ViatorOmnium
@ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 1 week ago:
Some players will complain about everything, the industry is the one amplifying it. For example, Like a Dragon games have been recycling assets since forever, and so did Zelda TOTK and no one cares.
In the end, the players would also benefit if the games were made through iterative improvements instead of making everything from scratch every time.
- Comment on [Jason Schreier] AAA game budgets estimated around $300 million. These budgets are almost entirely dev salaries + overheard and have nothing to do with executive compensation (which is mostly stock) 1 week ago:
Executives should still be accountable for inefficiencies and bad scoping.
- Comment on Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora 1 week ago:
On the other hand you can always rely on them being a bunch of drama queens that always overreacts to news.
- Comment on Which government he might be talking about 🤔 1 week ago:
They could fund a public healthcare system twice over with the money the federal government is already spend providing piece meal health care through several inefficient programs. The war crime fund could solve the housing problem though.
- Comment on In the age of electronics, when is go to vote can I request a paper ballot instead of a machine? 1 week ago:
It’s easier to falsify a paper election than a properly implemented digital voting system. Keyword being properly.
- Comment on Choose your fighter 1 week ago:
Long term? The ecosystem. If we don’t change course, at some point the species that goes extinct is us, and nature is going to recover. Life has survived much worse than what we can do.
- Comment on YSK: Denazification in West Germany was lenient and ultimately abandoned, with many Nazis remaining in positions of power. 2 weeks ago:
One example I found is https://www.dw.com/en/book-claims-stasi-employed-nazis-as-spies/a-1760980, but I have seen other sources in the past too.
- Comment on YSK: Denazification in West Germany was lenient and ultimately abandoned, with many Nazis remaining in positions of power. 2 weeks ago:
Not just west Germany. There was also a pipeline from the Gestapo to the Stasi.
The cold war ended up preventing the denazificantion programs from being concluded everywhere.
- Comment on PwC will say goodbye to staff who aren't convinced about AI 2 weeks ago:
Ah, yes, firing everyone that’s not a sycophant. That always ends up well for any organisation. /s
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 2 weeks ago:
As a result, the canon is vast and occasionally self-contradictory
“Record keeping is shit and we aren’t even sure what year it is any more so don’t take anything at face value " is the new canon, so the canon being a mess is canon now.
- Comment on He was a perfect hire — until a U.S. company exposed him as a likely North Korean operative 2 weeks ago:
You can also lie on your resume.
- Comment on Is there a software method to "rotate" music around my head? 2 weeks ago:
Try to look for earphones with 3D head tracking. They work better for horizontal movement, but they might also help if you are lying down.
- Comment on Trampolines are socially-accepted pens for kids 2 weeks ago:
For kids?
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 2 weeks ago:
What QA? Microsoft’s QA was always the CEO demoing the latest repository head on stage.
- Comment on Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025 3 weeks ago:
Because despite all the LLM slopaganda the laws of supply and demand give software engineers some leverage over prospective employers.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 3 weeks ago:
And that’s why we have adblockers
- Comment on Valve says 5,863 titles earned over $100,000 on Steam in 2025 3 weeks ago:
100k is not enough to pay even a single full time dev, so I wouldn’t call this the success threshold.
- Comment on One in four CEOs say AI is a bubble but will continue investing 3 weeks ago:
It’s more because of imbecilic investors. You can’t get 5 euros to do something useful, but you can easily get 10 if you commit to throwing 5 down the AI drain.
- Comment on spoopy figs 3 weeks ago:
Most commercially and home grown produced figs are self-pollinating, only a few wild fig species require wasps to pollinate them. So most people will only ever see wasp-free figs.
- Comment on X and TikTok algorithms favour the far right at the expense of moderate parties 3 weeks ago:
Keeping food in the supermarkets and having working infrastructure will definitely generate ad revenue… I mean “engagement” than threatening to kill all foreigners and LGBT people.
- Comment on Federated End-to-End Encrypted Messaging is Coming Soon 5 weeks ago:
And XMPP before it, even if for e2ee messaging. At least this is a slightly different use case.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 5 weeks ago:
The main goal is probably to have documentation proving it was checked, but the technician is also responsible to fix any issues. I already had one smoke detector replaced because the noise level was a bit below what it should be.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 5 weeks ago:
In Germany they are mandatory for new buildings for a while now. And at least my landlord sends a company to check if they still work every year, so I assume that’s mandatory too.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347808687_Analysis_of_the_effectiveness_of_the_smoke_alarm_obligation_-_Experiences_from_practice has an overview of the regulations and an analysis of the impact in Germany.
- Comment on Russian missile strikes Oreo factory in Ukraine, foreign minister says 5 weeks ago:
Clearly an important strategic military target. They are not like Ukrainians that only attack irrelevant infrastructure like the Iskander missile factory. /s
- Comment on Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda! 5 weeks ago:
The fuck it is, 1986 was 20 years ago, and I will not argue about it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You lost all those rights when “moderates” accepted that only American citizens have rights. Good luck proving your rights were infringed from a concentration camp in El Salvador.
- Comment on How I imagine those crying "i tHouGHT StAr Trek WAs suPPosEd tO bE a UtOPia" 1 month ago:
I think the writers screwed up the Borg when they added the queen.
They would be a much better antagonist if they they remained just a collective as they would be a dark mirror of the federation, by having unity and collectivism without diversity and freedom, and could complement the Ferengi, which could have been the federation’s dark mirror with superficial level freedom marred by hyper-indivualism.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Monaco, Lichtenstein, and Vatican.
- Comment on TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe 1 month ago:
But the algorithm isn’t extremely personalized or optimized towards “engagement”. In fact the only fediverse platform that comes close is Loops, and even that is light-years away from the psychological manipulation that goes into Tiktok algorithms.
- Comment on People espousing that unions don't work should have a look at police unions. 1 month ago:
These things are subject to cycles. Things are shit, people unionize, things become a bit less shitty, people stop unionizing, things start getting shitty again, rinse and repeat. Most of Europe is ending the part of the cycle where people thought they didn’t a union anymore.