are almost brutal in how they demand patience and focus!
- Comment on Librarians Are Tired of Being Accused of Hiding Secret Books That Were Made Up by AI 2 weeks ago:
It’s a shit ouroboros, Randy!
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 2 weeks ago:
I’m starting to feel like I might own an actual spaceship before Star Citizen gets to 1.0.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 2 weeks ago:
I bought a $60 ship back in 2013 or whatever and have only tried it a few times since.
I would definitely recommend waiting for when - and if - it comes out as a polished product.
Most of the limited number of projects I backed on Kickstarter have succeeded, but Star Citizen is one of the two lessons I learned about throwing early money at big projects. Can’t believe it’s been over twelve years.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 2 weeks ago:
I just had a little magnetic clip for my air vent where I could attach my phone and put up a map.
I’d sooner go back to doing that than use a “Gemini-based AI assistant” in my fucking car.
- Comment on The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos 2 weeks ago:
Holy shit, yes. You can watch leftist content for years, but heaven forbid you watch one gaming-related video and it assumes you’re an alt-right racist gamergate incel.
- Comment on That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 broadcast starts April 2026 with 5 split cours 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
They were chatting with ELIZA and vibe coded the whole thing
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 4 weeks 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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’ 1 month ago:
Wasn’t it also just reported a few weeks ago that Samsung installs Israeli spyware on android devices sold in MENA?
- Comment on Bartender is sick of your magic tricks everytime you come into the bar 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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" 2 months ago:
Basically the slogan for the 2020s