Jeffool
@Jeffool@lemmy.world
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 1 day ago:
Since 2005 I worked as a TV news producer. We started the day with a morning meeting where reporters pitched stories and it was decided what they covered that day. Then as a producer I organized the stories in the newscast and found other stories which I was responsible for. That ranges from finding a worthwhile press release to interviewing people myself (usually by phone, and someone’s video chat,) or just finding info by going through data. I would write those, then decide what visuals, audio elements, camera shots, graphics, and anchor reads went with it.
Then during the live newscast I timed it, and made adjustments on the fly when necessary. (Killing stories, finding ones to insert, and adding breaking news.)
I let my contract end almost two months ago, choosing not to stay in news. I’ve been applying to mostly other non-TV news office jobs. That’s including producing other video projects, but also technical writing and marketing positions.
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 week ago:
I joined Google Plus with a group of a couple dozen friends from a long-time online community, and many of us loved it! As i recall the biggest issue at launch was that you couldn’t push a pay to a circle and still leave it discoverable on your timeline, without pushing it to everyone. That kinda made it more insular than it should’ve been. Slowly we all stopped because no one else (family, friends,) was joining.
- Comment on Balatro yet again subject to mods’ poor understanding of “gambling” 2 weeks ago:
I wish I had your restraint. EVERY time!
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- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Considering I’m unemployed and job hunting, and Windows says I can’t upgrade my current (old) PC, and I regularly play Warzone with friends? No, probably not any time soon.
Maybe if I get a job with a six digit salary in a city with a reasonable cost of living (or remote) so I can jump out of debt before 6 months? But I’m not holding my breath.
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 3 weeks ago:
Yeah really. It’s been years since I saw a 90m movie.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 3 weeks ago:
Imagine investing in another company being led by Elon Musk these days.
- Comment on Best game ever? 4 weeks ago:
Tetris in a walkway. Any format, really. It’s just great.
- Comment on Meta: “We're Still Investing Massively In VR Gaming And Don't Plan To Stop” 4 weeks ago:
Wild to think they’ve spent $100B on VR and for tons of people it’s probably still a “Beat Saber” machine. I mean, respect to Beat Saber.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I know I’m old. I see things like this and always think of leaving Digg because they didn’t want us to share a way to pirate Blu Rays and HD-DVDs, which none of us would ever use.
- Comment on New Portal pinball table may be the closest we’re gonna get to Portal 3 4 weeks ago:
Story-wise I’m not sure there’s much more that needs to be said for GlaDOS, but I think tech-wise they could advance it some. Currently players can build testing chambers. It’d be cool if you could build entire complexes consisting of several chambers, with your own (optionally voiced) personality core running the tests. Then the base game could pick up between facilities and whisk you away to new testing places. Basically, make it easier for players to make their own full mods. Especially if you allowed custom hooks for your ins and outs between facilities.
- Comment on EA has open sourced Command & Conquer: Red Alert under GPLv3 1 month ago:
Which, in the immediate future, makes me wonder less about the things that are going to be done in code, and more about the creation of a new, free, visual and audio resources that make this work. That seems like quite a noble pursuit.
- Comment on BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. 1 month ago:
Scoob! Holiday Haunt, was the third one.
- Comment on The Humane Ai Pin Will Become E-Waste Next Week 1 month ago:
I sometimes think of “who bought these?” I mean, I’m a little bit of a data hoarder. I never want to lose those Google chats and emails I’ll never look back on. I downloaded my Twitter data (that I’ll never reference) before deleting it. But what nerd mother fucker like me, has the money to pay hundreds of dollars on this, and a subscription fee, for a service to take data I’ll never own?
If I had that kind of money to waste, I’d just use that extra monthly subscription money to buy media to fill up servers (that I bought with the cost of the Pin,) on my home network.
And I don’t even have a home network or a house, but bet your ass I’d have those and a million other things before this became a remotely attractive option.
This is like Quibi. You see it and you can easily understand it on one, far-off, level… But here in reality I’m just left confused. “What were they thinking?”
- Comment on Why are there so many graybeards in FOSS? 2 months ago:
Hence the power of the shout “sudo rm rf*”!
- Comment on Games franchises that need metroidvania spinoffs? 2 months ago:
I’m just picturing big chambers like Super Metroid, and the characters moving around testing things to see what happens, then putting it together. (Maybe a zoom out button, or the map screen being relatively detailed.) So it could be very similar to the original, just “more”. You’d just need a few sets of puzzles in every chamber, for when they backtrack and revisit areas. Mind you I’m not saying it’s easy to design good levels and puzzles, especially in such a large scale, just that it’s easy for me to imagine it being fun.
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- Comment on Playing Dragonsweeper because of Ars' article. Did I have any way out of this without guessing? 2 months ago:
A friend linked it in a Discord server recently and I’ve been enamored since. This recent update last week really made it harder. But like Minesweeper, sometimes you just gotta guess. I like to guess a few random spaces for my first energy bar, apart from the initial orb, so I crash out early if I do.
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- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills 2 months ago:
When it was new to me I tried ChatGPT out of curiosity, like with why tech, and I just kept getting really annoyed at the expansive bullshit it gave to the simplest of input. “Give me a list of 3 X” lead to fluff-filled paragraphs for each. The bastard children of a bad encyclopedia and the annoying kid in school.
I realized I was understanding it wrong, and it was supposed to be understood not as a useful tool, but as close to interacting with a human, pointless prose and all. That just made me more annoyed. It still blows my mind people say they use it when writing.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For 3 months ago:
It’s basically video all over again.
- Comment on X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit 5 months ago:
And all the actors who act in yhe prime shows? They get signed into bluesky exclusive interaction contracts. Where they only interact with fans on bluesky.
I’m honestly surprised they haven’t tried something like this via partnering with some platform. I think the unions would kill them… But I’m still surprised they haven’t tried it. Sports teams/leagues too.
- Comment on 7 years after being delisted for a second time, the 2013 Deadpool game just got a mysterious update on Steam alongside 6 other delisted Activision games 5 months ago:
I do wonder if they’d garner enough attention to pay for the licenses to add them to Game Pass. I loved the MUA games.
- 7 years after being delisted for a second time, the 2013 Deadpool game just got a mysterious update on Steam alongside 6 other delisted Activision gameswww.gamesradar.com ↗Submitted 5 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 5 months ago:
Even if they do repeat 3 (and I kinda feel they will,) it’ll have a cliffhanger too. And I’m okay with that.
- Comment on X's idiocy is doing wonders for Bluesky. 5 months ago:
I haven’t seen any toxicity on the server I’m on (mastodon.gamedev.place ) either. But I’ve seen people I follow complain about it in the past, and I trust them. Especially considering they left for BlueSky.
I think Mastodon users are more technical and blunt, drawing from the same stereotypes that people have always been (often fairly) thrown at nerdier people. We just need to keep that in mind. And maybe a good ad/explainer, given how many people bounce off the concept of federation and different servers.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 6 months ago:
Also worth noting is that it’s only available to your primary YouTube account. For me that somehow became a different one created when they foisted Google Circle on everyone. So my actual YT account, that I use every day and matches my email address, can’t access my saved YT music. I have to change YouTube profiles to listen to it, which I do on occasion.
- Comment on The Mozilla Graveyard 6 months ago:
I wonder if Mozilla would’ve benefitted if something like Hello was still around when the pandemic hit. Hello was a Firefox feature that made video chatting easy. You just needed to click the link.