Exusia

Exusia , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

On pixel 2 and 3 this shit was amazing. I never had an issue with Google Assistant absolutely perfect assistant app. Then I got a samsung fold and, despite allegedly being the same app, it sucks all the donkey dick and balls. It’s clearly not the same Assistant, and if it IS then google fucking ruined it.

It struggles recognizing the switch from wifi to data. Getting in my car and giving it commands to play music takes forever because it hangs up with the (now distant and poor) wifi

Commands to call people when I’m outside (walking dog, garden etc) suck for the same reason.

Voice to text is trash. It’s always getting words wrong, mishearing requests, or putting words that I didn’t fucking say. Half of my sentences start with “is” for some reason. “Is I need you to get dog food” like bruhhhh

I thought it was just because Google was punishing samsung users to push Pixels. This thread makes me feel vindicated. I wasnt wrong or mis-remembering with rose tinted glasses. It really is hot garbage lol

Exusia , 9 months ago

Thanks I hate it

Exusia , 9 months ago

Last year Hulu went up $1, this year $3.

Which isnt so weird when you realise it’s Disney.

Exusia , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

For a lot of police hate, I can see, but why do people get upset about pursuits like this? I’m aware of the “property is insured and life can’t be” aspect.

But the other side of that coin of “do not pursue” is saying that the person wasn’t an inherent danger. It lifts blamme from a car thief stealing my single most valuable posession, to the police attempting to stop them, which is their job. A thief has unknown motives at the time of theft. A man running away cannot legally be shot (you have an uphill court case) because he is no longer a danger, but a car is a constant danger. We have a permit for it because it’s a 2,000 pound hunk of metal. Comparing a stolen car to an active shooter wouldn’t be a far off comparison, because you don’t know the motive for which it was stolen and if the perpetrator is retreating. These are two legal things to be proven. Furthering this, it means states will use more fucking cameras on highways watching us to ticket anyone 1mph over, under the guise of “watching for stolen cars”. Stealing groceries to survive is one thing, but stealing a car is pure “fuck the owner”. There’s no looking the other way because “they needed it”

I realize it’s a whataboutism, but I feel like there be an extreme outrage if a stolen car drove through a crowd and the cops had had the opportunity to pursue it a month beforehand but had been made not to. Can someone clarify how this doesnt become more common or possible under “no pursuits”. It’s not that I don’t feel bad for the families, losing their kids to some jagoff sucks, but want to understand the other side of this.

Exusia , 9 months ago

That does suck and I’m sorry they had to deal with that.

Exusia , 9 months ago

I’m assuming there is no clear indication of intent. Part of crime prevention is that if you don’t know a variable, you must account for the worst possible outcome, and then work all your solutions down from there. At worst you have solution A. Next best is solution B and so on. The immediate response of police is based on those factors, in this case they don’t know why the car was stolen, and the likelihood of the person getting away used to be really high because we didn’t live in a surveillance state, so chasing a perpetrator was just what you did.

My closing paragraph was about the worst possible outcome. What if the absolute worst happen, would there be outrage at police because they didn’t pursue earlier? Does it put police in a catch 22? If that part isn’t figured out, then it will die in committee because no legislative body will (generally) allow their executive arm to be liable on both sides of their actions.

Exusia OP , 9 months ago

I’m sorry you lack toes. that sounds aweful

Exusia OP , 9 months ago

Spooky month. 31 days of spookyspooky

Exusia OP , 9 months ago

Does…this mean I should post my October memes there or can I post them to both, or… how does this work also, thank you for this meme resource

Exusia OP , 9 months ago

A propensity to be exceedingly attached to things you grew up with means it will always be too soon.

Noone wants to grow up :(

Exusia , 9 months ago

Agreed

This market stagnation was what got me to buy a Fold. Every 3-5 years of the same size slabs, just imperceptibly “faster”. Then came something new finally. Same as my pixel 2xl, I’ll have this till the battery or screen starts to go.

Exusia , 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

And the profitability has skyrocketed. The videogame industry is now one of the largest insudtries on the planet. A big driver has been normalisation of after-purchase items. Console players now pay to unlock their collar to the internet (ps+ and XBlive). Microtransactions add to this, and now battlepasses want $10+ every 50-90 days. Lootboxes normalizing near-gambling with overwatches success was a huge bar-lift in profitability expectations for shareholders.

Special editions are also hitting $90 and higher, plus those other expenditures. Ask “the gamers tm” and they’ll tell you you have to buy a special edition for $120 or you’re not a real fan anyway. Starfield has a $300 version. The Digital Premium doesn’t even come with the GAME! It’s another $35 after you already gave Microsoft $70.

Additionally, the work to make a new game has decreased. Assets are able to be salvaged from one engine to the next reducing the amount of work to make a game in UE6 after it was on UE5. the workforce has matured and can be taught as a class so there’s not nearly as many “self taught” making half a game. Roller Coaster Tycoon was made almost entirely by one dude. Obviously re-using assets is smart. But then to say you “built the game from the ground up” is false. Elden Ring was even praised for it

Marketing budgets have fuckin EXPLODED. A “Rule of Thumb” for indie devs is to spend HALF your budget on just marketing. Destiny allegedly spent 2.5× what they spent on development, for marketing. Publishing studios didn’t used to spend this much. “For every dollar on the game, spend another .25 to .50 on marketing”

Buying power has gone DOWN since ps1. You think I’m joking but federal minimum wage in the US is still 7.25. In 1994 (launch of ps1). It was 4.25 - adjusted for inflation thats $8.43. Meaning if you made minimum wage then, you’d be making more than minimum wage now, effectively. People are fucking broke and game companies want MORE money for games.

In 1994 when you bought a PS1 game you got THE WHOLE GAME. That was it. There was no merch drop pip-boy for the special edition. There was no Day-One patch. There was no “pay to get multiplayer”. There was no in-game shop to buy skins for the characters. All these features were intentionally cut to resell to consumers post-launch.

Games cost less to make now, but budgets went up. Buying power is down. Please stop defending corporate bullshit excuses about wanting more money, forever.

Exusia , 9 months ago

It was a specific example to show how AAA games reuse assets, not mtx. A low hanging fruit of that could be like…any sports game.

A similar example of good reuse could be EA and a specific Female Character Mesh they’ve had for awhile and they just keep reusing her. The photo example I found searching was Falck from BF 2042. Her hitbox and mesh is in Battlefront 2, as a First Order officer; and in Battlefield 5.

I dont outright hate reuse of things here and there - it saves money and time.

Exusia OP , 10 months ago

lemmy.world/comment/3820693

Just for you PlatapusXray

Exusia OP , 10 months ago

Physical partitioning, as mentioned below

Exusia , 10 months ago (edited 9 months ago)

Id like to specifically draw attention to “don’t pull a knife on a cop”

6 hour standoff, with swat in Atlanta - captured alive

4 hour standoff with a copkiller - captured alive

police break off car chase in SF, suspect gets arrested anyway

Houston PD leave a traffic stop, because a crowd was unruly and it was unsafe

These are MUCH worse than the current incident started as, and ended with the suspects apprehended alive, unlike the current incident. Use of force continuum dictate that if the other party uses a Deadly Force Assault you are permitted to use Lethal Force. However they ALSO carry that if you can use a lower level to successfully walk away without Violence (the adjective proper) being needed, you have had a successful UoF.

Shooting a man IN the car with a knife is not proper use of force. He was not capable of escalating to Deadly Force Assault on the continuum. Officers preparing to draw their service weapon and giving clear verbal commands can diffuse that. “Do not get out of the car” “drop the knife”. They could hold the door closed, or beging backing away to make distance so that they can draw and/or fire if he exited the vehicle against instructions. At this stage Brandishing, threatening behavior, or even terroristic threats are appropriate charges. If someone gets out of the vehicle without a clear verbal command, and lunges at persons with a knife, 2then him being dead now would be a fair use of force.

In the first 2 pages cited, several violent people got the opportunity to surrender, and various law enforcement entities gave them time to do so. Not cited is one that was ELEVEN hours long. This traffic stop started and ended in like what, 30 minutes?

In the last two, the police decided the situation was unsafe and rather than escalating Use of Force, they decided a lower level was appropriate. In sanfran, they followed him with a heli and apprehended him. In Houston they just…left. they decided the stop wasn’t safe. Those people SURELY threatened them and walked away just fine. But the stop for the man can be a mailed ticket, and did not need to escalate to shooting people.

Your replies make heavy, fast assumptions about how “nothing of value was lost”. However it broadly displays your lack of involvement in fields where use of force is used and the policies that surround it

Exusia OP , 10 months ago

No, daddy paid for it I think. He came home one day and said “here’s ur car OP”

Exusia OP , 10 months ago

As user stated, its a stuffed shark that’s super popular. It’s also 4 feet long so it fills the niche of a large stuffed animal, but not like rediculously big, or uber expensive (a 100 inch stuffed animal for $30usd??). IDK about the trans community tho, glad they like it too lol.

Exusia OP , 10 months ago

From another comment I made, it’s an affordable medium-large plush with a silly derpy face.

People began uploading photos of it doing “human” things so naturally I got one too. Kind of like cat videos. I guess

Exusia OP , 10 months ago

Maybe it is! I wouldn’t know! Mwahahah

Exusia OP , 10 months ago

I just visualize someone stopping in the middle of a crowd and shouting into their phone, and then walking along as if yelling “hooked and cocaine” for no apparent reason is normal

Exusia OP , 10 months ago

The lemmy post about them feeling gross was relatable. Like everyone’s so fake enjoying [product] and you’re just watching asking "how does this convince anyone to buy [product]

Exusia OP , 10 months ago

This is what I have lol

It’s why the ads knowing anything is scary

Exusia OP , 10 months ago

From the moment my friend showed my an i7-10700 and a 3080…I knew my flesh was weak and it disgusted me. I craved the certainty of 60 fps.