alienangel

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity bans VLC from Unity Store.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Any reason not to expect all the others to get reported now? If Unity wants to tear themselves down, might as well speed it up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's recall of 2 million cars relies on a fix that may not even work⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Note: it’s not the HTSB or any other agency’s responsibility to figure out a solution for Tesla. They just need to figure out what the bar for safety is, and tell tesla “make it as safe as full low light eye tracking, with whatever solution you want. But if you can’t make it at least that safe your cars shouldn’t be allowed back on the roads”.

  I was the biggest cheerleader for self driving cars because i hate driving - but “our best self driving car still can’t self drive at all” isn’t good enough, and letting them keep doing half assed shit like this does more harm to bringing people around to the technology than good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Removed from sale: Peter Molyneux's Godus and Godus Wars, never finished⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah at least going by what’s reported in this article, Peter seems pretty neck deep in the scamming. If it’s not intentional the most charitable interpretation i can think of is he’s gone senile and someone else is using his name to run the scams:

  Molyneux has copped to failures with Godus several times, saying he’s learned his lesson about overpromising - usually while making grand proclamations about what his next game will be. Godus Wars was followed by 22cans’ only other game still available on Steam, The Trail, which Molyneux said would “build on feelings and emotions untapped so far.”

  Last month, 22cans released their latest game, the business management and invention sim Legacy, which seems to be Molyneux operating in his Theme Park/The Movies mode - except that Legacy is a Web3 blockchain game and they sold £40 million in NFT land two years before launch. 22cans updated Legacy players earlier this month to explain that they’d be ramping up marketing efforts on Legacy soon so as to help attract tenants for its current population of wannabe digital landlords.

  Molyneux, meanwhile, began talking about 22cans’ next game back in October with launch of a development blog for a fantasy RPG set in Albion, which is also the name of the fantasy Britain where Lionhead’s Fable was set.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, I’m not faulting you or the original comment about Jassy, just a general lament about how bad the voting is on polls like this. This thread is full of other brain-dead takes that have nothing to do with tech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst person in tech 2023 - semi final⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bold of you to assume voters even know that Jassy is running Amazon. Most people in polls like this vote based on which name they recognize and dislike the most. The only legit competition in name recognition Jeff had on the right side bracket was Steve Jobs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Senator Warren calls out Apple for shutting down Beeper's 'iMessage to Android' solution⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It just feels like users being restricted to not having any incoming or outgoing communication across operating systems is discriminating.

  That’s not remotely what’s happening though? I have only ever had android devices, but message people on apple devices all the time. I don’t know or care what colour my sms messages show up on their devices, but they do show up. And maybe they have a bunch of iOS-only secret chat orgies they don’t tell me about, but who cares? I can still talk to them across discord, line, WhatsApp, Instagram, fb messenger, slack, Skype, signal, telegram, irc and God knows how many other different chat apps my friends and I have used at various times. The fact that iMessage is Apple exclusive doesn’t make a difference to anything, they all have a different subset of apps anyway even just the android users so i have to have all those apps installed too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: OpenAI investors considering suing the board after CEO's abrupt firing -sources⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t get people who say things like this. The board in question isn’t part of the “for profit” part of OpenAI - they don’t have any obligations at all to keep the company profitable or to protect the investors money. They’re the board of a non-profit who spun of a part of the company explicitly for the purpose of raising money without being accountable to investors.

  Microsoft and all the other investors knew that before they gave them their money.

  The board is very very stubborn because they apparently would rather see OpenAI shutdown rather than let Altman run it, but they’re not ill meaning. They’re following their corporate charter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, why wouldn’t they just give up after a couple of years, silly people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worst fear confirmed: You can't launch Modern Warfare 3 without first launching Modern Warfare 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there are fairly good odds none of my gaming friends have ever bought a CoD game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that require you to unlock the basic functions of the game can suck my nuts.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a pretty common take. Lots of people don’t want teammates or opponents in their multiplayer games who are still figuring out the basics of play (or in equipment/gear/level-based games, have none).

  In games with skill- or level based matchmaking it’s not that bad provided there is enough of an active player base to isolate the newbies to their own pool, but not all games have either of those two things, never mind both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that require you to unlock the basic functions of the game can suck my nuts.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even remember anything in AC6 I would consider a tutorial. Unless he means the first 5 minute mission.

  OP, the only multiplayer you missed playing with your sister was pvp, and you would have been absolutely shat on if you went into pvp. And you would shit up the games for other people too, because no one wants to fight a bunch of noobs all in the same starting gear who don’t know how to move (or worse, have them on your team).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition Calls on Microsoft to Extend Windows 10 Support | PCMag⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah less savvy people are going to do what they always do, just keep running their old system but now with even more vulnerabilities due to lack of security update availability.

  My dad recently asked me to help with his laptop, which turned out to be running windows xp.

  After a lot of hair pulliing I got it kind of working but am gonna give him an old windows 10 (upgraded from 7) laptop, but he’s probably going to be on that indefinitely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Use of AMD Anti-Lag+ technology in Counter Strike 2 will result in a VAC Ban, Valve confirms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Much more limited these days. F1 teams all have to stay within a budget cap these days, and while the top ones are still benefitting from the money they poured into R&D before the caps, ongoing investment is much more limited.