DupaCycki
@DupaCycki@lemmy.world
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 2 days ago:
Leave it to Shitendo to include a dedicated button that does nothing but advertise a subscription for a service that is completely free on PC. Free on a Switch too, if you mod it first.
Don’t worry, though, homebrew software will allow you to rebind it to something else. Just wait for that, and don’t use Nintendo’s consoles unmodded. Stock firmware is a mostly unusable piece of shit.
It’s been 10 years since the original Switch launched, and the only themes you get are… light and dark. Or you can have thousands of themes if you jailbreak the console. And save managers. And cheats if you want to skip the grind in some games. Better performance on Switch OLED and Lite. Emulation of older systems. And the list goes on and on.
There’s so much these consoles are capable of, that Nintendo desperately wants to block or charge you insane prices for. Mostly just block.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons Officially Have A Pay-To-Press Button 2 days ago:
And then you realize the only reliable way to back up your saves is to… jailbreak the console and use homebrew save managers. Which Nintendo is doing everything in its power to stop from happening.
Personally I quite like my modded Switch OLED. But I genuinely can’t see how anyone would use this console unmodded.
- Comment on What do Centrists know about electability? 6 days ago:
You know, maybe all those years of being taught that extremism is bad and centrism is good, while fascism was on the rise, was just manipulation to keep people from pushing back.
- Comment on Money doesn't solve everything, but it helps. 1 week ago:
Therapy is fantastic, but any therapist will tell you that for it to have lasting effects, you need at least 12 months of continual attendance.
Now ask yourself how many people can afford weekly therapy sessions for a year. Where I live the cost would be about 3.5 median paychecks.
- Comment on President Trump reacts to President Biden’s cancer diagnosis: "I don't feel sorry for him" 1 week ago:
I don’t either, but it’s really unnecessary to shit on someone so much, unprompted.
That’s not responsible public figure behaviour, let alone behaviour fitting of a president.
- Comment on Epstein's Copilot 1 week ago:
It’s absolutely insane how bad Copilot is, being nothing but a GPT clone with Microsoft’s seemingly infinite resources.
Premium Copilot is leagues below all other free chatbots. You really do need some special talent to achieve such poor results.
- Comment on Screw you peasants 1 week ago:
One small issue. It’s not ‘Trump’. It’s literally every US president ever, maybe except one or two. Maybe. And Bernie knows this. He’s a smart guy. I don’t know why he sometimes does this, but I don’t like it when smart guys make less-than-smart arguments.
Sometimes I read or listen to him and think: “Hey, maybe some American politicians actually want change”. Other times it’s posts like this one, and I wonder if he really wants change. Lasting change.
Personally, I don’t have the slightest issue with him calling out Trump. However, this rhetoric has one fatal flaw that so far seems unadressed among public or influential figures. Namely - if you keep blaming Trump for everything, that suggests that he’s a problem - the only problem, even - not a symptom of a broader problem. And that removing him will solve everything. Which it won’t. Of course it won’t. But some people seem to think it will. And some will continue thinking or hoping so even after the fact. That’s the problem.
- Comment on The Obama wing of the Democratic Party is declaring “war” on progressives. Why don’t they ever bring this energy against Trump? Why do they hate working class people even more? 1 week ago:
Controlled opposition in madness because actual opposition is rising. They’ll do literally anything but let anyone even try slightly improving the system.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 1 week ago:
It still does. Except now because the portions are tiny, for a price higher than ever. And they somehow maintain the calorie count!
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 1 week ago:
It still does. Except now because the portions are tiny, for a price higher than ever. And they somehow maintain the calorie count!
- Comment on this can all collapse in an economically devastating manner leaving thousands financially destroyed while the executives receive bonuses and payouts 1 week ago:
70% of Microsoft’s AI revenue comes from OpenAI.
70% of OpenAI’s budget comes from Microsoft.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 1 week ago:
Almost all deaths from both nuclear and hydro are caused by major accidents like Chernobyl or the Banqiao Dam.
Which makes you think, considering coal power plants still cause infinitely more deaths - and that’s just standard operation.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 1 week ago:
There is no one ideal energy source. The best approach is, as always, to diversify. Relying completely on one source is irresponsible. Nuclear with renewables is a fantastic mix. Especially in countries that can’t reliably generate significant amounts of electricity with hydro.
Renewable sources of energy are safer
They’re actually not, generally speaking. All types of renewable energy, with the exception of solar, cause more deaths than nuclear does.
Some articles report slightly lower death tolls for renewables, but don’t provide any sources for that data. Geothermal energy, which neither of the two sources above includes for some reason, sits right next to wind, so slightly above nuclear in terms of deaths caused per terawatt-hour.
- Comment on A cow is more likely to kill you than a shark 1 week ago:
Nuclear causes the fewest deaths out of all available energy sources, except solar, which is a tiny bit lower in that regard. Both wind and hydro have a higher death toll, with wind being just slightly above nuclear, and hydro being a lot higher (about 40x more deaths).
ourworldindata.org/…/death-rates-from-energy-prod…
Usually I wouldn’t cite this source, but in this case their data matches other, more trustworthy ones, and is the first that shows up in search engines.
- Comment on Pikachu 2 weeks ago:
How many data centers could a Pikachu power?
- Comment on The cashier said "hello" instead of "hi" 😳 2 weeks ago:
The gay lobby strikes again with its propaganda. Don’t fall for it, kings.
- Comment on r/bald is whatever the male equivalent of a magical girl transformation is 2 weeks ago:
Before: convicted serial killer’s mugshot
After: real estate agent about to retire early
- Comment on The Russians shot down one of their own planes 2 weeks ago:
The stealth is so good it bamboozled even its own team.
- Comment on Bethesda unveils new logo 2 weeks ago:
Perfect logo for upcoming nostalgia bait remasters of their older games. Absolute garbage company.
- Comment on 10 miles to escape a bill 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, as a European, I’d try and to the same. Not because I’d need to pay 2.7 million dollars for a helicopter ride, but because I’d feel terrible occupying it for an hour, along with the rescue team, when someone else in the area could be dying.
- Comment on A new PlayStation controller patent showcases a controller with no physical buttons 2 weeks ago:
For anyone unfamiliar with patents - companies like Sony file a shitload of patents every year that they never end up using. Until more info comes out, the patent itself means little.
For context, Microsoft has a total of 124462 patents globally, not all of which have been granted. These days it files about 3000 new patents every year. A lot of them are very vague, some don’t make any sense at all, and many are never put to any use.
Apparently Sony has even more patents than Microsoft, currently sitting at nearly quarter million. However, only a third of them have been granted so far.
- Comment on take their money and arrest those responsible 2 weeks ago:
like a mob boss
Who do you think started the first big companies?
- Comment on Do you consider GTA VI overpriced? 3 weeks ago:
In my country, GTA 6 (like most AAA games), costs about 10% of an average person’s post-tax monthly income. These games just don’t have anything to warrant that kind of price tag in my opinion.
Especially when fantastic indie games release at a fraction of that price. Sure, games like GTA 6 were made by thousands of people over several years, but so what? If the end result is mediocre, it doesn’t matter how expensive it was to make.
- Comment on Do you consider GTA VI overpriced? 3 weeks ago:
Personally I consider it overpriced in every single country. Video games should not cost this much.
- Comment on Activists Who Spray-Painted Barclays Set to Be Sentenced As Terrorists 3 weeks ago:
Curious how corporations can get a lot of stuff done for very cheap, practically free sometimes. But when it’s time to ‘calculate damages’, all of a sudden they take the borderline scam options that they would have never used. In addition to multiplying the end sum by 4 for good measure, of course.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I loosely used the term ‘AI’. Most people don’t exactly know what artificial intelligence is or how it works, so using the terms according to their definitions sometimes creates more confusion than clarity.
Of course translation tools like DeepL have always been based on machine learning. The difference is that a few years ago DeepL worked well and its home page wasn’t filled with ‘AI this’ and ‘AI that’. They seem to have transitioned from their old ML models to some of the newer LLMs. From my experience the translation quality is much worse than it used to be.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I don’t mean to hate. The game looks interesting and I’m sure you worked hard on it.
However, you got laid off due to AI, and then went straight to ChatGPT for translations? Sadly, most online translators are highly AI nowadays (and usually produce worse translations than before AI), but there are still better options than chatbots.
It just looks lazy, especially that you completely missed ChatGPT’s commentary. Such an obvious and easy mistake to avoid.
My advice would be: absolutely avoid using LLMs and Gen AI for anything related to your game, because your potential customers will blacklist you for using it. And ask yourself: do you really need to translate the game (or its Steam page) to many different languages if it’s not even selling enough copies for you to withdraw the money?
A lot of indie games are English-only, precisely because translation is too expensive and unnecessary at first. It’s great to make your games available to as many people as possible, but don’t forget about principles and quality. First, focus on those two, then maybe try writing translations for any languages you know well.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
This guy is what you’d get if Trump and Musk had a child.
- Comment on Hey looky! I'm on a list a just learned about three minutes ago! 3 weeks ago:
Well, clearly you’re not left out enough
- Comment on Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For" 3 weeks ago:
This is exactly what people said about every single Nintendo console when it launched. Give it another year or two. Maybe the Switch 2 OLED will have launched by then.