ZephyrXero
@ZephyrXero@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
You can tell she’s a piece of shit just by looking at her
- Comment on No matter how hard he tries, Elon Musk will never be as cool or as respected as Martha Stewart. 4 days ago:
And she’s not cool. So a pretty low bar to not be able to pass
- Comment on Junior dev's code worked in tests, deleted data in prod 2 weeks ago:
And this is why there should always be a human in the loop for QA despite how many tests you have.
- Comment on Has Xbox Considered Laying One Person Off Instead Of Thousands 5 weeks ago:
Japan has laws that say executives must take a pay cut before they can lay anyone off
- Comment on It used to be just weird Christians, but now everyone's pretty much on board with burning Harry Potter books. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t want to burn the books, just strip Rowling of ownership so she doesn’t profit off of them any further is all. Maybe put them in the public domain early
- Comment on Square Enix acknowledges Expedition 33 success as inspiration for next Final Fantasy as turn-based is still beloved by gamers 1 month ago:
This won’t affect FF 17, but it could mean for a return to turn based with FF 18. Because FF 17 is probably already half way through development and these massive games are too large to make such a major change this late in the dev cycle
- Comment on Is it still shopping local if I'm in Bentonville AK and it's Walmart? 1 month ago:
No publicly traded corporations count in the “shop local” concept
- Comment on One of the most popular movies in theatres right now is about an illegal alien 1 month ago:
We’re talking about Superman, right?
- Comment on No, Social Media is Not Porn 1 month ago:
This feels dystopian and like overreach. But that said, there definitely is some porn on the 4 platforms they cited. It’s an excuse sure, but let’s also not deny reality.
- Comment on YSK: Non-violent protests are 2x likely to succeed and no non-violent movement that has involved more than 3.5% of the country population has ever failed 1 month ago:
I’ve heard the 3.5% static for major general strikes being effective, not so sure about protests.
- Comment on 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened 1 month ago:
And you’re clearly a troll. Goodbye
- Comment on 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened 1 month ago:
30+ years of studying game and software development lol
- Comment on 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened 1 month ago:
The key ingredient that separates PC from console is you can deploy code custom optimized for the fixed platform hardware. This is why you have to go up a tier in GPU to have an experience on par with what a console would have because it’s running generisized code.
- Comment on 10 incredible PC games that never got console ports—until Steam Deck happened 1 month ago:
Still not ported to a console. SteamDeck gives you a console-like experience, but it is not a console
- Comment on YSK: Condé Nast Parent Company is a Major Owner of Reddit, You Should Avoid their Publications (Wired, Ars Technica, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue,...etc) as Much as Possible. 2 months ago:
Conde Nast didn’t make Reddit the front page of the Internet, the community did
- Comment on Star Trek systems should use IPv6 2 months ago:
They ended up skipping it and moving on to IPv7
- Comment on Looking to get into Sonic games 2 months ago:
Yeah only way to get the original soundtrack is via emulator or an actual cartridge. I think it only pertains to Sonic 3 though. I don’t think part 2 (Sonic & Knuckles) had the same issues
- Comment on Looking to get into Sonic games 2 months ago:
Sonic 2 for the Genesis if my favorite game of all time. So I’d suggest starting with that one. First Sonic was good too, but the second game refined the controls and made some small quality of life improvements. Then Sonic 3 + Knuckles and Sonic Mania are also excellent.
The 3D Sonics have been pretty hit or miss though. The controls are dumbed down and not nearly as tight as the classic 2D ones
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I’ve always been far more afraid of the humans that will wield advanced AI for nefarious reasons, than the threat of a SkyNet like scenario ever playing out.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
How many 13 year old gen-Z do you know though? A fifteen year time band encompasses a lot of people (because these are just marketing tools in reality)
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
They gained their stranglehold from 20+ years of systematic takeover. The Tea Party became MAGA. It didn’t happen over night
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Statistically when you don’t vote, you are effectively voting Republican. When turn out is high Dems tend to win, and when it’s low the GOP wins.
Not voting is definitely not going to change anything
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I know a number of Gen alpha kids. None of them use those phrases. They are Gen Z terms
- Comment on The candid naivety of geeks 2 months ago:
When I moved in with my partner her ex had left Amazon devices all over the house. And one of the first things I did was get rid of them all.
My phone and tablet are the only ones I’m willing to take a risk on, and I just have to hope they respects my permission settings. I have to actively press a button before Google Assistant starts listening.
But I have a ton of developer/tech friends that act so unworried about it all, usually Apple users primarily just like the author talks about smh
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- Comment on I just realized the only way to get new gamers to care about Jak is to release a "remastered" version, which sucks. 2 months ago:
Style and aesthetic only go so far. The low poly counts and blurry textures will still drag it down for anyone not already enamoured with legacy 3D graphics.
Pixel art games seem to have much more longevity than early 3D
- Comment on We should name the recent stock market crash the Fool's Fallout 2 months ago:
My main prediction here is Trump and his crew will continue to ratchet up the authoritarianism. And when he starts invading other countries, the markets will react
- Comment on We should name the recent stock market crash the Fool's Fallout 2 months ago:
I fully expect an even larger crash will be coming within the next year, possibly only weeks away
- Comment on Japan moves to ban Google, Apple from blocking app store competitors 2 months ago:
Now do it for game consoles
- Comment on Mapped projections have been a thing for a while now, but why aren't people mounting projectors and dancing carefully choreographed moves to match a projection on their bodies? 2 months ago:
Projection mapping software generally assumes the surface(s) you are projecting onto is stationary. You might need special software to target a moving object