sp3ctr4l
@sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Hedgehog X-ray 8 hours ago:
Sounds like:
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 13 hours ago:
taps microphone
Ahem.
…
Yaccitey-Yacc, Don’t Talk Back.
…
leaves stage
- Comment on Valve opening pre-orders for new hardware 15 hours ago:
Thanks for the silly gif, stealing that lol
- Comment on Valve opening pre-orders for new hardware 18 hours ago:
Haha yeah, god help you with applying custom KDE themes system wide, the standards have changed so many times over the years lol.
If you don’t want everything resetting on update, you could always switch over to Bazzite, its got a GNOME and KDE flavor for the Deck/Handhelds’ desktop modes, helps you setup Decky and other stuff in a pretty automated way.
=D
- Comment on Valve opening pre-orders for new hardware 19 hours ago:
The deck has the oldschool green design as a keyboard overlay style, and you can use Decky and CSS Loader to mod the rest of steam to look like that, and you can even find KDE themes that look like that.
- Comment on Researchers Jailbreak AI by Flooding It With Bullshit Jargon 1 day ago:
Oh so it works by corpospeak rules, who could have possibly guessed?
It is extremely funny to watch two corpospeakers get into a buzzword fight as a dominance dispute/display.
- Comment on Hard day at the office 1 day ago:
This should be mandatory for all interviews.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 days ago:
Yes, but if they can’t actually pull of the last part… uh… that doesn’t end well.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 days ago:
You make good points, my view is obviously America centric.
As I literally used to work for MSFT, in various parts of their city sized corporate HQ outside of Seattle, and a few ‘smaller’, though still massive by the standards of any non megacorp, ‘satellite’ campuses in other parts of the broader Seattle area.
…
I completely agree that refusal to do reasonable location specific pricing is a huge problem, and I’d say that basically stems from MSFT being astoundingly myopic, to the point of the management culture being cult-like.
Perhaps a sort of saving grace for international customers is that uh, the US dollar is currently crashing against basically every other currency?
Or perhaps that is an actual cause of why AAA game prices go up in USD.
…
But anyway… I get that from the consumer perspective, yes, it makes sense to go with GamesPass…
The problem is that from a business perspective, what this does is destroy the economics of actually making a game.
It reduces sales, which reduces profit, which means now game publishers force game studios to cut costs, so they fire half their staff or reassign them, which destroys all the undocumented knowledge of the game studio, and then they are replaced with cheaper per hour paid contractors who don’t know that information, which results in sloppier, buggier games that ironically always go overbudget and don’t sell as well.
…
Maybe think if it as an infrasctucture style situation, with game devs as the road maintenance crews, and consumers of games as car drivers:
If you skimp on road maintenance, and then also make everyone drive much much more, by making public transit very expensive/shitty, and cars are now all a cheap personal rental service…
… eventually the roads give out, pot holes everywhere, bridges falling apart… and the entire system grinds to a halt rather rapidly, because now, a decade later, there aren’t any more talented road maintenance crews, they all quit from the shit wages and working conditions, their specialized vehicles sre in disrepair, and there is also not enough money to hire and train a massive new workforce to fix all the roads.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 days ago:
Yeah, it used to be quite common for PC gaming magazines to include a demo disk, basically, here’s the game and the first level or two, often you could fit a couple game’s demo versions on one cd.
GamesPass could easily do something like uh… hey, this game here, you can play for 2 or 5 or 10 hours, and then if you want more, you can buy it with… I dunno, a 1/4 to 1/3 discount if you’re subbed to GamesPass, and you’ve got the playtime.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 days ago:
Hey, uh, is Uber still cheaper than a taxi?
Oh, no, it isn’t, and taxis largely don’t exist anymore.
Roughly the same business model there.
You’re trading short term low cost and convenience and broad array of choices for long term higher prices and the broad stagnation/destruction of the entire industry, fucking over all the people who work in said industry.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 2 days ago:
Yet another example of:
C Suite / Upper Management doesn’t listen when a seasoned software engineer of some kind points out an extremely obvious medium/long-run problem with the business model they’re being asked to either functionally invent, or massively contribute to.
- Comment on Someone should make an anticapitalist Dexter. A serial killer who kills evil rich people. 3 days ago:
I’d fuckin watch that.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 4 days ago:
Was this written by Thor?
- Comment on Lighting choices 5 days ago:
Or playing League.
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot falls Atari 2600 Video Chess 6 days ago:
Fair point.
But we’re on .world here, ie Reddit 2.0, ie, almost everyone is much closer to a normie whonis way more uninformed than they think they are and way more confident than they should be.
But also, again… fair point.
- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 6 days ago:
I have a steam deck and figured out how to emulate BoTW.
I was initially disappointed by my inability to get it to run at better than roughly 20-25 fps even after some tweaks and bullshit.
… Then I realized that the Switch 1, in handheld mode… can’t actually do much better, claims to run at 30fps, frequently has framerate drop spikes.
So yeah, a Deck does a pretty good job, as has always been the case with emulators: its a bit less efficient than the native hardware env on the most demanding titles, but a Switch 1 can barely fucking run BoTW properly as well.
My next attempt at this?
See if I can jerry rig FSR 2 in the emulator to run it at a lower res and then upscale.
- Comment on Kanye West was denied entry to Australia after releasing antisemitic song 6 days ago:
Hooray for an actually correct understanding of what Anti-Semitism is!
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot falls Atari 2600 Video Chess 6 days ago:
It is entirely disingenuous to just pretend that LLMs are not being widely promoted, marketed, and discussed as AGI, as a superintelligent that people are familiar with from SciFi shows, that is vastly more capable and knowledgeable than basically any single human.
Yes, people who actually understand tech understand that LLMs are not AGI, that your metaphor of wrong tool wrong job is apt.
… But seemingly about +90% of humanity, including the people who owning and profit from LLMs, including all the other business owners/managers who just want to lower their employee headcount … do not understand this, that an LLM is actually basically an extremely advanced text autocorrect system, that frequently and confidently lies, spits out nonsense, hallucinates, etc.
If you think it isn’t reasonable to continuously point out that LLMs are not superintelligences, then you likely live in a bubble of tech nerds who probably still think their jobs or retirement are secure.
They’re not.
If corpos keep smashing “”“AI”“” into basically every industry to replace as many workers as possible… the economy will collapse, as capitalism doesn’t work without consumers who have jobs, and an avalanche of errors will cascade and snowball through every system that replaces humans with them…
…and even if those two things were not broadly true…
…the amount of literal power/energy, clean water and financial capital that is required to run the whole economy on these services is wildly unsustainable, both short term economically, and medium term ecologically.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 6 days ago:
… As best I can tell…
He actually, legally changed his first name to Thor.
And he has gone by Thor for… at least 5 years?.. in his Twitch streaming career.
I fully agree this is an insult to the old Gods, but … Thor is apparently literally his actual name.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 1 week ago:
Well, there’s at least two aspects here:
Fucking Thor, PirateSoftware.
Up untill Ross posted his ‘SKG is dead’ video… Thor had by far gotten the most views of anyone with a video discussing SKG.
And Thor… well, he was anti-SKG, and had been spreading a bunch of objectively false bullshit about it, actual FUDD.
So… about half of Ross’s video was dedicated to pointing out how Thor was wildly misunderstanding things, and fairly graciously and politely trying to correct these misconceptions.
So here’s the two sort of things at play I see, in terms of 'why sudden surge now?'
- Thor was just shown to be objectively, factually wrong. Thus, the immediate effect of this would be to reiterate and clarify and reinforce with more specificity what SKG actually is… and that could directly convince people to give a damn.
But uh, almost certainly much, much more relevant
- Ross doing (1) created an absolute drama shit storm via the way youtube works now… which is very much just drama mongers and commentators reporting on e-drama. (1) kicked off an actual, honest to god, truly viral explosion of many, many people who’d basically never heard of any of this before, most dogpiling on Thor for being such a disingenuous, egotistical asshole and liar.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 1 week ago:
I mean, its not technically completely impossible, but the vast majority of EU countries require a valid name, id, address, etc, its usually a pretty dumb idea to bot spam an official government web portal, and I’m sure there will be a review process after July 31.
Also… its not like it hits a million and then just no one else can sign up to it anymore.
It’ll stay open till the end of the month, could easily breach a million, maybe even two million if anything like this insane rate keeps up.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 1 week ago:
Ok, I may not have great photoshop skills, but I do have a knowledge of ancient memes:
- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 1 week ago:
Knock knock, Nintendo.
Suprise!
Its the Consumer Protection and Defense agency of Brazil!
dexerto.com/…/nintendo-faces-legal-action-over-ab…
Yeah, Brazil is evidently not cool with the ‘we can completely brick your device remotely’ schtick.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 1 week ago:
Well hey, I very much appreciate more info from someone who was actually there!
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 1 week ago:
Yep.
There’s the whole… apparently when Thor was essentially high school to post high school age, he managed to cajole a younger SecondLife user, who was actually decently talented at creating like clothes and custom player models…
So in SecondLife, you can actually make real money that way, you can cash out the SecondLife currency for actual realworld money.
And Thor basically convinced this other SL user, who was like 5 years younger than him… that he could make them both more money as a sort of salesman, promoter, of this other persons user made content… if they profit share.
I may have some details wrong here, but basically… Thor did basically nothing in terms of promotion, yet he made a significant chunk of change off of this other person.
Because … SL just has basically a universal market you can list things in.
Like uh, Escape from Tarkov, or FF14’s auction house or what not, fully built into the game… but even more so as it actually allows you to cash out to real world money.
its not like you’d have to do some kind of technical wizardry to enable sales, its not like Thor whipped up some kind of gray/black market system / payment processor way back when PayPal was still a fairly new idea.
Alongside that, there were allegations of basically ERP going waaay too far.
Now, this other person has I think entirely denied any kind of ERP abuse, sexual or just normal relationship abuse, says everything was fine…
But a good number of people seem to think that the essentially digital labor theft Thor did, basically amounts to its own kind of grooming, exploitation.
- Comment on A report finds Google undercounted its carbon emissions, which rose 65% from 2019 to 2024, not 51% as claimed; biggest yearly jump was 26% between 2023 and 2024 1 week ago:
We investigated ourselves and everything looks peachy actually!
Yep, no need for any independent audit!
=D
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 1 week ago:
I lack the photoshop skills, but uh
The ‘plap plap GET PREGNANT’ meme, but with a therapist shouting:
‘accept what you can’t change’
‘don’t blame yourself for things out of your control’
‘oh, the copay is $125’
‘you missed the last appointment so we charged you for not canceling in advance’
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 1 week ago:
Wow, I hadn’t even heard of that particular story of Thor being an egotistical asshat.
I’d been looking into the WoW debacle, then stumbled into other stuff, but nope, that one’s new to me.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 1 week ago:
This is fucking bonkers.
I ran the math a fee days ago, before this absolutely blee the fuck up, and I came to:
We’d need 11k sigs per day until July 31st.
… We’re now apparently at more than double that and climbing.
Ho Lee Shit.
