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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  This just in: rich people want to get richer by charging more for the same product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Favorite retro games?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Super Contra for NES (sometimes just called Super C). Stupid shoot em up action done to perfection.

  Metal Slug games are great in emulation; similar to above.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Colm Meaney to Receive Irish Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Really liked him in Hell on Wheels. Surprisingly believable as Thomas Durant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a TV without researching⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably only a matter of time before smart TVs are designed to use mobile data. I can easily see companies doing that to ensure you have no way to avoid the ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that it’s immutable isn’t necessarily good for people new to Linux. If something does go wrong, or the user wants to change something significant, most of what they read online about how to do that will not work like many other distros.

  For experienced users, sure, there probably isn’t much difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS expands beyond Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or literally any other distro.

  Pop is probably much easier to be up and running vs. Bazzite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the endgame when the rich have all the money?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a good, nutshell explanation of late-stage capitalism.

  As far as the answer to “what’s the endgame”, I do not know. I suspect that many or most of these rich folks are so moneyblind that they don’t know either. Or, they simply don’t believe that their collective actions will eventually cause the system to fail.

  But most likely, I think, is that they believe someone else will bear the majority of any negative impact. Of course this makes less sense in the face of a systematic collapse, but again: it’s probably very difficult to see when you have dollar signs in your eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was probably 10 when my best friend (at the time) and I would play Super Contra on the NES for hours. We loved everything about it. We’d get as far as we could. We’d give each other lives. We could sing the soundtrack. When it was game over, we just restarted it.

  Those days were simple and beautiful. I don’t think another game could give me anything like that experience, since it wasn’t really entirely about the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We regret to inform you that MI5 and MI6 will now be designated MI1 and MI2 due to budget constraints

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One what?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Killing the Cybertruck.

  With Tesla quality control, a fire is just a bug, until it kills the truck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one: Laptop. Could this be hardware or software related?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The mouse cursor showing up correctly rules out a physical connection issue to the screen.

  What is supposed to be on the screen right now? Is it just the deskop, an app, a game… ? That might provide more insight.

  But I’d guess a hardware issue off the bat. Something with the GPU, or perhaps more specifically with VRAM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New social experiment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  snap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn’t Still Better Than Streaming Digital⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It is probably worth mentioning that Blu-Ray DRM at this point isn’t the pain it used to be – in fact Blu-Ray can also be ripped like DVD, so it’s still an option if you want a hard copy of something in HD (specifically 1080p Blu-Ray – 4K Blu-Ray is a different beast).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good: The gaming industry spent billions pursuing the idea that customers wanted realistic graphics. Did executives misread the market?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the issue is a bit more nuanced. Graphics have gotten so good that it is relatively easy to get character animations which sit in the uncanny valley.

  The uncanny valley is bad. You can have beautiful, photorealistic graphics everywhere, but if your characters are in the uncanny valley, the overall aesthetic is more similar to a game which didn’t have the photorealism at all.

  In the past, the goalpost was at a different spot, so putting all the resources towards realism still wouldn’t get you into the valley, and everyone just thought it looked great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I’m Tired of Pretending Physical Media Isn’t Still Better Than Streaming Digital⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The irony is that some folks probably skipped Blu-Ray on purpose because they didn’t like the DRM. Then they got streaming instead, partly because Blu-Ray sales flattened which allowed the industry to more quickly focus on streaming and subscriptions.

  Had more people bought into Blu-Ray despite the DRM, it would be more difficult for the industry to get away from physical media.

  But this is a common trick, also. Both streaming and DRM are bad. The optimal solution (physical media without DRM) is something the industry just won’t do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure, WSJ. Next do an article on Selection Bias⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No it isn’t the same, but it is something. I’d sleep a lot better knowing I at least had a run down farmhouse on the way instead of working until I die to pay the rent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sure, WSJ. Next do an article on Selection Bias⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Generational wealth is a huge cancer on the system that isn’t talked about enough. You can’t fix wealth inequality with nepo-babies running around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Improve your Wi-Fi with this one trick⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No but if you fill the room with water then it should be way faster

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨running windows... sorry :\⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean… I guess I don’t get it then. GIMP is incredibly stable, so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨running windows... sorry :\⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well tbh, I don’t know the state of GIMP on Windows, but it definitely isn’t designed for it. It should not be buggy or crashy – at least it isnt on Linux. So I mean… Why Windows?

  CS6 definitely runs on Linux via Wine. I’ve done through CS8. But again… There is little reason to do so assuming you’re running GIMP on the intended platform.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨running windows... sorry :\⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure what you mean. Most functions are available, except for AI enhanced functions of Photoshop.

  It’s pretty straightforward. But support for Adobe seems hard to break.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨running windows... sorry :\⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some versions do, or just use GIMP which does most of it anyway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They sell fine. Look at BG3.

  What they don’t do is make money hand over fist without the need to design more product, as happens with subscription-based, game-as-a-service multiplayer titles. Some companies don’t want to make good games. They just want to make good money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DNA⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just like in TNA, I reckon. Stay in school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many more flatearthers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A better question might be: “how many popular ski resorts are in Antarctica?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same reason everything in the US is expensive: we have largely unregulated, runaway capitalism which pervades every facet of life. Everything from housing to academia to health care is for profit – not only profit, but for obscene year-over-year increases in profit. Those at the top regularly make money hand over fist even selling basic necessities, and if they don’t continue taking more and more, they’re seen as failures and replaced by one who will.

  The cherry on top is that, for the most parts, the citizens no longer have any real power to change any of it.

  Around the same time that health care becomes affordable in the US (major hypothetical, of course), it probably means a wind change has occurred such that university costs would also be coming down. But it would be a systematic change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess they should enjoy the consequences of their actions like… regular people do?

  Or maybe these bosses just aren’t good at what they do. After all, they wasted millions on real estate and empty desks. Shouldn’t the shareholders be demanding new leadership?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We tested the Nvidia App performance problems — games can run up to 15 percent slower with the app⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Never looked back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We tested the Nvidia App performance problems — games can run up to 15 percent slower with the app⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn I’m happy I went AMD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same is true of many other AI assistants. They’re really neat as a technical exercise, or for a bit of fun for 10-20 minutes. But when it comes to folding them into workflows, the utility is harder to grasp.

  Couple that with the extreme energy requirements of these systems, the worries about where the training data comes from, plus the fact that it feels like every single corporation is just flailing around “AI” because they see dollar signs… I’m pretty over it.