TommySoda

@TommySoda@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Been awhile since I checked out this website and only now just found out there is a new one right next to the office I work at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nice strong handshake, beautiful digital art⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but what about $7.99?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s something I do that helps with “feeling old” when people point out things that happened 20 or so years ago.

  The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion came out 20 years ago, but what was I actually doing 20 years ago? I was like 10 or 11 years old in middle school and my brothers friend let him borrow the game over the weekend. I’ve basically lived two thirds of my life since then. My first job, moving out of my parents, my first apartment, getting my drivers license, my first car, my first real girlfriend, all of my neices and nephews being born, going to an amusement park for the first time, going to a movie theather for the first time, and basically everything else I can think of because I sure as shit don’t remember much before I was 10 years old. So pretty much everything important that has ever happened in my entire life was between the time of Oblivion coming out and now.

  So yeah, we are definitely getting older. But that doesn’t mean the time in between was just nothing. It feels like 2006 was yesterday because we often gloss over everything in between and don’t really focus on what was actually going on in our lives at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As player numbers fall, Highguard makes the actually-quite-good 5v5 mode permanent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like 75% of the hate for this game is literally just because they had a trailer at the end of the game awards that nobody liked. I kinda feel bad for the devs. The game isn’t amazing, but it doesn’t this much hate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nudify Apps Widely Available in Apple and Google App Stores⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro, I get advertisements for sexbots and nudify apps on YouTube. All of them link to the app store.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember last year when there was a trend of AI generated videos that depicted animals or people doing ridiculous and crazy things on doorbell cameras. Everyone was surprised at how realistic they looked but never questioned why there was enough training data of doorbell cameras to make them in the first place.

  Not that relevant, but it makes it pretty clear how “private” this data was in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goofy name aside, action roguelite Lort looks like a neat fantasy alternative to Risk of Rain 2⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just like to say “Lort.” It’s a fun word to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ai generated logo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what the actual price comparison is for hiring an artist to do your logo or paying for a premium image generation service. At least an actual artist wouldn’t write “I just farted” all over the logo so there is that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, you took the first sentence out and ignored the rest of what I said. My point was that yes that is a reason, but it’s not the only reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, yeah. I already have one. My company gave me a $500 Amazon giftcard for Christmas even though I never use Amazon so I spent it on something I didn’t really want that. Besides that, even my neice amd nephew weren’t excited about it and were like “it only has like two games.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM may be abominably expensive, but hey, at least SSD prices are also exploding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So what you are saying is that I’ll have to choose between buying a house or buying a computer?

  Just kidding, I can’t afford either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s crazy is that they aren’t just doing this because they make more money with AI. They’re doing this because these AI companies have basically pre-ordered a fuck ton of components that have not been manufactured yet to be put into computers that haven’t even been made for datacenters that are not even built all on an electrical grid that hasn’t caught up. As long as the manufacturers get paid they don’t really give a shit, but this is so unsustainable it would be hilarious if it weren’t so catastrophic for the rest of us. And as long as the line goes up as they all circle jerk their money around they’ll all be happy and can pretend the economy is good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And unstable. The amount of shit that crashes on Win11 is absolutely abysmal. Windows Explorer is my enemy on the computers we have a work. At least once a month Windows Explorer crashes or freezes, the task bar disappears and I have to reset it, or fucking on windows on the task bar doesn’t bring them back up (I have to Alt-tab just to get to and window that is behind another).

  It wouldn’t be a huge issue if it was consistent. I’m fine with dealing with technical issues on a regular basis. The problem is that some problems persist while others show up and disappear. And the problems are different on every computer but are all frustrating to deal with. Its always been a thing with Windows but these days I straight up can’t even do certain tasks at work on certain computers because they simple do not work anymore with Win11

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Its so transparently disgusting how ICE is occupying northern states where illegal immigration is hardly an issue. The aberration of slavery has never gone away in the USA.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, slavery was only abolished about 161 years ago in 1865 and the Civil Rights act was only about 62 years ago in 1964. A lot of the older people in our government were in their teens when the civil rights movement was going on. This isn’t some kind of past that we’ve left behind, it’s literally the present as our elected officials have carried their prejudices into old age. And these same boomers could have even had great grand parents that owned slaves.

  Yes, it’s generational hate that they’ve passed onto our generations. But that implies that those exact same people aren’t around anymore which they very much are and are running the government and making the rules. I mean, Trump was almost 20 when the Civil Rights Act was signed and I don’t think he was someone that was on the right side of that fight.

  Obviously I’m writing this from the perspective of a white person and what I’m saying sounds pretty ignorant, and I get that. But at the same time this seems to be something people with privilege seem to forget. We’ve definitely made a lot of progress in a short period of time but it’s barely been half a century. I’m sure most people of color have a family member that had to fight for their rights and were told about it when they were growing up and already understand everything I just said. Realistically we didn’t even make it past a couple generations before we went to… This. And it’s kind of pathetic and disappointing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian hope to have future companions spend less time jumping straight into your bed, and more time with each other⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember turning down everyone in my first play through of Baldur’s Gate 3 as I thought to myself “yo why is everyone trying to fuck me I thought we were just buds.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail's new AI Inbox uses Gemini, but Google says it won’t train AI on user emails⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Google: 😉

  Seriously, if you trust any corporation at this point you are an idiot. Besides, they change their Terms of Service multiple times a year and can opt you into whatever the hell they want at any time. They’ll just send an email that says “we’ve updated on terms of service” and you’ve already agreed to it unless you read through it and go through their convoluted methods for opting out. I remember when every company started doing forced arbitration and the only way to opt out was to send certified physical mail and if you failed to do so by a certain date you automatically agree to the new terms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Regardless of your own personal opinion of generative AI, it’s very apparent at this point that it is widely unpopular. Sure, there are some success stories here and there with AI like Arc Raiders and I can’t argue against a game that is obviously extremely popular, but at the same time I’ve seen games drop off the face of the earth and get their reviews tanked as soon as it comes out they used generative AI. If anything I’d say Embark learned their lesson from their previous game, The Finals, to where they just didn’t even try and hide it for Arc Raiders and I think that helped with their success. They didn’t tell anyone about using AI for The Finals until it released and I feel like that’s a big reason why it never took off. Went from over 200,000 players to less than 50,000 in the span of a month or two.

  I’d say it’s more of an honesty problem. The games that are successful were known to have generative AI from the start while the ones getting a lot of flak are the ones that were trying to hide it. To be perfectly honest, I’m okay with you using generative AI to make your game. Personally I’d lose a significant amount of interest in your game if you did and I’d be pretty disappointed, but I’d have a hell of a lot more respect for you if you were upfront about it than the ones that try to hide it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can they????⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As a feet guy, I will never forgive people like him that have turned the foot fetish into the joke it is today. Makes us all look like creeps and it’s almost impossible to bring it up in conversation in any serious way anymore.

  Also he’s kinda just an awful person. Most of the time he adds himself into his own movies it’s so he can be a creepy perv or so he can say the n word.

  Some of his movies are pretty good though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It doesn’t take a lot of tech skill to be an exec for a tech company. My guess is they fall into the same category as those that see the AI overview on Google and think “wow this is so much better” and never second guess the results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A tale of two social platforms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you think Lemmy doesn’t have a bot problem I’m sorry to be the one to burst your bubble. Sure, it seems less pervasive over here but they are just as numerous. The only difference is bots you agree with and bots you don’t. There’s only one group of bots you are going to be sceptical about and it’s getting harder to spot them by the day.

  But also, Reddit isn’t doing jack shit about it these days. I go there to check the news sometimes when things are slow everywhere else and it’s literally just the same bot accounts posting the same articles and bots of various political affiliations posting in the comments. You basically have to cross check everything you see on the internet. Sure, it’s a good idea to do so regardless of bots, but the “magic” of other people being on the internet is basically dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody in the AI industry cares. He says all the buzzwords and gives them all what they want. What he says is basically irrelevant at this point. Until something actually happens we’re all gonna read about some sort of “gotcha” moment every day as if it makes a difference so we can have our rage moments and move on after we get our dopamine hit by calling him a moron.

  Not talking shit on anyone here, I’m just tired. And I’m tired of seeing a similar headline day after day as if it changes anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My friend that let me borrow his copy of Half Life 2 back in the day would probably say the same thing. And he’s probably just as credible at this point. If it ain’t coming from Valve directly there’s really no reason to believe it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They honestly should have expected this given peoples visceral reaction to anything AI. Personally, I have huge problems with AI and refuse to play most games that have used it. I think it’s poisoning every creative industry and replacing important jobs while using vague the excuse that it makes things “easier.” I’m willing to give Larian the benefit of the doubt simply because of their previous games being amazing, but imma wait for the reviews on this one. This game is still going to be in development for another 4 years and none of us will no what’ll happen between then and now, but for now I’ll remain hopefully optimistic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With the money they made from BG3 they have the means to make Divinity the best it can possibly be and I couldn’t be happier for them. The first two Divinity games were great, don’t get me wrong, but they were basically low budget when compared to the money they got from Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast to make BG3. I imagine they basically have “fuck you” money now and can do whatever they want. I can’t wait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American exceptionalism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but I just wanna eat cigarettes. They make my mouth all tingly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American exceptionalism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, nicotine is a nature pesticide made by tobacco plants. It’s kinda the same with capsaicin and humans love that shit. In a life or death situation this would probably be preferable to dying, at least.

  Realistically this is probably an older manual and shouldn’t be followed to the letter. You should not be eating less than 2 cigarettes a day.

  No, seriously, don’t eat cigarettes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introverts Rock⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, as someone that is an introvert and had social anxiety, the mixup does get a little annoying. Being an introvert with social anxiety when growing up was a absolute nightmare in my experience. Especially because I wanted to socialize but couldn’t bring myself to do it. It’s a constant back and forth between “I need alone time” and “I wish I could talk to people” and it made me hate myself for being introverted. Luckily I’ve managed to mostly get over it as I’ve gotten older and now I’m happy with being an introvert. Now I’m in your boat and most people don’t even realize I’m introverted until they get to know me more personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Brother Is Watching Your Online Criticism of ICE Crackdowns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is that they don’t quite have the resources to do anything about it but are more than happy to let everyone know they are doing it to scare people. We’ve already seen how abysmal their ICE recruitment numbers have been and I highly doubt they’d be able to do anything against more than 50% of the entire population with what they currently have.

  Obligatory Fuck ICE