Tahl_eN @ Tahl_eN @lemmy.world

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I was at a protest in DTLA where they were firing them. Some cops were flinching when the rounds were fired. So I'm going with both incompetent and malicious.

I know someone who died of fast colon cancer, and I'd be okay with ICE agents going the same way.

Our marketing team isn't good enough to change consumer behavior like that. I'd love to work with a team with that ability.

Some games do that, especially at a generation border. It's not a ton of extra effort, but it's low-return: a game doesn't sell better or get a lot of press for being smaller.

I'm not super bothered by Tue copyright issue - the copyright system is barely serving people these days anyway. Blow it up.

I'm deeply troubled by the obscene power use. It might be worth it if it was a good tool. But it's not.

I haven't gone out of my way to use AI anything, but it's been stuffed into everything. And it's truly bad at it's job. AI is like a precocious 8-year-old, butting into every conversation. And it gives the right answer at about the rate a ln 8-year-old does. When I do a web search, I then need to do another one to check the AI's answer. Or scroll down a page to get past the AI answers to real sources. When someone uses it to summarize a meeting, I then need to read through that summary to make sure the notes are accurate. And it doesn't know to ask when it doesn't understand something like a proper secretary would. When I go looking for reference images, I have to check to make sure they're real and not hallucinations.

It gets in my way and slows me down. It needed at least another decade of development before being deployed at all, never mind at the scale it has, and it needs to be opt-in, not crammed into everything. And until it can be relied on, it shouldn't be allowed to suck down as much electricity as it does.

The majority of disc space on a game like CoD is textures, audio and FMV. There's no compressing 4k textures to get them to a reasonable footprint without losing quality. Same for 4k FMV. It's not management that drives the desire for high-res textures and diverse asset libraries, it's generally the art team. Once they're allowed to care about what kinds of shrubbery exist in Borneo and which exist in Minneapolis, you end up with 30 kinds of plants. Multiply that out for rocks, cars, rugs, etc and add in the expectation for 4k or 8k screens and individual assets get huge and the library gets huge.

You're right that it's possible to do "pretty good" graphics for less, but it's telling that your examples are from a decade ago and/or heavily stylized.

It's also about what people want to buy. If games with that aesthetic reliably sold like gangbusters, AAA would follow.

Game Dev here.I WISH we could still ship with N64 quality textures and audio. We'd use so much less disc space and probably finish sooner and cleaner.

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My understanding is that Samsung uses an odd standard that means they can't quick charge from Anker devices. That was at least true a few years back. Would be great to know if that's changed.

It was a team effort. Cory did the heavy lifting, but it takes a village to overthrow a tyrant.

I was very conservative. My drift leftward started before the internet was enough of a thing to have video debate spaces, but online debate has given me a lot to think about and pushed me farther left. I credit George Carlin with some of my early movement. He's like an online debate, just against air.

The one I've used on my Samsung isn't as fast as a wired power bank, but I don't need to wrangle the cables like I do with the wired ones. I wouldn't use a magsafe power bank to charge my phone from 0 (too slow). But leaving it attached gives me an extra couple of hours with just a little extra weight. Useful for things like conventions or travel.

I use one in my car - it's more convienet for short trips or trips with multiple stops. I do keep a cable for longer trips though, especially if I need to keep the screen on for GPS - the wireless charger makes the phone warm enough to stop charging over the course of an hour or so.

To me, there's concentration and there's flow state. Concentration is more of a manual process where I intentionally ignore distracting events. It involves building a structure that can hold up to bumps and it's hard work. Flow state is a groove where distractions melt away and only the task remains. One can turn into the other, and and depending on how your brain works they can both be fragile.

Motion built good machines! I've got one from 2010 that's still going strong.

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Remember to send them an email and let them know you're boycotting them. They don't have to know how long you've been doing it.

Sometimes you just need to send some dogs into that meeting and shoot the first plan that comes flying out.

"You can't have your cake and eat it" The older form was flipped: "you can't eat your cake and have it" They both can mean about the same, but the older form makes it much clearer - if you've eaten your cake, you no longer have it. But you could have your cake, then eat it.