prole
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- Comment on What We Don't Talk About in "Spec Ops The Line" 2 months ago:
Amazing game, and one of those “video games as art” that is often overlooked. The gameplay itself is nothing to write home about, but the narrative would not have been nearly as powerful if it wasn’t completely interactive.
- Comment on Alexa had “no profit timeline,” cost Amazon $25 billion in 4 years 2 months ago:
If I offended anyone, I apologize. But man… People like you make this shit look bad (I know this is old, I just saw it).
I respect people’s choices with respect to gender expression. What I don’t respect is people who use that shit as a cudgel to censor opinions they don’t like that are entirely unrelated to that subject.
That person had NO pronouns listed next to their name. I frankly don’t clock people’s usernames before commenting so had no idea what their username even was. That said, one could argue that the name Emily implies nothing about a person’s preferred pronouns. Fuck dude, why am I even assuming that the person’s username is their real name? Oh no, I just said “dude” are you going to ban me?
Two people who have never seen/heard/spoken to one another discussing something on the internet, and one is supposed to, what, intuit the other’s preferred pronouns? What if Emily did not identify as a woman, and you just corrected me? It’s almost as if “cool man” isn’t gender specific anymore, and you know that.
- Comment on FTC bans fake online reviews, inflated social media influence; rule takes effect in October 4 months ago:
Wish this woman could be our president.
- Comment on Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet 4 months ago:
Nobody is going to SIM swap you unless you have a shitload of crypto and let everyone know about it. It’s not an easy attack, so it would have to be targeted. Pretty easy to not be a target (not having millions of dollars of crypto on a wallet helps).
- Comment on Police Really Want a Cybertruck, Email Shows 5 months ago:
Looks like what “the future” looked like in the 80s. Like Total Recall or BttF Pt. 2
- Comment on 'Gay furry hackers' disband after Project 2025 data theft 5 months ago:
I’ll defer to you on this as I’m by no means an expert. I suppose I thought there was more demand for young people who have that specific skillset than there actually is.
- Comment on What are your favourite controllers? 5 months ago:
I haven’t used mine with PC (I usually just use an X-Box One controller, which was my fav prior to DualSense probably), but it’s a shame that more games don’t use the adaptive triggers and haptic feedback. It’s used relatively often and well on PS5, and for me it’s a borderline killer feature. If more games utilized it in the way Astro’s Playroom did (yes I know it’s a tech demo but that’s kind of the point), it would be far and away my favorite for any system.
- Comment on 'Gay furry hackers' disband after Project 2025 data theft 5 months ago:
Again, it depends. Some of the most notorious hackers of all time literally had their prison sentences commuted so that they can work for the NSA (or US Gov’t in some capacity).
- Comment on 'Gay furry hackers' disband after Project 2025 data theft 5 months ago:
but cybercrime is a big no-no when it comes to actual employment.
Depends on what field you’re in. There are entire sectors of tech that seek out skilled hackers for things like pen testing.
- Comment on 'Gay furry hackers' disband after Project 2025 data theft 5 months ago:
Lol what a loser. Trying so hard to sound badass.
- Comment on What are your favourite controllers? 5 months ago:
The D-pad on the Switch Pro Controller is hot garbage. Unless they changed it.
- Comment on What are your favourite controllers? 5 months ago:
Yeah if they like the PS4 controller, then they’ll 100% love the DualSense.
Just play Astro’s Playroom and you’ll get it.
- Comment on What are your favourite controllers? 5 months ago:
DualSense is the best right now IMO due to the features.
But I love the Steam Deck’s layout (so I guess I’d probably like the Steam Controller as well). A lot of that has to do with Steam Input being fucking awesome, but it’s also possible to get relatively good at using the touchpads as mouse, and the “touch right stick to enable gyro” is an awesome feature that has made FPS games playable on console for me.
- Comment on YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes 5 months ago:
No we don’t, we have 400+ years of capitalist history to tell us what comes next; Oligarchy, neo-feudalism…
People: Cory Doctorow didn’t invent this concept. Read a book.
- Comment on YouTube is dedicated to making itself worse; destroys SponsorBlock with ad injection changes 5 months ago:
It will end up being like FreeVee on Prime for anyone who’s ever watched a movie or anything on there. They straight up randomly just inject ads in at random times, often not even during scene breaks. Characters are sometimes mid-sentence… Oh, and we’re back to the volume of the ads being 2x louder than the movie itself because I guess that law Congress passed way back in the day only applied to cable and broadcast TV.
- Comment on Hidetaka Miyazaki 'knows for a fact' other FromSoftware devs want a Bloodborne PC port: 'If I say I want one, I'll get in trouble, but it's nothing I'm opposed to' 6 months ago:
Oh great. Can’t wait for Sony or something to come in and completely ruin the IP with a movie or some shit.
- Comment on Gabe Newell, the Man Behind Steam, Is Working on a Brain-Computer Interface 7 months ago:
Man, the way that headline begins, I thought he had died.