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- Comment on RIP FaceID, Hello Palm Recognition: How Veins In Your Palm Are The Next Biometric Boom - Yanko Design 2 days ago:
Passwords? A relic, and an insecure one at that.
instead of scanning your face (which can be spoofed) or fingerprints (which can be copied), these systems scan the ‘pattern’ of the veins running inside your palm – something that’s unique to you, and absolutely can’t be faked.
Consider me sceptical.
- Comment on dual immunity (see body) 3 days ago:
we need to maintain vision basically 24/7
I don’t know about OP, but I tend to close my eyes when I sleep
- Comment on Meta hypes AI friends as social media’s future, but users want real connections 4 days ago:
They don’t want you viewing content from friends, they want you viewing content from the brands that pay them
- Comment on Why console makers can legally brick your game console 4 days ago:
Assuming this article is talking about the USA? This doesn’t sound like the kind of thing that would fly anywhere with half-decent consumer protection laws.
- Comment on Shats 5 days ago:
It’s real!?
- Comment on Interview: My Q&A with Gardiner Bryant 1 week ago:
Thank you for doing the hard work!
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 1 week ago:
You can still (for the moment) be patient with Nintendo games if you’re OK buying second hand
- Comment on Interview: My Q&A with Gardiner Bryant 1 week ago:
I clicked on this because I’ve enjoyed your previous articles, despite not having heard of Gardiner before. Maybe it’s just the kind interests we Lemmy users have, but he’s ticking every box for the kind of thing I like to read!
- Comment on Nominative Determinism is my middle name 1 week ago:
Oh I’m definitely nicking this for !nominativedeterminism@feddit.uk
- Comment on Nintendo Announces Free Switch 1 Games Upgrades for Switch 2 1 week ago:
It runs fine on my WiiU!
- Comment on Former PlayStation exec says "$70 or $80" games are a "steal": "As long as people choose carefully how they spend their money, I don't think they should be complaining" 1 week ago:
You guys are paying $20 to see a single film at the cinema!?
- Comment on Tekken 8 lead has been trying to contact Waffle House for a collaboration for the past year - to no avail 1 week ago:
Ah, so the American equivalent of a kebab shop then?
- Comment on Nearly 5 years in, PS5 sales remain neck-and-neck with PS4 | VGC 1 week ago:
The best time to buy a console is just after its sequel is released, lots of people upgrading and selling their old one with all the games and controllers
- Comment on [UFO 50] we've found the worst way to beat bushido ball 2 weeks ago:
So it lets you get so close that you can block the ball from ever leaving the opposition’s side and they get a penalty? Neat, though still requires you to be better at the game than me!
- Comment on "I don't know" how much Borderlands 4 will cost, Gearbox boss says, but it had "more than twice the development budget for Borderlands 3" and "it might be" $80 like some Nintendo and Xbox games 2 weeks ago:
That’s a sensible way to buy all video games
- Comment on Would you like to see a mainline Pokemon game created in the old style? 2 weeks ago:
Not to blow my own trumpet, but I was able to memorise basic type relationships as a small child!
That is a summing-up of the criticism that I’ve seen a few times though: they refuse to accept that their players grow up and only ever aim the games at youngsters, difficulty-wise.
- Comment on Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature 2 weeks ago:
The bait points to this:
I believe part of the answer lies in a fundamental aspect of our humanity: the urge to destroy that from which you feel excluded.
- Comment on CD Projekt exec says "the right thing to do" is release a real Nintendo Switch 2 cartridge for Cyberpunk 2077, not a game-key card, in message to other studios: "Do not underestimate the physical edit 2 weeks ago:
They gave the Heroic Launcher devs an affiliate link, so while they don’t really support Linux they at least approve of it
- Comment on Would you like to see a mainline Pokemon game created in the old style? 3 weeks ago:
I remember that being the “feature” which really highlighted the dumbing-down of the game. Work things out for yourself? Look them up? Remember what you’ve learned? No, we’ve solved the puzzle for you, don’t worry.
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 3 weeks ago:
It’s still providing a correct explanation to people, I guess
- Comment on Apple's USB-C transition is a confusing mess (and that might be on purpose) 3 weeks ago:
Libel if it’s in print, slander if you say it in person
- Comment on All of this month's 'free' games with Prime Gaming 3 weeks ago:
As with all offers like this Amazon are hoping that it causes people who weren’t subscribed before to stat paying them regularly, and posts like this are kind of giving them free advertising.
It’s similar to recommending something like reward credit cards (where you can make money off them as long as you pay them off in full and never pay any interest), if you’re sensible enough with your money then you can get a freebie but the provider is looking to profit off you messing up or forgetting.
- Comment on Polygon Has Been Sold With Mass Layoffs Hitting The Outlet 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t that how most businesses work? If a small company gets successful enough to be big but not so successful that they become the market leader then a big company buys them for their customer base.
- Comment on All of this month's 'free' games with Prime Gaming 3 weeks ago:
As I post whenever someone complains about them not being free in !freegames@feddit.uk: you can sign up for a free trial of prime, claim the thirty or so games currently available, cancel, and keep all the games forever without having to give a penny to Amazon.
- Comment on The games industry is screwed. [26:11] 3 weeks ago:
Resist the FOMO, don’t buy a game just because it’s brand new and they paid for enough marketing that everyone’s talking about it. Go through your backlog, replay your favourites, find some cheap indies or second hand classic or free giveaways. Nobody can force you to pay through the nose for games and there’s more choice than ever before!
- Comment on Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think anyone’s claiming it’s difficult, it’s just more of a risk. If you’re the investor calling the shots with your big bag of money do you choose a new idea which might be great but people might not like, or to rehash an existing idea that already has fans who will buy more of the same? The decision is entirely financial.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #13 4 weeks ago:
So…dev stumbles, fans harass, and the project is dead.
Goodbye Winlator…for now?
Ugh, another amazing one-person project killed by harassment. The internet makes it so trivial to bombard someone with hate-mail, and I doubt many of us have been through the “media training” necessary to deal with it. I only have the tiniest of projects going and if the people I thought I was making a nice thing for suddenly turned on me then I think I’d be saying “fuck it then” too.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 4 weeks ago:
You can do a call in a group chat, right?
- Comment on 🤙 hang ten 🤙 4 weeks ago:
Despite being a shitpost this is actually quite a positive statement for your own mental health
- Comment on The inarguable case for banning social media for teens 4 weeks ago:
I just go with “corpo social media” - is there a company trying to get infinite growth and profit behind the website?