TankovayaDiviziya
@TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 9 hours ago:
The majority of Polish kids in my old school are unbelievably good with computers. My friend’s dad is also a self-taught electronic and IT specialist.
Now, I am really curious as to why so many Poles are tech wiz. I know GOG’s DRM-free philosophy is influenced by communism, but I can’t see how communism influenced many Poles to be good with IT as well.
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 9 hours ago:
Me: Come on, pop already. There are funds betting on AI bubble burst, ready for me to invest in.
- Comment on Nvidia insists it isn’t Enron, but its AI deals are testing investor faith 9 hours ago:
Nvidia has competitive edge. They won’t go bankrupt but they they will undermined heavily when the AI bubble pops.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 days ago:
Unless we live in a one-world government, the default set up is the Thucydides trap where one state tends to dominate.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 days ago:
Who’s going to dominate trade? Cos people are hoping it won’t be an authoritarian state like China.
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 1 week ago:
Piracy saves money
Precisely. I don’t see torrenting wrong if you really can’t afford digital streaming or games. Netflix has made piracy less popular when it first came out, but with the proliferation of copy cat rival services, piracy became vogue again.
I prefer not to torrent games unless the game is owned by huge asshole companies like EA or Ubisoft. These big companies could absorb financial losses from torrenting because there are always idiots who will pay for their bog standard games. Small devs should be supported instead (also, small time filmmakers should be supported by paying to see their movies as well).
My friends think I am rich despite circumstances. But no, I just save money by torrenting. I use the money that I don’t buy essentials with, on learning new skills, socialising and developing hobbies. My rule of not buying new games until I clear a portion of my backlog is working on not going on impulse buying that my friends tend to do. A couple of my friends are pretty frivolous and complain when they don’t have savings. A lot of younger folks still think that the environment that allowed boomers to spend money and enjoy their youths, buy a house, get married and then raise a family with couple of kids still applies. Now, we have to sacrifice one over the other and this is what I have been telling people in my generation.
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 1 week ago:
Not really. It’s more about what options are there. Of course, the left argue whether through peaceful or a violent revolution. Personally, I see violence only as the last resort. But even so, we argue what the catalyst should be for an open revolution. While Trump’s ICE kidnappings and brazen violation of constitution, it is clear he is provoking people to give him legal grounds to incite the insurrection act, and consolidate his power.
- 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' 1 week ago:
You can try to be ethical under capitalism, but it will be almost impossible.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 2 weeks ago:
Years ago I understand why streaming services want to implement paid subscription. But now, I heard that even on premium you will still get ads! It is just milking more money at this stage!
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 2 weeks ago:
Same. I mostly watch informative and educational videos on YouTube.
I am mostly on Nebula these days but it’s problem not to avoid YT because most content creators are still on the platform.
- Comment on Makes perfect sense 2 weeks ago:
Of course it’s Hank Green who would question it lol. But you’re not the only one!
- Comment on Free PC Game Keys to Give Away (Merry Christmas!) 2 weeks ago:
Injustice Gods Among Us if it’s still available!
- Comment on Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Original Sin 2 I mean
- Comment on Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I am currently playing Divinity 2, and the game’s humour and lore is indeed dark.
- Comment on Marco Rubio bans Calibri font at State Department for being too DEI 2 weeks ago:
Times New Roman is precisely what Trump admin wants. You know, since the far right has a hard on on the Roman empire.
- Comment on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content 2 weeks ago:
Me: Maybe in a few MORE DECADES people will wake up!
What Westerners don’t realise is that Facebook’s main audience are people from developing countries. FB provides free and unlimited access to everyone even without internet data. But the actual price? You guessed it.
- Comment on 6🤷♀️7 3 weeks ago:
I don’t make fun of gen alpha for 67, but we have to admit that the meme is a random nonsense. Nyan cat, rage comics and vine clips do have a point which makes them funny, but shouting 67 while doing so without any purpose simply because it’s a meme is inherently pointless. Let the kids have fun with 67 but it is just so random.
- Comment on Dude's rock 3 weeks ago:
You just offended my entire gender.
But yes, that’s true and it’s bad that about half are fucking idiots.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 4 weeks ago:
I just go for the easy ones. I don’t bother with getting 100% achievements.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 4 weeks ago:
I never cheat online multiplayer. I like to be challenged and cheating ruins it.
I hate that modding is considered cheating by some games when all I want is quality of life improvement. Divinity 2 does this by disabling achievements if you installed any mods but thankfully there is another mod that re-enables achievements.
- Comment on To celebrate Oxford Word of The Year, Submit your worthy ones for rating in the comments 4 weeks ago:
Not so much as ragebait but unpopular opinion. I think most Lemmy users are highly paid middle class, tech workers who are out of touch with the genuine grievances and feelings of the working class, whose previous manufacturing jobs were outsourced and left with no alternative. They are then left to compete with just as poor immigrants for artificially-induced resource scarcity. And then Lemmings call them ignorant redneck hillbillies without listening to their lived experience. Sure, many former manufacturing blue collar workers could re-skill, but it is easier said than done, since most people find it hard to re-adjust and prefer to stick with their trade.
Now that there is huge lay off of tech workers the past year in preference to cheap immigrant labour, and cost-free AI, many Lemmy users are starting to realise and feel the experience of working class who had been left by globalisation.
I am increasingly becoming socialist. At some point we will all need UBI.
- Comment on xkcd #3175: Website Task Flowchart 4 weeks ago:
The stupid 2FA-ception is the worst. You need 2FA app to use an app that requires you to register with an email and then asks you to use another 2FA app. Thankfully, I am using a FOSS 2FA app that got rid of the complications.
- Comment on Be careful with this information 4 weeks ago:
If The Onion is an actually serious journalist website, this will be their type of headline. They’ll fully embrace sensationalist headline without being clickbait.
- Comment on Lying can be so complicated 4 weeks ago:
If a person could not handle being monogamous, and the other could not handle polyamory, they should find partners compatible with their desires instead of cheating on one another.
Consent, mate.
- Comment on Lying can be so complicated 4 weeks ago:
It does not work for most people because they couldn’t handle the jealousy.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
VICTORIA NULAND!!
- Comment on The Turing test has been inverted. 4 weeks ago:
English isn’t my first language, so I get grammatical errors. Now, when I type in my own language, I still get grammatical errors because I’ve been away for so long from my home country. That should assuage any accusations that I’m a bot.
However, someone did mention that I sounded like an anime character before. I think it’s because I made an analysis that sounded too academic, like being dispassionate and analytical. I spent too much time in academia for my own good before. Well, that is better than sounding like middle managers, which people pointed out that AI sounds awfully like one.
- Comment on Assumptions 4 weeks ago:
“Bear hug” is a wrestling move after all.
- Comment on No one else in the world matters but me 4 weeks ago:
70 year old: But I am fast.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Maybe you have ADHD.