AwesomeLowlander
@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party 2 hours ago:
Know your corporate overlord, eh?
- Comment on Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game" 2 hours ago:
Isn’t that because the optimisation sucks
- Comment on Ex PlayStation exec says Sony can't keep "increasing the graphics power" with new consoles after tech plateau, but PS5 has already "made almost every game a better game" 2 hours ago:
The “paid more to work less” part is not tenable
We could have the major publishers and devs paying better salaries. They can afford it.
- Comment on Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party 3 hours ago:
This is the asshole who presided over a significant portion of the enshittification of both Xbox and Blizzard, so we know exactly what his opinion is worth
- Comment on Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea? 18 hours ago:
Argh.
Look, imagine you have an aquarium. You fill the bottom half up with the solid of your choice. Gravel, sand, clay, whatever. Then you fill up the rest of it with water. You’ve created a simple model of the ocean, including the groundwater you’re talking about
Now dig out a hole in the middle and toss the sand you dug out into the trash. Your water level will lower, because you’ve removed some mass that was occupying some volume and the water will fill that empty space. You’ve successfully lowered the ocean level. It doesn’t matter how much groundwater there is, it’s totally irrelevant to the question OP posted.
- Comment on Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea? 18 hours ago:
What. Do you not get the concept of volume? Forget your sites and papers and studies, you need to go back to grade school.
- Comment on Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea? 18 hours ago:
From your own link:
While approximately 97% of Earth’s water is in the oceans
🤦
- Comment on Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea? 21 hours ago:
That’s… A lot of added gas. Pre-space-loss, it would probably feel something like Jupiter’s atmosphere
- Comment on How America Got Hooked on Ultraprocessed Food - The New York Times 4 days ago:
Not a gift article
- Comment on Dead Cells dev says its controversial sunsetting was "a good thing for players" 1 week ago:
The entire article was summarised in the headline. There’s literally nothing else of interest there
- Comment on A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements 1 week ago:
You misunderstand me, I have nothing good to say about alternative ‘medicine’
- Comment on A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements 1 week ago:
That’s not so much ‘supplements’ as alternative medicine
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 weeks ago:
3 more days to cover, then. Hop to it!
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Asking this because none of the 38 year olds I know are taking any medications and they look really young
The basis of science is making your own observations and drawing your own conclusions. You’ve done the first half, now on to the 2nd.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately (or fortunately?) I’m a completionist. I’ll either get everything or nothing. Which means games with lots of DLC are generally a no no for me.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 2 weeks ago:
Would have picked it up, but for the number of dlc inflating the price
- Comment on Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out. 2 weeks ago:
Leader*
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
“If the big tech companies and the VCs throwing their money at large-scale humanoid training spent only 20% as much but gave it all to university researchers I tend to think they would get closer to their goals more quickly,” Brooks said.
To be clear, he’s not saying the goal is unachievable. He’s just saying they’re going at it in the dumbest way possible.
- Comment on I love authoritarians yum yum 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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) 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
I wonder how many people are taking your statement at face value without recognising the sarcasm…