Viper_NZ
@Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz
- Comment on don't be a coward 3 weeks ago:
The entire Polity series is great, but my favourite parts are always when we follow a Prador perspective.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 5 weeks ago:
It sure wasn’t rapid smaller releases
- Comment on Mushrooms 1 month ago:
Our immune systems can tell the difference between human blood types. Let alone fungus vs human.
- Comment on Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda and DLCs of all time 2 months ago:
What we wanted: Alpha Centauri 2 What we got: Civilisation in a $2 shop Halloween costume.
- Comment on I put my number in a secure form for a trusted bank and immediately got spammed 5 months ago:
Either that or you’ve got some malware.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages | Official Trailer 1 (4K) | Coming 2025 6 months ago:
You’d probably like Prodeus, it’s certainly scratched that itch for me.
- Comment on New Doom Game Could Be Announced At Xbox Showcase In June 7 months ago:
I have a nasty feeling it’s going to be like Halo without Marty O’Donnell - bland music that is completely and utterly forgettable.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Mass Effect 7 months ago:
The thing that I loved about Mass Effect was the characters.
Andromeda’s characters were straight up uninteresting or plain annoying.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Mass Effect 7 months ago:
ME3 was an amazing game up until the last ten minutes
- Comment on Kobo's new color E Ink eReaders start at only $150 8 months ago:
It happily uses epub and not proprietary formats.
The only downside to my Kobo is Amazon’s walled garden exclusive books being unavailable.
- Comment on Anon has a power fantasy 8 months ago:
Cars like the BMW i8 which muffle the 3 cylinder engine down as quietly as possible and pump ‘cool’ engine sounds both into the cabin and outside.
- Comment on Toxic Cost of Going Green | Unreported World 11 months ago:
Lithium Iron phosphate batteries already use zero cobalt and are proven tech at this point.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 11 months ago:
Most of the salt I have for this behaviour from games that were pulled from Steam because Epic threw cash at the developers, or they’re exclusive despite there being no reason to be.
I have no issue with Epic releasing their own games in their store, just like valve do, or EA/Actvision did.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 11 months ago:
Paid exclusives locking content away from other online stores. Basically trying to force me to use it is a sure fire way of making me refuse.
- Comment on Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic Remake Is No Longer In Development - Report 1 year ago:
Unless you’re remaking a Valve title apparently. Black Mesa is fantastic.
- Comment on Dusk Developer David Szymanski: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly 1 year ago:
Meanwhile Quake and Quake II just got awesome remasters…
- Comment on Dusk Developer David Szymanski: I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic work towards their own (very obviously desired) monopoly 1 year ago:
This and the paid exclusives mean I haven’t, and won’t use EGS out of pure spite.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
IOS didn’t allow you to set a default browser other than Safari for years and still doesn’t allow third party browsers to use their own web rendering engine.
If the DoJ don’t care about that, they done care that Teams ignores your default browser.
Again, I don’t condone what they’re doing. I just doubt the Justice department will care.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
A lot of talk of antitrust in this thread.
Unfortunately while this behaviour is disgusting and unethical, it’s not exploiting a dominant market position to stifle competition.
To do so teams would need to be in a position of dominance, which (thankfully for anyone forced to use this garbage) it’s simply not.
This sucks, but don’t count on the government doing anything to fix it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Sure, but teams isn’t part of office.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
My current office, and my previous office was a mixture of windows, macs and iOS/android devices.
My previous role was the same.
Teams also isn’t in a monopoly position. There are plenty of alternatives which are in use and don’t force the use of edge.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Their desktop market share has dropped to 75%. That’s dominant but a far cry from the over 90% share they had during their antitrust trial.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
To be clear: I think this is appalling behaviour and I’m not defending it.
I just don’t think the DoJ will care.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
They’re not really in the dominant market position they were in back in the 90s.
- Comment on Why You Should Not Kill House Centipedes 1 year ago:
This sounds suspiciously like something a centipede would type…