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- Comment on Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones 4 days ago:
It’s better, yeah. But that doesn’t mean it’s good. Ideal would be them simply paying for a voice actor to record all the lines, which in the case of Arc Raiders they now thankfully appear to be doing.
- Comment on Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones 4 days ago:
In a vacuum, in this instance, I’m mostly inclined to agree.
It normalising the practice is what I dislike. - Comment on Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones 4 days ago:
No-one else, or at least as high profile, was doing AI voicework in their games. Embark were essentially the first with The Finals.
One successful game/studio doing it opens the door for other studios to start doing it. - Comment on Arc Raiders Has Started Replacing AI Voices With Human Ones 4 days ago:
They don’t seem to have gone about it in a bad way, but it still further opens the door to more icky practices.
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 6 days ago:
I do miss the camera from my Samsung since making the switch. I’m looking into pocket cameras since I do find those fun to play around with, but that’s a bit of a dead category in recent years.
Performance-wise the Fairphone 6 has been more than fine for me. Maybe it wouldn’t have been if I played 3D games, but I don’t, so I wouldn’t know.
- Comment on Samsung's latest update is a serious gut punch to Galaxy power users 6 days ago:
Through Murena, I believe?
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 6 days ago:
It can be useful for generating switch cases and other such not-quite copy-paste work too. There are reasonable use cases… if you ignore how the training data was sourced.
- Comment on Valve Sued By The Performing Rights Society Over Music Rights in Games Valve Doesn’t Make or Own 1 week ago:
Wonder they are fucking stupid enough to sue YouTube for something similar.
They don’t/no longer need to, YouTube has content ID and copyright claims.
- Comment on Privacy-Focused Proton Mail Aids FBI in Uncovering ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester’s True Identity 1 week ago:
Yeah. Bitcoin is probably safer and easier.
I’m just saying the option exists, and that I think it’s neat.
- Comment on Privacy-Focused Proton Mail Aids FBI in Uncovering ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester’s True Identity 1 week ago:
Yeah, not sure how it’d work with return addresses and whatnot. But if the letter itself is intercepted there’s probably more that can be used to trace back to you, unless you only handled the money and paper in a clean room.
- Comment on Privacy-Focused Proton Mail Aids FBI in Uncovering ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester’s True Identity 1 week ago:
Furthermore, you can pay with bitcoin or even cash (sent to their HQ by mail). That way they’d have even less on you.
- Comment on Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education 1 week ago:
Furthermore Roblox “taxes” their “developers” at various points.
It’s been a while, but I believe there’s a percentage fee on the premium currency spent on the game, then there’s another percentage fee when you cash the premium currency out for real money.
- Comment on Manager at Associated Press Tells Journalists That Resistance to AI Is Futile 1 week ago:
That name is what initially put me off, but they actually seem to have some decent takes.
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 1 week ago:
They also set up an initiative around the fair extraction of cobalt.
For the specs alone it is an expensive phone, but well worth it to me.
I do somewhat miss the HD haptics from my previous Samsung. - Comment on Arc Raiders was accidentally recording Discord conversations into an unencrypted local game file 1 week ago:
Same. Waiting for it to get a bit more stable before I start pushing my less savvy friends to make the jump.
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 2 weeks ago:
Steam’s age verification is entering your credit card details.
- Comment on Panasonic, the former plasma king, will no longer make its own TVs 3 weeks ago:
Sony partnered with/sold their TV division to TCL as well.
Strange for this news to come so soon after that. - Comment on Discord delays global age verification rollout after backlash - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
I think it looks promising, but it’s still very early days. Hopefully they can gain more traction.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 3 weeks ago:
Some progress is being made, but it hasn’t seen large-scale adoption yet. Which is the point, as I read it.
- Comment on New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t really dispute it, though. Lithium-ion has seen a lot of improvement, yes, because it’s already a giant industry; other battery chemistries have a hard time breaking through because they require entirely different processes to manufacture.
I’m still rooting for it, but it’s not really the same thing. - Comment on Over 300 Malicious Chrome Extensions Caught Leaking or Stealing User Data 4 weeks ago:
Vivaldi is a bit more unique than just yet; but at the end of the day it is still Chromium, and will therefore never be my main browser.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 4 weeks ago:
I do like Nebula, but I don’t see that scaling up in that way.
And Spotify is basically YouTube, I don’t necessarily want to see them succeed either.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 4 weeks ago:
They removed the clown reaction, as well as the ability to get points for receiving reactions.
If that ever was an excuse, it no longer is. - Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 4 weeks ago:
Move where? Vimeo?
Vimeo lays off ‘large portion’ of staff after Bending Spoons buyout
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 4 weeks ago:
The only thing corporations like Google “innovate” on is wealth extraction.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Welp, that blog wasn’t linked anywhere on the main page. That actually makes it all seem a lot more reasonable, that’s good. It’s just difficult but to be skeptical in <current year>.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I do have to wonder, given the age of the app and the seeming lack of contributors on GitHub, how vibe-coded is this app?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m actually cool with projects being sustainable from the start, rather than hyper scaling off private equity funding before gutting features and selling them back at a later date.
Revolt/Stoat not talking about paid options at all on their main page makes me more suspicious, if anything.
- Comment on Steam Owner Valve Faces $900 Million Lawsuit Over PC Monopoly Claims, Following UK Tribunal Ruling - IGN 1 month ago:
Consoles, though I suppose those aren’t what you’re talking about.
- Comment on Fable - Gameplay Teaser 1 month ago:
And Playground Games is a subsidiary of microsoft? I’m not sure what you’re trying to prove here.