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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it keeps getting momentum⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an ongoing scam for the ultra wealthy and Tech Bro influencer con artists.

  That’s not an exaggeration. That’s what it is.

  Hence, it will keep going as long as social media keeps boosting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Architectural improvements could help, but the big guys can’t even get away from “basic” problems like high temperature sampling. Corporate development is way more conservative than you’d think.

  And it’s not getting better. See the “all star” ego teams and Meta, OpenAI and such vs. those that quit.

  The Chinese are testing some more interesting things (and actually publishing papers on them), but still pretty conservative all things considered. They drrm content with LLMs as modest coding assistants and document processors, basically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure why you’re so sure that cloud would be the next winner either.

  Because, in aggregate, gamers are stupid consumers.

  I hate to be so blunt, but they have, repeatedly and demonstrably, made uninformed purchases. They buy bad games on launch day, complain, then turn around and do it again. Heck, they’ll hardly even look at AMD or Intel GPUs now simply because there’s isn’t even the minimum amount of effort made to shop around.

  They are going to just buy the cloud gaming subscriptions if that’s all that’s financially viable

  Keep in mind that I’m talking about the bulk market. Sure, plenty of us will turn our nose up. But the R&D required to even develop consumer hardware requires volume, so pickings and refreshes will get slimmer with less money in the pool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Which would you rather have as the dominant platform. Consoles, or cloud gaming?

  Because if “market conditions” kill consoles, they will shrink PC gaming hardware sales too, and I don’t want a world where devs target cloud gaming first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  1st party engine devs have been stuck in dev hell, mostly. There are some exceptions, like you said; I’d cite Decima as another success.

  But think of EA’s Frostbite, Cyberpunk 2077, Halo Infinite, Clausewitz, BGS, many more. Especially indies that try.

  It’s not just that old games crunched, but making a new engine that supports modern platforms and modern hardware is just an immensely complex task. There’s just too much to worry about.

  The best success seems to either come from:

  • Hyperfocus your engine’s scope to one game niche. Larian’s divinity engine, for example, makes BG3-likes; that’s it, that all it does.

  • Engine shop very, very carefully. For instance, KCD2 leaned into CryEngine’s strengths hard, especially the dense, well-lit foilage.

  And either case needs a lucky roll of the dice anyway. See: Cyberpunk 2077 in utter dev hell (even if they eventually pulled out) from wrangling their engine. Or the latest Borderlands being a technical wreck even though they basically invented Unreal Engine alongside Epic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rage for the machine?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  globalists

  This person is so close.

  Billionaires. He hates billionaires. He just doesn’t realize it yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  AAA expectations are astronomical, AAs take some extra time to keep up, and indies that actually make it take the time to do their own thing, otherwise they’d be lost in the largely unseen sea of failed indies.

  Also, oldschool game dev was toxic. It had some serious crunch culture, just to start. But I think it also attracted all star devs into “sweet spot” dev team sized; not too big or too small to sap efficiency. Now, if you do software and want to make any money or provide for a family… well, you don’t do game dev.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah.

  It’s less trouble for, like, a two-person burger truck. Perhaps that’s what OP is seeing. But get more cash flow going and it’s is plenty of trouble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next-Generation Xbox Could Launch in 2027, Hints AMD - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Shame they didn’t go Intel. Xe’s good, and they could have gotten around TSMC supply constraints.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got banned from Fuck AI community, anything I can do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I mean if you want to hear a contrary opinion, seek out the local LLM crowd.

  Sam Altman and his pyramid scheme can go to hell, but I like local LLMs. As tools. They’re kinda what Lemmy is to Reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I got banned from Fuck AI community, anything I can do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can’t message the mods, move on.

  Fuck AI is an echo chamber. A lot of Lemmy is an echo chamber TBH. But that’s the community moderators’ call to make.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An oopsie occured⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I saw the community and even I have to think of it.

  It “nottheonion” adjacent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure, Jan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what gets upvotes on Lemmy, sadly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was kidding, heh.

  …They do need to get on that, though. My completely layman’s impression is that Japan has some cultural issues with immigration, but that’s becoming an existential issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They desperately need more immigration though, don’t they?

  Maybe they could say “you can come to the festival, but only if you don’t leave.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to get to the bottom of this⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Puuuuurge

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who fucking cares?

  Credit card companies.

  And their ad buyers, maybe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends how much you have to pay attention.

  First off, I am not a fitness expert. YMMV.

  But sometimes I do variations of bodyweight exercises in front of a TV, yes.

  One day, for example, might be arm day. I sit and do leg curls for biceps. I straight pushups or tricep dips, use a pull-up bar if I have one; even just hanging is great.

  Another day might be push up variation day; wide, narrow, inclined different ways, push up and “reach to the sky with one arm,” knee pushups at the end.

  Yet another is leg day. Squats, jumping squats, lunges, butt kicks, heel lifts, other positions to get different muscles. Another day may be core, another day is more shoulder/back, and so on.

  Your eyes will drift away from the TV, and you get exhausted doing this stuff, but you can keep up with a show if you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I was being casual, and I’m not an expert by any means.

  I bring it up because, for me, sets of specific bodyweight exercises (like legs one day, shoulders/back another, and so on) is just more time efficient. It gives enough resistance to get sore, and gets me exhausted, all in one setting, instead of running separately. It’s easier on my knees, with no risk of shin splints and less risk of injury than heavy weights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You know what I mean. It’s an indicator exerting yourself. Your blood vessels dilate when you’re hot to try and dump the heat, just like they constrict in parts when cold to save it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to cool my body enough to not sweat while exercising?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sweat is not a bad thing. It means your heart is pumping; what you want for weight loss.

  That being said, I love exercising in cold weather, if you’re somewhere where you get any. You warm up, and it just feels fantastic.

  And that doesn’t just mean running outside. It can be calisthenics in a back yard, or garage, or even just walking to a spot where you can run.

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  While I’m here, let me glaze bodyweight exercises, like push ups, squats, kicks, core stuff, and all the variants.

  It’s amazingly efficient. It gets you out of breath like running, but gets muscles sore like a weight machine, all in less time. And it’s waaay less stressful on your body than running or big weights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The later sounds very plausible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah. Then I don’t know.

  Maybe a bigger dev just has more leverage?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neither was particularly sexually explicit IIRC.

  I dunno, though. Maybe censorship was an “easier” ask since the setting was already there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, there would be a loooot of nipples on Twitch otherwise.

  Still stupid, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Norway anon pirates⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Will it not play the raw movie if you are on LAN?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you prefer fluffy UI over Liquid Glass?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah.

  I got an iPhone at a mega discount, and coming from Android (and jailbroken iOS long before that), I feeling some… annoyance. And pull to jailbreak it. But it’s a very different endeavor these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I financially enabling child labor in 3rd world countries by buying second hand fast fashion?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m extremely enthusiastic about used stuff.

  Folks who buy new products will buy them anyway, and it’ll either end up in a landfill or used by someone else. Mind as well use it.

  And, think of the opportunity cost. Your fast fashion presumably replaces “budget” new clothes you’d buy instead, which shrinks sweatshop market demand as a whole.

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  Also:

  • If you’re feeling guilty about skipping “sustainable” brands, a lot of those are cons anyway. Some are fine, but there’s a good chance you’d just make some lying jerk richer.

  • For heavens sake, if you like fast fashion, enjoy your passion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you prefer fluffy UI over Liquid Glass?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this a jailbreak theme?

  I’ve held off on updating iOS for literally this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A good hijack, thanks.