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 Microsoft's Canada timezone troubles leave admins fixing calendars, pretending they're in Bogota 6 days ago:
Yup. Spend a good 15 minutes figuring out what the hell was going on with my system clock and why no amount of syncing would fix it. Had to manually change the timezone.
- Comment on Do chickens get seasick? 1 week ago:
Chickens are notorious for keeping secrets.
- Comment on Some iPhone Duo displays are cracking, seemingly all in the same way 1 week ago:
Been following this fiasco from a safe distance out of curiosity.
It’s very apparent they pushed this out the door before it was ready and the hinge cracking the screen is only one aspect of that. The UI and UX are severely undercooked, with several of Apple’s own first-party apps not supporting the duo and just showing up as normal portrait iphone apps. Also lots of issues with screen rotation not working, the camera having the quality of a 12 year old iphone, lots of software bugs, some reports of units just outright bricking themselves, and Apple’s own first-party case requires you to glue it to the phone.
- Comment on Electronic Arts to Cut 400 Jobs, Shut Down BioWare 2 weeks ago:
A lot of us predicted this would happen after Veilguard not meeting expectations. EA would eventually make BioWare take the fall for EA’s bad management choices.
Honestly, the surprise was that it took them this long to do it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I have a hard time even listening to music that came out after 2022/2023. I have to look up the artist and do a thorough background check first.
- Comment on Why is it legal for Trump to short stocks, then bet against them? I mean he gets a shitload of money. But what about the common folk? 3 weeks ago:
- Sitting US president has complete legal immunity.
- The entire elite class in the US is effectively legally immune.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That’s $570CAD for a bunch of rebranded Aliexpress tat.
I would be laughing if I didn’t know that this game will make sales and profit history.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Surprised this is only being mentioned now. I’ve been getting these on my phone for years.
- Comment on Hellblade developer Ninja Theory heading towards closure in new wave of Xbox cuts, as two separate agreements collapse 1 month ago:
This industry is so fucked.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Forgive me, but what is this boot-licking bullshit? Who the hell signed off on this article?
Refunding customers after a product was intentionally sabotaged is great consumer protection and the only groups who would ever be angry at this are the corporations that pull this shady shit.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Admits GTA 6 Could Have Cost More Than $80, but Rockstar Chose Restraint and Overdelivered Value 2 months ago:
They could price it at $5 and I still wouldn’t buy it. Take-Two and Rockstar can piss off.
- Comment on Dev at id Software says Microsoft 'burned a lot of bridges' in the industry: 'They fundamentally don't understand art, they don't understand games' 2 months ago:
This.
This is just a general publicly traded company problem. Line must always go up, share value must always go up, C-suite bonuses must always go up
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 months ago:
Yesn’t.
That may have been somewhat true in the past, but it is hard to articulate just how big of a hole they are in right now. The leveraged buyout has pushed EA’s debt to over $20Billion USD.
They make that money back or they might not, but they are going to absolutely pillage and destroy the company in the process. The word that often follows “leveraged buyout” is “bankruptcy”. It’s a tale as old as corporate history.
- Comment on It’s Looking Like the Cybertruck Is the Biggest Flop in Automotive History 3 months ago:
Was on my bike the other day and saw one. Gave the driver the middle finger as I passed.
- Comment on What is the smartest non boss enemy in a video game 3 months ago:
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve nearly pissed myself because an enemy NPC crept up behind me and put a round in the back of my head while I was busy doing something else. I’m not sure which of the STALKER games has the best AI but it can get really clever. I’ve never played another game that has enemies that can spot you from a distance, recognise that you are an enemy and you that haven’t spotted them back, and then sneak up to you to assassinate you stealthily. You might’ve never even known they were there in the level with you until you’re staring at the game over screen.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months 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] 4 months 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? 4 months 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? 4 months ago:
I couldn’t even buy AAA games if I wanted to. They’re like $100-$150CAD now. Goddamn absurd prices.
- Comment on 4 months 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? 4 months 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 4 months 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’ 4 months ago:
So glad I never got involved in that shitshow.
- Comment on What's a weird or baffling social event you experienced? 5 months 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'? 5 months 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 5 months 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? 6 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 6 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? 6 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? 6 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.