chiliedogg

@chiliedogg@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The multi-player maybe. But they’ve consistently delivered excellent single-player experiences with their flagship titles. GTA 3, VC, SA, IV, and V were all amazing. RDR1 was spectacular, and RDR2 may be the most impressive game I’ve ever played.

  At this point, I trust Tockstar to deliver a good single-player game. I don’t really expect much in the way of the quality DLC we got with GTAIV and RDR, but I think the base game will easily be enough for me to justify a purchase.

  I’m still gonna wait and see, of course. They’re not getting a pre-order out of me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arriving⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just live in Texas. That’s all it takes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s say you design a revolutionary widget of some kind, but don’t have the means to to produce it at scale. How do you get it to market? You parter with a larger company. For a share of the proceeds, you have them produce the item. Without a patent, when you go to the manufacturer and show them the design, they can just start making it themselves and tell you to beat sand.

  Also, patents require competitive companies to alter a product design in order to sell it. If everyone could just copy the same product, there would be further incentive to monopolize the means of production to produce the single product at a larger scale, since the only differentiation between products would be the price. Patents allow competition through limited-term protection of their innovations.

  Is the patent system abused by large companies? Absolutely. But removing patents won’t make them.good actors. It’ll just remove any limitations on their theft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t, and I really should. Like, REALLY should. I was college roommates with and took part in the wedding of someone high enough at Gearbox that I can’t say their role without doxxing myself, and we’ve stayed really close.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. The out of left field had more to do with what was expected going in. We all expected silly D&D and fart jokes. We didn’t expect a legitimately touching examination of grief and denial to bring depth to a silly character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  BL2 was great. Some of its DLC was even better. Assault on Dragon Keep is one of the best looter shooters ever made. The gameplay was a blast. The jokes were funny…And out of left field it broke your fucking heart by secretly being about a young, traumatized girl’s grief.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too soon?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Modern medicine is amazing, but that looks pretty much un-surviveable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientific unprogress...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That was last year.

  Now it’s… Tylenol?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The Castlevania date is a little misleading, however.

  Castlevania changed from a simple linear level-based side-scroller to the open world exploration, progression, and backtracking formula of the Metroidvania genre with Symphony of the Night in 1997.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Middle class is a fabrication designed to make the working poor think they’re better off than they really are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re waiting until all the products in the wild can be locked down.

  Right now, they’re struggling to get people.to jump to Windows 11, and people are hoarding their old computers. They want all the products that don’t have TPM or its equivalent to be outmoded before they remove the mask.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IME there's nice guys and then there's "Nice Guys"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If your kindness is transactional, you’re not a nice person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So is it bad that I’m on prescription amphetamines and had to do some unexpected work on the wiring on a 3-phase compressor after having a beer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bmw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you sure you weren’t just in Houston?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anons brother has some strong opinions⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Autistic boys sometimes get called quaint. Other times people call the police and they get shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨human geography⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true almost everywhere these days. Climate change and pesticides did a number on them.

  I used to see hundreds floating around at night. Now I’m lucky to spot one a year.

  Also, lovebugs. There were so many everywhere it was difficult to drive sometimes. I haven’t noticed any in years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  American here:

  I’d appreciate help from the rest of the world.

  Please embargo us. We need our economy to be in ruins next November, with Trump and his goons as the culprits. Heck - if you can fuck our economy by January, we may even be able to primary some current Republicans so thet Trump is fucked by the midterms no matter which party wins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tubi TV⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  These jank movies do have a function.

  People gotta learn to use cameras and decorate sets and shit. Might as well make a dumb movie out of it and hope to sell a few units.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nooo my genderinos⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And then there was quantum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s so close it should’ve just announced the day it released and blown all our minds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Teddybears - Punkrocker⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Theater was the Superman Returns movie tie-in. The game wasn’t good, but the health system for the city was a neat idea, and the flying was AMAZING.

  There’s never been a bad game with an element I enjoyed so much as Superman Returns and the flying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨worst uber driver ever⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Dude only has a rating of 2 chevrons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tried naming the states from memory as a European⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also mountain racists and wood racists.

  It’s like varieties of horrible elves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HR people smiling at you thinking that you are a complete moron⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I’ve had to let people go, I’ve always believed it important to do it personally. It’s difficult, but it’s part of the duty of a boss to face the person they’re letting go.

  I’ve been accused of being cold when doing it, but that’s because I don’t feel like I have the right to show the emotional impact on me when it’s someone else’s life being wrecked.

  I’ve also violated company policy several times and given glowing reviews of former staff instead of simply confirming they worked at the company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scott Bakula Eyeing Star Trek Return In President Archer Series Pitch From ‘Enterprise’ Producer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wasn’t Worf always a pipe dream.

  Michael Dorn kept pitching it, but it was never going to happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks I hate it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like putting stuff back in the correct spot would fall under, “Yes, that’s part of your job.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Picture of the Century... Nature defeats Technology⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A phantom will absolutely break skin. I flew one for years.

  Lots of newer drones like the Mavic series have folding props that won’t break skin, but those fixed-blade props were like getting hit with a weed-whacker.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Picture of the Century... Nature defeats Technology⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Mavic series has folding blades. But the Phantom series pictured has rigid blades that are stiff enough they’ll fuck up flesh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Picture of the Century... Nature defeats Technology⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They can cut the shit out of you. They won’t sever a finger or anything with the stock props (some aftermarket carbon fiber stuff might though), but they’ll fuck up flesh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But now the API-based tool i used no longer functions