Megaman_EXE
@Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org
- Comment on You Are Being Misled About Renewable Energy Technology [Technology Connections] 2 hours ago:
I popped that sucker on 3x speed with captions, and it was a great watch
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I’ll believe it when I see it lol.
- Comment on The Witness, 10 Years Later, Still Refuses To Explain Itself 5 days ago:
Yeah I liked it! I felt like I was too dumb for some of the puzzles lol.
- Comment on LG's new subscription program charges up to £277 per month to rent a TV 6 days ago:
Lol of course thats a thing. Welp there goes my big brain ideas
- Comment on LG's new subscription program charges up to £277 per month to rent a TV 6 days ago:
Okay at first I was wondering “who the hell would want to do this?” But then I thought maybe its like…if you need a TV for an event? Being able to rent out a large TV might be helpful? But like thats so absolutely niche.
But its the only way I could ever see it make sense. If you needed a very large flat screen only for a few days or something you could rent it instead of paying a few thousand.
- Comment on Some PCs are failing to boot after this month's Windows Update 6 days ago:
Microslop needs to figure their shit out. I think 11 has been worse than any previous “bad” windows version. I’ve never had such an unreliable experience with an OS before.
I would swap, but I’m forced/still have reason to use it for various programs/work.
- Comment on AI hype meets reality as majority of CEOs report no financial returns 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s not great. I feel terrible for the guy because he lives on his own and has a mortgage to pay. I just hope he can get back on his feet sooner rather than later.
- Comment on AI hype meets reality as majority of CEOs report no financial returns 1 week ago:
My job just let us know that they are going to invest about $170,000 into AI subscriptions per year. A few days later, they fired an artist they had hired for over a decade. A chunk of us are pretty upset but the rest don’t seem to care. They’re too busy playing with Ai making it generate “funny” pictures.
- Comment on A Man Bought Meta's AI Glasses, and Ended Up Wandering the Desert in Search of Aliens 2 weeks ago:
I think the biggest thing is that people don’t seem to understand how AI works. If they understood it’s just predictive text and not like…actual intelligence, I think it would solve a lot of issues.
Part of this, though, is how AI companies keep pushing to personify their AI and keep making them sound better than they actually are. It makes people think its this magical thing
- Comment on Sincere question: why play long video games? 2 weeks ago:
It depends on the game, but i like long RPG’s. Sometimes, it can start to wear out its welcome. But for the games where it works well it’s cool. You get to experience this big world, usually going from a weakling to a strong character by the end. The stories can be really interesting (or bland too).
I recently decided that I am going to take on a game that could potentially take me hundreds of hours to finish and it’s daunting, but if at some point if I start to hate it, I’ll put it down and Google the results of the story and feel content.
- Comment on The sound of this one specific bird from Age of Empires keeps haunting me through pop songs, movies, and across other games 3 weeks ago:
I always think of the rooster call that’s used in Ocarina of time.
There’s also a laser beam noise that gets used in a couple n64 games and various other media. And a couple sounds from golden eye that I’ve heard used.
I can’t say for certain, but I think the popularity is probably due to a lot of these reused sounds being part of sound packs and compilations from the 80’s and 90’s
- Comment on AMD and Nvidia are talking about local AI, good news for PC gamers and memory prices 3 weeks ago:
Yeah thats true! I hope that the world shifts towards that rather than what most people have been doing.
- Comment on AMD and Nvidia are talking about local AI, good news for PC gamers and memory prices 3 weeks ago:
The only way I would be comfortable with Ai is if I could craft it myself, run it locally, and prevent it from feeding bullshit results, prevent it from phoning home, AND if it wasn’t built off of stolen data.
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 4 weeks ago:
First I think it depends on what we are considering kids. I was online from age 8 but didn’t get into online games or communities until about 10. But in the case of the law, they’re often saying anything below 16 or 18 etc. It depends on the country/jurisdiction.
There are lots of places kids can find community. When i was a kid I was playing on neopets, club penguin, old school runescape, guild wars. I made friends with people from all over the place. One of my best friends in my youth is from across the continent, and we have been friends for 20 years now.
I think the bottom line is parents should parent. When I was a kid the PC was in the main room. My parents spoke to me frequently about staying safe online and asked me about what I was doing on the PC. They made sure I was only accessing kid appropriate sites and that I wasn’t getting myself into trouble.
Could I have gotten in trouble? Yeah possibly. I also could have gotten kidnapped at the local park
- Comment on Foreign tech workers spurn US as if it were a rabid dog 4 weeks ago:
I wish union work was more common place. It seems where I live unions are mostly for blue collar work and less common than I would hope to see.
- Comment on IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market 4 weeks ago:
I just got a new pc back in February and I’m kicking myself for not buying more storage and ram
- Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15 4 weeks ago:
Whenever this comes up, it feels like a play to harvest people’s data and / or to slip additional laws into place under the guise of “protect the children”.
On one hand I don’t think it’s terrible to try to guide kids more. I think parents should be doing more parenting tbh.
On the other I think it runs the risk of preventing kids from accessing information online, finding safe spaces online, and isolating kids more than they already can be. It also limits things like teaching kids about technology and how to use it safely.
- Comment on Playing Final Fantasy XI in 2025 (or 2026)? 5 weeks ago:
I appreciate the offer, but I likely won’t be able to play it for a while. I don’t have the time that I would need to dedicate to it at the moment!
- Comment on Playing Final Fantasy XI in 2025 (or 2026)? 1 month ago:
I’ve been wanting to play this game for a while. But I think in order to have the best experience, you probably need to get a group together that is willing to play at the same time as you
. I convinced a friend to play a bit(like 4 hours) with me years ago and I thought it was fun! But I don’t think he enjoyed the slower grind of the experience and he dropped off.
- Comment on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. 1 month ago:
There’s a game called suck up, that also has this. I’ve read mixed results on it, but the idea seemed unique at least
- Comment on Journalists convinced a AI Vending Machine Things to give them free stuff like a PS5 1 month ago:
The vending machine from cyberpunk was pretty cool but this seems like its cognitively challenged ancestor lol.
I’m getting really tired of AI everything. So far AI hasn’t seemed to make my life any easier or better. I have to try and over analyze everything I see now which isn’t fun. But yeah. Wish it would actually do something for me instead of make some billionaires richer.
- Comment on Age Verification Is Coming For the Internet. We Built You a Resource Hub to Fight Back. 1 month ago:
I’ve been personally wondering about these laws. I am thankfully in a place that doesn’t require them yet. But I assume that some asshole somewhere is going to want our data and say “wow that sounds like a great idea.”
My assumption is that i would feed false data to bypass if possible and then say fuck it and not use whatever service it is if I don’t really need to use it. If I do need to use it and have no choice, then I guess I’m SOL and will have my data breached at some point because none of these services seem to know how to lock down their shit properly.
Sorry for the frustration lol. I just think this kind of thing is stupid and a way to steal info or watch people. I don’t think this is genuinely about safety or helping children. Especially with the latter it always seems governments throw in a bundle of laws along side any “protect the kids” laws so that they can fly under the radar while screwing people over.
- Comment on ARC Raiders purposefully puts jerks in the same lobby as each other 1 month ago:
I’ve been humming and hawing over if I should get this game.
My assumption was that people would play friendly or cooperate more in the early days, and then straight PVP would take over quickly. Is this the case?
The reason I assume this would happen is that there’s very little incentive to take the risk to cooperate when you could end up getting shot in the back and have your loot stolen.
The game sounds like if you were to try and min max, your best option would be to manipulate others to take advantage of any good will. Eventually, people would stop working together and just go straight to PVP as cooperative play would become too much of a risk or a waste of time.
- Comment on Ford ends F-150 Lightning production, starts battery storage business 1 month ago:
I believe the Truck companies think people just want larger and larger trucks every year. I’m waiting until everyone is just driving monster trucks at this point lol
- Comment on Christmas / New Year Steam Game Giveaway 1 month ago:
I started to think of something but…I don’t really need anything. It’s very nice of you to do this for others. Merry Christmas
- Comment on The View From Inside the AI Bubble 1 month ago:
I recently saw this video that was an interesting slap back to reality.
- Comment on 'Architects of AI' named Time Magazine's Person of the Year 1 month ago:
I do wonder what comes next for average people. I used to think a UBI would solve the world’s problems, but now I believe it would be just used as a method of controlling the general population. We’re a ways off yet from everything being replaced by this garbage, but when the time comes, I’m nervous about what will happen.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 7th 1 month ago:
Just finished Metroid Prime for the first time. It was really cool. Not sure how I feel about backtracking in metroidvanias, but I really enjoyed the world and the various bits and bobs of lore.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 7th 1 month ago:
Pokemon typing and attack types are the most important thing. Water is good against fire etc etc. I think that’s the main thing at least! I wana go back and finish pokemon X one day. I tried grinding for a special evee and I burnt myself out before I finished the actual game lol
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November December 7th 1 month ago:
I tried this a few years back, and while I enjoyed the concept on paper, in actual practice, I found it frustrating.
The main issue is I have no idea if someone is cheating. As much as something like a kill cam would ruin the immersion, it also would give me reassurance to know that the game is still fair.
I want to give it another shot one day and just try to accept that I have no idea if people are playing fairly lol.