[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you go through that user's other reviews, while they are very funny, they're also very AI generated. Tons of contrivances and the classic "and honestly?"

They were almost all posted on April 13th, and they all drop the "brand name" of the product in just really unnatural ways. This is 1,000% a bot.

Do go visit the profile though. The sex toy reviews are pretty funny.

If you want some quick examples of how this is obviously AI:

[-] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You guys make this sound like some kind of doomsday movie.

I'm not downplaying how bad things are, but if you really have the several thousand dollars you'd need to actually uproot your entire life just sitting around, good for you. Most people don't have that kind of free money.

And good luck moving if you have pets, or have family members you care for. Have you guys even been to your "target" countries? Do you have plans for how you'll make income? How does healthcare work in your target country?

If you have all that figured out, and have nothing to leave behind, then good for you, I really do hope you end up better off. But this panicked response of "What are you waiting for, run!!!!!" is way more entitled than people seem to think.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

Everyone sees this notice, I saw it on the official desktop Firefox client. They're just trying to reach as many people as possible.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Before it got enshittified with an update a few years ago, I used the RealVNC Android app to connect to a few of my own VNC servers. Wasn't interested in any of the fancy features, I just wanted a good VNC app.

Now I use AVNC. It's solid, performs better than RealVNC used to, and it's open source! You can get it on FDroid.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

There was no judgement, only a settlement. Yuzu is not "illegal." Nintendo can abuse DMCA and request GitHub take these down, and GitHub will probably listen, but Nintendo would not be "legally in the right" to do so.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

I really hope you've taken a breather inbetween your internet raging to realize the "violent" aspects of this game are completely optional. It's tastefully done, and absolutely no different than killing Minecraft cows for food. Are you a vegetarian when you play Minecraft?

If the game wasn't also low effort slop that's borderline an asset flip with how many designs they've stolen, I'd probably tolerate it more but I'm awestruck so many people are eating this trash up and celebrating it.

If you're going to parrot stuff you heard off Twitter, the least you can do is verify it for yourself first. The designs aren't stolen. Did they steal 3D models? No. Are they shamelessly similar? Yes. But that's allowed, and it's been a staple of the gaming industry for 30 years. We literally call other genres of shamelessly similar games by the games they copy. Soulslikes. Roguelikes. Metroidvanias.

You clearly haven't tried this game. It's not "slop," it's high effort, there is a ton of attention to detail, and the success it has gotten is absolutely earned. I've never seen an indie game get so much right.

It beat Baldur's Gate 3 on Steam. It has more players than the 2023 Game of the Year.

Steam is filled with trash low effort games, yes. But are you really so full of yourself that you think Palworld would sell this well if it were just another shovelware title? If it were "slop?" Grow up, please.

And let's not forget the franchise you're defending. THIS is slop:

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

0.12kg over four years??

How is that not within the margin of error?

[-] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The person you replied to is being downvoted, and yes, expecting support from Google is a meme, and Google deserves 100% of the negativity they're receiving in this regard.

But, in their defense, they have always kept their word on keeping Pixels updated, and in some cases, have added on an additional year of support when not originally planned, including an extra full Android update for older devices.

So while they eventually kill every new software product they make, they've always kept their word on Pixel updates. I think the Pixel team has a lot more resources than the rest of Google, so I'm inclined to believe them for now, but I'll be one of the first people grabbing a pitchfork if they don't keep their word.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

By blocking unauthorized emulations on PC, studios are able to increase their revenue during the game launch window, which is the most important period for monetization.

Uh huh, yeah, this will definitely just create money out of thin air from people who couldn't afford it in the first place.

The Nintendo Switch Emulator Protection will ensure that anyone wishing to play the game has to buy a legitimate copy.

To say nothing of Switches running custom firmware. There is absolutely no way for a game to detect this, so it will still be easy to pirate with those. Games will still leak early. Nothing will change.

This is a grift. Studios will probably spend more to license this "technology" than they stand to "save" by preventing emulation. They are taking advantage of clueless game studio execs and they know it.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We can thank all that tetraethyllead gas that was pumping lead into the air from the 20s to the 70s. Everyone got a nice healthy dose of lead while they were young. Made 'em stupid.

OP's mom breathed nearly 20 years worth of polluted lead air straight from birth, and OP's grandmother had been breathing it for 33 years up until OP's mom was born. Probably not great for early development.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Shameless self plug:

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

This is because Lemmy uses websockets to retrieve live data from the server. I imagine this was a good thing when Lemmy was unpopulated, but now it's just in the way. It's also causing strange bugs, like the vote count rapidly changing to wrong values, or a post just completely changing into a different one while you are reading it.

Websockets will be removed from Lemmy in 0.18, which should fix all of this.

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