MeekerThanBeaker
@MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 19 hours ago:
I’m lucky enough to own literally thousands of games. Most of which I get at a deep discount. Games like GTA and Red Dead are usually an exception where I’ll play on day one. Even though Rockstar tends to milk a title long after a release, the attention to detail is worth the price to me. I’ll still check reviews first however.
- Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game 22 hours ago:
I’d say GTA VI would likely earn that for me. I’ll probably spend over 80 hours on that.
- Comment on Prompt engineer : The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete 6 days ago:
I’m in IT. A lot of my job is Googling the answer, but I have to know what to ask and sift through what to look for that most employees won’t know.
A photographer will know what to input better than the average Joe to get a better photographic image out of ChatGPT by giving F-stops/aperture, shutter speed, ISO, lenses, bokeh/depth of field, rule of thirds, etc.
But yes… we’re getting closer and closer to George Jetson’s job of pushing one button and calling it a day.
- Comment on Waymo reports 250,000 paid robotaxi rides per week in U.S. 1 week ago:
Took a Waymo for the first time a couple weeks ago, 20 minute drive. Did a pretty good job. There were a couple times where I wasn’t sure what it was doing… minor things like signaling to turn left but then decided to go straight instead last second, getting a little too close to a curb, etc.
However, it never did anything illegal as far as I could tell. The biggest issue is other human drivers. Since they do illegal things all the time, Waymo has to be extra cautious, which causes longer waits at intersections. Saw a human driver blow past a stop sign when it noticed it was Waymo’s turn to go. 🙄
- Comment on A 19-year-old girl just received the world’s first wireless bionic hands controlled by thoughts 1 week ago:
Technically, her mind controls the muscles that control the hand. But yes, her mind doesn’t control the hand directly.
It is pretty cool to see the hand work away from the limb.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 2 weeks ago:
We have to go back!!!
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 2 weeks ago:
Probably referring to this, but don’t know for sure:
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 2 weeks ago:
I think Mastodon is closer to Lemmy as a Twitter alternative over Bluesky.
However, this does a good job explaining the differences:
- Comment on How does one snap their fingers? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on IGN: Mario Kart World: First Hands-on Preview 4 weeks ago:
Well, with the system bundle it was only going to be $50 more. No way I was gonna pay $80 for it. With the stupid tariffs, who knows what’s gonna happen?
- Comment on Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty 4 weeks ago:
I’m so glad that the prices were revealed right before the tariff announcement.
So now… they either stick to that and suck it up or they will increase them and show more people what these tariffs are doing.
- Comment on Do people really think setting up domestic manufacturing in the USA is easy? 4 weeks ago:
Trump was so proud of himself for using the word “reciprocal.” He likely didn’t know what it meant earlier this week.
- Comment on Horror 5 weeks ago:
Maybe they thought we’d have discovered/created new elements by now that could do this.
- Comment on Horror 5 weeks ago:
Back right?
I see two in the back left and two more in the back middle without balloons. The two in the back right are the carriage passengers.
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 1 month ago:
The way I see it… whenever I do buy from Amazon, I say to myself that my money is going to the workers/drivers… and whenever the Magas pay for stuff, that goes straight to Bezos.
It’s not as good as buying from somewhere else, but it helps.
- Comment on Jackbox Games coming to Smart TVs for free 1 month ago:
Yeah. I know what you mean. We still have fun playing it and just take it as it is.
Anyone can answer the questions at the main menu so maybe it’ll get better over time.
- Comment on Jackbox Games coming to Smart TVs for free 1 month ago:
They also released The Jackbox Survey Scramble last year which was surprisingly fun.
- Comment on Ron Wyden asks for rules about whether you own your digital purchases 2 months ago:
I buy the correct way and it’s been working okay so far. The moment something is taken away, I’ll get it back another way.
Even though physical discs are superior, with audio especially, I really don’t have room to store all the things I want.
- Comment on Watch: A real-life flying car takes to the skies 2 months ago:
I saw the article before somewhere on my newsfeed and didn’t click on it. Until we get some kind of new type of technology, flying cars will always be planes or drone that kinda looks like a car.
- Comment on Why do people see me as far older than 19 when I type the way I do sometimes?/Why do people think full stops are rude? 2 months ago:
Just like Sandra Bullock and Cillian Murphy.
- Comment on [TerakJK] Avowed vs The Outer Worlds - Obsidian's previous game - Attention to detail. 2 months ago:
You can technically play Avowed in third person view, but I understand your point.
- Comment on Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m 2 months ago:
I was so looking forward to that game. Once I found out it was basically just a multiplayer experience, my interest dropped. Still haven’t played it.
The problem with many games and movies nowadays is that the gatekeepers are people who don’t really have creative/artistic background. They are business people who make decisions on whatever they think makes the company the most money.
A.I. has its issues and controversy, but I feel like creative people who can’t get through the blocked doors of these business types will go on their own and create wonderful things with the technology. I guess time will tell.
- Comment on In the 1985 movie Teen Wolf, when Scott Howard turned into a teen wolf, would he have had a human penis or a wolf penis? 2 months ago:
I think if you watch WolfCop… you might get your answer if it follows the same rules as Teen Wolf.
- Comment on Apple Maps now shows the Gulf of America 2 months ago:
Put all borders in Sharpie, you Apple cowards!!
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 3 months ago:
As an IT guy, recent (past five years) XPS laptops we gave to execs were pretty bad. Smaller, yes, but I found the Latitudes were better in terms of build quality. It is a small sample size though as most execs preferred MacBooks.
- Comment on How does patientgamers feel about free games on Epic? 3 months ago:
I have hundreds of free games from there. Haven’t played a single one. Maybe this year will be the year, but I doubt it.
- Comment on Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content 5 months ago:
Damn you, Sid Meier!!!
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 months ago:
I’ve played pretty much all but the most recent. They have their ups and downs. The first was almost like a proof of concept. Kinda boring, but the story sets up the sequels. There was a good overall story arc in the Desmond/Ezio trilogy (Assassin’s Creed II, Brotherhood, and Revelations) that hasn’t been duplicated since.
AC3 was a bit of a breath of fresh air, being part of the American revolution, but it wasn’t for everyone. The story was being deviated from earlier games too much. AC4 is, for me, still the best single-player pirate game out there. It continues with Rogue. Both of those games I highly enjoyed.
Unity (Paris during French Revolution) and Syndicate (Victorian London) both have fantastic maps and character design, but gameplay and story just wasn’t as interesting to me. The series was feeling stale.
To Ubisoft’s credit, they knew that too and entirely revamped the gameplay and menu system starting with Origins (Ancient Egypt), then Odyssey (Ancient Greece), and Valhalla (Vikings during 9th Century). Valhalla was really fun. I love how they change certain villages up throughout the year… adding festivals/challenges depending on when you play. The maps were just getting too huge and overwhelming at this point.
I play the games now mainly for exploration. Gameplay and story are secondary as they aren’t as interesting anymore. They really put a lot of detail into their surroundings and do their research on history, whether real or fantastical. It’s escapism to another land in another time.
Ubisoft is not Rockstar. The story is no longer the reason to play these games. They are forgettable. The Desmond/Ezio storyline of the earlier games are no more. However, we don’t have to wait several years to play a sequel.
Valhalla was the only one that I paid full price for since it was 2020 and we were still basically trapped in our homes, but definitely got my money’s worth. They seemed to take more time making Mirage so I’ll check that out eventually. They are remastering some of their old games so I’d play those over the dated originals.
The Far Cry series has a similar feeling for me, but with a first person perspective. New lands to explore, new stories and characters, but some are better than others.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 5 months ago:
No… it was tRump.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 5 months ago:
“Our new Mac Mini is so powerful, so extraordinary, you’ll never want to turn it off.” – Tim Apple, probably.
