Sterile_Technique
@Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
- Comment on A Developer Built A Real-World Ad Blocker For Snap Spectacles 4 weeks ago:
But we already have RL ad blockers.
Iirc the legal term is “vandalism”. The stakes are higher, but the perk is that one user can block an ad for every user, so think of it as a community effort.
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 2 months ago:
I want teamspeak and vent
xFire. God I miss xFire. It was better 10 years ago than any service before or since.
Iirc Yahoo frivolous-lawsuit’ed them out of existence. Q_Q
- Comment on Terraria hits over 60 million sales with Terraria 1.4.5 shaping up to be another big update 8 months ago:
SHUDDUP! He can qui -hic!- he can quit any time he wants!
- Comment on Nintendo, famed for hating emulation, likely using Windows PCs to emulate SNES games at its museum 9 months ago:
It sued itself in it’s confusion!
- Comment on Future Fords might detect speeding and report you to the cops 11 months ago:
Wake me up when someone jailbreaks the thing and sells them as an aftermarket car mod that lets me aim it at any driver I’m pissed off at and broadcast a falsified report of their vehicle driving 90mph.
I get a “fuck you!” button, and the legal system gets a shit storm that eventually renders the tech inadmissable. Win win!!
- Comment on Paramount Cancels Halo Series After Two Seasons 1 year ago:
Halo’s been fucked since 343. Paramount was just kicking a corpse.
- Comment on US kids want games subscriptions and virtual currency more than games this Christmas 1 year ago:
We’ve been hooking kids on gambling since (at least) baseball cards, which -surprise!- were heavily lobbied to convince law makers to let it fly.
Consumers were doomed the instant we failed to torch and pitchfork that shit.
- Comment on What were your top favorite video games as a kid? 1 year ago:
One that never really took off for the N64 almost surely because the controls were so fucked - Jetforce Gemini.
Those who took the time to tolerate and master the janky controls were rewarded with a shooter that was otherwise second to none. AND YES THAT INCLUDES 007!
Hearing the music cranks the nostalgia up to 10 immediately.