calliope
@calliope@retrolemmy.com
- Comment on The State Of Xbox And Game Pass In 2025: Xbox had great games in 2025, but everything else is bad, bad, bad, bad 8 hours ago:
This website is so awful on mobile Firefox, it eventually reloads itself into a white screen.
“News” site web development has become an embarrassment.
- Comment on ARC Raiders purposefully puts jerks in the same lobby as each other 9 hours ago:
Yep, I find it extremely hard to believe they could identify “jerks” programmatically with any accuracy.
They’re full of shit, it’s just advertising.
- Comment on Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business 21 hours ago:
It wouldn’t surprise me if Ford literally produced the vehicle because of subsidies.
If they could get a portion of the EV tax breaks, they wanted it.
Now that the current administration is obviously still obsessed with burning oil, it no longer matters.
- Comment on Google AI summaries are ruining the livelihoods of recipe writers: ‘It’s an extinction event’ 1 day ago:
I’ve been using JustTheRecipe, which does a good job of parsing a site and just providing a recipe.
But every time I use it, I think how crazy it is that I have to.
- Comment on The Attempt To Escape From Pain Creates More Pain 1 day ago:
It’s interesting because the meaning of the word “independent” is shifting for games, in the same way it shifted for Hollywood movies.
Essentially one guy made Stardew Valley, and funded it himself. Most of the development of Clair Obscur was funded by a publisher, Kepler Interactive.
So… “independent” now means “not funded by one of the major game studios.” Not really “independent.”
- Comment on 'Architects of AI' named Time Magazine's Person of the Year 4 days ago:
Adolf Hitler was the man of the year in 1938.
Instead of a conventional portrait, the cover was an illustration by Rudolph von Ripper entitled ‘From the unholy organist, a hymn of hate’.
- Comment on Tesla is the most unreliable used car brand in America, even behind Jeep and Chrysler 6 days ago:
The consumer reports article also mentions Tesla introduced multiple new models during the testing time frame and their older vehicles fared much better.
But tech news sites know what people will click on.
- Comment on Republican Women Suddenly Realize They’re Surrounded by Misogynists 1 week ago:
Literally.
This is one of the times in American history where it has been abundantly clear who is on the right side of history.
- Comment on Microsoft has a problem: nobody wants to buy or use its shoddy AI products — as Google's AI growth begins to outpace Copilot products 1 week ago:
I was going to say, you can remove “its” and “shoddy” and the title is still accurate.
- Comment on Publisher reveals and immediately cancels new Postal game after fans accuse it of using AI generation 1 week ago:
I agree, I thought the same thing.
I’ve seen in articles RWS saying they “don’t trust the developers” anymore, which is a bizarre thing to talk about in public so quickly.
- Comment on America’s Polarization Has Become the World's Side Hustle [404 Media] 2 weeks ago:
This has been happening for an entire decade now. I wish they’d stop acting like it’s new.
The 2016 U.S. election was affected by foreign facebook activity. Specifically, a lot from from Macedonia.
- Comment on 'Everybody Loves Raymond' star Ray Romano chokes up over sound advice late Peter Boyle once gave him on set 3 weeks ago:
During the pilot episode, I’m a young guy who just got fired from news radio and here I am again attempting a show and I’m nervous," Romano recalled.
“And Peter is the great Peter Boyle, this iconic guy. He’s an imposing figure. I didn’t know then how sweet he really was.”
“I hadn’t really had a conversation with Peter,” he continued. “Our paths were crossing [on set] and he just stops me, and I haven’t said anything to him… he could tell I was a little nervous and he just looks at me and he goes, ‘It’s just like water. Just let it flow.’ And then he leaves.”
“At that time, I’m like ‘What does that mean?’ And even though as an actor I didn’t know exactly what that meant, but I do now,” Romano said, while getting emotional. “Just the gesture of him reaching out to me…”
- Comment on Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Plans to Resign in January 3 weeks ago:
Yuck. Figures it would be something selfish.
- Comment on Marjorie Taylor Greene Says She Plans to Resign in January 3 weeks ago:
Why wait? Just quit now
- Comment on The ‘Great Meme Reset’ Is Coming: From Jack Dorsey to Gen Alpha, everyone seemingly wants to go back to the internet of a decade ago. But is it possible to reverse AI slop and brain rot? 3 weeks ago:
RIP Kevin Mitnick! Ghost in the Wires was a fun audiobook, and I really enjoyed the 2600 documentary Freedom Downtime when it was released.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 3 weeks ago:
“The fact that people are unimpressed that we can have a fluent conversation with a super smart AI that can generate any image/video is mindblowing to me."
That’s your killer feature? “But you can converse and it can make any image!”
- Comment on In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Teen Vulnerable to Exploitation 4 weeks ago:
This is exactly it. Money was involved too.
Apparently “I didn’t know the prostitute was 17!” works in Florida as long as you’re a Gaetz.
- Comment on In Matt Gaetz Scandal, Circumstances Left Teen Vulnerable to Exploitation 4 weeks ago:
Holy shit so this is the actual details.
Matt Gaetz was twice her age. Even if she was 18, he was 35. Gross buddy!
- Comment on Parkinson's sufferer wins six figure payout from GlaxoSmithKline over drug that turned him into a 'gay sex and gambling addict' 5 weeks ago:
If it came on suddenly after taking the medication? Yeah. Absolutely. That’s actually what doctors are relying on, is being informed when things change.
I have literally gone to the doctor and asked if my embarrassing side effect could be because of a medication. It was, so I stopped taking that medication.
- Comment on Supreme Court Denies Request to Revisit Same-Sex Marriage Decision 5 weeks ago:
This woman and her lawyer are a fucking embarrassment.
Imagine thinking this is a good use of the supreme court’s time.
- Comment on Parkinson's sufferer wins six figure payout from GlaxoSmithKline over drug that turned him into a 'gay sex and gambling addict' 5 weeks ago:
Did he not tell his doctor for several years that he was all-of-a-sudden addicted to sex and gambling?
Maybe it’s just me but I would think “wow, this is unexpected behavior. Maybe I should talk to my doctor about my sudden urge for gay sex.”
- Comment on Hegseth Is Purging Military Leaders With Little Explanation | The moves to fire or sideline generals and admirals are without precedent in recent decades and have rattled the top brass. 5 weeks ago:
We know why. They’ve literally been talking about loyalty to one person for an entire decade now.
The media are the only ones pretending to be confused.
- Comment on Mystery of Evil Clown-Led Trio’s Doorbell Cam Horror Show Solved in Shocking Twist 1 month ago:
Unshocking twist.
the trio were actually relatives staging a prank.
- Comment on ‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ 1 month ago:
As I fume, I wonder why I’m so angry. I suppose I feel offended that anyone would think this is what humans want from companionship: a voice with no interiority giving the verbal equivalent of a thumbs up emoji.
Strangely, a lot of fully-grown people think this is what humans want from companionship!
- Comment on Name a game that you found SO FUN, but no one talks about it anymore. 1 month ago:
I loved the semi-open world concept, I still miss the radio DJ!
They made it feel like things were actually happening in the world of the game, which most games still don’t do well.
- Comment on Name a game that you found SO FUN, but no one talks about it anymore. 1 month ago:
SSX Tricky and SSX 3. Both were quite fun to play and I’ve played them both in the past few years.
- Comment on What is the most overrated game gamers hype up? 2 months ago:
To me, Rockstar Games are cool as world simulators and storytelling engines. My issue is that they plop lazily-designed gameplay on top.
No one ever talks about the core gameplay loops of these games, the thing that makes you progress through the storyline.
They talk about the storyline, but they don’t talk about the mediocre gunfights you have to wade through to watch a cutscene or hear dialogue. Wave after wave of anonymous enemies, like videogames haven’t changed since shooting galleries.
They have to introduce essentially unexplained superpowers (slowing down time) to make it remotely interesting. And even then, I would argue most people are just trying to get through every single mission.
Or the terrible movement/driving/riding physics. I didn’t finish GTA4 (also a “10/10 game”) because some of the missions relied on the abysmal movement.
It’s like… a Rockstar game is like going to IKEA. You’re going to be led through a lot of stupid crap, just because they want to keep you there longer.
- Comment on FCC could roll back rule requiring ISPs to list every fee, apparently, there are too many 2 months ago:
This was passed during the previous administration, so of course they’re trying to get rid of it.
“It’s not good for consumers it’s bad for business!”
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 2 months ago:
Ah, we’re to “blame Obama for this” instead of blaming the senators who outright refused to look at Supreme Court Justices for a year.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 2 months ago:
Huh! Apparently the main places you can taste castoreum nowadays (should you want to) are niche foods like Swedish liqueur. Otherwise it’s (understandably) quite expensive.
I was curious and found this article amusing as well: