twinnie
@twinnie@feddit.uk
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 1 week ago:
18 or 20.
- Comment on Is it Possible that a Typical Quantity of Sneezes is Inherited/Genetic? 1 week ago:
People who have sun sneezes tend to sneeze a bunch of times at once. Sun sneezes are genetic.
- Comment on Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough 1 week ago:
Apps were still kinda new at the time and social media was shit hot. iPhones were still premium products and most people didn’t have one.
I think a lot of people don’t realise that when the iPhone first came out it didn’t have apps. They eventually released an upgrade so that you could pin webpages to the homepage. I remember Apple arguing that web stuff was so good now you didn’t need apps.
From what I recall around that time the Kin never really generated that much interest. It wasn’t being aimed as a product to replace the iPhone and was targeted at the kind of people who nowadays would sit on their phone and scroll TikTok. There was a lot of change in those days; social media was still pretty new, useful internet in your phone was pretty new (it’d been around for years but it wasn’t so expensive to this point nobody had used it, iPhone made constant internet connections a thing) touch screens were still new and sexy, and more I forget about. The idea that your phone was this little mobile computer that you carried around wasn’t really there yet and they were still mostly for communicating.
- Comment on Palworld dev isn’t impressed by "so-called" AAA, prefers indies since they "include the kind of systems you can’t find in other games" 2 weeks ago:
I think this is pretty normal as you grow up. You get kind of bored of playing games that use the same gameplay mechanisms and you just look for a change. Even if the mechanisms in these indie games aren’t as good, just being different makes the game more interesting.
Nowadays I’d much rather play a short indie games that a big budget game.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 2 weeks ago:
They don’t need to court developers, they need to court consumers. The games will be sold wherever people are buying.
- Comment on People in the UK Watching the The world using the internet 2 weeks ago:
Don’t know. No problems for me (UK).
- Comment on Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure how I feel about this game. Seems like a less ambitious NMS.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 3 weeks ago:
What a load of bullshit. Maybe I misread it but it says that German companies would be 101% more productive if they bought newer laptops and phones (American ones no doubt). They also claim that businesses are trying to use old hardware for modern workloads. Apparently a six year old laptop can’t handle Outlook and Word.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 4 weeks ago:
I have a Samsung smart TV and apart from suggesting I watch stuff on their own Samsung channel thing I don’t think it shows me any adverts. Maybe it’s because I’m not in the US?
- Comment on What a lucky woman 5 weeks ago:
ChatGPT says it’s just a guy who’s full of himself. I’m inclined to believe it’s correct on this.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 1 month ago:
It can never be too big, but it’s a problem if it’s a big city with nothing to do (Cyberpunk).
- Comment on Happy American import day 1 month ago:
I don’t care that Halloween’s an American import, it’s still the best day of the year.
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 1 month ago:
Sounds kinda like MS could tell the account wasn’t being used anymore and decided to kill it off rather than leave it to get hacked again. Still, it’s scary to think that MA might delete my account and I’d lose all my online backups. My daily photos are backed up on there.
- Comment on Good Halloween Games 1 month ago:
I want to get Luigi’s Mansion as I remember really enjoying the first one. It’s just so expensive though.
- Comment on Take-Two’s CEO doesn’t think a Grand Theft Auto built with AI would be very good [VGC] 1 month ago:
Personally I think AI generated content could be great when it’s used to create content that otherwise wouldn’t be present. Like when you have a game where all the buildings are just static models with all the doors closed and the curtains shut, imagine resolving all that with buildings you could go in. Basically I want Cyberpunk where all the lights and movement actually mean something.
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- Comment on I have no idea what this is about 1 month ago:
Everyone keeps blaming the aliens but I didn’t that they were that bad a fit. But the movie was terrible and at that but where LeBouf started swinging through the trees I was ready to walk out.
The newer one’s not too bad though.
- Comment on Google Chrome to revoke notification access for inactive sites 2 months ago:
Has anyone ever let a website send them notifications?
- Comment on Pubs could stay open until early hours in move to boost UK growth 2 months ago:
Can’t they just reduce the tax on drinking in a pub so they can take more profit from what’s spent? Most alcoholics drink at home now anyway.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 2 months ago:
Labour tried to introduce it about 20 years ago but it got killed.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 2 months ago:
I’ve just been reading the BBC article on it and it says that every other party is against them being compulsory. I don’t think this’ll make it through.
- Comment on Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme 2 months ago:
Now Reform will start piping up about how they will block this and they’ll get even more votes. Between this and the age verification stuff I’m almost considering voting for them but I can’t stand the idea of Nigel Farage being PM and they keep trying to emulate Trump.
- Comment on The new iPhone is an emblem of our miserable minimalist era 2 months ago:
Between the ugly lump on the back of these and the horrid Liquid Ass interface this is possibly the ugliest iPhone they’ve ever released.
- Comment on This game is fantastic. 2 months ago:
This game bugged me, it totally missed the SCP vibe for me and it put me off. I also found the combat pretty boring.
I always liked the way that SCP is about a bureaucratic organisation trying to control and contain these supernatural entities. In Control they live inside an entity and literally let one control the organisation. That just seems so anti-SCP to me.
- Comment on All I Want for Christmas Is You 3 months ago:
I was in France the other day and a restaurant on the beach started playing it. Not sure they understood English around there. You’d think they’d know the word Christmas though.
- Comment on My desktop setup with switch 3 months ago:
Someone else just bought Celeste on sale.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 3 months ago:
How do these sites even know ads are being blocked? What’s to stop the ad blocker just downloading the ads and simply not showing them?
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Giving birth is the easier part. At least you’re surrounded by doctors. When you get home and you don’t have a clue, that’s relentless.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 3 months ago:
How does this even work? It’s like they don’t realise they don’t own the car once it’s been sold. What’s to stop someone just hacking it and unlocking it?
- Comment on My new laptop chip has an 'AI' processor in it, and it's a complete waste of space 4 months ago:
I expect we’re eventually going to start seeing AI in more sensible places and these NPUs will prove useful. Hopefully soon the bubble will burst and we’ll stop seeing it crammed in everywhere, then it’ll start being used where it actually improves a product rather than wherever an LLM will fit.