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- Comment on AMD rides data center riches to ‘largest and most profitable’ quarter in history 1 week ago:
In a gold rush, sell shovels.
- Submitted 1 week ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Do you cheat in games? 1 week ago:
The older you get the less time you realize you have to do things like gaming. I don’t even have kids, but my last 5 weekends have had events/meetups/items on them that 10 years ago I wouldn’t have had. I’m more exhausted after work now too, and spinning up a game and getting into the mode is effort in itself now. So, when I do game, I find myself being annoyed at games that want me to sit for an hour whittling down a boss, or figuring out some inane puzzle. If I only have max 10 hours a week to game, then I want to spend them making progress in a game.
For example I’m playing FF7 remake (first playthrough, no spoilers please) and I was fighting in the arena, and it took me a couple tries and finally made it through after probably 2 hours of fighting. Then the surprise round with the house, and I failed 5 times, I’m simply not spec’d right, and wasted 3 hours trying to get past it. At that point I’m not even enjoying the game anymore, and the small amount of time I get to play games I didn’t even get to see any new story or character development. Then I have to go do something else and it’s been 2 weeks now since I have had time to game, but thinking about it I just get annoyed.
- Comment on On the steam forums, there are over TWO THOUSAND PAGES of community questions about "disk write error". 1 week ago:
Disk write error.
Almost like the error has something to do with writing to the disk.
As in the disk may have an error in which Steam cannot write to it.
What else is Steam supposed to say? it’s literally pointing to the error, it can’t do anything else. If you don’t know how to pour through logs or anything that’s okay, that’s what Geek Squad is for
- Comment on Anon owns a gym 1 week ago:
I have a stationary bike and a real one, and I use both. I agree with your points, but stationary bikes are not the cause.
- Comment on Xbox is reportedly set to officially name The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel as soon as next month 2 weeks ago:
That is actually exactly what I was thinking of. A game so bland and corporate that it gave away its soul. The title is proof. The name went from Dragon Age: Dreadwolf (A name all the fans were excited about and a direct successor to the massive cliffhanger) to Veilguard. You could just tell it went through so many committees and had to be approved by 16 layers of middle management.
Elder scrolls will be the same.
- Comment on Mass Effect 5 and BioWare Reportedly Died So Star Wars Battlefront 3 Could Live 2 weeks ago:
Oh the DLC are phenomenal. Few games get high praise for their DLC but Mass Effect 2 and 3 do. Citadel is the perfect capstone to the trilogy, and if you haven’t played ME3 with Citadel well you are in for a treat
- Comment on Mass Effect 5 and BioWare Reportedly Died So Star Wars Battlefront 3 Could Live 2 weeks ago:
Horrible tradeoff from a gaming standpoint. I’m sure numbers show it’ll be wildly profitable and of course they should have done it. We all know tens of thousands of people will happily buy a battlefront 3 as well.
We had one great Mass Effect trilogy that brought love and hope to so many, I loved it so dear, while I’m sad there won’t be another I’m also so glad we got the trilogy. It’s such a huge part of my life in so many deep personal ways. If that’s the way EA wants to sever my relationship to them, so be it.
- Comment on Xbox is reportedly set to officially name The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel as soon as next month 2 weeks ago:
If that’s it I’ll be annoyed just because sentinel is such corporate word. It feels corporate doesn’t it? Yes it’s a city there, but it’s the “safe” sounding word. I’m just bracing for the next elder scrolls to be like Starfield. Toxic positivity and writing right out of big corporate thinktanks.
- Comment on WB Games owner Skydance introducing five-day in-office mandate alongside 'Voluntary Buyout Program' 2 weeks ago:
So they’re just being transparent that “in office” is a cleaner way of laying people off.
- Comment on This is the new Apple Ad. It was designed by psychiatrists to encourage american to buy the Apple Homeview 2 weeks ago:
Do post ads when they are shaming a company. You don’t make the rules here.
- Comment on A driver in New York City covered his license plate with tape 2 weeks ago:
Hate when people think that there can be no nuance to things. That “yet you participate in society” meme.
- Comment on Save Mass Effect 2 weeks ago:
Oh sweetie, they don’t care one bit about a petition
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 3 weeks ago:
But unfortunately without the IP
- Comment on Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy 3 weeks ago:
Ho now that’s a fine! Let’s give our more fines that start with B!
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 3 weeks ago:
I think good stories and corporations are at opposite ends. Corporations and the opposite of human, and thus can’t write good human relatable stories. They can’t make art. The more people in the room the more bland the outcome will be. Too much overhead - marking, advertisers, lawyers, HR, everyone. I think Bioware proves they can’t do it. I think smaller studios are the only ones really capable of it. The only outliers appear to be rockstar and CDPR, for the time being at least.
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 3 weeks ago:
They’ve had 3 flops in a row, and the worst part is that they did absolutely no learning from any of them. Each failed for the same reason. Bland boring story, no risks, souless worlds from the studio that was known for epic deep lore based worlds. As sad as I am, EA and Bioware did it to themselves.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 129 comments
- Comment on Dexcom is holding health access hostage for diabetic users 4 weeks ago:
This entire comment thread is weird, so you more or less agree with me, and agree that it’s something they have, but are upset because she’s doing it for clicks. We’re arguing semantics of the implementation, when the main jist is correct, they’re selling client data and many users probably are unaware, which then the problem is that the users probably should be bluntly aware of it. Which leads me to why is she doing it for clicks? I think a bigger question is if this was a man who was trying to raise awareness, would the assumption have been the same, that they were doing it for clicks, or awareness? I don’t know man, I’m getting some weird vibes from this thread.
- Comment on Dexcom is holding health access hostage for diabetic users 4 weeks ago:
No man, you’re the illiterate one here. The phone is irrelevant. I worked in the ad industry, this profile shit is real. Phones metadata simply means a device I’d so they can knowingly tie you to what the other massive personality graphs have on you rather than guessing. They don’t need your browsing history, they already have it. If not from a device then through the apps, if not the apps then the sites themselves.
These companies already have a profile on all of us built. This is simply another company offering their data so huge data aggregators can directly connect it with everything else you do. Not only browsing, but gaming, social media, when you use your computer, travel sites, they even have presence detection in stores to track if their ad worked. This is already the reality we live in.
- Comment on Samuel L. Jackson roasts a reporter for trying to do an impression of him 4 weeks ago:
I’ve heard this has been happening more and more. Clips like this do well on TikTok, and Gen Z eats it up. The influencers (“reporter” in this clip) do something “outrageous” to get a reaction out of the celebrity and then call it “news”, and then put it on TikTok. Either it’s cringe and it does well, or it gets a reaction out of the celebrity and it does well.
It’s win win. All you have to do is have no shame yourself, and be willing to put another human on the spot thinking about how their entire career trajectory could be lost because they reacted poorly to some moron who wanted a few likes on the internet.
I really fucking hate “influencers”.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 4 weeks ago:
Putting aside that windows will simply forget updates when it decides to, users should not have to beg their own pc to not do something they didn’t choose to do.
- Comment on Why Do People Bounce Off Old Games? 4 weeks ago:
We used to call this just playing the game.
- Comment on Six Flags has installed one of the largest solar carports in the US - 12.37-megawatt - the annual power use of both the amusement park and neighboring Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles 4 weeks ago:
And while it was an investment to do, they essentially just zeroed one of their largest bills. Why isn’t everyone with a large parking lot doing this again?
- Comment on Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days 5 weeks ago:
For those wondering why this is on my network, this belongs to my parents. I don’t police what they buy. I just help with their network, but this is a learning experience for them.
- Comment on America's First *Real* Transcontinental Railroad might Happen 5 weeks ago:
This is about freight carriers
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on To win over locals, data centers pump $340M into rural Texas projects 5 weeks ago:
Just enough to convince locals they are good before getting what they want and ruining the area for decades.
- Comment on Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com 1 month ago:
Sounds like it, and sounds like a great way to deprecate the old site slowly while limiting the blast radius if pissed users.
- Submitted 1 month ago to videos@lemmy.world | 1 comment