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- Comment on Lawsuit claims Meta can see WhatsApp chats in breach of privacy 22 hours ago:
Yeah people fundamentally misunderstand what e2e encryption is.
No one can decrypt it between you and them. However, yours or their device has an unencrypted view of it, so if your app happily transmits all of your data, that doesn’t break the e2e encryption.
How do people think WhatsApp makes money?
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops: Reports 2 days ago:
Your data should be yours and completely private, except we should probably have access too.
- Microsoft
- Comment on OpenAI might torch $14 billion in 2026, hitting bankruptcy by next year 4 days ago:
You can have any colour you like, as long as it’s black.
but we don’t even want it to begin with
Yes, that’s why you want the black one.
- Comment on Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company 4 days ago:
I honestly don’t know how they’re so disconnected from reality. To in the same statement within 2 paragraphs say they both want to be more focused on the gamer, and immediately then say “More GenAI, more recurring payments, more Games as a Service”. I just, I don’t know man. I don’t want layoffs but man they really just don’t get it do they?
Yeah so, we know gamers have hated our stuff because of these horrible shitty practices - but, and hear me out, what if we did that stuff even more, don’t even mention things like great stories and fun worlds or anything gamers have been asking for, and also laid off most of our staff and forced return to office too?
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- Comment on Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company 4 days ago:
Ubisoft founder and CEO, Yves Guillemot, said the company must pursue a “radically new” value-creation model and become a more “gamer-centric” organization to find its footing in an increasingly competitive and selective triple-A market.
Good! Realizing it needs to be about the gamer again not just shareholder value.
“The new operating model will further empower the execution of the Group’s strategy, centered on Open World Adventures and GaaS-native experiences, supported by targeted investments, deeper specialization, and cutting-edge technology, including accelerated investments behind player-facing Generative AI,” reads the document.
Oh god damnit nevermind, the boycott continues
- Comment on PC game recommendation for my partner and I 5 days ago:
Lovers in a dangerous spacetime was a ton of fun! Very adorable, simple mechanics, plays on one screen, and not too hard. Also came out over 5 years ago so win win
- Comment on Using AI to create rage bait 6 days ago:
Like I said, I was agreeing with your title. Thought we were going to have an interesting conversation on AI generated rage bait. Here we are instead.
- Comment on Using AI to create rage bait 6 days ago:
Technically, I didn’t read the post, but agreed with your title. Then all of your comments after I’ve accused of baiting, but yeah maybe the post was just to bait too.
- Comment on Using AI to create rage bait 6 days ago:
Stop trying to bait us.
- Comment on Using AI to create rage bait 6 days ago:
No. No it was not. None of them have been.
Let’s take your first question.
Honest question, are you good just passively watching all this MAGA shit spread?
There was nothing honest about this. I said I didn’t want to read the Facebook post. An honest question would have been:
I know there are many reasons why not you but why don’t you want to go on Facebook?
That’s an honest question.
You’re had a very obvious agenda. You are obviously trying to bait me into some argument, which I am not getting into with you. Your question was completely dishonest, because it both did not ask me about anything relevant to what I said, and there was also no way for me to answer you without you having a fully planned response.
We aren’t taking the rage bait. That’s for Facebook. Stop trying to bait us.
- Comment on Using AI to create rage bait 6 days ago:
Do you turn everything into an inflammatory question?
- Comment on Using AI to create rage bait 6 days ago:
Me watching it isn’t going to help anything.
- Comment on Using AI to create rage bait 6 days ago:
Not going to look at the link, but I see it’s Facebook, and from my last experience over a year ago it was well over 90% AI generated rage bait
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World. 6 days ago:
I’d have to check, I’d say slightly above average. All of my appliances and HVAC are electric now, and I have a fair amount of other electrical use. If we include the EV, well above average. I don’t expect to ever get 100% off grid, but I wonder what percentage makes it worth it
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World. 1 week ago:
I’ve been wanting to, but I only have one southern-facing roof and I can only get a few panels on there. Do you think it’s worth it for partial power?
- Comment on A Man Bought Meta's AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert in Search of Aliens 1 week ago:
- Comment on Tomb Raider fans are saying the same thing about first look at Sophie Turner as Lara Croft 1 week ago:
Saving you a click
Tomb Raider fans impressed by Sophie Turner’s “game accurate” Lara Croft
“Yeah they nailed it,” wrote one, while another said “great costume, especially the glasses,” and a third added “Woaaaa. Amazon killing it with the game adaptions accuracy lately.”
Another concurred regarding game comparisons, stating: “Clear homage to the original game as opposed to the rebooted version.”
“Wow, Sophie Turner looks like a perfect fit for Lara Croft!” posted one commentator. “She’s got the toughness and intensity – can’t wait to see her take on the role. This series just became my most anticipated show on Prime Video!”
- Comment on Sincere question: why play long video games? 1 week ago:
I’ll bite. (Note I do notice you do have a 12 day old history, and we have had a wave of spammers trying to incite bullshit, so we’ll see how this goes)
So, why play long games? Why read long books? Why watch long movies?
For me, I like a good well-told story. A game like Red Dead Redemption 2 has such a good story that it is worth investing 120 hours into. It’s protagonist, Arthur Morgan, is so well written that he is arguably the most well-written fictional character of all time. Over the course of 120 hours you get to know him so intimately that you truly feel like you know and understand him, and over the story that will both make you laugh and cry, it culminates in an amazing climax, truly a story that could only be told over 100 hours.
To answer your other points:
For me personally, I tend to look at things in terms of costs and benefits. Through that lens, most games seem like a bad deal
This goes counter to what you said at the beginning, they are actually ridiculously cheap compared to other forms of media. Going to see a 2 hour movie now costs about $18 in the states, that’s $9/hour. RDR2 was $60 and for only the first playthrough of 120 hours that’s $0.50/hour of entertainment value. Now, take playing it multiple times and it’s one of the cheapest forms of entertainment. (arguably the hardware to run it needs to be calculated in, but it depends on preferences etc etc etc)
When I was in HS, I had a band. Has that type of interaction simply been replaced by video games?
No. Apples and Oranges.
I really want to understand the interplay between video games and psychology.
I like good story telling. I like being enveloped in my media, and feeling truly immersed. Gaming does that in spades.
Cuz it seems like FPSes are dominant whereas not too long ago they were a single niche among many niches.
Maybe in your friend group they are, but in the circles I’m in it’s simply not true. Everyone is different. Everyone has different preferences. I just played Dispatch over the weekend, a fun 8ish hour romp that also made me both laugh out loud and well up with tears, it was an adorable game. I see 98% positive ratings on it with almost 100k reviews, so I don’t think we need to jump to “FPS is dominant”.
- Comment on Day 543 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Not a happy place to be for sure
- Comment on Day 543 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I hear the first screenshot.
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
- Comment on Ice fishing today for what will probably be the last time this century 2 weeks ago:
From OPs anger I think we can assume he may live 1000km further north
- Comment on Ice fishing today for what will probably be the last time this century 2 weeks ago:
It means extremes for sure. It’s why the hurr durr it’s cold out people are morons, our climates are changing. Warming causes global changes.
Some areas get drier like California. Some places get colder. Midwest of the US gets more intense and frequent tornadoes and extreme storms. My area is getting more rain.
Take what you already get in terms of extreme weather, dial it up to 11.
- Comment on Dead to Rights: How Morality Erodes | Accented Cinema [16:10] 2 weeks ago:
Who’s morality? Who gets to define it?
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 2 weeks ago:
Don’t. I think it honestly has a place. Now that place is vastly different from what business bros think it is, but it does have a place. I think writing tests is a great reason, and it’s a good double check. Writing documentation is good, and even writing some boilerplate code and models. The kicker is that you need to already be an engineer to use it, and to understand what it’s doing. I would not trust it blindly, and I feel confident enough to catch it.
It’s another tool in our belt, it’s fine to use it that way. Management is insane though if they think you’ll 10x. Maybe 2x.
- Comment on Accuweather handling rain and snow differently 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for letting us know, in fact it may be worth a today I learned style post because I don’t think people know this
- Comment on The shrinkflation 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, last time I went there was over a year ago and had a similar experience to op, now I go to my local shop. Same price now as mcds, but I get almost 2x the food and it’s better quality.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 3 weeks ago:
God I’ve tried three times to enjoy no man’s sky and I just can’t. It’s just endless grinding, no real reward for it, and no way to automate any of the tasks so you can move onto more fun things
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Surprise! You get your surprise spoiled by some rag article site. Aren’t you surprised?!
- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. Luckily with RAM, you know pretty quickly if a stick is dead. Yeah the test can run for hours, but in my experience if a stick is dead, memtest will go red almost immediately, most of the time not even making it 2 minutes.
