otacon239
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- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 18 hours ago:
I was surprised by the name. They used to make really interesting hardware back in the early 2010s. Seems they’ve faded into a rebranded phone company. A bit sad, actually.
- Comment on Does anyone use a phone without a protective case? 18 hours ago:
I’ve not used a case in years. I drop it regularly when I’m at home on the carpet, but outside of that, it might get dropped from hip height once a year. I’ve only ended up with a hairline crack on a single phone in 15 years of owning them.
- Comment on When we're home, we want people to think we're away. When we're away we want people to think we're home. 1 day ago:
I think this comes down to a base sense of privacy. I think we’d rather no one other than trusted parties know really anything about us if we had the option.
- Comment on SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S 4 days ago:
I fixed it. It was 15 million. But I think that point still stands. The Deck has been out for a few years now.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 5 days ago:
I wonder how many collective watt hours this inefficiency adds up to over time in comparison to one that was well-optimized
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 5 days ago:
I can see this perspective, for sure. I definitely didn’t click with this game quite as much with the first go through, but it was the second time where I wanted to build something specific and get into the world more that I had a lot more fun.
You definitely have to suspend your disbelief with the “ticking time bomb” and I wish the story canonically allowed for exploration after the ending, but I also see how that wouldn’t work that well with some of the endings.
I think they ultimately had to choose their battles and I’m hoping for a bit less of that in the sequel if anything.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 5 days ago:
Just another 8-10 years before we get to play it guys!
Seriously, though. I don’t know how you one-up the first game. I’ve been replaying it and I’m just constantly in awe at the number of hidden little gems to go explore.
I just found out the text messages you get from Club Riot are for actual events in world and not just flavor text. I haven’t dug into it, but it almost sounded like they had multiple sets of music for the different artists. Just so many little details.
- Comment on SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S 5 days ago:
I agree with everything you said, but I still don’t think that will change the decision of someone on the fence. The Deck is the odd one out.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the Deck and SteamOS and want it to succeed, and expect them to to a certain degree, but I just know the average consumer and they’ll just look at the SteamOS handhelds as a weird knockoff gaming computer.
We all know how special it is because we were the target market. But when all is said and done, it comes down to what people know.
If Valve was advertising like the big guys do, maybe, but with no ad support, not a chance.
- Comment on SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S 6 days ago:
I hate to say it, but if MS released a competitor, it will probably outsell the Deck 5:1 regardless of quality, if only because of the advertising reach. Your average non-gamer has never heard of Steam. Everyone and their grandmother know MS and would therefore be more willing to get one for their kid.
- Comment on Moonbase Alpha: That time NASA made a meme video game 1 week ago:
Mama Mia
Papa Pia
Baby got that dia^rrrrrrrhea^
- Comment on Amazonian tribe that received Starlink satellite internet sues The New York Times, TMZ, and Yahoo for $180M over defamation and more, claiming a viral 2024 NYT story smeared members as porn addicts. 1 week ago:
Even if they used it for porn right after they got it, who cares? Does it provide other benefits? Then it DOESN’T MATTER.
- Comment on VCs are starting to partner with private equity to buy up call centers, accounting firms and other "mature companies" to replace their operations with AI 1 week ago:
I am so glad I got out of IT before AI hit. I don’t know how I would have handled customer calls asking why our chat is telling them their shit works when it doesn’t or to cover their computer in cooking oils or whatever.
And only after they banged their head against the AI for two hours and are already pissed will they reach someone. No thanks.
Thank god I can troubleshoot on my own.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 1 week ago:
Funny you should mention those themes, because it was heavily influenced by classic Samurai films, which have a lot of similar “betrayal” story beats.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 1 week ago:
Artemis Fowl is a classic example of this. The fantasy world of fairies relies on super advanced technology in their world.
- Comment on Hell Yeah! 1 week ago:
I don’t know why, but I feel like CapriSun skills be involved somehow
- Comment on Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary) 1 week ago:
I fear the day I’m on the receiving end of a “glitch.” It’s ridiculous that anyone can think these are safe after how many of these videos I’ve seen.
- Comment on A real American 1 week ago:
He can change it at any time. He’s not obligated unless he doesn’t want to hear about the bad press.
My sympathy for celebrities is nil. They chose that life. They have the money and the means to retire to the Caribbean and never be seen again.
- Comment on An alternative spelling of the alphabet that makes more sense 1 week ago:
I think Morse or binary are like the absolute extreme end if you just kept going.
- Comment on Fax machine 1 week ago:
YESSSS. This was one of the first videos I ever saw back on the legendary r/youtubehaiku in its heyday.
- Comment on Scientists '3D Print' Material Deep Inside The Body Using Ultrasound 2 weeks ago:
It’s very sci-fi, but I really hope this is the solution we find and we can just repurpose all the bad chemicals into inert/beneficial ones.
- Comment on Got any grapes? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Grow up 2 weeks ago:
You ever see a lion “limber up” before it takes down a gazelle?
- Comment on Love this 2 weeks ago:
I did for about two months before COVID, then immediately needed a roommate to afford to live again.
- Comment on Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says 2 weeks ago:
I currently treat any positive interaction with an LLM as a “while the getting’s good” experience. It probably won’t be this good forever, just like Google’s search.
- Comment on Crunchy 2 weeks ago:
The thought of chomping on a tooth like that is just so unpleasant.
- Comment on Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 Receives Official Mod Support, Fishing Mini-Game Possible 3 weeks ago:
This was my first ever 40K game and I had a blast ripping through bugs. I hope there’s a mod that adds more bugs.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 4 for PS5, Xbox Series X/S reportedly in development, could release this year 3 weeks ago:
GTA IV reoptimized to run in modern hardware with less or at least more reasonable piss filter would be a nice upgrade. None of the visual mods could get ride of the weird haze around everything.
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages' PS5 physical release reportedly has just 85MB on disc, and Xbox isn't much bigger 3 weeks ago:
tl;dr Dark Ages doesn’t have anything left that made Doom 2016 fun for me
I had a real sense that The Dark Ages wasn’t going to be my game. Am I the only one tired of games just piling on completely new feature sets and complicated feature sets to remember, level over level?
I enjoyed Doom 2016 because for a large portion of the game, the mechanics were simple enough that you could get into flow state at even at the higher difficulties. I couldn’t make it halfway through Eternal before I was annoyed at having to switch strategy every 5 seconds.
Dark Ages looks more like an Action RPG than Doom. Not to mention the constant tutorial interruptions. Can we go back to ammo, health and maybe grenades for once in a AAA game? It always feels like AAA means complicated game mechanics, rather than letting a simple gameplay loop speak for itself in a AAA environment with all the other benefits that come with it.
Last thing to add, the intro level of Dark Ages looked incredibly bland, like it was a midpoint level of one of the other games. The game just sort of assumes that the other games have been played and that you enjoyed them and starts from there, rather than standing on its own.
- Comment on Vote manipulation bots using sh.itjust.works? 3 weeks ago:
Thank goodness for the open platform that Lemmy is. It’s nice knowing that these things can be caught so easily.
- Comment on They're sleepy after being fingered for hours 3 weeks ago:
Jeez. NSFW tag please. 🫣