entropicdrift
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- Comment on BoM asked to explain ‘what happened here’ after cost of website redesign revealed to be $96.5m 4 days ago:
The 4.1m was the budget for the front-end. The back-end changes were initially budgeted as 31m but tripled in cost as the project dragged on and contracts needed to be extended
- Comment on BoM asked to explain ‘what happened here’ after cost of website redesign revealed to be $96.5m 4 days ago:
More likely mismanagement, miscommunication, rewrites, and incompetence than corruption.
All projects of sufficient complexity overrun their cost/time estimates. That’s not even accounting for designers and programmers trying to hit what is likely a moving target.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 5 days ago:
Because Teslas have dogshit reliability and all have OTA updates, whereas other brands don’t suffer from these issues.
- Comment on CyberGhost DMCAs Our Story About Their Bogus DMCA (Yes, Really) 3 weeks ago:
AirVPN has given me no trouble for many years
- Comment on The State of Switch Emulation right now is objectively hilarious 4 weeks ago:
The post is more about how there’s an absurd number of clueless people in forums trying to figure out how to set things up and it’s just a chaotic clusterfuck of mostly non-technical people talking past each other.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Likewise with Rage Against The Machine
- Comment on California startup to demonstrate space weapon on its own dime 5 weeks ago:
As if Starlink wasn’t already
- Comment on ‘I’m suddenly so angry!’ My strange, unnerving week with an AI ‘friend’ 5 weeks ago:
I’ve met several grown people who get mad when that’s not what you give them as “friendship”
- Comment on Manic Stew 5 weeks ago:
Hyperfocus cookies
- Comment on Ferns 1 month ago:
Still too much pain relief. You see, if you simply torture women enough, all their children either come out perfectly or die for … reasons…
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 1 month ago:
That makes sense.
I’m certainly of the camp that it’s bad for developers to use to coordinate with their communities via discord in part because it’s terrible for documentation/disorganized.
Guess I’ve just never given super big discord channels the time of day since they seem about as productive as a major twitch streamer’s chat. Like you said, a bit like screaming into an avalanche, everything is lost to the noise.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 1 month ago:
What issues did you have with it? Too busy? Overeager mods? Bad organization?
- Comment on Country Singer Zach Bryan Backtracks After Backlash, Now Says Message in Anti-ICE Song Being ‘Misconstrued’ 1 month ago:
That’s not what the word algorithm means
- Comment on GOG: We’re thrilled to announce that the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has joined our catalog, and the original Crysis is now part of the GOG Preservation Program! 1 month ago:
The DLP shutter glasses are wireless, for what it’s worth. The projector inserts solid red frames to for the glasses to sync to.
- Comment on GOG: We’re thrilled to announce that the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has joined our catalog, and the original Crysis is now part of the GOG Preservation Program! 1 month ago:
Yeah. Generally for 3D you’ll want a DLP projector, plus active shutter glasses. They still make the glasses, you can pick them up on Amazon. They go for about $20 per pair.
- Comment on GOG: We’re thrilled to announce that the Crysis Remastered Trilogy has joined our catalog, and the original Crysis is now part of the GOG Preservation Program! 1 month ago:
You’re correct. Projectors still mostly support 3D, so if you’re into 3D that’s the best way to watch stuff or game in 3D nowadays, outside of VR headsets, of course.
- Comment on PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG 2 months ago:
Why sort in the train when you can sort ahead of time and maximize storage space? The ZIP code system allows for a national radix sort.
- Comment on Remember episodic gaming? Former Telltale devs are bringing it back for the release of Dispatch, and there's a chance it might work this time | Eurogamer 2 months ago:
Back To The Future was the first one I played as it came out. Love the Walking Dead series. Need more adaptations of the comics rather than the show.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 2 months ago:
Sure, that’s true. I was a year 1 backer, just after the initial Kickstarter ended, so I guess to me that part of the context kind of spoke for itself. Thanks for highlighting it, I honestly do appreciate it.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 2 months ago:
The bigger context of that quote is basically that they’re heads down and preparing for crunch. The person who said, “I don’t know if we’re going to make it” also said “but we’re doing everything we can to make it happen” (this is my paraphrase, I don’t know if I got the exact wording)
- Comment on Beyond the Maze: The Unexpected Store Management Game in Pacman 30th Anniversary 2 months ago:
This reads like ChatGPT wrote it
- Comment on Google sucks 2 months ago:
If you’re planning to run Jellyfin or Plex, I’d recommend a low-profile Intel ARC GPU.
Those things transcode video like nobody’s business and they’re not all that much more expensive than the GTX 750 people have mentioned in this thread
- Comment on Foolproof advice 2 months ago:
Pretty sure it’s a joke.
- Comment on PS5 Digital Edition consoles are reportedly getting a quiet storage downgrade | VGC 2 months ago:
Well word is that the PS6 is aimed to be a Switch 2 competitor, which honestly makes sense. Graphics continuing to improve is slow enough going these days and the Switch 2 is selling gangbusters.
With any luck, by acknowledging Nintendo they’re taking on the 2nd place mentality again.
- Comment on PC modders optimise Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater before Konami does, and add Hideo Kojima to boot | Eurogamer 2 months ago:
Only if it’s a PC-exclusive
- Comment on The Framework Desktop and Linux have shown me the path to PC gaming in the living room 2 months ago:
They work fine for me
- Comment on Utter bullshit like this 3 months ago:
Slop as a slang term is far older than its present use to primarily describe the output of AI, see Merriam Webster’s definition 4-C for the second noun meaning of the word:
a product of little or no value : rubbish
watching the usual slop on TV
- Comment on Superfan Ben Stiller Has A Star Trek Pitch, Says It’s Important For Franchise To Return To Big Screen 3 months ago:
IDK, Ben Stiller made Severance, which is pretty thoughtful, philosophical sci-fi. He’s got the chops and the interest in making something, the idea leaves me cautiously optimistic.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 3 months ago:
Hamburgling?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I agree that those are huge issues. I guess in my opinion, philosophy courses like what I described tend to improve literacy and math skills by requiring you read and write deliberately, think about the nuances of words, and build logical, self-consistent arguments/statements.