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Chozo

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Chozo ,

I disagree, you can see so much on the old layout specifically because it's a wall of text. The new layout is unnecessarily bloated and takes up your whole screen on every device you view it from, so you can barely see more than one or two posts at a time. It removes the ability for the user to freely scroll and look at things that interest them, and forces the user's attention onto exactly what the algorithm wants them to. The new layout removes a ton of agency from the user.

Chozo ,

This only hides content locally for Threads users, it doesn't affect visibility from any other fedi platform. It's not that different from a Lemmy instance downvoting a comment to the point of being auto-hidden; it still exists but requires an extra click to see from your instance, and the rest of the fediverse can access it normally.

Chozo ,

Nintendo isn't against emulation. They're against piracy, which Yuzu was facilitating. None of the emulators that don't have specific support for unreleased games have been touched so far.

Chozo ,

The mechs are cool, but I've got a feeling that their use case will be very situational. I'm more excited for the other vehicles that we should also be getting soon.

Chozo ,

That fork seems like a cash grab considering it already has a Patreon.

Have they learned nothing from the lawsuit?

Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

See title - very frustrating. There is no way to continue to use the TV without agreeing to the terms. I couldn’t use different inputs, or even go to settings from the home screen and disconnect from the internet to disable their services. If I don’t agree to their terms, then I don’t get access to their new products. That...

Chozo ,

Eh, the built-in speakers on most TVs these days are all pretty trash across the board. You pretty much need a sound bar at the very least, these days.

Chozo ,

I feel like that trope doesn't really ring true these days, as most of the "general purpose" instances are pretty moderate. Back when Lemmy was still just a small handful of instances, that was definitely the case, but I think the wider adoption has balanced things out a bit closer toward center, overall.

Chozo ,

Unfortunately, it still happens even here on Lemmy. I don't think we see it as much because most communities here have far fewer mods than adjacent Reddit subs on average, but occasionally you'll find a mod here who thinks they know better than their community and does whatever they feel like.

Chozo ,

IBM is still just as active, just not in the consumer markets anymore. They're big into industry research and more specialized computing these days.

Chozo ,

"But she's so empowering!" the fans will say, nevermind the fact that she only seems to "empower" fraudsters.

Chozo ,

I like to imagine that this whole event was the result of the first truly rogue AI that generated its own plans for an event, sent out the necessary emails to hire the people to put it together, and everything in secret under its creator's nose.

It probably isn't that, though. Because even AI wouldn't fuck up this badly.

Chozo ,

Or it's the day before March 1.

Chozo ,

That's generally how it works, yes.

Chozo ,

I will absolutely blame the voters, because it'd literally be their fault. That's how elections work.

Lauren Boebert's son was arrested over a spate of thefts as his mom tries to convince voters to look past her chaotic family life (www.businessinsider.com)

Rep. Lauren Boebert’s 18-year-old son, Tyler Boebert, was arrested on Tuesday afternoon and is facing 22 charges, including several felony charges relating to a string of crimes in her Colorado district....

Chozo ,

You have to get Beetlejuice tickets for that.

Chozo ,

A buddy of mine gifted me a copy of Helldivers 2 the other day, so I've been spending some time spreading Managed Democracy across the galaxy. Mostly going back and forth between Helldivers and The Finals lately.

Chozo ,

Shame, that one was easy enough that even my mom was able to watch her shows. Hopefully the Hydra regenerates quickly.

Chozo ,

How did the wakeyuppymen know what time to start wakeyuppying, tho?

Chozo ,

if it worked, there would be no unemployment.

That would imply that 100% of unemployed people are referred to this program, or made aware of its existence at all.

Chozo ,

It's default? When I downloaded it, I had to manually choose Gemini to be the default. It wasn't set like that for me.

Chozo ,

Weird, maybe the Pixel build is slightly different, because that's not happening on mine and I believe I've already got the latest updates for it.

Chozo ,

Well, falling into the same traps would be awfully Sisyphean of him.

Darknet Drug Dealers Arrested After Packages of Meth-Laced Adderall Repeatedly Returned to Sender (www.404media.co)

Police arrested three men accused of selling thousands of pills of meth-laced “Adderall” on various darknet marketplaces and mailing them through the United States Postal Service through a fictitious business called “Professional Paper Filing Inc.” that listed a real return address of an uninvolved business. That...

Chozo ,

That's why you use a fake return address that doesn't exist. Allowing your product to get into real people's hands was just asking for trouble.

Chozo ,

I don't believe USPS can open packages without a warrant (which is why they're the preferred courier for drugs), and I don't think "multiple packages going to a wrong address" counts as probable cause. But it's been a minute since I've been involved in that end of things, so I dunno if that's still current protocol.

Chozo ,

That's wild, this 2 year old video just randomly showed up in my YouTube feed the other day. Kinda interesting to see how the algorithm just seems to randomly pick a video to start recommending to people.

Either way, glad this guy's story is getting to be seen by more people!

Chozo ,

I think you've mistaken Putin's motive. It takes 2 weeks for the body to dissolve in their special sauce.

Chozo ,

Ironically, this is also the pro-life crowd, too. Weird how they don't care about the lives of children.

Chozo ,

Edit: Within 28 mins I’ve got -9 votes and nothing to answer. Think it proves my point.

The fact that you think there is a "point" to be made when you're supposed to be the one asking a question and trying to learn, shows us that you had ill intent from the start. You told on yourself with this one.

Chozo ,

Gerwoman.

Chozo ,

It was always AI, what are you talking about?

George Santos sues late-night host Jimmy Kimmel for tricking him into making videos to ridicule him (apnews.com)

Former U.S. Rep. George Santos alleged in a lawsuit filed Saturday that late-night host Jimmy Kimmel deceived him into making videos on the Cameo app that were used to ridicule the disgraced New York Republican on the show....

Chozo ,

At least it's just George Santos, nothing to worry about.

Good thing Kimmel didn't piss off that Devolder guy, though. I hear he's an excellent lawyer for the MIT rowing team.

Chozo ,

It's copyright infringement to do so. No need getting the Beehaw admins in trouble; Google paywall bypassing tools and read away.

Chozo ,

Probably just for the poetic justice of seizing money from Russia and giving it to Ukraine.

Chozo ,

Why ask questions that are answered by the video you're commenting on?

Chozo ,

Besides solid access to content piracy is also about a message, a statement about sovereignty, rights and freedoms and paying for it means the complete subversion of the ideal.

Bruh, it's just stealing movies. You're not taking down The Man with your sick seed ratios. This line of thinking is how people become radicalized lmao

Are there any genuine benefits to AI?

I can see some minor benefits - I use it for the odd bit of mundane writing and some of the image creation stuff is interesting, and I knew that a lot of people use it for coding etc - but mostly it seems to be about making more cash for corporations and stuffing the internet with bots and fake content. Am I missing something...

Chozo ,

I think implying that it has a bias is giving the Advanced Auto Prediction Engine a bit too much credit.

Chozo ,

Just don't search that if you've also been searching for any flights recently.

Chozo ,

I don't get it, it's just gonna be skins, right? Pretty much every fighting game has paid skins these days, that's what funds continued development for balancing and new content.

Unless there's something really egregious being offered for sale, I don't see the issue. Cosmetics are one of the few MTX I'm okay with, for the most part.

Chozo ,

I'm not seeing why that's a problem, if it's still just cosmetics.

Also, anybody who expected a AAA fighting game to not have cosmetic MTX in 2024 probably isn't that keen on the fighting game scene to begin with. That's just how the genre works these days; the players want continuous balance patches as new tech and exploits are discovered, and that comes at a cost. If you think $70 is enough for potentially years of continued support and updates, then you haven't been keeping up with the economy's effects on the gaming industry.

Chozo ,

Some people wouldn’t bother with a game at all if they knew there would be this.

Perhaps if this was unusual for the genre. But it's a AAA fighting game. Anybody who is familiar with the genre knows that MTX is normal and expected, because it's going to have several years of support from the developers. I'd have a hard time believing that any Tekken fan bought this on the premise of it remaining MTX-free.

Chozo ,

Doesn't it, though? This is what the players wanted, and the industry listened. They asked for support for the game after its release, and the industry said "Sure, but in exchange at least some of you should pay extra".

This isn't forced upon anybody. Just because Mazaratis exist doesn't mean that you have to buy one if you want a car. It only becomes a moral problem if somebody's choices are circumvented, but that's not really what's happening here.

Chozo ,

Yeah, I'm sure Blizzard's really dumping a lot of resources into "shitposting on a Reddit clone with under 30k MAUs".

Chozo ,

If they’d announced this before launch, it would’ve been the only thing anyone talked about.

Not really. It'd hardly have been mentioned, at all. MTX are a part of every major fighting game, so it's hardly a newsworthy tidbit. They're completely expected in this genre. Any major competitive game that gets developer support after release is going to be funded either by microtransactions or subscriptions. The people who actually play these games know this.

Chozo ,

I'm not sure why any of this is a hot take. I get the feeling that most of the people in this thread aren't even Tekken players, or fighting game players at all.

These games only work with continued funding. If that's not for you, then that's totally fine and understandable. But these games require labor, and labor requires payment. And the community is willing and eager to pay.

You wouldn't work for free would you? Why should anybody expect software developers to?

Chozo ,

I wish. I'll bet Blizzard pays good.

Chozo ,

I’m glad Project L is going to dethrone every single one of these games.

Yeah, Riot would never add MTX to their games, right?

Chozo ,

Just look at what happened with Ken Paxton. Indicted for securities fraud, and they still let him be AG. Fuck this state.

Chozo ,

an incompatible protocol with less features and worse UX

And yet, they have the one thing that matters: the users.

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