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- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 21 hours ago:
I am not saying you can or you can’t, but if you could, and I’m not saying you can, I would have full DRM-free backups of every Blu-ray I own.
- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 22 hours ago:
Fun thing, even a DVD or Blu-ray is technically licensed by them, and they claim they have the right to revoke it whenever they want. In the case of Blu-ray they have tried to do this via “updates” to the Blu-ray players
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles' 2 days ago:
Hey lol very valid! I’ve been waiting for this for 10 years!
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard's impressive tresses feature '50,000 individual strands per character for over 100 hairstyles' 2 days ago:
SECOND?! ALREADY?!
- Comment on But yes. 2 days ago:
It was realizing that a lot of our power is still, at its core, a steam engine
- Comment on Sony say their PSN account requirement on PC is so you can enjoy their games 'safely' 1 week ago:
Wow I feel so safe now. Like Sony wrapped me up in their arms and swaddled me. Thank you papa sony
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard won't get expansions, reports say, as BioWare move to the next Mass Effect 2 weeks ago:
Conservatives have their panties in a twist because they have the gall to have lgbtq characters, apparently forgetting that we had Krem in inquisition and that we’ve had several gay and lesbian characters already. I’m having fun personally, I will say everyone’s just a bit too cheerful for my taste, but that’s my only gripe so far
- Comment on Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible” 2 weeks ago:
I am just love watching these companies seeing the downfall of it. Google did short term profits instead of quality for search and now people are looking for competitors and profits are dropping. People don’t watch new Netflix shows because they know they’ll be cancelled. So many more. It’s delicious.
- Comment on Home server rebuild automation workflow 2 weeks ago:
Personally, if you’re considering it already, kubernetes might be something to look into. It’s a lot. Like a lot to learn. But I can honestly say I could do it for a job now with how much I’ve learned. Then it’s less about how to set up machines and more about just reapplying your infrastructure.
- Comment on Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible” 2 weeks ago:
Microsoft really doesn’t understand how well teams can work together. They notoriously hire contractors to avoid needing to pay benefits, rotating them out every 18 months. For them to create team dynamic ideas like “forming storming norming performing”, they really don’t follow any of them.
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 2 weeks ago:
Yep, need a fork of revolt that uses Matrix 2.0 as a backend and I can get my friends to switch
- Comment on Why play a fascist? Unpacking the hideousness of the Space Marine 2 weeks ago:
Almost like they wanted it that way, to get you to think about it. (Sarcasm to the author, not to you).
It’s like they felt guilty about it and decided to write a whole article about how they made them feel bad - and rather than taking the point that you’re supposed to feel bad doing it, and thinking on that they thought “Hey games should make me feel things like this”
- Comment on Why play a fascist? Unpacking the hideousness of the Space Marine 2 weeks ago:
But teaching people to favour the consistency of imaginary worlds may also teach them to vilify disagreement and the entire practice of interpretation. At its nastiest, this mentality both facilitates and camouflages bigotry.
I mean… it’s a game. The RP in RPG is role playing. Isn’t part of the fun playing someone or something you’re not? I play the other gender in games because I’m not that gender. In Mass Effect I love playing renegade - punching reporters in the face even though I’m not like that in real life. This is the same stupid argument I’ve heard all the time. “Grand Theft Auto encourages violence”. No. It’s fun because we get to play this character who is so unlike ourselves.
In Halo I played a bioengineered soldier who was ripped away from his family to put down violent uprisings. Does that mean I think that’s okay in real life? Or was I playing a game that set that as a premise?
Do we apply the same scrutiny to movies? To theater? Just because we empathize or maybe even we admit that there is a part of us who want to speed through downtown Los Santos just for fun doesn’t mean that’s who we actually are.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
It’s not what you think Dragon Age should be. I personally am excited for that. I loved Inquisition and hated Origins, I loved the high fantasy romp with Sera and Varric making quips all day. To me, that was the best story and characters in the entire franchise, and my opinions are just as valid as yours. If you didn’t like it, fine, but I think it’s weird to judge a game negatively because it changed.
To give a reverse example for me. I don’t like where Halo went, but I have a lot of friends who love Infinite’s multiplayer. Now, I could go online and tell people that they shouldn’t play it because 2 and 3 were the best ones - or I could say nothing and let people enjoy things.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
God this, this right here is what I’m sick of in gaming. The negativity and hoping that things fail. Gaming has always been negative but ffs lately it’s just been awful. There used to be a time where people would say “Eh, it’s not for me”, now it’s “I hate the style and everything about it one star bandwagon folks let’s all talk about how terrible and awful this game is and shit it down and out”
I don’t care if it’s the dragon age I knew. I want it to be a fun game. I don’t care if it’s spongy, or the fighting is a little off, if they can get me to have fun - that’s my metric. More importantly, I know others do care about those things. What I won’t do is rage online or hope it fails because it doesn’t cater to me.
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
These are so reassuring, dear god I hope it’s good. I really really feel like this is the make it or break it for Bioware. If Veilguard does well we could see a new era of Bioware games, refreshing Dragon Age and Mass Effect.
Or we’ll see EA finally shutter it.
- Comment on Flipt: open-source, CloudNative feature flag solution 2 weeks ago:
Is this really feature flags as a service? FFAAS?
- Comment on Actual Budget is a fantastic FOSS budgeting tool that you can self-host 2 weeks ago:
Tried it and it works pretty well! I’ll have to keep playing with it, but so far so good!
- Comment on Actual Budget is a fantastic FOSS budgeting tool that you can self-host 2 weeks ago:
How well do you find it works? I’m not afraid of the fee, but I don’t want to spend time setting it up and paying the fee to only find out that it won’t do most things
- Comment on Actual Budget is a fantastic FOSS budgeting tool that you can self-host 2 weeks ago:
The number one thing that most of these don’t do well for me is the connection with banks. You mentioned that there is bank syncing, how well does that work? Can I say, just click my bank and do an oauth connection, and it will store it? I really loved Mint, and essentially want it to be done the same way
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
Lol if this was a programming assignment, then I can 100% say that you are setting yourself up for failure, but hey you do you. I’m 15 years out of college right now, and I’m currently interviewing for software gigs. Programs like those homework assignments are your interviews, hate to tell you, but you’ll be expected to recall those algorithms, from memory, without assistance, live, and put it on paper/whiteboard within 60 minutes - and then defend that you got it right. (And no, ChatGPT isn’t allowed. Oh sure you can use it at work, I do it all the time, but not in your interviews)
But hey, you got it all figured out, so I’m sure not learning the material now won’t hurt you later and interviewers won’t catch on. I mean, I’ve said no to people who I caught cheating in my interviews, but I’m sure it won’t happen to you.
For reference, literally just this week one of my questions was to first build an adjacency matrix and then come up with a solution for finding all of the disjointed groups within that matrix and then returning those in a sorted list from largest to smallest. I had 60 minutes to do it and I was graded on how much I completed, if it compiled, edge cases, run time, and space required.
Of course that’s just one interview, that’s just the tech screen. Most companies will then move you onto a loop (or what everyone lovingly calls ‘the Guantlet’) which is 4 1 hour interviews in a single day, all exactly like that.
And just so you know, I was a C student, I was terrible in academia - but literally no one checks after school. They don’t need to, you’ll be proving it in your interviews. But hey, what do I know, I’m just some guy on the internet. Have fun with your As.
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
Eh, putting more than minimal effort into cheating seems to defeat the point to me. Even if it takes 10x less time, you wasted 1x or that to get one passing grade, for one assignment that you’ll probably need for a test later anyway. Just spend the time and so the assignment.
- Comment on Clever, clever 3 weeks ago:
Yeah knocking out 99% of cheaters honestly is a pretty good strategy.
And for student super, if you’re reading through the prompt that carefully to see if it was poisoned, why not just put that same effort into actually doing the assignment?
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.world | 19 comments
- Comment on Netflix's "Team Blue" of Halo, Overwatch and God Of War vets close without a single game to their name 3 weeks ago:
Stocking. I’m the world if short term profits Netflix didn’t want to stick it out for several years of game development
- Comment on Is a filter for muting Lemmy 'power users' possible? 3 weeks ago:
Then you check what quality content OP is posting and… 5 comments and this post. So they’re doing their part.
Lurkers who post this stuff bug me. Wanting a stream of content but are so nitpicky about it, when all they have to do is start posting stuff themselves to kick up conversations
- Comment on hard to argue with 3 weeks ago:
Fuck off with the baiting.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
If massive universe sums like that were technically feasible all of the other studios would have done it. They were overly ambitious and didn’t understand the limits
- Comment on Lemmy Federate - tool to help communities sync across instances 4 weeks ago:
Yeah I’m one of those. Not only is there A LOT of data on the fediverse that I would have to pay to host, but there is A LOT of NSFW/nsfl things too. When I come across it I defederate it. It would be a flood of things if I just blindly federated with everyone
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 4 weeks ago:
We’re coming up on a year from launch now. For me the game is fine, but it’s lacking a lot of stuff to make it a CS1 replacement, and them having to go back and fix performance issues means they’re putting off actual feature development.