Pika
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- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
I don’t think in this case it will really matter since as it’s GPL anyway, so the worst case scenario is some private company takes the code and tries to use it without giving back but I can see the issue with other projects or if they wanted to use a more restrictive license
- Comment on I never saw the twilight zone. To pick it up should I was the old vs new? Or is it much of a difference? 2 weeks ago:
as someone currently watching through them I agree with this. I started with the old and it’s pretty good, but you can see the age of it.
- Comment on I'd rather a simple "no thanks" 2 weeks ago:
I hate that companies have to be above and beyond on rejection if they do them.
Like i’m glad they give them but, how hard is a:
Subject: Application/Interview Rejected body: Dear name, We regret to inform you that we have decided not to continue with your application/interview process due to X, We appreciate your interest in this company, HR Name
With X being the reason.
- Comment on Gulf of America/Mexico 3 weeks ago:
If you look at the gulf from basically any other countries location (via vpn or otherwise) it’s still named as Gulf Of Mexico in most map software.
As much as Trump doesn’t like the thought, this name change is not going to be permanent. Names need to be accepted universally, you can’t just take something and say “yea its called this now” while everyone else laughs at you and expect that it’s going to stay.
for perspective, this is what it looks like on google maps (top) and apple maps(bottom) while vpn’d into Toronto. (excuse my poor copy/paste skills) Both clearly show that the gulf of Mexico is named the gulf of Mexico, and then add in parenthesis the new name that the US wanted to implement.
screenshot of gulf of mexico for both google maps(top) and apple maps(bottom)
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 3 weeks ago:
I agree, there is room for reasonable doubt, I do believe if they manage to throw the bag out of the evidence he will get it. I just don’t see them throwing the bag out.
I don’t think there is room for a non-guilty verdict though. At minimum he will have stalking charges at maximum he will get murder charges.
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 3 weeks ago:
All I have is the publicly available evidence, but that pretty strongly indicates guilt.
he was found a state over, at a mcdonalds. With a fake ID that was the same name that was used to check into manhatten, and for transport. with a bag containing a loaded 3d printed handgun that matched the footage.
He also had writings which are not public but have been stated to indicate his mindset prior to the murder, and a notebook that contained detailed travel plans and how to avoid capture.
Like pacifist said though, the police are tripping this case up, the biggest defense for Luigi at the moment is the ineptitude of the police during the arrest sequence and investigation. They have already succeeded in throwing out medical records due to improper acquisition, have been found wiretapping attorney lines (which IMO should be an immediate opposing party wins regardless), and are in the process of trying to throw the bag out that was found at mcdonalds due to improper search and seizure claims (although I don’t personally think this will happen, it’s pretty clear the search and seizure laws in that state clarify that a search will happen on any arrest regardless of case)
the only way I can see him getting a “innocent” verdict is Jury nullification, so I am not leaning on that, because even if found innocent on the second degree murder charges, based off publicly available evidence the prosecution still has a fairly strong case of stalking charges. Plus he still is facing the same charges at the state level as well, as the judges ruled it isn’t considered double jeopardy for someone to be trialed both federally and state side (which IMO is wrong but I digress)
- Comment on What do you think might happen if Luigi Mangione isnt found guilty? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see any avenue where he is found not guilty to be honest, but in that theoretical case, I think that there’s going to be a lot of older folk that absolutely lose their mind about the principle of the matter.
- Comment on Tesla's flashing lights 5 weeks ago:
I assume they are doing some sort of update. Stupid that they flash the lights to indicate it though, what an annoying menace.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 5 weeks ago:
Just don’t buy Triple A titles.
The last “AAA” title I bought was elden ring for 30$ (unless you count Silk Song)
There are plenty of indie style, A or AA studios that are in the 5-30$ range.
The more people who move over to that type of mindset and buy from small titles, the more apt that large companies are going to lower their prices.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 5 weeks ago:
I’m waiting for some government to outlaw collecting the information in general outside of official government agencies. I would love to see big tech squirm as they try to figure out a valid way to harvest the data in one country, but prevent it in another.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 5 weeks ago:
For ID scans, Discord says that documents “are deleted quickly.”
Just a few months ago they had a data leak which proved that they were indeed /not/ deleting documents and ID’s like they had been claiming.
Granted in that case it was mostly countries that force keeping that data but, I’m sick of companies lying and saying “lol yea we defo delete the data after”
- Comment on Overbearing datetime pickers 1 month ago:
Thank you for expanding on it. That was a pretty interesting read, gotta love indecisiveness.
- Comment on Overbearing datetime pickers 1 month ago:
can you elaborate on type=“datetime-local” not existing? It’s been supported in almost every mainstream browser since basically 2012. The last mainstream to adopt it was Safari in 2021. There is argument that FF didn’t have proper support till 2021 as well but, that’s because it was lacking the “time” part of the element. So they modified how it worked for awhile to work like the type=“date” element, that has since been resolved.
I do agree with you on a lot of those. it would be nice to have some form of UI validation. That is one of it’s flaws that could be expanded on. a disabled dates or invalid dates tag on the input would be a lot easier, but also add a lot of complexity to it for something that should be being validated via scripts both server and client side. Not all browsers have the clear button as well which is a problem because it’s an extra step when you do make a mistake on it. They do offer a valid range tag though to allocate valid ranges for dates, but it’s so primitive that for a scheduler it can’t really be used unless its on a week by week basis
- Comment on Overbearing datetime pickers 1 month ago:
I know exactly what date UI you are talking about and it’s a firm agree. Whoever decided that a date UI needed to have the inability to select a year without hitting back 3 times, then ontop of that decided to make it so it undid your month and day selection when you did so, did the world a massive disfavor designing it.
What is wrong with the simple type=“datetime-local” or type=“date” UI’s that every mainstream browser has native. It’s 3 clicks, you can specify the year at the top, and then month & date in the main body. Why even introduce layers to it. Have everything on the same layer.
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 1 month ago:
I think this is very likely the reason yea.
I’m also now finding out that they had to censor the coverart of the switch 2 edition a few weeks ago as well which I was unaware of. If it turns out they knew for awhile that it would be censored, and just chose not to tell anyone that is going to permanently damper my opinion of their studio. Like it’s one thing to be like “This was forced upon us last minute so we threw a solution together” it’s a whole different situation of knowing that it was going to happen, then refusing to tell the consumers about it since you knew it would lower sales.
Along with that, we asked for comment from AdHoc concerning the decision to censor Dispatch’s Deluxe Edition artwork on the Nintendo eShop as compared to the PC/PS5 release, and if that indicated any censorship in the game itself. We were told that “unfortunately, the studio cannot comment on the topic at this time.” Along with that, it was said that if AdHoc is able to discuss the matter down the road, their comment would be shared with us.
It sounds to me like they knew this change was going to be required at that point, but didn’t want to publicly announce that.
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 1 month ago:
This is likely it.
There is also the rumor that this wasn’t a choice by Nintendo, but a choice of the dev’s so they didn’t have to have two separate editions to be able to sell in Japan(like they already do for the playstation edition). If that’s the case this makes it even worse IMO since it wasn’t like a last minute “BTW this is a thing” they had plenty of time to tell buyers that the product was altered
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 1 month ago:
The fact that they allow Resident Evil Village of all games on the Switch but don’t allow this animated nudity scene is insane to me. RE Village was one of the most graphic games I have ever seen.
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 1 month ago:
I watch most IT/Technical videos at 1.5-2x speed. Especially tutorial style videos. Most creators use a very long and drawn out way of speaking in order to keep the viewer on the same page, but most of the time I know the core concepts already, so I don’t need the super detailed parts only the barebones.
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 2 months ago:
Same TBF, I don’t really care if AI was used as long as it is an enjoyable game and the usage of it doesn’t contrast from the game itself.
Being said, most the time when generative AI is used, it comes out sloppy and unenjoyable so if there is the genAI flag on the store page I will definitely give it a more thorough once over.
Procedural or structural AI though I don’t even bat an eye on. It’s whatever at that point we have used tools like that for years anyway and it’s never been a problem.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 2 months ago:
I had this happen with the switch originally. Pre-ordered the lets go pikachu&eevee switch, they ended up receiving far less than the company expected. Employees were the first on the chopping block since they worked there. Absolute bullshit.
They did end up making it right and I had first pick from the next shipment, but it made my blood boil.
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 2 months ago:
yea fair, although some countries get super iffy about it. That was a big reason Overwatch ended up swapping to a rolling store with OW2 instead of keeping the loot box system, and that was a first party MTX system.
- Comment on As Fortnite Enables Third-Party Microtransactions, Steal the Brainrot's Developer is Slammed By Fans For Immediately Adding $45 Premium Bundles and Gambling-Style Mechanics 2 months ago:
I’m surprised that fortnite was willing to front the liability of allowing third party micro-transactions. Especially gatcha or gambling mechanics based ones. That could get fortnite as a whole banned in a few countries.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 2 months ago:
I would love this as well. I think we should start with must be able to self host servers or use p2p servers though. You can have server software without it being open sourced, and I think that licensing wise it will be easier to pass a p2p requirement than a full open source requirement.
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 2 months ago:
I’ll be interested as well, but I do think that it isn’t a bad thing so to speak. Both CD PROJEKT and Michal have high values when it comes to DRM-Free and open gaming. Gog is mostly supported by it’s backers and game revenue, I don’t think that will change. I don’t see the co-founder who created both the studio and the storefront performing a pump and dump on GoG. If anything we may end up seeing a more heavy push into DRM free areas now that it’s detached from the game studio. Additionally CD Projekt’s reason seems fully valid. It makes sense they would rather focus more on making games than distributing. Distributing games is no easy task, let alone maintaining an entire storefront that most of the corporate world dislikes due to the core principles of the storefront (I.E the push towards support and DRM-Free).
It could be bad but, I’m not going to be super concerned until actual evidence ends up on the ground for it.
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 2 months ago:
They do that with shipping items on ebay all the time. cheap item price 100+ shipping
- Comment on How does internet advertising work? Where is all the money coming from? More... 2 months ago:
I was about to say, even without actual data to back it up, big companies are going out of their way to try and evade and block ad-blockers, and that costs man-hours to design, so obviously it’s not a negligible number if they have decided its worth trying to pursue.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 2 months ago:
do you preorder games?Nowadays? Not a chance. Preorders nowadays seem to be more of a incentive to allow a studio to just not have a decent final product because people have already bought in.
What about Early Access Games?If I really like the concept, yes.
Do you feel differently about Early Access vs traditional preordering?Early access is not pre-ordering, and as such is treated extremely differently. Preordering tells me that the product will be finished on release, EA means that it’s going to need a lot of work for a finished product.
If you are open to the idea in specific circumstances, what are those?I am extremly open to EA as it helps studios develop a product that otherwise may not be able to be created. Actual preordering is a strict closed door, there is very little reason in the digital world we live in to preorder a game.
How do you decide if a game qualifies?I more likely will buy an early access game if I can open the page and not see:
- Major blockers:
- Lack of Linux support or compatibility
- Reviews talking about the game being dead
- Reviews talking about how the developer ignores the community
- Update history either showing no changes or minor changes stretching back for a few months(the longer the gap the less likely I am to support the studio)
- Opening the developer page and seeing they are actively working on a different game. (this is an instant deal breaker)
- Minor Blockers
- Developer responses in community pages saying “for support go to external site” usually discord. If you don’t want to support your game on the storefront, don’t use the storefront.
- Update logs saying that they are actively working on DLC for their early access game. (free DLC gets a partial pass… but paid DLC for an Early Access game is a huge red flag for me)
- No developer interactions in the community forums or an un-moderated community forum.
- Toxic community in discussion forums or support channels (I understand this is out of the devs control at times but it still dissuades me from wanting to spend money on the games
- Major blockers:
- Comment on Sony's Naughty Dog Studio Orders Employee Overtime on ‘Intergalactic’ 2 months ago:
ah shoot yea thats true, I forgot about the BS that is “salary exempt”
- Comment on The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic 2 months ago:
Where the hell is black ops 7 on this. Like yea it sold but holy cow the amount of complaints on it.
- Comment on [Self-promotion] My partner just released a (free) game about a monster in a winter forest 2 months ago:
I just played it, it was super cool concept! I died due to cold but, the enviroment felt really good. I spent most of the time just aimlessly wandering. My only complaint was that the game bogged itself down when toggling the lantern on and off but thats probally an issue on my end! Tell them well done for me 😸
