sparky

@sparky@lemmy.federate.cc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not allowed to work from home⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doing the Lord’s work there, Sonny!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Console manufacturers will have to adapt and liberalize self-publishing to stay relevant. AAA gaming continues to enshittify, and indie games / smaller studios are the ones releasing the good titles.

  Valve knows this, and the ease for developers to release on Steam means they’re well positioned to ride out the transition. By comparison, releasing on console means signing license agreements, getting access to proprietary SDKs, submitting your game through an approval process, getting each update reviewed, etc etc. The barriers make releasing on console very unappealing for smaller developers.

  So IMO if the consoles want to ride out the decline of AAA games, they will need to reinvent their image and how they interact with smaller studios and indies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart wanted ‘so-called’ portraits ‘permanently disposed of’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not accurate at all! The real Gina would be eating spiders with her lizard tongue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It does go on sale from time to time. I picked it up on Xbox last year for 60% off if I recall correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, you can buy an external one or something as an accessory but it’s another hundred bucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Preference⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Came here to say the same thing, like WTF, why would you need a jar of 500

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Necromancy suddenly became possible, can the undead be called as a witness during court proceedings?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I call the corpse of John Smith to the stand.

  Mr Smith, where were you on the night of October the fourth?

  ……ungh……hiss…… BRAINS….

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Todd Howard's exclusive 1,000G Xbox achievement appears after years of secrecy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally every company’s “corporate culture” right here. Assemble a room full of people who know what they’re doing, then boss man dictates what should be done with his very limited information, all the while not listening to said people who know what they’re doing, because ThE pRoJeCt, or the ScHeDuLe, or the shareholders, or fucking whatever. Truly, American capitalism cannot be perfected upon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We keep running into LLMs that are pretending to be people, but I bet there are a handful of people out there pretending to be LLMs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This comment is an absolute work of art.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Close call⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess all of these stores will be gone before too long as these days a large portion of the new consoles don’t have a disc drive at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is my van submission too late?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the stupidest one, kudos. Take my upvote.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To distinguish between the word woman and women, we change the A to an E, but only change the pronunciation on the O.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Native Portlander here, that’s definitely not us. Wuh-man and Wim-min.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yea, I was a manager at multiple jobs and wasn’t allowed to give interview feedback for this reason, they were afraid anything I said would be fuel for a wrongful rejection lawsuit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pigs in a blanket for the lazy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the breadluminati. They are everywhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not happening, dude⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually Argentina and Chile, which tips that calculus in our favour given they’re friendly western developed nations.

  worldpopulationreview.com/…/lithium-reserves-by-c…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are SMS messages so expensive?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I pay 15€ a month in Portugal for unlimited data, sms, calls etc and it even includes roaming in the rest of Europe 😊

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It must confuse English learners to hear phrases like, "I'm home", instead of "I am at home." We don't say I'm school, or I'm post office.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s because “home” in this formation is an adverb, whereas school is a noun. You can be an adverb- I’m tall, I’m short… - but you must be at a noun (or on, or in, or some other preposition).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨C O L O N I Z E⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting TIL, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk we can do this too, der Waschautomat, less common of course but…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do understand the point you’re making actually, but you’re wading into emotionally charged waters here. I would argue “white” is an inherently racial term, but the more importantly, the correlation is not really relevant to the discussion and needlessly muddies your broader point (that climate may inspire or disincentive industrialisation) by injecting it with racial discussion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are so many countries in the world “developing” and poor, while essentially only Western countries have a high standard of living?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what this guy is trying to say but the phrasing and unnecessary racialising explains the downvotes. A better and less offensive way to put this could simply have referred to climate: that you suspect the harsher climate in Europe rewarded industrial and penalised agrarian lifestyles in a way that wasn’t true for civilisations near the equator. Being white or not has nothing to do with it - correlation versus causation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Sega Genesis running Sonic the Hedgehog (1991)⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You had a flatscreen HDTV in 1991? Damn, found the time traveler! 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AppleTV complete replacement opinions⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually with a Synology NAS you don’t need Plex, they have a built in equivalent called DS Video with apps for Apple TV, iOS, Android, etc!

  I’ve had an Nvidia shield in the past as well and it works reasonably well, but the video experience is definitely better on the Apple TV. The Android boxes make more sense if you want a place to install emulators that also occasionally streams.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AppleTV complete replacement opinions⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Keep your Apple TV and use it as a streaming client for whatever you stand up on the backend. Personally I have a Synology NAS that I love and I use the net to get all my content. Use the net. 😉

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Cheng Lei's first message from Chinese prison describes harsh conditions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Her situation is regrettable nonetheless; but I agree with you, I don’t understand why any Western journalist would work onsite in a country without freedom of the press or human rights. And I don’t just mean China but Russia, Iran, etc. It’s just far too dangerous, and the reporting you do won’t reach local ears anyway.