Robust_Mirror
@Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 12 hours ago:
It’s like 15 seconds every couple of videos. I mean I get it, but TV my entire childhood was 21 minute shows with 3 sets of 3 minute ads per 30 min block. Movies that were 90 minutes would stretch to 2-2.5 hours with the ads. I saw Titanic once and it was closing in on 5 hours. It’s really not that bad to me.
- Comment on Fake reviews on Play Store by Plex staff 2 days ago:
I would imagine its harder to argue you don’t condone your users using it for piracy when you have a feature that automatically does stuff very closely related to piracy. I’m not going to get into an argument over whether it’s defensible legally or not, but it makes sense to me that they play it safer than not.
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 2 days ago:
Usually these decompiled projects run natively as an exe. I haven’t tried this one yet though.
- Comment on Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use 4 days ago:
Nintendo is actually the exception in this regard, they sold the switch at a profit from day 1.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 6 days ago:
I don’t think Nintendo has as many die hards as you think. The wii and switch had over 100 million sales. The wii u had 13 million.
Now look at switch game sales, scroll past their major IPs and pokemon games, and once again the sales show around 13 million or less.
On wii u mario kart had 8 million sales, and not one other game passed 6 million.
The wii, wii u and switch all had around 3 million sales in their first quarter and didn’t really pass that 13 million mark in their first year.
If only die hard fans that buy no matter what buy it, I think it absolutely will be a problem for them. And I think it has a real chance of happening. Half my casual gamer friends didn’t even know switch 2 was a thing, and the ones that did know about it said they haven’t seen any reason to get it yet, especially at the prices they’re seeing.
The reality is, the family and casual markets are what carried them whether they like it or not. Not the rabbid fans. And like with the wii u, if they don’t appeal to those markets properly, they won’t sell well.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 week ago:
Saw this the other day, that part isn’t as much their fault.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 week ago:
I agree, they definitely priced themselves out of several demographics including casual gamers, parents of young children gamers, and “I guess I’ll get a switch as a second device” gamers. These people aren’t going to look at a switch that’s roughly the same price as the ps5 and xbox and think “yeah let’s grab that one”.
The wii u showed their demographic of “die hard fans that buy no matter what” is actually really small compared to the rest of their sales. And I think we’re going to see a repeat of that.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 1 week ago:
The vast majority of my favourite games have been listed, many multiple times, so I’m gonna go with some I didn’t see, though I didn’t look exhaustively, here we go:
Quite a hidden gem in my opinion, almost no one I mention it to has heard of it. 2D platformer with an amazing story and some interesting gimmicks. One of the most surprising and unforgettable indie games I’ve played.
Ninja action-platformer that is way more than it first appears if you stick with it. Hilarious writing, great controls, and amazing music. Genuinely one of my favourite games.
Almost entirely unique in it’s idea. It’s a pinball-metroidvania where you’re a postman dung beetle, and it really works. Gorgeous world, super chill vibes, clever puzzles… What metroid prime pinball should have been.
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 1 week ago:
The internet isn’t good enough globally to do that, and still won’t be by 2030 after the ps6/nextbox is out. Maybe the gen after next. But even then, there’s a lot of countries I could see still being patchy. Right now in Australia, Sony won’t even let you access the PS3 streaming games because they know it won’t work well enough.
- Comment on If you see a bunch of otherwise normal people with the same odd behavior then you are probably seeing the effects of a marketing campign. The effects can last for years, even decades. 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on If you see a bunch of otherwise normal people with the same odd behavior then you are probably seeing the effects of a marketing campign. The effects can last for years, even decades. 2 weeks ago:
Tiktok dances are generally marketing to get new songs popular. They pay the biggest channels and it snowballs from there.
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 2 weeks ago:
It also assumes it is immediately deadly poison, and doesn’t do something like cause early dementia 25 years later.
- Comment on I'm jealous 2 weeks ago:
Still super common in Australia.
- Comment on More Americans are financing groceries with buy now, pay later loans — and more are paying those bills late, survey says 2 weeks ago:
For me the best part of doing groceries yourself are the food expiring markdowns. I get so many meats and interesting things I could usually never afford by getting stuff that is going to expire that day.
Case in point, scored this 5 minutes ago, add some cheap sides and dinner sorted
- Comment on YouTube says goodbye to decade-old video player UI, but users hate the new design 2 weeks ago:
Things like this roll out to more people over time. It’s clearly desktop, both from the screenshots and the fact people are complaining they can’t use the scroll wheel to change the volume while hovering over the volume button. That’s clearly a desktop thing.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 2 weeks ago:
I mean, there’s a lot of things you can do for free that we pay people for. They’ve put together a device that is preloaded with a ton of information. To do this yourself would probably take most people a week or 2, at best a weekend if you worked hard and had pre-existing knowledge and a fast connection. Maybe longer depending how they modified the raspberry pi, though you don’t necessarily need it to do everything they made it do.
You’d pay in this range for someone to clean your house for a few hours. You can also do that free. It’s the convenience you’re paying for.
- Comment on The youtube algorithm is so bad, I say to my screen "why the fuck would I care about this!?" like 10 times a day. 3 weeks ago:
Well while I respect what is probably a privacy or ad block angle, it’s a bit unfair to complain about something not working well for you when you’re not using it the official way, and likely actively making it worse at profiling you.
- Comment on The youtube algorithm is so bad, I say to my screen "why the fuck would I care about this!?" like 10 times a day. 3 weeks ago:
Interesting, I’ve always found it to work incredibly well for me, to the point I generally only watch the stuff it recommends. Like, out of the 6 videos it shows me, maybe 1 every now and then is something I don’t care about. But like, if there’s 4-5 ones I’m interested in out of 6, I think that’s pretty good, and the 2 wild cards are how I tend to find new stuff in interested in.
- Comment on In heat 3 weeks ago:
That’s what I use, it’s still just using other search engines to get results though.
- Comment on The therapy I can afford 3 weeks ago:
I assumed you had 2 points, the self hosting point about what you’re saying now, and
“keep in mind that its goal is not to help you but to have a conversation that statisvies you. You are basicly talking to a yes-man.”
about its ability to be a good therapist or not in general. I was responding to that. Sorry if I misunderstood.
- Comment on The therapy I can afford 3 weeks ago:
Therapy is more about talking to yourself anyway. A therapists job generally isn’t to give you the answers, but help lead you down the right path.
If you have serious issues get an actual professional, but if you’re mostly just trying to process things and understand yourself or a situation better, it’s not bad.
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 3 weeks ago:
If people were actually ready instead of all talk, there would already be riots and such. No one is actually uncomfortable enough to entertain the idea of real sacrifice yet. To lose the life they have, or potentially their actual life, to fight the oppression that’s started/is coming.
I think at this point the only thing that would actually make it hit boiling point is mass joblessness/homelessness/starvation. People have to really feel it and have almost nothing to lose to really start caring.
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 3 weeks ago:
I think their point is a shitty doctors diagnosis is just as invalid as self diagnosis, not the other way around. Which it is, a misdiagnosis can be more harmful than no diagnosis.
- Comment on Tesla odometer uses “predictive algorithms” to void warranty, lawsuit claims 4 weeks ago:
Would most people notice that? Would they say something if they did? If this particular warranty is mileage based, I’d keep my mouth shut if mine was abnormally low. It’s not like it’s something that affects the functioning of the car, and has other potential advantages like higher resale value.
And even if you said something, who is going to report on it? This is news because it’s gone to court. You’re not going to try to take them to court for it being low. At best you’ll just try to get it fixed.
I’m not saying this isn’t something they would do, I just don’t necessarily think we’d definitely see reports of it being low, even if it was happening.
If they were actually doing this, and actually being smart about it though, they’d have it go over at a rate of say, 30% of cars, and under at a rate of like 10% of cars so they’d still come out on top but actually have it seem to be randomly faulty.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 4 weeks ago:
I got an Optoma projector for the bedroom that I love. It’s about $1000 USD. Is that on the high end? I guess. I’d call it medium. But I know many people that spend that much and more on their TV. Works pretty well even in day/with the light on, obviously far better with the room darkened, and even has a gaming optimised mode.
- Comment on LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions 4 weeks ago:
Because there’s no easy way to install it. TVs don’t usually have a data transfer usb-c port.
- Comment on Full Circle 4 weeks ago:
You literally said you “view the population”, as in everyone, a certain way based on this.
You then admitted it’s not the majority.
That’s about as racist as you can get.
Calling a country fascist for having fascist people in power is not the same thing.
- Comment on Is there an Australian equivalent for boycotting american products ? 2 months ago:
What’s your use case? I haven’t used it to give/receive money ever since payid became a thing, instant and secure.
For more secure payments than giving out your card details you have options like Revolut that can create temporary digital cards, and bank of Melbourne has a digital card with a cvv that changes automatically every 24 hours, but still let’s you set up subscriptions/recurring payments that don’t break like Revoluts temp card would.
- Comment on That explains a lot 2 months ago:
Sure, but it won’t sustain itself at any mass. A black hole with a mass of 500,000kg lasts about 10 seconds and is harmless. If you managed to compress 300,000,000kg into a black hole you’d have it last about 100 years and it would still be too small to do any damage to the earth during that time.
You’re correct there’s enough mass in the solar system to create a self sustaining black hole though. Anything around the mass of the moon or larger we should worry. A black hole the mass of the earth would definitely be self sustaining.
- Comment on Infinite Hotel Paradox 2 months ago:
The rooms are all full by definition. You’re literally telling him to walk until he dies. Just kick him out at that point, hell shooting him on the spot would be more merciful.
But the weird thing about infinite sets is they don’t process over time as we perceive it. Things happen all at once. There’s a classic situation where an infinite tub is filled with an infinite amount of numbered balls, and for every number that goes in, it’s square root is taken out. So when 1 goes in, 1 goes out, when 2 goes in nothing happens, same with 3, when 4 goes in, 2 gets taken out, when 9 goes in, 3 gets taken out.
How many balls are in it at the end?
Intuitively it seems there must be infinite balls, as balls are being taken out at a slower rate than they’re entering. But the actual answer is 0. Because the process happens all at once. So the question becomes, which balls get removed in this process? Well, the numbers that can be squared. Which is every number. If every number can be squared, every number gets removed. So if this infinite process were to play out, there would be no balls left in it.
But if we were to try to physically do this, it’s impossible for it to actually play out. Infinity isn’t a number at the end of a line, it’s the concept of an entire unbound set. That’s why things like the hotel are good to try to explain and visualise the concept, but break down if you try to imagine them as real world places that follow time and physics.
