moody
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- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 4 days ago:
The OS is 160 GB? That seems unrealistic. Windows 11 is bloated AF and is less than 30 GB.
What could an OS running on fixed hardware have that requires 160 GB?
- Comment on US health department moves to strip thousands of employees of collective bargaining rights 1 week ago:
If the workers are first, who’s next?
- Comment on What if you tried to run Windows malware on Linux? 1 week ago:
There’s still a layer of abstraction there. Since it requires Wine to run, it wouldn’t be able to run itself in the future unless it’s aware that it’s being run in Wine. Then it would need to set up a way to launch itself via Wine.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 1 week ago:
What I do recall was one guy asking very specific questions about how much we would be able to customize genitals, and whether sex would be fully interactive with visuals of full penetration.
And while none of those things are wrong per se, the general vibe of asking about all of those things was very weird and pervy.
- Comment on Air Canada flight attendants to defy back-to-work order and remain on strike 3 weeks ago:
Fucking good. What’s the point of a union if the government is just gonna force everyone back to work?
Everyone knows that corporations never negotiate in good faith. You can’t just force the workers to accept terms they don’t agree with.
- Comment on Bonk. 3 weeks ago:
Bop it!
- Comment on Lemmy.World blocks VPN? 4 weeks ago:
It’s odd because on PC I can post there on VPN, but on mobile I can’t.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 4 weeks ago:
I thought the original Prey was boring as hell. It’s not like it didn’t have any interesting features, but the lack of penalty for dying meant that failure is impossible.
Prey isn’t really a franchise at all, just two completely unrelated games with the same name.
The newer one was supposed to be a sequel when it was being made by the original devs, but in the end it’s a completely separate game with no connection to the first.
- Comment on Families took safety into their own hands by painting yellow cross walks. Now, the city of Los Angeles is removing them. 5 weeks ago:
Besides being painted in reflective road paint, which these ones are, what else would cause a pedestrian to be run over?
As long as it looks like a crosswalk, and drivers can see it, I’m not sure what else you would need.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 weeks ago:
Clogging the pipes. Taking up resources. Costing them money and time.
Meh, not really though. The employees are paid whether or not you call. They’re not going to hire more people just to deal with complaints, they’ll just make the wait times longer.
The number of complaints they receive is going to have a bigger impact than a few people wasting time on the phone.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
The 3 ways to make money in gaming are to a) be exceptionally good at games, b) have an entertaining personality, or c) do something that nobody else does.
For a) either you’re good enough to make it in esports, or you’re good enough that people want to watch you stream. For b) gaming is really just a small part of what brings people in. c) might be doing things like challenges or other niche gaming related stuff.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Game testing is a shit job. It’s incredibly tedious and the pay sucks.
If your goal is to work in game design and you want to use that as a way to get your foot in the door, that’s one thing. But the career of game testing is much less interesting that gamers might expect.
- Comment on Delta Air Lines is using AI to set the maximum price you’re willing to pay 1 month ago:
e.g., your mother is dying in the hospital, increasing your desperation to get a flight to that location
Airlines have lower mourning rates specifically for that. There are many other bad reasons for them to charge you more, but this one is a poor example.
- Comment on 3D Printing Patterns Might Make Ghost Guns More Traceable Than We Thought | 404 Media 1 month ago:
If someone makes a 3d-printed ghost gun, they can destroy the gun beyond any chance at recognition by tossing it into a fire.
- Comment on oops 1 month ago:
The difference is in the definition or organic. When the average person thinks organic, they mean something that is or used to be alive. When a scientist think organic, they’re talking about carbon compounds.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 month ago:
Steam doesn’t have non-Linux games enabled by default. In the settings, you’ll find a compatibility tab. From there, enable the setting “Enable Steam Play for all other titles”
That’s what lets it use Proton for everything by default.
- Comment on Farmers are executing wombats because wombats don't respect human legal documents. Laws against this are not enforced. ABC reports on the culture. 2 months ago:
Wombats poop cubes. I think that justifies it.
- Comment on Can all the milk replacements bubble if you blow thru a straw in it like a child? 2 months ago:
About 6 inches.
- Comment on Steam now generates three times more revenue for Capcom than PlayStation 2 months ago:
People do vote with their wallets. They say it’s ok.
- Comment on This Cyberpunk 2077 mod literally called "Weeee" lets you leave your flat via a big slide like a trash Batman 2 months ago:
Walking around the building and taking the slow elevator down is long and tedious. This juat makes sense.
- Comment on How do I use Firefox and block YouTube ads? 2 months ago:
Every once in a while, Youtube makes some change to how they serve ads, and uBlock stops working for some people for a while. An update will typically come up pretty quickly that fixes this. Odds are tomorrow it will be fine.
- Comment on Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese? 2 months ago:
The easy way around this is to require passing regular fitness tests. If your obesity isn’t an impediment to the fitness test, then it shouldn’t be an impediment to your job.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 2 months ago:
That’s a misunderstanding. CRTs technically don’t have refresh rates, outside of the speed of the beam. Standards were settled on based on power frequencies, but CRTs were equally capable of 75, 80, 85, 120Hz, etc.
Essentially, the speed of the beam determined how many lines you could display, and the more lines you tried to display, the slower the screen was able to refresh. So higher resolutions would have lower max refresh rates. Sure, a monitor could do 120 Hz at 800x600, but at 1600x1200, you could probably only do 60 Hz.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 2 months ago:
The lack of ammo is solved with the chainsaw. That’s why they give you puny zombies in every battle. They’re easy to kill for a little health, and it only takes one charge of the chainsaw to fill up on ammo.
Doom rewards you for playing aggressively, much more so that the OG game did. They want you to get right up into the thick of it, not corner peek with your shotgun.
Definitely fair if that’s not your type of game though. It’s plays quite different from the original.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 2 months ago:
It took me a while to figure out how important higher level pictos are for their stat boost. Your base stats become basically irrelevant at one point when you can give a character 500 defense with one picto.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 2 months ago:
Sounds like Satisfactory might be what you’re looking for.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 2 months ago:
It’s very particular in its style and pacing. I liked it at first, but wasn’t able to stick to it. I’ll have to give it another go at some point.
- Comment on A Black Eye at the White House: Did Somebody Punch Elon? The list of possible suspects seemed long. 3 months ago:
God I fucking hope that’s what happened.
- Comment on Anyone else 3 months ago:
Odds are that any aliens sufficiently advanced to come here would be able to tell we have nuclear weapons.
- Comment on ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN | Official Launch Trailer 3 months ago:
I watched a stream of it. It looked like a good time with friends in voice chat, but I wouldn’t want to play it with randos.
I also don’t think it would keep me hooked for very long. Probably a session once in a while. I can’t see myself playing dozens of hours of it.