PieMePlenty

@PieMePlenty@lemmy.world

• ⁨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"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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…⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it was this
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every payment option has a fee⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And sell pom-poms?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peacock has ads when pausing a movie to read the text⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  80-20 rule still holds true, huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drop your unpopular opinions here because c/unpopularopinions is filled with popular opinions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I would raise all taxes to 100%.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disc drive needed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m actually considering going back to doing this… just with blurays.
  My data hoarding illness is getting out of hand and m-disks are starting to look attractive to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, you know, I wasn’t really around then. And I don’t believe in making fun of someone because their ancestors were dicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love it. Never understood the hate for the French. I sometimes mock their accept out of admiration (same with Dutch). It sounds so nice to me. Once came across a woman who spoke in a French accent in Overwatch, rolled her R’s forever and it sounded so attractive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pikachu⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe not “the people” who are doing the oppressing, but it worked when appealing to the individual.
  Society is a bit of a bitch… individuals hold their own beliefs, but when paired with other people, their beliefs get washed down and a singular belief takes hold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you too young to remember these?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably had a good reason to shock you! /s.
  By design, SCART carries low voltage, not enough to shock someone. The device it was connected to could have been faulty and leaked higher voltage into the connector though. So its plausible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you too young to remember these?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SCART was ahead of its time. You could control connected devices with it like HDMI CEC. You could daisy chain devices together with it. By the end, it could do 1080p!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is 23⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Truth. This is sadly something you learn after landing your first job, not before.
  My eye opening moment was seeing the technical guy at the interview light up when I said I’m open to learning their domain knowledge. I didn’t have a degree, but I made up for it by showing interest in the field by doing my own projects, as a hobby. I was the only guy in the department without a degree for a long time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the rarest Steam achievement you got?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really remember it, but it doesn’t look that difficult… Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I play both of these and loved em. I also poured 50 hours into beating cuphead. Difficulty isn’t a problem of the depth of the game is a pool instead of a sea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Doctors do like to smoke 🤔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard this being the case. Its very good game design.