AndrasKrigare

joined 2 years ago
[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 2 points 1 week ago

You've lost another submarine?

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

The power aspect is a lot bigger of a factor than I would have thought. I had an old computer I was going to use as a server for Foundry that I could keep up all the time, but when I measured its wattage and did the math, it would cost me $20 a month to keep on. A pi costs like $2 to keep running, so it paid for itself pretty quick

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

At least plugging them all into Google translate, the pronunciations are actually all pretty similar, with Swedish being the most dissimilar

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Has science gone too far?

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org -1 points 1 month ago

Alternate take: I want something that does B, so I research methods of doing B and find one that's good. Good thing I'm a smart boy that doesn't make purchasing decisions based on what the marketing department says things do.

There's plenty of good reasons to criticize or be concerned about LLMs. You don't need to make up dumb ones.

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org -2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Sure, but false advertising has nothing to do with how good an invention is, that's a marketing problem.

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org -1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

No? I have a pair of shoes that advertise as being great for running and walking. I love walking in them, but they suck for running. Are you saying the shoes suck and I shouldn't use them at all, even though I like walking in them?

Tools don't care about intent, and neither should you. Only things that work and things that don't. And if it doesn't work, you should use a different tool.

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

It's gotten so seamless now, and wine has gotten pretty good. I can download a Windows executable, double click it, go through the regular Windows installer, and then have it make a shortcut on my desktop which will launch it.

Your average user won't even know all the Dark Magics making it possible, or that they were supposed to have looked around for a Linux alternative, it just works

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I agree with you about CDs but I'm not sure I understand your point about physical copies. If they're still buying and shipping a physical SD card, from a production perspective, I'm pretty sure that's the same cost regardless of whether it's a key or a full game. And considering that digital copies of games tend to be the same price as physical ones anyways, I think the physical aspect is pretty negligible and doesn't factor into the price in any real way.

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 10 points 1 month ago

I think they're making a joke that one of the definitions of "revolution" is making a complete circle. In the cartoon, "reform" is making a ton of revolutions.

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I don't disagree with your conclusion, but I think part of why it sucks now is all the Search Engine Optimization, of people trying to game Google into showing you their website, and only necessarily the one most pertinent to your search

 

After learning that soup is sterilized in the canning process and doesn't actually need to be reheated, I pretty much always just eat it straight from the can. It saves dishes and microwave time, and makes it extremely easy to just grab and go if I need something for the road.

But, somewhat understandably, I haven't met anyone else who does this.

 

So there's obviously been a lot of existing discourse on DD2's micro transactions, and I'm curious to get the thoughts of people here.

I haven't played the game yet, but the consensus I've gotten is that the MTXs are largely meaningless because they're so easy to get in-game, but if they weren't so easy to get they would be outrageous. It seems there's some amount of counter-backlash defending the game saying that those who are upset just don't understand how easy it is to get those things in-game.

Personally, I don't think Capcom is dumb; my money would be that they wanted to test the waters to see what player response would be to these types of transactions, or that they would want to (quietly) adjust how easy they are to get in-game later on.

 

Formerly Zero Punctuation for the Escapist, now Fully Ramblomatic for Second Wind.

 

Long-form, but good video

 

How important are reddit-style flairs for people? There's the raised issue https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/317 which has it listed as a far-future, with questions as far as how to handle federation.

Personally, having at least an initial implementation done on a community level would be largely sufficient, with expansion to instance-wide being optional. The situation I've found most useful, personally, is sports-related groups with your favored team being your flair. This gives context to comments without constantly having to say "as a X fan"

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