Kissaki
@Kissaki@beehaw.org
- Comment on GTA 6's $1 million billboard goes up despite protests from local police as Rockstar's real-life Miami takeover gets underway 6 days ago:
Referencing current times in this way is crazy. Ignorant of ICE, surveillance, violence, and prejudice criticisms.
Billboards are not the only thing projecting an image.
- Comment on Marvel's Wolverine motorcycle section and quicktime events are getting the wrong kind of attention because "the game plays itself" and "you don't have to press anything" 1 week ago:
I have been playing assassin’s creed Valhalla, which I won. It’s 80% cutscenes, transitions, and traversal. I find it incredibly irritating, disconnected, and boring.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Sorry you had to go through that.
A single company doesn’t make the norm, though. Did you get insight into other companies too?
Just recently I watched a Japanese citizen saying its a common misconception, a prejudice. That just like there’s bad companies in other countries there are these in Japan. They just use a term, a label for them.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 2 comments
- Comment on Valve Adds "Big Art Mode" to Steam, Following Its Popularity in Third-Party Decky Loader Utility 2 weeks ago:
haha, that’ll be a long linear list with a big library
- Comment on SAGExpo 2026 Showcase 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Gamer complained that he turned on his old PS3 for MGS 4 and found out that Sony had disabled his account - he lost his games due to prolonged inactivity 4 weeks ago:
There’s security and possible support implications, and a general concept of reducing data use and storage, but I don’t see why they should take precedence for something like this.
Overall, yes, it can’t be significantly more than a few database records sitting around. The avatar image is probably more data than the rest of the account metadata.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look 4 weeks ago:
I checked for price now. Not even PC yet. It costs 80 € or 100 €.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look 4 weeks ago:
Great cgi movie :p
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 8 comments
- Comment on U.S. Citizen Who Deleted Phone’s Data Says His Prosecution Puts Privacy at Risk 4 weeks ago:
it seems to me that he is almost admitting that he wiped the phone intentionally,
Seems like he’s trying to change the system, to do a public good, rather than only escape his conviction.
- Comment on US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate 5 weeks ago:
You call them anti imperialist while cheering for imperialist states.
- Comment on US says Chinese hackers broke into Justice Department, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate 5 weeks ago:
What do you think is bullshit? It’s an investigation since 2010. The court document is quite extensive in their documentation.
What I didn’t like is the article title focusing on scan targets rather than successful targets. Which doesn’t seem related to govt influence.
- Comment on Microsoft's latest move to pay people to use Edge looks desperate — and an odd new Bing app is worrying too 5 weeks ago:
Recent email: “get a 4k € reward”; reading beyond the teaser/bait, it’s a raffle you buy into with points, which I interpreted as you won’t win anyway, so it’s just throwing the points away.
- Comment on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives 5 weeks ago:
21.3 percent disable automatic emergency braking outright
For HGVs and buses, the law changed to prevent drivers from deactivating them so they can driver closer to the vehicle in front.
Those changes were raised after crash inquiries which found some lorry drivers regularly switch off their AEB systems to drive closer to the vehicle in front. The regulation change will limit system deactivation to 15 minutes with automatic re-engagement after 15 minutes. - Wikipedia
I don’t know about their quality and false-positive rate in cars, and maybe car usage is simply different, but I’m sure automatic emergency braking prevents many accidents.
- Comment on U.S. warns Siemens devices can be hacked amid fears Iran is breaching water plants 5 weeks ago:
A security advisor at work recommends migrating to SaaS so we don’t have to manage any of the infrastructure. This makes me wonder.
These topics often get “why is it even connected to the internet” comments. This makes me wonder if they’re buying a “complete system solution” where it’s not an operator decision but a manufacturer decision, and maybe even reasonable in regards to generally being accessible and manageable, with critical systems separated within the whole-bundle system. But often, the necessary safeguards and system separation are not in place anyway. Offloading responsibility doesn’t mean it gets done well, unfortunately.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I’ve played a diverse set of incremental games. I can certainly see where you’re coming from. Many follow the same or similar formula and don’t add enough interesting story or other elements. Eventually, or sometimes very quickly, become boring.
There are some good ones out there too, though. That add a story and continuous progression, or a spin on or focus on gameplay over the incremental progression system.
I recently played The Last Cat in the Universe, which is only two hours long. So “for an hour or two” can end while it’s still good. :)
- Comment on Is Vine back? Short-form video-sharing app Divine opens to public 5 weeks ago:
FAQ says
Jack Dorsey doesn’t own Divine, although he has provided funding through a grant from And Other Stuff (AOS). He holds no equity and has no ownership. He supports projects like Divine to advance open protocols without VC-led, extractive business models.
(just quoting for context; I can’t say anything about the claim)
- Comment on Is Vine back? Short-form video-sharing app Divine opens to public 5 weeks ago:
When Twitter shut down Vine in 2017, volunteer archivists from ArchiveTeam and the Internet Archive preserved a large collection of public videos before deletion.
Divine (which is unaffiliated with Vine or Twitter/X) has imported some of these archived videos and is giving them a permanent home on decentralized media servers. Archived videos are marked with a special badge.
Interesting. Certainly a good way to prefill the platform with some content. I guess it’s kinda questionable if you think about ownership, copyright, and the original authors. Depending on how you see it.
- Comment on Mozilla’s CTO thinks AI should be built like the internet 1 month ago:
That’s a very dark take, but not wrong, unfortunately.
- Comment on Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games' 1 month ago:
Even if it’s not their core business focus, I feel like having such a significant presence in a market has a lot of value for them. I don’t think a sell off would be a good business move. Part of large it strategy is wide prevalence so you can’t get around it. Onboard and catch into the ecosystem.
I don’t know how they see it, though. Your view/arguments also make sense
- Comment on Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games' 1 month ago:
We need more technical devs and artists in leading roles. Even then, the time change can lead to behavior and view changes. But they remain much more founded and knowledgeable after having practiced and worked the art than any business, law, or management person could ever be.
- Comment on Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook 1 month ago:
The statement alone is already very problematic, but even worse when you put it next to their own written policies.
These pages and individual creators posted content that appeared to be in clear violation of Facebook’s own hate speech policies.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’m aware of extrinsic motivation vs intrinsic motivation, about the potential upsides and downsides, the potentially positive or detrimental effects of achievements.
I often do chase or consider achievements, but also explore games and their limits or what they cover anyway. I do like completing, especially if 100% is feasible. Other times I ignore them and focus on the game. If the game is not very captivating or interesting, I often don’t care much about achievements.
I did find incremental progression games interesting in how they make the extrinsic motivation, the numbers-go-up system, the core game mechanic. It’s interesting to explore and be mindful of how that can be fun, but in a different way than creative, exploratory, or story games. Of course, some mix both systems.
- Comment on At colleges, the AI boom means everyone wants to dabble in computer science 1 month ago:
Out of tokens; I’ll come back with a response next month.
- Comment on Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font 1 month ago:
Ultimately, things like this may well change human behavior through changed LLM behavior.
Human language evolves through use and social context. People use LLMs.
Much like youth speak becoming mainstream, people may eventually use words or formulations inspired by LLM use.
- Comment on AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books 2 months ago:
If they can publish a dataset of all of GitHub* then they can publish a dataset of all books.
* main branch head state, + some filtering and manual opt-out-apply logic
- Comment on A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months 2 months ago:
I guess my software development practices are more thorough than the police and prosecution here. Rechecking and reaffirming the chain of evidence at least once seems like a minimal baseline and due diligence. Especially when your actions have such a high impact on other people.
- Comment on Has there ever been a game whose name was intentionally suffixed with "2" despite no original game? lol 2 months ago:
I sought out the product pages on itch.io and Steam:
- AVIÃOZINHO DO TRÁFICO 1 DESPACITO 5 QUEM LER É ARROMBADO 2
- Firefox translation: TRAFFICKING LITTLE PLANE 1 DISPATCH 5 WHO READ IS BROKEN 2
- AVIÃOZINHO DO TRÁFICO 2 : 3D RESENHA DE PASTA BASE DE COCAÍNA COM SORRIZO RONALDO
- Firefox translation: TRAFFICKING PLANE 2 : 3D COCAINE BASE PASTE REVIEW WITH RONALDO SMILE
- AVIÃOZINHO DO TRÁFICO 3:ABRI UM PORTAL PRO INFERNO NA FAVELA TENTANDO REVIVER MIT AIA E PRECISO FECHAR, $3
- Firefox translation: TRAFFICKING LITTLE PLANE 3: I OPENED A PORTAL FOR HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA AND I NEED TO CLOSE
- BRAZILIAN DRUG DEALER 3: I OPENED A PORTAL TO HELL IN THE FAVELA TRYING TO REVIVE MIT AIA I NEED TO CLOSE IT, 4€
- AVIÃOZINHO DO TRÁFICO 1 DESPACITO 5 QUEM LER É ARROMBADO 2
- Comment on AI crash coming closer? South Korea’s Kospi plunges 10%, triggers trading halt 2 months ago:
It’s kinda crazy that (supposedly) the entire market is waiting for one company’s earnings data. Earnings that materialized over time, yet we’re waiting for a single publication at one point in time.