mindbleach
@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Large language models continue to be unreliable concerning elections 1 day ago:
Stop using a helocopter to mow grass.
- Comment on WordPress Forces Users to Agree That Pineapple Is Good on Pizza 4 days ago:
In itself, not a big deal.
As evidence of one fucking guy being an obstacle for millions of people, holy shit.
- Comment on Balatro Dev Calls Out PEGI For "Real Gambling" Rating Hypocrisy Vs. EA Sports FC 4 days ago:
The only apolitical game is Tetris.
… not counting the story of developing and distributing Tetris.
- Comment on Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone 6 days ago:
One day your phone might be as functional as Windows 95.
- Comment on Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone 6 days ago:
Until now, speech recognition has relied upon a device being connected to the internet.
My family’s Gateway 2000 had local speech recognition… in 1998. That machine had sixteen megs of memory and a 200 MHz P2.
The fucking Macintosh Classic had local speech recognition. Yeah, it gave us “I helped Apple wreck a nice beach,” but things have improved since then.
- Comment on What If Free Speech Means Banning TikTok? 1 week ago:
It’s not about any opinion in particular.
It’s not about how that opinion is expressed, or to whom.
This is a business. It’s owned by a foreign state. Other sites offered the same kind of platform before it, and plenty more offer it right now.
- Comment on Firefox is getting rid of its 'Do Not Track' setting and what it's being replaced with is a bit of a bait and switch for privacy concerns 1 week ago:
They’re the best option available.
They’re fucking up the reasons why.
Welcome to every year for the last twenty years.
- Comment on LinkedIn wants to have its TikTok era 1 week ago:
Old shit wants to be the previous next thing
- Comment on 'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing 2 weeks ago:
Demand and petition are opposite, genius.
Don’t treat customers as if anything short groveling for crumbs is acting above their station. People who adore this product got together on their own time to hash out why, specifically, they feel dissatisfied. They collaboratively presented a single document explaining what could go better and why it’s important. And you’re treating that like it’s some 90s edgelord with an I HATE BG3 page on GeoCities because they didn’t add any of the cool story ideas he e-mailed them.
What exactly is negative about people saying, ‘We’re excited to sink a shitload of time into adding stuff to this game for free, please do more technical communication?’
- Comment on 'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing 2 weeks ago:
… Jesus, is that what you think whining looks like? That’s the most polite request for information possible, after a bunch of people got together and discussed it amongst themselves.
- Comment on 'Stop talking s*** about us' - Half-Life 2 mod blacklists a handful of YouTubers as 'anticitizens' and blocks them from playing 2 weeks ago:
Damn involved community, trying to make all their improvements count! The freeloaders!
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 3 weeks ago:
Don’t you put that evil on us.
- Comment on Rogue Point is a new tactical shooter from Half-Life remake Black Mesa developer Crowbar Collective 5 weeks ago:
Nothing inside a video game should cost real money.
- Comment on Over 200 days after its official closure, the last user of Nintendo Network's online servers finally disconnected after a 3DS system crash 1 month ago:
Shit, that 3DS had better uptime than my last laptop.
- Comment on Sony is trying to patent a 'universal' rewind button that could fix your worst gaming catastrophes 1 month ago:
Fuck software patents.
- Comment on Some guy complained this fishing game only caters to queer players, so the dev added a "straight" title - it costs $9999 1 month ago:
No, fuck that business model.
- Comment on Intel Fails To Achieve Gaudi AI "$500 Million" Revenue Target, Showing Slacking Performance In The AI Segment. 1 month ago:
I never expected Intel would shit the bed like this, but I’d always really hoped.
- Comment on Radio station drops "Gen Z" AI presenters after a week following public outrage 1 month ago:
Ah yes, two otherwise-unreachable voices: deceased 19th-century foreigners, and twentysomethings.
- Comment on Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them 1 month ago:
Hard glance at Frank Miller.
- Comment on Indiana Jones doesn't "endorse" Nazis, Bethesda assure, just in case you were confused by him repeatedly murdering them 1 month ago:
“Who’s a victim of moral luck? Who’s a coerced actor? Is it you? It is! It is you!”
- Comment on [DF] Bazzite - 'SteamOS' For Windows PC Handhelds - Is It A Game-Changer? 1 month ago:
Good?
A gaming device should not be an… eierlegende Wollmilchsau. It should play games with minimal bullshit. The possibility of being a general computer does not necessarily demand the ease of being a general computer. So long as you’re the one deciding when and how it acts like a fixed-function gizmo, great.
- Comment on Open-sourcing of WinAmp goes badly as owners delete entire repo 2 months ago:
Winamp is a prime example of all the right people making nerd-ass decisions and then getting utterly strangled by a corporate master which Does Not Get It.
They worked on audio and video streaming, and the dolts who bought them took a long damn time to figure out that might be used for illicit purposes.
Then they published Gnutella and WASTE as filesharing protocols and even those idiots realized what they’d be used for.
- Comment on Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store 2 months ago:
The right time to stop using Chrome was fucking years ago.
Any time now is a close second.
- Comment on Players are now less "accepting" that games will be fixed, say Paradox, after "underestimating" the reaction to Cities: Skylines 2's performance woes 2 months ago:
Imbalanced mechanics can be charming.
Occasional bugs, even crashes, can be tolerated.
Missing content might not even be noticed.
Poor performance just fucking sucks. The entire time you’re playing, it’s a constant nagging problem. I make games on single-digit-megahertz systems, and even I obsess over smooth interaction. You can’t just release a game that chugs on god-tier PCs, even if it looks jawdropping… which this game does not. It’s nice! It’s not “40 FPS on a 4090” nice. Mostly you forgot to do LOD models, at all, in a game with a bird’s-eye view of an entire city.
- Comment on Nintendo shuts down Ryujinx 2 months ago:
Never give Nintendo money.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be 3 months ago:
Video game stories being famously unique and not at all formulaic.
- Comment on Openblack is a an attempt to recreate lost god game Black & White in a modern, open source game engine 3 months ago:
Let’s not water down the concept of lost media. Black & White was sold on physical discs with twee 2000s DRM. I guaranfuckingtee you it’s easily pirated, alongside the Fisher Price version of Windows it ran on.
- Comment on No Man's Sky adds fishing, a fishing skiff, a new expedition, deep-sea diving and loads more 3 months ago:
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make 3 months ago:
And a pre-emptive middle finger to anyone who can’t figure out budgets follow revenue. They cannot possibly lead it. If companies did that, they would run out of money. They’re only spending two times their last game’s budget because their last game made four times its budget. You can’t do it the other way around.
But empty suits only see ROI. They think, if some game sold one million copies, then it would necessarily have sold one point two million copies, if they’d spend twenty percent more. Their model has no concept of an additional two hundred thousand actual human beings who would give a shit, somehow, about this already-popular title. There is only the equation, and a roll of the dice.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make 3 months ago:
Wild idea:
Spend less.