mriswith
@mriswith@lemmy.world
- Comment on "You third rate call girl with your 4th rate deck" 2 weeks ago:
You can straight up rent a “mom”, where a middle aged woman joins you for an event or similar while being nice and supportive.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 3 weeks ago:
That’s their goal for sure, what I mean is how are they pretending to justify it?
The same way they always do: “WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?!?!?!1111”
- Comment on Too bad we can't have good public transportation 4 weeks ago:
It’s exaggerated and massively undestated depending on location.
There are several metro areas in the US with over 1 million people that has zero metro/subway or light rail, some of them don’t even have a passenger train connections or stations, or at most it stops by once or twice a day. Places like Columbus Ohio that has literally zero rail passenger rail for over 2m people in the metro area. If you want to take the train from there to NYC you’ll have to spend a couple of hours on a bus to a different city first. And it’s not like they never had it, they razed the train station in the 70s.
Other places that lack light rail or metro and have 1m+ people in the metro area: Tampa, San Antonia, Indianapolis, Oklahoma, Memphis, Richmond, Louisville, Rochester, etc. with many of them having a very bad outside passenger train connections. There are also a bunch of others that almost slipped by or did stay off the list over technicalities like having a single tram line going up and down main street or similar. Places like Orlando, Cincinatti, etc.
- Comment on Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire 4 weeks ago:
Exactly. They “crawl” category/tag lists, etc. and follow links. And if there are no links to those pages, they wont be indexed.
- Comment on Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire 4 weeks ago:
edit: right, respective tags list no porn games anymore.
Which could cause them to no longer be indexed by search engines depending on other settings. So you’d need to find direct links from other websites.
- Comment on Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire 4 weeks ago:
Deindexed, not removed.
Try putting the names into the search field on the site.
- Comment on Right-Wingers Cope With ‘South Park’s Scorching Trump Parody By Pretending No One Watches the Show 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I haven’t watched it in years and this is making me want to download it as well.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 4 weeks ago:
Not at all.
More attention means more people see it, so even if the percentage of complainers haven’t changed, there are more people who know.
On top of that, there was criticism before. There’s that streamer who was mocked relentlessly, there were articles about game developer lobby groups complaining, etc. But less prominent than now, since it was less of a draw in the news cycle.
- Comment on Japan sets new internet speed world record — 4 million times faster than average US speeds 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ve had a fiber cable running all the way into my router for over a decade.
- Comment on Crassula aka Hottentot 5 weeks ago:
I grew up hearing it in childrens books, so I don’t blame you for not knowing. But it’s one of those phrases that in hindsight is obviously offensive based on how it was used.
- Comment on Crassula aka Hottentot 5 weeks ago:
It is apparently an outdated term for this variety.
(For those unaware the second part is an offensive term for black people.)
- Comment on Japanese political party wants video games and anime to be put under state authority to make sure they’re “wholesome,” and people are angry 5 weeks ago:
How you about you regulate child beauty pagants and and ban child marriage in your own country first.
- Comment on Japanese political party wants video games and anime to be put under state authority to make sure they’re “wholesome,” and people are angry 5 weeks ago:
Put away your pitchforks.
It’s just a right wing idiot party trying to garner attention. And trying to push this in Japan is literally how you get the quiet kid to go postal. They’d need 24/7 police protection from.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 month ago:
The three people were replaced with a guy who used to work at EA. And one of their first announcements was an unprompted “we wont put loot boxes in the game”…
- Comment on How does AI use so much power? 1 month ago:
will there be huge power plants just dedicated to AI all over the world soon?
I believe they’ve started construction to convert a retired coal power plant in Pennsylvania to gas power, specifically for data-centers. Upon completion in 2027 it will likely be the third most powerful plant in the US.
The largest coal plant in North Dakota was considering shutting down in 2022 over financial issues, but is now approved to power a new data-center park.
Planning permits have been approved for a new power plant in Texas.
And on it goes.
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 1 month ago:
That’s one way to tell everyone that you didn’t understand the comment.
- Comment on Desperate search for missing girls as Texas flood death toll rises 1 month ago:
That other comment is pretty mild. They’re already trying to claim it wasn’t a real flood, but was caused by cloud seeding to fake climate change, and saying the kids were murdered.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 month ago:
One of the big reasons many people are “okay” with making fun of him. Is that he could basically make it all go away if he just admitted he was wrong.
The whole thing stems from him being so full of himself that he cannot admit any fault, ever. He has been objectively proven wrong many times on several different topics, there are a lot of situations that heavily indicate misconduct, etc. And he literally went on a stream with a licensed psychiatrist who tried to explain some of his faults. To which he laughed and said “Okay, don’t see it that way, but alright”.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 1 month ago:
It is representative of how British people often avoid the truth or confrontations and instead use sarcasm, idioms, etc. that understate the situation.
The English are also a worldwide example of people who go “Oh no, everything is fine.” when everything is wrong.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 1 month ago:
While you’re right to be skeptical, if they just wanted to collect data they would have an Android version. And their stated reason for not supporting it, is that push notifications on Android would require them to at store device-IDs, which they want to avoid for privacy reasons and being vulnerable to subpoenas.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 creators offer no explanation for sudden regime change, instead promise "no loot boxes" 1 month ago:
They might as well have just said “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”.
- Comment on In 6 hours it will be illegal to say "I support Palestine Action" in the UK, with a sentence of up to 14 years in prison. 1 month ago:
There is also legislation that can be used to arrest most protestors. And you can face a multi-year prison sentence if you say something wrong on social media.
The UK is actually further along the dystopian path than the USA in some ways, but as is tradition they are trying to pretend it’s not happening.
- Comment on Salt Lake City, plans to implement AI-assisted 911 call triaging to handle ~30% of about 450K non-emergency calls per year 2 months ago:
I wonder how many hundreds of millions of dollars they’ve set aside for settlements.
- Comment on CEOs Are Creating AI Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings 2 months ago:
That’s an amazing reference, but even Wheatly is far beyond these things. And he was actually “hallucinating”. He thought was speaking Spanish at one point, but what he actually says is something like “You’re using this translation software incorrectly, please consult the manual”.
- Comment on US | Pentagon Has Been Pushing Americans to Believe in UFOs for Decades, New Report Finds 2 months ago:
Ever since the US Airforce released video clips of “UFOs”, it should have been common knowledge that they were doing this. Since they would not have released clips of unknown potential threats or enemy weapons.
- Comment on I can't believe nobody in the LA protests hasn't already started a big sing along of "Do You Hear the People Sing?" Yet. 2 months ago:
Truly spoken like a theater person.
The vast majority of people don’t know anything beyond the first line or two, so it would never get going.
- Comment on An LAPD helicopter claimed to have ID'ed protesters from above and threatened to "come to your house" 2 months ago:
Threatened? So they didn’t ID them.
- Comment on WHERE ARE MY PRECISION SCREWDRIVERS 2 months ago:
JIS is great, as long as you have the exact matching driver.
- Comment on Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50% 2 months ago:
You could also have opened the article:
… unlocking the full potential of Valve’s handheld device for cloud gaming.
The app is now available, and gamers can stream titles on the Steam Deck at up to 4K 60 frames per second — connected to a TV — with HDR10, NVIDIA DLSS 4 and Reflex technologies on supported titles
- Comment on Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live 2 months ago:
to Predict Where Users Live
sign up
no proper examples
Translation: It might detect the US state if you have revealed a lot of information. If you live elsewhere in the world and haven’t revealed much, it wont even get the country right half the time.