evujumenuk

@evujumenuk@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does everyone hate Income tax ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Income tax doesn’t do anything to the 1%. You have unrealized gains, and borrow against your assets? You owe zero tax.

  A wealth tax, or income tax on yet unrealized gains, would be better. Of course, that comes with its own set of issues. But, I don’t think they are insurmountable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HELLDIVERS 2 coming to Xbox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really looks like Microsoft made the worst call with their Series S compatibility mandate. Now games come out so late that any Xbox owner is automatically a Patient Gamer, without the upsides. That’s if a port is released at all.

  These days you can play games like Death Stranding more than half a year earlier on your iPhone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zelda BotW vs TotK - which one should I buy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good question, since it doesn’t have a trivial answer. Zelda is basically three or four different types of games in a trench coat tunic.

  There’s the open world adventure that the original Zelda established, which is probably best represented by BotW.

  There’s the 2D tile-based action puzzler, the quintessential of which is probably LttP.

  There’s the 3D “interconnected small rooms”, which got its start with OoT and was so successful that to this day players are arguing that the newest two games are not really Zelda even though they stick to the original concept much more closely.

  Finally, there’s Adventure of Link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zelda BotW vs TotK - which one should I buy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I finished BotW 100%, and am currently nearing 100% completion with TotK. Here’s what I would do if I were you.

  Get the BotW demo. It’s free, and it contains the entire first portion of the game, the Great Plateau.

  Play that, and when you’re finished, read the story synopsis on Wikipedia or wherever. Then acquire and play through TotK.

  The Great Plateau gives you about 80% or 90% of what’s great about BotW in a tight, controlled package. If you’ve played Metal Gear Solid V, this is basically Ground Zeroes.

  TotK is so amped up over BotW that there’s no “tutorial inside area” that showcases the mechanics of the full game, it’d basically be a carbon copy of the entire thing.

  In terms of gameplay, this should give you something pretty close to the full experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is up for a coleslaw popsicle?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Utilization of models begets training of more models.

  Kinda like CSAM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a gross approximation, but…

  Your desktop or laptop computer is probably toast, your phone probably isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chromium Blog: Fighting Unwanted Notifications with Machine Learning in Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anti-abuse measures such as this are generally designed to not provide that kind of feedback. The website developer is modeled to be an adversary, and you don’t volunteer valuable information on what has worked against your countermeasures, and what hasn’t, to your designated enemy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck sales drop hard following the Nintendo Switch 2 announcement⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Switch catalog was limited in no small part because the device just couldn’t give acceptable performance for a lot of contemporary cross-platform games. That, of course, didn’t matter for first-party titles.

  Switch 2 performance is projected to end up somewhere around a base PS4, with better GPU but somewhat diminished CPU. However, it’s going to have more memory than the Xbox Series S that teams had trouble porting their games to.

  The Switch 2 might benefit a lot from this generation’s extended cross-gen period. Add that to franchises like Fire Emblem, Metroid, Mario, Mario Kart, Pikmin and Zelda, and the average consumer is going to think of Steam as the “limited” platform.

  A lot of conjecture, and maybe Switch 2 will turn out to be a monumental flop. I’m cautiously optimistic.

  By the way, the old, selective policy that Nintendo exercised is pretty much a thing of the past. Just browse through the eShop for three minutes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[DISC] Kyou no Ashura Meshi - Chapter 9⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The break between first and second semester is six weeks long on the outside, so she could shed around 6% of her weight safely (or more, in a more unhealthy manner). That would certainly make a difference, but not one that someone would notice right away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norwich restaurant charges £100 for a pineapple pizza⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to imagine their pineapple pizza was the absolute best there is on planet Earth, but in spite of (or maybe because of) that they just fucking hate making it.

  Basically, the Ronnie O’Sullivan of pie shops.