jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.world
- Comment on He suffered so we could learn from his mistakes 1 day ago:
- Comment on Heroes For Hire (in development), an MMO guild management game using an OS like interface for gameplay (the game calls it "GuildOS"), released in early access on Steam. 3 days ago:
Watch out for the Marvel trademark on the name, Disney has lawyers.
- Comment on Do you still remember? 5 days ago:
My grandfathers Cadillac.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
What if I told you, you were, but you just can’t see it. :)
- Comment on Nintendo refuses to repair water damaged Switch 2 console 1 week ago:
Nobody does, the problem is claiming water damage with no evidence.
- Comment on Nintendo refuses to repair water damaged Switch 2 console 1 week ago:
The more I hear about the Switch 2, the more appropriate that seems…
- Comment on Nintendo refuses to repair water damaged Switch 2 console 1 week ago:
Nintendo has a history of BS repair refusals.
I had an LCD failure on a GBA, they said it was dropped when it wasn’t and I found photo evidence of a retail unit with the same size and shape failure.
They did fix it, but it was like pulling teeth.
- Comment on Kakapos 1 week ago:
I first heard about them in Last Chance to See where they are described not only as a bird who has forgotten how to fly, but they have forgotten that they have forgotten how to fly.
So if you startle one of the poor dears, they’re liable to climb a tree and fling themselves out of it.
- Comment on What do you call the first person with a new genetic mutation 1 week ago:
- Comment on What are the most in-demand Tech Skills? (besides AI) 1 week ago:
AI is devaluing other skills.
I got an email today, from my own company, telling me I wouldn’t have to renew my professional certification for 2 years if I passed an unrelated test on AI.
The “test” was 10 questions. Glad to know my professional certification is equivalent to a 10 question pop quiz on AI.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 week ago:
Multiple drives in a RAID.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 week ago:
Every drive I’ve had fail has been a Seagate. I replace them out of habit at this point.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 week ago:
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 1 week ago:
Seagate so how long before it fails?
- Comment on YOLO should really be used as a caution, like "Wear your seatbelt, dumbass. YOLO!" 1 week ago:
“Make sure your fireworks warehouse is properly licensed and inspected! Yolo!”
- Comment on Are You Using AI for Content Creation Yet? It Changed Everything for Me 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s all spam. Check the modlog.
- Comment on Looking for cozy / wholesome gaming communities 1 week ago:
Video gaming or tabletop gaming?
For tabletop, I recently discovered “The Land of Eem” and it looks like the definition of “Cosy”.
YouTube, Discord, it’s all over the place. Described as “Lord of the Rings With Muppets”.
- Comment on Ancient food are absurdly complicated. 1 week ago:
My favorite “oops” story… Guy went camping and wanted to keep the food in the cooler REALLY cold so he used dry ice instead of ice.
Accidentally created carbonated grapes. People have duplicated the effect with home soda machines.
Google “Fizzy Grapes”.
- Comment on Ancient food are absurdly complicated. 1 week ago:
- Comment on The Bayeux Tapestry, a 70-meter - (229 foot)- long medieval artwork that depicts the Norman conquest of England, will be displayed in Britain next year for the first time in 900 years. 1 week ago:
Is that the one with all the dicks on it?
Yup! 94 swingin’ dicks!
theguardian.com/…/bayeux-tapestry-historian-genit…
(88 on horses)
- 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. 2 weeks ago:
I think the top link is busted, it just goes to the red image on a loop.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Edge browser now loads sites even faster 2 weeks ago:
Time To First Byte 0 to 800ms.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Edge browser now loads sites even faster 2 weeks ago:
“It now takes Microsoft’s browser less than 300 milliseconds to start rendering the first parts of a website for users, whether it’s text, images, or parts of the user interface.”
They’re bragging about now meeting the minimum standard. LOL.
developers.google.com/speed/docs/…/about
“Our cars are now faster than ever! They can go as fast as 55 mph on a standard highway!”
- Comment on What is the funniest insult / joke you've come up with on the spot? 2 weeks ago:
Saturday before Easter… 17 or 18 year old kid was going on and on about how he couldn’t wait to get home so he could play Call of Duty all night, and this and that… lots of swearing, lots of talk about shooting and destruction.
Me: “I dunno man, don’t you have to be in bed early so the Easter Bunny will come?”
- Comment on Time travel doesn't work unless you also have teleportation. If you travel to the past/future, Earth will be in a different position in its orbit, and you'll die in space. 2 weeks ago:
Forget the orbit… remember the song…
genius.com/Monty-python-the-galaxy-song-lyrics
“Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving
at 900 miles an hour.
It’s orbiting at 19 miles a second,
so it’s reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me,
and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm,
at 40,000 miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.” - Comment on Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
For point 1, this sounds like a class action waiting to happen.
You buy a Nintendo console, Nintendo says you broke the rules and bans that console, now non-Nintendo games won’t work on it because it’s banned from reaching online services.
- Comment on Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
“2124-4508”
I’m going to spoiler tag all the Nintendo legal-ese because it’s A LOT.
It boils down to this console us banned from logging in online. So a couple of questions:
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Do you HAVE to be online to play Switch 2 games?
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If the ban is correct for user violations, why ban the hardware? Why not ban the account?
spoiler
nintendo.com/…/error-codes-2124-4007-2124-4508/?s… You’re unable to connect to an online service and you receive the error code 2124-4007 or 2124-4508. You receive the error message “The use of online services on this console is currently restricted by Nintendo.” What to do: This error code indicates that the Nintendo Switch console you are using has been permanently banned from connecting to the internet due to a breach of the user agreements. A breach of user agreements may include, but is not limited to, activities such as: Fraudulent or unauthorized transactions Violation of the Code of Conduct accounts.nintendo.com/term/eula/AU 5 Nintendo Code of Conduct When using the Nintendo Account Service, you must comply with the Nintendo Code of Conduct and ensure that your Nintendo Account is not used in breach of the Nintendo Code of Conduct. The Nintendo Code of Conduct prohibits all illegal, harmful or otherwise inappropriate conduct, including, but not limited to, the following: Illegal, harassing, hateful, defamatory, embarrassing, offensive, obscene, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable actions performed with the Nintendo Account; Soliciting, accessing, storing or distributing prohibited materials; Providing any incorrect or false data when registering or using the Nintendo Account; Submitting false reports (either in a game or through an online service) regarding other users or content; Making, sharing or playing unauthorised copies of games, applications, software, add-on content, music, images, videos and other content available via the Nintendo Account Service; making new versions of Digital Products or other content available via the Nintendo Account Service (“derivatives”); Using cheats, automation software (bots), hacks, mods or any other unauthorised device or software designed to modify the Nintendo Account Service or any part of it or using any unauthorised User Device or any unauthorised modification of a User Device; attempting to derive source code of the Nintendo Account Service; Gaining unauthorised access to any of Nintendo’s computers, hardware, equipment, servers or networks used to support the Nintendo Account Service; hosting, intercepting, emulating, reverse engineering any part of the Nintendo Account Service or redirecting the communication protocols used by Nintendo as part of the Nintendo Account Service, regardless of the method used to do so; Engaging in any commercial or advertising activity, or arranging meetings using a Nintendo Account; Selling, trading, assigning or otherwise transferring a Nintendo Account to another person or entity; Posting, sending or otherwise making available via Nintendo Account Service any content that infringes the rights of others, including any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, privacy rights, portrait rights or other intellectual property or proprietary rights; Posting, sending or otherwise making available via Nintendo Account Service any content that contains personal information (including photos, images and videos) of any third party without their permission; Selling, trading, assigning, licensing, or otherwise conveying virtual property for real money or for funds credited to a Nintendo Account, where “virtual property” refers to any features of games or other content that can be traded with other users for free or for in-game virtual currency; Fraudulent activities performed in relation to the Nintendo Account Service (in particular in relation to transactions in Nintendo Shopping Services).
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- Comment on Microsoft's real problem was never PlayStation 3 weeks ago:
I kinda had the opposite experience, I had been a PC gamer for years before the Xbox came out, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Aliens Total Conversion, Hexen, Rise of the Triad, Quake, Unreal…
By then I had kind of burned out on FPS, so when I heard about Halo I was like “I dunno… another FPS…”
Then I played a demo in the store and was like “Shut up and take my money!”
- Comment on Microsoft's real problem was never PlayStation 3 weeks ago:
Speaking of consoles here.
- Comment on Microsoft's real problem was never PlayStation 3 weeks ago:
Valve really operates in a different market from Microsoft or Sony, but what hurt them was a couple of things:
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Repeatedly skipping Ganescom essentially told Sony “Yeah, we don’t care about Europe.” And the sales numbers show it. Sony owns Europe.
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No differential between console and PC. Launching the same game at the same time on PC and Xbox doesn’t incentivize people to a) buy games on Xbox or b) develop games on Xbox. Why bother if it’s on PC the same day?
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Focusing on digital vs. physical takes games out of stores. On a recent trip to Target they had a nice big Playstation section and a nice big Switch section. Hey? Where are the Xbox games?
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