skaffi

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. It’s probably more that increasingly more commodities are becoming “smart”, including, but not limited to EVs. I think the reason people are specifically noticing or talking about the “ensmartification” of EVs is because cars are so vastly much more expensive than any other “smart” commodity that, and for most people, an investment of that size needs to be something you can either rely on working for X number of years, or at the very least insure yourself against that happening. But a gadget that can be turned hostile to you, at the drop of a single auto-update, is anything but reliable or dependable - and to my knowledge, becoming enshittified represents a “special” kind of broken, that you can’t insure yourself against.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Something, something, Kohlera.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there life after death? Yes, there is Second Life!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Half-Life Opposing Force still known to current gamers, or is this a side game that's fallen through the cracks.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Me browsing Lemmy, finding this post Image

  You’ve got three guesses!

  That aside, I remember back in the day that Op4 received a lot of praise from fans, while Blue Shift was considered by many to be underwhelming. I love them both, but I always thought Blue Shift was the better game. Op4 might be longer and more full of new content, but it’s also all kind of thrown together, playing very loose with the universe. Blue Shift was, by comparison, short, clean, well told, and nailed the setting and gameplay. To me it feels like a very Half-Life game, whereas Op4 feels more like fanfic, like the most impressive single player Half-Life mod ever made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Civilization 7 dev on Ages system and series shakeup: "It's going to be the hardest thing for fans to get adjusted to"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that’s the issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Is Run By Fewer Than 80 Staff, Lawsuit Docs Reveal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  TF2 lawyers, it would seem.
  Their legal Offense has evidently been workgrouped by Scout, Soldier and Pyro, judging by this particular legal argument. To think the Mercenaries would turn on their creator… Well, they’re mercenaries!