DaddleDew
@DaddleDew@lemmy.world
- Comment on Beyond All Reason 12 hours ago:
IMO Supreme Commander failed to capture the original game’s soul had. You had a sense of an epic battle going on when playing. I think it was because it always devolved into playing all zoomed out, watching tiny strategic icons moving across the map, blinking and disappearing. I can’t even tell you what any of the units looked like because we almost never see them. The fact that they gave generic names to units and structures such as “level one point defence turret” didn’t help either.
BAR does a much better job of keeping the player zoomed in and into the action, seeing and feeling so the cool details of the battle going on. Heavy plasma batteries blowing up chunks of advancing armies and terrain, lasers blowing up i dovidual targets in rapid succession, sending debris flying everywhere, this was all what TA was about.
- Comment on Beyond All Reason 23 hours ago:
I understand that, but if a third-party was to make a mod that restores the old names, I don’t see how they could possibly be held legally liable for it.
- Comment on Beyond All Reason 23 hours ago:
I wish someone made a mod for this game that restored the names of the units and buildings to all their Total Annihilation equivalents.
- Comment on Finally, the FPS I keep asking for: Deep combat, classic modes, and an honest-to-god server browser 1 week ago:
The Specialists was amazing. Expect for the players who were min-maxing it, but they were rare. Most people were playing it for the fun of it.
- Comment on France is ditching Zoom and Microsoft Teams for a homegrown video platform 1 week ago:
Zoume
- Comment on My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer. 1 week ago:
That’s performative. Sucks to be the student who will have his life ruined to be made “an example” out of.
- Comment on Denominator, go Mercator 1 week ago:
- Comment on Microsoft Gave FBI Keys to Unlock Encrypted Data, Exposing Major Privacy Flaw 2 weeks ago:
If you really were still naive enough to think that a public tech company cares about your right to privacy at that point, it’s pretty much on you.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 2 weeks ago:
Step 1: Use an open source mail client that doesn’t contain trackers like FairEmail instead of Google’s app.
No further steps.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 2 weeks ago:
Translation: Microslop is finally realizing that they vastly miscalculated the cost/benefit ratio of AI tech.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Fuck this. I want to be primordial soup again.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Of course they want that. So they can control and see everything that people can do on their devices. With Moore’s law there is absolutely no reason why centralizing computers should make sense.
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 3 weeks ago:
I work for a huge organization and my local IT guys have their hands bound. I couldn’t even make a ripple in that ocean even if I tried.
- Comment on Instead of everyone leaving NATO, could everyone else just kick the US out? 3 weeks ago:
Now Excluding America Treaty Organization (NEATO)
- Comment on Windows users keep losing files to OneDrive, and many don't know why 3 weeks ago:
Happened to me at work where they force us to use Windows 11. I had turned on the autosave feature on a Word document I was working on. Little did I know this meant it stopped saving the changes locally and started saving them on a OneDrive copy. I work all day on that file.
The next day I notice the file on OD, find it odd that it is there so I delete it because I want nothing to do with OD. I then open the local word file I worked on all day yesterday and realize that none of the work I did the day prior was saved.
I figured out what happened and fortunately the file was still in the recycle bin. But fuck that whole system to begin with.
- Comment on You ban aid groups and press when you want no witnesses to your atrocities. 5 weeks ago:
Imagine telling a war correspondent that they can’t go to a zone of conflict because “It’s too dangerous, there are people shooting each other there”
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 5 weeks ago:
“Bought them out” is a weak word too though. He placed loyal people on the board and had them vote to give him control of the company.
- Comment on China Is Banning Tesla-Style Retractable Door Handles Over Safety Concerns 5 weeks ago:
Musk nearly bankrupted Tesla when he insisted that the door handles must be flush after stealing the company from its original founders.
- Comment on 'Major scandal': Trump's DOJ caught spying on journalist before Epstein's death 5 weeks ago:
IDK. By ordinary standards that would be a major scandal. But by Trump standards, that’s just another day.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The picture of the still half-destroyed white house will do wonders in the upcoming partial election.
- Comment on This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years 1 month ago:
Best prank idea: Put someone’s browsing history on one of those.
- Comment on War Thunder is getting infantry combat 1 month ago:
I don’t know. I have a love-hate relationship with that game. I can’t stand playing online PvP anymore so I play their PvE mode and it is obvious that this mode doesn’t get any attention by the developers.
On one hand it does fantastic land-air battles when the game doesn’t screw you over. On the other they can’t be bothered to follow one of the most basic rules of game design that is to make sure the players don’t get spawned into an unfair, instant-death situation, let alone trapping them in a spawn-death loop.
- Comment on Microsoft bows to user demand and makes Windows 11's AI Actions optional 1 month ago:
They’ll start forcing it again once they realize that only a minority of people are actually using it.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 2 months ago:
I’m off to buy stock in bananas.
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 2 months ago:
Shit like that is why AI is completely unusable for any application where it cannot be allowed to fuck up.
- Comment on After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be 2 months ago:
This is a multi billion dollar company. Fucking up worldwide updates like they’re running a high school project.
And they want you to pay for that shit. And then pay again through bullshit subscriptions ads and harvesting your data.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 months ago:
Gaben wins the internet once again.
- Comment on OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
Look up the phenomenon called “Chatbot Psychosis”. The chatbot can absolutely mess up someone’s head enough to push them to the act far beyond just answering the question of how to do it.
- Comment on OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
I’d say it’s more akin to a bread company saying that dying of food poisoning after eating their bread is a violation of terms of service.
- Comment on HP plans to save millions by laying off thousands, ramping up AI use 2 months ago:
We already knew that HP was a shit company. No change there.