merthyr1831
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- Comment on TIL that Will Wright, while making The Sims, was inspired by Quake 9 hours ago:
once got interviewed by a guy who used to be lead dev on the classic F1 games (pre EA) and nowadays he just runs a team that makes horse racing simulations for casinos.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
There’s probably more at play, but the govt is willing to back companies offering loans to cover higher and higher tuition costs, so said companies haven’t got to worry if the loans default or don’t return the full amount - it’s about setting an exorbitant “graduate tax” to keep a permanent stream of guaranteed income for as long as possible.
Higher loans means more repayments, and more money for universities, so they both raise tuition higher and higher to meet the limits of students. as long as banks or govt don’t ever ask for their loans back (which they won’t because it’ll collapse the whole system and possibly the economy with it) the price can inflate at much at it likes.
the same is at play in the UK, only we have “tuition caps” that every university course sets their prices to because there is simply no benefit to charging less, and no downside to charging more. Everyone can get a loan, no one is denied, and the government backs this process because it is essentially being held at ransom.
I know I turned it into a rant about UK education but the financial systems feel very similar. There’s simply too much money held up in a make believe cycle of IOUs that would immediately collapse a huge chunk of the American system if anyone willingly let it pop.
The only problem with this is that eventually it might just pop on its own, and no one will be ready.
- Comment on We tested the Nvidia App performance problems — games can run up to 15 percent slower with the app 2 days ago:
web Devs aren’t ignorant to optimizing but the kind of interfaces used in web are very different to that of desktop. Cross platform technologies can work, but anything built on top of web engines is going to be a little dogshit on native platforms.
Web tech was designed around the asynchronous and comparatively slow nature of the network. Now, those same layout and rendering engines are being shoehorned into an environment where the “server” is your local disk so it’s suddenly doing a bunch of work that was intended to be done iteratively.
Same goes the other way of course. Software designed for “native first” experiences like Flutter aren’t as popular in web dev because they work on that same, but reversed, assumption of a local disk being your source.
It would be like wondering why physical game disks aren’t popular on PC - it’s a fundamentally different technology for fundamentally different expectations and needs.
- Comment on We tested the Nvidia App performance problems — games can run up to 15 percent slower with the app 2 days ago:
I know people complain about Nvidia and Linux but one of the best parts of my experience with it was never having to deal with GFE. Just a bunch of project managers trying to make themselves useful by shovelling needless slop into your GPU driver.
- Comment on The gods are with Anon 6 days ago:
anon invents religion
- Comment on Funko, BrandShield speak out about itch.io takedown 1 week ago:
So 90% of “AI” brands
- Comment on Itch.io back online 1 week ago:
Mauritius won’t get the rights to .io, it’s already held by a British corporation. Unless there’s some kind of change since then.
- Comment on Itch.io back online 1 week ago:
The top-level domains for the soviet union still exist, so io isn’t gonna go, especially since it’s so popular
- Comment on Itch.io was taken down by funko pop 1 week ago:
IP and copyright laws have been the bane of the internet. Not only stifling fair use but it has become nothing but weaponised for corporate warfare. the DMCA isn’t fit for purpose.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
both are parasites.
- Comment on itch.io was taken down by Funko because of some automated brand protection service 1 week ago:
A few adjustments to his policies may be necessary
- Comment on 'I want to acknowledge that we messed up': NZXT addresses concerns about its controversial Flex gaming PC rental program and commits to taking action 2 weeks ago:
lol nice try NZXT
- Comment on alpha 2 weeks ago:
so I was in the UK’s largest chain bookstore (Waterstones) on Saturday and I found a phrenology cat
- Comment on On Wednesdays we wear pink. 2 weeks ago:
watching mean girls right now lmao
- Comment on First UK arrest made over filming of women on nights out without consent 3 weeks ago:
arrest
not to be doomer but I’m not interested unless they bring charges. arrests aren’t even permanently recorded unless you accept an official warning.
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows to Feature Denuvo & Mandatory Ubisoft Account Linking 3 weeks ago:
all this to protect people from pirating buggy slop that’ll be notoriously broken on day one.
- Comment on Why are mental health patients strip searched in mental hospitals here in the USA? 3 weeks ago:
because mental health institutions are prisons
- Comment on What are the best games you can play on a laptop? 3 weeks ago:
You can get a lot of games running well for that. Almost every 2D game will run great, and a bunch of 3D titles too.
I picked up Parking Garage Rally Circuit in the sales yesterday because I’ve followed the dev on tiktok and it’s quite fun. A dreamcast-style time trial game!
- Comment on PlaytronOS Alpha 2 brings expanded NVIDIA support, more handheld PC support and much more 3 weeks ago:
some vague crypto bullshit iirc. I’d stick to Bazzite or something else that’s reputable for now.
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 3 weeks ago:
worm 2 has gone into a murderous rage, and will kill anyone he sees
- Comment on AND THEY DIDN'T STOP EATING 3 weeks ago:
they should eat one, or place it in their ear canal :)
- Comment on Would Kamala Harris have won the 2024 election if Latinos didn't shift hard to the right? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK 3 weeks ago:
I used to work at KFC and it was someone’s job every day to sort through the ‘on the bone’ chicken (stuff you get in buckets) to throw out broken bones, giblets, feathers etc.
Firstly, only this kind of chicken came from the UK. The rest is from mainland Europe before being marinated and shipped, which seemed unnecessarily inefficient.
Secondly, good god is the state of the chicken you get horrifying. I kid you not it set me towards becoming vegan. But compared to the chicken you get in a supermarket (say, an Asdas roast chicken) it is scrawny, frail, and so easily broken and poorly cleaned. The breading and frying process makes it look way more “full”.
Between farmers and businesses these birds are a source of untold horror AND a vector of our next potential pandemic, whether it be H5N1 or something else. Not even before we consider the totally unsustainable nature of farming poultry both ecologically and economically.
- Comment on Anon doesn't want to join the flesh nexus 4 weeks ago:
idk if kinda looks cozy in there
- Comment on Anon tries to manipulate Tinder 4 weeks ago:
Using tinder like a ranked FPS is surely something
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 4 weeks ago:
that’s the only hope, because Nintendo knows that as long as it goes to court, they can bleed out the palworld developers with endless legal attrition. I’m sure they know that these patents aren’t concrete; they’re just an easy way to drag people to court who can’t afford to fight back
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 4 weeks ago:
Then not even sell the damn things
Sorta true. Nintendo has been monetizing emulation for years, ever since they started releasing “virtual console” games on the Wii web shop.
The Switch now offers NES/SNES games as a benefit of their online service, and has released a handful of games as standalone releases which are literally just nicely-packaged emulators (Mario Sunshine and Galaxy 1/2 bundle for example)
If emulation and “piracy” of old consoles is allowed, then Nintendo fears it won’t be able to charge as much to repackage identical technology as full-price game releases.
- Comment on Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating 4 weeks ago:
Software parents, specifically game mechanic parents, are fucking insane. You should see the stuff Square Enix has patented following death stranding.
I get the whole “they just reskinned my game mechanics!!!” but also: I don’t. It’s like saying Go, Draughts, Chess, etc. are copies or “infringing” on one another for being a board game set on a grid with black/white pieces.
Even the idea of intellectual property is shaky for me but at least it’s more clear cut whether you’ve directly copied or deceived someone with a similar design of a character.
- Comment on A decline in arable land 1 month ago:
The graphic mentions that a decrease in land area on the graphs might also imply increased density of farming, less commercial farming for economic reasons
- Comment on So now I have to PAY you to NOT store files on my device that I don't want? 2 months ago:
the Sun would personally sell your organs if it could