AwesomeLowlander
@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I love authoritarians yum yum 1 day ago:
Newborns are typically exposed during birth, not while growing in the womb.
Oh interesting. I hadn’t considered they could be isolated from it during pregnancy.
- Comment on I love authoritarians yum yum 1 day ago:
In the context of this discussion, you HAVE been exposed to the virus. To use your analogy, you’re hitting the test button when your house is already on fire. Hence the reason why I asked the question in the first place
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 2 days ago:
I’m not sure there’s any solution to this problem. Returning to the era of gatekeepers would be a regression, and the increased democratization of game development has led to more creative and interesting products all around. This glut may be intimidating for players, but it also presents them with more choices than ever before, so long as they can ignore the FOMO of not jumping on every new release as soon as it hits.
But for the companies investing hundreds of millions of dollars into games that need to move huge numbers to break even, this is no small challenge. And it’s just getting harder every year.
Solution is simple, stop spending millions of dollars on the same bloody IP and cash grabs and give your devs some freedom.
- Comment on Hades II | Review Thread (93/100 OpenCritic) 5 days ago:
Most games have 10x more personnel than Silksong, including most indie games that aren’t solo efforts
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 5 days ago:
You can be smart on some stuff and dumb in others. Their dumb take was on somehow deciding valve was responsible without providing any sort of logical reasoning.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 5 days ago:
Yes, and a lot of people disagree with them, because they’re dumb.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 5 days ago:
I think because in the context of the discussion, you’re (probably unintentionally?) making it sound like Steam is at fault for not catching the malware.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 5 days ago:
Pretty sure Steam already does that. And no automated (or even manual) analysis is going to be 100% foolproof, or we wouldn’t be worrying about supply chain attacks in Linux. So that puts us back at square one.
- Comment on I love authoritarians yum yum 6 days ago:
What makes the vaccine more effective than actual exposure to the actual virus? I tried googling but couldn’t find an eli5 version
- Comment on I love authoritarians yum yum 6 days ago:
I don’t understand one thing about the terminology. Aren’t vaccines for prevention, and in this case it’s more like a treatment? Or am I misunderstanding the meaning of the term vaccine?
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 6 days ago:
I wonder how many people are taking your statement at face value without recognising the sarcasm…
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 6 days ago:
Why so? Assuming this is the 1st complaint against the game, what was steam supposed to do in the past month?
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 6 days ago:
Exactly
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 6 days ago:
Incentives. If valve did this, the expectation would be for them to cover any and all future breaches. They don’t have the capability of doing so, and this would incentivise a wave of new malicious programs. Because hey, if you get one into the store, you can now steal a million bucks from your own sockpuppet account, and valve will cover it.
- Comment on 9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game 1 week ago:
I doubt they even had a contact with steam, any more than you have a contract with Gmail. Good luck suing Google if your mail was misplaced or delayed.
- Comment on 9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game 1 week ago:
Lawsuit on what grounds, exactly?
- Comment on 9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game 1 week ago:
Cmon, most indie devs don’t deserve that
- Comment on Plants looking at people looking at people looking at fungi 1 week ago:
Considering the spam calls I get, my phone has more of a social life than I do
- Comment on Has Charlie Kirk ever changed his views on a subject during a debate? 2 weeks ago:
Give us a week or two to enjoy the schadenfreude first
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 2 weeks ago:
Have you considered that the run back is trying to tell you something? The game doesn’t want you to bash your face against the same enemy the same way. It may not even want you to fight that boss yet at all.
The run back is meant to be an incentive to think about your options. Do I have other areas to explore?
Would be a lot more effective if I didn’t have to go pick up my shade. Which often can’t be accessed without locking yourself into the fight again.
- Comment on Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch 3 weeks ago:
Stores were down for like an hour. Except for the super fans, most players wouldn’t have noticed.
- Comment on An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks 3 weeks ago:
It’s using genAI to make best guess portraits of ICE agents, WTF are you going on about?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like it. Presumably useful for large corporations and such where there may not be a clear picture of potential entrypoints into the system.
- Comment on They didn't stop to think if they should 4 weeks ago:
You apparently haven’t watched some of the videos I have
- Comment on Have you know???. 4 weeks ago:
When was the last time you created something that wasn’t just a new spin based on what you already knew?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Oh yes, like I said I agree entirely with your post
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
While I loved your story and agree with all your points, I should note there’s a big difference between having an immigration website in English and having one in pretty much any other language.
- Comment on Let's Build a Dungeon, [an MMORPG management game], sounds like such a fun idea as it hits 140,000 Steam wishlists 5 weeks ago:
We appreciate your posts!
- Comment on I blew the whistle on workplace abuses at ZA/UM. In return, ZA/UM tried to defame me. 5 weeks ago:
While I would normally agree fully with you, it’s very clear from the context that ZAUM is the company behind the game Disco Elysium. What the letters stand for, if anything, is pretty irrelevant. Using IBM as an example, most people don’t know or care what it stands for, it’s an identifier on its own.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 5 weeks ago:
I very much doubt you’d feel that way had they released the trailer and announced the game was coming in another 7 years