DaddleDew
@DaddleDew@lemmy.world
- Comment on Half Life 3 1 week ago:
What you are asking for is for Valve to start behaving like developers like EA and Activision, who keep milking the crap out of their franchises with one lazy generic release after the other for a quick cash grab until nobody cares about it anymore.
The fact that Gaben doesn’t force his employees to work on the game just to make money is the reason why Half-Life games are of such good quality. The employees at Valve work on what they are motivated to work on at the moment. They aren’t being given arbitrary deadlines from overhead either. This is how we got amazing games like Team Fortress 2 and the Portal games too. Both Half-Life games were major milestones in video game history by pushing the envelope and currently no Valve employees believe that the conditions are currently set for this to happen with a new Half-Life 3. It would never meet the hype if they tried right now and it would be a huge disappointment.
Half-Life 3 isn’t vaporware either as Valve openly admits that they are not working on it at the moment.
Just accept that great things can’t happen as often as we wished they did.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 week ago:
I fixed it with an edit
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 1 week ago:
- Win 98: Good
- Win ME: Shit
- Win XP: Good
- Win Vista: Shit
- Win 7: Good
- Win 8: Shit
- Win 10: Good
- Win 11: Shit
Microsoft can’t help themselves but get cocky and let Corporate enshitify the crap out of their next OS if they are sitting on a decent one. They will only put effort in producing something decent once they are reminded that they shouldn’t take their customers for granted.
- Comment on trapped! 1 week ago:
In zero gravity this is a legitimate concern
- Comment on We're all a little crazy 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure mine hates me and makes me so stupid stuff whenever I’m distracted.
- Comment on Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements. 2 weeks ago:
According to the article they are doing this to further discourage people from bypassing the hardware restrictions for installing Windows 11.
Don’t worry Microsoft. I am already deterred from installing Windows 11 on any of my current and future machines already.
- Comment on Tesla profits nosedive as more job cuts announced 2 weeks ago:
I wonder for how long they could pay those employee’s salary for with that $56Bn paycheck Musk is trying to give himself.
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu 3 weeks ago:
I right click them and then in the drop down menu that appears I click “block element…”
- Comment on House passes bill to prevent the sale of personal data to foreign adversaries 1 month ago:
or even better: Their collection
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If Capitalism was an online game it would be in dire need of a balance patch. Those builds need to be nerfed.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 1 month ago:
Just deleted my Reddit account. I haven’t used it in over a year now anyway. I was waiting for something like this to make a statement.
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 1 month ago:
And that the “increased community engagement” isn’t mainly comments of people complaining about being tricked into clicking on an ad.
- Comment on Reddit introduces a new ad format that looks similar to posts made by users | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
I bet the “community engagement comments” are just people warning others that it is an ad
- Comment on Fairphone 5 schematics, repair, and recycling documentation is now available 2 months ago:
For crying out loud just make a FairPhone for the North American networks already.
- Comment on CCP demand pianist stop filming in public because they were in the background (Britain) 3 months ago:
Trying to enforce your country’s laws into another country is pathetic enough. The attempt to play the victim by shouting “Don’t touch her!” as if he had attacked them somehow is even more pathetic.
- Comment on Supermarket responds after Reddit user’s warning about self-checkout overcharge — ‘Was annoyed that the total amount due on my supermarket purchase did not equate to the individual items I purchased.’ 3 months ago:
Ragebait had become the new tactic to generate engagement for a while now.
Hopefully people will soon catch on and become fed up with it because I am sure this tactic has been one of the biggest contributing factors in polarizing people against each other and making politics so toxic.
- Comment on HP raising Instant Ink subscription pricing significantly 4 months ago:
Subscription-based hardware business models, or anything that is cloud-based have a strong tendency to do this. They sucker you into buying their hardware with rock bottom prices and reasonable subscription fees and slowly they increase the prices and put more and more features and functionalities behind increasing paywalls.
Never buy anything that you don’t fully own after paying for it.
- Comment on A scandal about Bill Gates would be called Bill Gates-gate. 4 months ago:
Bill Gate²