jacksilver
@jacksilver@lemmy.world
- Comment on Big Plans For ‘Love, Death & Robots’ Volume 5, But Viewership Drops 50% and Ratings Plummet 4 days ago:
I thought the first season was okay, maybe 50/50 on good to bad.
Were the later seasons any better?
- Comment on Weekend Update: Colin Jost and Michael Che Swap Jokes for Season 50 Finale - SNL 1 week ago:
You’re right, I had heard that he was leaving, but can’t find a source.
- Comment on Weekend Update: Colin Jost and Michael Che Swap Jokes for Season 50 Finale - SNL 1 week ago:
She’s married to Colin Jost and this was his last night doing weekend update, so I suspect she wanted to be there.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s exactly what I was thinking.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 1 week ago:
I thought he meant more R&D, but even $1200 would be way too expensive for a console (especially a handheld).
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 1 week ago:
Yeah, I know it would mean emulation, the question is more if they can deliver. Since they state it will work with all Microsoft, Epic, and Steam games. Assuming any of the leaks are right.
- Comment on Microsoft's Xbox Handheld: Switch-Like Dock and Multi-Platform Support 1 week ago:
I mean choosing Qualcomm means they’re targeting Arm chips, which Intel and AMD don’t make.
It would probably mean a longer battery life, but I’m not sure how that would work for backwards compatibility and power.
If that’s true though, it would really set this device apart from the competition.
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 1 week ago:
Yeah I missed that when posting. Personally I disagree with you regarding tcgs counting, as many tcg video games end up playing as deck builders (since you develop your deck throughout the game). Especially since that’s effectively what happens with games like midnight suns.
One game though I did think of that is sorta a deck builder and not a rougelite (and not a tcg) would be Stacklands
- Comment on Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected for 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet 1 week ago:
Yeah, this reads more like the guy isn’t employable. The tech market has been rough for a while, but not being able to find anything for a year is an outlier.
Looking at his substack, he talks about AI being able to solve the mystery of UAPs. Sooo may be more the guy then the industry.
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 1 week ago:
More traditional boardgames like dominion aren’t rougelites. Also the Pokémon trading card games or Yugioh.
Depending on how flexible with the definition you are, the megaman battle network games are also deck builders (there is “One step from eden” which is a rougelite version too).
- Comment on How does Netflix, HBO and other services get their subtitles? Are they now using AI to help translate? 2 weeks ago:
Just to expand on this.
- Dubs are trying to make the audio align with the scene and mouthing of the actors. So youll get a lot of adjustments focusing on pacing.
- Subs are trying to capture the meaning of the original audio as closely as they can (while making it readable).
Because of this subtitles and dubs don’t usually align perfectly and will have somewhat conflicting content.
- Comment on Bella Ramsey Says ‘It’s Important’ to Keep Gendered Awards for Best Actor and Actress: ‘Recognition for Women in the Industry’ Must Be ‘Preserved’ 3 weeks ago:
I think they were trying to call out that women are still underrepresented in a lot of different ways. Removing gendered based awards reduces the opportunities for women to be recognized, if you believe they are underrepresented.
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 3 weeks ago:
I feel like blufire never got the recognition it deserved.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, if you look at most electronics, appliances, etc. you’ll see where purchasing power has increased. Just not sure why food is one of the things that seems to be going crazy lately with inflation.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The US was on its way to that, until Trump and Republicans decided to trash the entire world economy.
- Comment on Microsoft says new accounts will be passwordless by default 3 weeks ago:
The whole idea is about moving to passkeys, which are like super passwords unique to a device. The face/finger/pin is the second Auth to use the passkey.
Not saying this is good or bad, but msoft does have an faq about passkeys
The major thing I still don’t understand is, without a password, how do you authenticate people who lost access to their device/passkey.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 4 weeks ago:
Hopefully that means it was worth it!
- Comment on Doom: The Dark Ages | Official Trailer 2 | Available May 15, 2025 5 weeks ago:
Same, it took an hour or two to click, but once it did it was a lot of fun.
I initially hated eternal, but stuck with it because of how good 2016 was. Glad I did because it’s a blast once you get the flow of things.
- Comment on Steven Soderbergh Says It’s “Frustrating” When Mid-Budget Films Like ‘Black Bag’ Underperform At Box Office: “Not A Good Thing For Movies” 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know why everyone is ganging up on you. Movies and fast food have both skyrocketed in prices recently. It feels like for two people to see a movie shouldn’t be $100, but maybe I’m the old man yelling at clouds.
- Comment on Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST 5 weeks ago:
I feel like that’s a hard thing to do. Most of the gatcha games I’ve interacted with hide core game mechanics behind gatcha pay walls.
The real issue in gatcha is that many games require money to make actual progress.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
I appreciate the trust!
Honestly it’s kinda ruined other sudoku puzzles for me. Some of the harder ones could take me an hourish to complete.
- Comment on AMD’s Lisa Su Breaks Silence on US Chips, TSMC Hikes Pricing 5 weeks ago:
Tariffs can work, but they should be targeted and executed in a planned way. Completely decoupling China and US is more likely to break things than fix them.
If you look at Biden maintaining tariffs, export controls on chips, and the Chips act you see a very coordinated and purposeful policy to keep the US at the center of chip design and manufacturing.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
While I’m all for glfree sudoku “Studio Goya” and their series of sudoku apps are more than worth the cost, especially Miracle Sudoku
I know this is a thread about Foss, but they really put some crazy thought into these puzzles.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for this, I was confused cause I thought it was still being released.
- Comment on What's the worst instance of plot armour on characters you've seen in TV? 1 month ago:
I think it’s really just supposed to be more of a narrative device. The purely logical AI with the almost robotic human drawn together by luck of the draw.
In the books, they definitely lean a bit more into him “making” his own luck. There is a whole bit with him predicting coin flips and it’s presented in a way that implies he knows how to twist the odds in his favor (whether purposefully or unconsciously).
- Comment on Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version 1 month ago:
It’s such a shame that game didn’t get lore attention. It’s one of the best metroidvanias I’ve ever played and has amazing combat.
- Comment on Mario Kart Should Cost More - YouTube 1 month ago:
His videos have been pretty weak for a while. Happy that he’s been branching out into publishing games though.
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 1 month ago:
Exactly, the only real first party game was BOTW (and that also released on the Wii u).
There were some smaller games, like 12 switch/snipperclips/fast rmx, but the switch on release (and most of its life) was struggling for games.
- Comment on Switch 2 game-key cards won’t be account- or console-locked 1 month ago:
Oh yeah, real physical games are better, no arguement from me.
Just calling out that it could be even worse.
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 1 month ago:
The only reason they sold any was because the console released with like one game, which seems to be the same strategy this time around too.