HumbleFlamingo
@HumbleFlamingo@beehaw.org
- Comment on YSK there is a software that blocks remote connection tools used by scammers! 4 weeks ago:
Assign a guardian and get notified in real time with an email and text message when a loved one is at risk.
That actually sounds useful… the associated image kinda made me giggle at how fake it looks but the idea is really good.
- Comment on "My maternity leave was supposed to start next Monday and I got laid off today," former Bungie employee says 2 months ago:
Only illegal if the maternity leave was the reason, and it can be shown to be the reason. Over 200 people were also laid off at the same time. I have no doubt bungie added them because of the maternity leave, but it’s gonna be really hard to show in a court of law.
- Comment on "My maternity leave was supposed to start next Monday and I got laid off today," former Bungie employee says 2 months ago:
Bungie’s layoffs have been devastating. 220 jobs were eliminated yesterday, while other jobs had been shifted over to PlayStation Studios.
Sadly it’s all but impossible to show their layoff was because of maternity leave and not just because they were ‘part of the layoff’…
Hope there’s a paper trail adding them to the list of layoffs because of the maternity leave, but I doubt they’d be stupid enough to put it down on paper.
- Comment on 7 Days to Die is finally leaving early access, but console players will have to buy the 1.0 version again 6 months ago:
What a shit article. There’s a massive amount of context missing.
7DTD is a game created by The Fun Pimps. Telltale Games bought the rights to produce a console port of the game from TFP. Telltale Games then contracted with Iron Galaxy to produce the port. Telltale Games went bankrupt and it’s assets were liquidated, one of those assets was the rights to produce the console port. TFP managed to buy back the rights to the console port, but were unable to get any of the source code for the console port. It took years to get the rights sorted out, and it wasn’t cheap.
It’s a messed up situation, but console players bought a Playstation 4/XBox One game from Telltale Games, a company that went bankrupt and is defunct, and that sucks. TFP is now starting from scratch to produce a console port for the current generation of consoles and that costs money.
- Comment on Popular AI Chatbots Found to Give Error-Ridden Legal Answers 8 months ago:
Maybe giving equal training weight to r/sovereigncitizen and r/asklegal wasn’t the best idea.
- Comment on 5+ man group games 9 months ago:
The issue with Valheim is it’s not really a dedicated server. It’s more of a shared saved game repository.
Whoever gets to a region first is the host, and everyone nearby connects to them. If that person has a slow machine, or high latency to the other players it can be really painful. When I was playing with friends, we banned one person from entering dungeons first because they had the worst computer in the group and it was really bad for the rest of us. Same thing with our main base, if they wound up the host, they’d disconnect and log back in so someone else would become host.
- Comment on 5+ man group games 9 months ago:
If you like survival games… Ark, 7 days to die, Conan Exiles, Valheim*… You can self-host all of them so you don’t need to deal with griefers.
Valheim’s doesn’t work so well if you don’t all play together. Resources from exploration are finite and it really sucks if all the places you go, your buddies went to and looted already. Works best if most people play together and everyone plays around the same amount of time.