benjirenji

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨White House Launches Arcade.Gov, a Minigame Site Where You Catch Immigrants, Build a Tetris Border Wall, and 'Fill Your Kids' Trump Accounts' With Bitcoin⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The Iran war simulation game is unwinnable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Congratulations. Great job. Goodbye now.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Experimental Build Of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 AI Slop Filter Leaks And Turns Beloved Video Game Characters Into Uncanny Valley Weirdos⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the point of the tech was to make Jesse Faden look like an old-aged pensioner, then mission accomplished.

  I’m sorry, but if my wife looked like this in her 60s and 70s I’d be very happy.

  She’s supposed to be 35 in the game. The videos in the article didn’t make her look older than 40. The article is hyperbole.

  Also that Skyrim character look bad regardless of DLSS on or off is not a surprise. Fans probably call it a feature. Just shows the tech isn’t magic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m old enough to remember exactly this discussion for GTA 3, 4, 5 and now 6.

  Yeah, they never announce it for PC early so they’re not cannibalize console sales. They do this eeeeeevery time. Every single fucking time.

  It’ll be out on PC in due time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ugh, here we go again, gotta get ready for a bunch of bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Sure, this sounds great. Sign me up under this new address outside the US.”

  Would this not work for them to cancel the contract?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say even a techie would quickly end up with useless skills. Today’s devices rarely allow tinkering and damage is often permanent. In SciFi robots can be fixed or manipulated simply with changing some cables in their back. Anyone who’s been working in robotics knows this is almost impossible. Same with hacking into computer systems. There are some exceptions of course.

  I was thinking of the Mad Max universe that still has gasoline even though it goes stale within 6 months in reality. Doesn’t make these universes and stories bad, but also not realistic. Real apocalypse sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism is an unrealistic death cult.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I don’t think you would. Many post-apocalyptic stories “forget” that most technology requires global supply lines that shouldn’t exist anymore. Even just food, water and electricity would be non-trivial depending on the scenario. Definitely not exciting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Compulsion Games pulls off management buyout and separates from Xbox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Consoles would differ in hardware, ergonomics, style, market segment etc. not their games catalogue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is people's attention on their surroundings terrible today?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m jus becoming an old grumpy man, but teens these days seem completely oblivious to their surroundings. More so than I ever remember. For sure, not every teenager, but the ones I see standing cluelessly in front of busy exits, don’t understand how to stand in line, how to pass gates in airports, how to be less obnoxious… are so often teenagers these days. Probably better that way as we completely fucked their future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I doubt the PIF is going to micro manage EA to the point that employees feel it on the day to day. Usually they just sit in the board and contribute in high level management decisions like mergers, acquisitions and mass layoffs. Doesn’t mean there’s no changes, but it’s not a “Saudi company” now either.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At this stage in technological advancement can humans at the point where we can create a new element on the periodic table?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s old stuff. We’re already creating new and exotic forms of matter in labs including anti-matter and recently the glueball.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just introduced the Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act — a bill to guarantee at least two weeks of paid vacation to every full-time worker in America. Over 90 other members of Cong…⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I get sick on vacation I get to recover my vacation days. Of course I need to prove it, so it’s not always worth it or practical, but it should definitely not be the same pool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Israel have a right to your tax dollars?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some do. They are not invited to such shows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Languages⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Everywhere you see ‘eau’ or ‘eaux’ it’s pronounced ‘o’. Always, no exceptions. It’s crazy you never noticed that once you know the pronunciation rules of French you can say every word correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Languages⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate French like the next guy, but pronunciation rules are at least consistent compared to English. An English word’s pronunciation is everyone’s best guess. Sometimes depends on context or tense, even when written the exact same. With French you don’t really have that. It’s confusing, there are lots of letters, but at least it’s consistent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are so many new programming languages being developed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But if a language makes a particular thing easy, it also forces you to adopt a certain premise and accept the way the language solves that particular problem. This also limits you.

  Every new language wants you to accept a new premise.

  I’ve got a friend who rewrote parts of the C++ standard lib to optimize it for his purposes. I guess an STL isn’t the same as a language, but my friend’s efforts is maybe a small version of people recreating a new language to solve a problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Least problematic company ever lol⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My only favorite monopoly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨America continues to fall behind the rest of the world⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The “military power” reputation took a huge hit this year too. Really? That bs is why they forego all these benefits for their people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to New York City⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be able to hear him over my “get out of the way!get out of the way!get out of the way!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern age was the weakest. Beyond that you got to space which could’ve been fun if you managed to get that far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got the collector edition. Never again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If online services (such as Netflix) only ever raise their prices, does that mean they offer less and less value for money as time passes?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True, quantity isn’t better than quality, but it may cover more interests and cater to a larger customer base, but who are we kidding.

  To me it feels Netflix doesn’t have enough signal in the noise. The recommendations rarely deviate from what they generally suggest to customers or my niche just doesn’t have enough shows to watch.

  But I’m not sure Netflix actually knows my favorite genres and how they might be combinable. It just suggests general Shonen anime, when I only watch some specific genres of shows regardless whether they are Japanese, animated or neither.

  I dunno, can’t be that hard to zero in on my tastes or it doesn’t matter to them that much after all. Who knows.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would the next pres of USA have to do to gain back trust for America? Hold a televised event saying the last person was just a fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the difference was that before other countries would see themselves as allies and thus as part of the West. NATO is just one of many alliances that went beyond just pretending.

  Now Trump threatened all of this. Take over Canada? Get back the Panama Canal? “Rescue” Greenland? Get out of NATO? Suddenly it becomes clear that it was a mistake to trust the US so much and that the same rules should count for them as anyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When in time did America gave up trying to be great? Gave up as the example for the world? And now we are on our backs and refuse to get up like Bender off Futurama or a turtle?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming it was great at some point and people were trying, I would argue at the point when propaganda progressed far enough that enough people thought it was already great. You stop trying when you think you reached the goal. To this day no politician can afford suggesting otherwise unless it’s to make it “great again” I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I admit I was thinking about E33 as well, but my niche is narratively strong games or puzzle games. Too many AAA games are narratively disjointed open world messes and when it comes to puzzles indies are just king. Animal Well, Blue Prince, The Witness etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google bad record profits last quarter, so it can’t be that bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s a lack of creativity and innovation when it comes to gameplay. Indies or just smaller studio productions take more risks and that’s a lot more exciting.