ShellMonkey

@ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK | Labour 'doesn't understand the internet', tech giant 4chan’s lawyer tells LBC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ‘Tech giant 4chan’s lawyer’ is a series of words I never thought I’d read

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam and GOG remain largely what Netflix once was, a one-stop shop for their media landscape.

  When the TV/Movie industries all decided they wanted to hold onto their own properties it wrecked the value to the end user and resulted in the clusterfuck that video streaming has become.

  These game publishers would do well to not repeat that same mistake. That so many of the launcher front ends allow you to interconnect with other services speaks to people wanting that unified portal, it just happens to be that Steam was one of the first to get it right.

  I’ll still stick primarily with GOG for their DRM free stance, but if that wasn’t available I’d take Steam over a dozen different vendors to keep track of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California bill pushing to keep games playable after server shutdowns "doesn't reflect how games actually work", ESA assert⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny, I have a pile of games that work just fine without a server. Multiplayer might be a truck bon-locally, but no reason it needs remote calls to work otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kevin O'Leary says opponents of his Utah data center are 'professional protesters' — and some are powered by AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My AI won’t be used for nefarious manipulative purposes, it’s just all these other people that do that, I’m the good guy…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spooked by Mythos, Trump suddenly realized AI safety testing might be good⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  More realistic is previewing to see if they should keep it for themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The US Patent Office have rejected a Nintendo Pokemon patent for summoning subcharacters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So many software patents are nuts. The idea of owning rights to a specific game mechanic is just as bad. Abstracted to the Nth degree you could read this request as char A told char B to do a thing and they comply. That’s hardly a unique enough thing to merit any kind of legal protection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burger King will use AI to monitor employee 'friendliness'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t been there in a couple decades, but that kind of 1984 BS would put them from passively skipping to actively disliking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a mouse, they used to just be a simple thing you plug in, get a basic driver from the OS and it makes a cursor move.