TommySoda

@TommySoda@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view many types of content⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are numerous tools already out there for parents to use to monitor and censor what their kids see online. Schools have been using it since the Internet came out and it’s only gotten more robust over the years. Not only that, but kids always figure out a way around this shit and will continue to do so until the end of time because that’s just what they do. The only thing this does is punish everyone and implement more surveillance. And since people are people and kids are kids, there will be workarounds within days even without a VPN.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  While I share your pessimism, I also know that some of these dudes are just scared to lose their job. I’m not saying that they are innocent just that they are in the same boat we all are with our jobs. If I got fired I’d be bankrupt in a month if not less. I’m sure there are plenty of ICE that we don’t see that are freaking the fuck out. The only ones we see in clips online are the ones that will immediately volunteer when asked if they want to go arrest some brown people.

  And to reiterate, that does not make these guys innocent. They are complacent and watching this happen without lifting a finger to help. The “just following orders” crowd, if you will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I do too. I’ve bought it for all my friends or have convinced them to get it. Feels like I’m a drug dealer trying to push it on everyone I know lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But at the same time there are plenty of indie devs that sell games for $30 and then have a few $15 DLC on top of that after a few years. Not throwing shade at those other devs, more just saying that the dev for Stardew Valley could have sold DLC and nobody would have questioned it but chose not to. You could be like Stardew Valley and keep the game cheap, free updates, and frequent sales or you could be like Factorio and refuse to ever put your game on sale and up the price every couple of years and come out with a $20 DLC. And I’d be shocked if Stardew Valley has made less money than Factorio in the long run, especially with it being the in number one place right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And I’d say that it is 100% deserved. Stardew Valley is a once in a lifetime kind of game and has one of the best developers you could ask for. Free new content and updates for 10 years and it’s still like $20 and frequently on sale. The developer actually tweeted out once that if he ever charged for new content that he’d want everyone to publicly shame him.

  “I swear on the honor of my family name, i will never charge money for a DLC or update for as long as I live. Screencap this and shame me if I ever violate this oath.”

  Stardew Valley is the gaming industry at its best and one of the best indie games out there.

• ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s the point that I’m trying to make. It’s probably my fault as I’m not very good at explaining things like this, and I’m not disagreeing with at all. I’m just saying that there is no way to have a machine or method of travel with a fixed point without knowing its relation to other objects. Just like you can’t know the trajectory of the Earth through space without knowing its relation to other objects. What I’m saying is that regardless of your “fixed point” you will have to do the same math, just in a different order depending on your point of reference. We are dealing with relatively here so the only variable that changes is your point of reference while the math stays the same.

• ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s the thing though. How can you determine the Earth as a reference point without knowing how it relates to other objects in space? “Here” is as useful a coordinated system as a fake absolute positioning system. “Here” is just your relation to other objects. If you don’t know what your relation to those objects is you can’t determine where “here” is, or the Earth for that matter. Whether it’s the machine or the person operating it, something or someone has to calculate where the Earth is in order to use it as a reference point.

  If you are driving away from your friend and 20 mph, from your perspective they are moving away from you at the same speed while you are the one that’s stationary. The only thing determining your location, or reference point, is your relation to each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most people's earliest memories are at around 3 or 4 years of age, which correlates with the age kids start asking "why" for everything. Kids start asking why when they become self-aware.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember reading something just the other day that said we form memories in the womb… I’ll be back imma find a source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romero Games reportedly met with Microsoft just a day before the publisher pulled funding for the studio, and there was 'no mention' of the decision that put over 100 people out of work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Micro$oft is like the new EA. This is the exact same shit EA did 10 years back when they bought up dozens of studios, milked the shit out of them, and then closed the studio so the executives could get bonuses.

• ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  But if you’re in a moving car and “pop” back a few seconds while the car doesn’t you won’t be in the car anymore. If it worked more like rewinding a video you wouldn’t need to do much, but I’m assuming OP means literally going “poof” and now you’re back in time. If that’s the case, you would still need to know how Earth is moving through spacetime. If you don’t know your relativistic relationship to the Earth and every other object in the universe then how would you know where you are or your own relativity compared to the Earth?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And yet i still can’t click on icons on the taskbar to bring up a window that is behind another. Gotta use “alt+tab” until I get to the window I want to show up. At first I just thought it was my PC at work but I later found out that it’s every PC in the entire building. It’s absolutely infuriating that features that’ve worked for 30 years are now suddenly broken in Windows 11. I started migrating to Linux for my home PC and it has only made me hate Windows even more when I go into work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just in case you forgot, getting rid of video games is part of Project 2025. Republicans have had a vendetta against them since Mortal Kombat came out in the arcades back in the 90s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says 'not going to stand' for Netanyahu's continued prosecution⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m so tired of hearing this man say “billions of dollars” over and over again with absolutely nothing to back it up and people just going like “yeah, totally. Billions of dollars.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So basically, they are saying “we invested a fuck ton of money into this so you better fucking use it.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI wins $200m contract with US military for ‘warfighting’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenAI wants the money and the military wants to never have to deal with accountability. That way when they bomb a wherever they want and just say “it wasn’t my decision, it was the AI” and then OpenAI can say “we need more money to make it more reliable. Also we need more training data from the military so it won’t happen again, can we have it all?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Kilmar Abrego Garcia is expected to be released from jail only to be taken into immigration custody⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine going to work, paying your taxes, and just living your life when one day you get taken by people you don’t know and shuffled around to different countries and prisons for literally no fucking reason over the span of just a few months. Can’t talk to your family and probably don’t even know where you are half the time. This can happen to any of us and you’ll never know it’s coming until you are already being detained. It’s so disgusting, inhumane, and horrifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia tells US not to strike Iran, warns of nuclear catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the only country that doesn’t think Iran has nukes is Iran. Can’t say that I trust what Israel, the US, or Russia have to say on this matter either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s EPA to “reconsider” ban on cancer-causing asbestos⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I cannot think of any reason they would do this unless they were just actively trying to kill people. We’ve known that asbestos is bad for 100 years and they finally banned the last kind of it very recently. This doesn’t even make sense economically as it’s not even in high demand. It would be cheaper and more economically viable to leave it exactly where it is. Next thing you know they are gonna start putting lead back into gasoline for literally no reason besides “fuck you.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure if it was up to the developers and creative minds behind the game this would have never been an issue. Sure, things like inflation have made the process of making games more expensive, but it’s not like the extra money is going to actually go back to the developers. I’m so sick of this “games are more expensive to make” bullshit while they treat their employees like garbage and make them work ungodly hours. Micro$oft makes more money in one day than most of us or any of the developers will ever see in our entire lifetimes yet they need to lecture us on why we need to give them more money.

  To be clear, I hold no grudge against the actual developers of this game. The first one was pretty decent and I’m sure this next one will be relatively good as well. But remember that we are talking about the company that forced Arkane to make Redfall when they had no desire to make it and after it failed fired everyone at Arkane Austin and closed the studio. This isn’t about making their money back to cover the cost of development, it’s about making as much profit as possible with the least amount of effort possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Your dick sounds pretty good to me.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Persona 4 Revival - Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No worries, I appreciate the follow up. Glad it’s coming to them all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Persona 4 Revival - Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So… Is this going to be an Xbox exclusive? Hopefully that changes after it comes out because I don’t have an Xbox but absolutely love and own all the Persona games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colorado’s governor vetoes landmark ban on rent-setting algorithms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t heard very many good takes from this guy lately. Seems he’s kinda fucking over his whole state. Was he always this bad?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as I love the Doom games I’m not really a fan of the $70 price tag. The Doom games are great games but it’s not like they are in my top 5 favorite games or anything like that. I’ll wait for a sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitter hit with $8.2 million verdict following eviction from Boulder HQ after Musk takeover⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  More money than I’ll ever see in my entire life and so little money to him that he’ll make that much on his way to the bank.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t even buy Borderlands 3 for $60 and there’s no way in hell I’d pay $80 for something similar. I spent the full price of Baldur’s Gate 3 for myself and two of my friends for a total of $180. Make the game worth it and you have my money. If the development cost of games has gone up then prove it and make better games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And look, I’ve played early access games before and I’m used to playing games that do a server wipe every once in a while or saves being incompatible with the new version, but I’m talking every update and multiple times a year. It makes it so the only sense of progress you feel is when you buy a ship with real money so you can still have it on the next update. It’s a very exhausting game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Love this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  (Seeing the birthday spike.)

  Nice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone that played star citizen and enjoyed the gameplay very much, this game has been basically ruined by greed for years now. They basically discourage playing the actual game with these practices. Sure, you can work your ass off and make a butt load of money to buy a bunch of cool guns, armor, and ships, but as soon as they do a server wipe, which they do fairly regularly, most if not all of it will get wiped clean. But if you give them real money you get to keep them everything after a server wipe.

  I even had a friend where his ship, bought with in game currency, glitched and he was able to keep it several updates later with no issue while mine disappeared. We both bought them with in game currencies at about the same time. Mine disappeared as soon as the update came out and he had it for almost two years! To me that sounds like it’s intentional and they could totally get away with letting you keep your stuff but they choose not to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Borderlands 3 was barely worth $60 and I still waited for it to go on sale.