[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Erm, most games? You're better off asking which games people might remember 20 years from now. You ask me what games released in 2004 off the to of my head I could only remember Halo 2, Half-life 2 and Doom 3 (and this one I remember because of Half-life 2). I'm 100% certain I'm forgetting some huge release from 2004. But that's the thing, only the really memorable games will be remembered.

I could probably mention 20-30 games from the 00s (maybe 50-60 because some series released a lot of games in that time frame. For example Half-life 2, episode 1 and episode 2 make up 3 games, but I remember all of them because of Half-life 2), but over a decade thousands of games were released. The vast majority of games will be forgotten.

20 years from now maybe some old man like myself remembers Space Marine 2, but it will get wiped from the collective memory.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago

IMO the issue isn't WotC, it's Hasbro. WotC is their golden goose and they're squeezing it for everything. I haven't checked their recent earnings calls but I wouldn't be surprised if WotC is still their only subsidiary where the revenue isn't declining.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 18 points 2 months ago

But you can read the source code and get an understanding of whether it is collecting private information or not. You can theoretically also fork the code and make your own version of Lemmy where you're ripped out the parts that collect private information. Can you do any of those things with Reddit? Absolutely not. You have no idea what exactly Reddit collects and even if you did you have no control over that collection.

What you're doing is questioning the privacy aspect without putting in the effort to check if your questioning is valid. Nobody is preventing you from reading the source code. And if you don't trust anyone else running the instance you can fork Lemmy, make whatever privacy changes you need and host your own instance. That goes beyond the capabilities of the average user but that's the catch with privacy, if you can't trust others then you have to learn more to get by without others.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 18 points 4 months ago

Kinda hard to get a reliable source when Israel keeps killing reporters.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The developer is involved to the extent that they have to do what Sony says. The CEO of Arrowhead even tweeted that people should email Sony, referring to a Playstations own website where it stated that PSN is optional. Sony then quickly changed their web page to say it's sometimes required.

From my point of view this is all Sony.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 19 points 6 months ago

A good software developer can also work with any language, but if you're going to use Javascript to build an enterprise level software you are guaranteed to have a bad time.

You use what is best for the job and from my understanding there's really no benefit to using imperial measures over SI, beyond the familiarity of growing up with them. If you were taught SI units from the very start you wouldn't ever use imperial.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 18 points 7 months ago

Where I live we don't really discuss salaries and I think that mostly comes down to society being tricked into believing it's a bad thing. However our national statistics agency has made salary statistics public, which means anyone easily check their salary range and see if they're being underpaid. I actually prefer that to discussing with co-workers because you end up getting a much better picture of your industry.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 18 points 7 months ago

Yes, let's blame the users for having a shitty product. I'm not going to build a whole setup just so my wife could watch Netflix. Not to mention putting her through the troubles of having learn a new more convoluted way to do the same thing, and then I have to get a lecture on why I shouldn't spend money on needless tech thingoes that make her live complicated. What's your suggestion, get a new wife?

How about you show some compassion for OP. You don't know his situation. Maybe he has a wife a home who will wring his neck if he doesn't keep the TV connected. It's not OPs fault Roku is a POS company, blame Roku not OP.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I think you're giving him too much credit. The announcement that he owned Twitter shares already hiked the price. If he wanted to ~~short~~ pump and dump he should've just kept his mouth shut, get on the board and then sell his stocks. The initial hike to his 9% ownership was on par with his buy offer hike. If his plan was to pump the company he could've done it without the legal trouble. Also the second price hike was after he had already made a public bid for the company and the company had accepted the offer. At that point he was locked in to buying the company. There was speculation if such a deal is allowed to go through, but the reality is that unless someone else steps in Musk had two options, he either buys the company or he gets taken to court and is forced to buy the company.

He had to buy the company, but not because he was risking going to jail. He had to buy it because he screwed himself over by making the bid in the first place. I don't get the need to make him seem like an intelligent man. He didn't have any grand schemes or ulterior motives or someone else footing the bill. He simply made a horrible move, probably because he's a huge manchild who didn't like that the CEO of Twitter didn't completely lick his boot.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 18 points 8 months ago

They still have to make sure their anticheat works on Linux. That's the biggest missing support.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago

Because races are more than just the strategy or technical skill of racing. Half the entertainment in most sports are the storylines and this race was full of stories. When Max got a 5 second penalty it opened up the storyline of Leclerc possibly ending his unfortunate streak of starting on pole and not winning. Then there was Perez having a really unlucky turn 1 that he turned around and was even P1 for a stint, only to be robbed of P2 by Leclerc on the last lap. Then there was Sainz first being screwed over by the FIA but then also having a poor turn 1 only to turn it all around and finish in points. Oh and of course Max actually having to race for the win. And those are just some stories off the top of my head. So much more happened in the race that was beyond just strategy or skill.

If you watch F1 just for the actual racing then I agree it wasn't all that great, but I think if you're watching it just for that reason then you're missing a lot of what makes F1 entertaining.

[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

It is a random spot check but when you have a 50% failrate shouldn't it be investigated further? Imagine going skydiving. There's a parachute spot check that shows 50% of the parachutes don't work and everyone else is given the green light. Would you jump? Somehow I doubt it. The plank check is a similar safety check, except it's done after the race because you can't beforehand verify if the car isn't too low. It's a dangerous sport and safety should be taken seriously.

Also the current approach punishes the driver. It's not the driver's (at least I don't think it is) responsibility to make sure their team gives them a regulation-compliant car. It's the constructors responsibility and the punishment should focus on the constructor, which means at the very least both cars should be checked if one of them fails.

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