cecilkorik

@cecilkorik@piefed.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It turns out Saudi Arabia will own 93.4 percent of EA if the buyout goes through, which is effectively all of it⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s definitely not new, but it’s time to start thinking about how strange it is, and start pulling these assholes off their money-merry-go-round.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbound Fans: New Dedicated Server Open to Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  PVP? Strictly yes, strictly no, or opt-in?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do people with epilepsy triggered by flashing lights, drive past trees that are backlit by the sun?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have epilepsy, but I do get migraines, and what you described is a perfect trigger for me.

  Best way to avoid it is don’t drive when the sun is low in the sky or on roads lined with very tall trees. If for some reason I was trapped in such a situation, which is not really likely since it’s very predictable if it’s something you’re interested in avoiding, I would probably slow down, find somewhere to pull over, and just wait it out. But yeah, it is bad. I don’t do it if I can at all help it, because I avoid getting into that situation like the plague.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Beta Starbound was the shit. Release was just shit, with no “the”. They took a great game of endless discovery and procedural generation with a gameplay loop that just worked out of beta and filled it with completely predictable set pieces and juvenile hard-coded nonsense. They literally added a poop emoji monster FFS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Microsoft ended Windows 10 support, why is it still getting updates like every other day?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You think you can turn them off. Temporarily. They mysteriously turn back on. For no obvious reason. I have literally never in my life been successful at actually permanently disabling Windows Updates. And god knows I have tried. The setting re-enables itself. The disabled service re-enables itself. Some installer quietly turns them back on. You change some unrelated setting and suddenly, there’s Windows Update again! There’s no escape.

  Windows: “Oh, I know you already told me you didn’t want important updates, but I just assumed you still wanted critical updates? Okay, okay, I get it, you don’t want critical updates either, I hear you…” <3 weeks later> “I’ve been trying to warn you about this for the last 2 weeks but you’ve had your notifications turned off, but now I really have to because Microsoft told me this next update is SOOO important that I really need to install it just this once, okay! But really, you should have at least critical updates too. I mean, installing this update requires them anyway, and all the important updates too, so I’ll just turn those back on for you to make this whole process easier next time Microsoft has a super-critical-urgent-mega-feature-emergency-update for you, sorry for all this inconvenience!” <reboots in the middle of your work>

  Linux is the only solution that has worked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 Publisher Asked ChatGPT For Help Dumping Founders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The best thing that could happen is to have the Subnautica founders either settle with them to take back the IP (and ideally at least the payout they are owed), or utterly wipe the floor with them in court, and then use the damages awarded to create the true successor to Subnautica that it was always going to be without the interference, meddling and sabotage from Krafton.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 and inZOI publisher Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW, between what’s going on with EA/Sims 4 and Inzoi, most of the life-sim community seems to be pinning their hopes on Paralives now, which does look like it’s going to be a banger, but relying on a single successor to the genre is a lot of pressure and the community is putting a lot of weight on their shoulders which is not a great or healthy situation to put them in. Especially for a genre that requires so much work to meet the community’s expectations.

  Oh well, at least if it all goes to shit, we’ll always have Sims 3 and all its mods and expansions. Still the best life-sim out there in my opinion, as long as you can withstand the instability, bugs and crashes.

  Some bearded and cutlass-wielding fellow needs to create a definitive hacked community edition of that game, ideally with all the mods and fixes already implemented and ready to roll, all the awful EA store and social media shit mercilessly excised. Or even better, some project just needs to reimplement the whole engine from scratch, OpenTTD style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica 2 and inZOI publisher Krafton launches voluntary resignation program for employees as it transforms into an “AI first company”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. The original expectation was that it could serve as an early-access placeholder until more content and functionality could be implemented (which in the case of the Sims series its competing with, often takes many years and hundreds of dollars of DLC expansions before it starts to approach a satisfying level of content). From that point of view, it doesn’t seem like it’s automatically so terrible that the game heavily relies on it, as the expectation would be that the reliance would reduce over time as the game develops, which everyone understands is realistically going to take a long time.

  Now that Krafton has revealed that they’re fully onto their villain arc, it’s pretty clear that this is not temporary and is not going to be eventually reduced by replacing it with a whole bunch of lovingly human-crafted content, if anything it seems like it will certainly expand the use of AI even further. As Krafton’s largest currently released IP Inzoi is likely going to be the poster child for Krafton’s attempt to turn “AI-slop: The Game” into a money faucet to fund their other misadventures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have heard people mispronounce it various other ways on purpose, ironically, as mockery, but I agree that depends on people knowing there's a correct pronunciation in the first place, which there is, as you've accurately described.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asylum hotel provider makes £180m profit despite claims of inedible food and rationed loo paper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love it when people are surprised that for-profit businesses seek profit above all else. Like they assume there will be always be a set of strict laws to keep them in check and just assume they will strictly follow those laws because they're laws.

  Then they go ahead and vote for people who say that there are too many taxes and regulations. As if those taxes and regulations aren't exactly the same laws they're expecting to keep the for-profit businesses in check, which are often not even close to being sufficient in the first place.

  The cognitive dissonance is wild. People are fucking brainwashed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Planet Centauri is a great game (also I don't know why the link says "Alpha Centauri" it's literally never been called that, that's a different game)

  Worth checking out, it's very deep, but also a distinctly different flavor than Terraria despite the superficial similarities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New moderator for this community!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your username checks out. A Rare choice, one even might say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with imgur right now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why we can't have nice things, at least not for more than a few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with imgur right now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pepperidge farms remembers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Asks People to Delete Emails In Order to Save Water During Drought⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  See, the internet is just a series of pipes, and those pipes can get clogged, and then the water can't get through...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as we've got some vestiges of free speech and free association available to us we need to do what we can to organize and sow the seeds of resistance. They're not coming for us yet, although I suspect they likely will eventually. But if you're already too afraid that they'll be coming for you to do what needs to be done, then they've already won. And I don't think they have. Resistance is the only choice that makes sense. But as you said, it's just my opinion. I'm allowed to share my thoughts and opinions though, at least for now, and I will do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would we be able to use the measles virus to reset the immune systems of people with autoimmune disorders like MS or rheumatoid arthritis?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Without understanding the root cause of why the immune system became misinformed in the first place, and without knowing whether that cause still exists or has even become worse, you're playing a very dangerous game telling it to forget everything it knows and just blindly hoping it will make better choices the next time around, treating it as if it were just a random outcome and gambling with people's health. Imagine trying to treat someone with arthritis and after treatment their autoimmune situation gets even worse and they become diagnosed with MS, so you treat it the same way again and it becomes a very aggressive form of MS. That violates the hippocratic oath to do no harm, which is why there really isn't much interest in such approaches unless they've been proven reliable and safe in carefully controlled studies, which your proposal hasn't been (and presumably wouldn't be able to be).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many german communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That's some damn fine work, sir.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Election Truth Alliance is already investigating claims in some areas, maybe they can help or maybe your evidence can help them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That's definitely a stretch goal. But at least if we can start by stopping them from killing something innocuous like games it shows that we still maybe have some power over them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I'm basically certain it will be at this point.

  The good news is they already fired all the good people, so we can hope those people find their way into creating a wonderful spiritual sequel under a different name, as is tradition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The French figured out how to solve that particular problem hundreds of years ago. Guillotines are efficient and reusable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games Initiative passes 700K milestone⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get accused of being a bot all the time now because I still enjoy writing long-form posts and, y'know, contributing what I can to the state of human knowledge, or what remains of it anyway. I can't blame people for being defensive about it. It's the AIs themselves I'm offended by, they're the ones doing wrong. We're all just trying to cope with the avalanche of unverified garbage they're putting out. It's digital pollution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Illuminator Advert - Game Boy Accessory⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had one of these. It was truly terrible, extremely limited, clunky, dim, with awful battery life, but sort of better than nothing. Barely. The days before white LED backlights were a really painful time for portable electronics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This also has big implications for consumer rights and society as a whole in other areas of digital technology and right to repair, it is a foot in the door to start actually holding manufacturers responsible for the full lifecycle of their products (digital and real) that requires them to actually relinquish their control when their product reaches end-of-commercial-life, instead of turning everything into digital garbage out of what basically amounts to apathy and compulsive rights hoarding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we can all agree it's probably a bad idea.

  Does that mean you shouldn't? Maybe. But maybe not. Sometimes it's fun to do something "wrong", because you want to, and maybe you'll really enjoy it anyway. Maybe you'll learn a lot about why it's a bad idea, and maybe you'll find those learnings enrich your life and give you stories to tell. I'm not trying to recommend this at all, I'm just saying you should consider it from all angles and outcomes before you make a decision, especially if this is something he really wants to do for whatever reason. Life is for *living*, it's not for making a series of *optimal choices to result in the highest score*. Experiences, both good and bad, are their own reward. And as long as nobody's going to get hurt, and you go into it with your eyes open and an understanding of the risks and potential downfalls, and do what you can to mitigate and protect against them as much as you can, maybe it's something you can try.

  If it's really something you're not comfortable with, and he is, well then you two are going to have to have a long and hard talk about it and come to some mutually agreeable compromise. But even if it is objectively a bad idea, you also need to think about whether he's just naive and is going to hate it, or whether it's going to make him happy that he tried it, and whether it's an experience he needs to have in his life. Meanwhile, is it going to cause you resentment if you go there and hate it and he loves it? Will he listen to you if you decide you really do hate it and don't want to continue?

  That's not something anyone can answer for you, but it has little to do with whether it's a bad idea and much more to do with what both of you want out of life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The end of Stop Killing Games [Accursed Farms]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am still of the opinion that they aimed too small and focused too narrow. Games are a "luxury" anyone can live without and it's hard to rally grassroots support behind protecting something that people only use for entertainment. Yeah it's low stakes to force them to let you continue to play it after servers shut down but the same low stakes also makes the petition itself pretty ignorable to anyone who's not a very invested "gamer".

  Actual right to repair and right to continue to access to the software and services and devices you buy goes SO far beyond mere games, there are other huge impacts to society from exactly the same problem that leads to game servers being shut down, and this petition ignored them completely to focus exclusively on games. I know that was done purposefully, but I think it was a miscalculation.

  I'm convinced it could have got a lot of support if it had broader aims. Yes if you go after the big boys who are locking down tractor parts and integrated electronic modules so they become obsolete and unrepairable and directly impacting farmers and our food supply, you're going to REALLY piss off some very big business interests who are going to try and kill your petition, but you're also going to help educate and hopefully get a lot of support from politicians who already know this is a problem and from the general public who doesn't care about games but does care about society (at least once they're properly educated about it, which is hard but also a necessary and positive step to even attempt).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 340 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I still just can't respect a rainbow road that has guardrails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is the progress pride flag so poorly designed (especially the intersex progress pride flag)? Will it be redesigned?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would absolutely and unironically fly this flag, although to be even more inclusive it also needs an alpha layer. Perhaps it should be a cube? Actually even that might not be inclusive enough, we need more dimensions. BRB I need to figure out how to attach a tesseract to my flagpole, I guess I'll need some kind of gordian knot?