TheFeatureCreature
@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca
Hello!
I’m a nonbinary Canadian Blender artist! You can find my work here: Galleries, commissions, prints, and more!
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- Comment on It's the Christmas light video again - 2025 edition 2 days ago:
Alec out there fighting the good fight for us.
- Comment on Samsung reveals first tri-fold phone 1 week ago:
Not that I’d ever buy it, but I’m looking forward to the price tag so I can have a good laugh.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 1 week ago:
Microsoft has gone all-in on AI to the detriment of basically every other aspect of their business. They are in deep deep shit when the bubble finally pops.
- Comment on Aluminium OS will be Google’s take on Android for PC 1 week ago:
I remember when this garbage used to be called malware.
- Comment on Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down 1 week ago:
Paradox really needs a management shakeup.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 2 weeks ago:
So glad I switched email and calender services years ago.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 2 weeks ago:
“Organised crime”
- Comment on How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mom told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering? 3 weeks ago:
Depends entirely on the volume and time spent at that volume.
Just using headphones in general? No.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 4 weeks ago:
I’m with Posteo.
- Comment on Is Kagy web browser worth it? 4 weeks ago:
I am open to the idea of paying for quality services that put the customer first. Hell, I pay for my email and have done so for years.
But Kagi has always squicked me out a bit. Some of their business practices over the years have been rather questionable, especially their push into AI which is exactly the sort of thing someone looking at Kagi would probably want to avoid. They are also very expensive. They’re one of those services that just assumes everyone is American so they just give a $ cost and don’t specify beyond that, so I’m going to assume their prices are in USD which means a plan for my dad and myself is $21CAD a month. That absurdly overpriced for a search engine subscription.
To put that into perspective: A YouTube premium family plan covers up to 6 accounts and is the same price and includes unlimited video and music streaming. Thoughts about YouTube aside and looking at this from a pure value perspective, paying that same price just for a search engine is a godawful shit deal. Do you know what my email costs per month? $1.25CAD
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 5 weeks ago:
The TES series in general for its massive, expansive lore.
But Morrowind in particular has absolutely incredible world-building with incredible creativity and originality. There is a reason why so many people keep going back to the n’wah simulator and it’s because the world is so rich and incredible. So much of the following games was built off Morrowind’s incredible work.
- Comment on ICE's 'Frightening' Facial Recognition App is Scanning US Citizens Without Their Consent 5 weeks ago:
They need lifetimes in prison for treason and domestic terrorism.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 month ago:
The 1080p for premium users is garbage too. Youtube’s video quality in general is shockingly poor. If there is even a slight amount of noisy movement on screen (foliage, confetti, rain, snow, etc) the the video can literally become unwatchable.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 1 month ago:
Kind of a tangent, but properly encoded 1080p video with a decent bitrate actually looks pretty damn good.
A big problem is that we’ve gotten so used to streaming services delivering visual slop, like YouTube’s 1080p option which is basically just upscaled 720p and can even look as bad as 480p.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Good point.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
How many times is this game going to get remade…
- Comment on Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI' 1 month ago:
It all makes sense now.
- Comment on Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI' 1 month ago:
Subnautica 2 is so screwed.
- Comment on OpenAI launches an AI-powered browser: ChatGPT Atlas 1 month ago:
I cannot think of a piece of software that I want on my computer less than something like this. Literal voluntary malware.
- Comment on what country would you never go to again? 1 month ago:
The USA. I’ve never actually been there but you couldn’t even pay me to cross the border. I’d rather not risk being disappeared to a ICE torture site because they searched my phone and found out I called Trump a poopoo head.
- Comment on Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC 1 month ago:
Microsoft is so incredibly fucked when the AI bubble starts to burst. They’ve abandoned so many of their other projects and customers to go all-in on it.
- Comment on Is airtags really useful? 1 month ago:
I have an airtag on my car keys and another hidden on my ebike. The latter is shared with immediate family so they can easily locate me if something goes wrong and I’m unable to contact them.
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 1 month ago:
Honestly? Aloy from the Horizon games. She’s maybe not the most rounded character, but she is a very strong, determined, stubborn, and intelligent person. She knows what she wants and will stop at nothing to get it. I think it also helps that the games don’t really have many choices or multiple endings, which I think was a good design choice. The story belongs to Aloy, not the player.
Also she’s not a protag (sorta, you can play as her) but I would like to give a shoutout to Lae’zel from BG3. I suspect a lot of players haven’t explored her character questline much because of how prickly she is at the beginning, but her character development is extensive and, at times, heart-wrenching. A story of someone getting the entire fabric of their life and soul torn out from under them.
- Comment on YSK you can cancel subscriptions by removing them from your credit card/payment processor, or call the bank and ask someone to remove them. 2 months ago:
Just a note that doing this may result in actions being taken against your accounts(s) - especially charge-backs or related actions. A charge back will almost always result in your account being permanently banned and they will ban you if you try to make new ones.
Make sure you research the service you want to cancel and the options you’d like to take to cancel it. If it’s a service you make heavy use of then you need to exercise some caution.
- Comment on Nobody who complains about video games costing more than $60 ever considers inflation 2 months ago:
Older games did have less content.
But that’s not a bad thing. It just meant they usually weren’t filled with dozens of hours of busywork, grind, and pointless padding.
- Comment on Nobody who complains about video games costing more than $60 ever considers inflation 2 months ago:
I just went and checked on the cost of Mario Kart World out of curiosity. $110CAD for a digital download game for a mobile console. Holy shit. That is absolutely criminal.
- Comment on I wouldn't call it "Irritable" Bowel Syndrome... 2 months ago:
Spay n pray
- Comment on whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders? 2 months ago:
I think there is only one store left near me that has them and it’s more of a boutique grocery store rather than a large chain.
- Comment on Google Play is getting a Gemini-powered AI Sidekick to help you in games 2 months ago:
Shareholder-led design.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 2 months ago:
I use Win11 on my main computer for work and school reasons. I need maximum compatibility and reliability and it has met those goals. Back in the day, I used to use Linux on my old laptops and I dual-booted it on my main PC. It has been awesome seeing how far it has come and I would like to get back into it some day.
That being said, a huge barrier for Linux and prospective new users is the community. The Linux community is highly combative and toxic and it absolutely sours what should (and could!) be a great experience. Almost every interaction I had while troubleshooting had some level of condescending attitude or outright hostility and there were numerous times I was directly insulted for asking for help - the most recent being a couple years ago when I was trying out a distro and had sound driver issues.