NekoKoneko
@NekoKoneko@lemmy.world
- Comment on KytyPS5 (PS5 Emulator) can now run GTA V at 60fps for few minutes before crashing 4 days ago:
The PC running it has a Ryzen 7 9950X3D CPU and an RX 7900 XT GPU
Seems very CPU dependant.
- Comment on An insurance I don't love 1 week ago:
We need to call the institutional capitalists’ bluff - single payer is a great way to prove capitalism works AND that private insurance is needed!
Create a public single payer option, and we’ll all marvel as private health insurance companies innovate and justify their existence by creating better, cheaper insurance products that we can decide to buy as a demonstration of the invisible rational hand of the market! Competition! That’s why we need a single payer option! If you aren’t for public insurance, you don’t believe in capitalism!
- Comment on Following accusations, James Pond Legacy devs say no generative AI was used in creating artwork 3 weeks ago:
The theory on The Other Site is what I also agree with: They took #1, fed it into an AI 3D modeler to get #4, fed that image into a 2D style AI model to get #2, and then went back to #4 and used AI and lazy Photoshop to remove some elements to get #3.
- Comment on Mass layoffs expected at EA as the now-private publisher reportedly tells its new debt masters that it's going to cut $700 million in annual costs 5 weeks ago:
AI told me we can do it!
- Comment on While he got the core idea right, he shouldn’t have compared apples to Apple’s. 5 weeks ago:
While this might be a typo, it could also refer to Apple’s idea, which is referenced earlier in the sentence.
- Comment on I had to see this. now you do too 5 weeks ago:
AI from Voidstomper.
If there’s any example out there of someone using AI in a way that enables art that isn’t mere slop, they’re probably the best example (but definitely an acquired taste).
Just beware if you look them up, you are going to see some other things you wish you hadn’t, much more than this.
- Comment on Flock cameras just one year apart 1 month ago:
Are we sure that is tracking install dates versus database-added dates? I assume Flock was quite a bit more prevalent in the greater NYC area only a year ago, whereas I can totally believe there were only that many tracked by deflock a year ago. But I certainly could be wrong.
- Comment on Camusflag 1 month ago:
Sartrefully done.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Yeeeup!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’m so here for this.
It’s genuinely infuriating to see a hundred years of movie poster art evolution discarded. It’s the first part of a movie’s artistic statement you ever see, and it gets summarily tossed in the trash so that Netflix’s internal overworked engagement metrics team can spend 2 minutes grabbing random shots of different stars in the film, slap single-color generic font text all over it, and target twelve versions to different demographics to try to get more clicks.
It’s even worse when I tell this to someone and they’re like, “I don’t really notice.”
- Comment on Anon tries dating apps 1 month ago:
It was 2015. Pretty much the same year as most tech.
- Comment on The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How The New Pricing Slashed Demand by 80% 1 month ago:
Mark Twain. Mark Twain said it.
- Comment on Return to office propaganda floating around LinkedIn 1 month ago:
All I see reading this is that managers and CEOs have never reached the object permanence phase of brain development, and need to be constantly visually reminded their employees exist or they’ll never promote them regardless of the work they do.
But then, I guess no manager of a multi-office company has had a team member in another location prior to COVID, so how could they possibly have planned for what to do in that situation.
- Comment on Valve says there's no end in sight to the memory crisis, and prices are only going to increase: 'Honestly, it's still getting worse' 1 month ago:
Well, I don’t think Nvidia is “having trouble” making 50 series cards. I think they have fab allocations that they are choosing to prioritize to AI products and its current ROI with blank check hyperscalers, compared to retail consumer products.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Alex Karp predicts he will get 20x richer from AI—but middle-class workers will get left behind 1 month ago:
He’s “sounding the alarm,” but not offering to do anything about it. Just sounds like someone who is having the earliest revelation that he doesn’t want to become dinner.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Thanks for explaining your disagreement in words. (Less thankful for the downvote, I guess.)
Region-locking is not just about implementing a lock. It’s about maintaining separate product lines worldwide when otherwise they don’t need to. That creates real-world costs alone, but the other cost is the uncertainty whether projected sales and supply will meet. That means that if a game or region-locked system sells well in one market and not in another, they can’t repurpose those unsold units either at all or without more expensive re-packaging (if even possible).
Every industry tends to remove artificial market constraints when they can. Car manufacturers can’t easily re-sell units across borders because of differing regulations and hardware requirements, but within the US, they will typically target only the most restrictive jurisdiction (e.g., California) and make all cars meet those standards.
For that reason, don’t be surprised if modifications to the EU SKU to replace the battery filter down to other SKUs.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I suspect the region locking will disappear again.
Trump’s tariffs and favoritism to Japanese buyers I think were the two reasons motivating the change in the first instance.
While the second reason will exist and remain important as long as supplies of semiconductors are constrained by the AI bubble, the first reason was invalidated, struck down by the US Supreme Court. There are cost and efficiency benefits for Nintendo only retaining one SKU, so I think there’s pressure to revert to region-free.
- Comment on Looking for a game where reading an immersive in-game manual is one of the main gameplay aspects 1 month ago:
Retro Game Challenge (English version of Game Center CX) and its excellent fan-translated sequel.
- Comment on The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games. 1 month ago:
I’ll just add the tangent: imaging pre-ordering a digital-only release.
“Pretty please, Take Two, can I give you my money in exchange for nothing at all of value?”
What even is this world. What have they done to us.
- Comment on "Gen Z won't understand this but back in my day, if you ever saw as many ads as you do on social media today, it meant you had at least 3 viruses on your computer" 2 months ago:
Yeah! I mean, we all have commercials in our dreams, but you don’t see us running off to buy brand-name merchandise at low low prices.
- Comment on PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive 2 months ago:
I think you’d agree with me that it matters enough to comment on.
- Comment on Physical disc production ending in January 2028 for new games releasing on PlayStation consoles 2 months ago:
Someone at Sony is feeling very smart and modern right now, totally unaware that PlayStation is now a dead brand walking.
They are a strong brand, but that’s not going to be enough to justify a definitely-$1k+ PS6 compared to increasing handheld and console-like gaming options that are not locked down ecosystems. Their exclusives likely can’t save them, they have been dying out already.
Physical media was one of the few remaining differentiators for hardcore collectors and loyalists. Even if I’m sure it’s a greatly diminished part of their bottom line, it’s a psychological anchor that justifies the existence of a console. Now their console will be just another extremely handicapped and uncompetitive digital box, even if (as recently reported) they copy the Switch dockable format.
- Comment on courier transform 2 months ago:
I’ve for years known a little about it, but still felt like it’s magic.
I took 10 seconds looking at this image and thought, “Oh, that makes sense.”
- Comment on PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts, Reminding Us Nothing Digital Is Ever Truly Ours 2 months ago:
Stocking up on Blu-rays can’t happen soon enough - once sales drop too low for too long, they’ll never come back.
- Comment on Finally an explanation 2 months ago:
Yeah, also, I’d like my moral reasoning to have evolved past Hammurabi.
- Comment on Happy Father's Day 2 months ago:
The top left one especially because, in the full photo, they’re sitting on a statue of two parrots having sex.
- Comment on Day 701 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
Poomp!
- Comment on Fafo 2 months ago:
Musk is the living embodiment of the Dunning-Kruger effect, and his wealth represents the exact monetary value delta of confident ignorance over intelligence.
- Comment on Xbox is closing Ninja Theory, and Double Fine and Compulsion may not be far behind 2 months ago:
The goal of nearly any company in 2026 is to become a passive immovable gate-keeper between a subscription service and a captive customer base.
So I assume they think that Game Pass (the service) is the product rather than the games it supplies, and they can more efficiently extract rent if someone else provides the content.
That’s just the sort of thinking an MBA would settle on, even if any gamer knows it’s idiotic. But nobody has accused these people of being smart.
- Comment on President Trump roundly booed by New York crowd at NBA Finals Game 3 at MSG 2 months ago:
I don’t think he feeds off it, unless you mean that it generates anger and grudges that he uses for energy.
But he certainly doesn’t seek it out. He’s a malignant narcissist. His smirk is that the only way he can cope, to act like (and believe) that everyone booing is deranged, since he is perfect (including in victimhood). But narcissists have extremely fragile egos, which require full time care to protect with their delusions. The booing hurts him to his core.
Unfortunately, despite the smirk and delusion, narcissists often react with long, drawn-out revenge and punishment schemes for even small slights. Good thing Trump hasn’t shown any signs of irrational revenge plots…