PieMePlenty
@PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon is 23 2 days 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? 3 days 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 5 days 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? 5 days ago:
Doctors do like to smoke 🤔
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 5 days ago:
I heard this being the case. Its very good game design.
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 5 days ago:
Personally, I gave up at the first fight in Bloodborne (I have 40 min of gameplay). Never touched a souls game ever again.
- Comment on Perfect Rating ⭐/5 5 days ago:
They often do criticize these movies based on what the movie is trying to say. They’re not comparing them to movies in other genres.
Superhero movies are often formulaic, predictable, overly rely on CGI, have shallow stories and plots. Logan, The Dark Knight, Spider Verse etc. were praised by critics for not committing the same mistakes other super hero movies do. The criticisms describe what kept the movie back from being a truly great super hero movie, not what kept it back from being Citizen Kane.
And even after all that, they’re still subjective opinions. You don’t have to agree with them on what a better super hero movie looks like. - Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 1 week ago:
Nintendo is legally right, but that doesn’t mean they are morally right.
They’re always very tone deaf when it comes to communicating with their fans. They could have used this opportunity to gift people 50% off coupons on their digital store or some shit like that which would cost them nothing while gaining them community fervor.
But time and time again, they’ve shown they’re the ones who dictate how they operate and consumers can either consume it or go away. Very conservative and a bit archaic if you ask me. - Comment on Can you explain like I am a child terrorism without the whole good vs evil schtik? My sister in laws kid asked me about it. He is 9. 1 week ago:
Plain and simple its violence against civilians to gain a political goal.
The next question is going to be when is it considered political and thats a complex answer. That’s going to be the root of all controversy. You can give examples of attacks targeting civilians from around the world and explain the political motive behind them. - Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 1 week ago:
No, I made the choice for physical. I don’t own a single digital game on a Sony console. Don’t put this on me.
- Comment on I will keep recommending weird, old, and obscure films 2 weeks ago:
There is one apparently (official) which got released recently-ish, like 5 years ago? Which confuses me, because I saw it in like 2014 and remember the fire extinguisher being after the rape (chronological). So now I don’t know if I saw some weird fan made cut or something.
- Comment on I will keep recommending weird, old, and obscure films 2 weeks ago:
Yes… I didn’t have the heart to tell grandma it wasn’t the rapist who got puttied.
- Comment on Heh heh 2 weeks ago:
Dump it in a 5l canister that I call my ‘waste oil’ canister. When its full, I take it to the recycling plant whenever I’m going there anyway.
- Comment on I will keep recommending weird, old, and obscure films 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry grandma, someone’s gonna turn his face into putty with a fire extinguisher. Whoops, spoilers! :)
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Ph is just an advertising platform for premium porn and of creators.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Oh man, why didn’t you say so?! God’s turned his back on me, now I can finally do the same!
- Comment on Stereotypes 2 weeks ago:
Ahh yes LAMP… Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. The software bundle that every high school kid installs when embarking on their journey to web development. I doubt its as popular as it used to be back in them days, WAMP particularly made it easy to get a website going.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2026 Has Begun 5 weeks ago:
The Binding of Isaac + all DLC is like $5. Definitely jumping on that.
- Comment on What do you think about the dead internet theory? 5 weeks ago:
I never agreed with it. Yes there’s bots on the internet, but people are here too. The majority of lemmy is people, not bots. User facing websites are people, there’d be no reason to have bots post things just so other bots can see it. If that was the purpose, websites would just spew json formatted content around instead of someone building intricate websites full of css and shitty javascript.
There is a whole different internet though. One with devices like sensors, connecting to servers and posting numbers into databases. Automated code connecting everywhere for data aggregation. There’s also everything other than HTTP. - Comment on NO BITCHES? 1 month ago:
Look at it from the other side: it worked for people who wanted the kind of relationship where women aren’t the ones being chased and set a more even ground.
The problem is that it is a for profit business and the proportion of such relationship seekers is small. More women just like being chased… Bumbe is still around, they didn’t fail, but they had to let this model go, because they wanted more profit. - Comment on Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam 1 month ago:
I don’t want to be a steam shill, but does the prevention of selling games cheaper (if this is true or effectively enforced) even do any good? I have over a thousand games on Steam, but I doubt I bout 10% of the games from them. Heck, the latest game I remember buying at release was Oblivion Remaster, and I got it from GMG because it was 17% cheaper on release day then on steam. This happens constantly.
If we are to objectively look at the problem, why would lifting this rule automatically mean games would be cheaper elsewhere? One of the biggest slogans in favor of Brexit was something along the lines: “of EU membership costing 350m pounds per week, lets spend it on the NHS instead”. - Comment on What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened? 1 month ago:
The dream is still alive in small countries the corporations don’t care about! I sail in vast oceans without VPN.
- Comment on Title 1 month ago:
Gold for me. Its worth a bit more and will probably increase in value over time. Money will lose value over time.
Since I don’t plan on spending it all at once, right this moment, it works better in my favor if it appreciates in value. I’m too much of a pussy to invest, so I’d probably let the bills rot too.
I’d sell the gold bit by bit, underground if need be, to avoid taxes.
I’d pick money only if I actually needed 50 million in cast right now. - Comment on 1 month ago:
While taking photos for later. What a joke.
- Comment on Is there any open source ATM machine ? 1 month ago:
Depends on which part?
The user facing software can do everything including control all the exotic hardware components like the dispenser module and knows how to talk to the atm or bank network to do transactions. That thing is closed.
The operating system can vary from linux based to windows based. I’ve seen machines which boot into the desktop and just start the app. If you had a keyboard, you could alt tab back to the desktop lol.
The drivers and control software for the mechanical components (dispenser, card reader…) are also proprietary. There’s a specification for how communication between software and these devices is done, called WS/XFS. Not open source, but you can get it and read it to understand better how the software communicates with the hardware. - Comment on The Ides of Pride 1 month ago:
All you need:
Image - Comment on Anon plays World of Warcraft 1 month ago:
Wow was fantastic when it came out. I never had the money to pay for a subscription so I played on pirate servers. I never got the endless grind stages, but I adored exploring the early zones with all the original classes. The world looked great, the magic felt real and the fantasy was engrossing. I don’t think I ever made it passed lvl 35 on any characters, but thoroughly enjoyed getting there, sometimes with friends and sometimes alone.
- Comment on The Matrix 2 months ago:
Neo was powerful. I wonder if he could have gained the same abilities, without the help of Morpheus, throughout his time in the matrix. Were he able to do so, he could have lived a nice life inside. I guess Neo felt a higher calling to free mankind or something, so he left… or maybe Morpheus just didn’t tell him the whole picture before offering the pill. Morpheus probably needed a powerful warrior and just rolled the dice on Neo.
Anyway… had I known the whole picture, I’d have stayed inside. - Comment on I'd like to change my last name and want suggestions 2 months ago:
Rigby
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 2 months ago:
This kinda kills the value proposition of a deck. Its a good machine, but struggles with high end titles. Were the performance or battery life better, I’d have overlooked the price but its still the same machine. A more powerful successor would fit this price point, not the original machine.
As long as alternatives or similar products exist at current prices, the deck will be a hard sell.
