Cethin
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- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 8 hours ago:
I think it’s fair, and sometimes good. I’ve been playing Stationeers recently and it’s fantastic. It’s priced reasonably, and it’s an amazing game. They have a few DLCs, which are purely there to give support, not new content. It’s for you to pay the devs more if you have the money to give them and want to.
However, they’re also losing money and the game and have said they never expect it to be profitable*. Most games are Stardew Valley, and they’re struggling to survive. Stardew doesn’t need to make more money. Most small/indie studios do.
*It’s the studio making Kitten Space Agency, which they’ve said they want to be free, with the option to donate. I think they’re allergic to making profit and only like making cool games. I’d highly recommend checking out their games, if only because they seem to be doing development for the sake of the games.
- Comment on On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. 4 days ago:
I found settings for it in my phone’s settings menu, so yeah, no standalone app you can disable or remove. They baked it into the OS.
- Comment on Google hit with $314m fine for collecting data from idle Android phones without permission 5 days ago:
If you’re talking about the first paragraph, then no, that’s literally what they do.
- Comment on Google hit with $314m fine for collecting data from idle Android phones without permission 5 days ago:
I agree, but one thing that people always miss with these kinds of rulings is that they generally come with increased oversight and greater fines for repeat offenses. They’re more likely to be caught if they try it again, and it’ll grow until it actually hurts.
Still, this should be a lot larger. They should be trying to dissuade first-time offenses as well, not letting them take advantage of the system for profit because it won’t hurt much when they’re found out.
- Comment on [Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV 1 week ago:
Even for the ones compelled to be there who have little (not no) choice, it doesn’t mean the IDF isn’t a terrorist organization. Other terrorist groups use force to get soldiers, yet we don’t pull our punches calling them out.
- Comment on If you were (falsely) accused of murder, but you have records of your phone at home with youtube videos being played, can you submit those records as a sort of Alibi to exonerate you? 1 week ago:
Yes, but not mouse movements. It’ll be things like then clicking on videos and page views. That can be automated easily.
- Comment on If you were (falsely) accused of murder, but you have records of your phone at home with youtube videos being played, can you submit those records as a sort of Alibi to exonerate you? 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but I don’t know how they’d get that data. Every tap likely isn’t stored. Still, I could write a script to fake it, and build a device to to it. It’s evidence, but it isn’t particularly strong.
- Comment on If you were (falsely) accused of murder, but you have records of your phone at home with youtube videos being played, can you submit those records as a sort of Alibi to exonerate you? 2 weeks ago:
Here’s what I think, though IANAL:
Youre phone being somewhere unusual is pretty good evidence you were there, especially if a crime happened there. What are the odds you gave your phone to someone to go commit a crime with it on them?
However, if you’re planning on committing a crime, it’s wouldn’t be that difficult to have it play videos while you’re out doing said crime. It’s evidence that something happened, but it isn’t very strong evidence that you didn’t commit the crime.
However, a criminal trial requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt. You don’t need to prove that you’re innocent. You just need to create enough doubt that you’re guilty. It’s the prosecution that has to prove that you’re guilty.
- Comment on 'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community 2 weeks ago:
I have a personal conspiracy theory that part of the AI hype is pushed by dirty energy companies. Most American politicians say we can’t remove dirty energy plants until we have enough clean energy to replace them. AI (and some other technologies) increase energy demand in a way that counters any clean energy production being built, such that the dirty energy production will always be needed unless we’re willing to shut some things down.
Politicians say we can’t scale down production below demand, so dirty energy companies benefit most from inflating demand instead of shutting down and being replaced with clean alternatives.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 weeks ago:
And I’d do it again you fucking neckbeard. I don’t owe you shit. Don’t start a conversation trying to be a know it all douche and you wouldnt get treated like a know it all douche.
What the fuck are you doing? Don’t be an asshole and you won’t be treated like an asshole. I posted a comment and you just go off the rails insulting me. What’s wrong with you?
Now, you have 2 choices: you can stay here and keep responding and prove you’re a retarded troll…
Or you can fuck off. I think I already made it pretty clear that I value your opinion lower than pond scum, so what are you hoping to accomplish?
You have the same choices. You clearly do value my opinion or it wouldn’t have upset you so much. You’ve sent several responses, and even a PM, to insult me. I’m not bothered, but clearly you care. Maybe try to figure out why and work on yourself. You can be healthier.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 weeks ago:
I’m not the one who started insulting people. “Read the room.”
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but you adding a comment which you admit was wrong and just AI slop didn’t help anything. If you’re trying to find niche information, AI probably won’t work. It doesn’t matter the resources it has. It isn’t thinking. It just pulls things that have the most relevancy, which will by definition be things that are more common, not accurate. It’ll help you find popular titles, but not niche ones with very little written on them.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, so “AI” is just text prediction. It won’t give you results that haven’t been talked about a lot (accurate or otherwise). It’s not actually using intelligence and trying to find the answer, so it’s useless for something like this.
- Comment on Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray. 2 weeks ago:
Not really a lie, just needs to come with a history lesson. The America First Committee was a fascist political group. Once you know that then it makes a lot more sense.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 2 weeks ago:
The founding fathers have written at length on their reasoning for including the right to bear arms in the constitution. It is very clear that they believed in the people’s ability to resist and overthrow the government if needed.
They said that’s the reason for 2A? That’s news to me. Yes they said people should be able to resist and overthrow the government. They even thought we’d have to by now. I don’t think I’ve ever read that they said this is the reason for 2A though. Care to provide a reference?
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 2 weeks ago:
I would agree the US wasn’t “defeated” in the normal sense. They were ungovernable. They wear down traditional forces over a long time, and you never give them a target they can easily track.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, this is my thought. The 2nd amendment is not against fighting tyranny (go read it). If that fight comes it’ll be won with gorilla warfare and explosives, not guns—at least not most of it. It’ll be utilizing fast attacks where they’re vulnerable and taking their equipment to use against them. It will not be a fair fight where you go head-to-head. You wouldn’t stand a chance.
- Comment on It's interesting that gun rights were sold on the basis of "resisting unlawful government." They seen to have caused unlawful government. 2 weeks ago:
That’s still the purpose of the second amendment, for people to own guns to defend themselves and others against tyranny
No it isn’t and it never was. Go read it. It’s about defending the state from invaders. Wars at the time we’re mostly fought with militias, especially for more poor or smaller nations, like the new United States at the time. We didn’t have a standing professional military for a whole so our military was solely militias, and as such they should be legal and trained, hence the 2nd amendment.
I largely support (safe and with training) gun rights. They’re protected by the 9th amendment, whether the 2nd does or not. It’s just this blatantly incorrect repetition that the 2nd amendment is about something that isn’t written in it is crazy. It’s really short and pretty clear. I feel like no one supporting this idea has actually ever read it, or at least hasn’t considered what it actually says.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip 2nd Birthday Giveaway! 🍰 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been here 1y 11m and I’m just now realizing how new this instance was when I joined! I appreciate the work you’ve done here! It’s been great, with only a few memorable issue, which I’m sure we all remember.
- Comment on iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original 4 weeks ago:
That’s not even the biggest issue for me. The $80 games that never get discounted will cost a lot more than that pretty quickly. Plus I know they push their subscription service too.
As a PC gamer, fuck that. I’ll play cheap better games on my free operating system that I actually control on my hardware that I can repair and replace easily. Nintendo games interest me, but not nearly at the price they’re asking for with what they’re offering.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 4 weeks ago:
As of yesterday YouTube is blocking videos for me. Until that’s solved, I’m just not watching YouTube. Not a big loss.
- Comment on Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not? 5 weeks ago:
Banning the ability to legally make a choice is effectively the same thing as banning the choice itself. It doesn’t matter if you’re legally allowed to consume something if it’s illegal to obtain it.
For example, I’m in VA. When Democrats last had power they legalized possession of Marijuana, and created a path towards establishing legal vendors. When Republicans took over, despite saying they wouldn’t do this, they removed the path to create vendors, so it’s illegal to purchase. It is technically still legal to grow it, but that’s the only legal option, and it isn’t an option for most people. In effect, it’s almost as illegal as it was before.
- Comment on Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game' 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been really enjoying The Finals for a while now. It’s fantastic and actually innovative.
ARC Raiders is coming out very soon if you want a really good extraction shooter. There’s also Gray Zone, Escape from Tarkov, Hunt: Showdown, and many others in this genre, all with different twists.
ArmA Reforger I just started playing recently (I own all the other ArmA games but I was waiting on this, since it’s still a work in progress, as are all modern games now though it seems). It’s a platform, like all ArmA games, where you can play anything from the default Conflict game mode, where two teams fight over a map in a war that can last multiple days sometimes, or a new version of a DayZ style, or ArmA Life (basically GTA Roleplay, but it’s existed in ArmA much longer), or so much else.
There’s a ton of games out there. You’ve listed several genres, but all of them with massive budgets. The best games, in my opinion, aren’t these. It’s the smaller/indie games that are willing to try something new, but you have to look for them. There’s been a bunch of civ-likes recently, there’s tons of BRs and Extraction shooter style games (Zero Sievert is a cool solo extraction shooter, for example).
Don’t just stick to the shiny games with big marketing budgets. Go find some gems in the rough and you’ll be greatly rewarded.
- Comment on Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game' 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s coming to Steam with 1.0 soon.
- Comment on Activision Quietly Force Adverts into Call of Duty Black Ops 6 and Warzone Loadouts and Players Absolutely Hate It: 'At This Point It Really Feels Like Opening Up a Mobile Game' 5 weeks ago:
They did years ago when PUBG was new. It hasn’t been updated for CS2 I’m pretty sure, so you can’t easily play it anymore.
- Comment on A fake Facebook event disguised as a math problem has been one of its top posts for 6 months 5 weeks ago:
I hate most math eduction because it’s all about memorizing formulas and rules, and then memorizing exceptions. The user above’s system is easier to learn, because there’s no exceptions or weirdness. You just learn the rule that division is multiplication and subtraction is addition. They’re just written in a different notation. It’s simpler, not more difficult. It just requires being educated on it. Yes, it’s harder if you weren’t obviously, as is everything you weren’t educated on.
- Comment on I want a chav boyfriend. Where can I find adult chavs? (If you don't know what that is, they're called bogans in Australia and rednecks in the US) 5 weeks ago:
Note, this says “connotations of low social status.” The “urban black” culture usually has this same connotation. It isn’t a rule that people from either of these groups have low social status, it’s just associated with it. This is not racist, though the association could be viewed as problematic, but that is a cultural issue, not an issue with what the user above said.
- Comment on After parting ways with EA, WRC gets new home and six-year deal to "reboot" rally series 5 weeks ago:
We’ll never get the same thing, but I’m always hopeful that some of the people have the knowledge, resources, and desire to spin up new studios at least, where they can make the games they’ve always wanted to make but weren’t allowed to. Certainly they won’t all end up at the same place, and only a few with this studio, but their experience now gets spread to new places outside of EA where I think we can expect better things.
We’ll have to wait and see. Hopefully we get cool indie experiences, like The Art of Rally, as well as more expensive projects, like whatever the WRC game becomes.
- Comment on After parting ways with EA, WRC gets new home and six-year deal to "reboot" rally series 1 month ago:
Yeah, it’s not likely to happen, but still EA wasn’t making good use of them. I always hate to see layoffs, but making people with knowledge available, especially when other studios end up with a demand for them, is good. I’m sure they won’t pick up the entire team, but I’d be surprised if some of them don’t end up there.
- Comment on After parting ways with EA, WRC gets new home and six-year deal to "reboot" rally series 1 month ago:
But isn’t that a good thing for this? It means the old Codemasters team is no longer at EA, and maybe they’ll find a job here now.