PieMePlenty
@PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
- Comment on Tim Sweeney Is Still Crying About Steam AI Disclosures 2 days ago:
Sweeney: AAAAhhhh! Why is Steam so popular and Epic isn’t?! They have AI disclosures and they still dominate us! Why?! How can this be?!
I imagine his head hurting as he just can’t process why his store isn’t number one. In reality, he’s probably just trying to stay in the limelight since any publicity is good publicity for Epic. Today’s currency is attention sad to say.
- Comment on Anon watches The Office 3 days ago:
Roy dodged a bullet that would take years off his life.
- Comment on We thought it could never get better than this 1 week ago:
I didn’t mind the early 2000’s web experience. You just kinda had to know how to get around, know what the fake download button looked like, not type your real name anywhere, have a little patience. The barrier to entry was slightly higher, which kept the masses away.
I think it was great, even with all its problems. Way less corporate too. - Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Front Burner Gang 1 week ago:
- Comment on Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% 2 weeks ago:
Yup, I do this as well. Most of my gaming expenses go towards PC games now.
- Comment on Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% 2 weeks ago:
Looking at my own gaming expenses, I’ve definitely stopped buying as much as I did say 10 years ago. To me it seems like the value of what you get for your money has fallen. I can afford it, but why should I? On one side, the corporations are actively trying to lock down everything and make it clear I’m just a guest in their theme park and on the other, they’re offering investment safe sequels and remakes of past successes. I’m also kinda tired of Sony’s “AAA cinematic gaming experiences”.
I may also be getting too old cause all excitement of GTA VI fell through the floor once I learned I can’t own a copy without the explicit approval or either console maker. So fuck that…
- Comment on Fandom won’t allow adblockers 2 weeks ago:
🦎
- Comment on Skate has been de-live serviced by ReSkate, a modding platform downloaded 350,000 times—devs say they will comply if EA's lawyers come knocking 3 weeks ago:
Public code repos are not anonymous
They can be. Throwaway account on hosted git service, connected through anonymity service (TOR, VPN…).
And torrents require some form of advertising
Many indexers are anonymous, a magnet link on a forum or even a site like lemmy is good enough.
I’m not going to argue about the semantics of anonymity on the internet. If you want to stay hidden enough to distribute a mod and not be found out who you are, you can do it. Its not that difficult.
- Comment on Skate has been de-live serviced by ReSkate, a modding platform downloaded 350,000 times—devs say they will comply if EA's lawyers come knocking 3 weeks ago:
Without even thinking: open source public code repository, p2p networks like torrents.
- Comment on Delish 2 3 weeks ago:
Mmm yeah, pump it full of cream.
- Comment on How our patience level has changed 3 weeks ago:
Back when your computer picked up the phone and called some machine far away.
- Comment on Why do so many older people talk to themselves in public? 1 month ago:
Because I have a screw loose and no one else will talk to me. Now stop asking.
- Comment on Palworld lead worries Steam early access has "lost its meaning": players treat it like "a normal game" and the program has been "abused for a lot of reasons" 1 month ago:
I’ve treated many games in early access like normal games and had lots of fun - which I would call successful purchases. To me EA means that not all content is there, the game is unfinished but playable. It works better for some games than others:
Timberborn in EA was playable completely and since its a sandbox, hard to notice missing content. Similar with Factorio, Valheim and Rust (I actually miss EA Rust a bit).
Hades, Baldur’s Gate 3 were story heavy games so they did rely on being complete. Maybe a little less so for Hades. They were good experiences, but I kept playing them at a minimum and waited for full release.
- Comment on To be happy… 1 month ago:
I think its the small volume that makes it worth it (faster to heat up, efficient) so I can see why people would buy one.
I personally don’t have one because I don’t exactly value my time. I throw my food in the cold oven and set it to whatever and check back later. I don’t have any motivation what so ever to care about pre heating or having my food ready 10 minutes earlier.
- Comment on 📡📡📡 1 month ago:
Just for some context; he was (is) a far right, anti Muslim bigot. Afaik, he targeted the liberal left (Norway’s Labour Party) because he saw them as traitors due to them promoting multiculturalism, democracy, gender equality.
- Comment on Me_IRL 1 month ago:
For me it was this
Image - Comment on Every payment option has a fee 1 month ago:
I once had to pay a fee for using PayPal. I read through paypal’s terms of service for vendors and it said they can’t do that. I complained to paypal and they gave me 5€. The vendor continued to charge a fee for using paypal.
I surmised the vendor was bringing in enough profit for paypal to not penalize them and they just gave me five bucks to shut me up. Adventures in the world of capitalism I guess.
- Comment on One of the lowercase m is actually an r + n, and the other isn't. 2 months ago:
And sell pom-poms?
- Comment on Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text 2 months ago:
Discovering the skip button on my steering wheel does a +30sec instead of skip track was a game changer lol
- Comment on Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text 2 months ago:
Isn’t it funny, when you visit a relative or friend and see their TV and web browser experience is full of ads and shit, while at home you see no ads and sometimes forget they even exist? I’ve noticed this many times.
- Comment on The end is near 2 months ago:
Very ascetic of you.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 months ago:
So I don’t just wake up as Kane, but as him as we’re landing on Stroggos and have to go through that whole ordeal haha. Kinda fucked then. I also wonder how I’ll be able to find love looking like that.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 2 months ago:
Quake 4, so I’m Corporal Matthew Kane. Hopefully, post stroggification? Half human, half machine.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 months ago:
80-20 rule still holds true, huh?
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 2 months ago:
Press and hold the mute button to mute your mic and to turn off sound output from the speakers on your controller and TV. Press the mute button again to return to the original state.
PS5 Quick start guide, page 11.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 2 months ago:
Afaik, it also can mute all PS5 audio, not just voice chat.
- Comment on How hopeless is getting a job with a CS degree? 2 months ago:
If you’re in the position to do so: try getting a job as a software developer for a year before going to college. If you’re able to demonstrate you’ve already worked on your own projects, you will be taken more seriously than cs majors fresh out of college who’ve only seen code in home work assignments. Do this to get to see how software development works as a career and see if you fit in it.
You don’t generally need a degree to be a programmer and in this field, experience is often more valuable than a degree. What college can offer is connections and the opportunity to find your actual calling. - Comment on Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game music 2 months ago:
Hey, we’re all broken inside. You don’t need to point it out.
- Comment on 'To own a Razer Artisan Keycap is to display one’s allegiance, a mark of belonging within the Cult of Razer' says the PR nonsense behind this $90 coil of snakes 2 months ago:
I dont particularly like Razer, but if there’s anything they do well, its marketing. They’re right… if they’re able to sell a key cap for 90 bucks, their marketing must have been so good in the past they created a literal materialistic cult.
- Comment on How would I go about turning this into a power-generating wind turbine. 2 months ago:
Won’t generate much electricity, but for fun, you could just direct mount a bike dynamo on to it and connect to a simple led. You could probably get it to work if you oil it up well. Can also buy a battery management board and connect to a battery so the light can work when there’s no wind!
Alternatively, bore a hole down to the aquifer and let it pump water slowly with mechanical power. That would cost more though.
