JohnEdwa
@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months 6 days ago:
- Comment on What game do you really want to play, but haven't yet because you feel it in your soul that it will get a remake/remaster soon enough? 5 weeks ago:
It’s getting a remaster, but also maybe a remake at some point.
- Comment on Like to drive fast? Virginia has an anti-speeding device for you. 5 weeks ago:
Hope they keep those maps updated, the assist on our BMW constantly gets the speed limits wrong. There’s a section that was changed from 50km/h to 70km/h years ago and it still gets confused because the signs don’t match the map it’s using, flip flopping between the two multiple times.
- Comment on Google changes Chrome extension policies following the Honey link scandal 1 month ago:
Honey being one of them, it did start as a simple addon that gathered and automatically tried coupon codes for you. It did exactly what people expected it to do.
But obviously once you start getting hundreds of millions in venture capital funds, and eventually sell yourself to Paypal for 4 billion, it’s clear that isn’t all you are doing any more.
- Comment on Anon's PC works 3 months ago:
Ha, I had this exact conversation with a friend of mine a few days ago, he wants to upgrade from 16GB to 32GB and when I asked why, he just blanked out for a while and went “…because more is better, right?”
He spends most of his time playing rpg maker porn games and raid shadow legend.
- Comment on Discussion: Cybertruck involved in attempted bombing in Las Vegas auto-locked after explosion 3 months ago:
If the car has internet connectivity and an app, then the answer to that question is yes, because that’s how the apps work.
And I very much doubt you can find a manufacturer that promises that they definitely don’t ever access that functionality or data for any reason whatsoever. - Comment on After years of holding out hope, 2024 was the year I finally gave up on BioWare 4 months ago:
Bioware is (was) actually many studios in a trenchcoat - Bioware Edmonton (“old” Bioware, ME trilogy, Anthem), Bioware Austin (Sw:TOR, DA: I) and formerly Bioware Montreal (ME: Andromeda).
Though almost all of the veterans have left, so it’s now kinda a Ship of Thesius type situation, Bioware only in name.
- Comment on ‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators? 5 months ago:
Even without machine translation, stuff like that has been the bane of translating software for ages as they are almost always done with absolutely zero context whatsoever, just a list of words and strings.
- Comment on Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld 5 months ago:
For the consumer, obviously.
Patents exist to protect the profit of the inventor, specifically because once you have spent the RnD money to make something, someone else can take your finished idea and create your thing without having to cover those costs. Their entire point is to make sure stuff stays more expensive and exclusive for longer.But the issue isn’t that patents or even software patents exist as a thing, they are important to protect against copying, it’s that seemingly almost anything no matter how simple, vague or universal it is can apply and get patented, and whoever owns those patents then doesn’t have to use or license them, instead they just sit on them waiting to strike with a lawsuit.
Like one of the Nintendo ones which is the genius and detailed idea of “you can can capture animals and ride them using controller input in a vidya gaym!” - a concept entire unique and one that hasn’t been ever used before in a game I bet.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Self hosting isn’t really compatible with viral content, you do something that blows up and either get the hug of death or go bankrupt from the bandwidth costs.
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 6 months ago:
Helped you (and Valve) to save some bandwidth. But yes. If it requires a Steam account to play, you bought a license allowing you to access a game and not an actual game you own.
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 6 months ago:
Which is why you don’t have physical copies of those games - you bought a steam key, exactly like you could have done digitally from humblebundle of greenmangaming or myriad of other stores, this one just had it printed on a piece of paper instead of sending you an email.
- Comment on One of the worst reviewed Tomb Raider games [Angel of Darkness] is getting the remastered treatment, and I am here for it 6 months ago:
The only Tomb Raider I had as a kid. Took me a like decade to finally figure out why anyone would like Tomb Raider.
- Comment on Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you' 6 months ago:
I think you don’t know what that word means.
Heck, even if you want to blatantly ignore every other platform and site you can buy games from, which there are plenty, Valve gives devs a supply of Steam keys they can sell anywhere they want, they don’t even get a cut from those.
- Comment on EU approves steep tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles 6 months ago:
If we assume they actually were that affordable in reality, then the answer would be yes.
The accusation is that the Chinese government is financing and supporting their domestic EV manufacturers in an effort to artificially lower their prices to levels no other manufacturer could ever match in an effort to dominate the market and remove all competition - at which point they could rise their prices drastically and recover the “investment” as there would be no-one else left to compete.If it’s true or not, I can’t say, I haven’t researched the subject enough. Those votes at least showcase that there is no clear consensus about it.
- Comment on Looking for a Tales-like RPG without active combat 7 months ago:
You can play Cold Steel 1&2 as your first if you want a more modern introduction to the world and like the persona style school setting stuff, but CS3 is when the stories of all the previous games start merging together, so it’s very highly recommended to have played Sky, Zero and Azure before that or you will miss a a lot of it.
Also there is a 3D remake of the Sky trilogy coming, starting sometime next year with the first game. Though so far it seems to be Switch exclusive.
- Comment on Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility 7 months ago:
Yup. Helium is such a tiny thing it can diffuse through almost anything, and in MEMS oscillators which are supposed to be at a rock solid 32kHz, causes variance in the frequency eventually just “gumming” it up entirely and causing it to stop working.
If you want to know how and why, Applied Science did a video on it. Five years ago. Because that’s when this leak happened.
- Comment on Now Dell sales staff must be onsite five days per week • The Register 7 months ago:
And the ones most likely to quit are ones that feel they have a good chance of easily getting another job due to performance/experience/education, leaving the company with the people unsure and desperate to keep the job.
This surely improves quality and productivity at the work place, yup yup.
- Comment on PlayStation 6 Priced At $700 Like PS5 Pro? It’s Looking Likely 7 months ago:
So not as cheap as the (inflation adjusted) PS2 ($550) or PS4 ($540), but cheaper than the $780 of the PS3. PS1 was $620.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac 8 months ago:
It’s going back to the roots, just in an extremely twisted way - I’m old enough to remember when Reddit was just a link aggregator. You put your stuff on your own site/blog/forum (remember those?), and linked to that from reddit.
People could then update and comment on it on reddit, but the idea of posting something there directly was a ridiculous idea - how could anything be found later when it would get buried under the new stuff in a few hours, and bumping isn’t a thing at all?Fuck reddit and social media, I want my forums back :(
- Comment on Stable Diffusion 3's Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever 10 months ago:
I’d say we need to at least up to 63 rules.
- Comment on The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple headphones. 11 months ago:
There is a soundcard in the bluetooth headphones and wires are dirt cheap, it’s not about that. Proper lightning headphones require getting your product certified by apple ($$$) and a special apple chip added in ($$$) because iPhones refuse to connect to devices that aren’t.
But they will connect to every bluetooth device. - Comment on Let's discuss: Half-Life 11 months ago:
Xen was really rushed and shorter than originally intended in HL1, and part of the idea with BM was to flesh it out properly. Might have gone a bit too far, but it was also one of the few places in the project where they could truly come up with something new and unique, and not just redo what Valve had made before them.
- Comment on The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff 11 months ago:
NACS is just the standard CCS protocol shoved in the objectively better a Tesla plug, and part of making it a standard is the requirement of opening the design for everyone to use. So while the plug is from Tesla, they actually were the ones that switched to the CCS protocol first and dropped their own proprietary system, which is how they were able to open the Supercharger network to other cars in the first place.
And that’s also why NACS is backwards compatible with all current EV chargers that already exist with a simple adapter - either by the driver, or by swapping the cable.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Mass Effect 1 year ago:
I absolutely loved the Mako. I know I’m in the minority, but I just love how it drives. And stomping on a Colossus with the jump jets is always funny.
- Comment on AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' 1 year ago:
As the passive aggressive outro from SuperfastMatt goes:
“It used to be that you had to impress people to get people to watch your show, now you just have to impress the algorithm. So do me a favour, hit that subscribe button, all hail the algorithm.”
- Comment on Palestinian Relief Bundle - Itch.io 1 year ago:
There is also a TTRPGs for Palestine bundle here, though I have issues reaching the site currently, might be a hug of death.
- Comment on Why are there two different genres both called ARPG? 1 year ago:
I actually didn’t encounter anyone saying Dark Souls and like games being an ARPG. Dark Souls like games are usually called Souls like.
That is because everyone uses the term “Souls-like”. But if that term isn’t used, then they are all labeled as “Action Role-Playing Games”:
A Soulslike (also spelled Souls-like) is a subgenre of action role-playing games known for high levels of difficulty and emphasis on environmental storytelling, typically in a dark fantasy setting. -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulslike
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 1 year ago:
The difference between Valve and almost every other company that suffers from “capitalism” is that Valve is a private company, they don’t have shareholders, investors and an outsider asshole CEO demanding enshittification in the name of exponential growth.
- Comment on Low tech DHCP 1 year ago:
This is basically how radio controlled models using FM TX/RX pairs were coordinated back in the day, there would be a board witch each frequency crystal that you would use for your transmitter, and you’d plop the matching one into your model. Reason being that if someone was already flying something and you turned your radio on to the same frequency, they would immediately crash.
