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- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 20 hours ago:
I'd rather pay for neither.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 21 hours ago:
I like to think I hold myself to a higher standard or at least just a standard. General consumption, I'm not sure, but for video games, people standards have dropped significantly, the masses accept a lot of bullshit and even defend it.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 day ago:
These people must have genuinely been dropped on their heads multiple times. How do they think anything got done before the "AI" boom? Its mind boggling ahahahha
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 day ago:
Respectfully, fuck right off.
Indie games compete all the time, they make millions. Games are an artform. Any developers using AI are in it for a quick buck and people dont want to reward that versus traditional hardwork.
Indies have been wildly successful for decades before AI has even existed, so dont suddenly pretend its a crutch they need now. And you are down right disrespecting any legitimate artists by defending AI use. It's disgusting.
It's the AAA devs that are going to use AI to pump out more garbage, not the honest indie developers.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 day ago:
It's very much consumer these days, people buy literally anything marketed to them.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 2 days ago:
Isn't that the point of major version upgrades? To make breaking changes?
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 2 days ago:
They've always wanted all of the money without any of the effort.
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 2 days ago:
Good. Fuck "AI". They should have to disclose exactly what it was used for and that should be displayed right at the top of the games store page, along with any extra transactions in the game, extra accounts or launchers needed.
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 2 days ago:
Fuck right off Tim. You cunt.
And you wonder why nobody wants to use your shitty storefront.
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 4 days ago:
Steam Deck proved that Linux can now be a success in the hands of the general public. This is basically a more powerful one you plug into your TV.
While it is a custom PC, like the Deck, its also a curated experience, like the Deck.
The evidence is already there, I would understand you if this was their first product back, but it isnt.
- Comment on Valve confirm the Steam Machine will be priced like a PC with similar specs, rather than a console 5 days ago:
The first time it was largely due to lack of game support and confusion as they were 3rd party devices.
This time pretty much every game will run through Proton, Linux for desktop has matured a lot, SteamOS is much better and Valve are selling it 1st party. It will sell a lot, even if it is priced as a PC... I mean at the end of the day it is a PC, a custom SFF one, which are usually very expensive. This will good value for what it is, you just can't compare it to a console.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 1 week ago:
Its because its used in schools, they learn it, they become reliant on it, its in their workplaces, at their home.
Its why Microsoft dont really care if you pirate Windows, the more people using it, the more reliant they are on it, then they cash in big time at the enterprise level. Same with Photoshop etc etc.
If we taught how to use Linux instead...
- Comment on Kerbal Space Program spiritual successor Kitten Space Agency releases pre-alpha for free 2 weeks ago:
Stationeers has been early access since 2017, instead of finishing it, they made another game and now have two more games in development. This new game will suffer the same fate, guy has all these ideas and promises but never executes on them.
He saw the KSP situation and is trying to capitalise on it, instead of finishing things people already paid for.
- Comment on Kerbal Space Program spiritual successor Kitten Space Agency releases pre-alpha for free 2 weeks ago:
Dean Hall. All you need to know that its going to be abandonware.
- Comment on Starlink rival ‘Project Kuiper’ rebrands to Amazon Leo 2 weeks ago:
They will pay for SEO. You can't type 99% of shit into search engines anymore without some product appearing before the actual thing.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 and InZoi publishers announce voluntary layoff program "amid the era of AI transformation" 2 weeks ago:
You had to discover the world yourself in Subnautica, they pointed you to an island one time, the rest was reading PDAs. You were a silent protagonist, so it was easier to immerse yourself in the world.
Below Zero was so disappointing in every regard except more base building options. (I cant remember if they added them to the original or not in an update). Why did they make the protagonist speak??? Ugh.
You go down on the planet to find out what happened to your sister and you get pretty much railroaded (waypoint here, waypoint there) into leaving without ever even acknowledging your sister again, unless you remember and go looking. All the enemies in BZ had the same "munch munch munch" making them all so uninteresting. The world was small and empty, it literally had no depth. The entire land portion was such a dumb addition and the worm was just incredibly annoying rather than something daunting to deal with.
Subnautica is one of them games you wished you could play blind again. Below Zero though...
It's one of them too often occurring cases where developers don't know what made their original game good.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 and InZoi publishers announce voluntary layoff program "amid the era of AI transformation" 2 weeks ago:
Add it to ever growing list of reasons to not buy Subnautica 2
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, it is just going to be filled with shortened down tiktok slop rather than anything it would have been in the past.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
True, but that's all we got right now. We have to wait and see.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 weeks ago:
The Machine will apparently be about the price of "an entry level PC".
The Frame will "not cost more than the Index".
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 weeks ago:
This is so fucking good for linux gaming
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 2 weeks ago:
So I'm expected to hold a wireless charger as well? When I can just have a light cable plugged in, generating less heat and for less time? Unless you are buying really low quality cables, they shouldn't break and unless you are aggressive with it, the cable and the port will last years. When they eventually wear out, the cable is recyclable and depending on your phone, the USB-C port replaceable.
Wireless charging is for toothbrushes.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 2 weeks ago:
You can't use a wireless charger while in bed. Unless it's magnetic, then it's also got the bending risk.
I lay in bed all the time with my phone charging, the cable bends, but I'm aware of it, it's never broken. I've had this specific one for 4 years now.
What if I want to charge in a different room? Do I buy another wireless charger? That's more cost and material again versus just a cable. Do I unplug the charger and take it with me? Cables just make way more sense. Your phone is tethered to something either way, might as well do it the more efficient and green way and plug a cable in.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 2 weeks ago:
The video was pretty poorly structured to be honest, should have been longer with better information and they didn't post their data anywhere to read. I mean they had ~30 seconds just growing plants...
But the point stands, they weren't testing 1 to 1 on batteries (hard to do anyway). There's good reasons for why manufacturers havent just cranked it all to 200W charging.
The video isn't a sudden revelation, we already knew how batteries behave, they've been tested in labs under much more strenuous conditions too.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 2 weeks ago:
She gets pissed off if you take 2 seconds to plug a phone in? Are you alright brother?
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 2 weeks ago:
The charging pad might also break and they require cables themselves, plus all the materials to make the charging pad, plus every phone has to support wireless, which is even more materials. I've never broken a USB-C cable, that's a user issue, you are either being way too aggressive with them, buying low quality ones, or both.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 2 weeks ago:
The charging pad itself probably requires a USB-C cable itself? It takes much more materials to make them than a cable...
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 2 weeks ago:
https://www.ifixit.com/News/94409/wireless-charging-trading-efficiency-for-convenience
It's true, but wireless charging is still inefficient and should be avoided.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 2 weeks ago:
This isn't a fair like-to-like test though. They used iPhones, which use one battery and then for their 120W test they used iQOO 7, which has two batteries that charge in parallel. They aren't testing the charge rate effects on a single battery, but just how different phones behave.
While it's an okay test to see how certain models of phones hold up, it's not a test for longevity of a single battery using fast and and not-as-fast charging.
So the title, as it often is these days on YouTube, is misleading.
- Comment on Is Fast Charging Killing the Battery? A 2-Year Test on 40 Phones 2 weeks ago:
Wireless charging sucks. It costs significantly more energy to charge the same battery to full.