cronenthal

@cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s literally how it works. If you run a store selling/licensing media you get to decide what’s on the shelves and what isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Family’s Crypto Empire Collapses: Nearly $1 Billion Wiped Out as World Liberty and Memecoins Crash⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Going anywhere near any of Trump’s businesses is a guarantee for losses and regret. In Trump’s world there are only very few winners, basically only the ones paying for pardons. And it’ll be interesting to see if even this is worth it in the long run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It is available on other, quite popular, stores. GOG and itch.io are household names in PC gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t heard about the details, what’s your source on that?

  As far as I recall, the developer said he didn’t know the actual reason for the ban.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Valve is pretty upfront about being a business first and foremost. Their customers are loyal because they consistently provide high value at reasonable prices, even though they are in a dominating position in the market. They’ve taken unpopular decisions in the past, but never any that seriously alienated a meaningful chunk of their customer base.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Based solely off the trailer I can see how a big American storefront would err on the side of caution here. There is very little to gain from carrying a game decidedly built with controversy in mind, but a lot to loose.

  With the publicity around it and sales still possible through alternative stores maybe things will turn out alright for the developer in the end. “Banned” media is always in demand, after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese AI agent running 50 social media accounts 24/7 automatically⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No, of course not. And yet, thanks to it’s structure, obscurity, lemmy and the fediverse in general seem to be considerably less bot-infested than the commercial centralized platforms. We’ll see whether it stays this way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese AI agent running 50 social media accounts 24/7 automatically⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that real people still use this trash never fails to amaze me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OMFG⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I almost threw up and I’m not even from Italy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Venn with the Taliban is growing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta appreciate the choice of ad, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The oldest Minecraft server, MinecraftOnline, is being shut down by Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everyone is entitled to their opinion about bigotry and slurs, but having soulless American mega-corporations enforcing the current lowest common denominator about what is acceptable is not the win some people might think it is. Sure, they might seem like they’re on your side, and thus the right side, now, but this can change quickly and radically.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I shut off the internet how many days do you think it would take before people lose their minds?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  From a business/productivity side it would be cataclysmic.

  For the private life of people quite the opposite, things would get a lot more sane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crysis Remastered Trilogy gets a GOG release with the original Crysis now in the GOG Preservation Program⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Theory of American Reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Now that I think about it, the situation in the US really does play out like an unconscionable large version of Lord of the Flies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Theory of American Reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Twelve year olds are more advanced, make it 8.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Pass Price Hike Announced, Will Cost $30/Month For Ultimate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried it and canceled it the moment the games I actually played started randomly disappearing. “Whoops, we only licensed this for a couple of months. You can still pay even more to ‘buy’ it, though. We might also re-license it later on, but who knows? Also, enjoy this absolute corporate trash we will shove into your face constantly!” No thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All I really wanted was SQ42 back when I supported it on Kickstarter. With my 20 bucks there’s no regret, but it’s quite funny where things have gone since then.

  I install the latest alpha once every year and am both amazed and disappointed.

  I don’t expect SQ42 to be released before 2030 and I do expect it to be a buggy, unoptimized mess when it finally arrives.

  I’ve been thoroughly entertained all those years, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reginald Fried Kentucky Jr⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He is on the way of becoming the Trofim Lysenko of our time. The results of his work will be… interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI claims new GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to ‘PhD level’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could power a data center with the rolling of my eyes after reading this headline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Hype is the Product⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Concise and to the point. My thoughts exactly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't worry it builds character⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Except the ride doesn’t stop under any circumstances, ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 Official Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even in the pretty generic realm of military fps trailers, this one lacked the tiniest ambition of standing out. It almost dips into the realm of satire in it’s choice of themes and presentation which are all so obviously just lame rehashes of things we’ve all seen dozens of times before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 Official Reveal Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This looks so generic I almost fell asleep. This franchise is on its last legs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Campaign asking EU to stop publishers "destroying" online games hit by anonymous transparency complaint⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least we know how serious the industry is taking this now. And they still haven’t heard about the Streisand effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you combat boredom?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Start a family.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this real? Because it sounds like some low effort satire about blindly trusting LLMs and the totally expected outcomes. Surely no one can be this naive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If they tried to alter or destroy the files there is a good chance it would be found out, which would escalate the situation to a whole different level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Romero Games reportedly met with Microsoft just a day before the publisher pulled funding for the studio, and there was 'no mention' of the decision that put over 100 people out of work⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They took a huge bet on consolidation and it didn’t really pay off. Now they’re writing it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game Pass will "either kill everyone else, or give up", says Dishonored and Prey dev Arkane founder⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried GamePass PC until a whole bunch of my favourite games disappeared. So I had to buy them in the end l, which, given steam’s usual deals, was about the same as keeping my subscription. It’s not a great deal for discerning customers and people will notice.