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- Comment on Geoff Keighley is apparently attempting to trademark "The Game Awards" with the US Patent Office 3 hours ago:
He didn’t already have a trademark? I’m surprised.
Anyway, here comes a flood of ragebait about how Geoff of trying to own the concept of award shows
- Comment on Why BlueSky Isn’t the Alternative to X (Formerly Twitter) You’re Looking For — and Why Mastodon Is the Better Choice Over X, Threads, and BlueSky 17 hours ago:
Yeah, mastodon simply doesn’t have an advertising budget, and having to pick an instance, while trivial, is still enough to stop a lot of people from joining.
- Comment on USA President term limits 1 day ago:
Short of congress changing the law or a successful coup, neither of which are necessarily off the table, yes these next four years will be Trump’s last in office. Who knows what either party will have to offer in 2028.
- Comment on Ghost of Tsushima - I've heard it's a nice game, but it overstays its welcome. Do you agree? 1 week ago:
It’s very good. Whether it outstays its welcome depends on the individual. If you just beeline the main story it’s not all that long, but if you play it as intended it’s quite a long ride.
I don’t regret playing it at all, fwiw
- Comment on Clever, clever 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t help if students manually type the assignment requirements instead of just copying & pasting the entire document in there
- Comment on Will COVID death rates of Republicans have a significant impact on the outcome of the presidential election? 3 weeks ago:
Yikes. We’re all thinking about how covid disproportionately affects the elderly, but it also disproportionately affects people who live in denser population centers.
I don’t like talking about pandemics in terms of which political party they help, but I guess the dems may have been hit harder in the end…
- Comment on Weight loss jabs for unemployed not dystopian, says Wes Streeting 3 weeks ago:
Wow, looked it up just now; apparently the US is only #15, after a bunch of Pacific islands, and a couple others
- Comment on Weight loss jabs for unemployed not dystopian, says Wes Streeting 3 weeks ago:
Stupid people think they’re both caused solely by laziness
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 4 weeks ago:
On the one hand this is creepy as hell
On the other fuck mosquitoes
- Comment on Ubisoft Director Claims "Non-Decent Humans" Are Wishing For Company's Demise 5 weeks ago:
I think we’re all just kinda passively expecting it at this point. I’m pretty dispassionate about the whole thing.
Games are art, you have to be willing to take a risk and try something genuinely new every once in a while. Ubisoft isn’t.
- Comment on Student dorm does not allow wifi routers 2 months ago:
The reason they don’t want you using your own WiFi access point is probably because dorms are prone to over congestion if everyone sets up their own WiFi network.
If you wanted to fuck with them-and you don’t mind spending money-then you could set up your WiFi and get internet via mobile carrier or starlink, so that you never actually have to agree to their terms. Then when/if someone comes around to bitch at you you can watch them slowly come to the conclusion that they’ve got nothing on you.
Otherwise your options are to follow the rules to the letter and live without vr streaming, or accept that you might get in trouble. Some WiFi routers can be configured to not advertise their network; annoying because you’ll have to manually enter the network information on every device, but it might keep you from getting caught.
As for connecting multiple devices without paying; there’s probably some creative ways to tunnel all your traffic through a single device to get around that. Could still get you in trouble if you’re caught.
If you’re doing anything that could get you in trouble with the school make sure you save the email in which they told you using your own router is allowed.
- Comment on Deep Discounts 2 months ago:
TIL Tesla has a factory (factories?) In Germany. My mistake.
- Comment on Deep Discounts 2 months ago:
Well they’re made here so it stands to reason they’d be a bit cheaper. No clue about the corolla tho
- Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 2 months ago:
Can’t say I love Annapurna, but at least control 2 will be on steam. Hopefully from day 1.
- Comment on If Necromancy suddenly became possible, can the undead be called as a witness during court proceedings? 2 months ago:
I mean, maybe but what will you do if they fail to appear before court? I don’t think the undead are super concerned with prison sentences
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 2 months ago:
Already run it on my laptop, and used to dual boot. I’m just trying let proton mature as much as possible before migrating my desktop for good.
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 2 months ago:
Well, I was gonna run win10 until its service life ends next year. I guess MS want to speed up the timeline a little.
Arch here I come.
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 2 months ago:
There’s a lot of information, there’s also a lot of misinformation. Many people don’t trust authorities, sometimes for understandable reasons, so they end up in the fringes.
Also, the Nazis, and even the Confederates, weren’t all that long ago in the grand scheme. A couple generations. Many people learn these tendencies from their family.
Also incels are somewhat different from Nazis/fascists. There’s obviously a lot of overlap. There’s always been men who had trouble with women, but I think being a male virgin after a certain age is enormously more vilified these days than it was in, for instance, the 50s, even among more progressive, left leaning groups. Admittedly, that’s anecdotal so I could be wrong.
- Comment on CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage 2 months ago:
And their customers are unhappy with the catastrophic service failure. Cry me a river.
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
I’ll stop using YouTube altogether before I disable my ad blocker. My time is simply more valuable than whatever video I’m watching.
- Comment on How is Lemmy better than Reddit? 2 months ago:
Open mobile app support
Ad free (depending on the app and instance, but its pretty easy to get Lemmy without ads)
No CEO to make whacky, unpopular decisions without clear purpose or recourse
No shareholders whose priorities will always take precedence over the users
There’s also something to be said for being part of a smaller community
Of course any and all problems can occur in microcosm within a particular instance or community, but it’s trivial to just block that instance/community. As for brigading, bullying, and harassment, Lemmy offers no solutions to human nature, unfortunately.
- Comment on is it possible to be married and still feel lonely? 3 months ago:
Which takes me to think, maybe there are things men need emotionally that women cannot provide, but I couldn’t write a list.
You could probably write entire books and doctoral theses about this right here. In fact I’m sure people have.
I think, fundamentally, men need the same things women need: love, support, a sense of belonging, opportunities for self improvement, on top of all of Maslow’s needs, and more. All things that are often denied to people for various societal and economic reasons. And some men will deny themselves these things because we are lied to about what will make us happy.
More than anything many men feel the need to be in control of all aspects of their life. Control their finances, their property, their spouse. But it’s impossible to be always in control, so there will always be an angst there. Men who have everything they thought they needed to be happy, and still aren’t, may sooner or later look for someone to blame. That makes then vulnerable to divisive rhetoric.
I’ve never been married but I am a man who, frankly, hasn’t ever been very happy in life despite being loved by my family; yes I think a married person can feel very lonely.
- Comment on Switzerland mandates government agencies use open-source software and disclose the source code of software developed by or for the public sector unless third-party rights or security concerns apply 3 months ago:
This is really cool. I do wonder how often “third-party rights or security concerns” will be deemed to apply, though.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
I mean, there is always the option of putting down YouTube and going outside, or picking up a hobby or something.
Gross, I know, having to live in the stone ages, but there’s always another option.
- Comment on Is there any advantage to tying game logic to frame-rate? 3 months ago:
The game “logic” you’re talking about is tied to the frame rate by default. Or perhaps it is more accurate to say that a game’s frame rate is a function of available compute power and the complexity of the logic that must be solved every update (every frame).
Accounting for this usually isn’t difficult, but developers are only human and it’s easy to make mistakes when your game is being developed for very few hardware variants. The original dark souls was ps3/xbox360 only. Since the game performed the same on all it’s target systems, the oversight wasn’t obvious until PTDE released for PC much later, which was apparently ported by a skeleton crew with very little time and budget.
This doesn’t happen as much these days because developers are much more aware of PC (and its limitless hardware variations) during development. Also, there are more console variations to account for, e.g. the Xbox series S vs X. Devs just can’t get away with being lazy with frame rate variations anymore as it will become a problem very early in quality assurance, and may even cause compliance violations which can bar your game from launching on consoles.
- Comment on Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons 3 months ago:
For what its worth, you weren’t missing much…
- Comment on Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons 3 months ago:
only two seasons
Two more than it deserved.
- Comment on Google and Microsoft consume more energy than some countries due to AI advances | Windows Central 3 months ago:
For software and devices running locally, sure. Much of what MS does these days is cloud based where the bulk of the electricity is being used in a data center somewhere and the customer isn’t (directly) paying for it.
- Comment on Why haven't car manufacturers standardized automatic brake lights when a built in accelerometer detects deceleration? 3 months ago:
Well don’t leave us hanging! Why don’t race cars have brake lights?!
- Comment on Why haven't car manufacturers standardized automatic brake lights when a built in accelerometer detects deceleration? 3 months ago:
Engine or regenerative braking can very quickly slow down a vehicle but may not activate the brake lights depending on the manufacturer.
Or crashing, I guess.