sparky
@sparky@lemmy.federate.cc
Lead administrator of federate.cc and its services. Please don’t DM me for support with federate.cc, make a post in /c/meta instead.
Originally from Fort Lauderdale 🇺🇸, lived many years in Vienna 🇦🇹, now living in Setúbal 🇵🇹. Software engineer specialized in Apple platforms. 🌎
- Comment on What do zoos do with dead animals? 6 days ago:
Tasty burgers. Mmmm
- Comment on No meme today 1 week ago:
You hear that, federate.cc users? All 5 of you? 😉
- Comment on How do Americans win their country back? 2 weeks ago:
Thank god he’s old, then, because he’s not going to last long enough to be long time dictator. But maybe thats not the point, even if trump is gone, if hardcore republicans dismantle elections to ensure they’re perpetually in power, then who the current figurehead is will be the least of our problems
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
🫡
- Comment on US Democracy 2 weeks ago:
Anybody got that American political plane meme handy?
- Comment on If you need a stargate, there is one outside of Ashland, Ohio off of I-71. 2 weeks ago:
That’s cool, any details or link to share?
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 4 weeks ago:
Console manufacturers will have to adapt and liberalize self-publishing to stay relevant. AAA gaming continues to enshittify, and indie games / smaller studios are the ones releasing the good titles.
Valve knows this, and the ease for developers to release on Steam means they’re well positioned to ride out the transition. By comparison, releasing on console means signing license agreements, getting access to proprietary SDKs, submitting your game through an approval process, getting each update reviewed, etc etc. The barriers make releasing on console very unappealing for smaller developers.
So IMO if the consoles want to ride out the decline of AAA games, they will need to reinvent their image and how they interact with smaller studios and indies.
- Comment on Is Lemmy an effective alternative to Reddit? 5 weeks ago:
I feel like the decentralization brings some downsides in the quantity of bad actors, extremist views, and the like.
The open platform certainly has an overwhelming advantage over Reddit in other ways, but there seems to be a higher number of trolls, shitheads, wackos, etc and in some cases entire instances dedicated to them.
While these people get banned on Reddit, Lemmy hasn’t yet solved this moderation issue; user accounts are basically disposable and moderation is super distributed, so it’s easy to abuse.
- Comment on The world’s first Nintendo Museum is now open | CNN 1 month ago:
What are they exhibiting? Lawsuits?
- Comment on Fields of Mistria is one of the most impressive games I've ever played 1 month ago:
Yes you can run windows games fairly easily on Mac and Linux these days but it’s never quite as good as a native build.
- Comment on Fields of Mistria is one of the most impressive games I've ever played 1 month ago:
There’s CrossOver on Mac which works pretty well for most titles too. Not as good as proton but let’s say 75% there. But you might be right that the success of proton is disincentivizing developers from targeting either. Still disappointing though as a game like this is an ideal candidate for Mac and Linux, compared to some AAA title.
- Comment on Fields of Mistria is one of the most impressive games I've ever played 1 month ago:
Makes me sad to see it’s Windows only given it’s so graphically simple and low tech. Should be a shoe-in for a Mac and Linux version.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 1 month ago:
It does go on sale from time to time. I picked it up on Xbox last year for 60% off if I recall correctly.
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 1 month ago:
Nope, you can buy an external one or something as an accessory but it’s another hundred bucks.
- Comment on Preference 1 month ago:
Came here to say the same thing, like WTF, why would you need a jar of 500
- Comment on Helldivers 2's big update, Patch 1.001.100, is finally here, bringing a bunch of highly requested buffs and changes 2 months ago:
Yeah, those started working again with the previous patch.
- Comment on How did Call of Duty get to this point? 2 months ago:
COD 1 & 2 were excellent games. Man, how far they have fallen.
- Comment on America's Smartest Man Finds Something Interesting 2 months ago:
10/10 physics joke right here folks
- Comment on Could an American please prove me wrong? 2 months ago:
Good ol’ Meme-a-stan. President: R. Astley.
- Comment on If Necromancy suddenly became possible, can the undead be called as a witness during court proceedings? 2 months ago:
I call the corpse of John Smith to the stand.
Mr Smith, where were you on the night of October the fourth?
……ungh……hiss…… BRAINS….
- Comment on Todd Howard's exclusive 1,000G Xbox achievement appears after years of secrecy 2 months ago:
Literally every company’s “corporate culture” right here. Assemble a room full of people who know what they’re doing, then boss man dictates what should be done with his very limited information, all the while not listening to said people who know what they’re doing, because ThE pRoJeCt, or the ScHeDuLe, or the shareholders, or fucking whatever. Truly, American capitalism cannot be perfected upon.
- Comment on Close call 2 months ago:
I guess all of these stores will be gone before too long as these days a large portion of the new consoles don’t have a disc drive at all.
- Comment on Is my van submission too late? 2 months ago:
This is the stupidest one, kudos. Take my upvote.
- Comment on Think about it 2 months ago:
Alright fellow Oregonians, grab your torches and pitchforks, we meet at OP’s house tomorrow.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac 3 months ago:
Anybody got that Steve Huffman pig boy meme handy?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Yea, I was a manager at multiple jobs and wasn’t allowed to give interview feedback for this reason, they were afraid anything I said would be fuel for a wrongful rejection lawsuit.
- Comment on Pigs in a blanket for the lazy 4 months ago:
It’s the breadluminati. They are everywhere.
- Comment on Pray they don't alter it any further 6 months ago:
🎶 Yo ho, yo ho, a pirate’s life for me. We pillage, we plunder, we rifle and loot. Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho. We kidnap and ravage and don’t give a hoot. Drink up me ‘earties, yo ho. 🎶
- Comment on Not happening, dude 6 months ago:
It’s actually Argentina and Chile, which tips that calculus in our favour given they’re friendly western developed nations.
- Comment on Why are SMS messages so expensive? 6 months ago:
I pay 15€ a month in Portugal for unlimited data, sms, calls etc and it even includes roaming in the rest of Europe 😊