TheFeatureCreature

@TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Non-Americans: what would you do in a situation where a foreign country run by a extremist dictator began producing nukes?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t. Mandatory crunch produces a mediocre result and drives away your hired talent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Paradox really needs a management shakeup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends entirely on the volume and time spent at that volume.

  Just using headphones in general? No.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The TES series in general for its massive, expansive lore.

  But Morrowind in particular has absolutely incredible world-building with incredible creativity and originality. There is a reason why so many people keep going back to the n’wah simulator and it’s because the world is so rich and incredible. So much of the following games was built off Morrowind’s incredible work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halo: Campaign Evolved | The Silent Cartographer Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Halo: Campaign Evolved | The Silent Cartographer Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How many times is this game going to get remade…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It all makes sense now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Krafton is now an 'AI-first company,' will spend $70 million on a GPU cluster to 'serve as the foundation for accelerating the implementation of agentic AI'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Subnautica 2 is so screwed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what country would you never go to again?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The USA. I’ve never actually been there but you couldn’t even pay me to cross the border. I’d rather not risk being disappeared to a ICE torture site because they searched my phone and found out I called Trump a poopoo head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is airtags really useful?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an airtag on my car keys and another hidden on my ebike. The latter is shared with immediate family so they can easily locate me if something goes wrong and I’m unable to contact them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI content now outnumbers human-written articles on the internet, but the good news is that the slop seems to have plateaued, for now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a good idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI content now outnumbers human-written articles on the internet, but the good news is that the slop seems to have plateaued, for now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s at the point now where the majority of the results of my web searches are clearly written by AI. You can look up the most obscure, difficult thing you can think of and you’ll miraculously find a 12-paragraph article about that exact topic that was “written” only just last month.

  And as with most AI “content”, those 12 paragraphs say absolutely nothing. AI is incredibly good at generating an entire novel’s worth of text that doesn’t actually say anything at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly? Aloy from the Horizon games. She’s maybe not the most rounded character, but she is a very strong, determined, stubborn, and intelligent person. She knows what she wants and will stop at nothing to get it. I think it also helps that the games don’t really have many choices or multiple endings, which I think was a good design choice. The story belongs to Aloy, not the player.

  Also she’s not a protag (sorta, you can play as her) but I would like to give a shoutout to Lae’zel from BG3. I suspect a lot of players haven’t explored her character questline much because of how prickly she is at the beginning, but her character development is extensive and, at times, heart-wrenching. A story of someone getting the entire fabric of their life and soul torn out from under them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨whatever happened to in-store coffee grinders?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there is only one store left near me that has them and it’s more of a boutique grocery store rather than a large chain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The K980 ditches them in favor of making you install Logi Options Plus to find out. Boo.

  Instant e-waste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung brings ads to US fridges⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are so many options for fridges that don’t have any tech in them at all. This is so easy to avoid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The bizarre hostility of Reddit users is baffling. It’s like they’ve never interacted with a human being in real life and have no idea how to process an opinion that isn’t a 1:1 match of their own.

  You could say something like “I love waffles! :D” and get a response that is like “Oh, so you hate pancakes then? Wow, you didn’t need to shit on every person that loves pancakes.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bungie CEO Pete Parsons retires: With Destiny 2 sentiment at an all-time low and pressure from Sony growing, Parsons has decided it's time to 'pass the torch' and head for an exit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped playing when I learned the DLC I paid for would be removed and no longer accessible. I already had some growing negative sentiment towards the game at that point but being outright ripped off was the last straw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why did our friends stop posting on social media?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a frequent Craigslist user for both sales and purchases. Selling stuff has become extremely difficult since Marketplace took over as the the “standard” for the area I live in. I’m in the same boat as I refuse to make an account on that shit heap of a website so getting my sales to move takes a lot more work.

  It also does not help that the second-hand landscape has changed a lot in the past 5ish years. People expect a lot more money for their used items now and buyers expect steep discounts for like-new condition items.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo now lets you hide AI-generated images in search results | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s getting really bad. You can look up the most mundane, everyday search term and there will be a distracting amount of fake images in the results.

  I look up a lot of reference images for art projects and so I have to skim over a lot of AI slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Confirms a New First-Person Ghost Recon Game is in Development⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And I can confirm that I Won’t Be Playing It because Ubisoft blows chunks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a waning interest, but it wasn’t the singular reason the game flopped. It’s because it was a painfully mediocre game at an extremely inflated price.

  Mass-produced corporate sludge like Outlaws is exactly why interest is waning. It sucks the soul out of the franchise and makes people lose interest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Belkin Bricks Most Wemo Smart Home Devices, Again Demonstrating You Don’t Own What You Buy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the many reasons I will never integrate smart home stuff into my house.

  My light switches still work because they’re powered by my finger instead of the “cloud”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The modern internet is very sterile, sanitised, and boring. It is a hollow and empty shell of what it once was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Krafton Delays ‘Subnautica 2’ Game Ahead of $250 Million Payout⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This game is screwed, calling it now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When you’re new to driving and not totally comfortable with it yet - most of your brainpower will be focused on controlling and handling the vehicle and taking your attention away from that to check signage is terrifying.

  This goes away with practice and experience. Eventually controlling the car will become muscle memory and you can devote your brainpower to broader observation of your surroundings and signage. Start with calm back roads, quiet residential streets, and gentle intersections. Preferably an area with a mix of things like stop signs, uncontrolled intersections, hill sops, school/play zones, crosswalks, and so on.

  It can be kinda fun too as you can explore neighbourhoods you’ve never been to before.