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- Comment on Dell said return to the office or else—nearly half of workers chose “or else” 5 days ago:
They were probably like, “Finally, I can go to a company that doesn’t force me to use a Dell.”
- Comment on Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board. 1 month ago:
“Man with worst beard no longer on board of social media site.”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Other people have answered, but if you’d like to know more it’s a JavaScript thing:
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
For me it’s: remember the last user on this device!
If I open Hulu and I have ONE account, why are you making me select the ONE account? I have to select it every time. They should know.
if(accounts.length === 1) { setAccount(accounts[0]; }
There. I fixed it. Give me a job.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 now delisted in 177 countries 1 month ago:
Yikes
- Comment on Elon Musk goes ‘absolutely hard core’ in another round of Tesla layoffs 1 month ago:
I believe it’s a play on him saying that those staying at twitter needed to be “extremely hardcore” to make all of the stupid changes he’s made over the last year and a half.
- Comment on Humane AI Pin review: not even close 2 months ago:
It’s voice controlled, but also you have to tap it to start up an interaction. Maybe there’s a wake work I didn’t see in any of the reviews I watched, but I don’t know.
So in that regard, it’s less easy to use than saying “Siri, …” to your watch or phone.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 2 months ago:
Is there a consumer tv out there that has display port as an option?
Monitors for sure, but I’m talking 70” OLEDs and whatnot.
- Comment on Intel discloses $7 billion operating loss for chip-making unit. 2 months ago:
They are basically magic, but as soon as it takes three seconds to load an app we are all like, “this piece of junk!”
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I’m just hoping “tap X to run” is not the default any more.
- Comment on Is TV Dead? Global TV Shipments Hit a Decade Low in 2023 3 months ago:
For gaming probably HDMI 2.1 for higher frame rates, VRR, and/or 40fps with ray tracing and whatnot.
But in general…not really. I just got a new tv for these features plus it having a brighter oled panel than my last one. But at this point I imagine I’ll have this tv for years and years.
- Comment on Samsung does an Apple with its first Snapdragon X Elite laptop, suggesting the new Arm-based Windows machines aren't going to be a cheap alternative to x86 3 months ago:
Samsung: We make fun of Apple until we copy them outright.
See also: removing ports, having a notch
- Comment on The upcoming Crazy Taxi reboot is a triple-A game, according to Sega 4 months ago:
Please just give us what we want: micro-transactions to paint the taxi different colors and then a skin for $50 to change the taxi into a London black cab.
Then it will truly be AAA
- Comment on Nintendo Is Telling Game Publishers Switch 2 Will Be Delayed 4 months ago:
I like how the switch had two Zelda games that are still more mechanically impressive than all the open world games on “better” systems.
- Comment on PlayStation won't launch any "major" games in existing franchises this year 4 months ago:
Oh yeah, I forgot about Crisis Core.
- Comment on PlayStation won't launch any "major" games in existing franchises this year 4 months ago:
The second game of the FF7 remake series comes out in a couple of weeks.
My understanding is that there will be three games.
- Comment on PlayStation won't launch any "major" games in existing franchises this year 4 months ago:
On a personal level, I’m actually kind of fine with this.
So far this year we have already had some very long games launched that I’m interested in, and I feel like they could keep me busy for basically most of the year. I’m also finally playing Cyberpunk (and it’s now fun and only mildly buggy!).
But Persona 3, Like a Dragon, and soon FF7 are big, fat games that could take months to finish. And I haven’t even had a chance to play Baldur’s Gate yet.
So, for me, I’m not hurting for content at all. But I know that’s just me.
- Comment on Foamstars | Review Thread 4 months ago:
When I tried it, the worst part is actually trying to see what’s going on. When you shoot the foam, it builds up little hills of foam over time, which changes the landscape. You can run up on it and whatnot until the other team tears it down.
But what it also means is that you now have these new obstacles you can’t see over or around, so the combat is just hard to keep up with. At least for me.
And I actually thought it’d be more like Splatoon, but in the end here the main game mode is still killing the other team members a certain number of times.
It’s all not terrible, honestly. But it makes me want to play Splatoon instead of more Foamstars.
- Comment on Inside the shifting plan at Elon Musk’s X to build a new team and police a platform ‘so toxic it’s almost unrecognizable’ 4 months ago:
Weird how firing the trust and safety team on day one could come back to bite him.
- Comment on You can now join Bluesky without an invitation 4 months ago:
It took me a while to mute all the furries that kept popping up in random feeds.
And that may just be the feeds’s algorithm. But if I’m in the cats feed or nba feed, I don’t need to see furries.
- Comment on Ubisoft CEO defends Skull and Bones’ $70 price despite its live service leanings, calls it ‘quadruple-A’ 4 months ago:
[x] Doubt
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy has officially cleared Zelda as 2023's best-selling game worldwide 4 months ago:
Yeah this feels like a Look What They Have to Do (release on every system) to Mimic a Fraction of Our Power (be Zelda) meme.
- Comment on Steam Next Fest is currently ongoing - which demos did you like/dislike? 4 months ago:
With the items you can use in the demo, no.
I don’t know if there are any you can use later that might slow them down on their path.
- Comment on Steam Next Fest is currently ongoing - which demos did you like/dislike? 4 months ago:
Nice!
One thing that I mentioned to them last night that I’ll tell you now is that you cannot place the “programs” on the “track” where the enemy nodes are traveling. And that may seem self explanatory, but some of the flavor text made it seem like you needed to put the “program” right in the way of the enemies. But that’s not the case. Nothing will go there.
- Comment on FF7 Rebirth demo likely releasing today 4 months ago:
As someone who actually didn’t really enjoy the combat in FF7R, they have done at least one thing in this demo to make it feel a lot better to me: Cloud is faster.
In the first game, Cloud to me felt slow, and it felt like every other moment he was being hit and knocked to the ground. And he took five hundred years to stand back up.
In the demo so far as I’ve played, that’s not the case any more. He does get hit and knocked about, but he recovers a lot faster. And switching modes seems faster. Even his slower mode of attack feels faster. I feel like in the first game I didn’t make him switch his attack modes as often as I probably should because he took so long to switch he’d be open to attack, and when he got attacked he’d just fall down all the time. It remains to be seen how the full game is, but in this demo all of that garbage feels better. And I’m happy about that.
- Comment on Steam Next Fest is currently ongoing - which demos did you like/dislike? 4 months ago:
I don’t know if this would be considered a shameless plug or not, but I have a friend doing the music and sounds for a game on Next Fest. I finally got to play the demo yesterday, and I think it’s pretty neat.
packet.Breach() — it’s kind of a tower defense game and kind of a roguelike. Instead of setting up turrets and hoping for the best, you are redirecting the enemy’s fire with certain “programs” you can place.
I’m not always super into tower defense, but even beyond knowing people working on it, I enjoyed my playtime last night.
- Comment on We're listening and we hear you. We've been planning a business update event for next week, where we look forward to sharing more details with you about our vision for the future of Xbox. Stay tuned. 4 months ago:
Yeah, I don’t think anyone is really that excited for Starfield at this point.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 4 months ago:
A lot of companies now offer two day shipping for free (if you spend enough of course), and it’s just as good. Hell, I bought some batteries for a UPS that died on Monday from a battery wholesale site, and they arrived today. And that’s with the shipping saying it could at least a week. The competitive advantage of Amazon doesn’t seem like it’s there any more.
Another thing you realize when you quit Amazon is that you don’t really need to be ordering so much junk. You just don’t. I promise. And when you do need something, I feel like I’m more confident buying the jacket or whatever from the company that makes it instead of sitting through a thousand knock offs and hoping I picked the right one among all the AI written reviews and titles.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey's Block lays off 'large number' of staffers, adding to wave of tech industry cuts 4 months ago:
He makes all these cuts yet still can’t seem to cut that ugly beard.
- Comment on Raspberry Pi is planning a London IPO, but its CEO expects “no change” in focus 4 months ago:
All I know is that basically every IPO I’ve seen has eventually made the product worse. I have no data to back this up, just feelings, but still. As soon as a company starts worrying about shareholders, corners start getting cut or prices start going up for no reason.