Crozekiel

@Crozekiel@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know specifically about fire but I think the square-cube law plays a significant factor in the idea that alien life would be similar in scale to humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And what, just break our treaty with the dwarves and end a peace that has lasted a thousand years?? We get the top 10 feet, they get everything deeper. I won’t go to war in the dark over a housing shortage we created ourselves through greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As an aside, I don’t think you actually have fast internet - or whatever you are downloading doesn’t have any mirrors even remotely close to you.

  Assuming the GB is Gibibytes (worst case scenario), that is 730,144 Megabits (not bytes). With a 100 Megabit connection (lower end of what most ISPs offer that I’ve seen and still call it “high-speed”) that should be done in about 2 hours. In 8 hours at 100 Mb speed you should be able to download over 300 Gigs of data.

  85GB in 8-12 hours is somewhere between 17 and 25 Mbps, which would be stressed out by 1080p video streaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If Steam were to shut down tomorrow how much money would you have lost in total on games / DLC ??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had and been using steam since 2003… I really don’t want to know what that number is. And I am also convinced someone is collecting this data point for nefarious purposes, because its 2026 and everything is being used for nefarious purposes. Including this comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The red bull guy who jumped from space what was going on with his body when him and his suit broke the sound barrier?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think his body was falling at the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When will the all white home with grey floors trend be over?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think we get away from that until we also get away from looking at the “resale value” of our homes and cars. We can’t enjoy them while we have them because we constantly have to worry about either “turning a profit” or “mitigating a loss”.

  :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Apple Lie at the grocery store⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Worried about health. Planned to eat nothing but pie for 2 days.

  Wat?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Operation enduring algae⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Toxic like that fucking Algae?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me after Jerboa announced it is ending support⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That isn’t so much “Boost is spyware” as it is “ads are spyware”. Boost is either paid or supported by ads, either can be enough reason to not use the app, but it doesn’t make the app itself spyware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨📡📡📡⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Any major combat movement is going to make her bits show.

  She is an alien, so maybe she doesn’t have bits like humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨📡📡📡⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically. Turn the S logo into a cleavage window and it’s Powergirl.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d be really upset if they weren’t monolingual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t forget to regularly check your eyes!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This whole time I just been making my little shruggy dude green.

  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come Mark Wahlberg got a pass for being the crap out of a Vietnamese guy. But Kevin Spacey, Bill Cosby, Weinstein, do not get a pass? Beside the sexual aspect what is the difference?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Where’s that community meme when you need it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An 82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The news story linked said that the scammer told the police she was shot and killed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tech support for mum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kinda weird how society just decided we were only going to teach one generation of people how the fuck to use a computer and no one else gets to know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨try out my AI agent bro, it'll change your life bro, I swear...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And they didn’t even give it the same handle to show any kind of continuity that might at least allude to all those handles being representative of a shovel… Love the meme making fun of AI has a “Made with AI” badge on it… wtf are we doing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science is iterative⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wanna know what spooky is. lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Additionally, if you get the angle right the other way you can knock geosynchronous satellites out of orbit. You could literally fuck DirecTV satellites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone know about pope Leo's past in Chicago? Was he a little hell raiser who went straight? Kind of hard to believe someone from Chytown leaves without cause a little shannagans?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, so, are you just assuming every person that lives in Chicago is doing at least a little crime? wtf is this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What “better right for consumers” are you advocating for? The false claim that Steam bars anyone on their platform from selling cheaper is easily proven false by looking at any of the numerous websites that track prices of games from various storefronts and is the key point used by Epic’s legal team to try to garner support to break up steam in order to gain market share themselves and make the industry markedly worse.

  Your post is thinly veiled “Valve bad, give money to Epic instead”, whether you realize it or not. So what is your plan to make the industry actually better?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  True, which is why it is so easy to tell which one you are doing. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is open source software to run a stream deck, OBS is native (as you mentioned), and my Scarlett audio interface Just Works™. I’m not some big streamer or anything, but I dabble and nothing I could do on Windows is missing in Linux. Even my wacom tablet just works by plugging it in.

  When I made the switch, I spent the money on a new ssd and literally pulled the windows one out and had it stashed away something like an “in case of emergency, break glass” type of thing. I realized recently I hadn’t touched that in 4 years and decided to format it and install Cachy to try that out on my laptop; everyone just won’t shup up about how good it is so I figured I should give it a chance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re just simping for a different billionaire out here regurgitating Tim Sweeney’s talking points verbatim…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never said it was too big or too important to be broken up. I’m saying I don’t see how to split it up that actually solves the problem. I don’t think people are scared of Valve the Game Devs, maybe the hardware section but there were tons of other options on the market almost as soon as the Steam Deck took off. It’s the store that people take issue with, so how do you separate to make the store not a problem? Regionally? Have Steam NA, Steam EU, Steam Asia, etc. etc.? I suppose that is possible, but I’m unsure if I see how that actually solves the problem (even assuming you can get around people just buying from a different region’s Steam).

  As for nationalizing it… I just don’t have any faith in the US government to not turn it to absolute shit on day one. Unfortunately, at this stage, I trust Valve and it’s Billionaire CEO more than I do the government. I hate to just resign myself to trying to make the most of the dystopia we’ve been given but… :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Their policy is not that you aren’t allowed to sell your game cheaper on another platform, their policy is that you can’t sell Steam keys on other platforms cheaper than you are selling the game on Steam. Basically, you can’t use Steam’s infrastructure when undercutting “Steam customers”. Games that are on Steam go on sale on other platforms when they are not on sale on Steam all the time currently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it definitely isn’t going to happen in the US anytime soon… We haven’t had any teeth behind our anti-trust laws in decades. In my lifetime we have basically seen Bell Telephone get rebuilt under AT&T.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your point?

  Are you saying that Microsoft being split up made no sense? If so, what would you suggest instead?

  Or are you saying since they “almost” did it to MS, then they could do it to Steam? If so, where do you make the split that effects any change? You could split Valve the game dev company from the Steam platform, but I don’t think that makes Steam any less monolithic in their space - they don’t get their market share from the games Valve has made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be completely in agreement of what you are saying if it wasn’t for the fact that there are so many people acting like Steam is the worst platform in existence every time they get brought up. People are awfully quick to suck Tim Sweeney off for only charging 12% and fill up the comments with whatever the opposite of “fangirling” is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s what I don’t understand… Say we all agree they are a monopoly, what do you do about it?

  It doesn’t seem feasible to break them up into smaller companies, how would that even work? What are the dividing lines between what portion of the company goes where? Does that even solve anything?

  Force them to charge less money? Okay, now they charge the same as Epic (or even less). Basically every other store is now being undercut by the biggest player on the scene. There is now even less reason to use a storefront that isn’t Steam. It doesn’t feel like that solves the problem either.

  It seems like all the courts have tried to do so far is charge them money for existing, not get them to change what they do, which seems a lot less like the government trying to stop the big bad monopoly and more like the government wanting to get their cut. What does “stopping the monopoly” even mean? Are we happier and better off as consumers if Valve is forced to shut down Steam entirely? Is that the goal?