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- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 17 hours ago:
I think your butt plug has gone sour. Time to change it.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 1 day ago:
The trust. It eroded.
- Comment on The Digital Plague: When World of Warcraft Accidentally Simulated a Pandemic (my article!) 3 days ago:
I remember seeing videos of people licking ice cream and putting the lid back on. I’m so glad I never ran into one of them in real life.
- Comment on The US in one image 3 days ago:
Wait. It’s below 50k?
- Comment on Starfield is a game people were "just not ready" for and it'll still come good at some point, reckons Fallout 4 composer 6 days ago:
Cyberpunk did a lot of things good, but very few things great. I think what it comes down to is that they continued to work on the game after launch until it was in a much better place than when it started. No Man’s Sky went the same direction (though I think now it’s safe to call that one a classic). Starfield could have been great, if Bethesda didn’t suck so bad. When it launched we knew it would be buggy and nearly unplayable, that’s just Bethesda SOP, but there are very passionate community members that mod the hell out of Bethesda games and that’s kinda what people were counting on. For some shitbrick reason, though, Todd Howard decided to wage war against the modders, and that left a pretty bad taste in a lot of mouths. The core group of fans keeping your games above water for the last 30 years, and you shit on them because your ego is bigger than your peepee? That’s why Starfield will never be legendary. Skyrim didn’t have some amazing story that brought the world together as one. It was just a really rewarding sandbox for modders and players alike. Starfield isn’t, and it’s Howard’s fault.
- Comment on Starfield is a game people were "just not ready" for and it'll still come good at some point, reckons Fallout 4 composer 6 days ago:
That’s not how cult classics work. Cult classics don’t start as over-hyped and over-sold properties that failed to sell. Starfield will never be “legendary” because it never was legendary. Earthbound is legendary. Breath of Fire 3 is legendary. Terranigma is legendary. Starfield fucking sucks, and not just by comparison to other RPGs.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Slay The Spire 2 Fans Are Worried Silent Is Too Overpowered 1 week ago:
Ummm… Welcome to Early Access?
- Comment on Do RICH people of color ever get harassed by ICE? 1 week ago:
Something something trickle down
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
So, basically a movie?
- Comment on (Slay the Spire 2) If they replace this placeholder art, I will be upset. 1 week ago:
I kinda wish this was a reward for the early purchasers. Buy the EA release and you get free DLC at launch that gives you the option to use placeholder art or new art. Hades II had some great placeholder art and it’s all gone now.
- Comment on Ubisoft Finally Confirms Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the Remake We All Knew Was Coming 2 weeks ago:
They just made two of them
- Comment on It would be so interesting if humans didn't have a gender assigned at birth and could choose who they want to be. 2 weeks ago:
If that means more people have a voice, then I’m all for it.
- Comment on That e-mail you register when you are 13 3 weeks ago:
Oh, it’s not real. I can’t remember what I was using before gmail. I was too hip for hotmail, so it was likely some boutique bullshit that sold itself to a marketing firm for their URL.
- Comment on That e-mail you register when you are 13 3 weeks ago:
There is a chronodarkprophet@something.com still out there getting spam email from every site I could put my email into.
- Comment on From Suburbs to Cosmic Horror: The Legacy of EarthBound 3 weeks ago:
Hell yeah, I’ll read it when I get off work. One of my top 5 games of all time.
- Comment on Meta’s own research found parental supervision doesn’t really help curb teens’ compulsive social media use 3 weeks ago:
The average age of a first time parent in the US is around 27 right now. The iPhone is nearly 19 years old this year, and Facebook opened its gates to anyone over 13 right at 20 years ago. That means these first time parents were below 10 when these came out, and they likely grew up in a world where social media consumption on handheld devices was very common. So, when they are supervising their children, they aren’t doing it from the perspective that these things are bad, they are doing as though they are normal, because for them they are. This is what I mean with children of smokers become smokers. If its normalized around the house, it doesn’t matter how much policing is done, it’s just a part of your life.
- Comment on Meta’s own research found parental supervision doesn’t really help curb teens’ compulsive social media use 3 weeks ago:
In related news, children of smokers more likely to smoke.
- Comment on US judge upholds $243 million verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash 3 weeks ago:
The jury found that the marketing from Tesla didn’t line up with the actual abilities. Musk is on record saying that Autopilot drives better than a human. They also stated that it should only be used on highways and access roads, but even with their GPS always active, the car doesn’t differentiate between road types, and so will let you use it anywhere you like.
On top of that, Tesla triggered the car to wipe the crash data from the local copy 3 minutes after the accident so that the only copy of the crash data that remained was stored on their servers and could be tampered with.
All of that led the jury to giving 33% fault to Tesla, which, again, I think is fair.
- Comment on US judge upholds $243 million verdict against Tesla over fatal Autopilot crash 3 weeks ago:
This is an interesting one. The jury actually only faulted Tesla for 33% of the total blame, but since the driver wasn’t a defendant in the suit, he doesn’t have to pay the remaining 2/3rds. I really struggled with this one because to me it felt like Tesla was being attacked, but looking at it in the full light of day it ended up being pretty fair. The driver completely ignored the road while looking for their cellphone which had dropped to the floor, and then blamed the Tesla for not alerting him of the intersection. That leans pretty hard on the driver being irresponsible to me, and the jury felt the same way, which is why they said that Tesla was only 33% to blame. So, Tesla trying to overturn this verdict is them trying to absolve themselves of all fault, which I don’t agree with, and I think the judge did the right thing. Tesla advertised a feature of a car that failed to work in the way it was described. Should the driver have been more present? Yep. Should Tesla still be partially responsible for the fault in their machinery? Yep, again.
- Comment on All U.S. Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 4 weeks ago:
Let me guess… just in time for a 2028 election where we all suddenly need our valid SSN?
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 4 weeks ago:
And the DLC and “Deluxe” editions… The price of a AAA game is well over $100 now.
- Comment on Does the fact Stoat.chat doesn't have E2EE mean the server owner can read any and all messages, including DMs? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for the stoat note.
…I’m sorry.
- Comment on Does the fact Stoat.chat doesn't have E2EE mean the server owner can read any and all messages, including DMs? 4 weeks ago:
Technically yes. Likely they still use Transport Layer Security that will encrypt the messages in transit, but that encryption is controlled by the company, and not the end user. What that means is that your messages are safe from randos in the cafe on the same wifi as you, but if the company wanted to, they could read them. It also means that if messages are subpoenaed then they can hand over the unencrypted messages to the authorities.
I tried looking at their documentation to see what was going on under the hood, but there were a lot of connection errors and dead ends. They seem to be open source, though, so if you are so inclined you can comb through their code to see what kind of encryption they use.
Personally, I’d stay away. It doesn’t seem like something that I could put my trust in.
- Comment on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan launches dark-money group to influence California politics 5 weeks ago:
Another well balanced individual throwing money around to change the world to the way they see fit. Surely this will lead to a beautiful utopia this time.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 5 weeks ago:
frfr on god
- Comment on Milky Way is embedded in a 'large-scale sheet' of dark matter, which explains motions of nearby galaxies 1 month ago:
Well, this is some exciting news.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 month ago:
I think it might be because you are using an embedded browser window in whatever lemmy app you are using. When I go in through firefox mobile it looks fine.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That’s how I read it.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Here’s hoping they have more than three blocks of city streets to race on…
- Comment on LLMs are already doing fascists a favor by ensuring that anything that is reasonably eloquently formulated on social media is automatically suspected of having been written by LLMs. 2 months ago:
Dude. I’ve stopped using endashes because people kept saying my shit was AI.