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- Comment on YouTube Blocks Access to Protest Anthem in Hong Kong 1 day ago:
This would probably make the entire world talk about it and it would be worse in China, because this would only anger people and fighting against the country. We won’t see that, because Google wouldn’t dare. The money is more precious than any Human Right, regardless of law.
- Comment on YouTube Blocks Access to Protest Anthem in Hong Kong 1 day ago:
It is literally either follow this law or cease operations here. Both would end in the song being blocked anyway.
Which does not change the fact that Google does it. So the reason why Google supports China and their anti Human Rights laws is, because of money. That’s what we criticize.
- Comment on YouTube Blocks Access to Protest Anthem in Hong Kong 1 day ago:
Human Rights are higher than any law. Just because its law in China, does not mean it is correct to follow the law. It is not we decide which laws to follow, but it is universally in entire world the right thing to support Human Rights, regardless of any law.
- Comment on The History of Tetris World Records [by Summoning Salt] ~ a 1 hour documentary 2 days ago:
You can watch them piece by piece (meaning if its broken up by chapters like this), if its too long. I personally don’t do that, but can absolutely understand it. Nowadays I also watch most videos at higher speed. Some talk really slow, I mean slow that I watch it at x1.4 speed and it sounds like someone else is talking at x1.0 speed. But this video, I didn’t have a problem with the narration itself.
BTW I recommend Looking for an addon or like that if you watch on a browser. I have a more fine control over the speed values, as x1.25 sometimes is too fast. In example I often watch at x1.1 by default or sometimes at x1.2… and in really bad cases even faster.
- Submitted 2 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 5 comments
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 2 weeks ago:
a bad uncanny-valley 75% accurate version of one
Actually a perfect description of what a deepfake is.
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 2 weeks ago:
Trained on YouTube clips
It could have been worse. Imagine trained by Tik Tok clips.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
TikTok is literally a separate entity from ByteDance. They are owned by ByteDance, but they are not the same company and operate separately. Again, you are conflating the two
www.bytedance.com/en/products : Our Products > TikTok
So they have access to the user data from TikTok. Why wouldn’t they are products from that company? Companies split up and organize together to overcome limitations of the system. This is not fan fiction, it is reality how many companies operate.
I am not the one claiming the data is sent to China, you are.
No, the US goverment claims that. You mistaken this with my opinion. I am just telling the goverment is blocking Tik Tok because they think China is doing this.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
Where do you get the information you are spreading? I would like to learn more if you know good sources.
Except the operational headquarters is not in China.
- craft.co/bytedance/locations: “ByteDance is headquartered in Beijing, 43 N 3rd Ring W Rd, China, and has 7 office locations.”
- bj.linkedin.com/company/bytedance: “China, China 1,041,094 followers”
instead of spreading incorrect info.
How can you judge and say it is incorrect, if you don’t actually know all details? Your opinion is not much more correct. What you probably mean is, I should not spread info that is not proven to be correct.
They are not sending data to China, they are sending it to Singapore.
but nothing has been proven (not saying it won’t be, but we can’t operate on speculation)
If it’s not proven, then you are speculating that China does not get the data as well. If that was correct what you are saying, then the US government would not ban Tik Tok. Especially you follow up with a statement
China can get “all the data from US citizens” outside of TikTok.
which is probably harder and more complicated than just getting it from Tik Tok. ByteDance is a company for collecting information, so its right in the hands of China.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
We need privacy protection laws, not arbitrary bans of apps that do the same thing as US social media apps
The ban of the application is not to protect our privacy, otherwise they would ban US social media apps too.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
None of this changes the fact that the operational headquarter of the company is in China and that they collect data that is send to China. Therefore China gets all the data from US citizen, regardless of who the investor is.
- Comment on Steam Deck is the ❝Biggest Threat❞ to Xbox [Fan The Deck] 3 weeks ago:
I like when he talks about the Steam Deck, but he talked too much about other handhelds and accessories. Plus most of his talks are about (software) modding the Deck, which I am not doing much. That’s why I unsubscribed, but not because it is bad, I’m just not the target. Seems like he stopped posting because I unsubscribed… :D But I recommend anyone reading these replies to look at his YouTube channel and watch some older videos. They are quite interesting and go in depth in some of them:
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t suggest to sale the Chinese company. I suggest to create a new one in the US from the same organization in China. This is a normal practice that is being done for many years by many companies to overcome limitations from those countries.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
Tik Tok is owned by a Chinese company from China: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ByteDance Data is collected in China. Not sure what you mean. Why do you think US tries to block Tik Tok?
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
Because China is collecting information from millions of US citizens. Plus they control what the US citizens can see and interact with. US has no control over Tik Tok and that scares them. Why are Facebook and X not banned? Because Facebook and X are US based have to comply with the US regulators and share every collected information with the government.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 3 weeks ago:
It’s likely that they will form a new organization in the US, so they can operate in that country and still have Tik Tok alive. My expectation is that the US based Tik Tok would still interact with the world, but block China.
- Comment on Steam Deck is the ❝Biggest Threat❞ to Xbox [Fan The Deck] 3 weeks ago:
Always good to have good recommendations. I subscribed to her channel and will watch a few videos before coming to any conclusion.
- Comment on Steam Deck is the ❝Biggest Threat❞ to Xbox [Fan The Deck] 3 weeks ago:
The video content isn’t talking about the current market or the past, but how Steam Deck is the biggest threat to Xbox in the future. Xbox has a lot of potential. The leadership changed (which is addressed in this video too). When Microsoft was at its worse, Steve Ballmer was the boss of Microsoft and Don Mattrick was ruining Xbox in the ground with XBox One. Now we have Satya Nadella and have Spencer, who did bring back the Xbox brand and seem to understand their stuff better.
- Comment on Steam Deck is the ❝Biggest Threat❞ to Xbox [Fan The Deck] 3 weeks ago:
I don’t agree that Fan the Deck became too much clickbait. I know Deck Ready too and its incredibly bad with his clickbait. Stopped watching Deck Ready. But regardless of the title in this video from Fan the Deck, I had same expectations as you, if you watch the content then the title makes sense and is not clickbait. I agree on every point and the recap he did in the beginning too.
Regardless what you think, if I am paid to write this or not, I mean it when I say this video title is not misleading clickbait.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 23 comments
- Comment on Why are there two different genres both called ARPG? 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. Nowadays almost any game becomes and RPG. The terms are fluid. BTW I wouldn’t myself call Dark Souls anything like a Metroidvania, because my personal understanding is that the focus of Dark Souls is not quite on the backtracking and learning new abilities. I mean our discussion here shows again why game genres aren’t useful anymore.
We nowadays use the tagging system, which allows us to give any number of “genres” and combine them individually for each game. Even though we don’t agree on all terms, it’s still better having a single genre like ARPG associated with a game.
- Comment on Why are there two different genres both called ARPG? 3 weeks 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. The problem is, that the term RPG and Action are not a distinct genres. This is a long standing issue in gaming, long before 2000s even. When I was a teenager, some people called Zelda an RPG, others said Action RPG, some people (me included) said its an Action Adventure. Genres and terms that are vague and broad will always clash with others. Don’t let me begin what Secret of Mana (SNES) actually is.
Look at Racing games. There are Mario Kart and Gran Turismo, two very different kind of racing games and both still are. What about motorcycle racing or classic racing games like Rock’n Roll Racing (someone remember? this is what Blizzard did before they became Blizzard!).
OK, so you see it’s a mess of terms. Diablo isn’t a new game, it evolved from previous games that were similar and mixed in from other genres. How do you classify such a game in an already existing set of genre terms? It’s kind of an Action RPG that existed before, so its natural to put it into such a category. Look at all those RPG games, they are all RPG but still vastly different. BTW I never heard of bullet heaven, but that sounds really funny. It sounds like an anti name for jokes. And being the one with the bullets might even fit into the category funny and fitting name.
If have a new name for Diable like games, it will clash with other genres again. You put generic terms like Loot or Build into it and so on. What if a Diablo like game isn’t that grindy? Or does not focus much on Loot. We have been through this with various other genres. Therefore I would not even try to invent something and not take genres too seriously. It’s a mess. You can’t getting it right by adding more mess to it.
- Comment on Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads and Signal from app store in China 3 weeks ago:
Sideload apps only work in the EU. Or does it work in China too?
- Comment on Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads and Signal from app store in China 3 weeks ago:
A more correct headline could also be read as: “China pulls WhatsApp, Threads and Signal from app store from Apple.” I know technically Apple pulled them away, but logically it was China. Apple had no other choice. If Apple didn’t do it, then their devices would be kicked out of China entirely. And that’s something China could do, especially because its a closed garden American company and tech, where they cannot break into.
- Comment on Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract 3 weeks ago:
That reads like something out of South Park. :D
- Comment on Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t it illegal to fire protesting workers? At least here in Germany its illegal as far as I know. But it must be a protest event (which it seems to be).
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 4 weeks ago:
There is this Matrix-Discord bridge, but I don’t exactly understand the details and if its one way only. matrix.org/ecosystem/bridges/discord/
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s like Windows and Reddit. People don’t use it because they like or love it, but because most are there. Sometimes the only way to interact with the developers or find new people in an active community.
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 4 weeks ago:
That happens if a single company controls the community (Reddit, Discord) and its closed source on top of it…
- Comment on DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers 5 weeks ago:
The Overwatchers.