I mean, there is still kind of a point being made with respect to monetization of social media… something which is insanely controversial on Mastodon.

Bring up something more minor like showing ads to cover server costs and it’s like tossing a grenade in and shutting the door.

Hold a “So you just lost access to the employee discount” sale on the Microsoft store.

I’m not entirely sure you’d want someone smoking around a large supply of oxygen, either.

To be serious, though, I’ve seen some places where they seal the entryway to a dedicated smoking room a bit better and vent the smoke outside. I feel like that would be safer/more practical than smoking booths.

The words of someone who has never tried Culver’s, clearly.

Not necessarily gaming related, but I remember their early coverage of every new Apple product as somehow more masturbatory than anything MacWorld put out. Then you’ve got their infamous complete mess of a PC build video and everything that followed that. I guess at least they aren’t written by AI yet?

There are a couple floating around out there, CNN/investopedia/Eat This Not That. The most scathing one I saw was from CNN, oddly enough: https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/09/business/consumer-spending-travel-value-nightcap

Swarms of bugs make it a lot less enjoyable, at least for me. There’s nothing like seeing someone’s back entirely covered in mosquito bites just because it rained a couple days earlier. I’ve read it’s only expected to get worse with the progression of climate change, especially when it comes to invasive species.

I guess there’s DEET and permethrin, but I don’t feel great about having to use those.

Wasn’t that almost what happened with Bryan Lunduke? AFAIK, dude took a hard turn to the right after years of decent Linux-related advocacy and then nuked his social media accounts and tried to claim the opposite. Not sure where he’s at now, but it was pretty strange.

My dad had the rare chance to name his position whatever he wanted, but the higher ups still rejected his choice of Grand Poobah.

It’s probably going to be a bit more like Diablo/borderlands where the campaign was fine but I have absolutely no drive to replay it on higher difficulties. I’d imagine people who are in the same boat will check out the next content drop with the elseworlds Joker stuff and gauge future interest based on that.

I think that’s supposed to come out in about a month?

Also, I wish Sony and Microsoft reported player counts for their respective consoles. Having player data for 1/3 platforms isn’t very helpful, IMHO.

If they hold up on their promise for an offline patch, the AI holds up well enough that it’d be ok (not great) as an offline single player game.

I can’t access the research article “craic in a box: commodifying and exporting the irish pub” anymore, but there’s a decent enough Vice article that goes over it: https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3d8gb/why-irish-pubs-became-the-biggest-food-and-drink-export-since-mcdonalds

Basically corporations packaged up and sold the theme and decorations that made Irish pubs feel authentic.

I wonder if using AI/ML is just the natural evolution of that kinda thing.

It’s more like a traditional 2d fighter than smash, but you can do that with MUGEN

It’s possible. It’s definitely a game that asks a lot of the player to get immersed in the underlying story. Lots of relatively dense philosophical excerpts to read in the terminals. That’s on top of lore-related text to read which really fleshes out the pretty dark story they’re telling. Then there are the puzzles which might not be everyone’s thing.

The second game improves this greatly by moving the majority of the story out of text and into voiced dialogue with NPCs and a few cutscenes. The jump from the Serious Sam engine to UE5 is pretty mind-blowing in terms of graphics. I think there’s going to be a third one, as well?

If the game can’t suck you in, I’d at least recommend looking up the story. It’s pretty neat.

Aside from obvious ones like Baldur’s Gate 3…

Talos Principle 2 is fantastic from start to finish and makes you feel smart. I’d say playing the first one is a must in order to really enjoy it. The dlc, Road to Gahenna, is skippable. Most people I’ve talked to find they already own the first one somehow and just never got around to playing it.

Viewfinder was also good but felt kind of short. It’s priced fairly, though, so it’s worth a try.

Ghost Trick was really really good on the ds, not sure how well it translates to pc but the reviewer liked it. Some part of its charm was the interaction with the stylus. If it goes on sale, absolutely pick it up.

Even better, infant body armor

This just reminded me of getting super cheap/nearly free ad-supported Kindle fires from Amazon, obtaining root access and installing a different ROM. They weren’t half bad spare Android tablets once you removed the adware.

In terms of looks, I will say the rocky textures are pretty nice. Also they managed to map actors faces without getting that weird bugeye effect so many other games suffer from.

Not sure how you’re trying to run it in a container, but the answer would depend on a bunch of different factors. Nvidia has a utility you can install that assists in exposing the GPU to the container, documentation found here.

If you’re using docker compose to run it as a service, there’s a doc page for that too. Note that it uses the previous page I mentioned as prerequisite.

There’s another way to get it working from within kubernetes that comes up every now and then on stackoverflow.

If it’s Intel or AMD, no idea if this still applies.

I wonder how much impact there might have been on code quality when Elon forced lead devs from their projects at Tesla to work on Twitter. I’ve never seen a situation like that turn out well for either party.

Someone pointed out the difference in active user counts, too. 2012 Reddit had ~43 million active users. Lemmy has an active user count somewhere around 60-90 thousand.

Point is, if you’re a dev looking to recoup some target cost, you’d be looking at a way smaller and riskier user base than the one that Sync saw on Reddit.

Edit: I didn’t even notice the dev essentially says that here https://lemmy.world/comment/2017279

It’s priced in a way that allows me to work on this full time. If Lemmy suddenly had 10X users I could bring the pricing down.