TheFeatureCreature
@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca
Hello!
I’m a nonbinary Canadian Blender artist! You can find my work here: Galleries, commissions, prints, and more!
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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
This is a rather tactless question but there is a way of asking it without the ignorant, blanket insults against those who are struggling.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
One thing that really annoys me is when people turn on their signals as they turn, as if it matters at that point.
They’re meant for indicating that you’re about to turn or change lanes, not for notifying other drivers that you’re doing something that they can already see you doing. I’ve ridden as a passenger with numerous drivers that have gotten angry at other drivers for “not letting them in” and yet they never turned on their indicators to show that they even wanted in in the first place.
- Comment on What is this high pitched whining noise temporarily coming from active studio monitors after reconnecting power? 1 week ago:
I’d imagine it’s the electronics before the amplification stage being energised and the resulting noise is being amplified and sent to the speakers. Or it could even be the amplifier itself powering on and letting noise through. I don’t know much about the specifics beyond that, though.
- Comment on Why are AAA games a rip off in US, UK & EU? 1 week ago:
I couldn’t even buy AAA games if I wanted to. They’re like $100-$150CAD now. Goddamn absurd prices.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure the executives will be getting hefty bonuses and pay raises as thanks for their services to the company.
Bungie is a shit company and has been for years. I have zero sympathy after what they’ve done to both their staff and their customers.
- Comment on Is Apple One worth it for the content offered? 2 weeks ago:
Only if you’re super into the Apple ecosystem and make regular use of their services.
More people are going to be paying for Music and maybe TV; not as many will be paying for Fitness, News, etc. It’s not going to be worth it unless you’re already subbed to more than just Music, and even then probably not.
- Comment on GTA 6 Price Finally Confirmed, Features a 'Single-Player Experience' at Launch 2 weeks ago:
$114CAD for the standard edition and $142CAD for the ultimate edition, before taxes of course.
Go fuck yourselves, Rockstar. Not that I ever intended to actually buy this because, y’know, scummy greedy company, but this really seals the deal.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Xbox: ‘We have to turn this into a sustainable business’ 3 weeks ago:
So glad I never got involved in that shitshow.
- Comment on What's a weird or baffling social event you experienced? 4 weeks ago:
Attending a Catholic funeral service for a religious family member. The strangeness hits a bit harder as an atheist trans person.
- Comment on How do you pronounce 'Niche'? 1 month ago:
“Neesh” which is the correct way to say it as far as I am concerned. It has Latin roots but the word “niche” is French and that is how they say it.
- Comment on First Skywind progress video since 2024 1 month ago:
Actually watching the video helps.
- Comment on What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up? 2 months ago:
A complete overhaul of the electoral process that allowed fascists to gain complete control.
A complete overhaul of the society that became so sick that they willingly put the fascists there. Twice.
A complete overhaul of the elittest pedophile bi/trillionaire class that has unfettered control over every branch of state and federal government and meddles in foreign affairs across the globe.
In short: The USA would need to be torn down and rebuilt.
- Comment on New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations 2 months ago:
Jesus christ. Combine this with the deafening noise pollution they emit and there are going to be entire uninhabitable deadzones around these monstrosities.
- Comment on When in time did America gave up trying to be great? Gave up as the example for the world? And now we are on our backs and refuse to get up like Bender off Futurama or a turtle? 2 months ago:
The US was built on a foundation of genocide and slave ownership. It was never great.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 2 months ago:
They’re a private company and thus have resisted many of the enshittification trends that run rampant through the industry.
And also their competitors are absolutely atrocious and are completely tone-deaf to what customers actually want.
- Comment on Is Kagi Worth It? 3 months ago:
Just a disclaimer about Ecosia: Due the fact they source their search results from Bing and Google, as per their agreement with them they do share some of your information with Google and Microslop. If privacy is a concern or if you just want to avoid those companies then I would give Ecosia a miss.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 3 months ago:
I’ve had a personal boycott against EA (and Ubisoft, Activision, etc) for over 10 years now and time and time again I get reminded how good of an idea it was.
Also helped by the fact that EA titles are like $100 now and I’d much rather burn that money for a few minutes of heat than give it to the criminals at EA.
- Comment on Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"? 4 months ago:
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don’t. Also subreddit mods will sometimes remove such posts.
- Comment on Why does most American's give shit to the French when if not for them we would have lost the revolution? 4 months ago:
American exceptionalism at work. Decades of being lead to believe they are the solver of the world’s problems and the centre of the “free” world. I’d also many don’t even know that the French were involved because US education is very good at altering history to make them look superior.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 4 months ago:
Indeed. I ended up with the 4 because a local electronics shop had it for a good price back in the day.
- Comment on I have a rasberry pi 5 collecting dust, what are some neat useful things i can do with it? 4 months ago:
I have a Pi 4 running as a PiHole and Pi 5 running as an SDR server with 2 radios attached to it. Both are connected via Tailscale as well so I can access both from anywhere I want, especially useful for the PiHole so I have adblocking anywhere on any device.
- 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" 4 months ago:
They’re done. I hope their devs can find better employment elsewhere.
- Comment on Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN 5 months ago:
No way in hell I’d pay its nearly $100CAD asking price.
- Comment on Solargene, a space colony-builder where you can expand on the planets and moons of the solar system (including space stations), with complex, modular building mechanics (with support for Z levels) released on Steam 5 months ago:
Ouch, those user reviewers don’t paint a very pretty picture. Sounds like this could’ve used more time in the oven.
- Comment on The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and following in Nightdive's footsteps 5 months ago:
- Comment on Non-Americans: what would you do in a situation where a foreign country run by a extremist dictator began producing nukes? 5 months ago:
Slight correction: Two-party, first past the post democracy means that only 51% of the population decide which dumbass fucks the country while the other 49% effectively get zero say or representation in government.
- Comment on Why do SO MANY reviews now talk about "phone wobble"? 5 months ago:
The majority of phone reviewers (and modern tech reviewers in general) get their review units for free so they lack that feeling and awareness that comes with spending $1000+ of their own money on a new device.
So what they feel are issues and what everyday customers feel are issues becomes skewed. Quite often I have seen reviewers ignore major software issues because they personally feel they are not that significant… on a device worth hundreds of dollars.
Or you get the opposite where they get hung up on something that most people aren’t going to care as much about. They can’t feel ripped off because they got the phone for free so they have to find something else to complain about. Phone wobble is kind of annoying but I forget about it like 10 seconds later.
- Comment on IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market 6 months ago:
I built my current PC about a year and a half ago (maybe 2 years?) and it has 64gb of DDR5.
The same RAM kit I have is still for sale and now retails for $900CAD. That’s nearly a 400% increase over what I paid.
- Comment on Linux has had a great year, but there are two reasons I can't tear myself away from Windows 6 months ago:
at least from the perspective of general PC users.
This is a bit of a side tangent not strictly related to this article - The overwhelming vast majority of computer users are not gamers. Most people do not play videogames on a PC and whether or not a few games run or not on Linux is irrelevant to them.
What is relevant to them is productivity software, employment requirements, ease of use, and stability. And, on those particular fronts, Windows still has a noticeable advantage despite being a dumpster fire that costs money.
I acknowledge the many achievements that have been made in the world of Linux development lately and I’m so stoked to see it enter the mainstream more and more, but grow very tired of all the articles, opinion pieces, blog posts, etc saying that Linux is “ready” because it can play games - as if that is the only thing that matters.
- Comment on Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’ 6 months ago:
You don’t. Mandatory crunch produces a mediocre result and drives away your hired talent.
