frezik
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- Comment on My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card 18 hours ago:
See, you’re falling right into it. They were tracking things just fine before the rule changed. The rule was changed so the bank could make more money.
- Comment on My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card 18 hours ago:
And kill their credit score while they’re at it. Which they need for a multitude of other things.
The system is rigged.
- Comment on My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card 18 hours ago:
The bank knows people will make mistakes that they didn’t before. They stand to make more money off those people. It is not a neutral policy that they’ve arrived to in a mutually beneficial manner.
Their favorite customer is one who slips up sometimes. Bank still gets the debt paid as expected, but now with more fees.
They also want people to say “thems the rules, deal with it”. That lets it appear to be a neutral policy while making more money than before.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 1 day ago:
Someday, the industry is going to realize that while transistors might still be getting smaller, they aren’t getting cheaper for it. Which was the original formulation of Moore’s Law; cost of integrated component gets cut in half every x months.
Not just games, but the whole tech industry. Even in so far as faster hardware exists–and it just plain might not in this case–people can’t afford it.
- Comment on IF YOU TAKE ENOUGH YOU CAN SEE *THE PATTERN* BRO 1 day ago:
Do not take psychedelic with remaining eye.
- Comment on Virtual Boy: Nintendo Classics - Announcement Trailer 4 days ago:
I’m one of the Virtual Boy’s only fans. I don’t own a Switch 2 and don’t have plans to. I might just buy the accessory as a display piece.
- Comment on Too soon? 5 days ago:
Making people think they don’t need guns.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 5 days ago:
The shooting spot was about 250 yards away. That’s WWII sniping range, but not particularly far for modern precision rifles. According to Ryan Cleckner (US Army Ranger sniper), precision marksman training in the Army still uses iron sights out to 600 yards. A good setup these days can hit a dinner plate (read: a human head) at 1000 yards, and that’s not even pushing it.
They didn’t have to hit him the neck. They just needed to hit is general head area. They got lucky hitting the artery dead on, but any head hit has a very high probability of death.
There are millions of bench rest shooters with a bolt action rifle who could make that shot.
- Comment on Too soon? 6 days ago:
No it fucking isn’t. Democrats have ensured that.
- Comment on Too soon? 6 days ago:
And disarming the working class while fascism runs amuck won’t do a damn thing for them.
- Comment on Too soon? 6 days ago:
Yup, I did. Now what? Am I supposed to feel bad that an asshole died?
- Comment on Gamers Nexus's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to make up for some of the lost traction! 6 days ago:
My conclusion is that the US is getting what it wants out of the importation block regardless of smuggling or “fell of the assembly line”.
Universities (China and the US) want a warranty on that hardware. They can’t get a warranty on smuggled hardware. That’s where you would have researchers building models. The GPUs they have are getting old and they don’t have replacements lined up.
The other place to build models is corporations, who might choose to ignore the warranty issue, but they can’t possibly get enough high end GPUs to actually do that. Not while using mules who can only bring in one or two at a time. Maybe they can find a way to smuggle things en masse, but they’d likely just make themselves a target to US trade authorities.
That leaves Chinese gamers as the only ones who want smuggled GPUs at all. US trade policy doesn’t give a shit about them.
So yes, there’s smuggling, Nvidia certainly knows about it, US trade authorities certainly know about it, but nobody has any reason to care.
- Comment on Gamers Nexus's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to make up for some of the lost traction! 6 days ago:
I doubt it. Bringing it into the country would be illegal, but even if he brought it home, bringing it out isn’t illegal.
- Comment on Sexualized video games are not causing harm to male or female players, according to new research 6 days ago:
I’d also say the way sex is portrayed throughout Cyberpunk 2077 is important to the setting. Sex is everywhere, but none of it is particularly fulfilling. That the PC can find a healthy sexual relationship at all almost seems like a one in a million chance in Night City. Capitalism pushes forms of sexuality that can be monetized. Capitalism can get you laid, but it can’t get you happiness.
(I totally get the criticisms that the game is a mediocre experience. It is, but it’s not without value, either.)
- Comment on anon discusses car dependence 6 days ago:
Average US driving distance is about 14k miles per year, or about 1200/month. At 30 mpg, you need 40 gal per month. Current price per gal in the US (according to AAA) is $3.193/gal, which gets us $130/month in gas.
Wouldn’t have to be crazy above average to get to $200/month. Or have a car with kinda bad fuel efficiency.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 1 week ago:
They’ll give it to everyone because nobody will be around to buy their shit otherwise.
Don’t mistake this for a positive outcome.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 1 week ago:
Maybe for a specific job? Booking.com used to heavily recruit US talent to work in Amsterdam. It was usually only for a few years at a time, though, in accordance with Dutch labor and immigration laws.
- Comment on Anon doesn't like AI 1 week ago:
It’s UBI, and no, UBI is not a real socialist plan. It keeps the rest of us poor with little possibility of social mobility.
- Comment on It can be made quickly and efficiently, even by people without skills or talent 1 week ago:
The “AI” of “pick three words from a list”. This is how we get names like “Raid: Shadow Legends”.
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 1 week ago:
Transistors aren’t getting cheaper, and the industry doesn’t know how to deal with that. They’re still in the mindset that Moore’s Law has continued and will continue.
Then some clown convinced a bunch of people that he should be in charge of things, and he thought tariffs were a valid economic tool.
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 1 week ago:
Maybe 20 years earlier, he was.
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 1 week ago:
My speculation: as long as there were significant numbers of WW2 vets around, an outright Nazi movement could never gain traction in the US. Not that the Greatest Generations was made up of paragons of social justice, but there were limits to what they were willing to tolerate in open society. That generation (and probably home front Silents, as well) was inoculated against going full Nazi in ways that Boomers weren’t.
The few that remain now aren’t numerous enough to hold much sway.
- Comment on Anon has a problem with Bioshock 1 week ago:
Almost like it doesn’t take a deep and thoughtful deconstruction of Ayn Rand to knock the whole thing over.
- Comment on Internet discourse is wonderful 2 weeks ago:
Nice to see Lemmy can be a good place sometimes.
- Comment on No brainer 2 weeks ago:
Built a greenhouse with a gravel foundation this summer. Doesn’t matter if I have to move it. Free gravel is useful.
- Comment on hahahaa 2 weeks ago:
It’s hardly pure, but you should pay for porn. You can find creators (on any platform) who are stressing consent and queer issues. Sex workers should not have to wait for some theoretical revolution to make things better.
- Comment on hahahaa 2 weeks ago:
We should all keep getting our porn from ad-supported sources. This hasn’t had any deleterious consequences whatsoever.
- Comment on mrrrreow meow meow :3 2 weeks ago:
That’s the point when your target knows it’s a trap and goes for it anyway.
- Comment on The Good Genes 2 weeks ago:
Look at the world around you. What’s the argument for not turning into a crab?
- Comment on Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced 2 weeks ago:
They could just not have new consoles. We’re 5 years into this console generation and still don’t have a compelling reason to bother. They could admit that Moore’s Law is dead, and stop worrying about games being giant photorealistic open worlds full of fetch quests.