Jeffool

@Jeffool@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google might replace the ‘I’m Feeling Lucky’ button with AI Mode⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The Google Maps app already shows what it wants instead of what’s nearby. Now the Gmail app shows you what they want you to see instead of ordering by date. I imagine the goal is just to replace everything with a “Google” button. You just type in words and hug “Google”, and it serves up its own info instead of anyone else’s pages. Sigh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All I can say is be the change you want to see. Submit posts, maybe mod a community. I’m doing !gamedev, and it gets political sometimes, like any career field, but it is what it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Giant Bomb, a web site about video games, has been purchased from Fandom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I always wanted to do a podcast called Just Jeffs, where I interview other Jeffs. But I’d love it if they used the name instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Giant Bomb, a web site about video games, has been purchased from Fandom⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll say this: props to Fandom for realizing the right thing to do. I know there was really no other good solution for them, but that hasn’t stopped many companies from being so obstinate that they cut their nose off to spite their face.

  But more seriously, good for those guys buying it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zelda 64: Recompiled (Majora's Mask) adds modding support, texture pack support, optimizations and more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The above link is recommended to learn more about the added mod support! (Just to add some context.)

• Zelda 64: Recompiled (Majora's Mask) adds modding support, texture pack support, optimizations and morewww.gamingonlinux.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dan removed GB from his BSky bio, and Grubb posted that he’s no longer with GB.

  To add more context, last night Dan was streaming on Twitch and said he expects episode 888 to be the last Bombcast. He said things that, if he stays employed, would make Fandom the most understanding employer ever. To use words he used: he’s very annoyed with working for giant corporations and wants to bet on himself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do office workers actually do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I had your restraint. EVERY time!

• Balatro yet again subject to mods’ poor understanding of “gambling”arstechnica.com ↗
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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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine investing in another company being led by Elon Musk these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best game ever?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Scoob! Holiday Haunt, was the third one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Humane Ai Pin Will Become E-Waste Next Week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

• Quake From Memory (Shareware)www.slipseer.com ↗
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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.

• Atari and Jeff Minter team on I, Robot remakewww.gamedeveloper.com ↗
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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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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.