Blackmist

@Blackmist@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Wallet lets UK users turn their passport into digital IDs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, we let it handle payments, track our locations, carry around a microphone and camera, read our emails and texts, listen to our phone calls and track everything we do online.

  What’s one more thing at this point?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People never bought music from artists.

  They bought it from record labels.

  Whenever you see an artist complain they had a million streams and made twenty dollars, it’s not Spotify that’s keeping it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, there’s probably a fair bit of overlap between GamePass and PSN Premium games.

  I suspect to try and push their own products, we’ll be entering an age where games are $80, and almost never go on sale, purely to make their own subscription services seem better value. And then they’ll crank the price of those as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  EA Play is on PS5.

  Assuming MS exit the console market, I don’t see why Sony wouldn’t allow it (as long as they get their pound of flesh from every sale of it). They’d basically just be another publisher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A 2TB Xbox Series X now costs more than a PS5 Pro (in the US at least).

  That is mental. Xbox hardware division must be bleeding money hand over fist. I honestly doubt they’ll do another generation, and stick to trying to monetise GamePass through PC and streaming. Maybe you’ll even see GamePass for PS6 since they own so many studios now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Literal interpretation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If one of you spreads extra wide, you can just go for a double decker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨https://lemmy.zip/post/37479548⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fair enough. They still need to be a business after all.

  Id open sourced Doom and Quake decades ago, but you still can’t just have all the assets for nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon missed /pol/⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  After what happened to Fred Hampton, I doubt the armed left are going to pop their heads up publicly unless they’re ready to do something and know they’re not going to get whacked immediately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it freeze up all the time like in the Digital Foundry video?

  If not I’m wondering if it’s that stupid shader compiling thing that has plagued PC games all generation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some of the most cringeworthy scenes or moments in TV that you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Scott’s Tots is the best episode in the entire show, and the only one that could fit right into the UK version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what Perplexity is but I know I don’t want it.

  Let me guess, two guys in a garage, both Linked In "CEO"s, strapping more spyware to Chromium?

  I even went to the website. It doesn’t what they are, but it’s something to do with AI, which figures…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you understand how many people 350 million is? How did this worm ridden ball sack float to the top?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the healthy tan that does it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Water bosses face two years in prison if they cover up sewage spills⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Could. Won’t.

  Meanwhile cyclists face a life sentence for dangerous cycling, in the same week that a motorist got just over a year for killing one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Robert Jenrick rules out Tory pact with Reform UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, them and Labour will just adopt all of Farage’s policies instead.

  He gets what he wants without actually needing to be in power.

  If only you hadn’t both shot down proportional representation, eh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satire, I think⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the Vatican has no nukes (unless you believe Dan Brown novels).

  I don’t believe being president excludes him from touching up kids…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon pitches the next big movie adaptation of a video game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the main issue people had was it had lot of RTS sections further in.

  They weren’t actually that bad, but the demo gave no clue that the main chunk of gameplay was going to be running around issuing orders rather than the basic heavy metal themed hack-and-slash it pretended to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a load of bots because Netflix spent the GDP of a small country on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Satire, I think⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be down with that. Can do less damage that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can get DOOM, DOOM Eternal, more DOOM and multiple Wolfenstein games in this latest Humble Bundle⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Much preferred the “original” to Eternal.

  Far too fiddly for my liking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ben Shapiro's sister⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, those are some decent cans.

  Shame the whole family is wall-to-wall cunts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For all you inked people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We once spend nearly an hour going through the tattoos on tattoo shop (in a nearby town popular with bikers) Facebook page.

  Every single one looked like it had been done in prison by somebody who had never done one before, and indeed had never drawn anything before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg, Dimon, and Other Trump Insiders Sold Billions in Stock Ahead of Tariff Stock Crash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Quelle surprise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ahead of its 10 year Steam anniversary, Black Mesa has a new beta with improved Linux support and many fixes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  10 years old already?

  Somebody should remaster it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨its-a-me, Luigi⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like Yosser Hughes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Full raytracing (path tracing) might be.

  I think they can do it for very basic looking games like Quake 2.

  That said, I doubt you’d actually need full RT for visuals like Toy Story 1. Or indeed on most things.

  They got pretty good at faking most of it. RT can basically just be used for reflections, shadows and global illumination and most of us wouldn’t notice the difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1994 white Kevin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their whole business model is “wait for self driving and then $$$” as they’ll no longer have to pay anybody.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jennifer Lawrence was quoted implying that The Hunger Games was the first female-led action movie ... today I want to introduce you to one of my favorite exceptions: The Long Kiss Goodnight.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How quickly we forget Foxy Brown.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Nintendo games were affordable⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The half price games on various platforms (“Platinum” on playstation, can’t remember what they were called in other platforms) were great and made me get into consoles.

  Feels like the PS4 gen when that stopped happening. Shame, because it’s not like you can magic your customers into having more money to spend. They’ll just buy fewer games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone want to watch The Room? We're doing it now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Watch The Disaster Artist instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨zoomers are the new blooners⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s his website? That’s a millennial take, from before we merged the entire internet to live in two second soundbites on Twitter, Insta and Tiktok.