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- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 13 hours ago:
Having tried a game with AI NPCs, they’re fucking awful. I don’t want to sit there and have a conversation with irrelevant individuals. Give me that concise “here’s your mission and reward.”
An AI companion who can converse, comment and learn may be cool, but I definitely don’t want anything like what I’ve seen.
- Comment on The people who believe "progressiveness is just a fad that one grows out of" are the same people that grew up getting brainwashed into regressive politics. The belief is only true for them. 18 hours ago:
Your sister is dumb. I live outside of a major city, it’s faster and cheaper for me to ride my scooter to the train and ride the train downtown. I also don’t need to pay attention the whole ride so there’s some uninterrupted gaming time as well. As a bonus my employer pays for 80% of the train fare too.
My car mostly just sits there waiting for the weekend.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 3 days ago:
Would it even matter to a FIFA player though? The game’s mechanics are not that different from generation to generation and I think AI could decently simulate player stats and likeness. They’ll probably lap the slop up and ask for more.
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 3 days ago:
Three was enjoyable, definitely had some shit moments but overall a fun game with absurd over the top moments left and right. Four on the other hand felt like it should’ve been a dlc for three, and was pretty awful.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 1 week ago:
Yup, if enough people switch to graphene big G will fuck them over. Exiting entirely is the only long term solution.
- Comment on Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day 1 week ago:
Steam decks are expensive and relatively bulky when compared to a phone. I don’t think it’s really a practical solution for most of us.
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 1 week ago:
There’s genres of games that are supposed to be relationship sims and nothing else. The relationships and characters are still hollow and would only draw in the loneliest people.
- Comment on YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism. 2 weeks ago:
Lol the algorithms are lost on me. I don’t even do much to avoid it, I’m just weird as fuck!
- Comment on The Wheel That Went to Court (or, did you know Pixar sued DMA Design - who ended up becoming Rockstar North - because they made a game about a unicycle? 2 weeks ago:
Agreed, I played it on my retro handheld a couple weeks ago and it still holds up alright. They manage to convey a lot of emotion through those little unicycles.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 2 weeks ago:
I mentioned dropping discord in my gaming group chat. Five non political normies and myself. Literally nobody is fighting to stay on discord. We’ll try a few alternatives and even if I’ve gotta fork over a few bucks a month, I will. Any site that requires id is dead to me.
- Comment on Performance enhancement 2 weeks ago:
Often when I’m stoned I enter the flow state easier. I can also get way more into my own head and not be able to get into the flow at all.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 2 weeks ago:
Yup, nobody is immune or above being harmed by the algorithms.
- Comment on Start-up idea 2 weeks ago:
This is true for some products but absolutely the opposite for many others. You can go buy a $500 jacket that will outlive you but good luck finding a car or fridge that won’t break, especially the high end models with all the bells and whistles. Samsung will happily sell you a $5k fridge that has dozens of features that will break and require servicing far more frequently than the $500 white apartment fridge.
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’m with you. There’s tons of games I’ve paid a lot more than $16 for that I would absolutely tell past me to buy again instantly. Most recently Kingdom Come Deliverance 2. $40 with all dlc and I’m over 100 hours in, enjoying every minute. Over 100 hours of entertainment from something that cost me less than an hour of labor, in what world is that not worth it?
- Comment on The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game. 2 weeks ago:
I got like 40 hours of playtime from Peak before taking a break. For $8 I’m very satisfied.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 3 weeks ago:
Some countries have huge taxes on entertainment while others have nearly none. I’d guess he moved to a county with a higher tax rate and Valve can’t just have people using a VPN to circumvent their local taxes. Valve is left without a way to determine where you were when you’d purchased the game so they geo lock the titles to where you purchased them.
- Comment on Hero shooter Highguard reportedly didn't even pay for the Game Awards slot that's earned it so much preemptive hate—the showrunners thought it deserved the spotlight 5 weeks ago:
I am totally done with live service games. 1200+ hours in Warframe and another 300 in helldivers. I have no interest in grinding out the same mission repeatedly to get that new armor again. It was fun the first time less so the second and I would rather play something new.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yes, some games actually have the data to install the game.
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 1 month ago:
I live in the Seattle area and while this stuff isn’t free it’s under $10 to park and ride both ways. Trains run every 7 minutes and the train will take you maybe five minutes extra if there’s no traffic. If you’re coming or going from the stadiums it’s faster and cheaper than driving to one of the lots close to them. Trains are pretty clean too, it’s a pretty great rail line
- Comment on ARC Raiders - anyone else looting in their sleep? 1 month ago:
I played for about 5 hours and was totally bored, the whole game is just the endgame.
- Comment on Video Game Websites in the early 00s 1 month ago:
Just look at those sites, they’re hard to navigate, there’s no consistency between them, where are the ads?
I’d still gladly have them over the bland, hard to navigate, soulless crap we get now.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 1 month ago:
Yet here we are, with some people believing vaccines cause autism and the far right extremists to boot. I personally would’ve taken more idiots harming themselves with their new age junk than what we got.
Don’t misunderstand, I agree it absolutely wouldn’t have been a catch all and even in its time it lacked the teeth to do much but at least it was something. It combined with a stronger education system could’ve prevented a lot of what we’re dealing with now.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
As an American this is very close to my take. This leadership is weak, they’ve divided the country in a way in which it will likely never recover from. Global opinions of the US are in the dumpster and it would take decades of goodwill to even begin to shift opinions that the USA is actually “good” again.
The sad reality is this country will never recover to being what it was. I honestly feel like we’d be better off just saying “fuck off, do your own thing then” to the southern portion of the states, but then you’d likely have a nuclear armed failed state within a couple of decades and the evangelicals among them would probably welcome a nuclear Holocaust because they believe they’ll be raptured away.
- Comment on How does Chuck Schumer still have a job? 1 month ago:
It’s not a silver bullet, but it was a very useful way to ensure people didn’t become radicalized by just listening to one side lie constantly. There’s a reason why Reagan and Nixon wanted it gone, and we’re living through the repercussions of not having it now; radicalized far right extremists everywhere and in control of the government. Also, we could have made updates to expand it or introduce new legislation to curb extremism on other platforms.
Definitely far from perfect but better than our current reality.
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 1 month ago:
Yup.
- Comment on How to get greasy spots out of wooden cutting board properly? 1 month ago:
Mineral oil is definitely safe, just try not to inhale misted particles in large amounts regularly. Pouring some on your cutting board and rubbing it in should be totally safe.
- Comment on Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds 1 month ago:
But what if I miss that one meme and the internet culture leaves me behind? How can I be in on all the inside jokes and references of I’m ever offline??
- Comment on Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years 1 month ago:
Mine are so sharp the dentist asked if I wanted them dulled a bit. I of course told him to leave em sharp!
- Comment on Social media, not gaming, tied to rising attention problems in teens, new study finds 1 month ago:
Video games require you to listen to instructions, execute inputs, and follow tasks to completion to get a reward. Tiktok is basically swipe, watch for a few seconds, next hit; 85% of the clips will be shit but that 15% makes our monkey brain happy so we swipe again and suddenly an hour is gone and you’ve gained nothing but a shorter attention span.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 month ago:
I can’t specifically remember what games, but this definitely happened to me at toys r us several times. Back in the physical copy days you had to pre-order big releases most of the time and the pre-order was usually held but they often oversold because the distributor didn’t send all the copies they’d ordered.