paraphrand
@paraphrand@lemmy.world
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Maybe nerd is too specific. I just mean “online people” I guess. But I personally have a focus on tech, games, video, etc. It’s something I’m increasingly self aware about, after spending the time since 2020 more online. Including in synchronous online spaces.
The spaces I’m talking about felt very different to me 15+ years ago. And the synchronous space I’m talking about felt very different 9 years ago.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
This is one of my biggest complaints about Lenny. And it has given me a new perspective on those around me in nerd spaces. 😔
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Looks great.
- Comment on 7 Eleven near me doesn’t stock large cups so customers can’t use the app or T Mobile deals. 2 weeks ago:
OP is exploiting rule 8 for some reason.
Rule 8 sucks.
- Comment on Walmart math: Wrong price per ounce 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, and I realize that. It’s absurd that our capitalist society boasts about big data and technology and Roll Backs and Saving and all sorts of other things that might make you believe they care about such a fundamental part of it all.
I name drop the current year because as they years go on, it’s ever more absurd that something like this isn’t perfect yet.
- Comment on Walmart math: Wrong price per ounce 2 weeks ago:
Why isn’t it automatically calculated. It’s 2026. Surely we have metadata for products on lock by now. If the tag has the volume and the price, it has all the information it needs.
- Comment on Walmart math: Wrong price per ounce 2 weeks ago:
I would insist on getting the lower of the two prices if there was a difference.
I’ve always wondered why it isn’t illegal to make the price per unit the same measurement across a given set of carried products. It’s malicious compliance to not have it consistent.
- Comment on New level of capitalist hell unlocked: Companies are relying on AI to pinpoint exactly how desperate job seekers are in the hopes they can pay them as little as possible. 5 weeks ago:
Headline culture.
- Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’ 1 month ago:
“Please normalize this and diffuse the backlash across the industry to it’s not just another thing people hate EA for.”
- Comment on Weirdly, it sounds almost like a beat 1 month ago:
Grumble grumble
- Comment on Sony Signals It’s Not Prepared To Sell PlayStation 6 ‘At Significant Losses’ 2 months ago:
Yeah. The previous cycles are unsustainable. And we all need to update our expectations.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 months ago:
And the GPU makers were already hitting a plateau around the first RTX cards.
Node shrinks have dried up. Games got use to those handing them major leaps.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 months ago:
Baseline numbers compared to top end numbers don’t make sense. 700 vs 1050.
- Comment on The White House, Washington D.C. 2 months ago:
Wait they have an image of the White House up in front of the White House?!
- Comment on Former EVE Online developers are building a society simulation MMO where your character keeps playing even after you log off 2 months ago:
Oh, that’s probally true. But those were a long time ago. And the users were still self selecting and in the right headspace.
We have crossed a threshold with the internet and awareness of possible places to be a shithead at these days. If you know what I mean.
It’s like the early days of VR. The social spaces were great until VR got cheaper and more common. Now you need to hunt out the the good groups and social circles and they are hard to find.
- Comment on Former EVE Online developers are building a society simulation MMO where your character keeps playing even after you log off 2 months ago:
It’ll take a lot of effort to keep the systems from being exploitable like that, I expect. And maybe so much structure will be needed that it’ll become rather un-fun.
I use to be excited about such systems and ideas in games. But I’ve come to realize that players will break and ruin anything you put in front of them.
- Comment on Study Argues Big Tobacco Had Secret Role In Shaping The Ultraprocessed Foods Fed To American Children 2 months ago:
Yeah, it’s really sad.
- Comment on Study Argues Big Tobacco Had Secret Role In Shaping The Ultraprocessed Foods Fed To American Children 3 months ago:
I ran across “tender shaped chicken” from Walmart’s “Better Goods” brand recently. 😩
- Comment on Indie Video Game ‘Mina the Hollower’ Sells 300,000 Copies in Three Days 3 months ago:
It just needs more systems.
- Comment on Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 3 months ago:
If Lemmy gets big, it’s going to be a problem. Same for mastodon.
- Comment on Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 3 months ago:
Moderation and support teams are one of the most difficult and expensive problems in running social media platforms.
- Comment on What is a Lemmy user called? A lemming? 3 months ago:
Definitely not lemmitor.
- Comment on Capcom Lists Dead Rising as One of Its 'Leading Brands' That It's 'Nurturing' — but Does That Mean Dead Rising 5? 3 months ago:
Dead Rising Remaster Remade Re-cut.
- Comment on PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features 4 months ago:
Some companies already use this heuristic to skip asking.
- Comment on PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features 4 months ago:
Platforms should always have that be the first check before falling back to multiple other data sources.
- Comment on Marjorie Taylor Greene Suggests Butler Assassination Attempt Was a Hoax 4 months ago:
That’s the MTG we know.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 4 months ago:
Free to play, and “ever games” or whatever you want to call them. Solid classics that are easy to return to for years. Left 4 Dead 2 is a great example.
- Comment on The Judge in the #Afroman case actually scolded the jurors for their verdict/ 5 months ago:
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 5 months ago:
What attitude do I have? I’m into VR, I love Valve. I’m excited for the Steam Frame. I’ve met people who work there.
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 5 months ago:
I’m just clarifying.