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- Comment on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Now Promotes Microtransactions When You Swap Weapons 1 day ago:
My attitude was: If I’m going to spend money on the digital deluxe edition of the game, I’m sure as hell going to get my money’s worth.
By admitting to the sunk cost fallacy, you’ve really only proven my point. You’re gonna find ways to defend the game more than you should, unconsciously or not.
I know it’s hard, but in this current era of live service games recording metrics beyond just purchased copies of the game, you should vote with your play time, regardless of how much you’ve already put into the game.
- Comment on Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 Now Promotes Microtransactions When You Swap Weapons 1 day ago:
Tbh this is also the attitude of cod players who stuck around after the BO6 release. Warzone especially took a huge step backwards. 20 Hz server-side updates for a battle royale game is pretty sad
- Comment on Someone posted the Source Code of the IRS's Directfile on Github 5 days ago:
See ONBOARDING.md if you want to jump into running Direct File locally
HELL YEAH, DEFINITELY GONNA DO A DRY RUN OF MY TAXES!!
- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 5 days ago:
lol that happened?
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 1 week ago:
I never used Pocket itself, but I do like having the grid of news articles on the new tab page, which I believe is powered by Pocket in some shape or form. Anyone know if that feature is going away too?
- Comment on I'm guilty of not reading the f..ing documentation 2 weeks ago:
I used to have that problem with ln until I realized it’s essentially the same ordering as cp: source, then destination. The source being the existing file that you’re linking to, and the destination being the link that you’re creating
- Comment on Blizzard's Overwatch Team Just Unionized: 'What I Want To Protect Most Here Is The People' 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, the team has been in a good bargaining position because the higher-ups are seeing OW players switching to Marvel Rivals in droves and realizing that they need to start listening to people who actually know what they’re talking about. Props to the team for sensing this is a good time to gain some ground and unionize
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
My favorite part of watching WWE is the way their main commentator says “WWE”. You can tell he savors every syllable of it
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok AI Has a Problem: It’s Too Accurate for Conservatives 4 weeks ago:
I get it but maybe something different like “Musk-led Tesla” would achieve what you said while also making it clear he plays no creative role in the companies (which he very much wants, just look up reports of him sitting in on engineering meetings making stupid proposals)
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok AI Has a Problem: It’s Too Accurate for Conservatives 4 weeks ago:
Agreed but we should say something different like “Musk-led Tesla”
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok AI Has a Problem: It’s Too Accurate for Conservatives 4 weeks ago:
Can we agree to stop saying “Musk’s Grok”, “Musk’s Tesla”, etc.? It only plays into his desire to be viewed as a genius instead of just a guy with blood diamond money. He’s never created anything.
- Comment on I can't pay rent because devs just don't care 4 weeks ago:
You tend to see nonsensical, disjointed product UX and usability decisions a lot more in bigger, highly hierarchical organisations, with big teams, highly specialised, siloed ICs several levels removed from their end users by layers and layers of middle management fat.
Yep, and those layers and layers of middle management will never walk away from a UI/UX review saying “yeah, looks good to me!” because that wouldn’t justify their existence, so they feel compelled to say something even when there’s zero real issues, which is how you end up with inane bullshit
- Comment on I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server 5 weeks ago:
Haven’t thought about that Weird Al song in a while
- Comment on You never forget your first 5 weeks ago:
Anyone got the original comic?
- Comment on I can't pay rent because devs just don't care 5 weeks ago:
Author did kinda reference this with the ✨Development Velocity✨ part, but the truth is managers and businesspeople* are the ones that just don’t care. Well, not about users at least. Managers just care about promotions and maintaining the upper hand in office politics, and businesspeople just care about money.
If devs were given the proper amount of time to implement things, they wouldn’t be adding GBs of NPM packages from which only one function is used.
If devs were given any power in the decision-making process, the “17 tracking scripts you put on your websites which added 0.004 pence to your bottom line” would never be added
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Lemmy mods are the best. reddit mods would’ve deleted this immediately
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 5 weeks ago:
I miss when the Instagram homepage showed all your friends’ new posts before it showed recommended stuff. Now it’s all interwoven
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 month ago:
The Bay Area is probably the only thing keeping that company alive. Every stoplight you pull up to there has at least a couple Teslas
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 1 month ago:
I feel like the result of this is gonna be a big ol nothingburger. There’s no way someone works as a mod/admin for the most controversial website on the internet and uses an email address that can be linked to their real identity, and doesn’t use a VPN/tor.
Pretty sensationalist article IMO. I mean, they act like the source code being leaked is newsworthy. Somebody with a month of coding experience could write that website in an afternoon.
- Comment on [Question] What just happened to 4 million posts? 1 month ago:
Sorry if this has already been discussed but is anyone else worried that “Nicole’s” pictures are from the webcam on a compromised computer? They’re always from the same angle and she’s not really posing for most of them
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 2 months ago:
I think Data would be smart enough to realize that copyright is Ferengi BS and wouldn’t want to copyright his works
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 2 months ago:
Does Jellyfin have good skip intro functionality for TV shows? That was the main thing keeping me from switching last time I considered a couple years ago
- Comment on X (Twitter) is down in worldwide outage. 2 months ago:
What do you mean “do” homedirs? Like be some kind of file system broker?
- Comment on Federated YikYak alternative? 2 months ago:
Ah man, I miss that app. So good that my university tried to ban it.
But federation would be a weird choice for something that’s supposed to be limited to a small area. I guess if multiple people in one town wanted to run an instance…
- Comment on It begins: Pentagon to give AI agents a role in decision making, ops planning. 2 months ago:
AI Boy Scout confirmed
- Comment on Kevin Rose officially relaunching Digg.com 2 months ago:
I would append to #5: “= more ad revenue = more bending over for shareholders”
- Comment on The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects 2 months ago:
Defects that they will not fix
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 2 months ago:
I realize. Intellectual property is an icky concept IMO but I know not everyone agrees
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 2 months ago:
To use the compiled binaries, you must own the game
Was expecting a catch. Still good for modding I guess
- Comment on Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Amid Government Backdoor Demands 3 months ago:
Roight, you got a loicense for them keys bruv?