Midnitte
@Midnitte@beehaw.org
- Comment on Switch 2 continues to break US launch sales records, selling more in its first three months than PS4 | VGC 4 hours ago:
Glad people are apparently happy with it, but I’ll never understand it.
It feels like there’s only two new games (Mario Kart and Donkey Kong) compared to all re-releases…
I’ve been super happy with having a Steam Deck, so maybe that’s just pushed me away from that camp entirely
- Comment on Taylor Swift, Defender of Artist Ownership, Allegedly Uses AI in Videos 2 days ago:
You either die poor, or become rich enough to become a baronrobber.
- Comment on cox-zucker 4 days ago:
I love that this originated from Rutgers.
This was a deliberate choice by Cox and Zucker, who, as first-year graduate students at Princeton University in 1970, conceived of the idea of coauthoring a paper for the express purpose of enabling this joke. They followed through on it five years later, as members of the faculty at Rutgers University
- Comment on Why Conservatives Are Attacking ‘Wokepedia’ 5 days ago:
He suggested that Musk create what he called “Grokipedia.”
Would be a damn shame for people to make troll edits if he were to do so…
- Comment on Vampire Survivors-like Megabonk makes megabucks, selling a million copies in 2 weeks, and currently has more daily players than Borderlands 4 on Steam 5 days ago:
Get embarrassed, Randy Pitchfork.
- Comment on THEY'RE EVOLVING 1 week ago:
- Comment on Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It 1 week ago:
Wonder how he feels about the fediverse.
I still argue the fediverse is Web 3.0
- Comment on In this essay... 1 week ago:
Pffh, Terrence Howard will disprove it in only 4 pages!
/s
- Comment on Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine 1 week ago:
Wonder if it’ll start heavily promoting the new EA game, Battlewoke.
- Comment on It’s official: EA is selling to private equity in $55 billion deal 1 week ago:
They’re taking on debt to buy this deal, which they will put on the company.
That right there, that’s how they ruin companies. Anyone remember Toys R Us?
There’s an entire list of companies that private equity have ruined
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- Comment on Reports: EA set to be sold to private investors for up to $50 billion - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I’d say good riddance, but with Jared Kushner involved, I can’t imagine any good will become of it.
With Trump suggesting he’ll be able to control TikTok’s algorithm, crackdown on political opponents (starting with Comey and Willis), along with getting television networks to bend the knee about what gets aired… this could be just another avenue of controlling the media
- Comment on Amazon to pay $2.5 billion to settle FTC allegations it duped customers into enrolling in Prime 1 week ago:
Fines are just the price of doing business.
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 2 weeks ago:
Seems like he’s trying to make regulations for AI not happen so Palantir can be a creepier orb of intelligence.
- Comment on Who the fuck needs an x axis anyway 2 weeks ago:
r/DataIsBlursed
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 2 weeks ago:
Feel like a lot of the “myths” are also just because you’re not going to teach a 16-year-old about quantum mechanics to explain why table salt exists
- Comment on QUACK QUACK QUACK 2 weeks ago:
Just waiting for him to start pushing Forsynthia as the cure to measles.
- Comment on Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch 2 weeks ago:
Yes, actually
In an email to Permadeath, Valve said that Planet Centauri’s 1.0 launch suffered from “a bug that impacted a very small number of game releases (less than 100 since 2015) where wishlist email notifications for the launch of a game were not sent.”
- Comment on US will complete TikTok deal ‘in coming days’ and control its algorithm, White House says 2 weeks ago:
The United States will have control over TikTok’s algorithm in the acquisition of the social media platform’s US operations, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Saturday.
And exactly which branch of the government will get to make decisions about that?
- Comment on Or the common cold! 2 weeks ago:
I mean… I wish I could blame the guy for not going to the doctor (Americans will do anything but try going to the doctor), but we’d also rather put people on the moon than give free at the point of care Healthcare to people…
- Comment on Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch 2 weeks ago:
Valve admitted it was their mistake.
Valve contacted the French duo behind the space exploration game this month to tell them that the platform failed to notify the users who had saved Planet Centauri on their wishlists.
- Comment on Remember episodic gaming? Former Telltale devs are bringing it back for the release of Dispatch, and there's a chance it might work this time | Eurogamer 3 weeks ago:
It is sort of funny to think that a developer that was resurrected from the dead, might somehow, successfully pull off episodic gaming now when they couldn’t before they died.
If Valve couldn’t do it, I sort of doubt anyone can really do it. Video games are soul-crushing to develop.
- Comment on I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game 3 weeks ago:
Its initial launch on Epic was a mess for multiplayer, and there was plenty of documented issues for P .
The story was probably also a sign to come for the movie that would release after…
- Comment on I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game 3 weeks ago:
BL3 was just as much (if not more) of a mess - people shouldn’t be surprised, especially with Randy telling people they should be selling their souls to have the privilege of playing this game.
- Comment on Electric vehicle sales grew 25% worldwide but just 6% in North America 3 weeks ago:
…said on a device with a battery…
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps not the most related, but it is sort of funny for The Intercept to cover this when they led to Reality Winner going to jail because they didn’t follow basic journalistic protection of sources.
That’s not what happened. Instead, in the process of fact-checking the document, the reporters assigned to the story sent the document to the FBI, which sent it to the NSA. The security agency easily identified Winner, a crypto linguist, as the source of the leak.
Not a great look for Proton though, this is entirely the antithesis of their entire identity and branding.
- Comment on Awooga 4 weeks ago:
This year’s vaccine sounds like it will do a great job at protection.
Sorry if you live in an area you cant just walk into a CVS…
- Comment on have some standards 4 weeks ago:
We did this for a while, but now it’s hard to find the time and harder to justify the price.
Instead, we find coop games to play on the couch with Steam Decks (unless she’s busy playing Silksong).
Nice to be able to play a few rounds of Unrailed before bed
- Comment on The Job Market Is Hell: Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 4 weeks ago:
Already sort of ruined that
- Comment on Google AI Mode To Become Default For Google Search Soon 4 weeks ago:
Just insert the ad into the middle of the AI slope paragraph. People won’t even notice when that pizza receipt using soap contains an ad for Dove.
