TimLovesTech
@TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social
Hi I'm Tim.
I"m AuADHD - officially diagnosed ADHD and self-diagnosed (for now) with ASD. I also suffer from a great deal of Imposter Syndrome.
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 2 days ago:
And the far right using free speech/censorship as a cover for hate speech is always in bad faith.
- Comment on Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell 3 days ago:
I guess I’ve been out of the loop for pre-hate Pepe (pre-2016), but the only reason I know of him at all is because of all the Nazi/Quon/KKK folks blasting him all over Twitter and everywhere else. I’ve always assumed everyone knew since it’s been almost a decade, and anyone using him these days is doing so in bad faith.
- Comment on The original Facebook was something we’ll never get back 4 weeks ago:
The original Facebook was just “hot or not” for a college campus, and required invites.
- Comment on OpenAI, the company that brought you ChatGPT, just sold you out 1 month ago:
“If OpenAI were to retroactively remove profit caps from investments, this would in effect transfer billions in value from a non-profit to for-profit investors,” Jacob Hilton, a former employee of OpenAI who joined before it transitioned from a nonprofit to a capped-profit structure.
I’m sure the investors weren’t selling him on the idea that if they got a bigger return he would as well, surely.
- Comment on "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy" 2 months ago:
Is this the fastest video game death of all time? Not even Lawbreakers died this fast.
The Day Before only made it 4 days.
On 11 December, four days after The Day Before launched to widespread criticism, Fntastic announced their closure, stating that as their game had “failed financially” they could not afford to continue operating. The Day Before was removed from sale on Steam later that day.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong studio requests influencers not include "feminist propaganda" or Covid-19 references in coverage 2 months ago:
Reading through that made me feel gross. It does seem to be acknowledged by women in China as a cultural issue (as well as globally online).
Sexism is, and continues to be, a global problem. But the difference, as both Zhong and Monica F. pointed out, is that the Chinese government and overall cultural attitudes continue to actively discourage women and their allies from fighting back. There’s no one telling harassers “no.”
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong studio requests influencers not include "feminist propaganda" or Covid-19 references in coverage 2 months ago:
Oh for sure. I do wonder what part the Chinese government takes in shaping the wording of “exports” like this too.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong studio requests influencers not include "feminist propaganda" or Covid-19 references in coverage 2 months ago:
For anyone not clicking thru:
In full, the don’ts are:
- Do NOT insult other influencers or players.
- Do NOT use any offensive language/humour.
- Do NOT include politics, violence, nudity, feminist propaganda, fetishisation, and other content that instigates negative discourse.
- Do NOT use trigger words such as ‘quarantine’ or ‘isolation’ or ‘Covid-19’.
- Do NOT discuss content related to China’s game industry policies, opinions, news, etc.
I see this as them wanting influencers to focus on their game, instead of using the game as a platform to wade into these other topics that focus on the country they happen to live in. And this being an election year in the US ,and the Right having spread wild conspiracy theories about China for years now, them not wanting any of that stuff to overshadow their art doesn’t seem all that crazy of a take. Basically they are saying they want influencers to talk about the game and to leave politics to /c/politics.
Oh and this is of course only sent to influencers, so just people they are giving the game to for free. The rest of the world (including influencers that buy their own copy) are of course free to do whatever they are legally allowed to in their jurisdiction.
- Comment on Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand 5 months ago:
My Atari joystick still works, it’s more my Intellivision controllers. But having a nicer way to play on a modern TV with the original games with higher quality controllers would be amazing.
- Comment on Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand 5 months ago:
Two of my favorite consoles of all time. If they could do an updated retro console based on the Intellivision II and allow playing Atari 2600 games without buying a separate adapter I would be in heaven.
I have bins of games, but my controllers did not age 40+ years all that well. 😞
- Comment on The Feds Are Coming for “Extremist” Gamers 8 months ago:
Didn’t say it was. It was an example of a group that has been recruiting via games, the point of the article.
- Comment on The Feds Are Coming for “Extremist” Gamers 8 months ago:
So this isn’t about actual gamers, this about bad actors looking for chuds to recruit through games, which is not a new concept. It used to be chat rooms, and then forums, then social media, now games (as many have social features).
I mean the US military, among others, have been using gaming to recruit people already.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 8 months ago:
Currently playing Lords of the Fallen. I’m almost to the end, it’s been a lot of dying, but a lot of fun also!
- Comment on Amazon pricing makes no sense. 10 months ago:
Yeah lots of “drop shipping” folks on Amazon, they buy a pallet of whatever it is from the same source as the top seller and then do some magic to get the “buy box” (the company that shows as default seller). Once they run that person out of business they are free to raise pricing until they no longer are winning the buy box again.
Amazon has also gotten bad with who it allows to sell on the site, and has been known to lump similar SKUs together, even ones from different sellers. This becomes especially troublesome when someone in the stack is selling counterfeit items.
All that is to say, pay attention to who you are buying from, and be on the lookout for counterfeit items.
- Comment on Another example of shrink flation... oh, my beer... 11 months ago:
For a 440ml can of beer the beer in can + can itself = 1 Imperial Pound [453 grams].
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion 11 months ago:
Currently playing Lords of the Fallen and enjoying it so far. I would probably enjoy it more if I didn’t suck, but with enough full sends I have gotten past every boss I’ve made it to.
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 1 year ago:
Best Buy had Starfield free with a 6700XT the other day when I was pricing out a move from Nvidia.