huey_m
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- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 2 days ago:
Even when I went, which was before LLMs were a thing, about 75% of upper education is establishing networks with other people that are going to be in white collar work. Literally, your internships and connections with other students will matter far more than your GPA in most fields. Especially if it’s a “bullshit job” that doesn’t actually require a lot of technical knowledge or skill.
- Comment on [Self-Promotion] I made a rougelite typing game inspired by the numbers sequence from LOST. 4 days ago:
tries to correct someone’s typo
uses “game” where “genre” was meant
:p
- Comment on Indie Dev Says Game Refunded 55,000 Times Via Steam Loophole 5 days ago:
If the game itself was enjoyable, that doesn’t reach the threshold of “so bad you feel you should get your money back on principle”. Would you really expect your money back from a movie just because you didn’t like the ending? That’s wild to me.
A bad ending can absolutely restrospectively destroy the experience of an otherwise good story.
Not to the point of deserving a refund, totally disagree. At what point do you draw a line? Should someone who hated the Game of Thrones ending get a refund for the years of subscription they paid to watch the rest of the show?
I don’t think not liking a piece of media you bought as much as you thought you would deserves a refund when you’ve already consumed all or nearly all of the media. You’ve received a service and used a product at that point, you should pay for it.
- Comment on Indie Dev Says Game Refunded 55,000 Times Via Steam Loophole 5 days ago:
How is the principle different?
You paid for the product. You used the product. You didn’t dislike the product so much that you didn’t finish it. Seems pretty analogous to me.
Things being different doesn’t automatically make them incomparable, this is literally how all analogies work.
- Comment on Indie Dev Says Game Refunded 55,000 Times Via Steam Loophole 5 days ago:
I don’t think that’s a good reason for a refund, honestly. If you go to a restaurant or a movie, most places won’t give you your money back if you finished the meal or movie. If you finished it, you should pay for it… if it really isn’t that good, you know before the end of the meal/film. This just feels like an excuse to be a cheapskate.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I know this is gonna sound like petty old guy complaints, but by God the save file sizes can be ridiculous! I have a smallish system drive that’s just for the OS, mainly, and have games and media installed on a few other chunky ones. I never bothered changing save file locations, because… save files, they don’t take up that much space, I’ve still got ~40GB or so to spare on the system drive, may as well leave it. Flash forward a few months after 3 of us have been playing Baldur’s Gate 3 and I’m getting errors because there isn’t enough room on the system drive. Take a look on TreeSize for the culprit, and there’s BG3 taking up over 20GB of save files!
I get that it’s ultimately on me for not managing files better, but I honestly never even thought of save files eating up tens of GB of storage.
- Comment on Finally started Cyberpunk.... I can't stop climbing everything. 6 days ago:
One thing about it, the game feels so different whether you’re playing the stealthy, slow, hack and snipe type or the balls out melee build or whatever in between. They really got the mechanics dialed in by the end, it’s nice to be able to have such different experiences in actual gameplay.
- Comment on Finally started Cyberpunk.... I can't stop climbing everything. 6 days ago:
Full ninja builds are a blast. I went pure swords and throwing knives. Double jump + air dash along with Shinobi sprint and the auto cloaking perk while crouch sprinting + the relic perk that breaks combat when you cloak makes you a ridiculously mobile hit and run machine. Your mitigation by the end when mid air is guaranteed at 90% strength, so you’re taking nearly no damage as you leap into combat. Pop your sandy, slice and dice, Shinobi sprint back out. It almost trivializes a lot of the game, but it’s some of the most fun I’ve had in a combat game in a long time.
- Comment on Finally started Cyberpunk.... I can't stop climbing everything. 6 days ago:
Generally time slows when you’re targeting something in scan mode. If there’s nothing to target near the reticle, time moves normal.
It can be a little finicky detecting sometimes.
- Comment on Finally started Cyberpunk.... I can't stop climbing everything. 6 days ago:
What do you mean by memory stuff? The brain dance investigations?
Don’t sweat it and just use a guide, they aren’t really a major part of the game beyond maybe 3 story missions?
If you mean hacking, just go with a sandevistan no hacking melee build. The game feels very different when you play it as a pure hack n slash.
- Comment on Finally started Cyberpunk.... I can't stop climbing everything. 6 days ago:
The perk and cyberware combos that let you have near constant ~90% mitigation strength guaranteed midair is just nuts. Throw in the mid air kerenzikov and you’re practically a little flying angry cyber hornet.
- Comment on PlayStation’s Physical Media-Free Future Isn’t Just Concerning, It’s Offensive 1 week ago:
Holy shit, that’s slimy even by their standards. It’s like they’re begging to be pirated lol.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
I should’ve guessed, honestly.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
Wow, that’s really good! You’ve definitely got your money’s worth, I’d guess.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
FYI, you can get total spent by going to Help > Steam Support > My Account > Data Related to Your Steam Account > External Funds Used.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
Can you not check directly if your account is private? I went through Help > Support > My Account> Data Related to Account > External Funds Used for totals. Does that rely on a public profile?
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
Yeah, I suspect not only would we see a bunch of cracks released for games that now have no way to update to try to kill the cracks, but we’d probably see something like emulation of steam to get around it.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
It all depends how old the account is. $1000 in a few years is definitely bananas… over 15, that’s a damn cheap hobby honestly.
- Comment on If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ?? 1 week ago:
Less than I thought! About 1,900, can’t tell if that’s USD or EUR I’ve used both. Saved over 3,000, supposedly. For over 17 years, 112 bucks a year for a hobby shared nearly the entire time between 2 - later 3 people - that’s pretty good I’d say. Not a lot of hobbies come in that cheap.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 1 week ago:
I generally agree, but there is a level of ignorance where you don’t even really know what questions to ask, and subjects complicated enough that you just aren’t equipped to understand an answer without needing a lot of background education first because they just aren’t intuitive at all by nature. At that point, is there really much value in asking the question?
Determining where that line is is hard sometimes, but I do think it’s there.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 1 week ago:
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: this kind of “elitism” is literally just division of labor which is basically required for a modern society to function.
- Comment on Single player games 1 week ago:
Oh, come on. It’s not bad if you play something like fantastical like cyberpunk… that’s a world so far removed from reality, we’re talking corporations running the world, harsh police actions driven by corporate interest, commodification of basic health services, constant death and destruct…tion.
Well, shit.
- Comment on #StopPayingGames 1 week ago:
Either pay the price asked because you want that game or movie so bad, or say the cost is too high and walk away entirely.
I don’t entirely disagree with this regarding newer content, and I personally don’t pirate that… but I will happily subvert a system of near perma-copyright that was never meant to exist, goes entirely against key concepts around copyright when it was first conceived, and only exists due to extreme regulatory capture.
7 years. Copyright was meant to last about 7 years. There was, at that time, an acknowledgment that culture belongs to society as a whole and shouldn’t be monopolized by one person, stifling innovation (I mean, Disney is basically founded on reworking others’ stories)… copyright was seen as a sort of necessary evil to give an artist a few years of a legal monopoly to incentivize art creation.
That’s about the cutoff I use. If it’s older than 7 years, you’ve had your chance to make a buck. Even moreso today… 7 years is far more time today to actually exploit your monopoly, information is just so quickly disseminated. I tried to show my kid Charlie Brown Christmas this last holiday season… absolutely criminal people can stil gatekeep that for money, that kind of thing should belong to society as a whole.
tl;dr I think the ethics of piracy are nuanced, but I absolutely do not buy the argument that the current law around copyright is ethical as it stands and as an unethical law, it should be subverted.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Not directly but cost:fun ratio definitely comes into play which often favors indies. A $5 game will get a lot more leeway than a $60 one.
- Comment on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I was particularly irked by that 16 limit I encountered the other day.
And I stand corrected, then, and color me impressed. I’ll look into doing this for those passwords I need to remember, like masters.
- Comment on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach 2 weeks ago:
How many characters are we talking, though? I’ve had passwords as limiting as 16 characters for some services (unfortunately)… that seems small to me for generating real randomness with passphrases.
That said, fair enough, but as someone who has administered a network before, I would never, ever want my users relying on their brain… the security from a pass manager is practically going to be way better than the standard practices of an average user without one. IMO.
But hey, color me impressed, honestly.
- Comment on LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach 2 weeks ago:
What composition though? I’ve got well over 100 that are 20+ characters including special characters. I can’t believe this is possible without use of words or something easily guessed.
I do have a few passwords I keep to myself, and even with my method of taking the first letter from a key phrase or set of song lyrics and switching most to leet speak, I still don’t think I could possibly remember more than a dozen reliably.
- Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played? 2 weeks ago:
Sega Genesis. We got it with Revenge of Shinobi, a game I still play with a soundtrack to rival some of the best Nintendo stuff (a very high bar), and Power Monger, one of the real fathers of RTS that ignited my love for strategy games.
- Comment on Anon judges Karl 2 weeks ago:
Once a society reaches a certain level of prosperity and people have some disposable income, it’s better to have a system that allows people to choose to do what they want with that income. Socialism fails at that point.
Just to be clear capitalism and markets aren’t equivocal. Market socialism is a thing.
Socialism is a really big umbrella term… similar to “democracy” there are a bunch of different ways to actually apply it. State socialism is only one scheme for it/
- Comment on Demon slayer 2 weeks ago:
There, you see? The Catholic Church was simply about saving the children.