shinratdr
@shinratdr@lemmy.ca
- Comment on gotdamn 7 hours ago:
The timestamps should be a big clue. 3d, 1d, 9h, and the tweet at the top has no timestamp but from context it should be obvious that came last.
- Comment on Fuck the law 1 week ago:
I don’t know if this just caught me at the right time or what but I don’t think I’ve ever cried laughing at a meme before. Thanks!
- Comment on Xbox Has Had More Studio Closures Than First Party Game Releases So Far In 2024 1 month ago:
The sad part is this might actually end up being a net positive in the long run. Their two biggest acquisitions were Bethesda and Activision-Blizzard, one company that has started their decline and another that is deep into it.
Microsoft pissing away $100B to buy these companies only to turn around and kill them 5-10 years later will end up breaking up the gaming conglomerates that have killed the western games industry. The only sad part is all the people that will lose their jobs and all the classic IP that will be squandered.
- Comment on Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape 1 month ago:
Has Microsoft put out a single worthwhile AAA title in the entire console generation? I bought an Xbox Series X after the Bethesda acquisition and I’ve used it once to boot up Starfield and then quit after 15 minutes when I realized it was boring as hell.
They have this uncanny ability to spend more money on acquisitions and then completely stall the output from that company until every game blows.
They had one good franchise that they didn’t run into the ground, Halo. And after they got control of it they killed that too. They own half the industry now and I feel like they produce less games than ever before.
- Comment on Mean world syndrome has reacted a fever pitch. 1 month ago:
Yep. Just try and logic people to death instead of wondering why they feel that way and taking it to heart to try and not be part of the problem.
If people actually had this choice, we all know most would choose a person over a bear. But it does speak to the fact that people have mostly good experiences with wild animals that are supposed to be a danger to them and lots of bad experiences with random men. They’ve felt threatened and have actually been assaulted by men, and not by bears.
Your chances of being killed by a bear are slim to none. Meanwhile the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the US is homicide. These are the kind of things people think about when weighing these kinds of problems in the abstract.
So the real question is why wouldn’t women fear those that have actually harmed them vs a group that honestly just wants to keep to themselves and has no interest in you unless you’re a threat?
- Comment on “Dumb phones” offer an escape from the endless scroll 1 month ago:
You don’t need to cut up your credit cards or drink zero alcohol or never gamble to curb your spending, drinking or gambling addictions either.
But is it hard to understand why people choose to? Not really. This is the same thing.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 month ago:
I hope Valve never does this. Tons of games on Steam only work with community fixes, it sets a bad precedent if they pull them because they don’t work in their official state.
It’s better to have them then not, I would just force a disclaimer during sale for abandoned titles that most players have reported that the game does not function without community patches.
- Comment on Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024 1 month ago:
Yep. I used to upgrade my iPhone every year just because smartphones were moving fast in the 2010-2020 era. Now, I’m on a three year cycle and barely even notice.
I’ve resold every iPhone I’ve ever owned for 50% of the value or more, and I manage a fleet of iPhones for my job and we still have 5Ses in the wild for people. Apple still provides critical security updates for those devices and we’re at 11 years for those devices. Most people have 7 year old iPhone X era devices and I get almost no complaints or dead devices.
iPhones have ridiculous longevity and hold resale value better than any other device.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 month ago:
No it doesn’t require it but it can make it easier. Especially for people that don’t have a robust and centralized way of controlling their smart devices, or only have 1-2 of them. I think the appeal is still obvious.
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 month ago:
The switch part will still work. How are you not getting this?
- Comment on After 16 years, Ecobee is shutting down support for the original smart thermostat 1 month ago:
The appeal is remote and centralized management, easier programming and more features. If that’s not worth it to you to replace your thermostat every 16 years, then nobody is forcing you to get one.
But being able to change the temp from my phone from anywhere is worth it to me, as well as including it with other automations for all my connected devices. The appeal is honestly not hard to see, even if it’s not with it for you personally.
- Comment on kissies 1 month ago:
Outside bones, outside bones, never forget your teeth are outside bones
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 2 months ago:
lol new generation. It’s millennials, gen x and boomers that spend $500 on Candy Crush without noticing, not Gen Z & Alpha.
- Comment on Apple changes App Store rules to allow retro game emulators globally | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
Two emulators have launched and they both can open arbitrary ROM files as expected.
- Comment on Apple changes App Store rules to allow retro game emulators globally | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
I think that’s fair, I basically agree with the first comment on that Ars article:
App Review guidelines are always so vague and open to interpretation. We need a brave developer to submit a retro console emulator that can load arbitrary files to App Review and see what happens.
- Comment on Apple changes App Store rules to allow retro game emulators globally | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
That’s not how I interpret that. I think they’re just saying that if your app does offer digital goods, you have to use IAP. Not that any app in this category has to include IAP to be accepted.
Apple is protecting its bottom line here. In other words if Nintendo was to release a classic arcade, they don’t just get to circumvent IAP rules in non-DMA countries because of this change. But I don’t see any wording that says apps cannot forgo offering any IAPs and just allow you to add content via Files like all other apps do.
If they intended your definition, they wouldn’t leave it vague. There would be a specific provision that says “Apps cannot access files or software from the system, or offer an in-app browser or other online resource to add files to the app.”
Moreover, this change is specifically targeted at Riley Testut and AltStore, which was founded so he could distribute his emulator, Delta. Your interpretation would fully prevent that app from being offered, so I really don’t think that is what Apple was intending.
Lack of JIT is crippling though, hopefully that will change soon.
- Comment on Homeowner baffled after washing machine uses 3.6GB of internet data a day 2 months ago:
Most washing machines have sensors and do not dry based on a timer. The program time is just a rough estimate, if clothes are still wet or soap bubbles are still present it will do extra rinses or spins.
- Comment on Any recommendations for PS Vita games? 3 months ago:
Touch My Katamari, Lumines Electronic Symphony & Wipeout 2048 were my most played games on my Vita. It was better suited for titles like that than story ones IMO.
Zero Escape: VLR was great if you like VNs, so was Zero Escape: ZTD. Danganronpa, same deal. Gravity Rush was fun.
The problem with the Vita is that almost everything good on it has been ported out to other platforms. So while it had a bunch of great exclusives during its lifetime, there isn’t much that hasn’t been remade or ported at this point.
- Comment on Please Stop 3 months ago:
Crypto isn’t traded via electricity burning computers? That’s news to me. I guess after coins are done burning electricity being minted people just trade them on paper.
Seriously though, all the examples you can think of apply equally to crypto, stocks and fiat currency. The only outlier is crypto, which wastes massive amounts of electricity to generate that it doesn’t need to.
But you knew all that already, you’re just arguing in bad faith so you can “be right”.
- Comment on Please Stop 3 months ago:
Stocks are not bad for the environment the way crypto is bad for the environment. I’m not defending companies or the ethics of stock trading, but generating stocks doesn’t consume massive amounts of electricity. That’s like blaming money itself for environmental damage that spending it could theoretically cause.
There are so many legitimate arguments against publicly traded companies and capitalism in general, but this one just isn’t it.
- Comment on Played and beat A Libk to the Past for the first time! 4 months ago:
If you liked LTTP the best don’t sleep on the other titles in that world/style. ALBW, Links Awakening, Oracle of Ages, Oracle of Seasons and Minish Cap are all great.
- Comment on 200-foot AM radio tower disappears, halting Alabama station broadcast | "There's wires everywhere, and it's gone." 4 months ago:
Alabama AM
I mean I can’t say 100%, but…
- Comment on ‘Zombie Offices’ Spell Trouble for Some Banks - The New York Times 4 months ago:
RTO/WFH definitely impacts tech workers the most, I think that’s just obvious.
- Comment on Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris 5 months ago:
- Comment on Games with graphics resembling PS1 or PS2? 5 months ago:
Everything by Puppet Combo. Especially in the indie horror sphere, there has been a huge resurgence of PS1/PS2 style games.
- Comment on South Park: Snow Day! Scheduled for March 26th Release for PC & Console 6 months ago:
It’s a $30 release brand new. Don’t get your hopes up, they’re shoving this one out the door and moving on. Budget price, ugly 3D & multiplayer only, feels like a mobile title that got upgraded to a console release at the last minute, or something they couldn’t figure out how to monetize as a freemium game so they just ported it up to try and milk any value out of it that they can.
Really would have loved a proper next game following SoT and TFBW, those are two of my favourite titles. I get why they wanted to do something else, but they couldn’t have designed a more underwhelming follow up that has no crossover with the audience for the first two games.
- Comment on GTA 6 is likely to skip PC again and only launching on current gen consoles 6 months ago:
Yup.
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The VAST majority of people play this kind of game on console.
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PC has infinite configurations and therefore is harder to test for.
That’s it. When they release for Xbox and PS5, they are basically testing against two fixed PC builds, and that’s it. The other stuff is a factor, but a minor factor at most. Those are the two big reasons, everything else is an afterthought, and there is no big conspiracy at play.
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- Comment on Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk? 6 months ago:
WeChat is an anomaly and not proof of anything. It only works in China because the Chinese government controls who can and can’t operate, and thus can pick winners and losers.
If suddenly everyone with a better take on a service that a theoretical X “everything app” offered couldn’t operate without applying for a license and possibly never getting it or having to find a domestic partner to operate in every country they want to do business in, then yeah this X app would take off, because it would be essentially the only option.
Since that will never happen, then an everything app will never exist outside of countries that exercise end-to-end control. This is also why American tech companies outside of entrenched operating system vendors and hardware companies (think Apple & Microsoft) have a hard time making inroads there. Because if you get too popular and it’s something they can copy, then suddenly the Chinese copy gets all the market advantage and boatloads of funding, and you get shut out.
- Comment on He did though. 6 months ago:
i got this new legal drama plot. basically there’s this patent infringer except she’s got huge boobs. i mean some serious honkers. a real set of badonkers. packin some dobonhonkeros. massive dohoonkabhankoloos. big ol’ tonhongerekoogers.
what happens next?!
lawyer shows up with even bigger bonkhonagahoogs. humongous hungolomghononoloughongous
- Comment on NASA Plus Streaming: "our new ad-free, no cost, family-friendly streaming service unlocks our Emmy award-winning live coverage, embeds you into our missions through new original video series" 7 months ago:
But the Libertarians always have to say it. Nevermind that anything free from a corporation is paid for though advertising, or selling your data, or folded into the item cost, or future purchases, so by this strict definition that “someone is paying for it” means literally nothing is ever free.
It has to be said EVERY TIME someone mentions that public services are offered at no charge.