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- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 28 minutes ago:
I have a steam deck and figured out how to emulate BoTW.
I was initially disappointed by my inability to get it to run at better than roughly 20-25 fps even after some tweaks and bullshit.
… Then I realized that the Switch 1, in handheld mode… can’t actually do much better, claims to run at 30fps, frequently has framerate drop spikes.
So yeah, a Deck does a pretty good job, as has always been the case with emulators: its a bit less efficient than the native hardware env on the most demanding titles, but a Switch 1 can barely fucking run BoTW properly as well.
My next attempt at this?
See if I can jerry rig FSR 2 in the emulator to run it at a lower res and then upscale.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 2 hours ago:
… As best I can tell…
He actually, legally changed his first name to Thor.
And he has gone by Thor for… at least 5 years?.. in his Twitch streaming career.
I fully agree this is an insult to the old Gods, but … Thor is apparently literally his actual name.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 11 hours ago:
Well, there’s at least two aspects here:
Fucking Thor, PirateSoftware.
Up untill Ross posted his ‘SKG is dead’ video… Thor had by far gotten the most views of anyone with a video discussing SKG.
And Thor… well, he was anti-SKG, and had been spreading a bunch of objectively false bullshit about it, actual FUDD.
So… about half of Ross’s video was dedicated to pointing out how Thor was wildly misunderstanding things, and fairly graciously and politely trying to correct these misconceptions.
So here’s the two sort of things at play I see, in terms of 'why sudden surge now?'
- Thor was just shown to be objectively, factually wrong. Thus, the immediate effect of this would be to reiterate and clarify and reinforce with more specificity what SKG actually is… and that could directly convince people to give a damn.
But uh, almost certainly much, much more relevant
- Ross doing (1) created an absolute drama shit storm via the way youtube works now… which is very much just drama mongers and commentators reporting on e-drama. (1) kicked off an actual, honest to god, truly viral explosion of many, many people who’d basically never heard of any of this before, most dogpiling on Thor for being such a disingenuous, egotistical asshole and liar.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 11 hours ago:
I mean, its not technically completely impossible, but the vast majority of EU countries require a valid name, id, address, etc, its usually a pretty dumb idea to bot spam an official government web portal, and I’m sure there will be a review process after July 31.
Also… its not like it hits a million and then just no one else can sign up to it anymore.
It’ll stay open till the end of the month, could easily breach a million, maybe even two million if anything like this insane rate keeps up.
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 11 hours ago:
Ok, I may not have great photoshop skills, but I do have a knowledge of ancient memes:
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 11 hours ago:
<3
- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 12 hours ago:
Knock knock, Nintendo.
Suprise!
Its the Consumer Protection and Defense agency of Brazil!
dexerto.com/…/nintendo-faces-legal-action-over-ab…
Yeah, Brazil is evidently not cool with the ‘we can completely brick your device remotely’ schtick.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 14 hours ago:
Well hey, I very much appreciate more info from someone who was actually there!
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 14 hours ago:
Yep.
There’s the whole… apparently when Thor was essentially high school to post high school age, he managed to cajole a younger SecondLife user, who was actually decently talented at creating like clothes and custom player models…
So in SecondLife, you can actually make real money that way, you can cash out the SecondLife currency for actual realworld money.
And Thor basically convinced this other SL user, who was like 5 years younger than him… that he could make them both more money as a sort of salesman, promoter, of this other persons user made content… if they profit share.
I may have some details wrong here, but basically… Thor did basically nothing in terms of promotion, yet he made a significant chunk of change off of this other person.
Because … SL just has basically a universal market you can list things in.
Like uh, Escape from Tarkov, or FF14’s auction house or what not, fully built into the game… but even more so as it actually allows you to cash out to real world money.
its not like you’d have to do some kind of technical wizardry to enable sales, its not like Thor whipped up some kind of gray/black market system / payment processor way back when PayPal was still a fairly new idea.
Alongside that, there were allegations of basically ERP going waaay too far.
Now, this other person has I think entirely denied any kind of ERP abuse, sexual or just normal relationship abuse, says everything was fine…
But a good number of people seem to think that the essentially digital labor theft Thor did, basically amounts to its own kind of grooming, exploitation.
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 15 hours ago:
wtf AI in your mouse driver?
Oh yeah, totally not logging your every mouse movement, no sir, not at all!
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 15 hours ago:
I lack the photoshop skills, but uh
The ‘plap plap GET PREGNANT’ meme, but with a therapist shouting:
‘accept what you can’t change’
‘don’t blame yourself for things out of your control’
‘oh, the copay is $125’
‘you missed the last appointment so we charged you for not canceling in advance’
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 16 hours ago:
Wow, I hadn’t even heard of that particular story of Thor being an egotistical asshat.
I’d been looking into the WoW debacle, then stumbled into other stuff, but nope, that one’s new to me.
- Comment on The UK Stop Killing Games petition has reached 100.000 signatures 16 hours ago:
This is fucking bonkers.
I ran the math a fee days ago, before this absolutely blee the fuck up, and I came to:
We’d need 11k sigs per day until July 31st.
… We’re now apparently at more than double that and climbing.
Ho Lee Shit.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 22 hours ago:
Probably not, I’m the one that’s hated and shunned and gaslit by the entire family because of hoe easily and often I point out that they are both hypocrites and objectively wrong.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 day ago:
As a data analyst with an Econ Degree and specialization in Econometrics:
Data and graphs and tables and lists mean nothing to anyone other than nerds, people need a narrative.
As a person who also has a Poli Sci degree:
Uh, the same, but with much more evidence.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 day ago:
Please, stop teasing, my PiHole can only handle so much!
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 day ago:
Your idiot noises have no power over me, you contemptible boffin.
You aren’t worth explaining anything further to, such is the density of your thick skull, such is the gaping, cavernous void present in the part of your mind where relevant contextual information should be.
If you must pester me further, my server admin tutoring rate is $100 per hour, if you can’t afford the cost, just admit you’re lost.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 day ago:
I mean yeah, technically there will be some EU member states with different guidelines (due to different id/privacy laws) where maybe yes, a few of them could theoretically maybe be pumped up by a bot.
But uh, for some thing… you’d need a fairly well done bot net to even kind of pull that off for long.
As you say: basic ip logging.
If its all coming from… a single, or small number of ips… assuming the EU is at least as competent of a server admin as I am, yeah, that’s gonna look pretty fuckywucky in the logs, probably get noticed within 24 hours max.
And yes, I also seriously doubt there would not be some kind of verification of signees at at least some level, that would be initiated after all the thresholds are passed.
But its wildly innacurate to portray this as if… oh yeah any idiot vibe coder could just drill this up to whatever number after 30 minutes.
That was the way the internet worked back in 2006, or how stupid say Twitter polls are now.
Not the same level of inept incompetence going on with EU government websites.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 day ago:
You don’t get it.
What happens if you try to just brute force guess at a bunch of possible credit card numbers and addresses and names in some kind of online store?
After maybe a couple of tries, 30 seconds or less of that… the system is rejecting your bullshit fake numbers everytime, and after enough, it auto ip bans you, sends an email to the security admin team, and your journey to getting a chat from INTERPOL or the FBI or what not has now officially begun.
This system doesn’t just accept any old random bullshit you give it.
It is not a random slapdash online poll.
Its only going to count up on that total signatures count if the system actually verifies the info you put in as being consistent with an actual, real, specific system.
I again repeat: You are an idiot.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 day ago:
You are an idiot.
No you cannot fill in any number you want.
This is an official EU webportal for formal citizens initiatives petitions.
Like, ok, I guess you could just spam it with a bot, and then INTERPOL comes after you for fucking with an official government website, potentially hundreds or thousands of counts of impersonation and lying on a government/legal document.
Like sure, go do a DDOS on I dunno, whitehouse.gov
That is approximately and equivalently stupid thing to do.
I repeat: You are an idiot.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 day ago:
To be honest, neither did I… and I may have accidentally replied to the wrong comment, could have sworn someone was asking ‘why line go up fast’.
Oopsie!
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 day ago:
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 day ago:
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 day ago:
OMG yes, open source all hardware drivers within say 1-5 years of a particular model getting retired?
Now there’s a dream, haha.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone 1 day ago:
It flipped around because the founder of the movement, Ross, of AccursedFarms on youtube… released a video giving a status report…
And spending a good deal of the video explaining how Thor, PirateSoftware on youtube… has basically been making up bullshit and spreading nonsense for about SKG for months now.
After that video… basically every single AngloSphere Gamer Youtuber has been putting out videos spreading the SKG messsge, and dogpiling on Thor for being a confused narcissist.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 days ago:
… Maybe they are Hist sap repositories?
There probably actually is some lore on this, and knowing Elder Scrolls / Bethesda, it is probably inconsistent/contradictory.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 days ago:
Alright class settle in, today’s lecture:
Argonian Sexual Dimorphism:
- How does a reptile have mammaries?
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 days ago:
OMG what a shit take >=[
bad dum tish
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 days ago:
I was this close to also mentioning that yeah lol, turns out any guy can have pleasure and potentially an orgasm from proper prostate stimulation…
And you don’t even have to be attracted to other dudes to be able to do that, and enjoy it!
Pegging and toys exist!
But again, nope, not allowed.
To go with another personal anecdote… different girl I was dating at one time, who considered herself pansexual… well, I broached the idea of using an anal toy… and she, again I remind you, a self described pansexual… just started calling me gay, constantly made buttsex jokes and quips all the time, started trying to get me to hook up with dudes.
WTF?!
I respect her gender and sexual identity/pregerences, she doesn’t respect mine at all, while she’s literally wearing rainbow flag pins and going to every pride event in town and constantly making IG posts about how everyone should be more inclusive and accepting?
Sorry to rant but yeah, the hypocrisy is strong in this realm.
- Comment on You got it, buddy 3 days ago:
Wait, what, you don’t have a cloaca?
