SorteKanin
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- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 2 days ago:
revisit just prior to launch
This is simply not feasible - menus include pause menus, talent trees, inventories, all that kind of stuff. All of that is necessary for proper gameplay testing. You can’t just “bang that out in a few days”.
I’m sorry, but this idea that any of this is easy enough to do in a few days and not crucial enough to iterate on throughout development instead of just doing it at the end, is exactly the kind of naive attitude that the Helldivers and Palworld devs are talking about.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 3 days ago:
Tbf memory leaks can be very hard to diagnose and can also be hard to avoid in any software written in a language like C++, which is probably what Diablo 4 is written in.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 3 days ago:
menu system
I think you are vastly underestimating how complicated menu systems and UI in games are. I have a friend who works as a professional game developer in a small studio and far as I heard, he’s spent most of his time just working on their UI/menus.
Changing these things is neither easy nor fast.
- Comment on Apex Legends writer gets laid off 24 hours after the character she wrote is revealed, because that's what the games industry in 2025 looks like 3 weeks ago:
It’s not that hard to understand. The whole gaming industry is filled with people who are super passionate about games, like passionate to a fault. This makes it very, very difficult to unionize as there’s almost always some other game dev out there who would take the job for less pay and more hours.
I actually know a friend like that. He was job jumping a lot, looking for game dev roles almost exclusively. He finally landed such a role. Far as I heard, he’s working overtime a lot (voluntarily) and he earns less than half of what I earn as a “regular” software developer.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
Oh totally. I just wish Linux had better user experience than it does, cause right now it’s kind of subpar.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve tried on Ubuntu, what’s more popular than that
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
If you disable… needs to be configured… just have to install the packages
And this is exactly the problem. I suppose there might be a way to fix it, but if Windows can just make it work for me, why can’t Linux do the same? All this “Oh you just need to do X and Y” should be unnecessary bullshit.
Also, it’s not that it doesn’t work at all on Linux, but it works sporadically. For instance, when the system goes to sleep and needs to wake up, the screens sometimes turn on, sometimes they don’t and I need to pull the plug and reconnect. This is never necessary on Windows.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
I’m having it on my Framework laptop - I really was hopeful that it would just work with that :(
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
… Unless of course you’re trying to connect two external monitors through a docking station with a USB-C into the laptop with a closed lid and disabled inbuilt screen.
Unfortunately, in my experience, Linux routinely fails at this task (tried many different distros) while Windows “just works”.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 weeks ago:
This film gets cooler and cooler the more I hear about it! Really gotta watch it.
- Comment on Anon is Turkish 2 months ago:
It’s called India (translated) in Turkish, and many European languages
TIL that “kalkun” (danish word for turkey, the bird) actually comes from Calcutta, as in the modern day city of Kolkata in India. Wow.
- Comment on Anon disturbs the Force 2 months ago:
most users are older than their late 30s
I think you’re slightly overestimating there. We ran a survey on Feddit.dk and the average age was 34, median 32. So more like early 30s or late 20s
- Comment on Algorithms are breaking how we think | Technology Connections 2 months ago:
Very well laid out. Biggest problem is that the people watching his channel are probably likely to already understand the problem. Certainly almost everyone here understands the problem. Preaching to the choir and all that.
Hopefully we can get more people to see it as an issue in the future.
- Comment on Anon compares Harry and Ron 2 months ago:
The only person that “chose” him is his mom, which makes him equally special to almost every other person on the planet.
Honestly it’s kinda fucked that in the HP universe, apparently no other mother than Lily loved their child enough to sacrifice themselves and use this love protection magic on them.
- Comment on Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device? 2 months ago:
m8 literally everyone on the fediverse is an outlier 😅
- Comment on Consistent Jailbreaks in GPT-4, o1, and o3 - General Analysis 3 months ago:
Am I the only one that feels it’s a bit strange to have such safeguards in an AI model? I know most models aren’t available online but some models are available to download and run locally right? So what prevents me from just doing that if I wanted to get around the safeguards? I guess maybe they’re just doing it so that they can’t be somehow held legally responsible for anything the AI model might say?
- Comment on Anon is going to get a call from HR 3 months ago:
You’re definitely not supposed to be looking at what anon is doing and finding it good or interesting. This is more like a zoo where the exhibit is the strange, chaotic and sometimes racist creature that is Anon.
Personally I read them mostly for the humor, and mostly for the exhibition of the strange world view that Anon sometimes have. It’s interesting (concerning?) to be reminded that people like Anon exist out there.
- Comment on Anon goes on a first date 4 months ago:
Can confirm. My wife is a gamer and we watch anime together. Life is great :)
- Comment on Is it wrong to not have a disabled child solely to avoid forcing the child to suffer their whole life? 4 months ago:
Source? Or is it just your impression?
- Comment on is feeling disrespected reason good enough to change jobs? 4 months ago:
Just be sure to find another job before quitting. Always easier to find a job when you already have one.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 4 months ago:
All the time i spent playing Dota, Starcraft, battlefield and smash melee says nope.
Sure, if your metric is hours of gameplay per dollar spent. But that’s no way to rate a video game if you ask me.
For instance I would rate The Talos Principle or Disco Elysium as much better games than, say, World of Warcraft, despite the fact that I played wow much more than the former two. But the story of those two games are just far more interesting and the games have left a much more impactful, lasting impression on me even though I don’t play them any more.
- Comment on Video Games Can’t Afford to Look This Good 4 months ago:
Disagree, story is definitely more important than replayability for me.
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- Comment on How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years? 5 months ago:
when people start unionizing, they just fire everyone
Yea this needs to be made illegal obviously. But that’s hard. And that’s where it becomes political. You can’t get around the fact that it is political unfortunately.
- Comment on How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years? 5 months ago:
Of course it’s collective bargaining, that’s what I mean with “organize”. I don’t mean just organize within your workplace, I mean organize within entire fields and industries.
Friend, you don’t know how unions work at a core level.
This sounds kind of condescending and mean. In Denmark we have large unions that cover whole industries and fields and they work very well for collective bargaining and securing good levels of compensation, vacation and good work environments. I am myself a member of such a union. So please don’t assume that I don’t know how unions work.
- Comment on How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years? 5 months ago:
Yea definitely don’t disagree with that. I think that is a factor too. But I think it also kind of goes hand in hand. Do you have similar ideas because you organized and kind of aligned your ideas, or did you organize because your ideas are similar and you easily agreed to organize? It’s kind of a chicken and egg thing.
I’ve also often thought that countries like the US are just too big. There’s too many people to take into consideration. A country like Denmark with ~6 million people is much easier to keep track of and the governance and politics is closer to reality.
- Comment on How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years? 5 months ago:
It is about politics. You need to organise yourselves better into unions. Then, you strike until you get what you deserve.
Why does Denmark and the rest of the Nordic countries have so high quality of living and happy people? Cause the people realized that you need to work together to get what you want. You need to have solidarity with your other workers to push for better compensation and work environments.
Do this, or you’re doomed.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 6 months ago:
Even if you could, Linus Torvalds is not a fan of the v3 license.
Why not?
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 6 months ago:
The Free Software Foundation explicitly forbade tivoization in version 3 of the GNU General Public License. However, although version 3 has been adopted by many software projects, the authors of the Linux kernel have notably declined to move from version 2 to version 3.
How come Linux doesn’t use GPL v3?
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 6 months ago:
Should the government collect taxes on the buoyant times but then refund them during market downturns? That would be a nightmare. No government wants to be on the hook for refunds during a downturn.
AFAIK Danish tax on stock gains/losses works like this. Stock gains are heavily taxed while stock losses give you a tax rebate.