jordanlund
@jordanlund@lemmy.world
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 40 minutes ago:
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 4 days ago:
I tend to agree with this. I had given up on PC gaming by 2004 so did not play HL2 until the Orange Box on Xbox in 2007 and my reaction was “Jesus this is boring!”
I’ve tried to replay it a couple of times since then, most recently on Steam Deck, but it just doesn’t click with me and I give up around the Canals.
- Comment on Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround 1 week ago:
After the litany of fuck ups Bungie did, nobody should want to be the next Destiny.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 1 week ago:
One of my favorite artists has his gear list on his website:
“Pickup Who knows what they put in those things?
DI Who cares?”
LOL.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 1 week ago:
It’s part of the creative process, but it’s also it’s own rabbit hole. 😉 I do like having 42 simulated amps and 56 simulated effects pedals on tap without spending 10s of thousands of dollars, but fiddling with them is it’s own deal aside from playing and is, apparently, never ending. LOL.
But OTOH, if I want to try my hand at a specific song, I can get there without having to research every last bit of tech that went into it.
You’re right though, locking in “my own sound” is still do-able. The manual selection is all still there.
- Comment on Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI 1 week ago:
There is an AI angle that COULD work it’s just unfortunate that nobody is using AI in this way.
Instead of replacing creatives the way it does now, it could be used as a tool to inform creatives.
For example, not linking the product because they aren’t paying me to shill for them, but there is a brand of AI enhanced guitar amplifier. You use the prompt in the app to tell it what sound you’re looking for and it will do all the amp and pedal settings to make that happen.
“jazz guitar tone with a touch of reverb” or even specific bands and songs.
You STILL have to be able to play the guitar, it’s not going to do that for you, but it will save you hours of knob twiddling and pedal swapping to get the sound (or an approximation of the sound) you’re looking for.
Applying this to other creative fields, a novelist could use it to generate character names, or an artist could use it to come up with a color palette. I don’t think either of those would be objectionable because the creative still controls what happens after the fact.
It’s when the slop starts writing, painting, or playing for you that it becomes a problem and that’s where we are now.
- Comment on Every anime ever… 1 week ago:
Babylon 5. You don’t fully appreciate season 1 until you watch season 4.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 1 week ago:
The question I put to management is “What do you want me to use AI for?”
I can’t get a consistent answer. Lots of stuff unrelated to my job duties. “Well, it’s so easy to make Facebook ads!” - “You know that’s not a thing I do, right?”
- Comment on The Console That Wasn’t: How the Commodore 64 Outsold Game Consoles 1 week ago:
I’ve said this for years… There was no “gaming crash”, people just started playing games on the C-64.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 1 week ago:
Happened with me in FFVII back in the day… Doing well, had to take a 2 week business trip, got back… “Wait, did I just GET to this town or was I LEAVING this town?” No clue what I was doing, I may have just started over…
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
Even in the days of memory cards you could back up saves to other memory cards…
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
Yeah, but you don’t give pirated goods as gifts. 😉
I still have the OG Advance Wars carts for my GBA.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
I picked up Advance Wars 1+2 Reboot for my kid for Christmas. $60 still after coming out in 2023.
nintendo.com/…/advance-wars-1-plus-2-re-boot-camp…
(* “My kid” - He’s 29, he should br buying his own games! LOL.)
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 1 week ago:
The Switch 2 is the first console I’ve just outright skipped in… well… years now. I guess since the Wii U?
Just every piece of news about it as it was coming out made it sound less and less appealing…
$70 games (that never get discounted because Nintendo.)
Games aren’t “games”, they’re download keys.
Special SD cards that are more expensive.
Microphone support requires a subscription after 1 year.
Charging $10 for a hardware demo that should be included, like Desk Job on the Steam Deck.
And, like you say, the remote detonation option, which is burning legitimate players:
gadgetmatch.com/nintendo-switch-2-lawsuit-bricked…
Generally with new hardware it’s “Hey, what’s not to like?”
With the Switch 2 it’s more “What is there to like?”
- Comment on Cannot get genesis cart to work 2 weeks ago:
Looks like you’re right, it used a password system for saves.
- Comment on Cannot get genesis cart to work 2 weeks ago:
Only games with save features and I believe Star Control was one of them.
- Comment on Arc raiders is a horrible game 2 weeks ago:
The mere presence of griefers eliminates this from PVE:
ign.com/…/we-just-started-i-have-nothing-retired-…
Until they come up with servers where PvP is prohibited, PvE isn’t worth discussing.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 2 weeks ago:
With current pricing, it’s going to be tough and that’s no joke.
Even the new Steam Machine is being predicted to be around $1,000.
indy100.com/…/steam-machine-price-cost-release-da…
The era of $600 gaming PCs is 1-3 years ago now.
(NGL - I still want a Steam Machine. :)
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve consistently refused to buy in to Game Pass. I still buy physical games where available. If it’s only digital, I’ll get the Steam version for my Steam Deck.
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, weird how he skipped the universally acclaimed game of the year.
- Comment on Ars Technica’s Top 20 video games of 2025 3 weeks ago:
It’s not #1, it’s alphabetical. 😉
- Comment on No contest 3 weeks ago:
This is like asking “Who would win in a fight, a submarine or a jet?”
The two combat styles aren’t comparable. Star Trek is based on naval battles, in fact, IMHO, the very best OG Trek episode, “Balance of Terror” was based on a WWII set submarine combat novel and movie called “The Enemy Below”:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Below_(novel)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Below
Lucas specifically wanted Star Wars to emulate air combat and dogfights.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 3 weeks ago:
So manufacturers can bill you monthly for the same features…
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 3 weeks ago:
Rebadge them with a fancy name and sell them for $20 to the gullible. 😉 “Toroid Choke Core”.
- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 3 weeks ago:
Always use the indefinite article… “a”, never “your”. 😉
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 3 weeks ago:
“But on the flip side, my family and friends will see a scary looking command and immediately be put off.”
More to that… these are exactly the people we have all been telling “If you see someone on the internet telling you ‘type this!’ DON’T DO IT!”
ALT-F4 being the benign one.
rm -rf / --no-preserve-root - not so benign.
I remember a story of someone getting the recursive tag wrong on the chmod command and managed to chmod 000 themselves out of everything on the system… including chmod.
- Comment on What the Linux desktop really needs to challenge Windows 3 weeks ago:
For years and years the barrier to entry was mom or gramma buying a clipart CD for $4.99 at the grocery store, bringing it home, and expecting it to work.
Now that’s not a thing anymore, but they still aren’t using it. So I guess the barrier to entry now is they see that ad for the casino app that “pays you real money” and they expect to download it and expect it to work.
Until mom and grandmom can load up the computer with all sorts of malware that breaks everything, they really aren’t interested.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 3 weeks ago:
This was actually a thing in Hogwart’s Legacy, you had the option of capturing and breeding animals.
- Comment on "i can hear the difference" 3 weeks ago:
My favorite story along these lines…
Someone compared Monster cables to un-bent coat hangers.
gizmodo.com/audiophile-deathmatch-monster-cables-…
“Seven songs were played while the group was blindfolded and the cables swapped back and forth. Not only “after 5 tests, none could determine which was the Monster 1000 cable or the coat hanger wire,” but no one knew a coat hanger was used in the first place.”
- Comment on Seven Diabetes Patients Die Due to Undisclosed Bug in Abbott's Continuous Glucose Monitors 3 weeks ago:
Freestyle Libre was my first CGM and as soon as I had the opportunity to switch to Dexcom, I did.
Each new sensor was wildly low or wildly high, with no option to calibrate. It was really only good for measuring changes, not the actual glucose reading itself.
So "Oh, it’s going up, +5, +10, +20… probably accurate, but is it 80, 180, or 240? Use a finger stick to know for sure.
