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- Comment on GeoGuessr is making its way to Steam next month after almost 12 years of sticking it out as a browser game 3 days ago:
They already added a subscription.
Up front cost cannot cover the ongoing API costs they must be paying for Google Maps. So either this has to be free and just a front end for the same shit, or they’ll still end up net negative.
- Comment on GeoGuessr is making its way to Steam next month after almost 12 years of sticking it out as a browser game 3 days ago:
Why?
- Comment on Fable delayed to 2026 5 days ago:
Mumblings originally in 2017, job openings at the studio in 2018, officially announced in 2020. October 2022 Andrew Walsh, a senior writer from the Horizon Forbidden West team joined the Fable team. June of 2023 had an in-game trailer.
To be honest, that seems to be a reasonable timeframe, especially given the pandemic in the middle, if you aren’t following the “rush it out the door ASAP, fix it after release, if you ever do” approach.
- Comment on Harbor Freight 2 weeks ago:
Harbor Freight is awesome, but as with everything else, you should know what you’re buying, and know what you actually need.
Most people don’t need to pay a premium for something they’ll use just once, or maybe a handful of times, and never touch again.
For most people, they don’t really know what they need, so buy Harbor Freight the first time, if you use so much it breaks, then buy a quality replacement, because you proved you actually need it.
- Comment on 'Mickey 17' Sinks at Box Office to $18.5 Million Opening Weekend 2 weeks ago:
Getting really of these shit titles and takes.
Of course a new IP like Mickey 17 isn’t going to bring in the numbers of an existing well known franchise with an established fanbase AND a previous installment with a cliffhanger ending like fucking Dune.
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 2 weeks ago:
Having worked in retail phone repair for 15 years, both for a major US carrier and privately… A lot.
I saw water damaged phones every single day, and I’m hundreds of miles from an ocean, sea, lake, or any major body of water. That’s just from mistakes near things like backyard pools.
- Comment on Whose bright idea was it to give the morning people enough power to set the "business hours" anyways‽ 2 weeks ago:
Rise! We protected the group from wild animals for centuries as they slept! We allowed them to sleep peacefully, without fear.
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 2 weeks ago:
I never said it was impossible. I said it was harder to both make them replaceable and water resistant. And they won’t bother to do both for 99% of models, they’ll just drop the water resistance to comply with replaceable battery requirements. There might be a few that they bother and then sell at inflated prices.
- Comment on How do you think smartphone manufacturers will comply with EU's replaceable battery regulation? 2 weeks ago:
They’ll make them replaceable and ignore waterproofing them for 99% of models citing the added difficulty in making a good seal without being able to glue it shut. Which is arguably true. It’s possible, but more difficult to design and much more likely to fail.
- Comment on Like Trump says that the cartels have invaded Canada wouldn't they have to pass through the US, avoid checkpoint, border control on both sides and many other things? So Canada can only blame the US? 3 weeks ago:
Avoid populated areas, and fly low. The exact same techniques that they’ve been using for decades. Radar is dumb, it sends back a return when it bounces off objects, but you can’t tell what it is returning, that’s why planes have transponders to supplement more info. If you just don’t do that and fly low it will get filtered out with the terrain most of the time.
- Comment on REI Union asks active coop members to vote "Withhold" for all of board's nominees 3 weeks ago:
REI is a consumer co-operative, not a worker co-operative.
- Comment on the definitive proof that you weren't your parent's favorite 1 month ago:
Probably someone trying to use the meme in a Halloween-specific context.
- Comment on What Refutes Science... 1 month ago:
This is why you never trust a single source. For anything. Reputable news organizations have never trusted single sources, they always use multiple sources to verify information they are told. Science is not immune from this, and never has been. And even for those that you’ve followed in the past, times change, especially in a capitalist society with a massive oligarchy that owns the news companies, like modern western civilizations. Trust, but verify.
- Comment on Chatgpt refusing to believe Trump won lol. 1 month ago:
Ah that’s true. Hadn’t considered that it would be pulling from before the latest election cycle entirely.
- Comment on Chatgpt refusing to believe Trump won lol. 1 month ago:
This is true. But it also is stating that it knows Trump did not win a second term, insinuating it has data past the election.
There needs to be a lot more transparency in what the models are actually based on and what is being artificially filtered or limited.
- Comment on I don't need no app 1 month ago:
And their app is just a wrapper for a webpage anyway.
- Comment on Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny Remastered - Trailer 1 month ago:
Onimusha was such a good series. Happy to see it being remastered.
Capcom is always a toss up with whether they care about any given IP anymore.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Probably, but the internet is forever. Definitely for stuff like this. There will be tens of thousands of copies of this in a few hours and it will not disappear anytime soon.
- Comment on Friendship is survival in Citizen Sleeper 2 1 month ago:
Same here. Not the type of game I would normally have jumped on, but something about it was just captivating.
- Comment on Gemini wont talk about Bernie Sanders 1 month ago:
To be honest, that seems like it should be the one thing they are reliably good at. It requires just looking up info on their database, with no manipulation.
Obviously that’s not the case, but that’s just because currently LLMs are a grift to milk billions from corporations by using the buzzwords that corporate middle management relies on to make it seem like they are doing any work. Relying on modern corporate FOMO to get them to buy a terrible product that they absolutely don’t need at exorbitant contract prices just to say they’re using the “latest and greatest” technology.
- Comment on ADL defends Nazi salute 2 months ago:
Never trust someone with two first names. Been following that advice my entire life and I’ve yet to find an exception, they’re always a piece of shit.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 2 months ago:
Tencent happen to own large portions of nearly every video game company on the planet to start with, and a ton of other large companies, 600+ of them in fact. Large enough positions to directly affect board decisions if they wanted to. And that assumes overt sudden changes and not more subtle things.
- Comment on Marvel Snap is banned, just like TikTok 2 months ago:
Yeah. You might want to look into some other foreign owned companies as well. Tencent owns a metric shit ton of “American” companies for instance, I bet there’s several on that list that would surprise you.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Rednote isn’t trying to attract foreign users. It’s only blowing up because of the imminent app ban affecting TikTok, same as other apps like Lemon8.
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 2 months ago:
Country borders are just lines on a map. They don’t exist in the real world.
If only everyone was able to experience the overview effect, a lot of our issues could potentially fix themselves.
- Comment on Reason for Walmart online product reviews frequently being service related? 2 months ago:
This is why many/most reviews are actually useless.
Many people use reviews to complain, about anything, especially if it has nothing to do with the product because it’s the easiest way to try and get it out of their system.
Combined with fake reviews, astroturfed reviews from undisclosed free products, and the average user having no knowledge of a product or category to compare against, etc. and I’d even say most reviews are effectively useless.
On the bright side, seeing any of those types of phrases in the review means you can effectively ignore that review entirely.
- Comment on Does the southern hemisphere get colder farther from the pole? Why? 2 months ago:
While the North and South poles match the planet’s axis of spin. If you’re comparing differences in latitude, you’re looking at it as if the Earth were spinning around a vertical point between the poles, but the planet itself is tilted 23.5° compared to the solar plane. Plus we’re in an elliptical orbit, not circular, and that axis of tilt also wobbles about from the pull of not only the Sun but also the gas giants in our solar system like Saturn and Jupiter, and of course the Moon which also gives us our regular tides.
There’s a lot of factors that go into orbital mechanics. All of which result in our planet having widely varying tidal forces, distinct seasons, but still resulting in an overall stable and balanced ecosystem.
- Comment on Oh well... 2 months ago:
Not telling someone why you are firing them isn’t a magical lawsuit avoidance option. In a wrongful termination lawsuit, the courts take context into account specifically because of shitty companies/managers trying to hide behind exactly that.
- Comment on Oh well... 2 months ago:
There are still limits, even in at will and right to work states there are some protections.
Revoking approved time off after it’s already started is definitely a valid reason for a wrongful termination lawsuit. Especially if you have evidence of previous bullshit.
That’s why you should always get everything that seems even remotely bullshit in writing, and have your own backups.
- Comment on Counterpoint, don’t settle 2 months ago:
The Try Guys never went anywhere, one dipshit revealed himself. The rest of the group kept going, and they have expanded to a larger group with several different shows now.