Croquette
@Croquette@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 1 day ago:
The issue isn’t the tech itsefl but the corporate world and its effects throughout society.
There is a lot of cool tech, but used for the most asinine products. 2015-2016 was especially terrible with the accessibility of IoT. Everyone and their mother had a Kickstarter with a common everyday item with wireless capability tacked into it.
No, my bottle doesn’t need Bluetooth.
- Comment on 'Huge respect to the folks at Obsidian': Todd Howard invited Obsidian devs onto Fallout season 2's set so they could see New Vegas in the flesh 1 week ago:
76 is a fun brainless Fallout multiplayer. I’d rather have a real Fallout MP instead of 76, but I can’t lie and had over 100hrs of fun.
- Comment on Last Epoch players turn on the action RPG for announcing a paid DLC class, tanking its Steam reviews: 'go play Path of Exile instead' 2 weeks ago:
Grim Dawn is not a live game service.
Last Epoch promised to only have MTX and pay only once to get the full experience. That’s not the case anymore.
Last Epoch studio got bought out and people were afraid they were gonna get enshittified and it is happening right now.
- Comment on FACTS 2 weeks ago:
Pretty fucking gay
- Comment on Zero Chull 2 weeks ago:
VMWare is popular for a reason. qemu is less accessible for the non-tech people of this world.
- Comment on Zero Chull 2 weeks ago:
You buy a cheap phone. No need to pay for license, setup anything except a vpn maybe and you are good to go.
Setting up lots of VM takes a decent computer, some licenses and a know how.
A phone, you just start it and it connects to a VPN and your good to go.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 1 month ago:
It is seeping into Canada as well. Not a lot of fully remote jobs. A lot of forced hybrid (usually 3 days).
- Comment on Forbidden knowledge 1 month ago:
Crab men, half crab half man
- Comment on Pop-up Amazon TV ads despite charging people monthly fees for their ad-free plan. 2 months ago:
So back to cable packages. Fucking dumb
- Comment on Battlefield 6 players are crying out for a 'real' server browser, and it's about time we demanded the basic FPS feature that Call of Duty killed 3 months ago:
Bring back community servers, so the developers can keep their official servers and people that want to play on community servers can do that do.
It’s a solved problem that publishers tells you is hard to do in the name of money.
Don’t look harder into it.
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 4 months ago:
I got the meaning of it as well, but I recoiled a bit in my chair when I read the meme.
- Comment on Hate to see all the suffering 4 months ago:
That’s you and me being old.
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 4 months ago:
React tutorial are like that. You create a simple HTML page with a script and the script generates everything.
I had to do a simple webpage for an embedded webserver and the provider of the library recommended preact, the lightweight version of react. Having no webdev experience, I used preact as recommended and it is a nightmare to use and debug.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 4 months ago:
There was a video a long while ago where a cyclist got a ticket for not riding in the bike lane.
So he filmed himself riding in the bike lanes and crashing into the parked cars there and one of them was a cop.
It’s clear that politicians don’t give a fuck about cyclists.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 4 months ago:
Absolutely. Fuck payment processors
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 4 months ago:
Someone’s gonna process the payment between the two banks, adding an intermediary between both banks won’t help much when it will be denied processing as well.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 4 months ago:
Credit cards companies forced itch.io to remove these games, otherwise they would stop processing their transactions, effectively bankrupting itch.io.
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 4 months ago:
Without payments processors, they can’t sell games.
Having a federated platform wouldn’t mean much if the payments processors blanket ban the platform.
- Comment on Elder Scrolls Online devs detail “inhumane” Microsoft layoffs as Xbox expects the “carcass of workers” to “keep shipping award-winning games” 4 months ago:
The Excel Spreadsheet is sacrosanct. A bean counter predicted that you should make more money than last year, and if you don’t, you are worthless.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 4 months ago:
This is like the 2 extremes. China with terrible human rights violation and sloppy construction and cities where even thinking about mass public transit is killing puppies.
- Comment on Has the live-service dream crashed back down to earth? | Opinion 4 months ago:
Games as a service could work. The issue is that making money isn’t enough. You need to be making more money every year and bean counters have hijacked games as a way to squeeze as much money as possible from players.
- Comment on Wall Street’s AI Bubble Is Worse Than the 1999 Dot-com Bubble, Warns a Top Economist 4 months ago:
Every AI company CEO/C-suite is gambling that they won’t be left holding the bag.
Either AI fails and CEO/C-Suite made their money already, or AI succeeds and they carved an early lead in the market and gamble even more.
Workers are only there to build the biggest stack of chips possible before it gets cashed out.
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 4 months ago:
With how many games are released on Steam, how can AI be quantified and enforced?
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 5 months ago:
We haven’t seen antitrust with teeths for a while now.
Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple should have been broken up in a million little pieces a long time ago, but it won’t happen.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 5 months ago:
The goal is to lose money to capture the market and once it is done, to recoup their loss and bleed the market dry.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 5 months ago:
I am a 4K PC little bitch, but playing games on my 1080p TV reminded me that it isn’t all that important. Fun > Smoothness > Graphics.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 5 months ago:
I think that xbox controller are the best controllers for PC, so I don’t need all the advanced features, but otherwise, you are right.
Their market is now clearly gamepass + Windows. Microsoft is banking on their market share to sell gamepass and capture the market.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 5 months ago:
A big corpo comes in and offer you a life changing amount of money. Very few people can say no to that, myself included.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 5 months ago:
Socialism is the means of production owned by the state or the workers.
Communism is a subset of socialism, where you have a classless society. Different communist doctrines have a different view on how to achieve that.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 5 months ago:
Capitalism created this expectation. That’s how corpos operate. Capture the market then bleed it.