rafoix
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- Comment on Even Xbox developer kits are getting a big price hike 23 hours ago:
I looks like they’re actively trying to kill the Xbox brand and go back to just having MS branding like the old days.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 1 day ago:
lol, e-waste beds.
- Comment on When Everything Is Fake, What’s the Point of Social Media? 1 day ago:
Social media’s value comes from its ability to influence the public.
AI’s value comes from its theoretical ability to replace humans in jobs and in influencing the public.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 2 days ago:
Who’s blaming the victim?
I’m blaming the one-way relationship celebrity culture. It seems like a breeding ground for people with serious social issues.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 2 days ago:
I can imagine that this type of celebrity attracts the most unhinged obsessed fans with borderline personality disorder and/or other potentially dangerous and antisocial behaviors.
- Comment on As Microsoft lays off thousands and jacks up Game Pass prices, former FTC chair says I told you so: The Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers' 1 week ago:
Activision should not have been allowed to merge with Blizzard.
MS should not have been allowed to purchase then.
- Comment on Why Japan's internet is weirdly designed 1 week ago:
they’re stuck in their version of the Geocities / dot-com boom era
That’s before everything became total shit.
- Comment on Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino 1 week ago:
Consolidation is always bad for consumers.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Tesla “full self driving” is an illusion that works on idiots.
- Comment on Dev says Switch 2’s physical Game Cards were too slow for Star Wars Outlaws port 1 month ago:
There very little chance that there will be faster game cards. I don’t think it has ever happened before on any system.
it would likely be a lot of work
This is the key point. The amount of work they would need to do goes against the amount of profit the way want to make.
CDPR actually put in the work to adapt the game to Switch 2. Not every publisher is willing to do it.
- Comment on Dev says Switch 2’s physical Game Cards were too slow for Star Wars Outlaws port 1 month ago:
CDPR can do it.
- Comment on Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics lay off more staff, say the series' future is "unaffected" 1 month ago:
Tomb Raider needs to go back to exploration focused gameplay.
Once it became more action focused, it took away Lara’s fun vibe. Now she’s a grizzled mercenary with PTSD.
They should look at Death Stranding for exploration based gameplay.
- Comment on Coinbase CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn’t try AI immediately 1 month ago:
Crypto is full of scammers that are not allowed to trade securities because of criminal activities.
- Comment on Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty 1 month ago:
Yes, the longer they delay the more expensive it will be.
- Comment on Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty 1 month ago:
It would benefit Canada and most countries to join forces and invest into open source tools together that achieve each of their objectives.
Canada doesn’t have to do it alone.
- Comment on Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty 1 month ago:
Open source software should reduce costs and improve reliability.
- Comment on [[TheGamer]] Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition's Gamescom Build Has Major Performance Issues On Nintendo Switch 2 1 month ago:
FromSoft is one of the best developers in the world. Unfortunately, they lag behind many other studios when it comes to software performance. This has been an ongoing issue for multiple decades.
- Comment on Leaks again hint at Valve doing a proper Steam Machine Console 1 month ago:
A Steam Machine only makes sense with an APU.
wccftech.com/xbox-next-magnus-apu-power-both-cons…
This seems to make more sense for AMD, MS and Valve.
- Comment on The Chinese Room defend Bloodlines 2's paywalled vampire clans: "we have been expanding it from where we originally planned to land it" 1 month ago:
I’ll just wait for the discounted version.
- Comment on Sony makes the “difficult decision” to raise PlayStation 5 prices in the US 1 month ago:
The solution to this is a healthy PC gaming market but the hardware prices there are much more inflated than console hardware costs.
- Comment on Intel’s Move Toward Nationalization Won’t Work—at Least for the Long Haul 2 months ago:
That’s great because Qualcomm sucks.
- Comment on Google executive Ruth Porat calls Trump admin’s climate denialism “fantastic” and calls for data centers to be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear 2 months ago:
She’s wealthy. At no point is her home life affected by the climate crisis.
- Comment on A massive Wyoming data center will soon use 5x more power than the state's human occupants - but no one knows who is using it 2 months ago:
At least it’s something positive.
- Comment on Intel’s Move Toward Nationalization Won’t Work—at Least for the Long Haul 2 months ago:
Qualcomm seems like is going to be the big ARM supplier for Windows PCs. Nvidia and AMD have yet to announce any ARM SoCs.
ARM is good enough for most computing needs and it uses a lot less power.
- Comment on Intel’s Move Toward Nationalization Won’t Work—at Least for the Long Haul 2 months ago:
x86s days are numbered. Only gaming PCs will stick to it long term. ARM will power almost everything until something better comes along.
- Comment on Rumor: There Is A Performance Gap Between Switch 2 Game Cards Vs. Internal Storage 2 months ago:
Mostly a non-issue. Slightly longer loading times if using physical media.
Worth it.
- Comment on Meta names Shengjia Zhao as chief scientist of AI superintelligence unit | TechCrunch 2 months ago:
“Artificial Intelligence Superintelligence Unit”
That unit was named by less than intelligent people.
- Comment on Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse 2 months ago:
Who the hell uses the metaverse? Isn’t that thing DOA?