AnyOldName3

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit bans posting UnitedHealthcare shooter’s manifesto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hardly again. I’m the third separate person you’re having this argument with in this comment chain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit bans posting UnitedHealthcare shooter’s manifesto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether or not that’s exactly what happened, that’s a moderator action, not an admin action, and if you disagree with it, you can just join or start a different news community without stressing about moving your account to another instance (which isn’t a huge hassle anyway - if you use the settings import/export tool, all your subscriptions etc. can come with you).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit bans posting UnitedHealthcare shooter’s manifesto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Their post wasn’t saying yes, it’s bad, it was explaining that the goal was resembling a meme, and agreeing that that choice impacted readability. Being less than perfectly readable doesn’t make it bad - the joke is just the manifesto resembling a meme, so it’s only got to be readable enough to be recognisable as the manifesto for the joke to work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s reasonable, but the market’s already flooded with generic controllers at various price points and degrees of quality. If the idea’s to make money, the new design won’t do brilliantly as things like the awkwardly-placed trackpads will increase manufacturing costs without being a killer feature that makes most people prefer to spend more on this particular controller. If the idea’s to make something viable that hadn’t been before (which is what Valve normally seem to go for), then this isn’t serving the discontinued Steam Controller’s niche as effectively as the original did, and isn’t serving any new niche, either.

  By the way, the thing they were trying at the same time as the original Steam Controller was the Steam Machine, not the Steam Box. It also kind of did work, as the couch PC gaming part mostly happened, but it took a decade of improvements to Proton and abandoning third-party hardware manufacturers before Linux-based console-like PCs became viable in the form of the Steam Deck. Ten years ago, nearly no games ran under Linux, and all the Steam Machine manufacturers were just changing the logo on one of their existing prebuilts and charging an extra $100 not to install Windows on it, so you were better off with any other desktop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, the Deck’s trackpads are half way between my thumb knuckles with my hands in a comfortable position, so they’re not nice to reach for, whereas everything’s a comfortable distance away on the original Steam controller. I have big hands, so maybe you’ve got small hands?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a big Steam Controller trackpad user, and I already nearly never use my Deck trackpads because they’re too low down. This new one just looks like a normal controller with extra bulk, and nonsense in the area no controller except the N64 used because it’s not where most people grow fingers. I guess it’ll at least have paddles, but they’re hardly a unique feature these days. I really just wanted the existing one again, but with more paddles, an option for an integrated battery, USB-C instead of micro B, and an official supply of replacement thumbsticks instead of having to bodge in 8bitdo ones that aren’t quite the same shape.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the Steam Deck was still just an idea, Valve says some staff were like, "I just want that for me" and "the point wasn't even to make a product out of it"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A big part of the reason was that Facebook offered game studios a big upfront sum if they made their games work on whatever headset they were selling at the time in standalone mode with no major caveats. The headset only had an anemic mobile GPU, so was only capable of as much as mobile games were doing at the time. A bunch of studios took them up on this offer, and cut back their projects’ scope to be viable under the hardware constraints, so nearly everything that got made was gimmicky mobile-style minigames, and obviously that’s not what makes people want to drop hundreds of dollars on hardware, as they can get their fill by borrowing someone else’s headset for an hour.

  Mobile GPUs have improved, so standalone headsets aren’t as terrible now, but we missed the expensive toy for enthusiasts and arcades phase and soured most people’s opinions by making their first VR experience shovelware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity cancels the stupid Runtime Fee⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It also doesn’t help that once you’ve paid the large fee for the Pro version, it doesn’t actually guarantee any support if you encounter a bug. You get access to a different issue tracker, and might get a Unity employee to confirm that the bug exists after a couple of months (and maybe close it as a duplicate, then reopen it as not a duplicate when the fix for the other bug doesn’t help, then reclose it as a duplicate when it turns out the fix for the other bug also doesn’t fix the other bug, and at the end of a multi-month process, there still being a bug with no indication an engineer’s looked at it).

  Anyway, I’m glad to no longer be working for a company that uses Unity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Garry Newman of Facepunch comments on the Nintendo takedown of Garry's Mod content⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can lose trademarks, but this is a copyright issue. You don’t have to defend copyright to keep it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dakota Johnson on ‘Madame Web’ Blowback: “I’ll Never Do Anything Like It Again”⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There were people saying they should keep posting the meme long enough that Sony thought the film was going to do better if they released it again, and then no one should go and see it, and then that’s exactly what happened, so at least part of it was down to people like that stopping once they’d got what they wanted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So would a fish that’s eaten a device that administers a small electric shock at random intervals and with random intensities. I don’t think that eating such a device made the fish suddenly sentient, but it would suddenly change the outcome of your test.