HarkMahlberg
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth
People keep asking me, and I haven't really had an answer, but now yeah, I'm thinking I'm back.
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 2 days ago:
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 2 days ago:
The price is off-putting because we can see the sticker in order to get sticker shock. But lootboxes and gambling have no upfront sticker, the cost is obfuscated and extended over years. In that regard, Paradox is much more transparent.
That being said, my beef with them is their "subscription for DLC" model, at least the version I saw being rolled out for EU4. That and the free updates tend to be fairly unbalanced if you don't also buy the corresponding DLC for that update. That seems skeevy... but still not as skeevy as lootboxes.
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 4 days ago:
Yeah, I've got something to add. The ruling class will use LLMs as a tool to lay off tens of thousands of workers to consolidate more power and wealth at the top.
LLMs also advance no profession at all while it can still hallucinate and be manipulated by it's owners, producing more junk that requires a skilled worker to fix. Even my coworkers have said "if I have to fix everything it gives me, why didn't I just do it myself?"
LLMs also have dire consequences outside the context of labor. Because of how easy they are to manipulate, they can be used to manufacture consent and warp public consciousness around their owners' ideals.
LLMs are also a massive financial bubble, ready to pop and send us into a recession. Nvidia is shoveling money into companies so they can shovel it back into Nvidia.
Would you like me to continue on about the climate?
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 4 days ago:
Ever work in an enterprise environment? Sometimes a single talented developer cannot overcome the calcification of hundreds of people over several decades who care more about the optics of work than actual work. Documentation cannot help if its non-existent/20 years old. Documentation cannot make teams that don't believe in automation, adopt Docker.
Not that I expect Sam Altman to understand what it's like working in a dumpster fire company, his only job is to just pour the gasoline.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 1 week ago:
The robots are there to replace the apologetic delivery driver, not the rich asshole. They'd never let that happen.
- Comment on Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing 1 week ago:
The flip side of that same coin is that, IME, fediverse developers champion data privacy, anonymity, and decentralization. Users should never offer that much personal data to one platform, so they build and advocate for platforms that don't require that data. Building a lowercase-f facebook on the fediverse would betray that foundation.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 1 week ago:
I think few open source projects enjoy the user satisfaction that VLC does. Even Linux itself is not as friendly to its users.
VLC (by cause or by effect?) also doesn't have evangelists trying to push it. It doesn't need them. Contrarianism is a strong motivator in today's culture.
- Comment on The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) 1 week ago:
I was going to reply "at least the burning of Alexandria was an accident," and then I thought to look that up. Seems egotists destroying public collections of knowledge is just baked into humanity. We'll never be free of its scourge.
- Comment on GOG say their preservation program has been "harder than we thought", thanks to DRM and elusive creators 2 weeks ago:
That's journalism right there.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I don't know, I think a rag calling itself Windows Central might have a bias towards Microsoft...
Even the tone of the article sounds like their arms are tired from carrying their water.
One thing after another, Microsoft is forced to respond time and time again to ongoing rumors that it's leaving the hardware space.
A new Xbox rumor started this weekend that's now blown out of proportion, as usual.
Can you bitch any harder?
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 2 weeks ago:
"No. { Several paragraphs of argument that's not mutually exclusive }"
Arghh hate that shit. I don't know why online argumenters love to start with "No and." I don't block because of it but man, nobody learns how to have a constructive debate anymore.
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 3 weeks ago:
They took your headphone jack.
Are we talking the nubulous They, the royal They, or do you mean "Android took your headphone jack?" Because uhh,
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 weeks ago:
I think Jak and Daxter now has a native PC port.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 weeks ago:
Push 1v1 caused a lot of shouting matches between me and my brother. 10/10 would play again, that shit was genius.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 3 weeks ago:
I can relate. I played DOS when it had a camera locked to a 90 degree arc. XD
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 3 weeks ago:
Since you mentioned publishers that haven't been greedy, I'll throw a few more out there that I think are worthy of support. They don't need launchers, that don't need accounts, they don't have predatory subscriptions. They just make great games.
- Supergiant Games: Transistor, Hades, Hades II
- Larian Studios: Divinity Original Sin, DOS II, Baldur's Gate 3
- Playstack: Balatro
Otherwise, I'm totally with you. The account-walling of the Internet as a whole has pissed me off royally and I see no reason to give those bastards what they want.
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 4 weeks ago:
Give it time
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 4 weeks ago:
My uncle blew a lid at dinner over Cracker Barrel. They believe whatever their media tells them.
My solace is I know what gift card to get him for Christmas.
- Comment on Brazil's president has signed a ban on selling loot boxes to minors as part of a larger online child safety law 4 weeks ago:
Common Brasil W
- Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared 5 weeks ago:
May as well make a new alt, you've already burned this one too the ground.
- Comment on [Episode] My Dress-Up Darling Season 2 • Sono Bisque Doll wa Koi wo Suru Season 2 - Episode 12 discussion 5 weeks ago:
You could pick up the manga, but I knew there was no way they were gonna fit the last arc in this season. They will probably do a movie, like they did at the end of Kaguya.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Gina got fired because... pronouns
Yeah imma stop you right there.
Because it would be illegal.
If that thought even so much as crossed Carr's mind, why would he make any remarks at all? It costs nothing to keep his mouth shut, and it avoids any liability.
Thats why there is no legal document or order.
Committing crimes and getting away with it is a virtue to conservatives. Why won't they create a paper trail of their crimes, man I wonder. Anyway, release the Epstein files.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
celebrated
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It's an impressive feat to get -5000 reputation in only 4 months. Again, you gotta try to be this toxic and terminally online. Even AI can't pump out that much hate that fast.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 5 weeks ago:
dopamine delivery device
I'd even go so far as to say it's a dual-dopamine-plus-cortisol device. For as many things on the internet that give people joy, there are probably as many if not more things that make people angry. And the algorithms are very good and pressing both buttons simultaneously (the meme of a superhero sweating looking at two buttons need not apply).
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 5 weeks ago:
I've been waiting for the boomer generation to stop any of what they're doing for 30 years. I suspect they'll still be a viable political bloc for the next 20 years. And even then, gen x and gen z will pick up right where they left off.
- Comment on TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill 5 weeks ago:
Don't underestimate the stupidity and calcification of tiktok users, they'll just stick around having never heard of the sale. They won't even question why their feed is now a nonstop loop of Kirk clips.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
@arararagi Don't forget Metaverse, they took a fuckin bath on that.
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- Comment on GN's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to try to make up for the lost traction! 1 month ago:
I'll shill for them - if you play DND, the dice set is sick. Nice wooden case too (but the fit is a little jank, the lids don't sit flush). Still, it's an eye pleaser.
