KairuByte

@KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet picture of a monkey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  To an extent I agree with you. The “problem” comes when people slowly start to realize that and open them or throw them out. At which point the items actually can become worth something. Though again, unlikely.

  Part of the problem with most collectibles “meant” to be “worth something eventually”, are packaged in such a way that they are “enjoyable” in the packaging. You can put a sealed Funko or Beanie Baby on a shelf and you’re looking at the item itself. There’s no reason to open them.

  If you truly want a “collectible”, purchase something like a game console and keep it in its box for fifty years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet picture of a monkey⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Theoretically, it is possible that 70 years down the line it might actually be worth something, assuming it is still new in box, undamaged, and it is of something that is still culturally relevant.

  But the chances are so slim as to make it a worse gamble than the stock market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨enclose.horse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Clever girl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't believe them⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  iPhones at least can now detect hold music and offer to simulate a callback so you don’t have to sit and listen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  sophisticated graphics also can make a game

  I agree to an extent, but good graphics can’t save a game with bad gameplay.

  I bet you’ve never heard “the game isn’t fun but I put hundreds of hours into it because it’s beautiful!”

  In contrast, good gameplay can save a game with abysmal graphics.

  I’m willing to bet money you’ve heard something around the lines of “it doesn’t look great but I just can’t stop playing!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily. If I use an anthropomorphic cat as an asset for a character who in the end is a robot, can you really say it took inspiration?

  Granted, I haven’t seen any of the assets. But placeholders aren’t inherently inspiration. They can easily just be random things to look at before proper assets are made.

  And even if they did take inspiration, that isn’t the complaint. Would there be a need to disclose if they used a generative AI to generate a picture, and they used that as inspiration? What if they saw an gen AI image someone else posted and used that as inspiration? Inspiration isn’t the problem, it’s the “use of AI in development” which seems silly when these could have potentially been wire frames and result in the exact same final product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno…

  If I make a mock up of a cake using toxic ingredients, then throw that out and make my cake from scratch using food safe ingredients, do I need to disclose that “toxic material was used when making this cake”? I don’t think so.

  Of course this kinda falls apart when they shipped with quickly replaced textures. But I also wouldn’t expect them to disclose the game as unfinished if they forgot to replace blank textures with the proper assets until just after release.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone has a LOT of dusty computers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some more than others, and I believe some don’t at all?

  I’ve used commercially available stuff in Canada before and it was god awful. I avoided cleaning anything that wasn’t absolutely coated in dust simply because it left a film of bitter on everything. Which doesn’t sound terrible except you don’t realize how often you touch a surface then your face/mouth.

  I’ve also used “bulk” stuff in an enterprise setting, albeit in the US, and there was literally no bittering as far as I could tell. Granted, I wasn’t abusing it to get high or anything so maybe the tech has just come far enough to not need to make the room itself bitter, but it seemed like there wasn’t anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon remembers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a difference between being sex positive and being okay with someone “self harming” with sex. I don’t think you should need to specify you are sex positive, just like someone shouldn’t need to say “I think water is important to drink but you should avoid drowning in it”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Increasing the surface area of a substance increases its reaction rate. Proof by garlic.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … What?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure that’s universally true

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Christmas / New Year Steam Game Giveaway⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is an amazing offer.

  I’d take you up on it, but I already have thousands of games in my backlog, so it’d be a waste of a key. But I wanted to let you know I appreciate you doing this for the community!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please tell me this is shopped.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, now hand it over!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨il boohoo⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The richer you are, the more you put on airs to seem like everything is okay. It’s the same way people will put “look at my amazing vacation” with happy amazing photos, and never mention that they all but got in a fistfight with their spouse.

  This isn’t universal, but it’s what you’ll notice if you pay closer attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, I still play it from time to time. It’s a good fast paced shooter I can play with the entire fam on a large number of devices. We don’t play it religiously or anything, but a week or so every battlepass. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study concludes cybersecurity training doesn’t work⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve “failed” phishing tests because my email client loads images by default. The way they set it up.

  I reported the “you failed a phishing test” email as a phishing attempt, and funnily enough they backed off on the “mandatory training”.

  Bottom line, don’t set your employees up for failure. Even the tech literate are going to fail if that how you set shit up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if you're offered a position you can use to advance your career but it involves people without boundaries, do you tell your maybe-future-to-be manager you don't want to work with those people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading through this post, it really seems like you’re looking for people to just agree with a decision you’ve already made. Anyone contradicting your idea is immediately shot down, “angry”, or wrong.

  So honestly just do whatever you want. It really seems like you’re going to anyway, which raises the question on why you even made this post to begin with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JD, you dog.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  <.< I’ll just say “shadow” and leave it at that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Massive lag coming from larger instances, instance moves or domain name loss causing the death of an instance, misconfigurations in general since those cause a plethora of problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get your point, but that comes with a whole host of other problems. Take a look at Lemmy for instance, decentralized, yes. But also prone to problems stemming from that same decentralization.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🏴‍☠️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That isn’t bananas fault though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Absolum is a beautiful, slow-progressing, arcade-ass Roguelite | Rogue⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Arcade-ass?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be expensive, time consuming, and utterly useless.

  Automated scans are going to be just as useful, if not more useful, than manual auditing. Not to mention, manual auditing is useless in 99% of cases unless you’re also submitting source code. And even then, if you offer any sort of streaming of assets, you can simply not turn on the exploit download until after the review process. That isn’t even mentioning the issues with uploading source code.

  The idea that you can just throw money at the problem is laughable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is raising Xbox console prices in the US again, five months after its last price increase | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No one in the comments seems to understand why this is relevant. This is the opposite of the normal pattern of prices dropping as time goes on, solely because of trumps tariffs.

  This isn’t a “oh I’m not making enough money” situation, this is a “oh if I sell it for the current price I’m losing money” situation.

  Could some of it also be corpo greed? Absolutely. But the core reason for the price increases is trump, and his republican lackies.

  Don’t let them pawn off blame to the companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is raising Xbox console prices in the US again, five months after its last price increase | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That isn’t the point…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember episodic gaming? Former Telltale devs are bringing it back for the release of Dispatch, and there's a chance it might work this time | Eurogamer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kings Quest? Poppy Playhouse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks out a friend⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  community dedicated to fake content upvotes fake content :O

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like a heart⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How soft? Are we talking skittle, starburst, sour patch, or jello?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100% vegetarian⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as they don’t feel forced.

  So what, you gotta roofie them before telling the joke?