Naatan

@Naatan@lemmy.one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bosses and workers still can’t agree on whether the commute is part of the work day, and it’s creating a $578 billion productivity problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of those problems are true in the US/Canada as well (maybe more so; eg. pension). But unlike the US/Canada you get compensated for lunch and transit. AND you get a huge amount of time off. That alone is already drastically better than what you get in the US/Canada. Sure, if you make big bucks that’s mostly moot, but most people don’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bosses and workers still can’t agree on whether the commute is part of the work day, and it’s creating a $578 billion productivity problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When I worked in Belgium not only did they pay for your transit costs, they even paid for your car, phone, and lunch. Granted the car and phone were contingent on you having a use for them for your work, but still.

  This was nearly 20 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair people who pay thousands are probably perfectly fine with Starfield, although they may have to be satisfied with 120fps instead of 240fps.

  The ones mainly hurting are the ones with similar budgets as console gamers. And console gamers are hardly unfamiliar with performance issues.

  Being a pc gamer has much more to do with what ecosystem you get to tap into, rather than how much you’re spending.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IGN | Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also noticed the opposite effect. Where if a movie is leaning into being plain and easy to watch you’ll have critics rating it down cause they wanted it to do some artsy stuff. Definitely feels like critics are more on the artsy side of the scale, which is fine but doesn’t always align with what I’m looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IGN | Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I definitely assign more value to the audience reviews. Critics are mostly useless, unless you identify ones that align with your personal taste.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IGN | Rotten Tomatoes Under Fire After PR Firm's Scheme to Pay Critics for Positive Reviews Uncovered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Movie / TV reviews are such a shit show. I rarely find myself agreeing with the averaged out rating.

  These days I’ll just make sure the rating is above say 30 and beyond that I’ll rely on trailers and reading actual reviews. But finding new movies and tv shows to watch is quite a chore as a result.

  I hope someday soon AI can be employed to give you real personalized recommendations that don’t suck. But realistically it’ll just be more shitty algorithms meant to serve the interests of the highest bidder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Streamers Now Wasting Record Amounts of Time Finding Something to Watch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. I searched for YouTube tv on my android tv but can only find the base YouTube app. Sounds like you’re saying this is some separate sort of app? How do you obtain it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Streamers Now Wasting Record Amounts of Time Finding Something to Watch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotcha, lucky you that the algorithm seems to align with your viewing habits. For me I’d say I easily waste the quoted 10 minutes to find something to watch on YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study: Streamers Now Wasting Record Amounts of Time Finding Something to Watch⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your secret? Youtube just keeps recommending me the same shit. Their algorithm just makes it so that you’re rarely seeing new stuff.