PieMePlenty

@PieMePlenty@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they are a company and a board of ethical leaders to ensure it doesn’t turn to shit is no guarantee it doesn’t turn to shit. BlueSky is something a corporate mindset person creates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  1300$ in 17 years. Around 1200 games. I think I probably spent more elsewhere and got steam keys. I still have a physical copy of portal 2, which was cheaper at release than on steam haha. Good times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it and yeah, it does sound like you have other things to worry about. Not everyone does though. Most people who are hurt by the pricing of a video game console are probably in a better position where their more basic needs are already met.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo ‘warned to expect 145% tariff on Nintendo Switch 2’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And if you go to Ukraine, Gaza, Sudan, Congo, people are worried about losing limbs, life and actual stage 1 Maslow survival. They probably envy your problems right now. They keep focused on shit that actually matters, like not dying.

  Yeah, people care about different things related to their circumstances. That’s life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you use your blinker in a car?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its the only way you can signal your intentions. Being predictable is the best way to ensure yourself and other from harm on the road. Combine these two and its a no brainer. Always use them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 price to rise in Europe, Australia and New Zealand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  50 eur, second increase in its lifespan. 1st increase was 50 eur as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t they just follow the trends and write short interesting pieces of the game-du-jour? Cant the content we see coming from streamers, tiktokers and youtubers be matched by professional media publishers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linkwarden (v2.10.0) - open-source collaborative bookmark manager to collect, organize, and preserve webpages, articles, and documents (tons of new features!) 🚀⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love the archived version to use the actual view the user sees. For content that is locked behind a login, the client apps (or browser extension) could send the final document to LinkWarden to store. It would also get rid of cookie warnings the user has already accepted. In these cases, archive.org preservation would be disabled for privacy reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo president responds to Switch 2 price increase fears amid Trump tariff fallout⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Business to business is different than the consumer market. Nintendo comes to Nvidia and orders a custom product with a minimum order of 10 million chips, Nvidia wants that deal. They aren’t going to arbitrarily increase the price because they can because Nintendo can and will move to another vendor. Nvidia wouldn’t risk fucking up a long-standing relationship like that, especially since Nintendo is a repeat customer, and they can rely on repeat business from them each year. These are long standing relationships that don’t just fall apart that quickly unless one party wants to drastically change what they are doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Freelancer. No need for any remastered nonsense, just patched to work on modern systems.

  AvP2, same deal.

  Id actually like to try the mess of a SimCity game EA put out in 2013, for some reason it’s still not on steam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Ubisoft spent $2.1M on influencers to secure the launch of Assassin's Creed Shadows⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So marketing? What’s the problem here? Should they have spent it advertising on radio?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨90s band alignment chart⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My first thought exactly. To do so, we must bend space itself? We’d need a wormhole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We no longer own our products.

  This is a popular saying but its not as clear cut. You have choice. You can own the products you use or buy. So why don’t you?

  Yes, the software we used yesterday is no longer a one time purchase today. However, you still own the software you bought yesterday and you have choice to buy new software which you will own or you can subscribe to a service providing the updated version of the new software. Example:

  I can still use a purchased copy of Adobe Lightoom from 2010.
  I can buy a new license for Affinity Photo today and use it forever.
  I can pay to use Lightroom as a service.

  Imo, the only price you pay is the trek you take into unfamiliarity brought on by using new software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not from the US but maybe, some day when I’m old and grey, I’ll visit one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While many (if not most) countries have national parks, the policies surrounding them are different. A simple thing like camping is often restricted in European parks, mixed land use is allowed so you are more removed from pure non human nature. As a result, the experience of visiting one may be vastly different - depending on what you are doing. American national parks are exceptional not because they are the only country that has them - which isnt true as you pointed out, they are exceptional because of the governing policies surrounding them.

  I’d surely visit one, before I left, because the experience isnt going to be the same in any other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Its too bad that some people seem to not comprehend all chatgpt is doing is word prediction. All it knows is which next word fits best based on the words before it. To call it AI is an insult to AI… we used to call OCR AI, now we know better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Announce Virtual Game Cards (Digital Game Sharing)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get why they needed a 14 day limit. Sounds half baked to me. Steam, although with its own limitations, still does a better job at game sharing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silent Hill f has been banned in Australia, and no one knows why⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The children are safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The specter of a GTA 6 delay haunts the games industry: 'Some companies are going to tank' if they guess wrong, says analyst⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m the same but I may just be getting older. Last game I was hyped for was Cyberpunk 2077 coming off of the stellar Witcher 3 and having followed both games I loved, W1 & W2. Sometime before it released, I just dropped all hype for it and haven’t felt the same after. Haven’t even played it yet either.

  Today, I let myself be pleasantly surprised by games I never thought I’d like. I really liked Death Stranding and I’m waiting for its sequel but still no hype… I haven’t even seen the trailer yet and I doubt I will… I’ll buy it and go in blindly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half Life: Alyx is Five Years Old Today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It wasn’t “my” Half Life but it was a damn good one. It felt true to the series and that brought a tear to my eye. The writing, the environments, the soundtrack all felt very Half Life without compromise. I didn’t like that it was a VR title but I understood why they went that route. In 2D, it would probably lack in depth (in more ways than one).

  I borrowed a VR set from a friend to play it and bought the game at 60% off, which it frequently drops to. I’d urge anyone who has a VR capable PC to try and play it some way but VR is always going to restrict access to this. I’ll probably play through it in 2d Mode (via mod) some day in the future to try and relive it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  protest is storming and taking control of the representation of authority in the country.

  Jan 6. 2021… just the other side protesting though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fence it, let it regrow and let lose a shit ton of chickens. Market free range eggs.
  If you lease it to a farmer, you’re no better than a landlord and I don’t see why the whole of lemmy doesnt start pissing on you right away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you aren’t worried about power costs, yes, it’s worth it.

  I calculated the power cost required to run a 100w PC 24/7 for 2 years, equals a new mini PC. So I just bought a NUC which draws 7-8W. Less noisy too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game is it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I once went on a role playing server and it had really nice people on there. Everything was civilized too, they had police officers walking around lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yall guess who showed up in my dms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So whats the scam?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avowed review by Fully Ramblomatic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like someone is abusing sponsor skip on this video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My samsung microwave that the need to beep 10 fucking times. Shut the fuck up already. God damn it. Instead of giving us the options to turn off these noises and lights, we are given other functions we never use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  never forget that spez admitted to silently edit user comments that criticized him

  I guess thousands of redditors saying ‘fuck u/spez’ over and over got to him. I wonder it such comments would fly today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Or LED’s in modern electronics. I have a wine fridge that insists on telling me its temperature in the brightest possible blue segmented display. And apparently, I must be informed of the temperature at all times because I cant turn it off. Blue LED on the subwoofer brighter than the sun. I had to put a yoshi plushy infront of it to block the light. Wireless phone charger next to my bed… you bet that puppy needs a bright ass light to light up my sleeping area… FUCK! Electrical tape is my best friend today, I use it to cover up any of these stupid LEDs now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox360BadUpdate not permanent software mod for Xbox 360⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tony hawk again? I remember I used THPS 3 or 4 to mod my og Xbox last year since you could run code thought loading a save game through it.