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- Comment on Another Xbocalypse begins: Microsoft are reportedly closing or spinning off Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion 2 days ago:
Aw. Gee whiz. They promised not to close studios, as long as they’re allowed to do illegal mergers.
I’m beginning to mistrust CEO promises.
I’m sure they’ll do their best, in the future.
- Comment on Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion 3 days ago:
Right. I think the whole thing is still a fool’s errand.
As soon as they can’t monopolize all the days center wafers, they’ll be trying to sell their proprietary models against scrappy little pop up businesses running open models at cut throat rates.
They may still make some money, but I don’t think the billions tossed at all this are coming back to them.
- Comment on Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion 3 days ago:
Yes. Looks like they’re still really not profitable, even if they stopped R&D; but only barely.
Of course, when tough times arrive, the difference between “barely sustainable” and “almost sustainable” is gigantic.
- Comment on What was the internet like before Y2K happened ? 1 week ago:
I like your answer best, because there’s no way OP believes your 100% accurate answer.
- Comment on An economic draft? Drive to get young Neets in the military divides opinion 1 week ago:
Drones can be cheaper than live soldiers.
Right. But when the stakes are “get killed” the interest in expert opinion goes way up, and experts aren’t betting their lives that today’s AI can outwit humans when it matters.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m not particularly familiar with QEMU, but yes. It is possible to get Windows, Linux and Android apps running side by side, with a good set of emulators.
As with all emulation:
- It might or might not be fast.
- Some apps may not work entirely correctly.
- Comment on Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200 3 weeks ago:
Yes.
Three good news for Steam is that Moore’s law died a while back; so the current Steam Machine design will probably still play the majority of all games ever published in two years or in five years.
Still, the AI bubble cannot pop soon enough for my comfort. I want to keep modern conveniences like online shopping, that only continue to work if the vendors don’t vibe code all the trust away.
- Comment on The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily 3 weeks ago:
Exactly. Company value shoots through the roof, it becomes a worker owned cooperative. Original owners get paid in cash, rather than in market distorting power.
Billionaires will argue they wouldn’t take the bet, y that’s bullshit. They’re constantly betting on stupider risks with lower payouts, all the time.
- Comment on Wouldn’t it make more sense for Matt Murdock/Daredevil and Foggy Nelson to be prosecutors or civil rights lawyers instead of defense attorneys? 3 weeks ago:
Matt’s whole character is not about justice, it’s about Catholic guilt, or Matt’s sometimes failing faith in the law and in his community.
The best version of Matt is when he acts as a defense attorney. Daredevil is what happens when Matt loses his faith in his community and goes outside the law.
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 4 weeks ago:
I’m surprised I had to scroll this far to find “Gone Home” recommended. It’s a quick great and pretty chill game!
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 4 weeks ago:
Yes. I hope we someday get so many sequels to “A Short Hike”!
- Comment on Standard Chartered to replace 'lower-value human capital' with AI 4 weeks ago:
Shit heads are gonna shit head.
Get a credit union, folks.
- Comment on Sony PlayStation Accounts Are Reportedly Being Hacked With Ease 4 weeks ago:
They simply called Sony’s helldesk who handed over accounts with little to no verification. WTF.
They’ve done that for decades. I never got a refund.
- Comment on Meta is rapidly reorganizing its workers’ jobs around AI: ‘Transfers aren’t optional’ 4 weeks ago:
Thank goodness. Meta can’t collapse on itself quickly enough. Hopefully some of those engineers will be distracted from crafting spyware, for awhile.
- Comment on What a good Lenny community to talk about teaching kids at home? 4 weeks ago:
I have have not had luck getting my kids to read consistently.
My two tricks for this are leaving out comic books (easier read, but same number of words, if they read long enough), and reading to them at bedtime (because it’s just time and attention, and they love that.)
On the bedtime reading, beware - they will interrupt constantly at first, because they want the extra attention more than they want the story to move along. Lol.
- Comment on LEGO Batman Legacy of the Dark Knight hacked by DenuvOwO 4 weeks ago:
That was my reaction too!
I don’t understand the temptation of the studio to pay for Denuvo. Are they worried evil Linux users like me will cheat at some kind of tournament?
And I was probably going to buy this one, but not if it ships with Denuvo.
- Comment on Very normal and safe 4 weeks ago:
Wow. I wish your story was more surprising.
It boggles my mind that people trust Coinbase with their money.
- Comment on I would like to play a calm game 4 weeks ago:
It is fantastic, but OP should be sure to check some spoilers.
- Comment on American workers are tired of waiting. 1 month ago:
Exactly. We need more shouting about Epstein, and finding and cleaning up wherever the fuck their new island is. Most MAGA will show up personally to help (give a fair jury trial to…or something) whoever is found on whatever new island the abuser cabal has settled on.
Many of us are idiots, but none of us want this crap to continue.
- Comment on What are some good, casual mobile games. 1 month ago:
Bummer!
- Comment on What are some good, casual mobile games. 1 month ago:
Yes. Always Simon Tatham’s Puzzle Collection.
It’s freaking fantastic. Anyone sleeping on it needs to check it out.
It runs on just about anything, too, including some eReaders.
- Comment on What are some good, casual mobile games. 1 month ago:
Yes! Balatro!
In that vein, does anyone know if Monster Train 1 or 2 has been ported to mobile?
- Comment on What are some good, casual mobile games. 1 month ago:
There’s less, but still some great ones.
Since you asked for non-predatory games, I still recommend spending some time searching F-Droid. It’s the only place I find most non-predatory games.
On f-droid, I would try out:
- Burger Party
- Breakout 71
- Duck Run
- Gurgle (Wordle)
- Gridle (Wordle variant)
- Luanti
- SuperTuxKart
And on Google Play or Aurora, check out (paid, but nice if they haven’t enshitified yet):
- Mini Motor X
- You Must Build A Boat
- Ridiculous Fishing
- Comment on What are some good, casual mobile games. 1 month ago:
There’s so many free open source games that fit your need.
Check out this search on F-Droid: search.f-droid.org/?q=game
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
I always wished for a Street Fighter side scrolling beat em up.
You’ve just described the 16-bit era forgotten almost-classic, Cyborg Justice.
The learning curve is steep, and the graphics are kind of boring. But after that, it is a a co-op ongoing series of Street Fighter brawls with surprisingly deep combat and some interesting and satisfying progression.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
Probably same thing with Starcraft, but I’ve never tried it.
Oof. Yes. I recall Starcraft II’s tutorial requiring what felt like South Korean world champion commands-per-minute play to get through maybe the third level of the tutorial.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 2 months ago:
just wish I could play and experience it all at my pace - family life currently precludes me from being able to invest sufficient time to play an MMO.
Wayfinder does this pretty well. There’s some rough edges from where they pivoted in the design, but I got it on sale for less than a single month of WoW, and have been playing through it at my own pace ever since.
- Comment on Why is it that when the graphics driver freaks out in your browser when watching a video, the page always turns this specific shade of green? 2 months ago:
I haven’t seen this exact screen, but since there’s very little help in this thread so far, I’ll speculate.
I’ve seen plenty of single solid color screens that turned out to be “fuck you i didn’t like something, have a plain color instead of your image” from some piece of Digital Rights Management software.
If it is DRM, the two approaches I’m aware of are:
- Try to guess what pissed off the DRM, while being treated as an enemy at every level and step of logging and debugging.
- Turn to the clear, communicative, well documented piracy community for help. Note that their solutions may not be strictly legal, but they tend to actually get me access to the thing i already paid for.
- Comment on Amazon Luna Removing Paid Games And Offering No Refunds 2 months ago:
Yes. If steam shuts down, I’ll probably just stop purchasing games entirely.
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 2 months ago:
Wha-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pow?!