SomeGuy69

@SomeGuy69@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube devs be like⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Google has destroyed their own ads revenue by adding more and more ads. Imagine they’d have stopped with simple side banner and people would’ve not even bothered to use an adblocker because of it. This tiny little banner would’ve been worth as much as the multiple seconds ads now. The companies would pay as much, as there’d be no alternate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix used to not have ads, now it’s ‘celebrating’ two years with them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And every second new user is one with the ads plan. Congratulations, not pay (buying) once again worked out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad writers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s dystopian and not utopic, they can keep it and hopefully lose money. Star Trek isn’t Star Wars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I sometimes think back on this game, I loved playing the large two handed spears. Spinning around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Terraria has some really fun mage gameplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I advice people to not install invincible mods right away. But the game is full with content and you often die instantly, I personally had to use a respawn mod to see all of it’s content. The game is really hard, probably the most difficult game I’ve ever played. Souls games are a cakewalk in comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Minecraft soundtrack never gets old, even 3000 hours later I can still listen to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Golden Sun GBA soundtrack. Also there are some really nice remixes of the fan community. The game is from 2001 but can be played with Nintendo Switch online subscription. As well as the second game (they are basically one game).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks. I’ll check it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft just paused Windows 11 24H2 update for many PCs due to crashes and freezes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m really amazed by their consistent win11 patch fuckups. I’ve never seen it in this dimension with win10. Luckily I’m still on win10 and pretty sure I’ll get the updates past 2025 somehow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The grand prize⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d want to put this in front of the house. No one would steel it ever. lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d welcome them back today if I had a say. Just no extra sausage anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree. But I see why he believes so. If you’ve been into similar topics for a while, like machine learning, AI doesn’t objectively does much more. Then you have countless examples of AI providing wrong informations. However this understates how often real people give wrong informations and how often we have to work with them and fix the issued, be it in our head of by trial and error.

  AI like LLMs are so new, we neither have peaked in quality nor used them long enough to understand the quirks. For a lot of people it will be like learning to drive a bike, learn swimming or learn inner peace and patient with the annoying coworker. Some won’t make it.

  Also understanding AI takes time which I suspect most busy people don’t have. And I don’t even mean understanding the technical side, I mean learning on using them correctly. AI is a tool and to believe it solves all our problems now, is a bit utopic, yet it will become better and better by the day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robinhood admits it’s just a gambling app.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Weren’t they one of those blocking early GME?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Purposely leaving small amounts of crypto on your device is like leaving a few dollars in the console of your car. It lets you know if your property has had it's security breached.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I found this more interesting than OPs post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are scammers getting my email address?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And you have zero social media with your name?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨K-Drama moment⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lucky Goldstar ad too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cognitive Biases⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Availability Heuristic looks out of place. It’s pretty much the only bias I have (beside confirmation bias, which is hard to avoid as sneaky it is), but how should one survive in this world without relying on others? Without doing a scientific bias free study on every topic in life, you’re unavoidable suffering from that bias. A healthy level would be avoiding making it a rule. I regularly disagree with friends decisions, so maybe I don’t have this bias.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The switch only had Super Mario Odyssey. I don’t count rehash with a short new bonus level. SMO was amazing, but where is SMO2?

  Zelda Totk is basically Botw and you just need the later to have the same map. Also both Zelda were no traditional Zelda’s, they were mostly sandbox games.

  Kirby was largely seen as too easy, one really has to be okay with that. I was hyped but didn’t expect it to be that easy. Left me kind of disappointed.

  Metroid Dread, I wish it hadn’t been a 2D platformer as there are so many of them. Most interchangeable. Looking forward M4 still.

  Megaman, I’m no fan of so I can’t say much about it.

  Splatoon is amazing and a big selling point. Same with smash, but you could just own one of the dozen different versions on a different system and would not notice.

  Pokémon has always been my selling point, but everyone knows the issue with those. I literally have more fun playing old DS Pokémon games, even though challenge never was their strong point.

  Nintendo Switch 2 is just Nintendo. While with a portable device you could play so many indie games on the go that either have expensive Switch ports or don’t exist for the Switch at all. Switch 2 is not going to change that. And yeah, I asked myself a lot if I have just outgrown Nintendo games, but truth is Nintendo changed a lot and so have their other publisher releasing for Nintendo systems. I’d not have as much fun with old games, who I have never played before otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  PC is the only console I’m excited about. Switch 1 was already collecting dust and I’m still waiting for that Metroid game that was supposed to.be on the Switch. However portable devices are on the rise, like Steam Deck for instance. I’d currently rather get that than a Switch 2. we don’t even know what games S2 will have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thankfully that’s now allowed in my country. I’d be so pissed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yes, you⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bist du noch single?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom of the year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If tears of children is what drives you, yes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should devs tell people about launch bugs in advance? “It’s an interesting problem” says Starfield and Skyrim designer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, another one of those “players expect perfection”. No, they don’t, but buggy games like Cities Skylines 2 should’ve never been released. Games like Cyberpunk 2077 should’ve been delayed on consoles and not released on old consoles at all, to fix critical PC bugs first. I can understand the issue of infinite delay and finite money, but some games should’ve been delayed just a bit more to not release in a mess.

  Starfield however isn’t that buggy, it’s the typically Bethesda-Jank, but what is much worse is the boring game. Not bugs are the big issue. Starfield should’ve never been released or been much cheaper to cover some of the cost, but instead they hype it and sell ultimate editions not worth the price. It’s lying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout 4 is a great game with big flaws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want to say, I fully agree with the story takeaway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers face 20% game revenue reduction if Denuvo DRM is cracked quickly, according to new study⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One can’t comment on your thread. My app says “post not found” was it deleted?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers face 20% game revenue reduction if Denuvo DRM is cracked quickly, according to new study⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, it’s a complicated read because of the math approximation, but it’s not a bad study per se. I noted my critiques in the original comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Publishers face 20% game revenue reduction if Denuvo DRM is cracked quickly, according to new study⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I could access this study. From the summary alone I couldn’t tell how one would compare Denuvo vs non Denuvo, when only large publisher use Denuvo, which are more likely to be mainstream and more known and therefore more in total pirated compared to an indie title. How would one measure that a DRM is preventing this revenue loss? We barely have two exactly similar games release at the same time. Gaming us fluctuating, game scores are and therefore the sold numbers, some are brand loyal while for others it counts less etc. How has anyone found a way to calculate that? Some publisher are much more likely to use Denuvo but are also more likely to be pirated because their game releases are much more likely to be buggy, boring or mtx infested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much no phone is directed at everyone else’s face all the time, that alone is the huge difference. It’s the differences between someone using their phone and someone actively holding it upright to record the crowd. Surveillance cameras might be out there too but they aren’t sighted by everyone (different by country, some even have to deleted after 24h, unless there was a crime).

  People quickly would tell you to stop recoding, if you’d hold up your phone all the time, even in situations where you’re closer to each other, like in public transport.