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- Comment on "Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda 5 days ago:
The last of America’s Army games, see this steamdb page for screenshots. I tried it years ago and got a vibe of proto-insurgency, it’s somewhat realistic, even the tutorial is decent, but as you can imagine they just wanted a good recruitment tool and this wasn’t it.
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 6 days ago:
I’d rather stay exactly the same tbh
- Comment on Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook' 1 week ago:
the same way they were 10-15 years ago
So with more crunch and no unions? It goes both ways, it’s not a monolithic culture where passage of time simply makes things worse
- Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs 2 weeks ago:
I use it because it’s free and tolerable when modded (on pc at least), and a lot of my favorite artists drop there. I get to check new releases, and if something isn’t there I’ll check other platforms. I will never pay for spotify on principle though.
- Comment on Ye song glorifying Hitler gets millions of views on X while other platforms struggle to remove it 3 weeks ago:
Can’t help someone who doesn’t want tho get better. We’ve seen this happen to him several times.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 3 weeks ago:
Exactly, that’s how it works in my country. I think the PCs are connected to a local server that then matches the results to your id and email.
- Comment on Judge in Epic v. Apple bans Apple from charging commission on purchases made outside App Store 4 weeks ago:
Tbh for a broken clock Sweeney shows the right time remarkably often. Can’t believe it, the bar for people like him is so low just being consistent is noteworthy lol
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 4 weeks ago:
Reminds me of car startups (in the US) taking off one wheel, turning them into moto/autocycles, so they wouldn’t have to go through expensive car certification processes
- Comment on Judge in Epic v. Apple bans Apple from charging commission on purchases made outside App Store 4 weeks ago:
Sweeney is also offering a “peace proposal” from Epic: “If Apple extends the court’s friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we’ll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic.”
Pretty sure this has a 0% chance of working.
- Comment on Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi Dev Respawn Cancels Another Incubation Project, Lays Off Unknown Number of Individuals 5 weeks ago:
Exactly, it’s an awful treadmill. EA as a whole was at nearly 60% profit last year. Coupled with layoffs, it seems they’re trying to keep that infinite spend as potential as possible lol
I just hope something good comes out of recent ex-rspn teams.
- Comment on Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi Dev Respawn Cancels Another Incubation Project, Lays Off Unknown Number of Individuals 5 weeks ago:
Afaik they’re still using awful third-party servers, lag compensation is still aggressive as fuck, they tried to “fix” visibility by slapping a bandaid in the form of healthbars, and the anticheat thing was another bandaid instead of a surgery. Overall it’s kinda stuck, all of the old issues are still there.
They have a shitload of new cosmetics though, if that’s your jam. Funnily enough, they were so greedy even esport orgs didn’t want to keep working with them. Rspn offered a one-time payment, orgs wanted a percentage of sales. Mind you, it’s a fairly big esport that advertises the game for them (btw played on better servers than available in-game).
- Comment on Apex Legends and Star Wars: Jedi Dev Respawn Cancels Another Incubation Project, Lays Off Unknown Number of Individuals 5 weeks ago:
Imagine making billions (with an S) off of one game and still calling it a miss. Chasing infinite growth is so dumb.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
From what I’ve seen it has a lil sidebar that let’s you limit the resources available to it. Also a load of shortcuts to giveaways and storefronts. It’s also hideous, as all gamer stuff should be.
Honestly it gives me more “lowspec” vibes, than “gaming”, and there are far better ways to browse on low spec machines.
- Comment on Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for years 5 weeks ago:
“Better” ads most likely, aka more personalized.
- Comment on YouTube, Amazon and Meta sign up to sponsor White House Easter Egg Roll 1 month ago:
Go into the search bar and type “technology”. You will see many of them.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 month ago:
more like very sad
- Comment on Day 270 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 month ago:
Mute the poster?
- Comment on Interesting fact about humans in zero gravity 1 month ago:
I’m a visual learner btw
- Comment on Roommates 1 month ago:
afaik Vine didn’t even share revenue with creators, how’d they make money? (If I read that right)
- Comment on YSK that a new internet/account bypass during Windows 11 installs already exists. Here is a 7 step guide. 2 months ago:
is dual booting not an option for you?
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 2 months ago:
You could even squeeze a quadruple A game on there
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 2 months ago:
From what I understand their minimum wages aren’t bad, it’s the enforcement that sucks. Everyone buys from them because labor laws are overlooked, but if they weren’t - there’s a risk manufacturing would move away and shrink. Bit of an ouroboros. I’d say both parties are to blame, but the paying one gets more of it.
- Comment on Chinese SSD Manufacturer UNIS Flash Memory Unveils World’s Fastest PCIe Gen5 SSDs, Featuring Speeds of Up To 14,900 MB/s 2 months ago:
probably a holdover from the sata days, or simply because it’s nice to show the number doubling into tens of thousands
- Comment on YSK theres a open source tool to cleanly read webpage articles called 'NewsWaffle' 2 months ago:
why not? plenty of them run android, do they maintain a blacklist of sorts?
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 2 months ago:
Good to know, that’s what I use on my 10. Didn’t know if 11 has it since it never really appealed to me.
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 2 months ago:
Do they still make enterprise/ltsc/iot versions for 11? Because those are usually the ones that don’t treat you like a child, and I expect them to retain that
- Comment on Dig this trench to protect your landlord's ability to gouge your decendants. 2 months ago:
Also, wars are hella expensive. Taxes going up is inevitable, the cost of living will go up, it’s just a question of “when”, not “if”.
- Comment on I'm gonna need more red colored crayons 2 months ago:
I propose enclaves and exclaves everywhere. Pros: forces everyone to cooperate, makes saturation attacks pointless, pleases the spirit of Jacques Fresco. Cons: none I think