mostlikelyaperson
@mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 3 days ago:
Yup, I remember even back in the print era there was significant criticism about the relationships between games publishers and various magazines resulting in what was essentially advertising disguised as articles. Payment was either indirect (exclusive access to preview builds etc) or direct via in-magazine advertising. Can’t badmouth the big flagship game releases too much when EA just paid big bucks to advertise the very same title for the next view editions.
- Comment on OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December 5 days ago:
So they are -that - desperate now.
- Comment on Meta is removing its Messenger apps for Windows and macOS 5 days ago:
The AI stuff might genuinely factor into it, I largely don’t use it myself but from what I understand from some colleagues it’s churning out decent react and co, while other languages can have mixed results.
- Comment on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 | Review Thread 1 week ago:
Honestly my greatest fear for the game is that it’s just bland. I can live with a flawed game (the original VTMB certainly could be called a flawed game itself after all.), but I think blandness would be the real killer for me.
- Comment on 15,000 Retro Gamers Voted And Chose The Best Retro Handheld Of All Time 2 weeks ago:
Nah it couldn’t, the DS only supported its own and GBA cartridges.
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 2 weeks ago:
Nope, because review bombing doesn’t exist on steam. You have to own the game to review it. A customer leaving a negative review is not review bombing.
- Comment on The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08] 2 weeks ago:
I presume it’s a mix of things, there are near daily changes making them worse for consumers in one way or another, which fuels the relevancy of Doctorows writing on the one hand and the desire of people to be agreed with of people on the other.
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 2 weeks ago:
Molyneaux is of course an extreme case, but I do find it remarkable how many of these “legends” of old utterly failed to replicate their success later down the line. Romero, Mitsoda, Roberts, so many more, all in the lamplight for their success in the 90s to very early 2000s, but utterly unable to live up to their reputation for near 3 decades after.
- Comment on Ghost in the Shell – 1997 Developer Interview - shmuplations.com 3 weeks ago:
I have vague memories of playing the demo on a friend’s playstation, I think at the time I was kinda disappointed that you only got to play the fuchikoma.
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 3 weeks ago:
Yeah a lot of the comments I have seen are outright bizarre, EA won’t change in any noticeable form. It’s maximum profit extraction now and it will remain maximum profit extraction after.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 3 weeks ago:
Yup, the baseband modem does what it’s firmware tells it to, and that’s entirely independent from the phone’s software. And open baseband modems to my knowledge don’t exist.
- Comment on ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt: Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete? 5 weeks ago:
I mean the data from those has been used for AI training for ages so it’s hardly surprising it got good at it.
- Comment on Cloudflare DDoSed itself with React useEffect hook blunder 5 weeks ago:
Clownflare staying true to its name.
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 2 months ago:
There’s been recent pushes in that regard, investment in AI shit has been enormous but the financial payoff for anyone besides hardware manufacturers remains nonexistent. So investors and corporations have recently redoubled their efforts into trying to get everyone to use it in the hopes that this somehow will make them profitable.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 2 months ago:
Most likely, yes. Probably some sort of automation that ran wild.
- Comment on Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north 2 months ago:
Some deal with the israeli government if I had to guess.
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 3 months ago:
The “unfair advantage” bit has been incredibly funny to me ever since I sat in a call to prepare a joint research proposal and the representative of a certain large euro automotive supplier told us that their company would only participate in any project if they got at least a certain amount of government funding.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. 3 months ago:
I am guessing the ultra-Elon fanboys managed to convince themselves that it’s a 4D chess move or something. That dude had an insane cult following, there’s some where I am not sure there’s anything Musk could do short of murdering a loved one in front of them that’d make them change their mind.
- Comment on Nexus Mods to Enforce Digital ID Age Checks Under UK and EU Laws 3 months ago:
Which would be particularly wild given that nexus mods is run by a British company.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 3 months ago:
Dude had entirely disappeared from my timelines before every youtuber and lemmy poster seemingly felt the need to tell me about how naughty he is.
- Comment on Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027 3 months ago:
I suspect they didn’t want to make it sound alarmist or something, but yes the real percentage is likely going to be higher, including a good chunk of “technically finished but remaining unused and forever idle on some box until it’s quietly shut down 5-10 years later @
- Comment on Microsoft is moving antivirus providers out of the Windows kernel 3 months ago:
I could see some exception for windows 11 IoT being made, but I honestly don’t know.
- Comment on The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms] 3 months ago:
Yup, I don’t watch his content, but looking at his actual viewership numbers, he doesn’t even remotely have the impact to make or break a petition by himself.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 3 months ago:
Genuinely kind of surprised they only met now, one would have thought that in over 30 years they would have run into each other at some point at some conference or other.
- Comment on XMPP vs everything else 4 months ago:
Conversely, I have seen this opinion expressed a few times. I can’t judge the accuracy but there seem to be more than a few people sharing it.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 4 months ago:
Obsidian hasn’t been an indie for at least 7 years now.
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 4 months ago:
Oh absolutely, the
moneyfurnacewikimedia foundation needs to find ways to justify its own existence after all (^: - Comment on Oppose STOP CSAM: Protecting Kids Shouldn’t Mean Breaking the Tools That Keep Us Safe 4 months ago:
Your custom FOSS rom won’t prevent the very much proprietary modem of your phone from communicating with the celltower.
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 4 months ago:
Did the same thing the other day, there’s like some minor icon redesigns? Otherwise this mostly seems like people made up stuff.
- Comment on Apple announces iOS 26 with Liquid Glass redesign 4 months ago:
I presume because due to it releasing in September, it’s lifetime will mostly lie in 2026. But honestly Idk, I am godawful at naming things.