BlaestEgnen
@BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk
- Comment on Three developers' different philosophies on difficulty for their games 3 days ago:
I think it would be a pretty good joke if they made the combat of the next souls game turn based. Still monstrously difficult, release the game on an April 1st and have the entire gaming subset of players switch their stances
- Comment on Gamer Logic 😡 4 days ago:
There’s an overweight of outcasts in gaming spaces, which is why queer people are incredibly overrepresented. Both among developers, players and in games themselves
But for the same reasons, you’ll find gaming related echo chambers that funnel people into hate filled ideology such as incel culture. A different kind of outcasts.
Sure gaming have become quite mainstream and you can find almost any sub group who games. But most “normies” games less than the outcasts, as they don’t need the escapism it allows for.
Within the more “normal people” group, there’s also variations. Some allow for hatred to exist within the communities they act within, some don’t, some allow for queer safe spaces others turn around the second they see it.
It’s a nuanced topic, which could turn into paragraph after paragraph. But outcasts are overrepresented within gaming. Especially rural outcasts, as they aren’t able to find a physical group to mirror themselves in
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 5 days ago:
I do not I agree Microsoft is in that category, but they’re mainly a B2B player today.
A little less than 20% of revenue per earnings '25 was from consumers - The rest for business offerings. I’m curious to hear which selection of companies you consider the main ones. Because Microsoft is still top 5 within Tech when it comes to power.
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 6 days ago:
Google hit as big a market share as they could, so their way to grow the search machine was to increase the market.
How do you increase the market? By pushing the most relevant links further back, so people have to go to page 2, 3 or 4. So it’s unfortunately the best financial decision, short term, to enshittify their main product
- Comment on Google just had its first negative cash flow quarter due to massive AI spending 6 days ago:
It’s mostly all of the generated by LLM websites that’s annoying to shift through
- Comment on Teserract may be opensource, but adding myself would feel disingenuous 6 days ago:
You didn’t state you like the Republicans nor the current version called MAGAs, so you’re certainly a leftist
- Comment on A Majority of Americans Now Support Seizing Wealth From AI Industry 1 week ago:
The text doesn’t read buy, it reads transfer. Basically force all AI companies to issue one extra share per share currently held and handed over to the fund.
Assume they could be non voting shares, but have them be paid the same dividends as other shareholders
But I don’t get why this would be preferred to increasing capital tax or company taxes
- 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 week ago:
ASML has an order book running to 2028, the problem is it’s almost impossible to create a competitor to ASML - Demand for fabs is not the issue.
- Comment on Old but gud 1 week ago:
I think the reason is as simple as flamboyant outfits being easily available.
Two hundred years ago, a flamboyant outfit indicated you did minimum manual work. As that’d destroy the drip, and it was also quite expensive. While commoners would wear often brown/grey work outfits.
It’s the same reasons for why it used to be in to be white/pale, as that indicated you’d stay inside all day rather than working the fields. Now it’s in to be tan, as that indicates you’re able to sunbath rather than work in an office all day long
- Comment on Old but gud 1 week ago:
A summer cape, a pair of undies and nothing else?
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 1 week ago:
This has been a hot topic among AAA developers for a long ass time. Steam is setting certain requirements, such as engagement with advertisements may not be forced - But product placement that fits within the world is fine
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 1 week ago:
But none intrusive banner ads is whatever, historically football games have included “fake ads” for charities and inclusion.
If that got changed to opt-in proper ads for a 10€ price deduction we’d be all ears
- Comment on How often is normal to masturbate? 2 weeks ago:
Do you get dry or how do you feel the pain?
- Comment on How often is normal to masturbate? 2 weeks ago:
Normal is between once a month to multiple times a day.
For males there’s some health benefits related to unloading the balls twice a week, reduced risk of prostate cancer. I’m not aware of studies focused on the topic for females, so that’s more of unknown ground today
- Comment on 500,000 households cancel TV licence putting BBC future in jeopardy 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that hard to find viewing/listening numbers and site visitors.
You can frame it in a lot of ways, to balloon the number. Daily, weekly and monthly users would be interesting numbers to have.
The above numbers might indicate 94% interacts with BBC at least once a year, we can’t know. As the quote isn’t specifying how they determined it
- Comment on 500,000 households cancel TV licence putting BBC future in jeopardy 2 weeks ago:
The license fee is what the UK user currently pays, if you remove the license fee it won’t remain available to the UK audience for free
- Comment on I took this today in San Francisco 2 weeks ago:
because the AI industry is “building AI-agent integrations into production infrastructure faster than it’s building the safety architecture to make those integrations safe”.
How dense are some people? No they don’t build integrations to your prod environment, you hand them the access willynilly. I was in an AI related greenfield project 2 years ago, there’s several reasons why communication with our db happened through an API. The primary one, control.
- Comment on British public more likely to prefer Count Binface wins Clacton by-election than Nigel Farage 2 weeks ago:
But he’s the establishment candidate! Just ask Farage!
- Comment on Is this a rope hanging under a helicopter? 2 weeks ago:
Veritasium themselves has a video on the topic, they’ve indeed sold parts to investors
- Comment on Anon joins a shitposting group 2 weeks ago:
Citizens of USA are Americans, but likewise are citizens of Mexico, Honduras and Paraguay
- Comment on I agree with don 2 weeks ago:
Flushing may present a new issue after the fact, but I can’t see a way around flushing
There is one, embrace the sink. Become a sink pisser, it’s just like a pissoir which you wash your hands and face in!
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 2 weeks ago:
The big investors are earning money on it, the suits has done the calculations and they’re earning a few percentages more a year dismantling companies than they would, had they chosen stability
Parts of it is also how safe of a bet it is to dismantle, as big capital likes safe investments. Which is largely also why AAA isn’t innovative anymore, they consider it too big of a risk to invent a new wheel
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 2 weeks ago:
Thing is, they have been doing this for over a decade. Publicly traded companies can’t compete long-term, if there’s a well funded provate competitor
Of course they can, they can use the same aim. Problem is it’s more profitable to grind a company down, let it bankrupt and do the same to the next company. Hence enshittification arrived, venture capital has a full playbook for dismantling companies from the inside.
There’s still a few old bastions wanting stability, Coca Cola Group is the most obvious example of this
- Comment on Bruh 2 weeks ago:
It’s the green guy from monsters inc
- Comment on Anon is a rabbit 2 weeks ago:
Food isn’t everything, we’re overusing resources in other spaces too; People don’t really want to slow down on electrical consumption, travel or general waste/plastics