raptir
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- Comment on EA flop Immortals of Aveum reportedly cost around $125 million, former dev says "a AAA single-player shooter in today's market was a truly awful idea" 9 months ago:
Why does a game cost that much to make? I’m not saying every game should be an indie, but given what indies can accomplish it’s a little ridiculous to spend $125 million.
- Comment on Street Fighter Vs Mortal Kombat 9 months ago:
Mortal Kombat. I know it’s technically inferior but I find the style and characters a lot of fun.
- Comment on YouTube demonetizes public domain 'Steamboat Willie' video after copyright claim 10 months ago:
Free as in freedom, not free beer.
- Comment on ...So I Finally Quit Spotify 10 months ago:
No, anything from Tidal is still DRM controlled but it integrates seemlessly with everything I have locally.
- Comment on ...So I Finally Quit Spotify 10 months ago:
I’m not locked into their player. Tidal integrates through Plex and I manage my music library between Tidal and local files there. And again, I still buy albums but we’ve both acknowledged we can’t buy all the music we would listen to.
- Comment on ...So I Finally Quit Spotify 10 months ago:
To be honest I simply find Tidal + Plex integration to be more convenient than piracy. I’ll pay my $10 per month for the ease of use and still buy an album or two per month from artists I want to support.
My discovery is a combination of Tidal and last.fm similar artists/recommendations and people on various forums. It’s one of the few things I still go back to Reddit for. The other thing is that I like to listen to a band’s full discography when I discover them. I recently found The Ocean and all 9 of their albums are solid. That’s a lot to buy.
- Comment on ...So I Finally Quit Spotify 10 months ago:
Just to add, I do buy albums but more as a way to support the artists. Tidal is for convenience.
- Comment on ...So I Finally Quit Spotify 10 months ago:
That works if you listen to just a small number of albums, but I average about 15 unique albums per month and probably 60 per year.
- Comment on GM’s CarPlay replacement software is off to a disastrous start - 9to5Mac 10 months ago:
Sure you can change songs, but with Android Auto I can have it play a different album or playlist with voice commands. I can fast forward through ads in a podcast either by tapping the skip button or talking to it.
Honestly the bigger thing for me is the superior GPS without a separate unit though.
- Submitted 10 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on GM’s CarPlay replacement software is off to a disastrous start - 9to5Mac 10 months ago:
Eh, it’s nice to be able to reliably control my music from the screen with Android Auto.
- Comment on GM’s CarPlay replacement software is off to a disastrous start - 9to5Mac 10 months ago:
I honestly would have considered the Blazer EV were it not for this.
- Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. 11 months ago:
Pandora didn’t replace buying music. They did not add the “on demand streaming” option until after Spotify was prevalent.
- Comment on Twitch rescinds policy that allowed ‘artistic nudity’ / The decision comes two days after the company said it would allow some sexual content 11 months ago:
There’s plenty of boobs on the internet. It’s this weird thing where people want to see as much as possible of the boobs they can’t see.
- Comment on Tesla driver who killed 2 people while using autopilot must pay $23,000 in restitution without having to serve any jail time 11 months ago:
Do we need to go through what autopilot in a plane or boat actually does again?
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues 11 months ago:
They’re saying chromosomes are a good measure for “transness” or “cisness”.
No, they’re not. They’re saying that because a person’s chromosomes don’t change based on whether they are trans or cis that a clear biological answer to the question being posed is impossible.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Twitter AI Is Actually ‘Woke,’ Hilarity Ensues 11 months ago:
The person you’re replying to doesn’t seem to be implying anything you’re arguing against in your response.
- Comment on Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year 11 months ago:
Looking at your Spotify page you will be an artist who gets nothing in this new plan. You have 14 average monthly listeners right now - each song needs 1000 unique listeners per year to get any sort of payout.
- Comment on Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year 11 months ago:
You can’t just put your music on Spotify unfortunately. Google Play Music had the option to pay a small one-time fee to get your music up there, but they did away with that when they moved to YouTube Music.
If you’re unsigned you need to go through a service like TuneCore to get your music on any of the streaming services.
- Comment on What would your recommended budget ($200-400) phones be? 11 months ago:
Ah yes, the old contract model.
- Comment on Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs 11 months ago:
No, they spun it that way by deceptively going on a rant about how many “songs get fewer than 1000 plays ever” and doing the math based on that in the “article,” but that’s not what the change actually was. If you read the details of the change below that, it is that they will no longer pay out at all for songs that get fewer than 1000 unique listeners per year.
You still aren’t talking a ton of money, but if each of 999 listeners streamed a song once per month, the artist could be losing close to $40 per song per year.
- Comment on Spotify to axe 1,500 workers to save costs 11 months ago:
Not really, they set a “minimum threshold” of unique annual listeners to get a payout. If a song has at least 1000 unique listeners per year it gets the same payout it did before. If it gets 999 it gets zero.
- Comment on Watching mouths fill up with towels 11 months ago:
Ounces become pounds, bro.
- Comment on Epic explains why it hasn't sued Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft over 30% fee 11 months ago:
So if Google sold its phones at a loss then Epic would have no problem paying the fee? Sure.
The more interesting part of the argument is saying that people will contact Microsoft/Nintendo/Sony for technical support with a game and expect them to help while Apple or Google would send you to the developer.
- Comment on Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. 11 months ago:
uBlock-Origin on Firefox.
- Comment on Bill Gates feels Generative AI has plateaued, says GPT-5 will not be any better 11 months ago:
ChatGPT doesn’t learn like that though, does it? I thought it was “static” with its training data.
- Comment on Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone 11 months ago:
It’s probably a net savings over a digital artist creating images given the speed. Just powering your monitor for so much longer is going to take more power.
- Comment on Could we not bring that to Lemmy, please? 11 months ago:
Yes. This usage originated well before reddit. “Car porn”, “gun porn,” “disaster porn.”
- Comment on Could we not bring that to Lemmy, please? 11 months ago:
EarthPorn is typically exclusive of animal pictures though from what I’ve seen.
- Comment on Could we not bring that to Lemmy, please? 11 months ago:
It’s not exactly comedy. What do you want us to call Earth porn? ”Reallyprettypicturesofearthbutwithoutanyhumancreations"?