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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Families took safety into their own hands by painting yellow cross walks. Now, the city of Los Angeles is removing them.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ 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 ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  About 6 inches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam now generates three times more revenue for Capcom than PlayStation⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like Satisfactory might be what you’re looking for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  God I fucking hope that’s what happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone else⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quebec to impose French-language quotas on streaming giants⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see this backfiring

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix puts AI ads in paid tier: pirate EVERYTHING at this point... 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️ 14:55⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Netflix made a huge dent in piracy in their early streaming days. It was a convenient, and cheap, service with a ton of good content. Then everyone else started pulling their content from Netflix and built their own streaming services, and all of a sudden watching TV and movies got expensive again.

  Then Netflix started enshittifying its service by limiting streaming resolution, cracking down on account sharing, putting ads in.

  A lot of pirates wouldn’t be pirates if Netflix was as good as it used to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  (Which from my perspective is very silly — what’s the difference between them making a kajillion dollars in the fall and them making a kajillion dollars in May?)

  This “article” was written by a moron who doesn’t seem to know anything about the stock market. I guess it shouldn’t be too surprising for Bloomberg.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Speedrunner already beat Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Nintendo Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think those glitches work because some menu interactions slow the game down intentionally (for like half a second) and players have found ways of abusing the slowdown’s interaction with game physics. So I don’t think framerates are relevant to that, but I may be wrong about that.

  Doom Eternal had similar glitches where the weapon choice menu slows time down to let you make a selection, and you can abuse that slowdown by spamming the jump button to launch yourself really high. I believe speed runners bind the mouse wheel to jump so they can super launch themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 launching early has "literally 0%" to do with GTA 6's release date, Marathon or anything save "confidence", says Gearbox boss⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But on sale for $10 on a monthly basis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA rebrand and refresh their anti-cheat into EA Javelin Anticheat, still blocks Linux / Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But don’t you want that sense of pride and accomplishment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hawley reignites 'PELOSI Act' push to ban lawmakers from trading stocks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. But I doubt it will get far, because too many of them profit off the current system as it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Let the Simpsons Die: An Open Letter to Matt Groening⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I went to the live show back in 2000-something, and he made it very clear, in plain words, that he was just in it for the money from the start.