jacksilver
@jacksilver@lemmy.world
- Comment on Is there anything my girlfriend and I have to consider when traveling to America based on our skin differences? 13 hours ago:
As many people said there is racism in the US, but that’s cause everywhere has its flavor of racism.
If you’re visiting the US as tourists it’s highly unlikely you’ll encounter anyone being outwardly racist, especially if you keep to major tourist destinations.
In any major US city you’ll run into people of all different colors and people from all over the world working and living together, just like most big/international cities.
- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 1 day ago:
Honestly this could all be a campaign from Rockstar to get ahead of higher pricing. They throw out $100 to some random people and let them run with it, so when they announce a $80/$90 price tag everyone bregurdingly goes along with it.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 2 days ago:
Hmm, I may be reading it wrong, but it’s just talking about the distribution/updating of foreign controlled applications. Based on what I’ve seen Marvel Snap isnt controlled by them, they just provide services for the application, so it wouldn’t technically apply. However, I’m not a lawyer and may have the wrong read on the app, but given the game developers were surprised I’d think that’s the right read.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 2 days ago:
I feel like bytedance is doing this on purpose to rule people up, as these kinds of services weren’t explicity called out.
It may backfire though. I don’t think most Americans know how much is influenced/owned by Chinese companies.
- Comment on Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics 4 days ago:
I only saw it cause it got a Oscar nomination and agree with the critics on this one.
It all felt a little off, like it was trying to be too many things at once. It jumped back and forth between what felt like parody/comedy/drama to the point it failed to do any particularly well. Or maybe it was a little too surreal to pull off the seriousness of the topic.
- Comment on How is the current AI bubble when compared to the .com bubble in the early 2000's? 5 days ago:
Thanks for the context, that all makes sense to me.
- Comment on How is the current AI bubble when compared to the .com bubble in the early 2000's? 5 days ago:
When you say “document your code” what kind of documentation are you talking about?
- Comment on Lil Gator Game: In The Dark | Announcement Trailer 6 days ago:
Yeah I liked the free form exploration, felt more like a kid on an adventure.
I my opinion this game did open world design better than most games out there. I personally put it above BOTW, but that’s probably a controversial opinion.
Really excited to hear they’re making a sequel.
- Comment on Nintendo will reportedly reveal Switch 2 this week | VGC 1 week ago:
If you didn’t try it, “Bowser’s Fury” was a lot of fun. It’s annoyingly packaged with “3D World”, although if you haven’t played that it’s also a good 3D Mario.
- Comment on Why So Many Video Games Cost So Much to Make 1 week ago:
I suspect this is an area where we may see AI assets help speed up development for smaller studios.
- Comment on Microsoft is combining “the best of Xbox and Windows together” for handhelds 1 week ago:
Steam already runs fine on Linux, you don’t need SteamOS to us the compatibility functionality, meaning anything you can play on the steamdeck already works on a Linux pc.
- Comment on In The Lost Lands - (First Poster) Bautista & Jovovich. Dir: Paul W. S. Anderson 1 week ago:
I mean just look at his left foot (our right). It’s literally not stepping on anything!
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 2 weeks ago:
Same, me and a friend struggled with that game for a while, but still remains an extremely satisfying game to have beaten when you couldn’t just look things up.
- Comment on What's the endgame when the rich have all the money? 2 weeks ago:
But they’re the minority, most games have gatcha/pay-to-win mechanics. It’s actually hard to find some simple games where you aren’t harassed to buy things.
- Comment on There is a fee to close my HSA account 2 weeks ago:
To simplify both posts below:
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FSA: good if you know you’re going to have $2-3k+ medical expenses and want to use tax deffered money.
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HSA: good if you want to save tax deffered money year over year (and don’t mind having a high deductible insurance plan)
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additionally, some people use HSAs as an investment for retirement.
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- Comment on There is a fee to close my HSA account 2 weeks ago:
HSAs are an annoying attempt to fix US health insurance. They are tax free (meaning your money goes farther), but you can only contribute to them if you have a high deductible health insurance plan.
Additionally, you are limited to a couple thousand a year in contributions and that money can only be used for approved health expenses. The slight upside is that the money won’t ever go away, meaning you can keep building up your HSA and even invest it.
Where it’s gotten weird is that many people actually just use it as tax deffered savings, as after 65 (I think) the money becomes general use.
However, this means HSAs primarily benefit wealthier people by only really being accessible to those who already have insurance and have excess money to contribute.
- Comment on There is a fee to close my HSA account 2 weeks ago:
Cause everything is stupid and you can’t choose your own HSA, I had multiple at one point. It’s easier to merge them all and close the rest so you aren’t keeping track of a ton of accounts.
- Comment on Android games 2 weeks ago:
I thought I had a couple of counter examples, but every good game on my phone has a steam port (or originated on PC).
I really thought Miracle Sudoku would be phone only, but even that exists on steam.
- Comment on Netflix bad... Shocker, I know 2 weeks ago:
Why use small screen when have big screen?
Then use small screen and big screen!
- Comment on If it would solve world hunger, what would be the largest item you could fit in your ass? 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure you understand what causes world hunger.
- Comment on My favorite 3 weeks ago:
It’s possible then you’ve never been to a “good” one. While they were never great food, back in the 90s early 00s they were all a higher quality than what you find now.
- Comment on If we eat three meals a day, why do we poop only once? 3 weeks ago:
Ever.
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, the only thing more confusing than figuring out what service best fits your need is figuring out how it’s billed.
Some services will spin up eight other things and all will look like separate things from a billing perspective, if you aren’t careful with tagging/managing things.
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I always hated that the foundational cert (or whatever it’s called) is basically just “what service is this”. The worst is that at the rate things change the info doesn’t stay relevant for long.
Sagemaker has literally gone through tens of iterations at this point. Hard to keep straight what it does and doesn’t offer.
- Comment on Amazon: The same 31 products you don't want, again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again 4 weeks ago:
Haha, I thought this was a comment on AWS at first. Where everything service is just EC2s and S3 buckets in a trench coat that all do something slightly different than another service they offer.
- Comment on I don't want a lot for Christmas.... 4 weeks ago:
They look like cheap versions of the Flash.
- Comment on Why does the Music Industry allow Spotify/Apple to profit off of them? 5 weeks ago:
Effectively a stacked bar chart/area chart, but with “pizzaz” that makes it less readable.
- Comment on If billionaires and CEOs feel like they need to start paying for large security details, would that be an example of trickle down economics? 1 month ago:
The only caveat would be is if they were going to hoard that money anyways it might not make it into anyones hands.
“Trickle” would definitely be the key word though.
- Comment on Does anyone else think the NYPD photos of the UHC CEO shooting suspect don’t match? 1 month ago:
I mean with most CCTV feeds facial recognition is just a best guess, you can’t just rely on it.
- Comment on Under Trump will anything happen to my brothers Social Security Disability? He is 42 and draws it for mental illness. 1 month ago:
Just to clarify “doge” isn’t a real thing and has no real power. They can propose cuts, but it would be the senate and the house that would have to pass changes to social security. They may take up initiatives “doge” proposes, but it’ll be your representatives that make the actual choice.