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- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 10 hours ago:
There were a couple instances where they accidentally released unredacted versions of files before they realized and replaced them with redacted versions, but that’s all I can recall off the top of my head.
I think there may have been some documents released without authorization before, but I can’t recall when, just a vague recollection.
- Comment on 10 hours ago:
I think it’s a mistake to ride the coattails of Baldur’s Gate 3.
Don’t get me wrong, I think more Forgotten Realms stories could make for good TV. The Honor Among Thieves movie from a few years ago was fantastic.
But I just don’t see why they’d give up on making one D&D TV series a couple years ago, only to start a brand new one with more baggage. Instead of telling an original story, they’re tied down to a story continuity that is inevitably going to leave a lot of fans disappointed regardless of the direction they take.
- Comment on Get that silicussy 1 day ago:
I prefer AI courtesan
- Comment on The Nintendo Switch tops the DS to become the company's best-selling console of all time 1 day ago:
The Wii U had a very short (relative for a console) lifespan, though. It released at the end of 2012, and the Switch came in early 2017. Really just 4 years and some change. It didn’t sell well and Nintendo wanted to move on from it as quickly as possible.
The Switch, by comparison, lasted about twice as long (longer if you factor in how many more game releases it’s still likely to see), and I’d anticipate the Switch 2 having a comparable lifespan if it continues to sell well. We’re not getting a Switch 3 in 2030, at least.
- Comment on lightbulbs 2 days ago:
Most of them are so expensive, though.
No, Philips, I am not spending $50 on a single bulb, that is madness.
- Comment on Draw! 5 days ago:
Before anyone actually updates their resume to look better based on a meme:
Sabbatical is just a long vacation. It’s not that you stop being employed, you just take an extended leave and almost always have an agreed-upon return date.
- Comment on 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN 1 week ago:
I think if they did a ground-up remake/reimagining of Arena or Daggerfall, it could still be compelling. Not a simple remaster, though.
That being said, there is apparently a Unity port of Daggerfall that appears quite decent, and goes a long way towards modernizing an otherwise ancient game.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 1 week ago:
I can’t be arsed to keep up with changing the config of the browser I didn’t choose every time the device updates with new admin-defined settings. That’s all.
On my personal device I still use Google right now for consistency but I set the default behavior to exclude AI results.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 1 week ago:
Yeah but you can do the same with Google as well (just can’t be arsed to change the search settings on my work PC), it’s the principle of the thing.
- Comment on Satya Nadella insists people are using Microsoft’s Copilot AI a lot 1 week ago:
That’d be my guess.
I have never once went out of my way to use Gemini, for example, but having it appear in every other Google search with some lying bullshit to spread is probably driving up their engagement numbers.
I really should stop using Google. But can’t use DDG either because they just use Bing and their own AI service as well, and so does Kagi.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
The funny part about this is that Stuart Little is already canonically a human child. He just happens to look like a mouse.
Anyone who objects can take it up with E.B. White, I don’t make the rules.
- Comment on R.B. Hoadley 1 week ago:
Aww, that context gives this whole meme a lot more depth to me. I can’t entirely articulate why, but I guess it’s just nice to know that he was actually wholesome and loved.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 2 weeks ago:
Not that Haiti was necessarily at fault for that, though. It was either brace for further conquest, or submit to incredibly harsh terms of peace that would still see the country stripped of all its wealth.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 2 weeks ago:
I’m not the previous poster, but the French Revolution > Reign of Terror > Napoleonic Era > etc. comes to mind. A cycle of despots one after another.
- Comment on Life is Strange: Reunion officially announced, will conclude the Max and Chloe saga | VGC 2 weeks ago:
I thought True Colors was decent enough, but by all accounts Double Exposure was nothing special.
I really liked the anthology thing the series was going with, where every game was telling a different story with a different cast. Maybe eventually getting to the core of answering why these random kids have strange abilities.
But the last thing I wanted was them to try to continue from (what I thought was) a perfect ending. Just seems like they’ve lost the point.
- Comment on The original was better 2 weeks ago:
I think it was considered normal for couples to argue pretty much daily.
How many people grew up thinking that marriage is supposed to look like that ? My gawd. People must have been miserable.
Probably likely for a lot of folks. It took so. damn. long. for divorce to be made legal across the western world, and even longer than that to get to the point where the burden of an unhappy marriage was no longer outweighed by the scandal of divorce.
Before no-fault divorces became common, unhappy couples would sometimes even voluntarily fake an affair just to act as “proof” of adultery for a divorce.
- Comment on The original was better 2 weeks ago:
You gotta throw me a bone here Mickey, what am I even looking at?
- Comment on What next, power supply shortages? 2 weeks ago:
I wanted to build a computer a couple years ago, but the prices they were charging for individual components even then just didn’t make sense compared to buying a more affordable pre-built.
I can’t imagine trying to build one now with these RAM prices, it’s insane.
- Comment on What next, power supply shortages? 2 weeks ago:
Did the GPU shortages ever really end, though? We just have more shortages on top of it.
- Comment on Day 548 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
The updated Forerunner architecture designs seem directly lifted out of Tron. I can’t imagine it’s a coincidence that Halo 4 released just 2 years after Tron Legacy.
- Comment on Bounce 3 weeks ago:
Maybe Christ is just a euphemism for cock
- Comment on Day 547 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Woden resembling Odin (along with the name)
Just some additional context, Woden is the Anglo-Saxon name for the same god, worshipped in England prior to the arrival of Christianity. Not too different from how the Roman version of Zeus is Jupiter.
The English word “Wednesday” also etymologically derives from “Woden’s Day,” like how Thursday is also “Thor’s Day”
- Comment on Forza Horizon 6's release date was briefly accidentally leaked in Forza Horizon 5 3 weeks ago:
There’s an Xbox Developer Direct next week that will feature Forza, I’m assuming they would have announced it then.
- Comment on Annual merit increase 3 weeks ago:
It never hurts just to start tossing out applications and see what you get. The best way to get better at interviewing is to do more interviews. Even if you think your odds of landing something are low, just go into it with the mentality of getting more practice until it feels comfortable. And who knows, you might be surprised by a good offer.
But I would also recommend being selective with where you apply, too. Basically don’t sell your skillset too low, and don’t apply for the types of open-ended jobs that will attract thousands of applicants and only waste your time. It can be absolutely soul crushing to send out 100 applications and never even get a response from 90 of them, but a good opportunity will come along eventually and you can develop a sense of which listings aren’t worth your time.
- Comment on rest in pepperoni 3 weeks ago:
I just assumed they were the weird emphasis quotes people do for some reason
- Comment on rest in pepperoni 3 weeks ago:
I had to look up his bio (where I learned that he had just died, this post makes more sense now) and found that he actually had no biological children, so he would actually be eligible for a Darwin Award.
- Comment on YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words 3 weeks ago:
Can’t say it’s original, I definitely stole it from someone else here who had the same grievance.
- Comment on YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s what I tried first, but it was basically a game of whack-a-moe.
I don’t like the nuclear option of outright blocking people, but blocking a single person is easier than blocking two dozen communities, and it future proofs it when they continue making new ones.
- Comment on YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words 3 weeks ago:
My trick: I ended up just blocking 5 or 6 total users and see almost none of it.
- Comment on Is this even a question? 4 weeks ago:
Why did this immediately start playing in my head as soon as I saw this picture?