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- Comment on The One Thing Voters Remember About Trump 4 days ago:
“He couldn’t be bought.”
Riiiiiiight, and I’m Bill Gates.
- Comment on Every time I get an email about 1 week ago:
You’re right, that’s unrealistic.
If those stall dividers were fully opaque with a one-way mirror acting as the wall, that would be more like it.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 week ago:
Steam/valve is literally not to blame at all for any of this. Do you work for epic games or something?
That’s a good one. Mind if I steal it for future usage?
- Comment on Helldivers 2 has received 100,000 negative reviews since announcing players must link Steam to a PSN account 1 week ago:
You won’t know until you try.
- Comment on Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game 2 weeks ago:
I’ve tried to see if this is real but I fail to find any source code leaks for Vanguard or if it has ever been leaked.
The variable names suggest it’s a decompilation.
- Comment on bath time 3 weeks ago:
That is my first assumption, yeah. I did note at the end if they did intentionally not connect neutral and ground and it was a metal tub, that would work
- Comment on The post title is "Best Tablet for Kids 2024" 3 weeks ago:
You think that’s bad? They have four of these.
- Unreviewed community (the one you’re seeing).
- NSFW content.
- Trending content (yes, you read that right).
- Special events (like r/place).
Fuck Spez.
- Comment on bath time 3 weeks ago:
The funny part is that it wouldn’t even work.
If the plug was on a GFCI outlet, it would trip once neutral and hot are shorted.
If it wasn’t on a GFCI outlet, it would be an inefficient water heater. Current is inversely proportional to resistance, and an inch of tap water has a significantly lower resistance than a human body sitting at the other side of the tub. At American voltages of 110V, the worst thing that will probably happen is the wires heat up from the current passing through them.
- Comment on bath time 3 weeks ago:
I could, but it wouldn’t do much of anything unless a path through my body had considerably less resistance than the water between the conductors in the duck.
- Comment on bath time 3 weeks ago:
Don’t forget the mandatory fuse included in the UK plug.
- Comment on Apple will start allowing emulators on the iOS App Store 1 month ago:
The GameCube also needs a JIT for decent performance. On a phone, that will especially hurt to emulate the CPU in software.
- Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs 1 month ago:
I’m not about to install EGS to prove something that can be deduced using common sense and critical thinking.
Abstractions are not free. The more of them you add, the more resources will be consumed by the application. Unreal Engine is an extra layer of abstraction sitting above some web view framework. Ergo, using the same web view framework without the Unreal Engine component abstraction would be cheaper.
- Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs 1 month ago:
The whole engine obviously isn’t loaded, but there’s further abstractions and initialization code compared to using CEF or the Edge web view directly. I’m just saying that it’s a waste of resources to require loading or initializing any other part of Unreal Engine (including the component loading code!) when they’re only using it as web view.
I’m also not saying any other storefront is better. Steam is a bloated pig that half uses CEF and half uses Valve’s own proprietary GUI library, and the various other Electron-based publishers’ launchers suffer from different but equally stupid problems.
- Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs 1 month ago:
I don’t think benchmarks are really needed to explain this. The whole game engine part is an unnecessary step.
To initialize a web browser component within UE5, you first need to initialize UE5 and then the web browser within it. Or, you could initialize a web browser directly, saving the memory and time needed to start up UE5.
They clearly have developers who know how to use CEF or whatever web view framework since they added it to Unreal Engine, so it’s not like they don’t know how to just add it to a standalone application.
- Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs 1 month ago:
I know Godot exists, and it’s preferable to supporting Epic, but it isn’t up to feature parity with UE5. Particularly, when it comes to asset streaming and open world games, Unreal has better support out of the box.
I would love for Godot to be the standard and first choice for every developer (including AAA), though.
- Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs 1 month ago:
That is ridiculous. Even Electron would have been better…
- Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs 1 month ago:
Wait, is it seriously a full-blown UE5 application?
- Comment on 'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs 1 month ago:
Developers. UE5 is chalking up to be the defacto standard for modern titles that don’t have budgets large enough to make their own engine.
EGS, on the other hand, is still an abysmal failure beyond the lure of free (and increasingly shittier) games and a yearly 25% off discount coupon that people fall for.
- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 1 month ago:
a somewhat disused but normal and formerly not uncommon name which was the name of a plant
Describing it like that makes it really tempting to try and guess the name. Out of respect for your and her privacy, I won’t, though.
- Comment on Why do companies love chrome so much? 3 months ago:
The only end-to-end happening in those scenarios is the end-to-end pipeline of “shit in, shit out”.
- Comment on Elex 3 May Have Been Canceled, Developer Piranha Bytes Possibly Closed Down 3 months ago:
The good old embrace of death…
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 3 months ago:
That is an entirely valid concern, and I see where you’re coming from with that. It would be short-sighted to introduce something revolutionary, only to open the floodgates for everyone else to start implementing it two decades later.
I was thinking of using patents more along the lines of “throw shit at the wall and see what sticks.” Rather than trying to come up with a novel way to track user attention and stop it from coming to market, the hypothetical patent troll would create and patent hundreds of different smaller, novel processes that may or may not be needed as part of a larger system for tracking user attention. The overall goal being to make it likely enough for one or more of those patents to be violated that a company would consider it too risky to go anywhere near the idea of commercializing attention tracking software/hardware.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 3 months ago:
It takes 20 years for patents to expire, and you can’t commercially use the patented method until then. If I “invent” and patent 50 different methods to track viewer attention during video advertisements, that’s 50 fewer ways that some company would be able to achieve it.
It would be impossible to cover every possible method to achieve the same thing, but the risk of violating a patent held by a highly litigious patent troll might be a good enough deterrent to stop the whole idea from making it to market for a couple decades.
- Comment on Anon notices what they've taken from us 3 months ago:
Though it should be kept in mind there’s thousands of patents that were never actually applied, and this one was filled back in 2009.
This is genuinely a good thing, then. If you patent something and “accidentally” never use it, it prevents other companies from using it legally. Screw over advertisers and save the consumers from their terrible ideas by hoarding patents and working with a patent troll firm :)
- Comment on WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing" 4 months ago:
It’s Amazon.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
The whole idea of digital licenses are stupid and risky. If you can find it on GOG, it’s preferable to get it there. The games are DRM-free, and you can directly download the installers and make an offline backup of them.
What if Steam went bankrupt, or start playing less nice?
Thankfully, there’s not too much reason to worry about this yet. Steam is a money-printing machine, and it’s not a public company that’s beholden to investors who demand increasing profitability every quarter. As long as Gabe Newell is still alive and doesn’t sell out by taking Valve public, I wouldn’t worry about them turning against consumers.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
I do know what it is, and I don’t think Steam is one. They have a considerable market share, but they are by no means the only way to get games on PC, nor do they exercise their dominance in a way that stifles competition.
I’m pretty sure Tim Sweeny knows this as well, but he still calls it a “monopoly” whenever he has the chance. The ironic part is that if you look at the actions they have taken since trying to enter the market, Epic appears to strive to become an actual monopoly.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
Oh yeah, he was totally the fall guy and had his life ruined over it. He was made an example out of, while the rest and worst of them made bank and got away with it.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
Fuck Nintendo, but fuck Xecuter more.
Anyone that follows the homebrew and CFW scene knows that Xecuter repeatedly and unapologetically ripped off the GPL-licensed components in Atmosphere and its various bootloader stages. On top of violating the licenses of and stealing from the homebrew community, they also added console-bricking DRM to their CFW.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
Even worse is that they do this while trying to paint themselves as the underdog against the Steam monopoly. It’s not only hypocritical, but also deceitful. A new monopoly is not a solution to an existing monopoly, but a solution to investments paying off.