BurnSquirrel
@BurnSquirrel@lemmy.world
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 2 weeks ago:
There has been so much commotion around this game that things are genuinely confusing, the devs pumping it thinking they made something pretty good, people angry about which characters have tits and which ones don’t, kind of samey looking reviews.
ignore all of that noise and just see what your favorite youtuber has to say about it. Mortismal gaming reviews RPGs thoroughly and was pretty positive on it, noting that the die hard Dragon age folks might not like how little of the lore carries over, but on it’s own stands as a pretty good action RPG.
- Comment on Grr Windows 2 weeks ago:
Enlightened linux users right now Image
- Comment on It's coming! :( 1 month ago:
Don’t think it’s talking about “death” just enshitification
Side note: gotdamn firefox is less than 3.0% According to the same website, Linux is at 4.5% marketshare. It’s rarer to use firefox than linux (I’m on iceweasel btw)
- Comment on Deep Discounts 2 months ago:
- Comment on Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now? 2 months ago:
It’s been a long, long time since facebook has been like you are describing.
It’s been ads, and old uncle facebook fox news memes for a while. Lately they’ve been filling it with AI pictures and bot farmed memes. Gotta admit the memes have gotten slightly better, or at least slightly more targeted as of late.
- Comment on "what happened??" 2 months ago:
I think in the context of why he said this was something like an interviewer asking “what would have to happen for cloud gaming to take off and see bigger numbers”
There is enough to get mad about to waste time getting mad at imaginary things.
- Comment on what a strange timeline we live in 3 months ago:
idk who their market is for this, the 9 year olds who watch this stuff aren’t big movie goers
- Comment on Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal 3 months ago:
Still couldn’t get me to use it, I use DDG which can switch between search engines and search sites very quickly with it’s ! syntax (Everyone goes on about privacy, but this is pretty much it’s best feature). Google results are consistently the worst for me if I’m hitting multiple search engines
- Comment on CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed 3 months ago:
Companies don’t really use Debian or Rocky in widescale production because they have no support.
Now red hat or ubuntu is a different matter.
Honestly though this does point out that this is a pattern of behavior on crowdstrikes part. This should have been the canary in the coalmine.
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 3 months ago:
grimes left him and started dating chelsea manning
- Comment on Elon Musk says SpaceX HQ officially moving to Texas, blames new CA trans student privacy law 3 months ago:
“We have to move a rocket company because of trans highschool kids” wtf
- Comment on Microsoft is not done yet: more ads spotted in latest Windows 11 build - gHacks Tech News 3 months ago:
the 2nd most valuable company in the world? Hardly.
No they’re just switching business models, from paying for an OS outright to OS as a service
- Comment on Work from home 4 months ago:
I don’t think it’s this “all rich jerks own commercial real estate” thing that everyone going on about. I get the feeling it’s more about the managerial/director types. The ones who are maybe well off but maybe not quite rich. My director owns a 150,000 tesla, but I don’t think he’s near well off enough to own an office building.
Anyway, at a certain level and upwards, all you do is meet and talk to people all day. They value face to face communication because that’s a more effective meeting, and builds more rapport with the members.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 6 months ago:
Surely the oil and energy companies have their own investments into renewables. I can’t imagine why Rs would die on this hill except for their little culture war.
- Comment on It's called "social jet lag". Yes I know about sleep hygiene. 6 months ago:
I think it’s more flexible than you think. In my single 20s I was a night owl because I stayed up late playing video games and got satisfaction out of that. Now in my 40s I’m up at 5am because that’s when my family is still asleep and no one needs me for anything, and that’s a nice if not rare feeling.
- Comment on Apple fans are starting to return their Vision Pros 8 months ago:
Oh but it’s not though right? I’m not big into that space but there are professional VR headsets that costs several thousands of dollars, like apples, but still lead it in tech, which to me seem to leave apple’s device in this weird cost middle ground between professional headsets like varjo and consumer headsets like oculus.
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 9 months ago:
Every time I see people complain about this while I’m running PopOS …npr.org/…/sip_200-8cd52659abd57bb28c4d7bd3797c58…
- Comment on People are worried that AI will take everyone’s jobs. We’ve been here before. 9 months ago:
From what I noticed working tech, there is a pressure to be on the cutting edge at all costs and a lot of stuff gets over hyped to sell things to MBAs. I’ve seen a few disruptive technologies come in. They are almost never wrong about what they thing is or will be, but they are almost always wrong about the timeline it comes into being in a really mature way.
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 - Official Announcement Trailer 9 months ago:
I liked the first one alright but I remember it being a bit easy, and putting it down for rim world, a much more challenging game in the same vein. Guess I’ll wait and see on this one.
- Comment on The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked 10 months ago:
amazing to me that open source games usually sputter out quickly, yet communities will dissemble, reassemble and polish and finish games from established IPs
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 10 months ago:
I’m old enough to remember when discovery showed space stuff like, all the time. It was great!
It really changed in the 90s when congress pulled public funding for educational TV
- Comment on Steam Workshop Has added support for paid mods 11 months ago:
So, I’m not sure if skyrim is right for this because it’s had a certain modding community built up, and for whatever reason, corporate execs seem to love burning down organic communities with no idea of the damage they’re doing.
However, if a game was built from day 1 to have support for paid mods, I’d probably consider making assets for mods as a side gig, as would a lot of people who work in tech and budding game developers, because its far less of a commitment than making a full game.
The closest things that do this currently are roblox, which does everything in it’s power to prevent you from withdrawing money from it, and second life, which is near dead and only still going because of furies and perverts.
If a true platform-esque game, like Skyrim or Arma, were to come along with a shop that would let you do things like build a dungeon and charge a dollar for it, that would suddenly look attractive to a lot of people to get involved.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I have a little bit of schadenfreude at the PS fan club moaning about exclusives, since their whole system is built around exclusives.
But in the end the point stands, exclusives (from anyone) are bad for consumers.
