TheRealKuni
@TheRealKuni@piefed.social
- Comment on Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida. 2 days ago:
Also he finally got a pretty good movie starring Willem Dafoe.
- Comment on Nintendo Wins $2 Million Lawsuit Against 'MiG Switch' Distributor 3 days ago:
Plus if you hold out long enough for the tech to come down in price, you can grab the OLED version that I’m expecting to be announced in a couple of years.
- Comment on gaming console 3 days ago:
I used to drop that line into trade chat in WoW and watch the corrections come flying in from all directions. 🤣
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 1 week ago:
Not surprising, the same way /r/atheism was, for a while at least, more like /r/antichristianity. Part of the identity is opposition to “the enemy.”
Personally I think that part of the identity is unhelpful, and focus is better put on the identity being about what makes it the better choice. Like Dems losing in 2016 and 2024 because a good chunk of their messaging was “look how bad Trump is,” which only served to broadcast Trump even more.
(That’s not to say that complaints aren’t valid, it’s just a poor way to structure an identity.)
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 1 week ago:
Isn’t it funny how news bias bubbles work? The articles about the update causing SSD failures was everywhere on Lemmy. But after thousands of hours of testing from Microsoft, Phison, and various journalism outlets, the issue isn’t replicable. But I haven’t seen that reported on here at all because it doesn’t make Microsoft look bad.
Microsoft is plenty bad, we don’t need to massage data to make them seem even worse.
(To be fair I wasn’t on Lemmy much this weekend, it’s possible I just missed this.)
- Comment on No justice, no peace. 1 week ago:
Fuuuuuuuck yes, a playlist to binge.
- Comment on "Racism is WAAAAAAAY better than Astrology!" ~Dara O'Briain 1 week ago:
Man I miss Mock the Week.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] How Razer Screws Customers | Hardware, Software, & Support Failures 2 weeks ago:
That’s a shame. Maybe when I need to replace these I’ll hunt down old stock of the same products.
- Comment on Makegg gregg eggain 2 weeks ago:
Really just need the final frame.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] How Razer Screws Customers | Hardware, Software, & Support Failures 2 weeks ago:
Man, I’ve been using the same Logitech mice (two of the same model) and headset for like eight or nine years now. Still works great.
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 2 weeks ago:
although it also has a much higher display resolution.
I was about to say 1920x1080 isn’t that much higher resolution than 1280x800, but it’s twice as many pixels! 🤯
And 4K is 4x 1080p! No wonder 4K gaming makes graphics cards chug.
- Comment on Elden Ring on Switch 2 Is a Disaster in Handheld Mode - IGN 2 weeks ago:
using Steam remote play to the deck
I’m going to pass on some advice that a friend of mine gave me: get Apollo (a fork of Sunshine) on your computer and Moonlight on your Steam Deck. You can install Moonlight in Desktop Mode and add it to your Steam Library so you can access it in Steam mode.
It’s far better at streaming than Steam’s own streaming system. Apollo treats it like a monitor on your desktop. I have it set up so that the Steam Deck is the ONLY monitor when I’m streaming to it. You can also specify resolution in Moonlight, so I tell it to give me 2560x1440 or 2560x1600. Because of the way chroma subsampling works, this looks much better when downscaled on the Deck’s screen than simply streaming the Deck’s resolution. Cyberpunk 2077 looks GORGEOUS on the Deck like this.
(Note this is best if your PC is on a wired connection to a router with WiFi 6/6E/7 support.)
- Comment on ‘We want to protect what we have’: Blizzard cinematics workers discuss the reasons for joining a union 2 weeks ago:
I forced myself to complete the Diablo 4 campaign because of them.
That would be a lot easier now. The game improved enormously around season 4 I think. Whatever the Loot Reborn season was. And nearly every season has included some QoL improvements.
I honestly love Diablo 4. It’s a great podcast/audiobook companion.
- Comment on Why are they even doing this, the grass wasn't even that tall 2 weeks ago:
Modern electric mowers use batteries, and they’re awesome.
- Comment on First time posters be like 2 weeks ago:
Nothing says community like splintering the already tiny community into 90 smaller distros sub-communities
Splintering nothing. I’m on Piefed right now. The Fediverse means it plays nice with Lemmy just fine. Same with Mbin.
- Comment on First time posters be like 2 weeks ago:
cm0002’s reply is a good summary. It’s an alternate platform, but because of the nature of the Fediverse it plays nicely with Lemmy. So I’m posting this on Piefed but you can read it with Lemmy, and vice versa.
- Comment on First time posters be like 2 weeks ago:
I get it.
When Voyager got Piefed support I exported my communities and decided to try it. Loving it so far!
- Comment on First time posters be like 2 weeks ago:
And eventually:
Friendship ended with Lemmy
Now Piefed is my new best friend
- Comment on Kirkland strong 2 weeks ago:
Wait ‘til they find out the cereal in bags is the same thing as the cereal in boxes.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 2 weeks ago:
I suppose with regard to Ukraine I should have said “our support was.”
- Comment on project paperclip be like 2 weeks ago:
The US is all about realpolitik, and begins to make a lot more sense when you look at everything through a Kissinger-shaped lens (rest in piss, you evil bastard). We pretend to be ideological so our citizenry can feel good about ourselves, but the way the nation operates is purely pragmatic. Look no further than Israel-Palestine and how buddy-buddy we are with Saudi Arabia for modern examples. Even our support of Ukraine, while overlapping with an ethical imperative, is driven primarily by the interests of NATO and the relatively inexpensive degradation of Russia’s military and political standing we can participate in. We only give a shit about “human rights” when it benefits us.
Operation Paperclip was pragmatism. It creates a sense of cognitive dissonance when we try to hold in our minds that we brought Nazi scientists over and the idea that we’re “the good guys” and fought for “justice,” so our brains try to reduce that cognitive dissonance by saying those scientists weren’t behind any of the evils of the Nazis. They were, obviously. That didn’t matter to our government, but they kept the operation classified for a reason.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 2 weeks ago:
Wernher von Braun by Tom Lehrer
R.I.P. Tom Lehrer
(Heard this first in For All Mankind, an excellent show I recommend to everyone, pirate it if you don’t have Apple TV+.)
- Comment on Why is blue and pink traditionally associated with men and women? 3 weeks ago:
Like Mary’s bolt-on fake tits.
- Comment on Why is the abusive parent always portrayed as being the father, why is the mother never portrayed as abusive? 3 weeks ago:
Along with all the other examples listed here:
The Bear
Also wtf is the "Abused child forgive abusive parent and reunite happily ever after" trope, fuck that shit. Abusers do not deserve forgiveness.
No, but depending on circumstances and the work the abuser is willing to put into changing themself and making things as right as they can, forgiveness can be earned.
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 4 weeks ago:
“Sort of” because it isn’t a lawnmower, it’s possessing a lawnmower.
“But yeah” because that’s splitting hairs. 🤣
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 4 weeks ago:
She herself refers to how she played a “nuke-ular psychiatrist in a James Bonk movie” in the episode of 30 Rock where she and Tracy are leading a protest of NBC by their fellow idiots. 🤣
- Comment on Tried naming the states from memory as a European 4 weeks ago:
I love that San Francisco (NorCal) and LA (SoCal) are swapped.
- Comment on [OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon 4 weeks ago:
Well sort of. But yeah.
- Comment on Xbox Series X and S: Microsoft Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 30 Million Consoles This Generation 5 weeks ago:
Important thing to remember about the “console wars.”
Other than the Nintendo Wii (iirc), most consoles sell at a loss at the beginning of the generation. They eventually turn a profit on console sales, but console sales aren’t the point.
Game sales are.
When each console was its own very specific architecture and games needed to be designed specifically for them, console sales matter a lot because that’s how you’d sell games.
But now that architectures are similar (if not the same), cross-compilation has become easier than ever. It’s why you see Sony finally releasing first party titles on PC.
Microsoft knows full well that their console sales aren’t great, but that’s okay for them. Their PC sales are. Many of their titles sell on Steam. And they sell some of their titles on PlayStation.
They’ll continue to make some form of console because without it they lose out on millions of Game Pass subscriptions from people who don’t want to make the initial investment in a gaming PC, or deal with the complexity, but their goal of making that next console more and more like a PC fits perfectly in their model.
It’s a shame the Series X has sold so poorly, it’s a great console, but I doubt Microsoft is too worried about “losing” the console wars to Sony. The game has changed.
- Comment on TSMC employees reportedly stole 2nm trade secrets to share with Rapidus — accused are said to have shared 'hundreds of process integration technical photos' 5 weeks ago:
Hmm.
This sucks for TSMC, but I have a hard time being upset that humanity’s ability to make better processors will expand, especially given the vulnerability of Taiwan. But I don’t really know enough to have a firm position on this.