CaptPretentious @ CaptPretentious @lemmy.world

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I'll be honest, I had no idea he was supposed to considered a comedian. I've only known him as an HBO political talk show host.

I love turn based. Games like XCOM, Marvel's midnight Sun, or Baldur's Gate 3 could only be turn based.

While it's not all 'action' games, I've found many distill down too some very basic mechanics because of it gets to complex no one would play in today's world. Anyone else remember MechWarrior 2, and every key in the keyboard was bound to something... and how you absolutely didn't use even half of it. Less tactics, more button mashing. Don't get me wrong, that is fun sometimes.

Might be faster to pick up the phone and have someone describe the software to you, lol.

I would say, having an affinity for math can be a sign of affinity for programming.

Logical abstract thinking, order of operations, and problem solving all transfer. A for loop is just a summation equation for example.

But id say in today's high level development, being math centric is less important.

I miss that show. I also miss that era of YouTube.

Yahoo and Facebook are still very much around. But they're nothing like when they were on top.

Minnesota checking in. This is exactly correct. Great time for sitting around a fire.

If Apple ever actually entered the gaming market, (and I probably have a better chance of winning the lottery than them joining the gaming market)... I would fully expect that specific parts namely the GPU will have to be Apple approved. Probably nothing more than a small chip that authenticates it as Apple approved, much like they do with their laptops and cell phones currently. So if you think GPU price is are high the exact same GPU but Apple approved will have even higher cost. Because Apple is just a fashion brand really you're going to pay the fashion tax.

I honestly can't see that big of a market for this. A 4090 is supposed to be $1,600 MSRP. I would fully expect the Apple version of that to be $2,000 MSRP at minimum for the same product just with the Apple approved stamp.

I've been with the same place for about 16 years. I wasted a lot of time staying in one department trying to be the best employee. I've moved repeatedly just within the company. Because moving within the company is pretty easy to do. The yearly pay raises I was getting was garbage. By moving departments and renegotiating my pay I've effectively doubled my pay from 4 years ago.

When there's no incentive to stay but all the reason to go...

Bluetooth headphones were very much useable when we had headphone jacks. Now your only option is overpriced Bluetooth devices that will not last.

Internal storage on your phone is not that big. What they want to do is sell you cloud storage. iPhone 15 Pro, to get 1TB of internal storage is $1500. The cheapest Samsung is 'Galaxy S22 Ultra, 1TB' @ $1600. And the Google Pixel 8, your looking at $1200. Each option basically costs about $500 for that 1TB option. But I could buy a 1.5TB card for $150 on Amazon....

Phone's being thinner is the dumbest marketing point. It's counterproductive to everything you want the phone to have. Like a decent sized battery, proper cooling, and features.... And make it so that the phone isn't flimsy. To say that people no longer needed these features is also just dumb. You know who decided people no longer need these features, someone in Apple's marketing department who realized you could sell $150 headphones instead of giving away quality $20 headphones.

You need to realize that the reason people keep buying new phones isn't because of the new features (which there are none) it's because their phone now sucks because it's aging out because they can't replace anything. Imagine being able to recycle the battery instead of creating just a bunch of e-waste every couple of years.

Lefsa.

Making it solo is a monstrous pain in the butt. It's so easy to screw up too.

Tell me you get all your information and views exclusively from social media echo chambers, without telling me you got them from social media echo chambers...

https://youtu.be/YWZR2hcCo1A?si=Lch1E7DdMD-RQ4uV

That won't be the solution forever. They'll put an always online requirement soon.

So buy more!

Left out the part and at the end he plays victim and made a claim that he was going to sue the people that called him out for not donating.

I'd say, Twitch is ever increasingly less and less about games and more and more is just becoming PornHub. So, it's ripe for child exploitation (teenagers) and potentially could scare away advertisers.

Boris Johnson?

Individually maybe. But every streaming company has been doing price hikes. And you're not getting anything more, just some useless "AI" stuff I doubt anyone asked for. If they had said the increase was 100% so they could offer more to creators I wouldn't blink. Or using it to hire the support staff creators need, also would be cool with that. But this looks like nothing more than the corporate bottom line

So you show them a picture and then ask them to focus on the flavors, and then take the picture away and then ask a different question. You do understand why that's not scientific and is unfair to the results.