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- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 5 days ago:
Allegedly.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 5 days ago:
That was so rude, but also hilarious. It was a big lobby that night, but Luigi was really keeping everyone chill.
- Comment on Ubisoft Finally Confirms Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the Remake We All Knew Was Coming 5 days ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Ubisoft Finally Confirms Assassin's Creed: Black Flag Resynced, the Remake We All Knew Was Coming 5 days ago:
I really want to play this, but I cannot in good conscience give money to Ubisoft.
Sadly, Ubisoft’s godlike digital rights protections are perfected in ways that my meager search engine typing skills could never trivially counter on a boring afternoon, assuming I don’t find a free pack-in copy before then on some kind of random mall kiosk plug and play TV game device.
Woe is me that I’ll have no choice but to ignore this game until a copy literally falls into my lap through random chance because software wants to be free.
Bunch of dumbasses at Ubisoft’s leadership ought to relearn that the paying games industry runs entirely on good will.
- Comment on Contractual trap on remote working job offer 5 days ago:
For what it’s worth, a case like yours was what I needed to get HR to clean up their act at my company.
I documented each candidate we lost, and I documented the increased job offer prices we needed as we ran low on qualified candidates.
Pretty soon, HR was on the same page, and this stuff stopped.
Anyway, who knows if their engineering manager will do the work to fix it, but at least you have them a chance.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Oh, here’s another. I’ve actually never had “the site” go down, since I moved here. Being federated, most of Lemmy is up, even when a single instance goes down.
My home instance went down once, so I just read along on another instance until it came back up.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
You’re not wrong.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
Oh yes. No ads is nice!
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
There’s like twelve different client apps for Lemmy, right?
I left Reddit when they broke my favorite client app. Seemed destined to go down hill from there.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 1 week ago:
There will certainly be statues. That’s probably inevitable.
- Comment on To yoink is to be human. You weren't using that part of your soul anyways 1 week ago:
You’re exactly right.
But maybe we should continue to try a few more years of treating corporations like really big evil people that can abuse everyone smaller than them, kill the planet, and commit crimes, while avoiding consequences.
I can see both sides. (This is sarcasm. We may yet need to yeet the folks pushing for corporate personhood a long way off a short cliff.)
- Comment on ‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC 2 weeks ago:
I would buy that.
- Comment on AI advice 2 weeks ago:
Dang. I haven’t always been able replicate these, but every model I’ve tried provides increasing dumb answers to this.
(These are semi-ethically sourced from small non-web non-data-center models, stolen, in turn, from the original thieves who created them from stolen data.)
So, I’d recommend taking the walk. It’s a great opportunity to stretch your legs and clear your mind before or after washing your car!
Sure, why not both? Take a leisurely stroll to the carwash, and once you reach it, jump into the driver’s seat for some washing fun! It’ll be like a little adventure where you get to combine two activities into one. 😉
Both walking and driving would be great options, depending on your personal preferences and circumstances.
- Comment on BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes) 2 weeks ago:
Exactly. It’s the gamers who are wrong.
- Comment on Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake | Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools 2 weeks ago:
If I would manage devOps, I would demand that AI code has to be signed off by a human on commit taking responsibility with the intention that they review changes made by AI prior pushing
And you would get burned. Today’s AI does one thing really really well - create output that looks correct to humans.
- Comment on Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake | Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools 2 weeks ago:
described the outages as “small but entirely foreseeable.”
LMAO
- Comment on Amazon blames human employees for an AI coding agent’s mistake | Two minor AWS outages have reportedly occurred as a result of actions by Amazon’s AI tools 2 weeks ago:
Yes. “obsolete” in that Amazon doesn’t give a shit about reliability anymore, so an AI reliability engineer is fine, now. Haha.
- Comment on What are the best solo, free, PnP table games for someone coming from dnd burnout? 2 weeks ago:
Since it’s a list of other great recommendations, I want to highlight for you:
If you’re willing to spend $10, itch.io has an amazing bundle on right now with a bunch of solo games:
https://itch.io/b/3484/no-ice-in-minnesota
By a “bunch”, there’s a total of *over 1400 games. Some are PC games and some are print and play one shot RPGs or board games or party games. Many have solo rules.
If this deal wasn’t going on right now, in your shoes, I would still go shop itch.io because it’s where I find great independent solo game and solo RPG authors, and many are like $2.
Seriously great bundle for a pen and paper gamer. I’ve never seen one like it.
It’s a worthwhile charity too, in my opinion. I live too close to Minnesota, so I have some motivation to see the masked thugs without badges or body cameras stopped before they spread any further.
- Comment on What are the best solo, free, PnP table games for someone coming from dnd burnout? 2 weeks ago:
If you’re willing to spend $10, itch.io has an amazing bundle on right now with a bunch of solo games:
https://itch.io/b/3484/no-ice-in-minnesota
Yes. Seriously great recommendation. There’s so many games, and some are print and play including solo play rules.
- Comment on Anyone else having issues with YouTube? 2 weeks ago:
Quick, vibe code it back to stability!
- Comment on Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house? 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. It has helped me, at least.
- Comment on Drink Whole Milk, Eat Red Meat, and Use ChatGPT 3 weeks ago:
“eliminate fraud”
ROFL
- Comment on Whats the best way to clean up 15 years of stuff around the house? 3 weeks ago:
I have a two rules that help me:
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I never move between rooms of the house without carrying something back where it belongs. Every trip should make my house a tiny bit tidier.
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When I pick up something random and it doesn’t obviously belong anywhere, I drop it into my “probably should give this away” bin.
When the “probably should give this away” bin fills, I’ll rescue onr or two things I changed my mind about, and give the rest away to empty the bin.
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- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 3 weeks ago:
Existing franchises are missing the young people because they’re about squeezing pennies out of nostalgia, rather than making good games.
The Indie developers of today are creating tomorrow’s lasting franchises.
It’s a tale as old as game development.
It’s all there from day one in the history of Atari and Activision.
Atari’s CEO decided that game developers should wear ties, keep standard work hours and be happy with a salary instead of any equity. This brilliant leadership vision led to the founding of Activision.
Atari went on to become a brand husk company.
Activision went on to become Blizzard / Activision and get bought for more money than I’ll ever see.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Yes. If folks would text “can you talk this afternoon?” more often, I would take more phone call.
- Comment on The Undiscovered Country: Why is the galley set so worn out? 3 weeks ago:
One of the plot points in “Undiscovered Country” is that the crew were coasting out the last three months until their retirement, when the Klingon crisis happens.
So it makes sense that the set team tried to make the ship look worn in and ready for some time off.
- Comment on Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
I love that first screenshot. Sometimes possible ads for his service still pop into my head:
“While not everyone can spend every waking minute with a flea the size of an elephant, you can experience my joy for just a small fee.”
“Not encountering enough nightmare fuel during your arduous journey through the wilderness?! Why not experience a relaxing ride to your destination, with ample nightmare fuel right below your saddle?!”
- Comment on Artsy darling Remedy Entertainment has a new CEO - a former EA exec and sports betting platform president - who is there to "accelerate growth" 3 weeks ago:
Ah. Thanks!
- Comment on Artsy darling Remedy Entertainment has a new CEO - a former EA exec and sports betting platform president - who is there to "accelerate growth" 3 weeks ago:
I’m out of the loop, I haven’t bought an EA game in a decade (or two). Did they already go full platform exclusive or something?
- Comment on Steam Hardware: Launch timing and other FAQs - Steam News 4 weeks ago:
So what the fuck is he going for?
There’s a few more election results left in influencing some of those old people. I’m sure that fetches a decent price, assuming Putin can find the money to keep buying.