Chozo
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- Comment on MAR10 Day 2024 - Nintendo 8 months ago:
Nintendo isn't against emulation. They're against piracy, which Yuzu was facilitating. None of the emulators that don't have specific support for unreleased games have been touched so far.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Edit: Within 28 mins I’ve got -9 votes and nothing to answer. Think it proves my point.
The fact that you think there is a "point" to be made when you're supposed to be the one asking a question and trying to learn, shows us that you had ill intent from the start. You told on yourself with this one.
- Comment on Why do some languages use gendered nouns? 8 months ago:
Gerwoman.
- Comment on Are there any genuine benefits to AI? 8 months ago:
I think implying that it has a bias is giving the Advanced Auto Prediction Engine a bit too much credit.
- Comment on Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions 8 months ago:
I’m glad Project L is going to dethrone every single one of these games.
Yeah, Riot would never add MTX to their games, right?
- Comment on Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions 8 months ago:
I wish. I'll bet Blizzard pays good.
- Comment on Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions 8 months ago:
I'm not sure why any of this is a hot take. I get the feeling that most of the people in this thread aren't even Tekken players, or fighting game players at all.
These games only work with continued funding. If that's not for you, then that's totally fine and understandable. But these games require labor, and labor requires payment. You wouldn't work for free would you? Why should anybody expect software developers to?
- Comment on Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions 8 months ago:
If they’d announced this before launch, it would’ve been the only thing anyone talked about.
Not really. It'd hardly have been mentioned, at all. MTX are a part of every major fighting game, so it's hardly a newsworthy tidbit. They're completely expected in this genre. Any major competitive game that gets developer support after release is going to be funded either by microtransactions or subscriptions. The people who actually play these games know this.
- Comment on Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions 8 months ago:
Yeah, I'm sure Blizzard's really dumping a lot of resources into "shitposting on a Reddit clone with under 30k MAUs".
- Comment on Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions 8 months ago:
Doesn't it, though? This is what the players wanted, and the industry listened. They asked for support for the game after its release, and the industry said "Sure, but in exchange at least some of you should pay extra".
This isn't forced upon anybody. Just because Mazaratis exist doesn't mean that you have to buy one if you want a car. It only becomes a moral problem if somebody's choices are circumvented, but that's not really what's happening here.
- Comment on Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions 8 months ago:
Some people wouldn’t bother with a game at all if they knew there would be this.
Perhaps if this was unusual for the genre. But it's a AAA fighting game. Anybody who is familiar with the genre knows that MTX is normal and expected, because it's going to have several years of support from the developers. I'd have a hard time believing that any Tekken fan bought this on the premise of it remaining MTX-free.
- Comment on Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions 8 months ago:
I'm not seeing why that's a problem, if it's still just cosmetics.
Also, anybody who expected a AAA fighting game to not have cosmetic MTX in 2024 probably isn't that keen on the fighting game scene to begin with. That's just how the genre works these days; the players want continuous balance patches as new tech and exploits are discovered, and that comes at a cost. If you think $70 is enough for potentially years of continued support and updates, then you haven't been keeping up with the economy's effects on the gaming industry.
- Comment on Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions 8 months ago:
I don't get it, it's just gonna be skins, right? Pretty much every fighting game has paid skins these days, that's what funds continued development for balancing and new content.
Unless there's something really egregious being offered for sale, I don't see the issue. Cosmetics are one of the few MTX I'm okay with, for the most part.
- Comment on Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot. 8 months ago:
Just don't search that if you've also been searching for any flights recently.
- Comment on Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media 9 months ago:
an incompatible protocol with less features and worse UX
And yet, they have the one thing that matters: the users.
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 9 months ago:
People shouldn't drive in a way that gets people killed. Where's the outrage for the problem that we've already had for over a century and done nothing to fix?
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 9 months ago:
People have been hit and killed by human drivers at much, much higher rates than SDCs. Those aren't hiccups, and those are deaths that shouldn't have happened, as well. The miles driven per collision ratio between humans and SDCs aren't even comparable. Human drivers are an order of magnitude more dangerous, and there's an order of magnitude more human drivers than SDCs in the cities where these fleets are deployed.
By your logic, you should agree that we should be revoking licenses and removing human drivers from the equation, because people are far more dangerous than SDCs are. If we can't drive safely without killing people, then we shouldn't be licensing people to drive, right?
- Comment on Are Instacart tipping reccomendations insane or am I being miserly? 9 months ago:
Instacart is being miserly by not paying their workers a fair wage.
Instacart is paying their workers fairly. It's just that the driver is not an Instacart worker.
They're not employees, they're contractors. And when you, the customer, place an order, they are now your worker as you've entered into a contract with this person. They aren't working for Instacart or the store, they're working for you. And you're the one who pays for their time and labor, that all comes out of the service charges on your order.
That's how all these apps work. They don't get paid anything by the app, they get paid by you through the app.
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 9 months ago:
The fleet of cars is summoned back to the HQ to have the update installed, so it causes a temporary service shutdown until cars are able to start leaving the garage with the new software. They can't do major updates over the air due to the file size; pushing out a mutli-gigabyte update to a few hundred cars at once isn't great on the cellular network.
- Comment on Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. 9 months ago:
It's pretty handy for things like being able to just say "hey Google, unlock the door" when I'm carrying a dozen bags of groceries.
I use automations as well, but sometimes I need something done outside of my otherwise-considered parameters. And it's easier to just yell your wish into being than to take out your phone, open an app, select the device, then pick your command.
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 9 months ago:
They've already been testing on private tracks for years. There comes a point where, eventually, something new is used for the first time on a public road. Regardless, even despite even idiotic crashes like this one, they're still safer than human drivers.
I say my tax dollar funded DMV should put forth a significantly more stringent driving test and auto-revoke the licenses of anybody who doesn't pass, before I'd want SDCs off the roads. Inattentive drivers are one of the most lethal things in the world, and we all just kinda shrug our shoulders and ignore that problem, but then we somehow take issue when a literal supercomputer on wheels with an audited safety history far exceeding any human driver has two hiccups over the course of hundreds of millions of driven miles. It's just a weird outlook, imo.
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 9 months ago:
After an investigation, Waymo found that its software had incorrectly predicted the future movements of the pickup truck due to “persistent orientation mismatch” between the towed vehicle and the one towing it.
Having worked at Waymo for a year troubleshooting daily builds of the software, this sounds to me like they may be trying to test riskier, "human" behaviors. Normally, the cars won't acceleerate at all if the lidar detects an object in front of it, no matter what it thinks the object is or what direction it's moving in. So the fact that this failsafe was overridden somehow makes me think they're trying to add more "What would a human driver do in this situation?" options to the car's decision-making process. I'm guessing somebody added something along the lines of "assume the object will have started moving by the time you're closer to that position" and forgot to set a backup safety mechanism for the event that the object doesn't start moving.
I'm pretty sure the dev team also has safety checklists that they go through before pushing out any build, to make sure that every failsafe is accounted for, so that's a pretty major fuckup to have slipped through the cracks (if my theory is even close to accurate). But luckily, a very easily-fixed fuckup. They're lucky this situation was just "comically stupid" instead of "harrowing tragedy".
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 9 months ago:
I wasn't asking about the car's logic algorithm; we all know that the SDC made an error, since it [checks notes] hit another car. We already know it didn't do the correct thing. I was asking how else you think the developers should be working on the software other than one thing at a time. That seemed like a weird criticism.
- Comment on Waymo issued a recall after two robotaxis crashed into the same pickup truck 9 months ago:
So their plan is to fix one accident at a time…
Well how else would you do it?
- Comment on How Spoutible’s Leaky API Spurted out a Deluge of Personal Data 9 months ago:
This is a really awesome article that explains the technical aspects in a way that makes sense to non-coders, without having to over simplify. I feel like this sort of writing should be much more appreciated. Also, the graphic at the top has no business being that good, this whole piece is a banger.
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 9 months ago:
It's not a matter of opinion, look up the definition of the word, chief.
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 9 months ago:
Okay, still not what "theme" means, tho. Maybe "skin" is the word you're looking for?
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 9 months ago:
I disagree with the use of “theme”. It evokes a visual for me.
That's on you, because the word "theme" does not mean "visual" at all.
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 9 months ago:
No, because that directly supports Trump. That's hardly an apt comparison to talking about HP on an obscure website with no ads or links to Rowling whatsoever.
- Comment on Diagon Lemmy - A Queer-friendly, Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out) 9 months ago:
Because continuing to engage with her content is a form of endorsement of her viewpoints
This is a pretty significant leap that doesn't seem realistic.