MDCCCLV
@MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca
- Comment on There's still no sign of Star Citizen 1.0, but it did just get a revamped referral program so the die-hards can tempt in even more saps 3 weeks ago:
The money is going to salaries, so it’s basically just extended development. They’re all working and doing something. It’s basically just instead of releasing a game 6 years ago that was barebones and okay they’re making the sequel and won’t release the final game until they’re well done.
I’m confident it will release eventually, maybe another 5-8 years. As long as the devs don’t die of old age.
- Comment on [US] How do I find and vote for primaries and local positions in my state? 3 weeks ago:
If you live in the best states you get your ballot automatically mailed to you.
- Comment on Make a new friend! 4 weeks ago:
They only use people with the best traction on their skin.
- Comment on Make a new friend! 4 weeks ago:
If you live in a rural area they’re better at delivering if it’s real muddy out.
- Comment on Dear Kevin 4 weeks ago:
The kingdoms have changed several times, they’re basically trying to use a more accurate system based on DNA using genotyping to decide which groups are more closely related and be less reliant on behavior and appearance.
- Comment on Patreon plans to consolidate its Pro and Premium plans starting August 5, taking a 10% commission, rather than the current 8% for Pro and 12% for Premium users 4 weeks ago:
You know it’s a percentage right?
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 4 weeks ago:
It’s interesting and it seems like a good change for people that have done a lot of d&d but it’s probably not going to be a complete replacement for 5e. It seems good for short campaigns but it only has one book out for now.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 5 weeks ago:
How many people have even heard of peertube?
- Comment on Some secrets are kept better hidden than others 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, if it was just decorative with a facade then this is fine.
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 1 month ago:
You can do it yourself but generally not in a group like that for most people.
- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 1 month ago:
Yeah, the conde owner bit isn’t news to anyone, just cause this one guy never looked. Are is fine and it will be as long as the current people are there. Until it gets looted and the staff laid off it is fine. Eric Berger navigates a bit of a tightrope because he has high level access to Musk but can’t be too direct about asking anything other than rockets, even though the political part is affecting the space part a lot right now. I do expect that just like Polygon it will eventually be gutted but nothing lasts forever.
- Comment on Wikimedia Foundation's plans to introduce AI-generated summaries to Wikipedia 1 month ago:
A lot of them for the small articles and stubs are written very technically and don’t provide an explanation for complex subjects if you aren’t already familiar with it. Then you have to read 4 subjects down just to figure out the jargon for what they’re saying
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 1 month ago:
The empire?
- Comment on Avocado 1 month ago:
Smells more like rotten wet mushrooms
- Comment on You mean it gets worse? 1 month ago:
There are certain unique experiences you don’t get later. There are a few places that have field trips in college, but for most people that is only during regular primary school.
- Comment on Gemini will now automatically summarize your long emails unless you opt out 1 month ago:
If you read the article, it says this only applies to people that already have premium google office stuff already. The 90% of people with regular gmail accounts aren’t affected by this. For now at least.
- Comment on Pentagon chief warns China 'preparing' to use military force in Asia 1 month ago:
Because they’re far away and china has to be the first one to move towards Taiwan.
- Comment on Pentagon chief warns China 'preparing' to use military force in Asia 1 month ago:
It’s easy in this case because an invasion by sea is a big target, and you can hit them without any chance of them claiming they’re attacking their homeland. It will mostly be which side has more missiles or boats. I don’t know if they will actually do it because it’s not just a single invasion. They would have to violently occupy a medium size country. That would require several million soldiers to be stationed there and supplied from the mainland. They would have to do some conscription or spend a year gathering troops. It would be very obvious. And the part where they have 0 combat experience won’t help. They won’t be ready for at least another 5-10 years. Currently the ukraine war has showed that currently drones favor the defensive side and so that is bad for China. In the future that could change but right now any full scale invasion is unlikely.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 1 month ago:
They don’t need much maintenance and the engine brake evs do to recover the energy removes stress on the regular brakes so the brakes last a lot longer.
- Comment on WaaaaAAALLLEEEeee 1 month ago:
But an electric car is basically just a bigger rc car, it doesn’t need any real maintenance. There’s no fluids.
- Comment on (・∀・) 1 month ago:
Its just like pandas, if you can find a niche where there is a ton of low quality food that nobody else wants but you can gobble it down then you win.
- Comment on Monty Python predicted social media 1 month ago:
I dont have to take this from some vacuous stuffy nosed malodorous pervert.
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 1 month ago:
Yeah, but then you have something like when people protest deleted their history on reddit which is fine as a protest tactic but leaves a hole where your specific question came up but now there’s nothing there.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 2 months ago:
There are a lot of videos of the frame cracking from mild outdoor use, which instantly totals the whole vehicle.
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 2 months ago:
The batteries are still expensive and good to use for anything else. So it should be 20-25k in scrap.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 2 months ago:
I played through the main quest. I didn’t really enjoy any of it.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 2 months ago:
You would have to basically make a whole game and rewrite characters and quests to make it better. But that’s a lot of work for modders especially when they’re not that interested in the game to start with.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 2 months ago:
But really you could make a fantastic game with the engine they had and starfield could have been good if it had great writing and great characters and quests. If people loved it and had some gripes about technical limitations that would be one thing. It’s an okay game with technical limitations, that makes it a bad game.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 2 months ago:
Yes, the second I realized they were actually doing that with literally copy pasted areas and notes and characters it killed the game for me. I can be reasonable for a dungeon having the same layout but not written content and characters. It invalidates the entire experience.
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 2 months ago:
The fundamental concept and theme of the game is trash. It literally makes everything you do meaningless, it inevitably leads to you becoming the jaded villain. It would be better if they had an end where you destroyed the universe shifting thing and were locked in one.