jacksilver
@jacksilver@lemmy.world
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption Coming to Netflix, iOS, Android, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2 9 hours ago:
Yeah, I’m surprised the original commentor is getting downvoted. This console generation has been terrible, PC is doing better, but really only due to smaller indie games.
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption Coming to Netflix, iOS, Android, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 2 9 hours ago:
I think you get access to mobile games through your Netflix subscription. I know they released some games that were only playable on android through them.
- Comment on 'The PS5 is only in the middle of [it's lifespan],' says Sony CFO 2 days ago:
Based on this we’d expect the PS6 by 2027, meaning there is only one year left for the Ps5 as “current Gen”.
Sure the “lifespan” of the console will be longer, but most people think of it in terms of the console being the current generation of consoles.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 6 days ago:
I absolutely agree with you, I got to a point where I had solved the “main” puzzle, but was struggling to complete other puzzles (that I knew the solution to) simply due to room draws.
I wanted to love the game, but it held itself back on the RNG design. It can be so detrimental to the game that I wouldn’t recommend it to most people.
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 1 week ago:
Isn’t this basically what turned into the “Manosphere” with people like Nick Fuentes, Andrew Tate, and Charlie Kirk.
Basically moving away from explicitly “dating” to general “manliness/Alpha” stuff, but still preying on typical male insecurities.
- Comment on "The King" (Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon) 2 weeks ago:
It’s 20% off right now on Steam. I’ve been eyeing it but during the fall sale I decided to go with Lords of the Fallen over this.
- Comment on Are there good Movies, TV Shows, Anime, with wholesome family (particularly parent-child) relations? 2 weeks ago:
Long Story Short - it’s not all rainbows and butterflies, but a realistic family working to get by.
Modern Family - Antics of an extended family. Since it’s a comedy it’s usually pretty wholesome and each family unit brings something different to the table.
While there are definitely more out there, I figured these would be good suggestions as they really focus on family dynamics.
- Comment on No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know, it feels like the US is at least heading towards a tipping point.
- Comment on The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market 4 weeks ago:
I have the Boox Palma I think. It’s basically just a phone with an e-ink display. Since it runs android, it means that I can use it with my self hosted services like “AudioBookshelf”.
The device itself is nothing special in my opinion. Maybe the screen is better than my old kindle (hard to say). Only real reason I got it was form factor and android OS so I could customize it.
- Comment on Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement 4 weeks ago:
I believe it’s the same thing I noted in another comment - lemmy.world/comment/19924290
Basically session key vs rotating session key, but to be honest I only skimmed your link as it got dense fast.
- Comment on Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement 4 weeks ago:
I think the biggest thing here is that beyond just a session key (to make sessions secure from each other), this approach uses a rotating session key. That means each transaction in a sesssion is unique ensuring forward and backward secrecy.
I may have read it wrong plus cybersecurity is not my forte.
- Comment on need games recommendation 5 weeks ago:
It’s possible you like the risk-reward elements of rougelites? If so (and with some gambling themes) you may like these:
Note: Like Balatro both these games have android/ios versions.
- Comment on I balance my checkbook every day. I manage my bank acount . Why does the goverment have so much problems with this? I get large payouts and such but it always seem they are in the neg?? 1 month ago:
To add to this, some spending is done in chunks for the year or doled out every month.
Some money may be given back to the government if it isn’t spent.
Some money is purposefully cryptic in its spending for national security reasons.
There are a lot of things that make it difficult to accurately track things against the entire government, which is why auditing individual departments/agencies is how it’s usually done. However, even then it should be better than it is.
- Comment on this level is amazing 1 month ago:
I liked Arkham City, it felt more like the game they initially wanted to make. Batmans movement is a bit smoother, you get some fun gliding elements, and it opens up the map so there is a bit more of an exploration/investigation element.
I think Arkham Knight might have gone too large, and I feel like the batmobile sections felt too tank like.
- Comment on Which career to pursue? 1 month ago:
Based on what you wrote, it seems like you need to take a step back and look at the whole picture. Why are you at school and what do you want to study.
Goin to school can help you position yourself for a career, but is usually primarily about becoming educated (and isn’t for everyone).
If you’re primarily concerned about a career, then focus you’re studies on something you feel capable in. Physics requires a lot of mathematics (and nowadays usually some programming). Programming coursework may have mathematics, but usually relies more on logic than math. Writing is a great way to work on communication skills and analysis, but will have a less direct career path after school (becoming a professional writer is no guarantee).
On top of all of that, most people won’t even end up working in their field of study.
At the end of the day, no one really knows where the economy is going long term. That means there isn’t a surefire path to success, and why I recommend you think harder about what you feel good about pursuing.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 1 month ago:
I’m not saying the graph is the best graph ever, I’m saying it’s far from the worst I’ve seen.
Its also clearly not a line of best fit, as it isn’t trying to “fit” the data. It’s a trend line that’s a vertically offset line from lowest to highest. It’s a stupid line, but being used to convey how much growth their has been.
The only real issue with this graph is the information/context being ommited. We know there is a lot more to the autism debate beyond just the rate of diagnosis.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 1 month ago:
Each bar shows two years; years they surveyed the kids and the year the kids were born.
So 2000|1992, is saying that kids born in 1992 were surveyed in 2000. If you look at tmit with thtmat perspective you can see it’s ordered by the year.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 1 month ago:
It’s probably a dataset that collected every 2 years, but only labeled every other bar to prevent the graph from being overcrowded.
Not a great decision, but not terrible.
Although, I’m a bit concerned for Lemmys graph comprehension skills.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 1 month ago:
Im confused, it’s got both axis labeled and seems pretty easy to read.
Maybe points off for having the labels on the outside rim of the graphic.
Doesn’t change the fact that classification of autism also changed over those years, but the graph itself is okay.
- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 1 month ago:
That’s another great example.
The concept is really cool, and I hope to see some more interesting attempts to incorporate more of that adaptive kind of dialogue and gameplay, but its not going to be easy to figure out how to make it work.
- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 1 month ago:
It’s not that the dialogue doesn’t sound right, it’s that the dialogue is disconnected from the game.
A great example was someone did this with Skyrim a while back. In the dialogue they convinced the NPC to join their party. But there isn’t any code logic to allow that, so the NPC is talking like they joined the person’s party, but the gameplay itself doesn’t support it.
Now for animal crossing you could make it work a bit easier cause the character can’t directly interact with the NPCs, but then again it also makes the endless dialogue less impactful.
- Comment on Modder injects AI dialogue into 2002’s Animal Crossing using memory hack 1 month ago:
The biggest issue I have with all of these is that the dialogue is never connected to the actual actions of the npcs.
Its easy to have an npc say something, but tying it to gameplay mechanics isn’t. So we end up with people asking for this in new games, but all you get is conversations disconnected from the gameplay. I’m sure there is someway to make it feel more “right”, but we’re a farcry away from making true open world games like this.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Given I think BOTW was just fine, I’m a little worried about Metroid 4.
- Comment on Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Official Nintendo Switch Trailer 2 months ago:
I’m not sure if it’s worse that it’s releasing on the switch and not just the switch 2.
It really shows they held back on 3D All-Stars just so they could re-release Mario Galaxy 2 now.
- Comment on McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies 2 months ago:
I understand you’re point, what I was calling out is that what McDonald’s suggests technically shouldn’t be a new burden on restaurants, but you’re probably right that it would be because how broken tipping is in America.
Also, this approach is actually the opposite of what Walmart did to expand. Walmart used its large size to force better wholesale deals and/or operate at a loss to undercut prices that mom and pop stores couldn’t compete with. Walmart is known for cheaper prices than the competition.
McDonald’s approach is more like regulatory capture. Once youre a big player you try to get more burdensome laws passed that make it harder for new competition and/or smaller businesses to thrive. Currently we’re seeing similar things in the online space with things like age verification laws.
- Comment on McDonald's criticizes US restaurant industry for uneven wage policies 2 months ago:
If they can’t pay minimum wage then they weren’t a functioning business to begin with. Tipped employees aren’t just paid $2/hour, they are still legally required to make minimum wage. If the tips don’t bring them up to minimum wage the restaurant has to cover the difference.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 2 months ago:
Not actual cash, but they require in game currency.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 2 months ago:
Given that baltoro, monster train, and now silk song have been my most played games recently, you might be on to something.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 2 months ago:
I thought most equivelant gpus to the ps5 start around $200 on their own.
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 2 months ago:
All this stuff works on probabilities, even with a fully visible face the model just says it’s really confident hence articles like this - Facial recognition leads to wrongful arrest.
So the more of the face that’s covered, the larger the confidence interval, or basically the less accurate it is.