BlameTheAntifa

@BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waterfox 6.5.10: Bing terminates search syndication deal⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d imagine their search results will get slightly better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dune Awakening worms its way past one million sales, Funcom's best performing game to date⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The PVE survival gameplay - which is most of the game - is very, very good. It never stops being tense and scary. Worms, sand storms, quick sand, etc… they created an incredibly compelling game world.

  It does fall a little flat when you try to focus on missions/quests, because they are geared toward making you explore. If you get ahead of them, you will find yourself repeating things a lot. Even focusing on missions, you’ll repeat certain things a little too often. The story is surprisingly good once it gets going.

  The PvP portions of the game are an out-of-control dumpster fire. At around 80h it suddenly goes from being an excellent PvE survival MMO to being “Escape Tarkov: Desert Edition”. The game seems built around this idea of faction conflict, but the PvP is a completely unstructured free-for-all. It’s awful. They’ve said they will make some of the endgame PvE instead of solely PvP, but it doesn’t sound like they plan on actually fixing the PvP at all.

  Overall, I recommend it. It doesn’t succeed at everything it tries to do, but it does try. And even if the developers seem a little stubborn (especially with their lazy, half-cooked PvP approach) they are definitely listening to feedback.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has anyone migrated from a Markdown notes app to another?⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I was recently turned on to Notesnook and it’s been incredible. It really is a FOSS replacement for Evernote.

  Getting sync server running is a bit of a challenge, though, since there is very little documentation for it. If you’ve ever set up and internet-connected server before, though, it’s not too hard to figure out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey PC game developers, please follow Stellar Blade as an example for PC optimization in the future, because it absolutely rocks⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Stellar Blade ships with malware. Nobody should be paying for it or following its example. It’s really distressing that this even needs to be pointed out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Exhibit number 4,923,768 for why patents should not exist and need to be aggressively banished from civilization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bisexual⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  While the joke is indisputably funny, it’s important to remind everyone that it’s still a harmful stereotype. Bi/pan erasure is a genuine problem. You don’t stop being bi/pan simply because you enter a monogamous relationship.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The alternative is “drop bombs”.

  Rounding up leaders and putting them on trial seems like a more civilized international approach than engaging in the same bloodthirsty, explosive, surprise-murder that is literally the whole problem here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Salesforce and Slack announce price hikes following expansion of AI integrations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know there decent alternatives to SalesForce, but I’m not sure what you’d replace Slack with. Teams is far worse in every conceivable way and I’m not sure if there’s anything else out there that isn’t already speeding down the enshittification highway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of humanity will come about through people's apathy.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. However, it’s important to point out that the apathy has been manufactured by those with the wealth and power to benefit from it in the short term.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The balance of security and privacy sounds weird when privacy IS security.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Consider all the governments currently trying to pass dangerous, invasive, anti-privacy, anti-encryption laws in the name of “safety”. I think that’s what the OP is talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A simple experiment to demonstrate that Astrology does not work is to keep a detailed journal of events, and periodically check past horoscopes for accuracy.*⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These types of things are inherently introspective, so anyone that puts a little effort into it will always find an explanation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This why they are so obsessed with AI. When AI can do whatever they want, the rest of us will be exterminated like pests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have always been amazed that countries are allowed to get away with this. You would expect that a country that does this would have their leadership rounded up by an international strike force instantly and hauled to Hague.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do so many games have such broken, awful, undercooked end-games? It’s endemic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gerrymandering. Registration purges. Compromised voting machines. Voter suppression and intimidation. Banning mail-in voting. Closing, relocating, and reducing polling sites.

  Insert meme: “Is this voting rights?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dune game⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The end-game gets extremely grindy very suddenly, like running into a wall. Until you reach that point, it doesn’t feel grindy in the slightest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dune game⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The PVP implementation is a dumpster fire that undermines everything the game (and source material) is supposed to be about. If they aren’t going to do lore-appropriate faction-based PVP, then they should just remove PVP entirely. It’s amazing how wrong they got that when everything else is so right.

  Otherwise, the game is incredible. It’s tense, scary, satisfying, lore accurate, and never, ever dull.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I think I've found the issue⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sushi by IKEA?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows Defender is absolutely useless and Malwarebytes is only slightly better. I’d recommend Bitdefender, and make sure it’s installed on a freshly erased computer. Digital security is an arms race and the bad guys are winning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But… something something security and something something not a monopoly… am I doing this anti-consumer white knight thing right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American attitudes about AI today mirror poll answers about the rise of the internet in the '90s⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe they meant “imperialist”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patreon will increase the cut it takes from new creators⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ko-fi is a much better option for creators. Don’t let Patreon fleece you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if this is why it seems like CAPTCHA has been getting increasingly aggressive and more frequent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Convinced HP's Board to Buy Palm for $1.2B. Then I Watched Them Kill It in 49 Days⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  WebOS was amazing. I was convinced it was the future of mobile computing. iOS was completely proprietary and Android was a dumpster fire. But HP was the worst buyer imaginable. It’s such a shame. What could have been?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accessibility is the only moral use that AI can have nowadays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is patently incorrect. Using it to identify and remove NSFL content, which would otherwise require humans to be psychologically tortured in order to review, is also an ethical use-case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Game Pass might be getting a price hike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s already overpriced, but they will keep doing this as long as enough people tolerate it to make the numbers go up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s New Xbox Strategy Starts with Windows and Ends with No Console⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We already no longer own games. It’s been that way since the DMCA robbed consumers of digital ownership. If your game includes DRM or a EULA, you don’t own it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Google about to destroy the web?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Google disagrees. In fact, the company tells the BBC “Trust us, bro.”

  Non-AI summary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Same-date PC ports of PS5 games remain unlikely, as Sony talk up "thoughtful" multiplatform approach despite Xbox comparisons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my own approach, to a T. If you make me wait, I’ve lost interest. There are so many amazing games out there, many from more deserving indie studios, that the competition for my attention and money is fierce. This goes for delayed releases and releases that launch with malware like Denuvo. It’s very unlikely that I will ever touch either, even at a steep discount.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And most other consumers, I would wager.