criss_cross
@criss_cross@lemmy.world
- Comment on android 2 hours ago:
I remember when Android was about an open ecosystem full of various phone providers and choice.
Now it’s basically
- Samsung
Fucking lame
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 1 day ago:
Oh absolutely
I say that less as a knock on the game and more that there were technical compromises made back in the day as well. Nostalgia sometime last hits and people assume everything ran blazing fast.
- Comment on Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency? 1 day ago:
Classics still had lag. DK Country 3’s final boss was so laggy it’d affect the boss music.
Not quite super classic you mentioned but a chunk of the speed run tech around Super Mario 64 is how to optimize the camera to avoid lagging on certain effects (the sunshine to the wing cap, the top tower in whomps fortress, the sub in dire dire docks).
Also OOT only ran at 20 fps
- Comment on Trump shooting and Biden exit flipped social media from hostility to solidarity: how political crises cause a shift in the force behind viral online content ‘from outgroup hate to ingroup love’. 1 day ago:
No? Haven’t heard that one.
- Comment on Trump shooting and Biden exit flipped social media from hostility to solidarity: how political crises cause a shift in the force behind viral online content ‘from outgroup hate to ingroup love’. 1 day ago:
5 inches away from the best day of everyone’s life
- Comment on Chevy has a hot new model! 2 days ago:
Funny it looks just like the old shitbox
- Comment on leading ai company 3 days ago:
All that’s missing is the linked in dweeb quoting this sayin “Elon is truly ahead in the AI Game!”
- Comment on 95% of Companies See ‘Zero Return’ on $30 Billion Generative AI Spend, MIT Report Finds 1 week ago:
Nah. Profits are growing, but not as fast as they used to. Need more layoffs and cut salaries. That’ll make things really efficient.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 1 week ago:
I’m very surprised that people are so scared about a mayoral election. Yeah it’s NYC but like it’s not like he’s gonna have that much reach that the fucking PM of Israel needs to make a statement about it.
- Comment on sorry lenin, the look has been gentrified 1 week ago:
Are they also going to tell you why the latest comic book movie is too woke and destroying the very fabric of culture?
- Comment on Google CIO Calls Trump Admin’s Climate Denialism “Fantastic” | Ruth Porat called for data centers to be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear 1 week ago:
Yeah like that was the point was to centralize everything on electric power so you can work on swapping out things like coal for more sustainable forms of electricity.
How that is a negative for data centers are some mental gymnastics I’m not willing to make.
- Comment on Going critical! 1 week ago:
Huh. TIL. Thank you for the explanation.
- Comment on Going critical! 1 week ago:
I’m not even sure what the joke was supposed to be.
It’s the worst kind of AI slop
- Comment on Well that didn't work out as planned 1 week ago:
Isn’t that just the evolution of all meme communities?
- Comment on Truly a 1984 moment 1 week ago:
Fuck my license upload isn’t working can someone tell me what the text says?!?!?
- Comment on Checkmate. 2 weeks ago:
Aww shiiit I’m cooked!
- Comment on Sony Q1 2026 Earnings Call; "...in gaming business and moving away from a hardware-centric business to more to the community- based engagement business..." 2 weeks ago:
Shitposting on Reddit and demanding PSN accounts
- Comment on You have played yourself, Kagrenac 2 weeks ago:
DJ Mojovision
- Comment on Damm WaterCatholics 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point 3 weeks ago:
MBA dweebs running VC firms wanna desperately replace people with AI for short term profits.
- Comment on We too often minimize the sacrifices parents make for us 3 weeks ago:
I’ll engage honestly with this for a sec.
Yes, parenting is hard work. I have kids myself. It’s not easy and can be rather thankless at times.
I think what people are downvoting/getting upset with you about is that there’s a lot of parents who take the above and say “you owe me XYZ. Do you know how much I sacrificed for you !?!” My family did this to me. It’s heartbreaking when they pull this card and you’re just trying to get them to…well just not be shitty towards you and your family.
You kinda opt-in to the thanklessness a bit. Which renders the “owing” argument moot.
- Comment on Just a little... why not? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah it basically goes character by character and asks “given the prompt the user entered, what’s the most likely character that follows the one I just spat out?”
Sometimes people hook up APIs that feed it data that goes through the process above too to make it “smarter”.
It has no reasoning or anything. It doesn’t “know” anything or have any agenda. It’s just computing numbers on the fly.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 3 weeks ago:
Honestly I mostly agree with you if you include the DLC. IMO Outer Worlds is a game about moments. Each contained story arc in Emerald, Monarch, and the 2 dlc locations are so good. There’s a lot of different ways to approach them and different turns you can take. There’s also so many small moments like the woman in Byzantium who
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Wants you to investigate the early retirement process because she feels like she’s missing out on luxury. Only for you to find out it’s just a funnel to lead people to a testing bed. You can then lie to her and say “yeah it’s totally great. You’re missing out and should do it too “ I laughed so hard at that.
But the over arching story isn’t there. It builds up to some cool points and then just sort of stops. If I didn’t play it with the DLC I could see how people would be disappointed.
Also like you said if you go into it expecting FO NV in space you’ll be sorely disappointed as there’s not much gear reward for exploring. There’s unique weapons but if you invest in the bare minimum into engineering you can craft much better weapons. It’s more about building something YOU want to run. Which is cool and fun , but if you’re expecting a loot game you’re gonna be disappointed. I think this part is less a knock on the game though and more of a lack of engaging with what the game wants you to do if that makes sense.
- Comment on Outer Worlds 2 cut to $70 after backlash 3 weeks ago:
I agree with your general point, but I think the problem is OW1 didn’t stick the landing.
Not gonna lie if I didn’t buy it on sale and didn’t get the DLC I would have been disappointed. Emerald Vale and Monarch had really great self contained stories but once you get to Byzantium it starts to lose steam. The 2 DLC are also the strongest stories in the game.
- Comment on modern tech 3 weeks ago:
Cursed
- Comment on pragnent 4 weeks ago:
They need to do way instain mother> who kill thier babbys, becuse these babby cant fright back? It was on the news this mroing a mother in ar who had kill her three kids, they are taking the three babby back to new york too lady to rest. my pary are with the father who lost his chrilden ; i am truley sorry for your lots
- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 4 weeks ago:
Citizen Z would make a great bond and there’s nothing you can tell me to convince me otherwise.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 4 weeks ago:
Ooh yeah that’s a bit much.
Games are gonna copy major mechanics. Look at all the BOTW clones that came out after Breath of the Wild was successful. But you have to put a liiitle effort into mixing up the art style and color palette.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 4 weeks ago:
Well considering GOP reps are getting 500:1 call ratio on the Epstein files people DO care this much.
It’s possible to care about multiple things at once.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I have a feeling they typed “how to respond to accusation that I outsource my thinking to an LLM” (into Claude to mix it up a bit) and it gave that response.
They’re in the picture and don’t like it.
