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- Comment on The White House, Washington D.C. 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s really sad.
- Comment on Study Argues Big Tobacco Had Secret Role In Shaping The Ultraprocessed Foods Fed To American Children 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago:
It just needs more systems.
- Comment on Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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? 4 weeks 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? 5 weeks ago:
Dead Rising Remaster Remade Re-cut.
- Comment on PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features 1 month ago:
Some companies already use this heuristic to skip asking.
- Comment on PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features 1 month 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 2 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 2 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/ 2 months ago:
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 2 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 2 months ago:
I’m just clarifying.
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 2 months ago:
“Fault” isn’t an attack here. No need for the weird analogy.
- Comment on "Any update is a bonus not a right": Peak co-developer Landfall reminds impatient fans it's not a live-service studio 2 months ago:
Patches are also a tool to keep a game in the news cycle in more recent times.
So much comes out every single week. It’s quite a lot of noise.
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 2 months ago:
I don’t think DS is first party? I might be wrong. It came to Macs and iPhones too.
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 2 months ago:
Yeah, if anything, this is Valve’s fault. They upturned the playing field and proved a new path.
- Comment on PlayStation Studios Removes Nearly All PC References From Websites 2 months ago:
Neither the price increases or the fact that Microsoft is giving up on a pure console are Sony’s fault.
It’s still unfortunate that this is happening. PC is no longer neutral ground.
- Comment on I've been waiting for this for a long time. 2 months ago:
See, this is a toxic attitude. They are not charging an outrageous price. It’s not a subscription. It’s not an unfinished game. It’s not locked to the Epic Games store. It’s being actively maintained. It’s not being sold by a toxic publisher like EA. It’s an indie developer. Etc. etc.
It’s just a simple product, with a simple price. And you insist you have the right to obtain a copy of it without paying because they don’t offer discounts. This just isn’t reasonable. You don’t have a right to a copy of this game. It’s entertainment. It’s a product that those who work on it derive their lively hood from. It’s not food. It’s not shelter. It’s not healthcare.
- Comment on Why do people call Michael's house from GTA 5 a mansion? 2 months ago:
Yes. This is either a bot farming account history, or someone reposting for internet attention/points.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Says He Gets Where The DLSS 5 Outrage Is Coming From: ‘I Don’t Love AI Slop Myself’ 2 months ago:
Everyone should be saying even more provocative and violent things. More often in more places. It gets upvotes and views and increases time on the platform.
Let it rip.
- Comment on NVIDIA confirms DLSS 5 uses a 2D frame plus motion vectors as input 2 months ago:
This was intuitive and obvious to anyone paying attention to AI and who knows video game engines.
Calculating each mesh or surface in the scene instead of one big collective pass would be even more demanding. And will likely beyond their capabilities for a very long time.
- Comment on NVIDIA Launches Nemotron Coalition of Leading Global AI Labs to Advance Open Frontier Models 2 months ago:
It’s like green washing.
Google does it with Android too.
- Comment on Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year 3 months ago:
They likely want to start collecting data. So the need to get something rushed out so that they can build up the pile of data they will need to build out and refine this feature in time for the launch of their next console.
- Comment on Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe 3 months ago:
Good
- Comment on UK junk food ad ban so diluted it may be largely ineffective, experts say 3 months ago: