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- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I think that’s just a common typo. The difference between '. ’ and ', ’ is hard to spot unless you have good eyesight, and they’re close together on the keyboard
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
While it’s true we’re a very litigious country, it’s also a meme that blows the reality out of proportion. In my circle of friends and family, the only lawsuits have been insurance related (car accidents, etc), or financial stuff (sued by a corporation for not paying a debt, suing employer for unpaid wages, etc). All of that is pretty standard stuff.
I’ve never met or heard of anyone near my circle who has sued another person over some personal issue/grievance. If you run over someone’s foot with a shopping cart at the supermarket, you’re more likely to get into a fist fight (or a shoot out) than a lawsuit.
waste of time and money
Well, the legal system here is relatively efficient, and if you do decide to take someone to court and win, there’s a good chance it’ll be worth it. If anything, the large number of lawsuits is a testament to how well the legal system works. If it didn’t, people wouldn’t use it so often.
You can bring a stupid frivolous lawsuit intended to waste everyone’s time and money, but those can get dismissed quickly.
- Comment on The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games 1 week ago:
EA should split itself up or sell off some franchises. The current situation makes nobody happy: investors don’t like the profitability of single player games, players don’t like the live serviceification of single player games, and I’m sure devs don’t like that they can’t work on projects that likely inspired them to become game devs in the first place.
The Sims franchise could support a medium sized studio on its own.
I played the Sims 1&2 as a kid, and love the fuck out of them. As an adult with disposable income, I would have gladly dropped even $100 on a proper modernized rerelease of these games I love. Instead, I saved my money and downloaded them for free. Because why the hell wouldn’t I? The pirate versions are literally better. EA is squandering the potential of this and many other IPs
- Comment on The Sims re-release shows what’s wrong with big publishers and single-player games 1 week ago:
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- Comment on I'm suppose to believe I now live in a world where a Democrats can become president agoant and put George Soros at the head of DOGE? 1 week ago:
Man, Trump really flooded your zone, huh? Seriously, stop following the news for like a day or two. I don’t even understand what point you’re trying to make here, but the passive aggressive seething is palpable.
Most of what DOGE is doing is probably illegal, most of Trump’s executive orders are going to get blocked by courts, and many have already been rescinded. The point is to demoralize people so they don’t bother voting or fighting back. I’m getting the impression that the strategy worked on you.
Stop it. Play video games, draw pictures, watch porn. Whatever you do, disconnect from the fire-hose of outrage coming from the whitehouse. It’s all bait, and you’re gobbling it up.
- Comment on I'm suppose to believe I now live in a world where a Democrats can become president agoant and put George Soros at the head of DOGE? 1 week ago:
I get what you’re saying, but gatekeeping bullying tactics is weird ngl
- Comment on I'm suppose to believe I now live in a world where a Democrats can become president agoant and put George Soros at the head of DOGE? 1 week ago:
Relevant username? Go touch grass, bro. Doom scrolling and posting on lemmy won’t make you a happy person.
- Comment on I'm suppose to believe I now live in a world where a Democrats can become president agoant and put George Soros at the head of DOGE? 1 week ago:
I remember my 6th grade civics teacher (a black man) was angry and depressed when Obama won, saying that republicans will never win another election again.
- Comment on Does it matter if I skip sponsored ad segments in YouTube videos? 1 year ago:
Don’t worry about channel creators losing money. It may seem like a dick move, but it’s the right thing to do. When channels see that they aren’t making money on Youtube ad revenue, they’ll be forced to either find another source of income (merch, patreon, alternate site, etc), or quit.
That’s better for you, them, and society as a whole since it reduces the power of a monopoly owned by an evil company.
- Comment on I hate using mobile to read articles 1 year ago:
And the cherry on top is that the article is probably AI generated garbage anyways
- Comment on New Nintendo patent suggests Switch 2 may solve joycon drift 1 year ago:
I’ll believe it when I see it. Nintendo are cheap bastards, and if they fix the drift issue then they’ll likely cause it to fail prematurely somewhere else. Maybe the rubber will be cheaper so that it wears down and has to be replaced anyways? Or the plastic will be thinner so it cracks sooner, etc.
- Comment on Upvoting a factually incorrect comment because it sounds nice, and downvoting a factually correct comment because it sounds bad. 1 year ago:
This seems very unhealthy. Maybe go take a stroll around the block?
- Comment on Tim Sweeney says Epic Games Store is open to devs using generative AI 1 year ago:
If you train on AI generated art, you get bad results.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 1 year ago:
You’re right, just checked my emails and saw that the code is for “Overwatch 2 Invasion Ultimate Bundle”, which I guess is DLC or something. It was bundled with a Zotac 4090 on Amazon.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 1 year ago:
I’d disown you if you were family and I found out you were hosting my email on a VM in a 5 years-out-of-date windows PC. Some things are simply unforgivable.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 1 year ago:
I got the premium edition when I bought a new CPU and it came bundled, so I still have my Hardcore Gamer Badge.
…I also got Overwatch 2, but I’m not even going to bother redeeming that one.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 1 year ago:
I was having the same problem until I switched to the preview branch and installed the latest system update, and I also switched it proton experimental. My current Steam OS version is 3.4.9, although I see there’s another update available.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 1 year ago:
I played a few more hours today in handheld (yesterday was on power and connected to an HDMI display).
I did notice worse performance, but that could also be because the content was different. The game is still fully playable, and I had fun murdering a bunch of pirates in an abandoned fracking station. New Atlantis (the first big hub city) ran like dogshit though. It struggled to maintain 30 and was blurry as hell, but yesterday it ran better. Idk, this isn’t scientific at all.
Just adding this extra info in case someone sees my first comment and thinks the game will run perfectly. Playable? Very much so. Recommended? Only if you can’t play on something more powerful.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 1 year ago:
I only played a few hours on my Steam Deck (because it would freeze on my PC), but what I saw was slightly disappointing. The game looks great, even on the Steam Deck with FSR blurring everything, the gun mechanics are fun, the character animations are the best I’ve ever seen from this studio. The performance is also very good on the Deck, with stable 60FPS in indoor scenes and playable sub-60 in large outdoor areas.
…but the exploration. Man, Bethesda is known for their exploration, yet the spaceship is a gimmick at best. To be fair, I haven’t played enough to get familiar with everything yet, but I don’t expect that part to get much better. The game feels like Fallout, except instead of having a giant seamless open world to explore, you have a giant open world with tedious transitions between different areas. Maybe it’ll grow on me, but it’s not at all what I was expecting.
- Comment on just sayin' 1 year ago:
I have never in my (nearly) 20 years of being a software developer and general tech geek and (nearly) 10 years of exclusive linux desktop use, ever distinguished between the terms “folder” and “directory”, nor encountered anyone who did either.
OP is just being weird.
- Comment on higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs 1 year ago:
I know it feels gross, but asking is how you get people to do things. This is true for pretty much everything. That’s why mobile apps have a popup asking people to leave a rating, and Apple even has a standardized API for showing that popup since it’s so common.
So you should try something similar for you projects. Come up with an (ideally non-intrusive) ask that feels like a personal request rather than just a link dumped somewhere in a readme.
And if you feel bad about it, just remember that getting people to pay for OSS is a win for the whole ecosystem!
- Comment on PC Game Recommendation for a Broken Arm? 1 year ago:
The recently released Baldur’s Gate 3 can be played with one hand perfectly fine. Your arm will likely heal before you finish it.
- Comment on what is the procedure of buying a ship load of any cargo? ex; corn or paraffin wax? 1 year ago:
Lots of good suggestions in this thread already, but I just want to bring up another option that may be more friendly for your budget: piracy. Do your research and try to identify a ship containing what you want that needs to pass near a pirate hotspot, then hire a group of freelancers (or use a broker) to take the prize. You’ll need to set up the logistics in advance, and make sure you take into account the other goods on the ship when negotiating terms. Don’t pay anything up front, as that’s a common scam. These pirate groups can secure their own weapons and boats, so find another group if they start trying to get you to fund that.
You’ll also need to organize transportation of the goods once you have the ship. Unloading a container from one of those big boats isn’t easy, especially if the one you want is at the bottom of a stack. Your best bet is to find a corrupt harbor master and bribe him. Without that, it could take weeks or months to unload your wax.
After that comes transportation, which may involve smuggling the goods across a border, forging paperwork, etc. That’s its own can of worms, but you’ll need to research the specifics based on your actual requirements.
- Comment on I feel the actual inflation 1 year ago:
Damn that sounds rough! What country is it, with all that inflation?? You know, so I don’t go there… ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- Comment on BMW 1 year ago:
If we don’t hold corporations accountable for these types of things, they’ll be more likely to go along with it next time. All of the corporations that helped the Nazis should have been dissolved, had their assets liquidated, and used to pay reparations.
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- Comment on Capitalism indoctrination in progress. 1 year ago:
I have one, but it’s just not the same having one at home as it is having one at work y’know?
- Comment on Capitalism indoctrination in progress. 1 year ago:
So what you’re saying is that your reason for leaving wasn’t about the money