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- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 16 hours ago:
Cool, maybe I’ll give it a shot again sometime
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 20 hours ago:
When I tried it a few years back there was this really strange field of view and input lag that felt really clunky when moving around the world. Anyone knows if that’s been fixed?
- Comment on Intel details everything that could go wrong with US taking a 10% stake 20 hours ago:
Apple doesn’t really exist as a competitor for a number of industries and use cases due to not officially supporting anything other than OSX so I’m not sure if they’re a fair comparison here.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 2 days ago:
I sure hope not, it’d mess up corporate deployments and all too.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 2 days ago:
Another article did mention that it’s only for devices with Play Protect enabled so if they keep that as easy as it is to disable right now, it’ll be a non issue actually.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 2 days ago:
Another article did mention that it’s only for devices with Play Protect enabled so if they keep that as easy as it is to disable right now, it’ll be a non issue actually.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 game-key cards not eligible for preservation by Japan’s National Diet Library, officials say 2 days ago:
But if you ever wondered if the xbox one reveal event would have gone down a lot better today… just look at how confused people are over what the hell they are even buying from the big n.
As someone that’s always been using Steam, I really didn’t understand the issue with it either.
- Comment on Google will require developer verification for Android apps outside the Play Store 2 days ago:
Why am I using an Android device then? Also how would this even work with open source apps that people build from source?
- Comment on China cut itself off from the global internet on Wednesday 5 days ago:
I play in SEA and see the reverse. I don’t think most China players are connecting to Oceania servers, they’re far more likely to connect to Asian servers since the data centers are usually in Singapore and Japan which are much closer to China.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Special Announcement Stream (starts in 48 hours) 1 week ago:
I refuse to give Facebook money and honestly if I didn’t have a WMR headset, I wouldn’t even have bothered.
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 1 week ago:
You’re right but at the end of the day, the average person is content with having their stuff just work for now and that’s a reasonable expectation isn’t it? If it ain’t broke, people aren’t going to go out of their way to protect themselves from a what-if that they may feel is going to maybe mildly inconvenience them when it happens regardless of what it actually is, since they may be ignorant of the true state of how things might be.
And in the end, some are just gonna accept that inconvenience from stuff not working completely rather than switch. People have been saying to switch away from Chrome for years and now even with ad-blocking being nerfed, people are still on it.
- Comment on Intel collapsing? 2 weeks ago:
Not sure if it’s the same amount of money you’re referring to or if there’s another budget given to them but the video does indicate that for one of them, Intel claims that they have never received the money.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
Honestly if that is it, it is understandable. This AI nonsense, however, is plainly a waste of money and resources, Mozilla’s and their users’.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 2 weeks ago:
Classic streisand effect
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
At this point I’d honestly even pay for a privacy focused mozilla browser that is clean of all this crap, just to keep them afloat, but fat chance of that happening.
As much as I’d love for something like that I don’t think it’s even remotely possible. I don’t think enough people are willing enough to pay for a browser that respects them, heck the amount of people who remain on Chrome shows that people aren’t even willing to take a small step to stop using a browser that’s actively working against their interests. I’d love to be proven wrong though.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 2 weeks ago:
With how much CoD costs and how the player base tends to abandon the game once the new one releases, Game Pass is pretty much the most logical way of getting your hands on CoD. I reckon most people play it through that.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 weeks ago:
Instead of capitalising on Google pissing off power users with its crusade against adblockers, why the hell is Mozilla fucking up so hard here? Seriously, which chain of command green lit all of this and didn’t even think this would be remotely an issue?
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages | Update 2 Release Notes 2 weeks ago:
Hmm could I ask what difficulty you’re playing at? I’m still at the early chapters though.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages | Update 2 Release Notes 2 weeks ago:
Did the variety of enemies that require different weapons not already provide a reason to use different guns? I actually found myself swapping weapons a lot to be able to overheat shields, deal with special enemies and more.
- Comment on Steam and itch.io “mustn't succumb to unjust pressure with no legal basis,” Japan free speech organization urges amidst mass censorship of games 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s quite different though. Companies self censoring themselves is quite a hot different from a separate entity implementing censorship by terminating payment systems. Indie devs can still make such content. The mastercard/visa situation on the other hand effectively kills it for any team producing such content and I think that is far worse.
- Comment on ‘We didn’t vote for ChatGPT’: Swedish Prime Minister under fire for using AI 3 weeks ago:
The very nature of how it functions is unreliable. It’s a statistical probabilistic model. It’s great for what it was designed to do but imagining that it has any way of rationalising data is purely that, just imagination. Even if let’s say we accept that it makes an error rate at the same rate as humans do (if it can even identify an error reliably), there’s no accountability in place that ensures that it would check the correctness like a human would.
- Comment on Steam and itch.io “mustn't succumb to unjust pressure with no legal basis,” Japan free speech organization urges amidst mass censorship of games 3 weeks ago:
Take a quick look at DLsite and Pixiv, Japan hardly censors anything other than pixelation of specific body parts. If anything, it feels like the west is heading towards much more intense censorship.
- Comment on When was the first time you cried over an anime? 3 weeks ago:
That season was brutal with The Place Further Than The Universe having similar themes for their episode on the same week. I went in expecting some slice of life joy after being destroyed by Violet Evergarden, only to be destroyed yet again.
- Comment on CITY THE ANIMATION - Episode 5 discussion 3 weeks ago:
Man, that was one hell of a ride. I don’t think I remember seeing something so… experimental (?) before in anime. Man, I feel like I’ll need to watch this a couple more times to catch everything and give it the attention it deserves. Kyoani really are in a league of their own.
- Comment on Itch.io has begun restoring NSFW content, but only if it’s free 3 weeks ago:
That’s exactly what DLsite has done when MasterCard and Visa banned them. Granted, they’re Japanese so most fo their sales use Japanese methods like JCB, PayPay, etc. I’m not sure if this would kill services that didn’t have such a large domestic audience.
- Comment on China advances toward tech independence with new homegrown 6nm gaming and AI GPUs — Lisuan 7G106 runs Chinese AAA titles at 4K over 70 FPS and matches RTX 4060 in synthetic benchmarks 4 weeks ago:
Nvidia would have you believe that with MFG and DLSS. Anyways, never trust the manufacturer’s claims, we’ll see what this triple slot 4060 competitor can do when it gets in the hands of independent reviewers.
- Comment on Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north 4 weeks ago:
That’s using a 3 slot cooler just to hit the performance of a GPU that was already underpowered on release. China doesn’t exactly have a clean record either.
- Comment on [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga 4 weeks ago:
Comiket
- Comment on [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga 4 weeks ago:
Porn is serious business man
- Comment on [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga 4 weeks ago:
This is a country that has porn mags being sold in convenience stores and plenty of stores where you can find content for all sorts of fetishes both online and offline. They also have 2 huge indie artist markets every year where at least 50% of the content being sold is porn. Each event gets about 300k people. Only thing I can think of regarding censorship here are the mosaics and those are only really there due to a very old law that no lawmakers are gonna bother with expending political capital to reverse.