[-] Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago

recurring cost to rent a multiplayer server though, maybe that was it

[-] Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 1 month ago

They are and they must. There is no path forward that doesn't massively disinvest from personal vehicles.

[-] Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 6 months ago

Well, when a man and a woman love each other very much... they can visit each other in the hospital when they're sick. For example.

[-] Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 6 months ago

Been like a decade since I touched usenet but I do recall that requests were pretty common. Especially since the content expires. With a 5 year old torrent there's a decent chance you'll find a couple of seeders even on a public tracker and get it eventually, but with usenet that stuff does eventually rot away and you'll have to request a reup.

[-] Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 7 months ago

this message is for investors, not gamers

dumb investors will be like "oh yay they're doing the tech hype fad thing that lets management do big layoffs and pump out content"

smart investors will be like "this will make the games worse"

[-] Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 7 months ago

Boost this one to the top, it's the official reason given by sony. You can disparage it if you want, but it has technical merit. The audio codecs supported by mainstream bluetooth devices are meant for music, where you want the highest possible quality and can tolerate a slight delay between when you press play and when the music actually starts.

In video games this means you get a noticable delay on the audio. With classic video file playback like a movie, this can be compensated for by delaying the visuals so thay match up with the audio, but delaying the visuals in a video game is an even worse experience for the player.

Sony's use of a proprietary audio codec via their wireless controllers is pretty justified. They're able to optimize for latency and it shows (or rather, it doesn't, since you probably would never notice it).

[-] Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 8 months ago

Yeah no, applications need to be secure by default. Blaming the user does nothing to actually improve the security posture anywhere. The security posture of the app needs to be specifically designed with the least-skilled users in mind because they are also the most vulnerable to this type of problem. Google meanwhile is full of talented engineers who are experts at identifying and combatting this type of malware scam.

To look at it another way, what google is actually doing here is intentionally exposing their users to malware in order to take a cut in the form of advertising revenue.

[-] Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 9 months ago

Like, shitloads of people ARE calling him out for that. 75% of Israelis want him to resign. Yet here we are.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/11/1211767117/israel-netanyahu-growing-opposition-hamas-war-gaza

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[-] Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 9 months ago

EVE online, the game of undiagnosed autists calling each other autists

[-] Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 9 months ago

by themselves? no. but as part of a complete breakfast?

[-] Fitzsimmons@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 11 months ago

This is a weird take when "really rich guys doing depraved things" is a recurring villain trope across an awful lot of comic books and take up a huge portion of the narrative. Insane wealth is often framed so powerfully in these contexts that sometimes it can parallel superpowers.

The green goblin and doc oc are just really rich guys that do fucked up things! It's implies that spidey puts goons and henchmen into the justice system because of course he does, what else is he going to do? His other options are killing them or just letting them get away with whatever the insane rich guy wants to do, which is often some kind of terror attack on NYC. And those both suck too.

Spidey is too busy trying to literally prevent some business tycoon from idk opening a demon portal under central park to also advocate for prison reform.

Just let the stories be fun.

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