Fubarberry

@Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re worried about advertising growth, not user growth. If anything this will make them more likely to ban users as they try to make the site more acceptable to advertisers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't there mass protests in the USA?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You won’t see much about protests until we’re closer to the next election.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fantastic game, glad it’s finally getting updated and getting the cliffhanger ending resolved.

  That said, the original XBX still looks extremely good (at least when emulated at modern resolutions). For an HD remaster I haven’t actually noticed any real visual improvements other than the character models being better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck Gaming News #2⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck Gaming News #2⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a pretty good writeup, would you consider cross-posting it to !steamdeck@sopuli.xyz?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Honest Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it gets a negative response? Regardless of whether they think it has a valid place as an art form, if they know it will get a negative response they probably won’t want to share it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My Honest Opinion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that will be increasingly impossible to enforce, as AI art gets increasingly better.

  Also, if someone finds some cool art online how are they to know if AI was used or not?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reviewers giving high scores to poorly optimised games really grinds my gears⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The audience being a sacrifice doesn’t always work out when they’re the ones expected to buy the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reviewers giving high scores to poorly optimised games really grinds my gears⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience it’s largely been unreal engine 5 games.

  The issues with both Doom DA and Indiana Jones is that they have mandatory ray tracing that can’t be disabled. I generally think that ray tracing is a often a waste, it’s far too resource demanding, other lighting techniques can offer very similar visuals for a fraction of the cost.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cutting-edge Chinese “reasoning” model rivals OpenAI o1—and it’s free to download⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Supposedly their cloud hosted version will block those responses, but the local run version does not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why can't there be a soda dispenser for energy drinks?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plus, if you try to sell the monster at a higher cost than coke, what would stop someone from dumping the coke, and refilling with monster? Paying the lower innitial price, and now getting refills.

  People have been doing that for years with buying water, and then filling it with fountain drinks.

  I suppose you could counter it the same way that some stores handled the soda refill issue. Have the energy drink refills behind the counter, where only employees can refill it. Have a special cup so employees can tell which customers actually bought an energy drink. Also gives employees a chance to intervene if someone tries to get too much and kill themselves (like with the Panera Bread lemonade/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wish I could charge $100 a call attempt to these people⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wear a bone conductive headset a lot of the time, and I have it set to read out calls or important messages to me. Smartwatches have a similar use, but goal is to not miss a call while also having the phone on silent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do we feel about libertarians?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look Ma, No Batteries! Hands On With Lenovo's Self-Charging Keyboard⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that was my first thought as well for some reason. Obviously solar calculators/etc have been around for longer so that makes more sense, but I fully clicked on this hoping it was energy from key presses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plumbing Subreddit that locks anyone that is "new", even after everyone has commented⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know a lot of subreddits like that have rules that you have to be part of the profession to post. Reason being that they don’t want amateurs/etc to fill up the community with posts asking for advice, but instead want it to be a place for people in the profession to be able to talk to other professionals.

  I can fully understand that approach, and how following that rule would directly lead to posts like this getting locked. At the same time, this is an interesting post and seems like it would have interesting discussion.

  So basically this post probably breaks the written rules of the community, but is the kind of content that they wanted the rules to encourage. If it was my community I’d let the post stay (maybe with a mod comment on why it was allowed to stay up), but it’s always risky to enforce the written rules inconsistently. I’ve seen a lot of communities get upset about inconsistent mods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Twitter is by far the larger platform, small independent creators have to work to promote their game on every platform they can if they want to. The moral high ground of not using undesirable social media sites is nice, but isn’t fair to people who are partially dependent on those platforms to make a living.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cursing frequently seems like a sign of immaturity honestly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caves of Qud 1.0 OUT NOW!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an absolutely massive game, and has been in development for 17 years. They also were pretty upfront with the fact that there would be a price increase at launch. I’ll also mention it’s one of the rarer games where the devs opted out of any Steam DRM, so you can copy the game files and run them on any machine without needing Steam installed. I keep the game on a thumbdrive for playing on my work PC when I have downtime.

  All in all I think the price is well deserved, and I hope they do really well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former PlayStation Executive Says Its Time To Dial Back Game Lengths⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AAA games are clearly too expensive to be sustainable. Every new big games has so much money behind it that it can’t afford to fail, leading to a bunch of highly risk-adverse design decisions. With a few exceptions, players are increasingly having to turn to indie games and AA games for unique experiences because AAA games are getting bland.

  I’m not convinced that game length is the main issue though. There’s a ton of game mechanic bloat, and far too many games are open world when they would probably be better as a more focused experience. Graphical improvements are also getting increasingly less important, with it getting harder and harder to see new improvements. Switch/indies/AA/etc clearly show that you can have great looking games without spending a huge amount of money on chasing realism in graphics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld announces Terraria crossover⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a request to halt sales until the specific mechanics were removed, with the mechanics being throwing pokeball like items and riding monsters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld announces Terraria crossover⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That lawsuit might take years, and the requested damages from Nintendo are only $66,000. Palworld isn’t going to be shut down anytime soon, even if they lose the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games have you put the most hours into?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great game, it and the original Pixel Dungeon were my most played phone games for years.

  Another high quality mobile experience I can’t recommend enough is Slice & Dice. Gameplay is quite different from Pixel Dungeon, but it’s basically replaced all other phone games for me. Been playing it almost continuously now for the past 3 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some video game quotes that is stuck in your head?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “A man chooses! A slave obeys.” - Andrew Ryan, BioShock

  In general a lot of Andrew Ryan quotes are captivating, but that one transcends thanks to both the events happening, and the realization of the plot reveal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I started working this job after Obama had already been in office one term, so I was mainly comparing the final 4 years. I’m really glad I was still in college for the first term when the economy was really rough.

  Covid did have an undeniable effect on the economy at the start of Biden’s term, and I don’t consider that his fault or anything. It does feel like we generally haven’t really recovered from it though, gas prices finally came back down but everything else is crazy expensive still. For example, I do electrical work, and a 250’ roll of 12/2 wire went from $35 in 2019 to $140 today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably unpopular answer, but it’s not some clear cut “this political party has better policies for everyone”. Republican policies usually are better for people living in rural areas, and Democratic policies are usually better for people in cities. I’m sure people will debate this, but this is the reason why people typically vote depending on where they live. At the very least, they believe that their party has better policies for them and their way of life.

  My personal (anecdotal evidence) is that I work for a small business in a rural area, and our main customers are other small business owners (usually self employed or under 5 employees). Over the last 3 presidents, the Obama years were rough for our company, we had explosive growth during the Trump years, and then we’ve had stagnant growth over the past 4 years. Our largest competitor went out of business this past year, which sent us a lot of new customers, but we’ve also had a lot of our customers go out of business as well, so we’ve been pretty stagnant. Being stagnant isn’t terrible, we don’t have shareholders or anything, but the cost of living has increased and company profit/wages haven’t which is a problem. That said I know we’re doing pretty well compared to a lot of people here.

  Another (once again anecdotal) example is that I have a friend who paints murals full time, for the past 30ish years. He told me that he does well with either Republicans or Democrats in office, but that his customers change. During republican presidents, his customer base is usually local businesses wanting to decorate their stores. During democratic presidents, his customer base is usually towns, state buildings, schools, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accounts that send a 2fa code to your email rather than using the 2fa code generator you've already setup for that account ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A bank I used for a mortgage has mandatory text message 2fa if they think you’re on a new device (won’t allow google auth/etc). And web browsers like firefox/brave block enough cookies/etc that it requires the “new device” authentication everytime I log in.

  Problem is, for a couple months there was some delay with their text messages. It would take 10-20 minutes to send your 2fa code, and the code would expire after 5 min, meaning that by the time you got the code it was always expired and unusable.

  Made it completely impossible to log in to pay my mortgage payments. Led to some really frustrating talks on the phone about how I didn’t want to pay with a credit card over the phone, I wanted them to fix their damn system so I could log in and pay via bank transfer like usual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I’ve gotten sucked into HSR as well (first f2p gacha game that’s ever hooked me), and I can’t imagine having time for another game like it. The daily content isn’t really any trouble to do, but having to do that for multiple games would get old fast. And the monthly content drops can be really substantial and take a long time to experience all the content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocketpair Confirms Which Patents Nintendo And The Pokemon Company Are Suing It Over⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably just not big enough. Pokemon-like games are very common, palworld was just hugely successful and a lot of the media coverage for it was comparing it to Pokemon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a conversational AI chat bot that isn't... So horny? Preferably free, but I'll pay a little bit of it's good.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can probably just use any of the big chat programs, and just start out by telling it you want it to converse with you like it’s just another person.

  Gemini has that “live” feature where you can talk out loud and it sounds like you’re talking to a real person. Combining that with pre-prompting for casual conversation is fairly convincing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brazilian Wandering Spider⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Alternative wording is gives you an erection for the rest of your life.