Pika
@Pika@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 days ago:
Many of them “use” them, as in have them enabled to allow for members of the community to use them, and sometimes they might offer patch note releases for updates via the announcement system or major issue posts, but most of them don’t actually provide support and assistance via them or even moderate them at times. Huge problem actors are inde studios but, even large producers have the issue. My latest one that I tried to post a bug report to is Phasmaphobia, which locks all support to their discord, but like most games don’t do official support via the forums.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 days ago:
there was no sorta promised to delete, they stated in the press release, the actual age verification page and the FAQ page about age verification that the files were temporary… then apparently just didn’t, as I highly doubt 1.5tb of photos are “recent” photos.
- Comment on Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server" 2 days ago:
I refuse to join any of these in protest, and when I can’t submit bug reports via public forums I will rate the negatively.
I am firmly against using closed chat platforms such as discord for informational and support.
Years down the road obscure issues with the game are going to be unavailable either due to the server being abandoned or inability to look for issues soley due to everything being on discord now. I refuse to take part in it.
I’m only in one discord that is based off a game, and that is satisfactory exclusively because I was in the alpha program so It seemed right that I joined the main discord after the alpha ended.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 3 days ago:
interesting. The other person explained what it was, I never knew there was a diff between it.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 3 days ago:
oh that’s pretty cool, yea I’ve always just thrown marshmallows in the freezer. Didn’t realize there was a difference between them.
- Comment on What flavor are marshmallows? 3 days ago:
can’t you just throw marshmallows in the freezer and then consume when wanted?
- Comment on Is it me or does it seem like review bombing on Steam has become so much worse recently? 3 days ago:
It’s not just you. Customer curated content in general on steam has gone drastically downhill over the last year or two.
Like review bomb mitigation can only go so far when the company refuses to block people from writing reviews that write enough off topic reviews.
The discussion forums are the same way, its all award farming ever since they released the ability to give steam points to people.
- Comment on Anon gets rid of drop box 1 week ago:
even if it did, its not like any existing motherboard requires internet to boot, you can just change the MB clock to be prior to the expiration and theoretically it should boot regardless of restrictions.
- Comment on Starbreeze says sorry, reverses price increase on Payday 2 DLC bundle: 'We definitely didn't handle this right' 2 weeks ago:
payday still exists? I haven’t heard of the game in years. I’m surprised they even attempted this as a whole because it sounds like it’s only going to piss off their remaining userbase
- Comment on Thanks for nothing 2 weeks ago:
Can’t you disable your account without deleting? info would still be out there but, nobody would be able to see it again till you made it live
- Comment on Thanks for nothing 2 weeks ago:
Yes, I would rather have no email if there is nothing to update. I mark every one of these style emails as spam because I deal enough with garbage mail, I don’t need legitimate companies bolstering my inbox to get their name shown. Cause that’s the real reason for that. It’s meant as a reminder that the platform exists, to encourage you to go back onto it again.
- Comment on How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t. I passively mention lemmy when I’m discussing my activities, and if they show interest I go into further detail. They have never shown an interest past “Whats a lemmy”
- Comment on what's your take on employers banning the use of languages other than English between coworkers at the workplace? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think this policy is enforceable in my state. Not that we have much of a mixed language anyway.
I don’t think its appropriate to have as a rule in general. I can understand having a universal language for work related topics if there is someone who doesn’t speak the language present (or isn’t fluent), but a straight out ban on all other languages but the target language? that’s just unneeded and creates a hostile work environment.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes 3 weeks ago:
I hadent heard of him until BL4 was released, but man does he seem like a real big piece of work lol
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 3 weeks ago:
I use that coupon every once and awhile, but that still makes it 3$ more than what it used to be, and requires me to use a coupon when I could redeem for points or use something else. And thats also forcing me to use their app. Which the app itself is actual trash now. They removed the search bar for items, they added point expiration(ok this was awhile ago) they now charge you immediately upon placing the order, despite not actually starting the order until your GPS detects you are at the establishment. Theres no ability to cancel and order once placed, regardless if its started being made. Their FAQ page intentionally lies to you telling you that every purchase is final, despite the fact that if they haven’t started making the order, it will eventually refund the purchase. They added a waiver for class actions to the apps TOS meaning if you want to sue you must use third party attribution. It massively harvests data. All for the benefit of paying more for something that I used to be able to spend 12$ not even 10 years ago on.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 3 weeks ago:
Agreed, I almost exclusively go to dominos for that carryout deal. I can get 3 meals worth for < 10 or one meals worth for twice the price. It’s a no brainer.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 3 weeks ago:
Sorry I havent been on lemmy as often so delayed reply.
My standard order is 2 bacon mcdoubles(currently $4.89 a piece), a large fry($4.99) and a lemonade($2.49) or a Mcafe($5.99), so it ends up being $17.29 for my food or 18.64 after tax, or if I wanted a cafe it would be 19.76 or 21.34 after tax.
Just 5 years ago I could get 2 bacon mcdoubles, 2 large fries, a 20 piece nugget and a lemonade for about 18$ (granted that was with a deal).
Back in 2016 I could get that same bacon burger meal above for a little over 12. I can’t warrent it.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 5 weeks ago:
I haven’t gone to a mcdonald’s by choice in almost 4 years now. When my meal rose from 12-13$ to 17-18$ I stopped going. Just for the chuckle I put that same meal into the app, it’s now 22$ after tax. yea no I’ll just go to apple bees or dominos and get more food for less.
- Comment on If you argue for a cause like affordable housing for everyone, is it necessarily hypocritical if you also own investment properties? 5 weeks ago:
It depends on how you are looking at it. Since you called it “Investment properties” I have to assume you plan to maximize profits on it so I would have to say yes it is. However if you are renting the property out for market value and only doing a modest increase to cover costs and the mortgage I don’t think it is. Obviously you need to cover expenses for the property or else someone else who won’t do the same is going to obtain it.
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 2 months ago:
agree with this as well.
- Comment on Philz Coffee Being Sold to Private Equity Firm for $145 Million, Employees Reportedly Getting Screwed Out of Their Stock 2 months ago:
I don’t think it is unfortunately because this is completely legal as long as it was laid out in the terms of the stock when it was purchased.
This isn’t preferred stock that we’re talking about, this is common stock and most of the time that type of stock is given out to employees as like an incentive program and generally hold no actual weight in the company itself and is the least priority when these types of sales occur.
Basically, if they wanted to initiate litigation on this, their argument would have to be either that they were misled of the type of stock that they were purchasing, or that they didn’t adequately state the financial risks of the stock.
By all means, I think they should try, especially that guy that said that they invested $10 million into that company and is losing it. I just don’t think it will go anywhere.
- Comment on Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons? 2 months ago:
I didn’t have this experience, because I very regularly had college classes that didn’t start until 5, 6 in the afternoon, but I would expect that if your college doesn’t offer those type of classes, that they likely have some sort of college sport and that’s a pretty big income source for them, because that’s the main reason that most high schools still run Early in the morning to early in the afternoon, despite it’s been proven that’s during a period that is not good for actual information retention, with newer generations.
- Comment on Epic Games just won its antitrust lawsuit against Google again 2 months ago:
honestly, my opinion of epic is starting to improve more and more with every legal case they open.
They are bringing what everyone knew was going on into official record and forcing the countries to do something about it. I’m rooting for em
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 2 months ago:
Lets make sure we are on the same page then, cause I don’t see the issue with my post.
I am using the term “Graceful Degradation” which is meant as a fault tolerance for tech stacks to allow for a critical component to be removed.
This critical component people are talking about is Javascript which is used for all dynamically loaded content, and used for fallover protection so one service going down doesn’t make it so the entire page goes down (also an example of fault tolerance).
The proposed solution given would remove that fault tolerance for the reasons I provided in the original reply, while degrading the users experience due to reduced page load (users reloading the page inconsistently vs consistently to get new information) and increasing maintenance costs and overhead on the provider.
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 2 months ago:
personally I think this is mostly due to for some reason people tend to give up on visiting a website if it takes more than a second or two to load, so instead they load a mostly blank page (which gives the sign that its loading) and then use javascript to load the rest of the content in.
that and fucking ads galore
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 2 months ago:
my only issue with this ideology is, this setup would essentially require a whole new processing system to handle, as instead of it being sent via events, it would need to be rendered and sent server side. This also forces the server to load everything at once instead of dynamically like how it currently does, which will increase strain/load on the server node that is displaying the web page, while also removing the potential of service isolation between the parts of the web page meaning if one component goes down(such as chat history), the entire page handler goes down, while also decreasing page response and load times. That’s the downside of those old legacy style pages. They are a pain in the ass to maintain, run slower and don’t have much fallover ability.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 2 months ago:
While I wouldn’t go as far as keying, I fully agree if you park in a protected lane such as a fire lane, bike lane, handicap etc any damages accumated in the lane should be the drivers responsibility.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 2 months ago:
ah that makes sense thank you, I’ll clarify it some. I didn’t specifically say so but, I don’t personally agree that it should be biker vs car enforcement based, I’m just glad they are doing /something/ about the bikers whom seem to had been just ignored previously.
As for commercial vs personal, I do think it would be better to impose stricter penalty for commercial though, as like you said there is higher incentive to cut corners/break laws, which means the same penalty doesn’t weigh as much when it’s getting you more money or making you look better for a larger company.
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 2 months ago:
I mean no reason both couldn’t be done I agree
- Comment on In New York City, Drivers Who Run Red Lights Get Tickets. E-Bike Riders Get Court Dates. 2 months ago:
I’m not saying let the drivers off the hook, I’m just saying that bikers, from what I’ve seen there usually get ignored or just continue after fines, it’s clear the punishment wasn’t high enough. Hell I was just there in March and saw 3 people get hit and a bunch bikers just ignore the lights. (and ofc a crap ton of pedestrians as well but yea)