ryven
@ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Britain’s richest family sentenced to 4 years in jail 1 week ago:
I will never understand the giga-rich. They could afford to hire round-the-clock help at rates that both buy expertise and inspire loyalty. Your house staff know where the bodies are buried, maybe literally—there’s no world where it makes sense to pay them less than six figures. Remember, $100,000 is 0.01% of $1,000,000,000, or about 0.003% of their estimated net worth of $37B. They could hire an extra maid at $100,000/year and not even notice the expense.
But they can afford even more than that. Splurge a little. Hire a specialist in early childhood education to tutor your kids. Get a chef who graduated from a renowned culinary school. They could afford to spend millions on salary. Why skimp? What do they think they are saving up for?
- Comment on Masahiro Sakurai refused to add Dolby Surround to a Kirby game because players had to sit through the logo 5 weeks ago:
This is Sakurai’s explanation, and it seems reasonable to me:
“I feel very sorry for making the user wait,” he explained. “If you take one second from each user, that means you’ll be taking 10,000 seconds from 10,000 people. The more this repeats over the years, the more time you will cause players to lose."
- Comment on 'It should have been safe’: twin of woman found under coat in A&E says death avoidable 2 months ago:
Rublite died after being found unconscious under her coat in an A&E waiting room more than eight hours after arriving.
- Comment on Why do Americans measure everything in cups? 2 months ago:
A measuring cup is a specific size, about 237mL. There’s a whole system of US measurements, actually:
3 teaspoons in a tablespoon
2 tablespoons in an ounce
8 ounces in a cup
2 cups in a pint
2 pints in a quart
4 quarts in a gallon
Not all cups are measuring cups; if you are having a cup of coffee that doesn’t mean your cup is exactly 8oz. You just infer from context that if someone is talking about ingredients then you should measure them with a measuring cup.
- Comment on It's surprisingly difficult for AI to create just a plain white image 2 months ago:
I don’t know much about image generators, but it’s not surprising to me at all that ChatGPT can’t fulfill this request. Your prompt gets converted into tokens, tokens get processed by the model, it outputs a resulting set of tokens, and those get converted into text. Expecting the token-outputting-machine not to output any tokens is going to lead to disappointment.
- Comment on Dragon's Dogma 2: Review Thread 3 months ago:
I don’t think DD1 and BG3 have very much in common, honestly. DD1 was not a game where you engaged in immersive dialogue or developed interesting relationships (well, there was a relationship mechanic, but if you didn’t know how it worked, it didn’t feel like you had a lot of input.
It was more a game about walking around surprisingly atmospheric environments and then fighting for your life against surprisingly difficult encounters. (It also had the reverse-difficulty-curve problem, where the beginning of the game was very hard and the enemies felt very tanky because of how damage was calculated, and then once you had some reasonable gear and stats the game got much easier.)
I would definitely watch someone else play an hour or two of DD2 when it comes out before you decide to buy it, especially if the action combat was what you didn’t like about Dark Souls.
- Comment on Diablo 4's new mount costs more than the actual game 4 months ago:
And it looks like the result of a transporter malfunction involving Baron Rivendare’s Deathcharger and Butt Stallion.
- Comment on How can you drive off a gas station with the hose still connected? 4 months ago:
Yeah I haven’t done this with a gas nozzle, but I walk off without stuff I need and which I was just holding basically every day, so I will probably manage this feat of incredible stupidity eventually.
- Comment on Awesome Games Done Quick starts tomorrow! 5 months ago:
It’s not super clear, but probably for ignoring directions from the organizers who tried to get him to stop impersonating Owen Wilson (for some reason) and stop telling people to tweet @AirCanada.
I think the ban has run out and he can submit runs again by now, but these are the kind of petty grudges I like to hold!
- Comment on Awesome Games Done Quick starts tomorrow! 5 months ago:
I haven’t forgiven them for banning Bonesaw577 after his legendary Jak and Daxter at SGDQ2016.
- Comment on Why is Google allowed to remove purchases from our Play Store accounts without telling us? 5 months ago:
They’re not really leases either. Leases last for a defined period of time, like “one year,” or they renew at regular intervals, like “monthly.” “Pay up front and we’ll let you keep this license for either forever or until we decide to revoke it without notifying you” isn’t the same thing.
- Comment on when the woke librals 😔😔 5 months ago:
“Captain America converts Thor to Christianity” could be very funny, actually.
- Comment on xkcd #2873: Sumersymmetry 5 months ago:
So the recently discovered Wapeach is analogous to the positron?
- Comment on New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion 6 months ago:
No idea!
- Comment on New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion 6 months ago:
Is all bad online behavior “trolling” now? Isn’t “shill” a better word for someone who is paid to surreptitiously promote something?
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 6 months ago:
Reminds me of:
- Comment on Final Fantasy XVI Is Getting Two DLCs And One Of Them Is Available Now 6 months ago:
I have quit playing games over way less than that, lol. I have so many games I own but haven’t finished, and just as many that I’ve finished but would play again, there is no reason to stick with any particular one if I’m not feeling it.
- Comment on U.S. issues warning to NVIDIA, urging to stop redesigning chips for China 6 months ago:
This is just like the “designer drugs” thing where regulation can never keep up, right? You can always make a new product that falls outside the current definition of what’s restricted but inside the definition of what your customers want.
The government can’t win without completely forbidding the export of electronics to China.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 6 months ago:
I wonder if new vehicle sales are down overall. If I had to replace my car today, I’d be looking for something second hand.
- Comment on The Coffin of Andy and Leyley Developer Sells Title 6 months ago:
It cannot really be about that, there are tons of incest porn games on Steam that pass largely unremarked upon.
- Comment on Headteachers in England tell of worsening behaviour of pupils – and parents 6 months ago:
accumulation of experience and wisdom
Objection! Assumes facts not in evidence. :P
- Comment on Bread 7 months ago:
I have always heard it called the heel.
- Comment on I'll never not want to 7 months ago:
- Comment on I'll never not want to 7 months ago:
- Comment on Amazon's drone delivery program is the joke it always sounded like. 7 months ago:
I’m curious why the limit is one item. If the drone can carry 5 pounds, why can’t they put 5 pounds of stuff in the box?
- Comment on 'The Finals' Is Using AI Voicework And It Is Bad 8 months ago:
It’s not a generative model running on your graphics card coming up with novel speech to match the gamestate; it would never be fast enough (and you’re also using that card to, you know, run the graphics). They’re using machine learning to generate speech for their pre-written lines so that they can avoid both hiring voice actors, and the old way of having whoever isn’t too busy in your office record the lines.
- Comment on In 1952, a group of three 'stars' vanished—astronomers still can't find them 8 months ago:
How embarrassing, how embarrassing.
- Comment on They Need To Stop Doing This 8 months ago:
*cue Diogenes, bursting into Dracula’s throne room while holding a chicken*
- Comment on lets talk about food (not as healing item) 8 months ago:
Chunks is the McDonald’s of space food. People don’t buy it because it’s good, they buy it because it’s cheap and fast.
New Atlantis also has real restaurants for people who want to eat real food.
- Comment on After 70 hours, I cheated myself rich 9 months ago:
Honestly the controller UI for shipbuilding is better than the mouse one; I tried shipbuilding with a mouse because I wasn’t super happy with the controller UI, but I found placing modules way harder with the mouse because you don’t have manual control of which level it goes on, the game tries to guess where you want it based on your mouse position and it’s not always right.