garretble
@garretble@lemmy.world
- Comment on Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage" 4 days ago:
Counterpoint: fuck off
- Comment on An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5 million users 6 days ago:
points to head can’t have your data breached if you never used Instagram in the first place
- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 1 week ago:
Just what I want: file explorer to load even slower than it does now.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 1 week ago:
Last year they started that up.
They still have free articles, though, and they label them on the home page which are which.
- Comment on 'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular 1 week ago:
Yeah, same.
It’s not terrible, but it feels like it’s slowly becoming worse as they add new garbage. And especially if they start forcing a bunch of AI shit I’m out.
But I think a lot of people brush it off outright without really using it. Or, because it’s Lemmy, anything that’s not linux = bad.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I have learned this over the last week. I got it on sale just after Christmas and basically spent the whole week playing it.
I think I’ve done like 1 of the main quests and have just been fucking around with side quests. But it’s been so fun.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Too late, I’m fully stuck in on Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 and I do not have room for anything else in the “big, open world RPG with swords and armor and shit” genre.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 weeks ago:
We always heard that this would be China’s century, and for the most part I assumed “maayybe. We’ll see. It’d take a while for the US to decline.”
Little did I know the US would very quickly shoot both its feet off on its own.
I thought that if China were to become the dominant country it’d be through years and years of steady growth while the US was doing the same. They’d just end up overtaking in the long run — not that the US would actively sabotage itself via bigotry and stupidity and greed.
Complete self own. And everyone in charge is a giant coward. We could start righting the ship today, but all the elected gop (and some dem) officials are greedy cowards.
- Comment on Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025 3 weeks ago:
I literally finished E33 a couple of hours ago, and while I do think it’s a quality game, I just couldn’t really connect with it on any emotional level. I do like the combat system. It’s fun. But the story just didn’t really grab me. I have friends saying they cried at certain scenes, and I’m just like, “Really?”
Meanwhile I got some fat tears flowing during Death Stranding 2. But everyone is different.
Plus, while E33 has really good art direction, on the PS5 every environment seemed to have this haze going on. And there were lots of weird graphical flashes of artifacts or lighting. The game looks good and also doesn’t in a way. It’s hard to describe.
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 4 weeks ago:
Sad my GOTY Death Stranding 2 didn’t win anything. But oh well. I hadn’t played Clair yet so I stayed it today. It’s good so far. Don’t know if it’ll top my Norman Reedus with a Fetus* yet though.
I actually think it’s time to retire flute guy. I think flute guy has jumped the shark, bringing in pvc pipe whatever instruments that you can’t even hear. You had your time in the sun flute guy.
Overall, I thought the show was OK. They need better pacing on when they are actually giving out awards. It seemed like there was a stretch of an hour where no awards were announced.
And I agree with the whole of the internet that the last trailer was a fat lot of nothing. Sorry to that team for working on a “dead” genre for years. I only say “dead” because by this point everyone has picked their game they like in that genre, and trying to add a new one right now is a terrible idea.
*toddler
- Comment on The Game Awards begins 11 hours from now. What are you looking forward to? 5 weeks ago:
Give me some WOODKID performing songs from Death Stranding 2.
I need a good cry.
- Comment on PS5 is outselling Switch 2 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, if I was really into AC still I’d be ok paying for the work of some devs of a five year old game if it made some good quality of life upgrades.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 1 month ago:
JJ Abrams?
The Star Wars JJ Abrams?
- Comment on Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure 1 month ago:
I feel like I got my car at the perfect time:
It has Android Auto and CarPlay, and it’s a manual so there’s no way for it to turn on or off remotely.
Now I just have to make sure it survives until I die.
- Comment on Beware of flashbangs in the latest Windows 11 updates 1 month ago:
I’ve been working on a dark/light mode for an app at work so I’ve been toggling the system theme from light to dark a lot this week.
Anyway, half the time the taskbar gets stuck in the old mode so it’ll stay dark when set to Light. But the text will change so it’s black text on black taskbar. Super cool stuff MS.
- Comment on MKBHD's Panels wallpaper app is shutting down 1 month ago:
I totally forgot about this app because, well, it seemed pretty forgettable.
I’m also not in the target demo since I currently have my wallpaper set to whatever my phone wants to rotate in and out every hour from my Photos app.
- Comment on Best vertical games on Android? 1 month ago:
It’s an older game, but Downwell is fun. Just a little action/arcade game where you fall down a well and try to get combos by not touching the ground by bouncing off of enemies.
- Comment on Palworld dev isn’t impressed by "so-called" AAA, prefers indies since they "include the kind of systems you can’t find in other games" 1 month ago:
I feel like this is pretty reductive, really, to blanket all AAA games as one thing that are all bad. Just like all indie games aren’t great. In fact, the vast majority are kinda trash, really.
For every Call of Duty, you can find amazing games like Death Stranding 2 that have insane budgets but swing for the fences (and succeed in my opinion). And on the flip side for every Silksong you have three million, anime-girl-on-the-cover trash indie game.
There’s no “one is better than the other” when comparing the totality of AAA vs indie.
- Comment on Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app 1 month ago:
I’m trying this app out now based on your comment and so far it seems really nice. I may replace Voyager with it as well.
- Comment on Microsoft says Copilot will 'finish your code before you finish your coffee' adding fuel to the Windows 11 AI controversy that's still raging 1 month ago:
I had a bit of a breakthrough with some personal growth with my code today.
I learned a bit more about entity framework that my company is using for a project, and was able to create a database table, query it, add/delete/update, normal CRUD stuff.
I normally work mostly on front end code, so it was rewarding to learn a new skill and see the data all the way from the database to the UI and back - all my code. I felt great after doing a code review this afternoon to make sure I wasn’t missing anything, and we talked about some refactoring to make it better.
AI will never give you that.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 1 month ago:
I mean, I just need that photo of him in that hat.
- Comment on THIS is real. There is an app that allows you to text with Jesus 1 month ago:
I see they went with “white Jesus” instead of what he actually looked like.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption 2 overtakes Mario Kart 8 as the 4th best-selling video game of all time, boasting 79 million sales 2 months ago:
Rockstar probably: “Well we just can’t afford to do a 60fps patch with these sales numbers…”
(I know it’s because they are greedy shits and just want to do a HD version or something on PS6.)
- Comment on 2 months ago:
You have to log in to your old Affinity account, and from there you can find the download links.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
This is a good point. I’m going to download all the installers they have today and ferret them away just in case.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
At least V2 still works and won’t just disappear. You can still use those apps you bought.
But it’s just sad to see this new path. I used to buy all the apps just because I liked the business model. I don’t really ever use Publisher, but I bought it anyway.
Now…there’s nothing that’ll get me to use this “free” shit.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 2 months ago:
Just like every Android phone that comes pre-loaded with trash apps you have to delete.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 2 months ago:
This isn’t my experience, and I had a iPhone 12 Pro up until a couple of weeks ago. Google Maps generally ran alright that I can remember.
On the newest phones it’s really smooth, but those phones also have enough horsepower to make pretty much any app run smoothly.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 2 months ago:
Honestly, I use it all the time now since I plug in my phone to my car and it’s right there.
It’s fine. Sometimes I use Google Maps. It’s also fine.
I actually like Apple’s approach to describing when to turn. It’ll say stuff like “go past this light and turn at the next” instead of vague shit like “in 1000 feet turn right.” Bitch, I don’t have a tape measure.
I think people who grip about Apple Maps as it is today probably just haven’t used it and want to gripe for griping sake.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds is getting outsold by its 4-year-old predecessor 2 months ago:
I’m not a big MH head or anything, so MH Wilds was my first game in the series. And I enjoyed it a lot!
HOWEVER, playing online with my brothers took so much trial and error we only did it a few times until we beat the story. Then it kinda wasn’t worth the hassle.
It’s so obtuse I can’t imagine how it even got that obtuse.