Cornelius_Wangenheim
@Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 1 week ago:
Valve are the ones that popularized loot boxes. They’re never going to tackle them.
- Comment on It's not easy being cheesy 2 weeks ago:
Leopard balls apparently are.
- Comment on Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months. 2 weeks ago:
I doubt Epic would give out the number of free games they do if they were public. Investors hate anything that takes more than a quarter to give returns.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 weeks ago:
Cold calling is the equivalent of barging into someone’s house and yelling “Fuck you and what you’re doing. I’m more important.”
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but cold calling someone is still a dick move. Professionals have schedules and deadlines. The proper etiquette is to first engage over email or text and ask if they’re free for a call.
- Comment on How did a simple phone call become so problematic? 3 weeks ago:
If I’m trying to work on something complicated, it takes 20-30 minutes to remind myself of all the disparate pieces and get into the “zone” of productivity. Your phone call ruins that and I have to start the process over again. If people keep calling or shoulder tapping me, I get nothing done.
- Comment on Steam has the best UI 5 weeks ago:
They have plenty of competitors. They just suck in comparison.
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 5 weeks ago:
That’s a nice sentiment, but there is almost certainly a mismatch in supply and demand for men who are anime and video game nerds.
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 1 month ago:
There’s not a few people you’d want to shit themselves to death? Not even Putin?
- Comment on Justice should be equal 1 month ago:
Looking at this, the vast majority of them are adults: …wikipedia.org/…/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_…
The far bigger reason is that most don’t survive to be prosecuted.
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 2 months ago:
I’m going to guess they mean “narrative driven games” like Hellblade or Indika, which were all narrative and almost no game.
- 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 2 months ago:
C. Sublet out the property and make back the cost of the lease or even a bit of profit.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 2 months ago:
I’ve seen several small creators say they get 10 times the engagement on Bluesky. It’s becoming clear that X’s numbers are mostly illusory at this point.
- Comment on Anon is a white hat hacker 2 months ago:
Pen tests aren’t cheap. Even basic ones are ~$20k. There’s only 2 types of companies that bother with them: ones that care about cybersecurity and ones that have to do it for compliance (PCI/CMMC/etc). Both will have some kind of IDS and a SIEM.
- Comment on Anon is a white hat hacker 2 months ago:
- No one’s hiring you unless you have an OSCP or similar certification.
- A real pen test will set off all kinds of alarms.
- You don’t get paid until you deliver a 100+ page report detailing what you did and your findings.
- Comment on butts 2 months ago:
I’m going to leave this here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=BckqviVaWl0
- Comment on Why do Americans always presume that everyone speaks English 2 months ago:
Because the plants and the building look very Thai.
- Comment on No need to boil the ocean 2 months ago:
Homogenization doesn’t skim the fat. It breaks the fat globules up into very small particles that form a stable emulsion that doesn’t separate. All they do is pass it through a high pressure nozzle.
- Comment on BIOMES 2 months ago:
Heath is another one.
- Comment on Take-Two is selling its indie games label Private Division 3 months ago:
In case you haven’t heard, a bunch of the original KSP developers are teaming up with the DayZ guy’s company to make a spiritual sequel: Kitten Space Agency.
- Comment on Haters will say it’s fake 3 months ago:
Just imagine if he had stuck to his promise of being a one term president.
- Comment on US Democracy 3 months ago:
Idk, as a white guy, that’s more cringe than offensive. Maybe that’s because I live in the South and could pass for a redneck, but I hear some vile shit from those other white guys fairly often.
- Comment on US Democracy 3 months ago:
You mind linking me to that ad?
- Comment on US Democracy 3 months ago:
Obama was a unique situation in that he was both an incredibly charismatic JFK-style figure and ran after the Republicans had managed to both start a very unpopular war and destroy the world economy.
- Comment on Birmingham Travel Guide 3 months ago:
In Texas, it’s common knowledge that the best tacos and tortas are from gas stations.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I’m my experience, that’s most right-wingers in Texas. They’ll bitch about corporate power, the consolidation of megacorps, the little guy getting fucked over and then just be completely unable to process that the last 40 years of Republican rule are why that’s happening.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 4 months ago:
Skyrim was at least an improvement over Oblivion. It showed they had the ability to course correct and still create interesting worlds.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 4 months ago:
The problem is Starfield isn’t a one off. It’s the latest in a line of progressively worse games. Every game since Skyrim has been worse than the one that came before it.
- Comment on stacked 4 months ago:
It’s more due to engineering. Materials have limited strength. Stone has fairly good compressive strength, but it’ll still crack if you put too much weight on it. If you use your stone to make a tower, it won’t get very high before it topples over. If you instead build a pyramid, the weight of the stone on top is dispersed across several stones below it and those stones disperse their weight to multiple stones and so on down to the base, letting you build far taller.
- Comment on Launches 5 months ago:
If you care to learn orbital mechanics, Kerbal Space Program is a great teacher.