Pika
@Pika@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on How can I create an alter ego for publishing stories? 4 days ago:
You can put a different name than what’s yours as the author, but unfortunately if someone is dedicated if you’re writing style is still similar it’s not outside the realm of possibility that someone might be able to connect the dot eventually. Unlikely unless you got super huge, but not impossible
- Comment on Sony Confirmed To Be Behind HD2 Delisting Of 180 Countries, Not Valve 5 days ago:
I think the answer is because they don’t believe they need that market, they were obviously okay with losing that market share in the first place due to the fact that they put the requirement in there. As their announcements have said, requiring a PSN account is something that gives them more control over abuse (and ofc data) and allowing more players that are in countries where they are not currently allowed to have those accounts are counterproductive to what they are currently driving for
I’m not surprised they didn’t reverse the region locks they believe it’s something for the best and that’s not something that the consumer is going to be able to change, regardless of the reviews or protest, worst case scenario for them is they just go back to being fully console exclusive if the PR pressure gets too bad
- Comment on Glorious Victory 1 week ago:
This type of review bombing is actually against steams terms of service for reviews in the first place, they’ve stepped in a few times now to hide campaigns like that, I expect they will do the same with this one.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 2 weeks ago:
this process will cause most smaller creators to just leave the platform, it’s already super difficult to to get established, this would essentially force them to operate at a loss until they can get a foothold which concidering a lot of the time it can take months to years to get established? I can’t see that system being sustainable either.
- Comment on When you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be? 4 weeks ago:
fully agree, but honestly I think it would be easier to just leave the country then ever actually having that happen, it’s too far again those in power’s ideology, which is land of the free but not for thee/only for me
- Comment on When you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t donate, I’m phobic of needles and I disagree with the commercialization of the industry. The fact that my blood likely won’t be used by someone who needs it and instead will be up charged to the highest bidder sickens me.
- Comment on I could never work food service. It crushes my soul to see food go to waste. 4 weeks ago:
I worked closing shift, it was faster for me to cook then rely on mcdonalds to have my food ready in a timely manner. At some point of the night they start cooking everything to order, so I pull into mcdonalds, spend 10-15 minutes waiting, or I can drive home space the same amount of time cooking and sleep around the same time and save like 20$. Was a no brainer for me
- Comment on Final Factory Launch Trailer 5 weeks ago:
I’m not a big fan of posts that are only videos, but I have to say this is one of the few times I actually watch the video and that game looks absolutely sick. Instantly wishlisted to keep tabs on it
- Comment on Jenes 5 weeks ago:
I’m glad they added the genes ref, 8 was thinking they were talking about DNA
- Comment on Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. 1 month ago:
It takes two is actually one step further, only one player had to own the game. It takes two had what was called a friend passed which as long as you weren’t the host of the game allowed you to play with any other player that had already purchased the game. So despite the fact that it was forced Co-op either split screen or online, only one player had to actually buy the game.
In this day and age it blew me away when I learned that because it’s just unheard of now.
- Comment on Just 5 more minutes 1 month ago:
I do agree the it has it’s merits, I just don’t think that it helps for accepting different POV’s
- Comment on How do you keep your homes clean? 1 month ago:
I do, the issue is I’m the ONLY one who does.
- Comment on Just 5 more minutes 1 month ago:
The up vote and downvote system is one of the few things on Lemmy that I think is worth not having, it’s nice knowing the relative popularity of a post ahead of time but it should be used as a does this add to the conversation, and not a I agree or disagree with the conversation. When it’s used as an agree or disagree, the opposing side gets reduced visibility in many clients (whether this is lemmy side or client side idk)
Sadly a lot of people do it based off of their opinion of the post instead, it’s one of the reasons that I turned my scores off the other week I want to read the comments based off their contribution to the conversation at hand, and when people use downvote for opinion it creates a tunnel vision/echo chamber.
Sure by doing this you lose the ability to see up votes, but it also removes your subconscious judgement of a post before you enter, you get to read it as it is.
- Comment on How do you keep your homes clean? 1 month ago:
I gave up keeping the floor clean, I’m the only one that cleaned in the house, any complaints about the dirt on the floor was met with “well you should be wearing shoes”, any attempt at cleaning the clutter is met with the other household members stressed out because things changed. I take any W I can, but it’s defo a learn to get used to it type of situation at least in my case.
- Comment on Hot Cheetos don't taste the same 1 month ago:
hot tamales and atomic fireballs are the same way, it used to be really hot, now it’s similar to just sweet. same with sour skittles, those used to make you bleed but not anymore, it’s more sweet then sour
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yes they would, that is why I am for UBI however not without harsh restrictions on rental or mortgage costs in regards to the UBI. I’m not concerned for normal prices but, I know rental and housing costs will rise in comparison. Needs restrictions before implementation
- Comment on Peak technology 1 month ago:
I won’t go eco tank personally, clogs and cleaning is a royal pain on them and there’s no good purge feature. I would fully recommend going this path only if accuracy on color is requirement further then laser printers do
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
Just responding that I did see this, The video has peaked my curiosity and I plan on watching it later when I have more free time outside of midterm’s season
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
this is how it should be anyway, you do not want any ledger or database to be mutable because it allows for integrity violations and will cause you to lose the ability to trust it. Even non-blockchain styles follow that principle.
- Comment on Please Stop 2 months ago:
as hostile as people are to block chain due to MFC’s and bad implementations, the technology itself has its use cases. It’s a great solution for information exchange that requires verification and Immutation. This makes them perfect for ledgers or transaction networks.
It’s just there is so much bad PR regarding it everyone just discredits it. Not all of the block chain technologies are massively energy intensive per transaction, it’s just many of the cryptocurrencies use the most intensive one because it’s also arguably the most secure
- Comment on Use a British Challenger tank to heat your water instead 2 months ago:
wait people make tea in the microwave? gross lol
- Comment on Has Google’s search results drastically declined for anyone else? 2 months ago:
I haven’t used Google in years in favor of DDG, which had a degraded search already, but I have noticed the YouTube search is super unreliable now as well, but it seems to be getting better the last few months
- Comment on I’d rather stay up anyway 2 months ago:
I have a window of perfection. If I sleep less the 4 hours I’m dead tired in the morning, if I sleep more then 7 hours I am dead in the morning, but for some reason if I get 5, 6 or 7 I’ll be up and at em no issue at all
- Comment on Lol 3 months ago:
lmao
- Comment on Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly 3 months ago:
records number of subscriptions and users
piracy is hard to battle against
- Comment on 🎵that's life🎵 3 months ago:
I was about to chime in and say yes that’s just life but then I saw the title lmao
- Comment on Thank the EU there’s a prominent “Reject” button nowadays 3 months ago:
Just disable cookies by default or have it session only cookies. Back before Firefox supported Auto rejecting or accepting prompts natively I used to use one of those. It would accept the cookies however since it only allowed session based cookies when I closed my browser It would delete them all.
- Comment on If Trump and Biden both died today, what would happen? 4 months ago:
Honestly, I think if Trump died instantaneous there would be a massive movement claiming that the current Administration was the cause of death and they would use the most recent judicial hearing regarding Seal Team 6 as evidence towards it. There would be no proof of anything because like you said it was a natural death but that would not be enough to prove anything and I believe there would still be riots
As for if the president dropped dead, the vice president would take over and there would likely be an investigation into an assassination attempt but I don’t think anything would come out of it because like mentioned it would be a natural death.
- Comment on Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal 4 months ago:
Honestly this would be a good method. Limit AI voice acting to only single use NPC such as Town folk when you visit a town and then have like shopkeepers or party members or the main character actual voice. You aren’t expecting much out of those temporary characters anyway so them having weird Oddity voices isn’t going to be super jarring for the environment. Plus it will help you as the player realize which characters are supposed to be part of the story and which ones are there for just Scenic effect
- Comment on MSI reveal the Claw, the first Intel-powered Steam Deck rival 4 months ago:
Based on windows 11… yea hard pass for me, too resource intensive for any feasible portable gaming.