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- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 2 days ago:
Better to use the udm14 for a custom search engine than to route your traffic through a separate party.
https://www.google.com/search?q=%25s&udm=14, depending in the formatting of your browser. - Comment on Day 760 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 days ago:
I love the combat. It reminds me of Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy, which I had a blast playing back in the day.
- Comment on Emergency Alert About Wildfires 6 days ago:
Literal birthplace of the Oxford Comma and they still don’t use it. Smh my head.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 week ago:
Can’t even bother to make propaganda without sloppifying it. This is a real low point for humanity.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 week ago:
I have a parent who will only drink “lite” beer. I do not understand it. It takes like shitty water.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 week ago:
The style of the text is a big giveaway to me. Generated text has gotten a lot better (ie usually legible), but it’s pretty much always that same block letters that aren’t quite perfect enough to be a typeface, but also not designed well enough to be made by hand.
The general format of this one is also fits closely to a lot of other generated posters I’ve seen (some examples: lemmy.ca/…/2d35f3bf-bc05-4971-8c8d-9e69fe857bde.p…). It’s hard to describe, but hopefully you can see what we’re talking about.
- Comment on 'This Is Unbelievably Scummy' - GTA 6 Fans Are Annoyed By Netflix's Paywalled Extended Look at the Game 1 week ago:
“I can’t see yet another ad before other people do! Boooo!” Wtf is wrong with people?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
We made sourdough. Newton defined the foundations of math and science.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 3 weeks ago:
Same house still.
That’s a hotel room. In New York.
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 3 weeks ago:
- The interior shots were a fabricated sound stage 2) The last shot isn’t even the same movie 3) This is most likely slop, considering the large discrepancies in dimensions.
F-, -1/10
- Comment on Nvidia finally reveals what controls devs actually have for DLSS 5, and don't worry folks, there are TWO main sliders to control the AI filter 4 weeks ago:
It does justice to the source material
Funny joke.
- Comment on Which movie have you seen where an actor started as an extra prior to becoming famous? 4 weeks ago:
Elijah Wood in Back to the Future 2 as that little brat on the arcade cabinet.
- Comment on Bethesda Announces New ‘Fallout’ Roadmap Following Xbox Reset 4 weeks ago:
I would love for a big franchise or studio to just drop their next big hit some day with zero leadup. HL3 would be perfect for it - just pop it up on the steam homepage and see what happens.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 1 month ago:
Adding context, the nearly-perfect-marks midterm was a take-home exam. Not that chatbots aren’t a big problem in schools right now, but this same thing would’ve happened 15 years ago.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 1 month ago:
I haven’t bought a console in over a decade, but I was under the impression the most/all “physical” copies these days were little more then digital download codes on discs. How many actually hold the whole game, enough to qualify as “owning” it?
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations 1 month ago:
Worth noting that’s not the date you should check back, more of a “by this date” suggestion. Reservations are still being served regularly, so keep an eye out for that email.
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations 1 month ago:
A queue system really undercuts any scalper that would consider the controller a good target. There will of course be people without patience that could payout, but the larger market will just wait until their turn to order comes up. Seems like a bad investment for someone that relies on FOMO to profit.
- Comment on https://kotaku.com/xbox-shuttering-south-of-midnight-peabody-award-compulsion-games-2000706065 2 months ago:
Same for all Indies bought up by larger companies. At best they seem to get broken up and dispersed in the company. Most just seem to be ballast used to pad stock value, then tossed when it’s the least bit beneficial to their owners.
- Comment on I wonder who discovered it 2 months ago:
Sperm
Oh god…
Whale vomit
Somehow better, but still horrifying.
- Comment on Intellectual Freedom 2 months ago:
Downvoted because nothing in the comic supports either comment.
- Comment on Intellectual Freedom 2 months ago:
Disregarding the tasteless “joke”, every person is different, so why would we presume the corpse is any of them?
- Comment on Intellectual Freedom 2 months ago:
And she also never died!
- Comment on The disaster of Brexit is a warning against simple solutions to hard problems 2 months ago:
More like “blatantly outright wrong ‘solutions’”.
- Comment on Gymnast stanning JoJo 2 months ago:
Maybe? Someone better acquainted with the show/manga would be better able to say with any certainty, but my thought was that this was the result of multiple takes to get the most accurate attempts.
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- Comment on Happy Bday Atty 🎉 3 months ago:
Why slop? Using a service contributing excessive harm to the very thing he’s spent his life promoting. Not very appropriate.
- Comment on Steam Controller: Reservations open May 8th - Steam News 3 months ago:
Instead of having people frantically trying to beat robo-scalpers through a system (predictably) crashing through surge of demand, people would get into the queue and scalpers would have had no incentive to exploit FOMO that wouldn’t exist. There probably would’ve still been a tech issues at the start, but it would’ve smoothed out on it’s own instead of having people wonder for a week if they’d be able to even submit an order, hoping they don’t miss the next announcement (which I almost did).
- Comment on A Mutation Gave Humans the Gift of Speech. These Mice Have It, Too. 3 months ago:
A mutation gave everything the gift of everything. That’s…how it works.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 3 months ago:
The was absolutely a queue.
Source: I was in it.
- Comment on My quest to get a steam controller has failed 3 months ago:
People got errors during the check out,
And? With the queue, people were able to continue submitting orders as things calmed down. There will always be a rush to be first. The queue handles it better by not outright denying those who didn’t make it in right away. This also reduces the FOMO that funds scalpers’ abuse of the system.
As for account age, it doesn’t really matter when it is set at - any limitation reduces the number of bots able to spam real users out of a purchase. Admittedly, that only really helps if there’s also a limit on number of units bought, which I don’t think was implemented this time, either, for whatever reason.
