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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Real-world map data is helping make better games about farms and transportation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  NIMBY Rails has been insanely fun. Their tagline is politicians are wrong, you know what’s best for your community or something like that. Very fun to make the transit systems we should have, and very satisfying to see ridership on those systems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  God knows if they needed a medical procedure and the most qualified doctor was in France or China or anywhere, they would demand that they should be treated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d like to see creators who own their rights put in contracts that the story must be told in full, and that whatever pacing is decided on (1 season per book for example) needs to be maintained. I know most studios would walk away, but I’d love for someone to have the balls to tell them that

  You want to make my 10 book series into a TV show? Put your money where your mouth is and pony up 10 seasons worth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocket is Saying Goodbye: What You Need to Know | Pocket Help⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading

  It did?

  we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match their browsing habits and online needs.

  So other things no one asked for?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨George R. R. Martin's New Announcement Has Finally Made Me Accept He's Never Finishing The Winds Of Winter⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I decided when the show was on that I’d love to buy and read the books, when they’re finished. We’re over a decade past that and still haven’t bothered to even crack open the first. Doubt I ever will

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zach Braff Joins ‘Scrubs’ Reboot in Development at ABC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was going to say, wait another reboot?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any plot arcs, or missed opportunities from any TV series that were abandoned that you think should've been picked up or continued?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Little Randy, Lucy and Bo-bandy’s kid. What happened to little random? They covered the story by saying they put the little maf up for adoption, but other than that the little cheeseburger driving kid was never spoken of again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Loses 'Integral Staff' Responsible for Server Meshing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So they have rounds of layoffs, staff feel less secure in their role, and they’re surprised that knowledgeable and easily employable experts are leaving for more stable roles?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming Ad Tiers Catch Fire, Make Up Nearly Half Of U.S. Subscriptions For SVODs That Offer Them, Study Says⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve learned to never hope for the best when it comes to consumers. They have been trained to happily hand over their money and time for worse experiences. They is no breaking point that they’ll come across where they finally stop paying, even if they surpass the ability to even afford it.

  It doesn’t matter if Netflix is shitty. They’ll pay for it, because how would they go on without it? They’ll pay more for more ads, and it’ll just be accepted. We here are the minority.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of your unpopular opinions, hot takes about series, streaming services, the wider industry etc?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Seasons 1 - Battle of the Bastards was some of the best television I’ve seen in my life. Truly masterpiece, all the way through. I’ve never seen that level of excitement either from fans, we had watch parties every year. That’s what made the ending sting so badly, was because of how good it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling on lemmy.world to defederate with feddit.de⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So, it’s happening because they’re government mandated it. So, wouldn’t the best approach be to stay federated, so that any of our external content gets federated to them and they see it anyway? Isn’t federation a good thing in this case?

  Why would we help them in this case, it would be on them to defederate from us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA 6 release won't be delayed again now that it has a "specific date", assures Take-Two boss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well if there’s anyone who knows when it will be done, it’s high level management

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly have to agree. I was skeptical on your take until I read his blog post. I see zero reflection on it. Instead I see blame and anger, and yes frustration.

  Look, the market is trash, but there are jobs for those willing to learn. He mentions php. Php hasn’t been relevant for new jobs for a while. The only time I mention my php knowledge is it it’s in reference to an older project I did. He mentions he’s kept up on AI by “reading HN and articles” and then saying he has 5 projects he has essentially vibe coded it sounds like. That’s not keeping up with AI from a software engineering standpoint. That’s just using AI tools and reading articles. Keeping up with AI from an engineering standpoint to me is using their apis, running models, training your own models. Go under the surface, show curiosity.

  We work in a field where a fundamental requirement is to keep learning. It’s very easy to get comfortable in a role and not learn anything new, but you’ll get stuck there. If you have unemployment learn every library you can. Learn Rust, Go, random languages. Choose the packages you don’t know very well to build your app. Deploy your app yourself, learn CI/CD and infrastructure. Don’t stand still.

  I’m a dotnet engineer now. Right now that means I’m 40% dotnet, python, nosql, kubernetes, and React. 5 years ago I was Angular. 10 years ago I was php and webforms. You can’t just say “I learned to code, I’m done!”. In this field it’s never done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to change your Steam password? Data from over 89 million accounts has reportedly leaked to the dark web⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Backend vendor access credentials it says, I am guessing everything in valve’s side is fine. That being said, when was the last time you changed your steam password? Probably time anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Made by and for douchebags. Honestly if they actually wanted to make a little truck that was an EV I would have been all over it. Just something small to haul some dirt or lumber for home projects. I don’t want a giant f150, I want some danger ranger size or smaller for light projects. I think that could have been very popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMC to Slash Movie Ticket Prices by 50% on Wednesdays⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to calculate enjoyment per hour for cost. Red dead 2 took me 120 hours for $60. That’s 50 cents an hour, and not counting the now many replays. So there’s a good bar.

  Then you have the movies, who now want upwards of 12-14 dollars an hour of enjoyment. Or I just wait until I can get it at home.

  Now, there’s a lot of variable there, something being more expensive does not mean bad, I can justify the costs if I want it enough or if I’m, say, looking forward to a specific movie. But they’re fighting for our leisure time, our Friday and Saturday nights, and for that cost it’s just not worth going to the movies and “seeing what’s showing” anymore. They nickel and dimed us out of that experience. Why go spend $40-50 dollars for 2 to go see a movie when we could rent one at home, or play a game, or any number of things?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And they wanted it that way. They were like well that’s what it’s really like! Which like yeah great, but that’s terribly boring for a game.

  Another game like that was Mass Effect 1, where they had the undiscovered worlds, but even those were more entertaining. They gave you a mako, and each planet had at least one faction with at least some backstory to it so it wasn’t a complete waste. Starfield is like, nothing. I encounter the exact same building structure and camps multiple times on my single playthrough. Absolutely uninspired

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  God how did they fuck that up? Who thought I’d want to fast travel there? Sure sometimes, but honestly I’d love it if it showed how many minutes to destination and then you started jumping.

  You’re in the pilots chair, you see 10 minutes to the other side. You hesitate because that’s far, but 2 minutes away is your home base anyway so might as well swing through and drop off some stuff, make sure the pumps and extractors are working. 6 minutes past that is that side quest you’ve been putting off, I guess we can do that too. You hit the jump button, stars whizz past. You go talk with your crew, get caught up on conversations. You jump back in the chair when the 20 second warning goes off. You jump out and arrive, but there is a weird signal on a nearby planet in this system…

  Now THAT’s the game i wanted. Altering one mechanic right there completely changes the entire style of the game. I will forever be annoyed that everything in the game is instant fast travel. Sure have a button there to skip if people want to, but personally I prefer to lay back and fully immerse myself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was incredibly mid. For something Bethesda hyped for over half a decade they sure made a bland game. Throwing aside all of the incredibly dated gameplay, you hit the nail on the head. It was boring

  You can tell every faction was decided by a corporate committee inside Bethesda and Microsoft. They couldn’t be too risky, couldn’t come close to possibly offending one person or risk having slightly fewer gamers. That results in a boring as hell game. Everyone was too goddamn nice in the game. No one ever got mad at you. You could punch someone in the face and the response would be “hey, that’s not nice” and then they would continue on. Hold on there don’t want to possibly scare off a potential customer by having a realistic situation there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rocketwerkz's CEO alleges Unity are threatening to revoke studio's licence over apparent personal licence usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody should be optimizing to use unity anymore. I know personally devs who have worked there and confirmed this is their business now, just strangling devs for license revenue. They may open the gate a bit at the beginning to lock you in, but they’ll slam it shut eventually behind you. And god knows if your game is even remotely successful they’re going to go out of their way to get their hands on your money

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If a TV series you loved from the 90s, 00s or even early 10s instead came out today - how different do you imagine it would be? How would the writing be different? Who would be casted instead?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been heavily theorized that arrested development what have been a wild success now vs when it came out. When it was released it was the early 00s and most average TV watchers were into the casual sitcom. They did not have interest in watching each episode in order with a long running narrative and jokes that called back several episodes to get.

  However that’s where TV went. Now most of our shows follow that format, we enjoy it more. I think now they could have been successful

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Marvel] There Is No Getting Back On This Ride⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly that. It’s not that we didn’t want more, but it just all happened so suddenly that we didn’t really get a chance to just absorb the end of infinity war either. It was just immediately into the next thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Marvel] There Is No Getting Back On This Ride⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A very good rundown. I feel the same way. The infinity saga was ana amazing triumph, where ever movie made you want to know the next step, hoping for a cameo, following details. And then it ended triumphantly.

  And it should have stayed ended. It was over. We had closure. But money says why would they pause? Why would they even take just a few years break to let people enjoy it for a second? Hell no, 2 months later the next continuation starts. And the next, and now we have to watch the TV shows, and we have to watch the next one.

  Author was spot on. The excitement was over, so it’s now a chore to follow along.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why You Can't Stream Coppola's Megalopolis Anywhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t it “supposed” to be an in theater experience? I remember he was so far up there he was saying no one should watch it at home or something stupid like that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100,000 People Are Using a Telegram Bot That Makes AI Cumshot Videos of Anyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Note I didn’t defend anything. Simply asking where the line was. If the line is consent then, does that mean the AI should be banned? What about Photoshop? What about stick figures of people with boobs? How far should we go to make sure it never happens? Should doors be burst down and office drawers be searched? Will you decide?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100,000 People Are Using a Telegram Bot That Makes AI Cumshot Videos of Anyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is drawing someone on paper nude okay? What if it’s hyper realistic? What if it’s just a stick figure with giant breasts added? Is using Photoshop to enhance it okay? All of these things are things we do.

  It’s much more nuanced than it seems. Where is the societal line of what’s okay and what isn’t?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A24’s $3.5B Valuation Pushes the Indie Studio Toward Blockbusters⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am conflicted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here. I do okay. I voted against my interests to tax myself more to improve our societal systems and help others. I was overruled by people in need voting to get rid of the systems they depend on. So, idk how to feel anymore

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It kills me the the Jedi games, TLoU2, GoW games, they’re fun but they’re what, max 30 hours to beat? And they’re trying to up the price to 80?

  Red dead 2 deserves 80. Cyberpunk in its current state could deserve 80. Both are around 100-120 hour games and I’ve replayed them multiple times. 30 hour games by proportion deserve a quarter of the price.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What TV show always shows up on ‘best ever’ lists but just doesn’t belong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone says Star Wars. Laugh track for 10 seconds.

  Haha nerd funny. Because he likes star wars. You know, like the biggest franchise of all history