Buddahriffic

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• ⁨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"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s why I hate capitalism as a consumer.

  “People need an incentive to invent things!”

  Well, if that incentive is making money instead of making a great thing, it’s probably not going to be a great thing. Great things make money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If there was any reason to believe they wouldn’t be selling data anyways, making it a paid thing would make it seem more trustworthy, at least. If it’s free, then you have to assume it’s generating profit through other means.

  Though even if that means of profit is from people using it to make Amazon orders, I still don’t trust it because most of the time when I do order something on Amazon, I need to look through a bunch of sketchy results to find one that looks trustworthy. I wouldn’t trust a voice assistant to pick a better option, in fact I wouldn’t be surprised if the voice assistant is specifically designed to select inventory they have more trouble moving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sims contender Life By You gets delayed once again, this time indefinitely⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s enough food examples of games that waited and were successful and games that didn’t wait and did poorly that releasing the game before it’s ready isn’t a great way to recover funds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA SPORTS WRC will be adding EA anticheat, game will not playable any more. On ProtonDB game is rated Platinum⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Woah, really? I had just noticed that the play button is replaced by an update button when there’s one pending and was a bit frustrated because my gap between playing paradox game sessions is long enough that it usually says my last save might not work.

  How is it for figuring out which version you need to go back to? Like would it be enough to use a file timestamp to match it to the version you would have used at that time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of those Hades hours were from me. Just have two achievements left but one of them will require skilling up a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Customers say Meta’s ad-buying AI blows through budgets in a matter of hours⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Especially one that controls how much money you are sending to the people that made the AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite Microsoft's push, Windows 11 and Edge see decreases in user share⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used litestep (I think that was the name) to do that back in the 00s on Windows XP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite Microsoft's push, Windows 11 and Edge see decreases in user share⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s just a reason to switch away from Windows 10, not a reason to switch to Windows 11. Though you can still use an OS after it’s been sunsetted. Some people still use Windows XP.

  I’ve got a Linux iso ready to be tested, a willingness to try out some other options, and an intent to pick one of those without even bothering with windows 11. I’ve only heard negative or neutral things about it (other than the multiple desktops mentioned in another comment, though that isn’t unique to Windows 11). Up to this point, I’ve not even been willing to entertain considering windows 11, but now I’m willing to at least hear the pitch. Is there anything other than inertia that makes people want to use Windows 11?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite Microsoft's push, Windows 11 and Edge see decreases in user share⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What is specifically meant by “multiple desktops”? Like just a button to move windows around to act like virtual screens? Or is there more to it than that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Despite Microsoft's push, Windows 11 and Edge see decreases in user share⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just out of curiosity, and admittedly without much intention of changing my mind regardless of the answer, but is there any compelling reason to switch to Windows 11? Some features or benefits that in any way make it a better experience than 10 (even if the overall experience isn’t better for other reasons)?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Even since 10, they keep moving shit around. I’ll Google how to disable some stupid feature and then have to search through the results to figure out which one still applies.

  Also, anyone else notice that in the MS support threads, almost every single first response is useless and doesn’t even really address the specific question being asked but a very basic version of it? And then 50/50 whether a better reply comes in after the OP says they already tried that (and said so in their OP) or that the response has nothing to do with what they actually asked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overwatch 2 Season 10 will unlock all current heroes and make future additions free⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, from my perspective, I didn’t think they were worth giving money to before either of those. So probably a simpler reason to why that was your line and not sooner.

  And this isn’t meant to be aggressive or to say you didn’t do good enough soon enough or anything like that. The reasons were probably something like “hadn’t heard of what was going on with them” or “shit only met your threshold for side eye, not yet boycott up until then”. But whatever your reasons, there’s still people in that stage. And there’s also people that just don’t care about any of that.

  Also, never forget that there are people who see MTX in video games and get excited about all the cool things they can buy in this game. And there’s people who think women working in tech are fair targets for harassment (sexual or otherwise), that Hong Kong should have stfu and got back to work, that it’s fun to play Diablo on their phone (tbh this one was more a sign that they had lost touch than a real negative thing), that they replaced the old games with newer ones and newer = better, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which shows do you think ended too soon, or went on too long?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Too soons that I didn’t see listed when I looked through the thread:

  Dark Matter (I enjoyed this more than Firefly tbh)

  Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'The Witcher 4 will channel the “freedom” of CDPR’s Cyberpunk 2077'⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, the money they are putting in hyping the game would be better spent on development. Don’t talk about it to people who aren’t involved in making it, just do it. I much prefer the steam early access method where it you think you have a good idea, you release it early on for a cheaper price. Then you see how it does and receive player feedback and iterate from there.

  Too much hype can make a game seem worse by raising expectations too high.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think traffic lights depend on the skill of the person setting them up. They’ve got a bunch of sensors (car waiting over magnetic sensor, visual sensor detects something other than road in magic area, pedestrian button pressed, time of day, timer since last transition, emergency vehicle override) as input and different intersection states as output.

  Someone could program a cycle to just ignore all of the sensors and run through the various states on a timer. Or they could make a more complex cycle loop that lengthens the main state at night, switches sooner if a sensor is triggered, and tries to be smart about it. Or you could go for an even more complex statistical model that not only takes sensor states into account but tries to predict those sensors for even more accuracy.

  My guess is that there’s great variance in both the skills of the person doing the programming and their managers and politicians/administrators calling the shots. And that variance in skill includes ones who don’t bother trying anything more complex than the defaults as well as those who do but aren’t good at it (eg: I’ve noticed that some intersections make their main cycle longer at night and don’t cycle unless someone is waiting but make them wait longer than they would during the day when night time means that interrupting the main cycle affects fewer people so they make people wait on the side streets for no good reason).

  And there’s also the question of persistence. If they need to be reprogrammed any time the power goes out, they might just go with the easier route if they can’t restore backups.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some common everyday examples of this phenomenon? (see body)⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I’ve only seen one elevator that didn’t do anything immediately after pressing the close door button.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam dropping support for macOS Mojave and by extension 32-bit games⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop fearmongering.

  ??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a way around that. Put their name and number on a list by the phone under “DO NOT SERVE” and hang up when they call.

  Some call those who deal with people like this saints, but I call them enablers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't know how to title this⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm it’s possible but I’d think a cat would easily be able to stay on its feet if the top was pushed off. But losing its balance and ending up like that also doesn’t make sense to me.

  My guess is the picture taker gave the cat some kind of jump scare (which tbf could involve pushing on the top) and had the camera ready.

  Though if that is the case, the joke might be on them because that cat might look for new places to do its business now that the litter box isn’t safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your evil deeds may be causing Baldur's Gate 3 bugs⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally, I don’t get frustrated so much by the presence of bugs themselves (though it can depend on their impact) as the longevity of some of them. A lot of the bugs were cute in Skyrim, but if you see the same or similar bug in the new game, it gets less cute.

  But there could be a part of it that comes from “familiarity breeds contempt”. BG3, while being a sequel to BG2, is new and fresh. Starfield feels like Skyrim in space. Bethesda has been a powerhouse for a long time, while Larian wasn’t as popular going in, so expectations are higher for Bethesda, too.

  Though I’ve gotta admit I haven’t played any BG3 and not much Starfield, so this is a bit speculative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing a bunch of Rogue Tower lately, going for some of the achievements. Finally got sticks and stones, but it was kinda disappointing because I got the polygon mobs instead of the missile ones and looking at the monster information, they are easier. I wanted to see if that setup would have taken on the missile mobs that kept killing me in wave 38 or 39.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What moment from a video game made you cry?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hades has some emotional moments. That game is so well-written. Trying to avoid spoilers, but the first time escaping was one, then the nth time escaping where they play that awesome track was another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What were your top favorite video games as a kid?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t believe that this is the first and only mention of Goldeneye. Though it was eclipsed by Perfect Dark, those two were the best console fps games until Halo came out and finally figured out the controls.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do guys that tip cam models hundreds of dollars week after week think that model actually likes them?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or more likely, a dream they hope will make them happy, and maybe does give them some nice feelings before eventually crushing those feelings brutally.