Ulrich
@Ulrich@feddit.org
- Comment on Stop Killing Games: Discord Launch 3 days ago:
Organizing a protest on a platform that not only stores all your data in plaintext but also sells it to advertisers and AI companies seems like a shit move.
- Comment on Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users [404 Media] 5 days ago:
Not only is it possible, but people are already doing it.
- Comment on Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users [404 Media] 5 days ago:
Depends if you consider Signal “popular”, because based on your own link, the only information they provide is:
No message content., Date and time a user registered. Last date of a user’s connectivity to the service.
- Comment on Telegram Hands U.S. Authorities Data on Thousands of Users [404 Media] 5 days ago:
There’s privacy and then there’s user experience. UX on Matrix is awful. Not to mention Matrix collects all the metadata, and the vast majority of it sits on a single server (matrix.org), which is owned by a private company and subject to subpoenas.
- Comment on Yet they know what dishware I'm looking for... 5 days ago:
Depends who “they” is. The NSA? Sure. Your local PD? No.
- Comment on Yet they know what dishware I'm looking for... 5 days ago:
What’s far more likely to happen if you do that is that you get caught up in a dragnet and accused of a crime you haven’t committed because they know you were nearby and need a fall guy.
- Comment on Inside Inventor Simone Giertz’s Small Los Angeles Home, 58sqm/630sqft 2 weeks ago:
Cool!
- Comment on Inside Inventor Simone Giertz’s Small Los Angeles Home, 58sqm/630sqft 2 weeks ago:
Yep, lots of ways
- Comment on Inside Inventor Simone Giertz’s Small Los Angeles Home, 58sqm/630sqft 2 weeks ago:
All a matter of perspective. In my area homes start at about double that size and could easily be 3-4x.
- Comment on Why You Shouldn't Care About Electric Cars 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I got all of that. I don’t understand what it has to do with the title.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 2 weeks ago:
You’re wrong because of the specific words you’re choosing to use. Even if they aren’t, it doesn’t mean they can’t.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 2 weeks ago:
“design by committee” approach that large studios are using
They don’t have to use that.
This kind of game can only exist as a solo or very small team project.
That’s just very clearly wrong.
You can not generate lose the kind of money that large publishers and studios need to survive with little Indie games.
Wrong again. If anything, only large publishers can lose the kinds of money that they sometimes do.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 2 weeks ago:
Balatro is…not something big studios could even possibly replicate
…and why not?
What would be the point of a big studio trying to make a game that one developer can pull off?
…money?
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market? 2 weeks ago:
They’re simply drawing all the wrong co conclusions here:
even though Spider-Man 2 sold more than 11 million copies, several members of Insomniac lost their jobs when Sony announced 900 layoffs in February.
The layoffs don’t mean the game or company were unsuccessful, it means they found other ways to eliminate those jobs.
Warner Bros. Discovery took a $200 million loss on Suicide Squad
That’s nothing to do with graphical fidelity, it was a shit game that followed up a shit movie.
Sony closed the studio behind Concord
Lots of potential reasons for this. If you ask me, they released a $30 game into a genre chock full of “free to play” games.
Personally I appreciate “cinematic” games but titles like Balatro and Stardew Valley (neither of which I own) are proof of the simple fact that making games that are actually fun to play is far far more important, and far more profitable.
- Comment on Why You Shouldn't Care About Electric Cars 2 weeks ago:
Wow, what an arrogant twat. Let’s tackle these stupid criticisms 1 by 1:
- Yes, They cost more. The cost is offset by the lower cost of ownership over time. If you finance the car, you never even feel that cost because you just pay the difference to the bank instead of the oil companies, and pocket the remainder. And you get a nicer car in the process.
- Longer to refuel. On long trips, yes. The other 99% of the time you actually save a fuckton of time not going to the gas station. Not to mention improved safety and lower risk of ID theft as your CC is stolen (which has happened to me several times).
- Battery degrades. Yeah, I mean, so does your engine and transmission and everything else about your ICE car. Batteries will likely outlast your ICE powertrain, and they’ll slowly degrade over time, and when they’re done you can sell them to a recycler and get some of your money back.
- Trains/Buses/Bikes. Yeah, these are great if you have them, or the infrastructure that supports them. We don’t have them. If I try to ride my bike to the grocery store 2 miles away there is a very high probability of death, because I have to cross a 70MPH highway, and there’s no other way to get there. This has nothing to do with the discussion of ICE cars vs. electric cars. I both drive an electric and and actively advocate for improved non-car infrastructure but I’m 1 person.
- I don’t know what this whole tangent about Chinese cars is about. Those are electric too?
- Comment on Everyone is Wrong About Mexican Coke (Even Johnny Harris) 3 weeks ago:
Well they’re not wrong about clickbait…