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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Patent laws in Japan don’t work the same way as they do in most of the world. And they can only enforce their patent on companies operating in Japan.

  The whole Palworld situation was based on patents that Nintendo only applied for after Palworld was already released.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite cutting the gags, Borderlands 4's PC specs say it still needs 100GB of SSD space⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not. The size of the game isn’t the limiting factor.

  Anecdotally, I played Horizon Forbidden West on PS4 and occasionally got loading screens while out and about in the open world. I assume the HDD was the cause of this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Rizz", "cooking" and "based" are going to be stereotypical old people words one day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Let him cook” is more like “I wanna see where this is going”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI startup Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5bn to settle book piracy lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So… how long does it take before a company stops being called a startup?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The OS is 160 GB? That seems unrealistic. Windows 11 is bloated AF and is less than 30 GB.

  What could an OS running on fixed hardware have that requires 160 GB?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if you tried to run Windows malware on Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s still a layer of abstraction there. Since it requires Wine to run, it wouldn’t be able to run itself in the future unless it’s aware that it’s being run in Wine. Then it would need to set up a way to launch itself via Wine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even if panspermia is the leading theory for life on Earth, abiogenesis had to have happened somewhere at some point before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what they just said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But ‘a’ has an even higher ratio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What I do recall was one guy asking very specific questions about how much we would be able to customize genitals, and whether sex would be fully interactive with visuals of full penetration.

  And while none of those things are wrong per se, the general vibe of asking about all of those things was very weird and pervy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. takes 10% stake in Intel as Trump flexes more power over big business⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Nationalized” with a heavy dose of quote marks. The government now owns about 10% of Intel in non-voting shares. It’s basically meaningless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flight attendant union leaders ‘ready to go to jail’ as Air Canada strike outlawed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The union and airline have been in negotiations for a long time, and the goverment is using the lack of agreement after so long as a factor in forcing the two parties into binding arbitration, which greatly benefits the airline.

  So they’re not banned from striking, technically, but the government has measures in place to force the employees back to work. These measures have rarely been used in the past, but have been used 4 times in the past year against rail workers, port workers, postal workers, and now flight attendants.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure Boot, TPM and Anti-Cheat Engines⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can often change your IP by rebooting your router. So the only way an IP ban can really work is when you start banning blocks of IPs, but that can hit other people who have no reason to be banned.

  VPNs also aren’t always slower, though they often are. They change the route your packets take, which could have fewer hops to get to their destination, or could have faster connections in some places compared to your standard route.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happen⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What you’re saying is we’re also to blame because we participate, as a society, in 10% of global emissions by flying. What about those same few who fly 2 people at a time in a private jet instead of 200+ in an airliner? People like that Starbucks CEO who would commute from LA to Seattle in a corporate jet, or any other rich fucker who can’t be seen near the poors and has to put out thousands on times the amount of emissions as the average person.

  Sure, I’ll take my 0.000000001% of the blame, and Brian Niccol can take his personal 0.1%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The easiest way is to use Heroic launcher to manage GoG games. It will install everything, and set up Proton for each game.

  Do you use that PC for any other games? How’s the performance with them?

  And what are the specs of the PC?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bonk.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bop it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s odd because on PC I can post there on VPN, but on mobile I can’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was my point. The comment I was replying to was suggesting that people switching from Spotify will be blown away by better quality audio. Most wouldn’t notice a difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people can’t tell the difference between 128 kbit MP3 and high quality recordings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the original Prey was boring as hell. It’s not like it didn’t have any interesting features, but the lack of penalty for dying meant that failure is impossible.

  Prey isn’t really a franchise at all, just two completely unrelated games with the same name.

  The newer one was supposed to be a sequel when it was being made by the original devs, but in the end it’s a completely separate game with no connection to the first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Clogging the pipes. Taking up resources. Costing them money and time.

  Meh, not really though. The employees are paid whether or not you call. They’re not going to hire more people just to deal with complaints, they’ll just make the wait times longer.

  The number of complaints they receive is going to have a bigger impact than a few people wasting time on the phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK De-banking is often how the US first declares you "homeless"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If people aren’t property, why would damaging property be so severe?

  Sorry in advance for defending the concept of defence of property. It’s not that I think it should be that way, but currently it is.

  Property can easily be equated to either work or status. In today’s society, we work to earn our property. Damaging property is then damaging work, or at least the value of the work already done.

  On the other end, status is something we already know that the elite value above all else, so it makes sense that attacking someone’s status is going to get punished.

  So it’s not so much that people are property, but that harm to property is harm to its owners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The 3 ways to make money in gaming are to a) be exceptionally good at games, b) have an entertaining personality, or c) do something that nobody else does.

  For a) either you’re good enough to make it in esports, or you’re good enough that people want to watch you stream. For b) gaming is really just a small part of what brings people in. c) might be doing things like challenges or other niche gaming related stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Game testing is a shit job. It’s incredibly tedious and the pay sucks.

  If your goal is to work in game design and you want to use that as a way to get your foot in the door, that’s one thing. But the career of game testing is much less interesting that gamers might expect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Delta Air Lines is using AI to set the maximum price you’re willing to pay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  e.g., your mother is dying in the hospital, increasing your desperation to get a flight to that location

  Airlines have lower mourning rates specifically for that. There are many other bad reasons for them to charge you more, but this one is a poor example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, 5 years ago Proton was already in pretty good shape. 2018 is when I switched to Linux, and already had very little trouble gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pop it in your calendars⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam doesn’t have non-Linux games enabled by default. In the settings, you’ll find a compatibility tab. From there, enable the setting “Enable Steam Play for all other titles”

  That’s what lets it use Proton for everything by default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can all the milk replacements bubble if you blow thru a straw in it like a child?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  About 6 inches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam now generates three times more revenue for Capcom than PlayStation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People do vote with their wallets. They say it’s ok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Cyberpunk 2077 mod literally called "Weeee" lets you leave your flat via a big slide like a trash Batman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Walking around the building and taking the slow elevator down is long and tedious. This juat makes sense.