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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney Said to be Considering a Surprising Replacement for Bob Iger: EA CEO Andrew Wilson - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The corporate world absolutely idolizes the grift. Being able to “produce value” (=make more money while actually not producing anything more) is the only game left. Shareholders look at something like EA that releases the same old Madden year after year while making money hand over fist, and they fucking salivate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta must face FTC trial that could separate Instagram and WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Any anti-corporation action has about 60 more days to complete. The US is about to be more of an unregulated runaway capitalism machine than it has ever been.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anger in Taiwan over reports SpaceX asked suppliers to move abroad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking forward to SpaceX and Tesla both having serious issues because of Trump’s asinine tariffs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I thought it was an easy question ...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe ironically, neither one would be appropriate as a linguistic definition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two are selling Private Division and closing Roll7 and Intercept, because they're in "the business of making great big hits"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve enjoyed that one a lot, as a long time KSP player.

  Two things stand out to me about it which are better than (unmodded) KSP:

  1. It has a ton of procedural parts, from tanks to fairings to struts. Though I would argue it makes rockets look less detailed in terms of texturing, it really amps up what you can do overall.

  2. Vizzy is a built in automation system where you click and drag keywords and functions into place. It is something similar to the kOS mod on KSP, though I’d argue much more approachable and with more features. You can even do multithreading (think: process staging while also processing telemetry data).

  Juno is also very well optimized – after all, it also runs on Android. So if you can get beyond the relatively simplistic visuals there is a lot to like.

  But is it a KSP killer? No. The character models are not great and that affects everything from EVA to immersion. It lacks a certain “it” factor, and though I have put many hours into Juno, it usually ends with me firing up modded KSP again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two are selling Private Division and closing Roll7 and Intercept, because they're in "the business of making great big hits"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not holding my breath until there’s more than a tech demo to see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ghost of Tsushima - I've heard it's a nice game, but it overstays its welcome. Do you agree?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Played on PS4 Pro. I really loved the theme and the visuals. The combat was quite nice too. But, I also remember it got very grindy to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 will NOT have Denuvo on PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If KCD2 is competent on release (which I think is very likely, considering how great KCD1 was), it might be the first game in a long time that I pay full price for. As much as it is important to be vocal about devs screwing their customers, we also have to support those doing the opposite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel Fails To Achieve Gaudi AI "$500 Million" Revenue Target, Showing Slacking Performance In The AI Segment.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are these targets made by the corpos just throwing darts at a board filled with numbers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I benchmarked 6 different metal USB sticks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you thank you thank you. This is exactly what I want on Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screenshot of what I'm playing, day 3: Sonic 3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No no no…Sonic and Knuckles was just Sonic 3, the other half of the cartridge that they sold you a second time, somehow.

  It’s not though? Sonic & Knuckles has unique stages and story vs. Sonic 3. Unless you mean they were designed as one game and split at the end before release; that I don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Screenshot of what I'm playing, day 3: Sonic 3⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a 2010 2D platformer released as Sonic 4 which was meant to be the spiritual successor.

  I’d say the real spiritual successor on Genesis/Megadrive was Sonic & Knuckles, which came out after Sonic 3 and for all intents and purposes may as well have been called Sonic 4. But they had to push the Knuckles aspect because the cartridge had a passthrough that would accept another Genesis cartridge and allow you to play e.g. Sonic 2 with the Knuckles sprite, iirc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It even breaks my heart a bit': Denuvo pushes back on its haters, says Steam forums are a 'very toxic, very hostile environment'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck Denuvo. DRM does not benefit the gamer. Period. No amount of gaslighting will change that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon will “ramp up” Prime Video ads in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they ever ramp down?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially when creators find interesting ways to work them in, which is pretty often, in my experience. They’re the one type of ad that doesn’t annoy me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The crazy irony is that those from outside the US probably know way more than those in the US, in terms of stories about Alaska.

  No hate here. There will be ups and downs.

  At the end of the day, I’m happy to communicate with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Aw, a corporation upset when another corporation does the kind of shit that corporations tend to do with regular people, thanks to the years and years of corporate lobbying allowing corporations to do whatever the fuck they want.

  I almost had a tear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I completely understand the sentiment.

  I also understand the sentiment that the internet is effectively a US invention dating back at least to ARPAnet.

  I guess what I’m suggesting is: can’t we all just get along? At least we can now all communicate with each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steven Spielberg is ‘a big PC Gamer’ — loves shooters, and insists on keyboard and mouse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure on that one.

  I’m one of the very few people who loves the Steam Controller. If given an option between KBM and Steam Controller, I generally do the latter. The right pad as mouse isn’t as accurate as a mouse, but damned if it isn’t way more comfy from the couch.

  I guess what I’m saying is: I’d suggest it is less about KBM and more about what games you play, where you play them, and probably whether or not you play multiplayer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They all just invest enough effort to squeeze out some short term profits, earn their bonuses and then leave for another company to do it all again.

  Amazon is not at all alone in this. Much of 2024 capitalism, at least within the tech space, works like this pretty much everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Covid turned out to be a giant goldmine for Corporate America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If companies collude and price fix, that will always be a “giant gold mine”. But it’s an unethical gold mine, and a good example of why more regulation is needed in a lot of places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: You don't own your Kindle e-books.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It is entirely possible to use a Kindle for epub only (that is, never “buy” a book from Amazon). There are lots of epub around, including from places like Gutenberg.

  Additionally, the Libby app allows you to use your Kindle in conjunction with your local library’s electronic collection, which (in my case) is quite sizable and allows you to “borrow” DRMd books for a finite amount of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ich auch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Cuban: "The Mainstream Media Truly Leans Right"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A significant portion of the GOP platform now relies on their idea of “Lügenpresse”. Anything suggesting a right-leaning media shatters the conservative persecution fetish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be weird if I took something my neighbor put out for trash?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure” exists exactly for this, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump rallies plummeting! Sell! Sell! Sell!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah fair enough. I probably should have qualified it more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump rallies plummeting! Sell! Sell! Sell!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Old Man Trump doing old man things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a corporation were subject to normal human health risks, we would have a clean environment and trillions invested in fighting climate change.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one reason it is so wild that corporations in the US are entitled to “free speech” (in the form of spending) after the Citizens United decision. They get benefits as if they were a person, but far fewer of the natural restrictions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The struggle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It will be largely dependent on your industry. But I do have a couple general comments:

  1. If you’re coming from academia, you almost certainly value your degree more than an employer will, at least at first. Certainly, some industry positions will require a Masters and some may even be PhD preferred. But this is going to be an extreme minority of positions, such that there are far more people with MAs and PhDs than positions (same problem as professorships in academia). You will almost certainly need to cast a wider net than you might feel is appropriate.

  2. Getting a foot in the door is almost always more important than finding the perfect role early on. Plan to iteravely improve your positions and “fall up.” Just as lecturing or adjunct positions are a reality of academia, job hopping is increasingly a part of industry life. If you do it right (try and stay in positions around 2 years, then start looking at other options) you’ll get a significant raise every time you hop – typically way more than you would get staying put. The perfect role may come, but it won’t be your first. Probably not your second either, so focus on building industry experience rather than one specific job.

  3. Since you’ll need to cast a wider net, you may be applying for roles which do not require postgrad stuff. It will be necessary to show transferrable skills rather than relying on academic experience or accolades. I’ve felt that my academic experience has been helpful everywhere, but people don’t tend to get hired for that alone for most positions. It is imperative that you are able to show your worth in a way that is not pointing at a piece of paper. From a hiring standpoint, if it is between you with degree(s) and another applicant who may have far less academically but showed the skills, the employer will pick the other person most times, because they likely suspect you want more money on the basis of having the degrees.

  Just a few things that come to mind. But of course, once you get those first couple roles under your belt, it’s a different story. “This person has years of good experience and results AND they have a PhD?” That’s when you start looking for the perfect role.

  And especially for #2: job hopping is infinitely easier if you can land remote roles. I have been lucky enough to have been in remote roles for nearly 10 years. The same logic applies: show your worth. And, take that remote contract to start. The need to build experience is annoying, but it is a necessity, and if you’re coming from academia, it’s one thing for which you are automatically behind the curve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The struggle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I played the game for a long time. Then I went to industry and never looked back.

  I totally, totally get people who stay in academia. I’ve had and in a way still have the dream. But: the struggle is just as bad if not worse than industry, while the money in industry is much, much better.