Dark_Arc
@Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg
Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modder, hunter (of the Hunt Showdown variety), biker, adoptive Akronite, and general doer of assorted things.
- Comment on Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone Can’t Let Go Of Stardew Valley 2 hours ago:
That sounds like a really cool title for a game if nothing else!
- Comment on Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone Can’t Let Go Of Stardew Valley 2 hours ago:
This reminds me of Andrew Gower and his brother’s new game, Brighter Shores. It’s a pure passion project based on a from scratch game engine that was created to make programming (even massively) multiplayer online games much easier.
The goal isn’t profit but rather, to have fun, and make a cool enjoyable game. He’s said they’ve made more than enough money from the sale of Jagex and RuneScape back in the day (which FWIW, he regrets that sale and a lot of what has happened at Jagex/to RuneScape).
I love to see game developers (and people in general that … “make it” and then go “you know what, I do have enough”).
- Comment on History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says 2 hours ago:
Agree on the first part … disagree on the latter.
Joe has invested heavily in domestic production of “the next generation of technology” (chips, solar panels, electric vehicles, etc).
This is in no small part about protecting that … and I don’t think there’s much in terms of negotiating that China could do here.
- Comment on Why Didn't Democrats Do More When They Controlled Both Houses of Legislature, The White House, and The Supreme Court During Obama's First Term? 1 day ago:
Not to mention this was the first 2 years, the years an administration is typically least effective.
If Biden gets years 4-6 with a democrat majority in the house and senate it will be a big deal.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 week ago:
Yes, but presumably you have accounts with those games? If not, you can play with people on those platforms but you can play with specific people on those platforms (e.g. a friend on the platform – which is the bigger deal in my mind with crossplay).
Like, the PSN account is the equivalent of a Bungie, Paradox, or Crytek account, something that allows the game developer to maintain a cross platform friends list? No?
I never got into Hell Divers because it legit would not run on my system so I’m not super up on all the details but that’s been my impression of why they might want it.
- Comment on "PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" 1 week ago:
I mean it’s entirely possible this was for crossplay or cross save … I doubt this is about the numbers.
- Comment on Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it 3 weeks ago:
So, I took another look at the report, they did do this sort of statistical bias correction. See “U.S. Politics” page 8 networkcontagion.us/…/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.2…
- Comment on Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it 3 weeks ago:
Hm… I agree that Instagram is not a neutral source. I also agree that there are going to be some biases imposed by the user base.
I don’t believe the US government plays a major role in Meta’s content moderation behavior. Meta if anything has shown a reluctance towards any political or news content in recent years. That’s not to say the US government doesn’t have influence but their influence is (from what I’ve seen) oriented around fighting disinformation and threats of violence … not cherry-picking the discussion of subject matter. I think there would’ve been a pretty significant leak out of Meta by now if there really was a strong political bias or government influence in content moderation.
I don’t think any of these lines particularly fall along political lines within the US either. There are people on the left and right taking different sides on virtually all of the topics with statistical divergence.
- Comment on Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers 3 weeks ago:
This comment is the worst misrepresentation of penguins I’ve ever seen. It sounds like a red herring. It makes me want to vomit. People get away with this because nobody actually knows what penguins are. They just take what the media writes and accepts it as truth.
On a serious note, plenty of people here surely know what net neutrality is. Net neutrality is the guarantee that your ISP doesn’t (de-)prioritize traffic or outright block traffic, all packets are treated equally. In other words it means you don’t have to pay $5 extra for high speed access to Lemmy because Reddit and your ISP (say Comcast) would prefer Lemmy not exist.
- Comment on Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for pointing that out! That’s … truly special 😂
- Comment on Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it 3 weeks ago:
But tiktok the company is?
Yes, among other things they’re also explicitly suppressing pro-Isreal content lemmy.world/post/14643617
- Comment on LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms 3 weeks ago:
The thing about them is you need people to be at close to the same skill level or they’re just not fun.
- Comment on What side do you open a banana from? 3 weeks ago:
This is the wrong answer lol
- Comment on LittleBigPlanet 3 Servers Are Officially Shut Down Indefinitely, Sony Confirms 3 weeks ago:
Yeah… For battle royal and extraction shooters I think it would also be pretty hard to come close to the experience on private servers.
Granted, I wouldn’t mind being able to play e.g. Hunt Showdown with some friends on a private server/in a private match. It wouldn’t be what it is today, but it could still be fun.
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 4 weeks ago:
I feel like maybe Paradox expanded too much too fast.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
Relatable
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
I keep post scores hidden so getting downvoted isn’t much of an issue for me because I won’t know unless I go out of my way to check.
On some conversations you might be better off seeing the score. Some people will agree in terms of a vote but aren’t going to back you up in the comments. I’ve had a few conversations where the comments are demoralizing and the score shows me I’m reaching at least some people (or vise versa).
Also, something I learned from Twitter and Reddit after engaging with people too much … sometimes the right answer is just to use the block button liberally and call it a day. Some people are not interested in discussion or good faith debate they just want to yell at people on the Internet and feel smart.
I had a person I bumped into saying (all of this paraphrasing) “the press has gone to shit because of a headline” and I was like “can we not be so dramatic this is a small website, surely a bad headline from a small operation is not a new thing” then they responded with “how many headlines do you see with X Y or Z even in those mainstream outlets? It’s all gone to shit.” I ran a few searches and found a rate of about 1 article per paper per year that met their alleged example… And then they said that was malicious compliance, I’d ignored their argument, and I wasn’t acting in good faith… Like mate, I just literally took 15 minutes to check your claim out and came back to tell you; how much more good faith do you want? That was a block, that person is clearly a total waste of time, and I don’t want to interact with their “doomerism.”
In a sense it’s a blessing lemmy is kind of small because blocking one loud person that has a lot of opinions that irritate you can go a long way.
The main issue for me is that I can reliably guess what kind of replies certain topics get and what is popular and what is unpopular. It’s kind of like having a friend who never says or does anything that surprises you. Why even bother asking for their opinion when you already know what they’re going to say.
I was definitely feeling this way a couple weeks ago … ironically the worst was the weekend my birthday fell on. It just felt like everything I came across was a hot take lacking nuance.
It comes and goes… Some weeks people can/will surprise you. Some topics… I think it’s better to just leave the mob alone and let them have their echo chamber.
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
No idea, I think they were just that strange… Their entire reply was majorly conspiratorial to the point of complete derangement then it went into this deranged ad hominem “caribou diaper baby” and I think some more stuff I don’t remember.
I think they were probably a Twitter troll … honestly I left that conversation a few IQ points lower, I try not to think about it 😂
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
/r/askwomen was heavily heavily moderated and didn’t allow diverging views.
Oh my god yeah, that one was a bit ridiculous. I have a vague recollection of trying to help someone in a thread with like a domestic abuse situation or something and the mods quashed my comments because they had an opinion and I’m not a woman (mind you nothing I said was remotely sexist and it was a comment thread on an existing comment).
/r/signal was also a bit ridiculous. Rather than having a discussion on the merits of Telegram’s design vs Signal’s design for the average person, I got temp banned for “intentionally trying to compromise people’s security” or something like that.
Reddit seemed like twitter’s second coming - with communities
I will say Reddit never topped some Twitter Trumpies calling me a caribou diaper baby … that was particularly deranged and such a strange insult lol
- Comment on Is there a more politically and ideologically diverse alternative for Lemmy? 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t really seen that … maybe I’m just in a way “biased” because I do have some comments that meet the “your opinion is clearly highly controversial in this room” threshold but I generally keep my composure.
There are definitely a few times where the other person has made it personal and it’s been difficult to not retaliate in kind.
- Comment on Legend of Zelda 5 weeks ago:
I actually really enjoyed the size of the ocean it made me feel like I was really on a journey
- Comment on Legend of Zelda 5 weeks ago:
Wind Waker was an amazing game
- Comment on Apple will start allowing emulators on the iOS App Store 1 month ago:
I really don’t see Nintendo publishing an emulator that runs on hardware they didn’t make (yay unnecessary e-waste).
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again." 1 month ago:
It has its own index in addition to aggregating results.
- Comment on Interim CEO Jim Whitehurst explains Unity's product-led path to profitability 1 month ago:
Yeah, this would be a weird thing for valve to do for sure. I think they could afford it… But they already have Source 2.
- Comment on Niantic: Pokémon Go healthy and growing as it approaches its next decade 1 month ago:
I liked it when it was first a thing and you’d see huge crowds of people in their early twenties out in parks and things … but I don’t think I ever really liked the game itself.
- Comment on Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program you run, and when and where you ran it 1 month ago:
Then you should frankly be criminally liable if your system is used for a DDOS attack.
- Comment on Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program you run, and when and where you ran it 1 month ago:
You 100% should have to keep your systems up to date. It’s a danger to yourself and everyone else when you don’t.
- Comment on Your Computer Isn't Yours: Apple stores every program you run, and when and where you ran it 1 month ago:
Oh Christ that’s not the same thing and you know it.
- Comment on Chatbot letdown: Hype hits rocky reality 1 month ago:
All I am saying is that it is fine to be critical of LLM and AI claims in general as there is a lot of hype going on. But some people seem to lean towards the “they just suck, period” extreme end of the spectrum. Which is no longer being critical but just being a reverse fanboy/girl/person.
Fair, nuance is an endangered species.