maynarkh

@maynarkh@feddit.nl

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The closed beta for Concord, Sony's new hero shooter, is underway - and the open beta arrives on Thursday⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do we really need more hero shooters?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe one guy got a lot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's environmental report pointedly avoids AI's actual energy cost⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are not saying “I’m not sure”, they are saying “I’m not telling you”. Big difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Run it through an AI to accelerate model collapse. In fact make more comments, but run all through an AI first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Killing Games is a new campaign to stop developers making games unplayable⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the world “developers” means the studios here, which is mostly because the suits who know how to extract value from stuff others create like to cosplay as experts in the industry they are leeching off of.

  Look at Musk, he’s a rocket scientist / web developer / automotive engineer / civil engineer. Of course he is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video games can boost creativity in young⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  a recently-knighted AI millionaire

  I don’t even know what to say to this.

  That said, games are great for creativity and mental health and whatever, as long as they are not lootbox-laden casinos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook execs to 'figure out' how to track encrypted usage on rival apps like Snap and YouTube, unsealed documents show⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are rich people, that’s different.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is quietly installing the Copilot app on Windows PCs⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IIRC in YaST it was like three clicks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft shows another Bing popup advertisement to Windows users - gHacks Tech News⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this a blatant violation of the DMA no self-preferencing clause? Or are they only doing this in not-the-EU?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airbnb is banning indoor security cameras⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess if the guests tear off the cameras, they can’t recover money from them through AirBnB?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Streaming Ads Are So Much Worse Than Traditional Ad Breaks | MZS | Roger Ebert⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s everywhere now, that word. “Content.” Even some artists have surrendered and now use the language of the oppressor.

  It’s something I’ve noticed a while ago, it’s just so awful. It degenerates pieces of art into monetary value. It’s depressing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Sim players have the world at their fingertips; now they want a time machine, too⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  TL;DR:

  Microsoft/Asobo is responding to the community asking for historical weather conditions instead of only now-current ones, they say it’s very hard to impossible to do it due to a lack of data and existing data being hard to get into the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe feature creep?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Workshop Has added support for paid mods⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an example, most of DCS World’s content is made by external people, each “mod” that adds a new aircraft priced at full game price, and is actually worth the money.

  Bohemia is trying to do something similar to Arma, with some community mods being sold as essentially DLCs.

  I can’t say I don’t like the model, if the content is big enough. No microtransaction crap though like the first iteration of paid Skyrim mods. Those sucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dragon Age: Dreadwolf - Official 'Thedas Calls' Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is a teaser for a teaser in 6 months time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 1⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s an official software development term for it Scope creep I think.