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- Comment on Nintendo Wins $4.5 Million Judgment Against r/SwitchPirates Mod 'Archbox' * TorrentFreak 1 day ago:
Selling the pirated stuff, I guess? I don’t really follow it, but whenever I hear a judgement like this it’s usually from someone actually making money from selling pirated games rather than just cracking or distributing.
- Comment on Squirted Glock comp that doesn't suck 3 days ago:
Oh wow, homemade weaponry, yeah not what I was expecting here.
Looks like OP is a new user though so I’m guessing they didn’t mean for their question to end up here and with no context.
- Comment on Squirted Glock comp that doesn't suck 3 days ago:
You might need to define a few of those words. Squirted glock? Compensator? PLA? Lade? Invader v2? I don’t even know what your picture is meant to be of!
- Comment on Is that good? 4 days ago:
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It’s section 3:
For the purposes of this Act, a “social media platform” means a platform which—
(a) has the sole or significant purpose of enabling users to create, share, discover or consume user-generated content;
(b) enables users to discover, interact with or follow the content or accounts of users other than those with whom they communicate privately.
- Comment on Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait 1 week ago:
And Warcraft was meant to be Warhammer Fantasy!
but the similarities are sort of obvious Absolutely, watch the trailer for this new game and tell me it couldn’t be a Space Marine game
- Comment on Kallax Storageborn is a Skyrim mod that adds an inventory-focused companion voiced by Matt Berry 2 weeks ago:
Well then I hope you’ve played Thank Goodness You’re Here!
- Comment on Vibe Gaming: Project VEGA - Microsoft Research 2 weeks ago:
Maybe the goal is to train better NPCs, and they’re hoping it’s enough of a novelty that real players will do that training for them?
- Comment on Vibe Gaming: Project VEGA - Microsoft Research 2 weeks ago:
For the prototypes and demonstrations in this article, our testbed is Luanti, an open-source voxel game platform.
So Microsoft, who own Minecraft, are using the open source clone instead of their own product?
- Comment on What is my purpose? 4 weeks ago:
Alternative spin: you are the guardian of the hive, only you have been given the genetic power from the queen to protect us when our enemies are at the door, we all rely on you. Also I don’t think ants can build doors!
- Comment on Abxylute S9V: When a Giveaway Becomes Bribery 5 weeks ago:
- Follow their steps
- Get your freebie
- Change your review to 1* and update it with evidence
- Report the scam to Amazon
Even if the report goes nowhere you’ve got a freebie and the scammers have the opposite of what they want, right?
- Comment on Phone and OS Recommendations 5 weeks ago:
Amusingly LineageOS seems to support the S20 and the S22 but not yours!
I’ve been buying cheap used Pixels for the past few years (as in getting one, putting GrapheneOS on it, using it until it starts nagging me that it’s really definitely absolutely going to stop giving me security updates soon, and then looking around for deals on a newer old Pixel). GrapheneOS seems pretty good as something that gives you some good privacy and security while actually being usable as a daily driver, plus its absolutely trivial to install. If you’re feeling decadent you could wait for the supposed Motorola GrapheneOS phone next year instead, but there’s very little known about that.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Seems to be a USA-based org primarily for Americans
Can I apply if I live outside the United States?
It depends. If you live outside the U.S., you may still be eligible—but the types of products or services we can support may be limited. The application form will flag any parts of your request that might not qualify. If you’re unsure, we still encourage you to apply—our team will review your submission and follow up if needed.
So good news, but doesn’t seem hugely relevant to this community
- Comment on Stop Killing Games join lawsuit against the PlayStation Store's "Sony Tax," in latest venture beyond game preservation 1 month ago:
Neither of them recently announced that they would stop supporting physical media you can buy from third parties though
- Comment on Painful to recover from 1 month ago:
Allow me to make an inflammatory counterpoint to demonstrate my intelligence: this text isn’t green YOU BUFFOON!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Firstly, that’s the tip of the iceberg in mad decisions (or lack of QA) in red and blue, seeing people break those games is a thing of beauty.
Secondly, that’s how Twitch Plays Pokémon was able to beat the Elite Four, venomoth is poison so Lance’s dragonite kept using its super-effective psychic move: agility (which does no damage).
- Comment on WWE wants to trademark the term 'Vice City'. 1 month ago:
The Beatles got quite a lot of cash from Apple when they started selling music through iTunes, right?
- Comment on Primary schools to be told to identify children at risk of future unemployment 1 month ago:
The Department for Education would also be asked to refresh its pupil premium guidance to emphasise that the extra money schools in England receive for supporting the most disadvantaged children could be used for tutoring and mentoring schemes for those at risk of becoming Neet.
Those absolute monsters!
I think everyone’s just so conditioned to reading bad news headlines that they assumed this was something sinister, when it actually seems like quite positive news (in theory at least)
- Comment on WWE wants to trademark the term 'Vice City'. 1 month ago:
I’m just going off memory, but sky tv already provided computer-related services and products in Britain, so it’s not unreasonable for them not to want another company essentially using their name for a product that could quite easily be confused as to being associated with them
- Comment on Ecosystem services 1 month ago:
Much more achievable for the common man
- Comment on Ecosystem services 1 month ago:
- Comment on Roblox loses $70 billion in value as company blames lack of viral games 1 month ago:
It’s not that the company is losing money, it’s just what investors think their company is worth is now less
The company also reported that ‘bookings’, a key measure of player spending, grew by just 8% year over year after previously posting much stronger growth
This is the most relevant thing the article mentions; they’re still making money, more money than they did last year
Financial news is weird, it all just seems like random guesswork and made up numbers
- Comment on Certified post about shit 1 month ago:
This is why I always shit in the bath, makes the cleanup easier too
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 1 month ago:
People just love stating their opinions as facts, and you can’t really give entirely objective opinions about art. When people say this game was amazing/terrible because of some subjective opinion they usually mean I loved/hated this game because that’s what I love/hate.
- Comment on Elden Ring Journal - Today I got my first hand job! 1 month ago:
We don’t do the
/c/communitynamething here, mainly because it reminds us of our ex but also because communities exist on specific instances, e.g. !soulslike@lemmy.zip - Comment on A new PlayStation controller patent showcases a controller with no physical buttons 1 month ago:
To license the idea to other people who want to do something with it?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Relevant discussion, I wonder if the post is directly related to the news
- Comment on Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie. 2 months ago:
Exactly, someone spoofing the biometrics to unlock my phone relies on them having physical access, whereas spoofing the biometrics on an account that can be accessed anywhere in the world is quite a bit bigger of a threat
- Comment on Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie. 2 months ago:
That’s unlocking your phone, this is unlocking your entire Google account (e.g. on a new device)
- Comment on Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit. 2 months ago:
Let’s hope it encourages a few people to think a bit more critically about other companies too, even if some others don’t get beyond “this directly affects me”