Hond
@Hond@piefed.social
- Comment on Schlip schlop 2 days ago:
What?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
FM3 onwards these games were full of DLCs, special editions, VIP status for faster progression, live service content, fomo mechanics, gambling, etc pp
The “story”, “writing” and “characters” are also painfully bad. Cutscenes arent skippable. You can mute those bland corporate written assholes though.
Gameplaywise it isnt a nice little campaign like in FH1. Its more like a sandbox where the game shits out a new car for you at every given moment but desireable cars are locked behind seasonal/weekly events and grinding. then the map gets clogged up really fast in thousands of races and other activities which you can do however you feel like. If your after a more guided experience your out of luck.
Still pretty solid games with great artstyle, tons of cars, very good driving physics, tons content etc.
But after the Forza Motorsport 2023 desaster i dont trust Microslops marketing one bit. Playground Games trackrecord is still pretty good they overtook Turn10 long ago. But i’m going to wait it out until the honeymoon phase wears off and the more critical opinions start to appear.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
pet the kitty
- Comment on We didn't have this option as kids 1 week ago:
Is this a screenshot of Imessage, which was printed out on physical paper, which was photographed in a shitty angle, which was projected onto a screen, which was again photographed and then for whatever reason superimposed on a stockimage of a laptop with a dslr on the side?
- Comment on Here is how many Copilots Microsoft actually has 1 week ago:
tl;dr 16
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 1 week ago:
Its just personal evidence but i see more and more indie games using UE5 and a lot of them run like shit. Most games dont need real time lighting, global illumination, software or hardware raytracing based solutions etc. But instead of baking that stuff once onto textures like its 2004 on the developers rig we now have indie titles with artstyles and visuals which were achievable 20 years ago but done with bleeding edge graphics technologies which dont even run well on modern mid tier GPUs.
Dont get me wrong we still have tons of indie titles which run on a potato. But more hardware demanding titles really picked up recently even in the indie space.
- Comment on My tender eyes and ears 2 weeks ago:
All Pixel phones with Tensor SOCs have “AI” Chips. So even the Pixel 6 and 7 come with a NPU.
- Comment on My tender eyes and ears 2 weeks ago:
I’m a huge nerd so take everything with a grain of salt how my experience translates to a non-techie.
Storing and playing music with Android is pretty straightforward. You just copy your music into the music folder. Then use either the media player your phone comes with or choose one of the 1 million other options on the playstore/f-droid. But i never liked Itunes to begin with. Not with the Ipod i had 20 years ago and not with the Ipad i had 10 years ago. It just gets in my(!) way of how i want to do things. If your whole music library and management revolves around itunes… uuh yeah, idk its going to be a new learning experience i guess.
Good quality camera shouldnt be an issue. Especially coming from a SE. Look up Samsung/Google/Apple camera blindtests on Youtube. The differences are minuscule and mostly about how they handle whitebalance (yellowish/blueish tint) and how pronounced the contrast in the shadows is. The UI of the camera will be different. But if you just point and shoot without needing more advanced settings it will be just fine.
If you want to use GrapheneOS or a custom ROM in general: Buy a Pixel and flash GrapheneOS. If your not a nerd other custom roms will be a huge pain to install. Graphene has a pretty straightforward web based installer which guides you through the process. The cheaper “A” models had pretty often issues with their batteries. But atleast Google just reimbursed everyone in those cases. I’m still on my Pixel 7 and i dont see any reason to upgrade until its support ends. Camera is still great, performance is still great, screen is great, battery life is okay. Choosing anything between 8-10 series Pixels should be just fine. Older ones have a shorter support period. Newer ones a slightly more expensive and a bit better. Pro models have a bit more ram and a telescopic camera for more zoom. Nice to have but i(!) wouldnt pay extra for that.
- Comment on Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console Security 3 weeks ago:
I’m not particularly deep into the emulation scene or even a dev with actual knowledge. But from what i’ve read over the years X86 doesnt have to be a beneficial because the instruction set is ridiculously big and complex. While the chips are based off of PC hardware there still is a lot of custom fuckery going on which isnt publicly documented.
Prominent example is to look at the state of OG XBOX emulation vs PS2. Based on a Pentium 3 and some semi custom Nvidia GPU of that time and you would expect it to be perfectly emulateable. But even after almost 25 years xbox emulation is still in a rough spot. While PS2 emulation with its weird custom architecture thrives.
Widespread interest in a plattform is probably a far more important factor.
With that said PS4 emulation is already pretty mature considering how young the shad4 project is. Even though its also x86, but they’re using an approach more like WINE i think(!).
PS5 has almost no exclusives though. Like GT7, Astrobot aaand uh? I dont see put effort into it too soon.
- Comment on Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console Security 3 weeks ago:
I dont think you can put a general number on that. But even if you do 2x is way to slow. Try maybe atleast 5-10x.
You can emulate a SNES so accuratly that you need atleast 2,4ghz to run the emulator at all.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 3 weeks ago:
The sad part is that i still tried to first rationalize this and was about to check if office.com really belongs to microsoft…
Anyway, i jumped ship for good last year. Its probably really time to delete that windows 10 partition i used a whole 2 hours the last 6 months.
- Comment on Cube me 3 weeks ago:
The finer the chain link the higher the resolution
- Comment on Just shut up and RAM me already 3 weeks ago:
Hugging my Ram before i get myself a dude, a child and a cat.
- Comment on Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America. 4 weeks ago:
true but murican measurements are an overall bigger insult to humanity
- Comment on So how was your year in review? 5 weeks ago:
The data is certainly there. The best way to read it is that they specifically make no attempts to analyze it.
Which becomes a bit of a moot point considering that with the fediverse some rogue instance can collect and do with your data whatever they want.
Still a pretty good joke.
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- Comment on Looks legit. What do you all think? 5 weeks ago:
have you seen the generated stuff by that new google banana nano whatever model? we’re fucked. just looking a bit closer on the details isnt enough anymore.
- Comment on There's a 0% chance the tiktok generation avoids using nukes on itself. 5 weeks ago:
please explain it to me in simple terms daddy.
like whats so much worse with the current kids compared to ourself back then?
seriously, without snark please.
i am capable to admit that i know where your feelings are coming from. i feel the same sometimes. but is really about the time you were born in?
- Comment on There's a 0% chance the tiktok generation avoids using nukes on itself. 5 weeks ago:
i did.
its about generations.
i hated how the “old guard” treated my generation as a youngings and my ways.
now i am myself the old guard and i hate all my fellow same age fucks who do the same shit.
Like dont get me wrong. Social media in its current hyper corporate form is ass. But thats not an generational issue???
- Comment on There's a 0% chance the tiktok generation avoids using nukes on itself. 5 weeks ago:
i mean do you really believe that? That the people younger than you are just simply more stupid?
- Comment on There's a 0% chance the tiktok generation avoids using nukes on itself. 5 weeks ago:
i fucking hate these generational prejudices.
ney, the kids are alright.
fuck you. (meant dearly)
posted by an old fuck who had high hopes on their same age fellows.
- Comment on [Hustle] Be Like EU 5 weeks ago:
as is tradition
- Comment on [Meta] Can unsubstantiated rumours? 5 weeks ago:
Agreed.
On the other hand thats how the internet worked since forever. I started to just ignore HL3 “leaks” 15 years ago.
If you care about a certain topic its pretty easy to rule out the one or two annoying “leakers” which made “leaking” their profession. I would appreciate it if somebody else would prefilter this shit. But tbh i can manage on myself. Like its annoying that especially these posts gain a lot traction because they play with the “needs” and “wants” of the general populace. But sometimes its just easier to put on your big boy/girl shoes on and just deal with it. Best part: dealing with it is just a mental :thumbs up: and then forgetting about it. - Comment on Beans aswell 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet. 5 weeks ago:
its been 10 yeares since satire is dead. but jfc this is yet another stark reminder that gets me how dead it is.
- Comment on Hi, I am TotallyNotForeignNational and only have the best interests of america in mind. You can trust me because this is reddit, not xitter, and I say good things about the American president. 1 month ago:
lmao i dont need critics in my thinking. radical left wing media already critizes enough.
/s
- Comment on Thank Mozilla for Killing Localization on Support Mozilla (And Replacing Human Contributions With AI Bots) 1 month ago:
that tonedeaf response of the mozilla staff boils my blood. holy fuck.
i hate mozilla so much for years already but in recent times it got so much worse.
cant wait to switch to ladybird or other alternatives in the future. - Comment on Hands on with North Korea’s Illegal Phones 2 months ago:
fair enough.
i just dislike rich assholes who make shitty videos. i agree some specifics would be nice. but damn, i dont remember the exact details of a few videos i watched 2 or 3 years ago. going back to fact check them isnt worth my time. sorry.
- Comment on Hands on with North Korea’s Illegal Phones 2 months ago:
tbf, i havent watched a video of him for years including this one. i just dont trust him at all.
maybe this video is pretty alright. idk. i’m not knowledgable enough on this particular topic either way. but he has touched on topics in the past where i’m knowledgable enough and it was really bad. just utter nonsense. not like with mkbhd where i just disagree with his opinions. its just sloppy garbage.
- Comment on Hands on with North Korea’s Illegal Phones 2 months ago:
fuck that guy.
the factchecking is horrible on that channel. there are so many videos with so many mistakes, misleading conclusions, important left out things, etc.
Fuck him.
