jacksilver
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- Comment on How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips? 13 hours ago:
The other thing you didn’t talk about was the size of the market in general.
As onbaord CPUs were becoming popular the biggest reason for a GPU was games or video processing. Which, while significant markets, isn’t huge.
Over the past couple decades, GPUs have made headway as the way to do Machine Learning/AI. Nvidia spent a lot of time and money making this process easier on their GPUs which lead to them not only owning the graphics market, but the much bigger ML/AI market. And I say the AI/ML market is bigger is simply that they are being installed in huge quantities in data centers.
- Comment on Any good Android games that aren't roguelikes? 2 weeks ago:
Baba is you is one of the best puzzle games I’ve ever played
Shapez is a great factory/automation game. Maybe better on a computer, but still good on the phone.
There are also a lot of good boardgames with android apps: Star Realms, Dominon (expensive), Splendor, etc.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you’re saying. But to expand on my point:
A lot of receipts have an area where they show you a “calculated tip” for some %s. Many restaurants calculate the tips using the total (meal+tax) rather than the subtotal (meal).
On those receipts the person still has to calculate the end amount (meal+tax+tip).
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, you shouldn’t tip on the tax, that has nothing to do with the food or service.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 3 weeks ago:
I’m surprised no one mentioned that a lot also calculate the tip after applying taxes.
Example: Meal was $40, then a 20% tip would be $8. But if taxes were $4 (making the total bill $44), then the receipt would show $8.80.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 4 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree with you on the first point. I put “unlawful” in quotes to imply that lawful/unlawful is ambiguous and gives Mastercard the cover they need to not really be lying in their statement, even if effectively they are.
Its corporate doublespeak to a T.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 4 weeks ago:
What they’re saying is: “we haven’t called out any specific games, but we told steam if they can’t prove a game is “lawful” well cut them off”.
This effectively has a chilling effect because it means anything that could be illegal becomes toxic and risky for steam.
Its a way for Mastercard to dictate what can be sold without actually dictating what can be sold. Now the real issue is that at the end of the Mastercard is in a position where this matters and they can influence things. Should work just like cash and leave the government to decide what items are legal/illegal.
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 5 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree that competency is an element, but your analogy is lacking because the user provided the information that increased their risk (sharing their photo IDs and real information).
Its more like the share buttons on porn sites. If you’re logged into a social media site while browsing porn and accidentally dox yourself, it’s partially your fault for creating a situation where that was possible. Yeah, having the share buttons is a terrible design, but also you have to be doing insecure stuff too.
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 5 weeks ago:
It has nothing to do with the company, it’s an issue about privacy and not sharing personal information so freely.
I mean the company was incompetent, but the primary issue is privacy.
- Comment on if H₂O is so great why isn’t there H₂O₂ 5 weeks ago:
It’s a good poem, but not a limerick. Limericks have 5 stanzas in AABBA format.
- Comment on crypto investment 5 weeks ago:
It’s actually the more practical of the crypto currencies from my perspective. It’s setup to enable things like smart contracts and exchanges and was a big driver of web 3.0.
Not that I’m a big proponent of web 3.0, it at least tried to be a currency unlike every other crypto currency.
- Comment on Rumor: Star Wars Outlaws Sequel Canceled By Ubisoft 5 weeks ago:
While it got a lot of flack, I thought the smaller contained worlds of Outer Worlds can be a better in between. Open spaces to explore and run into things accidentally, but constrained enough that the world and plot can still flourish.
- Comment on Rumor: Star Wars Outlaws Sequel Canceled By Ubisoft 5 weeks ago:
I thought the world and travel mechanics were fun, and the leveling system was cool (basically get better skills by using other skills).
Overall though, it falls into the trap of most open world games. Big, beautiful, and boring.
But I also don’t care for BOTW and TOTK over more traditional Zeldas, so maybe I’m just anti open world games.
- Comment on I turned 30 yesterday but I look 18. Nobody believes me when I tell them my age. What do I do? Do I date a 20 year old guy or a 35 year old guy who looks twice my age? 5 weeks ago:
Or the reverse, find an 18/19 year old who looks 35!
- Comment on Metroidbrainia: An in-depth exploration of knowledge-gated games 5 weeks ago:
You can have mysteries where progress and knowledge aren’t tied to each other. For example in Professor Layton games, there is an overarching “mystery”, but it’s a linear game you progress by solving effectively random (and mostly disconnected) puzzles.
- Comment on Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default 5 weeks ago:
I think he means that there should be an OS API to tell recall to shove it, or that apps should have to opt-in to recall.
The fact they need to leverage private browser sessions means it’s a workaround not directly built into the OS.
- Comment on My first colonoscopy 1 month ago:
Actually the torso/feet are just wrong in general, as in not a legitamte Lego piece. Such a weird detail for the AI to mess up.
- Comment on Anon is Illiterate 1 month ago:
I don’t think it matters in this context. Person is trying to get into reading, nothing roastable about that.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 1 month ago:
I thought it did a good job at capturing the Star Wars feel, but yeah it feels like every open world game. Lots of fetch quests and running around in a massive world where every encounter/quest/battle feels the same as the last.
It may just be me, but most open world games suffer from trying to be too large. Although I think BOTW and TOTK are some of the weakest Zelda games, so maybe my opinions on open world games aren’t popular.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 month ago:
If that’s your kind of game, Unfinished Swan is another thats more plot based, but still has some fun puzzles. Doesn’t get mentioned as frequently so usually one people haven’t seen/played before.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 1 month ago:
Antichamber is another that feels similar. Although Antichamber doesn’t really have a plot.
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 1 month ago:
So I ended up reading up on the original comics because I knew they were a bit darker than the cartoons. It seems shredder is only in volume 1 of 4. In it he’s basically a New York Yakuza boss that kills splinters master. So splinter trains the turtles to kill shredder. After that he does get resurrected once, but after that he stays dead.
Volume 2 cover a full on battle with DARPA (for experimenting on aliens and turtles), Volume 3 has a possible daughter of shredder trying to get revenge, but volume 4 retcons volume 3 and focuses on a future where aliens come to earth and the turtles can roam the streets as “aliens” (which isn’t that weird for the series as aliens first appear in volume 1).
So, yeah, it gets kinda weird.
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 1 month ago:
I think the better stat would be time handling a gun/driving a car.
The average person probably spends about an hour in the car per day (based on some loose numbers I saw online). But I suspect the number of hours holding a gun is a lot less.
Its kinda like the fact that new Yorkers bite more people than sharks. It isn’t because new Yorkers are more likely to bite you, but with eight million people interacting daily the amount of interactions outweighs the odds of a bite.
- Comment on Steam now generates three times more revenue for Capcom than PlayStation 1 month ago:
The wording is a little weird, but it’s about Capcom finances. They make more selling games on steam than selling on the Playstation. So steam/pc is a bigger market than Playstation consoles for Capcom.
- Comment on Who discovered/"invented" fire? 1 month ago:
Yeah probably while making a tool/smashing something. Knocking two rocks together, create a spark on accident, boom fire.
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 month ago:
You’d probably be better served by a retro handheld. A lot of them run android so you can play android games, but the built in controllers make emulating actually enjoyable.
Major issue is that the ones cheaper than a switch struggle with 3D games.
If you have the money, steamdeck is definitely one of the best bang for buck, but it’ll probably be more expensive than a switch (unless you can find a deal on a used/refurbished one).
- Comment on In Canada, Nintendo is increasing the price of the original Nintendo Switch. 1 month ago:
There is also dead cells, slay the spire, monster train, disable immortal, etc.
However, those are also all playable on switch too. Technically you can emulate the switch on android, but I think this brings up the biggest flaw in gaming on android; you’re either emulating or streaming for most good games.
- Comment on A secret, never-mentioned fact is that the people who voted for Zohran are also taxpayers. 2 months ago:
You’re right, but people over a certain tax bracket are also pretty good at not paying taxes.
- Comment on My T-shirt size is L 2 months ago:
Yeah, but sizing is user dependent. So unless it’s based on the users purchasing history it’s useless what the average person does.
If it said “L is your recommended size based on your purchase habits and customer data”, then sure. But it just says we recommend L because that’s what other people said/ordered, which makes no sense.
- Comment on My T-shirt size is L 2 months ago:
Wouldn’t it then update to recommending a M if he picked large?
If it’s really that the sizing runs large it should just say that, but that message is very ambiguous.