daniskarma
@daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Most games do not need expensive hardware.
Last month I bought a retro handheld for 30 bucks. It can play all the existing catalogue of consoles up to PS1, and also pico8, tic-80, and small pc games via portainer.
- Comment on I'm going to change the world 5 days ago:
O2 was poisonous for that algae.
- Comment on PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC 1 week ago:
I’m just starting to play Subnautica. That’s how bad my backlog is. I think I will be fine.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
I think it is mostly because people feel more free to express those thoughts because the president of the US share those thoughts.
But they thought like that to begin with, that’s why they voted for him.
I think it’s an uncomfortable truth, but people genuinely think like that not because they have been brainwashed or because propaganda. The same our political thoughts are based their political thoughts are based too.
I think it’s important not underestimate the opponent, because then we won’t really understand why it rose to power. I think it’s a mistake thinking that baning hate speech will prevent something like Trump getting elected. I live in Europe where hate speech is mostly banned. Still the turn to the far right is growing even faster and more right than the US. People don’t say nasty things in public, political representatives don’t say those things in public. Because there’s laws against that. But people think nasty things and say them in private all the time. Because they have developed a political thinking around that. And it’s not that simple as “they became radical because a political representative said a bad thing on twitter” they developed those political thoughts the same we all developed our political thoughts.
- Comment on Should hate speech be protected under freedom of speech laws? 2 weeks ago:
I think it should. People should me able to say what they want. Even the most stupid or hateful things. They are thinking them anyway, it’s not like hat it’s going to disappear with a ban on hat speech. Hate speech is the expression of the hateful thinking but not the root.
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t update my last pc in 15 years. And I just bought a new rig in 2025.
So I’m good until 2040 when, idk, the cryptospider inteligence will drive sound card prizes to the roof or whatever.
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 3 weeks ago:
It doesn’t work like that. There are virus highly contagious with also high mortality.
It’s a relationship between how quickly it kills you and how quickly it spread.
For instance VIH had almost 100% death rate but it’s pandemic because it takes years to kill you.
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 3 weeks ago:
I have read a lot about it because I have stressed a lot about it, I’m also naturally very skeptical so I dig down a lot.
This particular variant is the Andes strain of the virus which have been show to transmit human.
It’s a virus that had existed for long time. And has already caused local epidemics. The most famous the Chilean Argentinian epidemic of 2019 where something like a dozen people died out of thirty infected.
Mortality is high (around 30% of infected, once you develop lung symptoms around 50%) but R0 number is low. Usually the studied R0 number has been below 1. This mean that each person rarely spread it to more than one other person. For comparison covid R0 was something between 2 and 4. This is the main reason to think it won’t spread a lot.
This virus has been around a lot, but it’s true that it has maybe never been in a situation like now with worries about quick international spread via airlines.
Currently most worries are about how easy is to actually spread human to human. There was a case of a flight attendant who was tested after a short contact with an infected but apparently has tested negative. So for now we must watch out if the people who were in flights with some of the infected have also been infected. If there are none or very few infected of those airplane passengers we could, most likely, breath safe, as the danger would be low. If we start to see infections after short contact then we should worry. As of this morning I start to believe that we are on the former scenario, as there has currently not been any positive test after a short contact.
- Comment on How worried should we be about hantavirus right now? 3 weeks ago:
This particular strain apparently is the Andes variant which is know to be able to spread among humans. But the R0 number studied on previous epidemics of that strain is indeed low.
- Comment on How is Alexander the Great so great he gets that name, but not so great that just “Alexander”doesn’t disambiguate him? 5 weeks ago:
I know like 5 dudes called Cesar.
- Comment on Theories on Theories 5 weeks ago:
If pi is not exactly three why hasn’t my bridge fallen?
Check mate mathematicians.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 5 weeks ago:
Source?
In my country euthanasia has to be required by the person wanting to ending. Nor the government nor any other person or organization can ask for this procedure to be done to an unwilling person.
The person has to require twice, and be evaluated by a comitee of medical doctors to ensure that it has a chronic disease that could not be cured and that it’s causing ongoing pain that would not get better with medication.
www.sanidad.gob.es/gabinete/notasPrensa.do?id=682…
Statistics on it doesn’t point to it being “targeted to anyone”. More so, there are many people who ask for it and cannot get it in time and die of natural causes before the procedure could be done.
- Comment on Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans? 5 weeks ago:
Euthanasia is already legal in some countries.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 5 weeks ago:
I recently went on a hunt for a cheap good offbrand controller. I bought several from gamesir 8bitdo and easysmx, and ended up landing on the gamesir cyclone 2. It’s quite good, though not perfect, because the ergonomics are not 100% my style, but it was my best option overall. I think it was like 50€.
Before that I was using the 30€ range controllers from easysmx and for their price they were good but only lasted a couple of years because stick drift.
I tried 8bitdo because everyone talked so good of them, but I didn’t like the ergonomics, that’s 100% personal though, the controller itself was good.
I also read about the Vader 4 controllers, which has good reviews but never tried it.
- Comment on Valve Uploads Steam Controller Unboxing Video, Launch Imminent 5 weeks ago:
I fear the price will put it out of my budget for controllers.
Usually I buy my controllers at around 30-50€
This, I fear would go well over double the higher end of that.
- Comment on Why do I almost never see people flying drones? 1 month ago:
Where I live, europe, while not strictly illegal is so restricted and you have to ask for so many permissions to fly a small drone that’s not worth it.
People wanting to fly one would just go to some remote place on the countryside where no one would see you.
- Comment on Real 1 month ago:
Are we landmass shaming now?
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 1 month ago:
As a great scientist once said:
“There’s no scientific consensus that life is important” - Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I made a little game 3 years ago. I’m still it’s only player as it isn’t even published anywhere. But I enjoy it.
I have future publishing plans but well knowing that the total number of players is unlikely to change.
The thing with indie dev is that you really should do it because you love the craft. Because realistically speaking, if you look the numbers, having expectations about many people playing your game (don’t even talk about paying for it) could lead to a big disappointment.
- Comment on big facts 2 months ago:
I do believe gorilla piss exista.
I do not believe drinking gorilla piss would grant you gorilla strength (citation needed).
- Comment on Mewgenics recouped its development cost in the first 3 hours 3 months ago:
It’s already out?
I actually wants to buy it. Developer is actually a good guy. Many years making great videogames and neven enshitifying.
- Comment on Wokeness ended, check mate leftists 4 months ago:
Woke is when woman not beautiful. Noted.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 4 months ago:
I think 5 million is ok number as a top. As long as it has been earned working.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 5 months ago:
You do you. I’ve been decades doing political activism. I just advice to keep expectations checked because I’ve seen so many people burning themselves out of not being able to achieve unrealistic political goals, and, what’s worse, ending up picking on small innocent people because they are the only ones they can impose their will on.
It’s good to keep making people conscious of the dangers of AI. But knowing what is expected, for yourself, and trying not to target people won’t deserve being targeted our of misdirected anger.
My best approach is taking a constructive approach. Do something by hand myself and enjoying it.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 5 months ago:
It’s good to have morals, but also to have realistic expectations.
We haven’t been able to stop dlc, micro transaction, gambling… I don’t think we would be able to stop AI in videogames.
I have the suspicion that all these quick and fast remakes in HD are pulling AI assets as crazy to be able to have results quickly and cheap.
Going too hard ln these devs, which doesn’t seem like bad people won’t ever change what EA. Ubisoft, Nintendo or any big player will do. It would only hurt this small studio for nothing.
- Comment on PortMaster: Talking Ports, Handhelds, and Community with the Developers (my article!) 5 months ago:
It’s a great way to play games in something like sn emulation box. I just installed it yesterday on my emuelec station.
- Comment on Are you a market or supermarket enthusiast? 5 months ago:
The one that allows me to do the smallest possible human iteration.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I thought this was a movie thing. Don’t you have breath analyzers for real?
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 5 months ago:
The thing is that it’s kind of voluntary. Game developers could have use AI to develop the game and if they wouldn’t want to disclose it no one would know.
Unless the use of AI is the very crappy “AI art” that’s easy to notice the rest of uses would be very hard or actually impossible to figure it out to audit the legitimacy of the tag.
And this will end like r/art where the mods deleted a post accusing the artist of using AI when it was not AI and the final mod answer was “change your art style so it doesn’t look like AI”. A brutal witch-hunt in the end.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 5 months ago:
It’s possible with certificates and 2fa issued by a government, which already have all your data, that would only verify that you are over 18.
We already have that in Spain, sort of. We have a government app where you have a digital id stored and you can make it create a verify qr that only shows if the user is over 18 or under 18, no more data. The qr only last 5 minutes active.
It is necessary? Not for internet access. That’s a duty of the one paying for internet in the household, not the government.