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- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 2 days ago:
For me, with the Switch 1, I was worried about wanting to play a game but oh no it’s back at home. Happened a bunch of times with my 3DS.
But then I bought a case that had card slots in it, and that concern wasn’t much of a concern anymore. Then the pandemic happened, and I never really left home anyway, which meant it mattered even less. So now I have a few digital games that are super annoying to share.
- Comment on Is Star Trek Discovery that bad? 1 week ago:
It’s fine. It’s probably the weakest of the modern Trek shows, but only because SNW and LDS are so good.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 week ago:
Maybe they could add a setting to automatically start up the game in the background after an update. Since shader compilation happens right at startup, that could get the job done.
- Comment on Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision" 1 week ago:
Very much not true. Accounts from the development team call the dev process “fork and run;” meaning, they made a fork of the operating system. Yes, it diverged over time, but part of the reason that a Windows port of an Xbox game is so much easier is that they’re fundamentally the same OS.
And Android is Linux under the hood. They’ve committed code back to the Linux branch and maintained alignment with the LTS kernel since the start, and even the Linux Foundation calls Android a distro.
- Comment on Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision" 1 week ago:
Not visually, but under the hood it is Windows. Windows 2000 in the case of the Xbox and Xbox 360, Windows 8 (and later Windows 10) in the case of the Xbox One, One X & S, and Series X & S. Kernels, drivers, APIs, etc. are all shared with the Windows codebase.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 week ago:
I played BL2 at launch and don’t regret it. But I only just picked BL3 up again over the last couple of months. It wasn’t only the loading screen, but I will say I don’t think the writing shines quite as much as it did in BL2.
- Comment on Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision" 1 week ago:
I think it’s smart of them to keep all gaming products under the XBOX brand.
I don’t have any issues with that, I just think that fragmenting your brand across so many different SKUs makes it tough if you’re a retailer.
I suspect the next XBOX (if there is one at all) will be just like the Steam Deck, just a PC in a suit, booting into the XBOX PC app, with an optional Windows desktop.
That’s more or less what the Xbox already is, just without the Windows desktop. In fact, that’s pretty much what the original pitch for the first Xbox was. Obviously they don’t bother with the desktop environment or the print spooler or whatever, but “PC in a suit” is basically the way they do everything. And the Switch is Nintendo’s “Android tablet in a suit.” I think PlayStation is still on a bespoke kernel, but I’m not sure.
The game subscription is XBOX GamePass and the cloud service is Xbox Cloud. Simple enough.
Is it simple, though? You boot up your Xbox (app) to connect to Xbox (Cloud) and play a game on Xbox (GamePass) with your friends on Xbox (Live)? That’s simple?
If they were all bundled, that would be one thing. But you have to buy all of those elements individually, and there are probably different tiers of each, and it might be doable, but I guarantee you that I’d prefer not to think through it all.
I know it may be confusing but it’s a transition that’s long overdue. The console market as a whole is losing market share to PCs, so why not just make a PC that works like a console?
That would be pretty nice, and since Valve has already done the market research on that, it seems like an easy win for Microsoft. But then again, that is what they’ve nominally been doing this whole time, so who knows if it’s ever going to happen.
And anyone can optionally buy their own hardware and use that as an XBOX.
I doubt they’ll ever truly give users that freedom. OEMs (like ROG) sure, but I kinda doubt they’re going to let people just put the Xbox app on whatever hardware they bought.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 week ago:
Thank you for that info! I do most of my PC gaming on a very underpowered Linux box. Gonna need to check that setting.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 week ago:
Maybe if there were any variation at all in the dance. Or a cycle of two or three different dances he goes through. Maybe give him a hat at random intervals. But no, just the same nonsense, over and over, for five minutes every time you start the game.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 week ago:
I honestly feel like it would be better if Steam would compile the shaders in the background after the download finishes and before it tells me that the game is ready to play. That seems like a thing they could totally do.
They could even precompile shaders for known setups (the Steam Deck, the last three generations of Nvidia and AMD, that sort of thing) and just add that to the download for people with those devices. It would improve the experience for a lot of people.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 week ago:
Woof. I want to play BL4, I’ve always been a huge fan of the series, but like…I distinctly remember BL3 and watching Claptrap do that stupid Vanna White thing across the screen for ages after every update. I kind of want that time back.
- Comment on Costco Confirms It's Removed Xbox Consoles, Calling It A "Business Decision" 1 week ago:
This makes sense. Xbox is a very fragmented brand. What is “Xbox?” They just made this big deal about how it’s a tablet, or it’s a PC, or it’s a Steam Deck competitor, or it’s a game store with a subscription library, or it’s a game streaming platform. And that’s before you even get to the fact that there are currently two separate consoles with two different feature sets. If you want to carry “Xbox” as a brick and mortar retailer, you’re either going to have to devote a lot of floor space to it, or you’re going to have to be okay with the fact that a lot of people are going to come to your store wanting the ROG Ally but you only have the Series S.
Contrast that with the Switch 2. Aside from clearing out backstock, Nintendo has one active platform. Every game currently in print runs on it. If you want to carry Nintendo stuff, you can fit a pretty substantial display (especially in Costco’s terms) on a single pallet.
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 week ago:
“Oops, couldn’t find that file! Better reset your browser. Actually I’ll just go ahead and turn Windows Recall back on, too. Better get your OneDrive trial started also, I know you wanted that…”
- Comment on Microsoft doing shady Microsoft stuff again 1 week ago:
They don’t even need to go that far. Windows has so many problems all the time, they just have to pick one and attribute this response to it.
- Comment on Some nice attention to continuity by the SNW team! 1 week ago:
Bro they designed and sewed a screen-accurate Monster Maroon uniform for Anson Mount to wear in a thirty second scene where he meets himself from an alternate future. They established, then sidelined the Recreation Room so that they could do a holodeck episode without breaking continuity. They wrote an entire episode that explained why the 1990s changed between TOS and reality. I don’t know what kind of continuity you’re looking for, but they’re doing a lot of hard work to keep the continuity rock-solid.
- Comment on Steady 1 week ago:
Maybe the most stable.
- Comment on Steady 1 week ago:
I watched that movie right after I started as a pharmacy tech. Stuck with me.
- Comment on in sickness and in health 1 week ago:
As far as I know your doctor can prescribe literally anything. Whether or not you can get your insurance company to pay for it is another question
- Comment on in sickness and in health 2 weeks ago:
There’s a whole study in a medical journal trying to figure out what disease Tiny Tim had in A Christmas Carol that
- crippled him, but only in one leg;
- would kill him over the course of a single year;
- could be healed with 19th century medicine if a sufferer had access to enough money.
The smart money is apparently on either rickets or distal renal tubular acidosis, the treatment for both basically being oranges and beach vacations (two things a rich guy could provide).
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 2 weeks ago:
Probably not if you lived on Pandora.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 2 weeks ago:
I think he thinks he’s Jack in The Pre-Sequel, but really he’s Jack in Borderlands 2.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 3 weeks ago:
Facebook (centralized) is ground for fake and hateful news, while the Fediverse (decentralized) brings meaningful diversity and insightfulness.
That’s because Facebook has discovered that fake and hateful news gets lots of clicks and engagement, and boosts their bottom line. Wikipedia has no such profit motive, nor does federated social media. It’s the economics that make them different, not the server paradigm.
More information also means quicker double-checking for what is true, regardless of political spectrum
Is…this your first day on the Internet? That is almost never how it works. You get one side posting sourced, verifiable, provable information at best. At worst, both sides are posting cherry-picked half-stories that agree with their preconceived ideas. In the end, no one changes their minds, but the people who are willing to stay and post about it for longer are the ones who are seen later on as the “winners.”
Truth is a constructed entity.
I’m reminded of a line from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: “Archaeology is the search for fact, not truth. If it’s truth you’re interested in, Dr. Tyree’s philosophy class is right down the hall.”
Similarly, encyclopedias are not where to go for truth. They’re where to go for fact, and fact isn’t decided by consensus.
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 3 weeks ago:
That’s not two different opinions, though. You just posted two accurate facts. An accurate Wikipedia will post both of them, and it has nothing to do with any individual’s opinion on Process A being a ploy by Big Pharma or Process B being a liberal psyop. An accurate Wikipedia will also not post about either being the “best.” That’s not its job.
Your bamboo scaffolding example is actually a good one, but not in your favor. Bamboo scaffolding is a great option in places where bamboo grows naturally. In other parts of the world where bamboo is less common, metal scaffolding is usually a more economic choice. Neither is “better,” and encyclopedias should not suggest that one or the other is.
This whole thing is why the Wikipedia “opinion” editor tag exists. Its whole point is to mark places where an article needs editing because the content is subjective or not supported by verifiable fact.
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 5 weeks ago:
Not entirely sure why that doesn’t feel like a robot to me. Hm.
Maybe it’s because washing machines existed before electricity. I don’t think there are any gas-powered dishwashers.
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 5 weeks ago:
AI’s water usage is a pretty well-known problem with the industry.
- Comment on THE NEXT CLANKER BETTER DO MY GODDAMN DISHES 5 weeks ago:
They chose literally the only widely-available home robot. 😆
- Comment on Is This Social Media? 5 weeks ago:
Interesting question on the fediverse. I tend to think that redditlikes aren’t, while twitterlikes are; so what does it mean if they’re federated? Does it depend on how you access the content?
Maybe it’s a spectrum. Bulletin board forums are on one side, then Stack Overflow, then redditlikes, then twitterlikes, then Instagram-like image sharing, then Facebook on the far other side.
- Comment on How do I beat the roaches in this house? 5 weeks ago:
So, I think this story has two parts to it: one from years ago, wherein he moved into a place with his girlfriend and his best friend; and another from today, wherein he moved into a place with his wife. Unclear if it’s the same person as the girlfriend from before.
- Comment on What are your favorite Star Trek books? 5 weeks ago:
I really like the Department of Temporal Investigations book “Watching the Clock.” Very clever time travel story.
- Comment on Modern Windows in a nutshell 1 month ago:
Whoooaaaaa I heard the next update is gonna be HUGE
The leaks say they’re adding millidays and a whole new second