Midnitte
@Midnitte@beehaw.org
- Comment on Valve’s hero shooter Deadlock leaks with screenshots, gameplay details - Polygon 2 days ago:
I’ve never heard of it, did it serve as inspiration for Natural Selection?
- Comment on Trump, Bashing Migrants, Likens Them to Hannibal Lecter, Movie Cannibal 1 week ago:
I don’t understand how anyone listens to what he says.
Notice I didn’t say like or agree with. Just listen. His word salad is infuriating and uncomprehensible.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox Is Planning More Cuts After Studio Closings 1 week ago:
Agreed, but it certainly seems to be.
- Comment on Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry 1 week ago:
Oh, well that’s interesting.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox Is Planning More Cuts After Studio Closings 1 week ago:
broader cost cutting
They’re just stripping everything down to save money, as every company that ever buys another company does.
This was entirely predictable (plus, they purchase IP, not people).
- Comment on Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry 1 week ago:
…messages that included “I dream of breaking the siege,” “Come together in peace” and the number of Palestinian children killed in Gaza since war between Israel and Hamas broke out in October.
…the administration said the messaging was “threatening, intimidating and antisemitic,” according to an email from Eric Kaler, Case’s president.
Right… tell me again how afraid you are at looking at reality?
- Comment on Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together? 1 week ago:
Probably because the owners want to take all of the profit and employees do not have the capital to make the investment.
It takes a certain benevolent capitalist to convert their business to employee owned (Bobs Red Mill intensifies). Such businesses only represent 12% of the private sector
- Comment on With a Nintendo Switch 2 on the way, I hope Valve make a Steam Deck 2 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t be surprised if they wait till next year to make any announcement - they just recently launched the OLED, and I’m sure they’re happy to wait for new AMD chips.
- Comment on Microsoft closes Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and others 1 week ago:
(Also as a side note, I find it wild how much Microsoft spent on Bethesda just to cut so many of those studios.)
It’s easy to understand when you realize that purchase wasn’t about talent, it was about IP.
Now sure, closing these studios and preventing the development of new exclusives is leading to Sony eating their lunch now, but longer term it leads to them developing exclusives with their IP at a cheaper cost. It’s just all about cost cutting to make pretty line go up.
- Comment on Advice - Getting started with LLMs 1 week ago:
Using LM Studio would be even easier to get started
- Comment on Tesla is already pulling back Supercharger plans after firing team 2 weeks ago:
Ford and GM are probably regretting that switch to NACS…
Why? For one, Ford has scaled back it’s EV transition in favor of hybrids now, and two, there’s now a bunch of engineers looking for a job and charging sites up for grabs
- Comment on Alan Wake II Has yet to Recoup Development and Marketing Expenses; Tencent Raised Stakes in Remedy to 14% 2 weeks ago:
I doubt it will since Epic is the publisher…
- Comment on It’s the End of the Web as We Know It 3 weeks ago:
I guess blind people really aren’t human… (/s)
- Comment on Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers 3 weeks ago:
no idea what the initial commenter is complaining about.
Indeed, and now thanks to the other comment I can reference that they’re just mad that bitch is eating crackers.
- Comment on Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers 3 weeks ago:
Arstechnica has a good article explaining.
Now, for the user above, I’m not entirely sure what they’re talking about since this isn’t a bill that has been passed, but net neutrality is to protect consumers - it’s to ensure large companies cannot stack the deck to make you use their preferred (owned) services.
- Comment on Kennedy Clan to Endorse Biden, in a Show of Force Against R.F.K. Jr. 4 weeks ago:
Kennedy has been criticized for making false medical claims, including that vaccines are linked to autism.
Nobody should vote for this dotard.
- Comment on Hades II - Sign Up for the HADES II Technical Test - Steam News 4 weeks ago:
Nice, hopefully they pick randomly for those of us at work coming home to the news. 😅
- Comment on Fallout Show, so bad that no one will remember it in 3 months 5 weeks ago:
spoiler
…you mean the girl that took on a man post coitus and still was thrown around the room and only survived thanks to the blender?
Seemed pretty realistic, and Fallout to me.
- Comment on The Fallout show's been a pleasant surprise 5 weeks ago:
The way they introduce it is great too, using the flashbacks.
- Comment on The Fallout show's been a pleasant surprise 5 weeks ago:
They also reference it during Cooper’s party and he mentions that they used his actual dog for the “in universe” version of the movie.
- Comment on Slay the Spire 2 - Reveal Trailer 5 weeks ago:
Besides the inkling of mod support, it will be interesting to see what they add/ change. The screenshots don’t seem all that revolutionary?
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 5 weeks ago:
More yellow more common, more blue less common
- Comment on Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF for posting the blogger's story 5 weeks ago:
Which is funny because Meta has wanted to avoid the “information arbiter” label to avoid the regulations it would inevitably impose.
But I guess no company can resist eating the cake once they have it.
- Comment on Gearbox Publishing Rebrands as Arc Games After Embracer's Deal With Take-Two 5 weeks ago:
Yep yep.
Interestingly, despite founding the publishing arm in 2015, it’s also apparently never published a Borderlands game…
- Comment on Gearbox Publishing Rebrands as Arc Games After Embracer's Deal With Take-Two 1 month ago:
Gearbox Publishing ≠ Gearbox Software
With them now separating, legally I don’t think they would want to advertise a game they no longer publish.
- Comment on Magnets are switching up the keyboard game with an additional keystroke setting 1 month ago:
QMK etc do something similar, where holding the key doesn’t keep spamming it, it does a different keystroke, Miryoku is a pretty extreme example.
- Comment on M 4.7 Earthquake 7 km N of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey – USGS 1 month ago:
Certainly wasn’t expecting that during my morning break.
- Comment on But Claude said tumor! 1 month ago:
I feel like the book I, Robot provides some fascinating insight into this… specifically Liar
- Comment on Biodiversity 1 month ago:
More look bootiversity
- Comment on Fewer people are using Elon Musk’s X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts 1 month ago:
Really wish I could convince local government entities to switch to Mastodon - my local police said it was “subject to O.P.R.A.” and needed to meet retention rules (if you rolled your own…), and the state wildfire commission said they were looking at Threads :/
So instead, both are still stuck on the platform that requires a login to see posts and filled with nazis.