Pika
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- Comment on Tried to login to the arch wiki but was given a 3 minute crypto challenge. 1 day ago:
Technically, the internet already has what you’re looking for. It’s just not really standardized for video media.
The beginning of the URL or the schema is already able to on most mainstream OS be controlled by a specific application.
There’s nothing really stopping anyone from making it so there’s a video:// schema, and then configuring a schema handler to handle it. on Debian it would be a single desktop file with a MimeType=x-scheme-handler/video line indicating that type of url should be opened with that desktop file. I had to configure it for vortex to get it to open mod links, I never knew how easy that was
- Comment on Tried to login to the arch wiki but was given a 3 minute crypto challenge. 1 day ago:
This is every scraper for YouTube.
The only applications that I’ve ever seen reliably access YouTube are the ones that work by patching the YouTube app and then using what the app would do.
Applications like invidious or Grayjay almost always have a 15 to 30 second delay before any video.
- Comment on Why don't politicians during a hearing let the person they are questioning actually answer questions and speak? 5 days ago:
because they don’t actually want the person to respond. they want to paint a picture of what they are trying to push across. The more they let the other person talk, the less detailed their picture becomes.
It’s all of politics now a days, you don’t actually ask the question for the answer, you ask the question to push the narrative.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 5 days ago:
My biggest problem with this, is lack of ability to resell. I would be saying the same if they made it so the disks are license only locked to the first account that plays them.
The issue for me isn’t the content of the disk, it’s what the disk allows.
That being said, if I had to choose between the disks acting like a key, or the disks containing the game I would obviously choose the disk playing the game.
But if I had to choose between a disk acting as a key, or no disk at all. I’m going to choose the disk acting like a key.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 5 days ago:
I feel like I should add while yes they removed the microtransaction, they did the absolute bare minimum they had to do.
I also feel like this type of boycott doesn’t match that type, the one you linked was a permanent boycott until the changes were done, not a week long one. People were straight refusing to buy it period till it was fixed, and people who did buy it was review bombing it.
For clarification: The issue was they implemented a massive XP grind that was reliant on you spending money to level your coach. At the same time they had removed the ability to make it easier to obtain the XP. They removed the microtransactions as a whole for that mode, and readded the previous games XP slider but removed the fastest mode and kept only a 1.5x mode, and didn’t rebalance anything else in the game, so you still have a game that was intentionally geared torward’s someone spending money to level, just without the ability to actually spend money to level. I’m sure some exec intentionally did that expecting people would complain and they could use it as a potential avenue to readd the transactions again as a “see we listen to our community”
I personally do think a boycott on sony will eventually do something, but a week long one like this, isn’t going to do anything meaningful.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 5 days ago:
this is a pretty accurate representation of most current day boycotts.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 5 days ago:
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if its longer than a week maybe, a week boycott is just a piss in the wind.
For perspective, the Montgomery bus boycott, which is usually used as a prime example of how well boycotts can work, lasted for 381 days.
But yea a 1 week surely will do something.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 5 days ago:
I’m not sure why it’s a timed boycott.
I already decided a couple years ago that this is my last console from sony. (likely my last console period tbf) everything else they have done since then has been no concern. I haven’t turned my ps5 on more than a handful of times in the last year. No reason to.
Their games are too expensive, are shit quality, and their entire mentality on giving “free” games to subscription members backfired horribly since I never bought any actual games using it, so therefore when I finally cancelled my sub I have nothing to bring me to turn the console on as well.
The Xbox has the same flaw atm, like yea gamepass is an amazing feature but, when you finally cancel that sub… there’s nothing left for you, you won’t see the advertising or the new games they offer, as you don’t have a reason to turn the system on. That was the biggest thing that kept me on my ps3 and 4, when I was playing my actual games, I could slide onto the PS+ area and see what was new, and if something caught my eye I either bought it or downloaded it. With the PS5 and Xbox X nothing has brought me back onto the systems… so nothing is making me feel like I should continue to spend money on the platforms.
- Comment on Closed game studio returns to un-live service its game with community servers before shutdown: 'We don't believe Deceive Inc. should quietly disappear' 2 weeks ago:
The game while fun suffered the same exact issue that Wild Gate did, where any new player trying to join in gets smothered.
There just was way too much power difference between items that you have at the beginning of the game and items that you gain at the end of the game. Combined with a relatively low player count, meaning that you can’t really have skill-based or level based matchmaking, just cold cuts your new players
- Comment on Contemplating on playing a controversial developer's bought game 2 weeks ago:
you’ve already given your money you can’t do much more than that. might as well play it
- Comment on I say this as an ex-coder, but is it possible to ask for a paper ballot instead of using the stupid machines when voting? 2 weeks ago:
boils down to it depends.
in my area, particularly we have paper ballots that then get read by the digital machines, so if there’s any type of question about the legitimacy of it, there’s the paper trail to follow.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Clarification: What definition of incel are you using? Are you strictly using the definition as “One who can not find a partner despite wanting to” or are you using a different definition
If it’s strictly that definition there isn’t anything wrong with it. It’s when someone in that position starts blaming the other parties for their position that makes it become an issue. I.E Racism, sexism, etc
In my opinion, incels are in a similar boat to furries, just being that designation doesn’t make it wrong, however the actions you do while in that designation do. As a result, the designation as a whole has a black mark.
It’s completely fair to hate that you can’t find an SO and blame yourself, it isn’t fair to hate that you can’t find an SO and to blame others for it. The only time I would argue the counterpart is fair is if someone is actually smearing your image, but that isn’t what is happening with the incel stereotype. The incel stereotype is blaming others for liking other characteristics (usually ones that you don’t have [and yes that can include self describing yourself as an incel]), which is entitled/extremely selfish as a trait.
However if your definition is the stereotype definition of incel, and you can’t see whats wrong with the above… I don’t think anything anyone can say here is going to be able to change anything.
- Comment on what's the deal with Data centers and why do we all of a sudden need massive ones built all over everywhere? 2 weeks ago:
Panic investors and companies realizing that their investments into it are short term and if they don’t somehow make a magic bean its all going to rot.
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 2 weeks ago:
it’s something going on with itjust.works I think, because before it showed your post of 3 hours, and then two 7 month old posts replying to it.
Now it doesn’t even show my comment chain even exists at all. but if I jump instances it shows it in the proper order.
Isn’t technology great.
- Comment on 64$ the ticket, 1040$ surcharge. 2 weeks ago:
I’m confused how I just got a notice of this reply, and how it says “3 hours ago” but the comments replying to your comments are “7 months ago”
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 2 weeks ago:
ah sorry, yea I reread it and I can see I misunderstood your position,
as for where I got the concept from:
This would only work if the game participates in regional pricing, otherwise you’re fucking over most people who don’t deal in USD. $15 to you is not just $15 to everyone else.
and then
I don’t think I am. The issue is not that your system won’t work with regional pricing, it’s that it will not work without it.
since my post was about having it be based off a policy on pricing based off the current price, I took that as a message stating that it requires regional pricing to work. So I jumped the gun a little and thought you meant that you were advocating that for it to work, they would need regional pricing on everything as such would require regional based refunds for those areas, but I can see where I got overzealous on that so I apologize.
My opinion is still the same on it though, I think it would be better to implement that system than to not, even if the dev doesn’t participate in regional pricing at all, worst case scenario is it’s a static price with a static return based off the only price available and the buyer would know that going into it. I could see how it could negativly impact the buyer like you said but, if the seller is already not participating with regional pricing, there isn’t much else that can be done to fix that.
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 2 weeks ago:
At this point, I’m not sure where our disconnect is. I’m not sure how you read what I sent and somehow got that it forces regional pricing or doesn’t force regional pricing. The framework I’m talking about would not require regional pricing at all because the only price it cares about is what the price is in the chosen region.
The system I’m advocating would work with or without regional pricing because the region’s price doesn’t matter.
As an example, say their chosen region is the US and they decide that $5 means it’s a 30 minute return.
But then they have another region that is two dollars.
It doesn’t matter that it’s $2 in that region because the region that is used for the metric is $5.
So the $2 game that is regional pricing would have the return policy of the $5 game because the region that they use for the calculations has it at $5.
I’m not sure why it needs to be so complicated to have specific return policies for every single region. At the end of the day the value in the framework region is isolated from the framework and no changes to its price would change its return policy as it doesn’t matter
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 2 weeks ago:
you are misunderstanding. I’m saying pick a region for the guideline, if its 5 on that region the game has that refund period. Then apply regional pricing. There’s zero reason to apply a framework for every region that’s more work then needed. the lower regional price would have the same refund period as the standard pricing as its following the same framework
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 2 weeks ago:
you are forgetting though that a 5$ USD game isn’t going to magically becomes < 5$ USD though. if its using the same framework even if the game is only worth 2$ native, its still 5$ USD and therefore would be the same. Regional pricing doesn’t matter in the scenario.
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see how this would be too much of an issue. If it’s the way in one region, then it would be unilateral all across all regions. Price wouldn’t really matter at that point as long as you’re using the same guideline
- Comment on Indie dev defends criticism of Steam refund abuse amid review bombing of his game: 'It's wrong to refund a game after having fun with it and completing it' 3 weeks ago:
The people who legitimately do this are the ones who make the rest of the gamers look bad.
If you bought a game, especially for $3, played it from start to finish over the course of an hour and a half, and then bragged about it when you refunded it. You fully deserve to have your refund capability disabled.
The thing is, though, I don’t really know a way that this can be implemented without allowing publishers to game the system. I do personally think that Two Hours is a little generous for the overall story because I will generally know whether or not I’m going to like a game within 35 minutes of playing.
I think a good alternative to it is have your refund window be based off of the current sale price of the game.
So for a game that’s less than five bucks, you would only have somewhere between 30 minutes to an hour of a refund window.
Then for your typical indie window, which would be like fifteen to thirty dollars, you have an hour to hour and a half then your AAA title pricing of 60+, you have two or three hours.
- Comment on How can a company like Terabox give away 1TB of space for free and still stay a stable company? 3 weeks ago:
Firm agree. When they do stuff like this, they are estimating demand. Even big companies aren’t expecting even a quarter of their users to use the full extent of their plans. they are estimating that a user will overestimate how much they need and buy a larger plan than necessary that way they have wiggle room without needing to find alternatives later. This practice is also why many companies start mass spamming you when your allotment gets over 60% used, they are betting that you will buy a larger plan to futureproof yourself on the platform, which also allows them to generally allow for higher base plans than needed so its usually a win/win for the storage company.
But in cases like this where the market gets shot and they have a super high influx of people who actually want to use the full extent, they need to take measures like stated where they drop the free plans allotment in favor of hoping people get pushed to the larger plan.
- Comment on How can a company like Terabox give away 1TB of space for free and still stay a stable company? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, I don’t use it but, that seems like a fairly ok privacy page compared to the other storage vendors. It’s stated outside of using third party services such as AI optimization and sharing your info, it stays within their company only.
They may share infastructure with other venders, but they make it pretty clear your info stays with them unless you agree otherwise.
The only part I’m really super against is the fact that they are logging your clipboard when you use shared links, that seems like a pretty bad violation of privacy but, everything else seems pretty reasonable for a file storage host.
- Comment on How can a company like Terabox give away 1TB of space for free and still stay a stable company? 3 weeks ago:
its 100% going to be a bait and switch. It starts at 1TB, then it downgrades to a lower amount (seems like 30 GB), then eventually it will be downgraded even more. Eventually it will be under what you are utilizing and you will need to either upgrade your plan for a premium, or migrate your data elsewhere.
- Comment on Do you buy PC games from third party key sites or from Steam? 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, aside from humble choice, I don’t really use the platform much anymore. It’s been quite some time since I’ve seen a half-decent game bundle through them which is unfortunate.
I still find their humble choice program is well worth the money put in it is a shame that their bundles just fall through now.
- Comment on Do you buy PC games from third party key sites or from Steam? 3 weeks ago:
Most of my games come from Humble Bundle, or steam sales
Once upon a time, I used to be an avid user of G2A, which is a third-party key site. But when Steam added the ability of being able to return video games that are purchased for a party, I stopped using this site as often because it’s usually more cost effective for me to spend a dollar or two more and be able to return the game if it’s a lemon.
I do still troll through fanatical, though, every once and awhile they drop some amazing bundles.
- Comment on Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies 4 weeks ago:
part of it was yes
- Comment on Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies 4 weeks ago:
they made the statement with apple but then decided the exact opposite with google. I think Sony will run into similar issues as google, but we will see
- Comment on Data from the 2023 Insomniac leak showed that most first party Playstation games sold more physical discs than digital copies 4 weeks ago:
I do have a strong suspicion that the end of the road of this type of move is going to end with an anti-trust case. Like, I don’t see any way to avoid that.
You can’t have a platform dictate everything about how it sells merchant wise without having an antitrust involved.
It may not be the US doing it, but I do think that some country is going to antitrust them.
- Comment on Good offer! Which one should I pick? 4 weeks ago:
That or they’re on a legacy plan and the service wasn’t designed with legacy plans in mind. So when it says Save 50%, it’s 50% on the standard service, not 50% on your current plan.