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- Comment on non issue 21 hours ago:
All public speed tests are nonsense in private use, unfortunately. The ISPs magically find the capacity you’ve been looking for, but only for that connection.
- Comment on Train from Warsaw to Chelm costs £9. In UK this 250 km journey would probably cost at least 10 times more. 1 week ago:
Thatcher’s legacy lives on.
- Comment on Can you purchase a burner phone anonymously in the US? 1 week ago:
Your phone sends its device ID (called IMEI) to the network provider with every connection.
- Comment on Extremely squishy creature 2 weeks ago:
Yep.
- Comment on Behold, "the whole story of Steam's economy in one picture": the top 1% of games earn 84.5% of estimated revenue, and most games barely make anything 2 weeks ago:
Yup, asset flips have been a problem for over a decade. Nothing to do with AI.
- Comment on Oh no 2 weeks ago:
There’s not supposed to be a content-aware algorithm on Lemmy, is there?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
In Assassins Creed Black Flag, I ran into an optional encounter with a unique hostile ship that I was completely unprepared for, as I hadn’t spent any money on upgrades for my own ship. So I tried to quit and reload. Well, the game autosaves at the start of the encounter. So I turned around to leave - and I get desynchronized. Great. I love being locked into optional unbalanced content!
So I had no other choice than to try to play the encounter. Except even with good positioning it was unbeatable as they had mortars, and a single broadside would melt my ship. But… there’s one special cannon attack aimed straight ahead. It does almost no damage, but stuns the enemy ship for as long as it takes to reload. There’s no way to turn fast enough to use any other weapon though. So I just plonked behind him too close for the mortars, and kept stunning this huge ship with the same attack for about 15 minutes, so it was never able to hit me with anything. We just sat there, neither ship moving or using any significant attack, until the 890th small cannonball upon which it suddenly burst into flames and sank.
- Comment on Fact Check 4 weeks ago:
Right, but costing them money while having it on the record that they lied is something. If you have the time and money
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how you’re controlling a ship’s Y-axis, but for planes and helicopters that’s absolutely standard and how it works in the real world. Hence the term “Pull up!”
The one or two pilots in this thread just read this in the GPWS voice and feel their heart beat a little faster now.
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 5 weeks ago:
Not to forget obligatory subscriptions.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 5 weeks ago:
Agreed on the last part. But a less cynical take: Companies like Sony obsessively track their sales metrics. If a campaign like this does go viral, and only a few percent of people actually follow through, it does create a noticeable dip in the metrics and an explanation will be demanded internally. There’s a small chance this makes certain managers a bit more careful about such decisions. In rare cases companies have taken back or at least delayed similar calls, and they don’t do so without an indication that it will affect their bottom line.
Though I don’t think this campaign will have much effect, since asking for a full week is not something a lot of people will follow through with. Also Sony is clearly banking on the fact that customers will stay due to lock-in to their ecosystem.
- Comment on Anon joins a shitposting group 1 month ago:
- Comment on Anon joins a shitposting group 1 month ago:
Same for r/MURICA. Sad case, it used to be really funny.
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 1 month ago:
This makes total sense due to the square-cube law (and cell sizes I suppose).
Have you considered relatively thicker sticks, like a log on a slower-burning fire? That should mitigate it a bit.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 1 month ago:
We just all set it to yellow the entire time so people don’t think they can call out of the blue.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 1 month ago:
Colonialism only took on modern forms. It’s always been might makes right.
Now with some countries slowly rising from its shadows, a lot of people in the west are pissing their pants that the tables might turn. Even if we’re a very long stretch away from that, and climate change is ironically affecting us less than the so-called global south.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 1 month ago:
lmao
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 1 month ago:
No one implied they shouldn’t be allowed to. People just have opinions on what works.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 1 month ago:
A national self-perception steeped in exceptionalism has them thinking it must be envy.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 2 months ago:
The entire political spectrum has moved considerably right, with “Fortress Europe” talk and blatant admissions that human rights aren’t something we should care about.
There is no hard divide between conservatives and the far right.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 2 months ago:
Also moving the overton window.
It only took a few years for our “alt right” to replace the suits talking conservative economics with demagogues spewing racial purity on national television. Self-radicalization is built into the far right mindset.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 2 months ago:
The US economy is directly tied to imperialism and massive exploitation of other nations. And we both know that’s not gonna change under any Democratic leadership.
You can’t just go back to the way things were because it worked for you.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 2 months ago:
It’s cope, at least in part, to point out that the open advance of fascism in the US is several years ahead of the rest of the Western world, and that this was possible under an absolute dumbfuck embarrassment like Trump. And I get why people need to cope right now.
It’s also not wrong to point out that this was enabled by the US exceptionalist mindset and particular flavor of nationalism that we’ve all been exposed to.
This reads as a diss against all people in the US, but it’s not. I strongly empathize with and am in solidarity with those suffering under it.
- Comment on Good for him. 2 months ago:
That used to be broadly my view, until I watched Dan Olson’s In Search of A Flat Earth, in which he explores the worldview in which this “opinion” persists and why.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
After reading a good review I tested it with my horror-loving gf, but we found it kind of mid.
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 2 months ago:
I did the same. Took a while but the whole family was on board.
Now on to convince multiple circles of friends and every new person I meet…
- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 2 months ago:
Yeah. There was a statistic about Steam a while ago showing that the percentage of recent releases by playtime was steadily declining. People have their classics, they outgrow competitive games, they don’t want to upgrade their PCs as much with current prices. This was masked for a time by overall steady growth in the gaming sector, but this is slowing down.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 2 months ago:
Bethesda just lost their spark. It’s all live-service pseudo shooters now in an outdated engine that bothered no one when they made good RPGs, but is woefully behind for shooter action as primary gameplay loop.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 3 months ago:
Yup. I built my rig when it was just barely affordable and plan to maintain it for many years. It works just fine for the titles I play.
I mainly feel for the enthusiasts and the community and economy they built. Most people aren’t interested in tech they can never hope to reasonably afford. Gone are the times of a new rig every 3-4 years. Gone is the excitement.
- Comment on 😅😅😅 3 months ago:
That’s just not true. He was calling out whites who merely pay lip service to civil rights while putting all their political capital into maintaining a discriminatory status quo.
That is unfortunately the majority, and the frustration at this fact does come through in many of his quotes, and it is well-placed.