chemical_cutthroat
@chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
- 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 2 days 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 days 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? 5 days 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? 5 days 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 6 days 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 1 week ago:
frfr on god
- Comment on Milky Way is embedded in a 'large-scale sheet' of dark matter, which explains motions of nearby galaxies 3 weeks ago:
Well, this is some exciting news.
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks ago:
That’s how I read it.
- Comment on 3 weeks 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. 5 weeks ago:
Dude. I’ve stopped using endashes because people kept saying my shit was AI.
- Comment on If tomato is a fruit then lasagna is a fruit tart. 5 weeks ago:
Mmmm toaster calzones
- Comment on Cubans Rally in Havana to Condemn U.S. Attack on Venezuela 1 month ago:
They’ll quiet down when we open the borders and throw a military base on their beach so we can police our new found South American conquests better.
- Comment on When they named the planet Uranus they probably didn't know it was full of methane. 1 month ago:
One of nature’s happy little coincidences.
- Comment on Why The AI Bubble Was DESIGNED To Burst 2 months ago:
Everyone’s got an answer, and the wrong ones want cash up front.
- Comment on Trump baselessly says Rob Reiner died because he was anti-Trump, politicizing the director's killing 2 months ago:
I hope Trump dies soon. It used to be just silently like syphilis or a brain hemorrhage. Now, I’d be kinda OK with hearing him scream.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 2 months ago:
No one I knew owned every system, but we would trade systems and games all the time. I was 16-17 in this era, so my friends and I had cars and jobs and shit, so we traded a lot of stuff around.
- Comment on You could throw a dart blindfolded in 1998 and hit a new legendary game every time. 2 months ago:
It’s wild to me that not only have I play most of those games, I played them when they came out. It was nice having friends and physical copies of shit.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 2 months ago:
I liked it the first two times. I don’t need a third.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 2 months ago:
They just dropped a very mediocre Metroid title, and Mario Kart was middling at best, so they are down two franchises this generation already. If they make another clone of BotW then they are gonna be down a third, and they’ll have to make it up with Mario, but Donkey Kong didn’t inspire hope on that front, so I’m not sure what I have to look forward to…
Oh. Pokemon… Well, I’m not holding out hope there either after Scarlet/Violet.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 2 months ago:
Well, damn. I didn’t know that. Oh, bother.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 2 months ago:
Zelda and Mario are first party, so I get that, but Xenoblade kills me. I need a rerelease of Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Xenoblade on PC.
- Comment on Skyrim on Switch 2 ships with severe input lag and a huge 53GB file size despite being capped at 30FPS 2 months ago:
Wasn’t this already on the first Switch? How did you fuck this up? It was already done.
Honestly, I’m kinda over the Switch 2 at this point. All of the games that have come out for it look empty and soulless, and there hasn’t been anything to make me truly want to spend $500 on another piece of kit. They’ve had long enough to put out some quality, and the promise of “$80 for a game ensure we can continue to deliver quality” is just the corporate bullshit we all knew it was. This is the WiiU all over again.
- Comment on Hands-On With The Anbernic RG DS; The DSi Reimagined (my review) 2 months ago:
I was just about to say that I usually trust Russ will all my retro gaming handhelds, but I’ll gladly take a second opinion. Glad to see that you follow him as well and aren’t afraid to put your own thoughts out there. Nice work!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Not only that, but charging full price for a game and then charging $15-20 for cosmetic DLC is fucking wild. If I’ve paid you $60+ for a title, I expect the full experience. If you want to add some shit a year down the line to lengthen the life, I’m on board, but day one DLC that costs more than the base game was played out the moment Bethesda graced us with horse armor. I’ve gotten more joy out of Vampire Survivors than I have out of any Ubisoft and EA games in the last 20 years combined.
- Comment on My landlord partnered with a financing company - I can pay $15/month for the luxury of making weekly payments on my rent 2 months ago:
Its the same model as payday loans. It’s predatory lending plain and simple.
- Comment on When Xfinity has an outage, I don’t pay for those days. The government’s been shut down for 39 days so can I pay 39 days less in taxes? 3 months ago:
I can see them all, so maybe it’s a federation issue?
- Comment on Hades II - Post-Launch Patch 1 Preview & Notes 3 months ago:
Gotcha, that’s what I saw. Thanks.
- Comment on Hades II - Post-Launch Patch 1 Preview & Notes 3 months ago:
I’m curious, because I just “beat” the game last night. I’ll try to be spoiler free, but if someone hasn’t beaten the game, don’t read on. Is the “true ending” what you get when you go up, do the thing, and then go down and do the other thing? Like, when you get the achievement? Or is it related to finding the missing threads, so to speak? I’m just curious on if I’ve already seen the ending that’s been changed, or if there is more.
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 3 months ago:
The soundtrack quickly became one of my favorites. It’s on rotation with Chrono Trigger/Cross, Xenogears, Expedition 33, and Hades.