Sylvartas

@Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC the one thing we are sure of is that they don’t break down, nor do they get out. So you better hope they don’t do anything bad on top of that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a Russian pls confirm⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  French one is actually mostly correct, but the expression is not used that much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show | ICE agents can now ID anyone by just pointing a smartphone in their face.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure they don’t know that and they totally didn’t pick this inaccurate method on purpose too /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perspective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Might be one of these mattresses with a “break” in the middle so you they fold better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HAAAAAAAANNNNKKKK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes there was drama, but I feel like you’re downplaying just how bad they overpromised and underdelivered. As a huge CDPR fan since The Witcher 2, (I even preordered TW3 collectors edition the first day it was available for preorder, even though I usually don’t preorder). That release eroded a lot of the trust I had in them, even though I didn’t preorder this one since I could smell the bs from miles away.

  I actually got the game for like 6 bucks on Steam during the last sale and I’m now having a blast playing through the actually stable and release-ready version. But I feel like I can still see the scars of the rushed development on the game’s main story progression. Like, I’m convinced that act 1 was supposed to be much longer and more fleshed out. Because I can’t explain why a game that has quite literally the most immersive dialogue sequences in the entire industry (in a gigantic open world FPS, of all things) would have you watch a montage of you doing a bunch of cool things with a very cool character instead of actually having you playing through them. Also you can’t convince me that montage was literally supposed to be a vertical slice of act 1 but they had to “salvage” it and actually put it 1:1 in the game because they were legally on the hook for releasing it as an early story trailer with a giant “scenes captured in engine” text.

  They might go back on the “preorder worthy” list if they can abstain from blowing up the game’s hype to the moon and ride it regardless of the actual state of development. And burning out all their best talent on crunch death marches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says AI will probably mean fewer jobs after 27,000 people have already been cut from its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh I think we should definitely “keep alive” the literal millennia of human knowledge and culture that went into horse riding. Also they’re invaluable in case technology/society regresses too much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's real problem was never PlayStation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure Big Picture uses the exact same interface as the steam deck nowadays, which is a much better experience than the old thing. At least when I stream through Moonlight, I haven’t manually launched big picture in years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is intentionally throttling YouTube videos, slowing down users with ad blockers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  YouTube does a shit ton of A/B testing so they probably didn’t roll that change out to everyone yet. I currently don’t have any issues either but they will eventually hit us with that shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pentagon suspends Israel adviser from Joint Staff after discovering posts calling Israel a 'death cult' and the country's 'worst ally'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like that doge guy who was fired after admitting they didn’t find any significant evidence of fraud/mismanagement

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s usually a constant (or several ones with varying degrees of accuracy and size)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved enter the matrix. It was lowkey more fun with the cheats though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conceived in secrecy and born in haste, Aukus (submarine deal) is on its last legs.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All I can find is that the costs followed inflation as expected. And, yeah there were some delays but getting full sovereignty over the construction of your military submarines (because that was the end goal there, the transfer of technologies, including state of the art, silent non-nuclear propulsion, so Australia could ultimately build their own subs “with total sovereignty”, according to the deal). I see zero mention of the terms of the contract changing after its signing apart from that.

  And if you think that’s bad I’ve got some news for you about the delays and costs of that AUKUS thing…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conceived in secrecy and born in haste, Aukus (submarine deal) is on its last legs.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that the subs that France would have already delivered years ago for a fraction of the price, had Australia not cancelled the contract to order American subs that everyone told them would be late and over budget ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s all fun and games until the bears show up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Take the 9950X3D, your kid should thank you. It fares much better in games that are poorly optimized and should otherwise be just as good if not better than the Intel one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So is that watch gottem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My phone is more accurate

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’m not sure why that’s news. At least Nintendo is being somewhat transparent about if

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is Sodium Lauryl Sulfate and why is she in my toothpaste? 😡🤬😡⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Children could also swallow the toothpaste. Not a huge deal if they do it once but iirc it can be pretty dangerous in the long run

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last epoch’s campaign is so mid too. I feel like they somehow both underplayed and overplayed the time travel stuff. At least it’s pretty short

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher 4 | Gameplay Tech Demo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No one has been doing that kind of claims directly since… TW3 actually ? Or maybe Watch Dogs. Epic Games and CDPR know that every content creator under the sun will run with that and make these claims for them to start the hype machine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You probably don't remember these but I have a question⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then I think you’ll have much better luck figuring out a way to get a jack-to-USB adapter to work with your car’s radio

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You probably don't remember these but I have a question⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it will work in USB. Afaik on PC it can only work with iTunes, so good luck installing that in your car. If it’s “that” old though, it should have the one interface that is so perfect it has barely changed in one century.

  (The audio jack…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher 4 | Gameplay Tech Demo⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not unbelievable. If the trees voxelization thing is just a visualisation mode in the engine, it’s stupidly easy to “ship” it into a dev build and activate it with a shortcut. Hell the nanite visualisation thing they showed on foliage before that one is exactly that, and iirc enabled by default in dev, you just need to toggle a cvar to see it.

  Source : have worked on UE5 games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher 4 | Gameplay Tech Demo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe it. I’ve had access to a ps5 devkit and UE5 in the past.

  What I don’t believe is that they can actually run a full-fledged game on the same hardware at the same level of fidelity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sure it's just a coincidence that everything that can be wielded against them either just isn't implemented (good mod tooling) or doesn't work properly (user/instance blocking)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that’s a weak attack, if only because the tankie instances heavily really on it too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not using one with my fairphone, it’s bulky enough already, the entire back is replaceable for cheap and the frame looks solid. I dropped it quite a lot, including on some hard surfaces, and it’s only made a few superficial marks, like it scraped the frame’s shiny coating in that spot, but that’s about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy two longest running best friends.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I say let them cook. Their “worst” game is Pyre (iirc it really didn’t sell well) and it’s still a very good game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy two longest running best friends.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC they (or at least their design lead) explicitly stated that since the founders were Diablo fans, something like Hades was basically their dream.(And imo you can already see some of that in Bastion and Transistor so I don’t think it was PR talk) So it’s not surprising they’d go for a sequel given how well it was received. But I’m sure they’ll stop soon enough, they don’t seem to be the kind of studio that is in it for the money and I’m sure Hades and Hades 2 are given them more than enough money to take creative risks in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greta Thunberg, Game of Thrones actor to be aboard Freedom Flotilla to Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Please do explain