twinnie
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- Comment on The Telegraph has deleted the seemingly made-up article 3 days ago:
I actually know a couple of teachers at private schools and they say the people being hit hardest aren’t the rich twats but the families who scrimp and save just enough to try and give their kids the best opportunities.
- Comment on Durability of children 6 days ago:
My daughter’s #2. She’s also trying to do ballet in a pink dress right now.
- Comment on Grieve with me 1 week ago:
I tried this and had limited success. Then I just got a wireless charger and it’s fine now.
- Comment on Netflix puts AI ads in paid tier: pirate EVERYTHING at this point... 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️ 14:55 1 week ago:
I like how they say that viewers pay as much attention to the adverts as they do to the content.
- Comment on 89 million Steam account details just got leaked, so now's a good time to change your password 2 weeks ago:
89 million accounts with creds don’t get sold for $5,000. It’s probably just email addresses.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m not against some political stuff but there’s so much circlejerk opinion pieces that get posted. It’s just a bunch of people posting stuff that confirms their own beliefs, which is not better than what happens on the likes of Xitter. It’s just a different kind of echo chamber but people are okay with it because it’s left rather than right.
- Comment on Day 297 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t want to say this but I can’t help myself.
It’s addictive, not addicting.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 is reportedly playable in its entirety and could be announced this year 3 weeks ago:
That’s the source code leak. The leaked announcement came from the magazine.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 is reportedly playable in its entirety and could be announced this year 3 weeks ago:
It’s hard not to get excited remembering how we found out about Half-Life 2. It was announced in a magazine that some random guy accidentally got sent a copy of early, then he scanned the pages and leaked it online. I think I was browsing some dodgy Russian website when I found out about it.
- Comment on Rian Johnson Says ‘I Don’t’ Agree With Netflix CEO Over Movie Theater Model Being ‘Outdated’: I Want ‘Knives Out 3’ in ‘Many Theaters For as Long as Possible’ 3 weeks ago:
Films used to be such a big deal, now I just watch a brand new one every night. Pre-internet is just end up watching the same films over and over just because I had a copy. Going to the cinema to watch a new one was exciting but now I don’t care.
- Comment on Day 289 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Is everyone posting about Oblivion simply new to it? Seems weird to me that everyone’s so excited about it but it’s probably just because I played it to death the last time it came round.
- Comment on Google is excited about money! 1 month ago:
I think we’re moaning over nothing again here.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 1 month ago:
I’m not as against this as everyone else. If you want a AAA game without microtransactions, in-game advertising, and all the other byllshit you get nowadays you’re gonna have to expect the company will want to make that money up in other places. Games have been like £50/$60 since I was a kid and we’ve been lucky that the prices haven’t risen with inflation.
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 1 month ago:
Imagine if you could go on the Nintendo store and buy a game you couldn’t even run, or had to check a third party website to see if it ran acceptably and let you use all the buttons.
- Comment on Don't know if the right place but is there a TOMT Tip of My Tongue community? or a big ask lemmy community? or an AMA community? 1 month ago:
To be fair, I struggle with the search function. I don’t find the UI on the website very intuitive and I feel it misses things. I don’t trust it.
- Comment on Following the nightmare footage of AI-loy, Horizon actor Ashly Burch shares her stance on the whole debacle 2 months ago:
Honest question. Why does the whole internet seem to be coalescing around the relatively small number if artists who might lose work over AI when there’s probably millions of people, if not more, who stand to lose their jobs in other sectors? AI powered voices could add a lot to a game, it could be great having completely dynamic speech.
- Comment on What can I actually do with 64 GB or RAM? 3 months ago:
I just hit 230 on my phone.
- Comment on Sounds like a problem for them, not me. 3 months ago:
A couple of months ago my manager pulled me aside and very nicely told me off for not taking me annual leave. She said she wanted to see it all used before it reset.
- Comment on Sounds like a problem for them, not me. 3 months ago:
Is this a normal thing in the US? I live in the UK and I don’t think I’ve ever had a vacation request denied in my whole life, even when I submit them with less than two weeks notice.
- Comment on Dell is making everyone return to office, too 3 months ago:
I don’t know why people don’t want to work in the office. I spent a week working from home and it felt like a prison.
- Comment on James Cameron on 'Avatar 3' Potentially Sparking Fan Backlash 4 months ago:
Avatar 2 was like a 50 minute movie and 2 hours of swimming.
- Comment on GTA VI Might Inspire Other AAA Developers to Price Their Games at $100 4 months ago:
I have paid full price for a game in 10 years. GTA6 will be late to the PX party anyway. Looks like I won’t be playing it until 2035.
- Comment on EA will shut down the Origin app on April 2025 — company asks users to migrate to the new EA app 4 months ago:
It’s not clear, am I going to lose games if I don’t do this?
- Comment on Day 183 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 months ago:
I actually think this is somewhere that AI could help out, just cranking out loads of mundane little features to give a place depth. I’m looking forward to the possibility of games where you can walk around a whole building because it’s all being generated on the fly by AI.
- Comment on How do I realistically get out of the US? 4 months ago:
Look up “working holiday visas” if you’re under 30. It’s a process to encourage people to get world experience while they’re young. I’m sure if you found somewhere you liked you could then try and get something more permanent.
- Comment on How is the current AI bubble when compared to the .com bubble in the early 2000's? 4 months ago:
I was alive during the dot com bubble and I don’t think normal people even noticed it. The web was a lot less centralised back in those days and stayed that way for a while. The websites that people were actually using didn’t go anywhere when the bubble burst but there was a lot more website turnover in those days anyway. People were always moving to a better newer service and there were multiple search engines that people used. Then AltaVista turned up and that was the engine to use, until Google turned up and everyone started using that. I still remember when Google was this cool new thing that most people hadn’t heard of.
- Comment on Day 183 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 months ago:
Not op but I’m using Fedora. I installed NVIDIA drivers from the “app store” then downloaded protonqtup, Steam, and Heroic. I’ve only had one game not work, and that’s Deathloop. Everything else is fine.
- Comment on Day 183 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 months ago:
I’m enjoying the game but it suffers from that problem where the world feels so hollow, like a museum piece and all you can do is observe. It all looks great from a distance and I always want to go places I see far away but when you get there it’s just dead. Buildings you can’t go in, shops you can’t buy from, vendors you can’t talk to. You walk down these bustling side streets with loads of activity and all you can do I buy a taco from a vending machine.
- Comment on All the Games Reportedly Set for Release on Nintendo Switch 2 - IGN 4 months ago:
I hope it’s all compatible with the old one. I don’t really want to upgrade.
- Comment on Help me out: which looks better for the Duck - the neck tie or the bow tie? 4 months ago:
Bow tie. Needs a waistcoat.