TommySoda
@TommySoda@lemmy.world
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 4 days ago:
You are so naive it’s almost impressive.
- Comment on ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day 5 days ago:
Alright, then show me your text messages and location data over the past year. If you have nothing to hide then it should be no big deal, right?
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 6 days ago:
I played it too and I 100% agree. However, I feel like it’s always a good thing to keep in mind is that the best time to play an online shooter is when it first comes out. That way you get to at least have fun before all the casual people move on to other games and the sweaty people are the only ones left. My friends convinced me to try Fortnite just a couple years ago and all that happened was I got stomped every match and was like “this is fun for you guys?” I’ve been playing Overwatch since release and it’s basically impossible to get a match I’d consider “fun,” so to speak. I just wanted to get in on the fun for Battlefield before it turned into all sweats. Now I’d prefer to just avoid it all together.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 6 days ago:
Not gonna lie, I was pretty stoked for Battlefield 6. Haven’t played one since 3 and all my friends were gonna get it. Guess I’ll just go fuck myself and keeping playing Overwatch or something.
- Comment on Extremists are using Discord to radicalize American youth, officials warned this year 1 week ago:
No, they’re using the internet in general. Discord is just a platform that they can talk on and it’s fairly easy to use. It’s not like Discord advertises these servers and gets people to join them. What’s really happening is that these people are either seeking out these servers or are being sent invites from people already inside.
My point is that Discord is not the issue. If they crack down on Discord they will just find somewhere else to go. You’d have to control the entire internet in a similar way to Russia or China in order to actually stop it this way. It’s a societal issue that they are trying to solve by censorship instead of actually fixing the underlying issues that push people to extremism. I’m sure the majority of these issues would be solved by a system that actually prioritized mental health and getting people the help they need instead of one that pushes these people out of society because they are “insane.”
- Comment on Thousands protest in London over Trump UK visit 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, you are correct. My bad lol.
- Comment on Thousands protest in London over Trump UK visit 2 weeks ago:
While I kinda agree, I wouldn’t wish him upon anybody else. I say Russia can have him. He’s basically a celebrity over there anyway. Him and Jason Segal would probably be really quick friends.
- Comment on Chairman Comer Invites CEOs of Discord, Steam, Twitch, and Reddit to Testify on Radicalization of Online Forum Users - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 2 weeks ago:
Who are the ones really celebrating his death? The ones that thought he was an asshole or the ones that are using his death in every way possible to push their own personal agendas? I betcha in private these people are laughing their asses off and being waaaay more disrespectful than any of us have been.
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford Tells Borderlands 4 Critics To 'Code Your Own Engine,' Calls It a Game For 'Premium Gamers' 2 weeks ago:
Bro you didn’t code your engine either you just used Unreal Engine 5.
- Comment on US | Republicans investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias 5 weeks ago:
That’s why I just downloaded Wikipedia. I’d take an out of date one rather than an “approved” one.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 weeks ago:
Google getting rid of all the things that made people want an android phone over an iPhone.
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 1 month ago:
Imagine bribing politicians to get tax breaks as those same politicians start to take more of a cut than the other side would have taxed you. I’m starting to think everyone that is rich and powerful are also incredibly stupid.
- Comment on Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down. 1 month ago:
Just downloaded it. Thanks my guy.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 1 month ago:
Already got it downloaded. It’s only like 100 - 150 gigabytes or something like that. Got it on my PC, my laptop, and my external hard drive. I don’t trust the powers that be to keep it intact anymore so I’d rather have my own copy, even if outdated.
- Comment on AI at the World’s Biggest Games Event(Gamescom) Booked Random Meetings for Attendees 1 month ago:
I like how every company is pushing to replace programmers with AI yet it can’t even do the job of a receptionist.
- Comment on Google CIO Calls Trump Admin’s Climate Denialism “Fantastic” | Ruth Porat called for data centers to be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear 1 month ago:
Sounds to me like those fossil fuel companies are using those new subsidies from the Trump regime to bribe other companies into switching. And since most tech companies only think of short term profit they’re totally down to go with the option that gives them a discount. Tech companies get cheaper energy while the fossil fuel companies get to make more companies dependent on their product for longer. In the short term, these tech companies will make truckloads of money. But in the long term, not updating the infrastructure to the modern age and actually going backward will only doom them, especially on the global market.
- Comment on Final Fantasy X programmer doesn’t get why devs want to replicate low-poly PS1 era games. “We worked so hard to avoid warping, but now they say it’s charming” - AUTOMATON WEST 1 month ago:
And some people just like ass more than others. I personally think the PS1 aesthetic is charming when done right. But that’s just my opinion, totally fair to disagree.
- Comment on Final Fantasy X programmer doesn’t get why devs want to replicate low-poly PS1 era games. “We worked so hard to avoid warping, but now they say it’s charming” - AUTOMATON WEST 1 month ago:
Nostalgia turns it into an art style and aesthetic. The same thing happened with pixel graphics. We’re going through the ages of video game graphics again as people that grew up with those games are now the ones creating the games. In a few years i bet we’ll start seeing games with the aesthetic of GameCube and the PS2 games.
Personally I think it’s a good thing. When it turns into an aesthetic it never truly dies and it makes the style timeless. We’ll be seeing pixel graphics and PS1 style graphics in games until people get bored of it, which they never will.
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 1 month ago:
If you could explain how you got to that conclusion I would love to know. Not trying to be rude, just interested in where it’s coming from.
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 1 month ago:
That’s not what the data said back in March. I highly doubt it’s gotten better.
- Comment on NASA's carbon tracking satellites are on Trump's chopping block | The satellites targeted for removal are the only ones monitoring Earth's greenhouse gases. 1 month ago:
And I’m sure his loyalists aren’t even competent enough to know the difference either. They have their heads so far up their ass you could probably show them a video of a completely different satellite burning up in the atmosphere and they’d believe it.
- Comment on GitHub CEO delivers stark message to developers: Embrace AI or get out. 1 month ago:
They are so desperate to push this and it’s pretty obvious why. Companies have dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into AI like it was going to revolutionize literally everything and are now forcing it on people to make up for the fact that they were wrong. Don’t get me wrong, AI has its uses, but their whole “solution for everything” mentality is really starting to backfire and they are just trying to make a profit off their investments. Basically “we spent way more money on this than we should have so you better use it or else.”
- Comment on NASA's carbon tracking satellites are on Trump's chopping block | The satellites targeted for removal are the only ones monitoring Earth's greenhouse gases. 1 month ago:
Just leave it up and say you took it down. Don’t even stop publishing the data. It’s not like he’s smart enough to actually go back and make sure you actually did it and he’ll forget about it entirely in like a week. And it’s not like he’s actually going to check. What’s he gonna do? Go to space?
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet 1 month ago:
And as soon as that happens, I’m out. I’d rather just opt out of the modern internet. I already have to deal with my information getting leaked from various different services at least once every couple years it seems. I can change a credit card or an password, I can’t change my ID.
- Comment on YouTube rolls out new profanity guidelines for creators, utilizes AI to identify teens 2 months ago:
This whole age verification thing is going to destroy the modern internet as we know it today. Mark my words, but I have a feeling that if government issued IDs become a necessary component to access these platforms worldwide I cannot see these platforms surviving long term. People already don’t trust these platforms.
- Comment on Protest footage blocked as online safety act comes into force – The Free Speech Union 2 months ago:
Took 'em less than a week to weaponize it. Gotta protect those kids, am I right?
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 2 months ago:
It would help if there weren’t millions of dollars, entire organizations, and even the government that is trying to silence them and cover this up. This isn’t an issue of people not believing the women as I’m sure the average person has been sceptical with this from the beginning. The problem is that the guilty are rich and powerful enough that they can make their problems disappear. The problem isn’t that the people want to know who’s guilty (I’m sure most of the names won’t even be that surprising) it’s that they want to know why the guilty are getting away with it and why the government is actively protecting these monsters. Its the fact that they can get away with whatever the fuck they want, even raping children, and still get to live their lives like nothing ever happened. It’s why everyone on both sides of politics don’t really care who’s on the list, they just want some actual fucking consequences.
The rich and the elites already get away with so much bullshit, and if we let them get away with something as awful as this we might as well give up on calling ourselves civilized.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 2 months ago:
It’s the same religious organization that went after them NSFW games on Steam. Like the games or not, it’s always a slippery slope with this kind of censorship.
- Comment on [Opinion] Western media and politicians suddenly realise Israel is starving Palestinians 2 months ago:
Took them fucking long enough. And it’s not that they finally realized it, it’s that it’s too big to ignore now because they let it go this far. You wouldn’t need to report on starving Palestinians and genocide if you didn’t literally deny it for years. This is what being complacent does.
- Comment on Trump faces backlash as 69% believe Epstein details concealed, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds 2 months ago:
You also have to take into account people that are not sure or simply don’t care that much and have no opinion.
Just 17% of Americans approve of Trump’s handling of the case, a weaker rating than the president received on any other issue in the poll. Among Republicans, 35% approved, compared to 29% who disapproved and the rest who said they weren’t sure or didn’t answer the question.