Aphelion
@Aphelion@lemm.ee
- Comment on Can Trump pardon himself even though he did criminal stuff outside of office? 1 week ago:
Not state level offenses, only federal crimes, at least as the law stands now.
- Comment on Steam Now Warns Consumers That They're Buying a License, Not a Game During a Purchase 5 weeks ago:
Soon, GOG and all other storefronts will state that you’re purchasing a temporary digital license for any game who’s publisher uses an EULA that states you don’t own the game. This is due to the recently signed California law that forces storefronts to be transparent about the publishers EULA.
- Comment on What happened with active users on Lemmy? 2 months ago:
Lemmy.world becoming the default Lemmy instance, and it growing to outsize all other instances is a danger: it makes the Fediverse centralized, easy to take down and easy to take over.
- Comment on Is Elder Scrolls 6 doomed to fail? I can't see how it will work 2 months ago:
I think the long-term sales of the games you just cited is at odds with your opinions. Bethesda has made a name for themselves at this point with janky, bug-riddled games that excel at giving the players a feeling agency. At this point that is Bethesda’s brand image and they seem to be just going with it. Like why would they bother spending more money to fix bugs and exploits that have become a signature to a lot of people? Also it’s costs them less to leave their titles unpolished and let the modders fix it.
- Comment on Maybe this is better for everyone 2 months ago:
Right, we get it, but if you tried attracting people to veganism with amazing recipes, and annecdotes of how much healthier you feel, people might come have a conversation and try making some vegan food. Instead these communities drive anyone non-vegan right out the door.
What’s the expression? Honey will catch more flies?
- Comment on Elden Ring Player to Sue FromSoftware Over High Game Difficulty 3 months ago:
I haven’t bought Elden Ring for this exact reason, but I love watching other people struggle and then succeed at it.
I have one friend who uninstalled Elden Ring completely after they reduced the difficulty of the new expansion DLC because he felt like they watered down his achievement of beating it.
Ultimately games are a form of art and their designers and developers have the ultimate say in how accessable (or not) they want to make the experience. I have also seen games with way too much ease of play features that completely destroy any challenge to the point of making it unplayable (looks a Ubisoft).
Researching games before you buy has become a critical skill to avoid feeling burned, because social media does an amazing job of selling you games through FOMO.
- Comment on I Worked For MrBeast, He's A Fraud 3 months ago:
The TL:DW is Mr. Beast is a master of using gambling psychology to capture kids’ attention, to then sell them horribly unhealthy foods. His contests and giveaways are largely fake and/or are rigged to favor other creators, friends and family. He constantly fails to deliver promised prizes, and he runs live streams that are essentially child gambling masquerading as sweepstakes. He violates sweepstakes laws all the time but seems to get away with it by taking down old streams, and DMCAs any clips that get uploaded by others. He has also promoted a scheme to get his fans to act as child labor and stock/organize his products at Walmart.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
PFAS will render us unable to reproduce, while at the same time the ecosystem will collapse to the point we can’t feed ourselves. It’s already begun.
- Comment on Q: Do I need Geforce Experience to make use of "Game Ready Drivers" (Nvidia)? 4 months ago:
The new Nvidia App beta is available and it’s much better than Nvidia Experience, including that it doesn’t require sign in to an account. That said you don’t “need” it, but it does have a much better settings control panel that the normal Nvidia settings.
- Comment on Arrowhead initially planned to make Helldivers 2 in 3 years—instead it took 7 years, 11 months, and 26 days 5 months ago:
Star Citizen has entered chat
- Comment on Helldivers 2 players rally around an unlikely hero who just wanted to make friends 5 months ago:
It’s in the base game warbond so everyone can easily get it. 🙂
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 6 months ago:
This isn’t about Sony “relenting”, Arrowhead needs Sony’s PSN support network to dea with support tickets: it’s the whole reason Arrowhead signed up with a publisher instead of self publishing and developing an international workforce of support agents. I hate Sony as much as the next person but let’s be honest, Arrowhead needs Sony and PSN, and it makes sense given they want to spend their time making games rather than getting into being a publisher and help desk.
Ultimately, Arrowhead should have made it a day one requirement and delisted the game on Steam for every country that lacks PSN support. Instead Arrowhead and Sony decided to let it ride and enjoy the sales and accompanying popularity.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I think you’re forgetting that we can just block you and never see any of your posts again.
- Comment on How Stability AI’s Founder Tanked His Billion-Dollar Startup 7 months ago:
Emad has a history of lying his ass off and grifting. I wouldn’t trust a word out of his mouth. He basically stole the StabilityAI company from the original creator by convincing him it had little value, meanwhile he was courting investors to buy StabilityAI by exaggerating the capabilities that didn’t exist.
He also used company funds to pay for his luxury apartment in London, and then tried to claim it was a accident and he would pay it back after he was caught.
He directed StabilityAI employees to take over control of the Stable Diffusion sub reddit and kicked the creator of main mod, who was a Dutch teenager.
There are too many alleged and confirmed incidents of his dishonest behavior to list them all here, but the most telling for me was when SD1.5 way released without StabilityAI’s knowledge by RunwayML, who actually developed Stable Diffusion and thought they were working in an open partnership with Stability.
There’s so much more drama surrounding Emad than what’s in this Wikipedia article, but it hits some of the major issues. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emad_Mostaque
(Source: the Stable Diffusion discord server from August 2021 to now, most of which has since been scrubbed)
- Comment on Stable Diffusion maker leaves Stability AI 7 months ago:
This dude is a complete grifter and liar. Stability.AI has to eventually ditch him for its own survival.
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- Comment on A handy reference 7 months ago:
As a native speaker who has to write grammatically correct, professional communications all day, it drives me crazy other native speakers can’t be bothered.
- Comment on I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" 8 months ago:
Helldivers 2 wins. You get to drop orbital strikes, launch ICBM nukes, call in cluster munitions, etc.