hoodatninja

hoodatninja , 9 months ago

Some of us learned with Destiny 1 and it saddens me they got so many more victims customers with Destiny 2

hoodatninja , 9 months ago

Unless you only one scrappy in the games made by three person dev team they really haven’t. The cost for making a game that was good in 2015 has gone down, sure. But it behooves you to show that game development in general, and yes that includes indie developers, has gone down.

A 10 person dev team in any major city is going to cost you between $500,000 and $1mill a year just to staff.

hoodatninja , 9 months ago

The followup when he came back on the show is next level

hoodatninja , 9 months ago

I've said it before and I'll say it again: If instances weren't supposed to be ever defederate, then we wouldn't have the tool. In the absence of real moderation/admin tools it's going to get used more frequently. And that's the admin owner's right!

hoodatninja , 9 months ago

My point is I don't think it's necessarily a bad SOP lol

hoodatninja , 9 months ago

I still can't believe IA took this risk, however. I agree it should've been fine, but they and we know it isn't. They basically begged for this to happen and I don't understand why when they clearly don't have their ducks in a row to pick this fight (unlike TPB which plays the game well).

hoodatninja , 9 months ago

I think you should only be able to go after sharing/pirating if you can definitively prove it’s causing greater harm to your product then it’s benefit.

The problem is that while most of us agree, we all also know that isn't how the world works. IA is a major name, they are obviously not operating under the radar. They picked a fight they weren't ready to take on and they should've known better, but instead they decided to jeopardize the entire project.

If you want to be The Pirate Bay, then you need to play it smart like The Pirate Bay. This was reckless and short sighted.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

sounds like AC3 all over again. Can’t wait to play.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

I’m sure plenty have tbh

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

That requires me to do it potentially under duress, with little to no time, etc. During a crisis it can't be assumed that the first thing I'll do is lockdown my phone. Anything that requires an anticipatory step is inherently risky.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

The idea sounds nice in theory, but there is a reason people bring their car to a shop instead of changing their own oil. There are a lot of things we could/should take responsibility for directly but they are far too numerous for us to take responsibility for everyone of them. Sometimes we just have to place trust in groups we loosely vetted (if at all) and hope for the best. We all do it every day in all sorts of capacities.

To put it another way: do you think we should have the FDA? Or do you think everybody should have to test everything they eat and put on their skin?

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

It takes me several dozen hours every 6-12mo to keep up with the arms race that is privacy. I can’t imagine what it’s like for people who are less technically inclined. It must be a completely impenetrable problem.

4 years ago everybody told me to get on Brave. Look what happened lol

Arguably the most well known VPN is Nord. Yet you can find dozens of posts on HackerNews and other sites saying not to use it.

It’s one thing to diagnose and try to solve the problem, but then you need a bunch of technical knowledge and knowledge of where to find good answers to even know what solutions are viable or are just a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It’s a total minefield sometimes, it’s hard to not simply land with someone else who wants to take all your data and strip away your privacy.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

That isn’t a middle ground. You’re just saying the state can publish a recommendation, which it always has been able to. That’s absolutely in the “unregulated” / “no safety nets” camp. It’s caveat emptor as a status quo and takes us back to the gilded age.

To put it another way: The middle ground between “the state has no authority here” and “the state can regulate away a product” isn’t “the state can suggest we don’t buy it.” It still puts the burden on the consumer in an unreasonable way. We can’t assess literally everything we consume. If I go to a grocery store and buy apples, I can reasonably assume they won’t poison me. Without basic regulations this is not possible. You can’t feed 8 billion people without some rules.

Let me be clear, I agree with the EFF on this particular issue. ISP’s should not regulate speech and what sites I browse. But it’s not the same as having the FDA. For starters, ISP’s are private corporations.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

Good to know, appreciate it

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

I like the suggestion overall because it actually is pretty medically sound, but “impurities“ is just a meaningless term. You have a liver/kidney/etc. to get unwanted things out of your body. Diets and sweating doesn’t “remove” toxins or impurities or whatever buzzword is bouncing around the crunchy world .

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

I don’t think I’ve ever heard someone describe taking a shower as “removing impurities” but hey if that’s your intended meaning then cool!

For your future reference, “impurities” is kind of a catchall, meaningless term that health quacks throw around. “Do a juice cleanse, it’ll remove your impurities and toxins.”

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

Don't sweat it, you just unfortunately tripped up on a VERY charged word lol. Again, your advice is good! Getting the body moving and cardiovascular/pulmonary systems cranking is good for waking up and feeling energized. Showers just feel damn good too.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I'm not entirely sure what this means tbh

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

This kind of feels like a chicken/egg problem. Maybe if they put the work in it would have done better?

I mean I understand the history of the Wii-U better than you probably think, but I just find the phrasing of your statement very interesting. Because it basically says “if it wasn’t such a failure, Nintendo would have done more for it.” It kind of implies a Nintendo isn’t responsible for how it flopped and is instead a victim of it even though they’re ones who made and sold it. Like their hands were tied.

It’s very odd to me and I’m just trying to parse your real meaning, because the above sounds very silly to me.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

Well, apparently it’s not simple because you completely missed why I said what I said. Y’all seem to have this idea that Nintendo was a victim of the Wii-U’s failure, and that it wasn’t somehow the result of their decisions. It’s like you think they didn’t develop and sell it themselves, that they suddenly appeared after it already existed. But if you want to just engage in some performative snark be my guest. I’ll be off lol

hoodatninja , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Honestly, what I find weird is that they seem to think Nintendo wasn’t somehow responsible for the disaster that was the Wii-U. Like only had to respond to it and had no role in its failure. It’s very odd and I’m assuming it’s not the intention so I’m seeking clarity here.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Didn’t think I would have to explain that.

Take that crap back to Reddit.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

So much garbage released on Wii. Really harkened back Nintendo’s roots lol. I love the Wii and it has a lot of great releases but it really felt like 30% of the catalog was shovelware.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

It's just so needlessly hostile and shitty, right?

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

I would be very curious to compare games sold per console (preferably year by year). I imagine the Wii had a big drop off and maybe even sold fewer games per console than 360/PS3. If for no other reason than it had a library half the size of them. Both consoles had over 2000 games IIRC and Wii had just over 1000.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

It wasn’t just marketing fail. They failed to get developers on board and failed to player test adequately, a mistake that Nintendo consistently makes in cycles. N64 and Gamecube should’ve taught them but finally it seems with Switch they’ve gotten the message.

The Wii-U is fine but severely underpowered and the tablet was very limited in range and capability. I have one and enjoy it but it simply wasn’t impressive from a hardware standpoint and it wasn’t clear what you were supposed to do with it as an end user. Sony & Microsoft also ironed out their online gaming experience while Nintendo continue to flounder. That was a really important market in the 2010s and they completely failed to capture any of it.

The PS4/Xbox one just blew it out of the water performance wise. The tech gap was too wide (the CPU was a serious bottleneck) and it was a pain to develop for them when you could just develop for PC and/or PS4 and/or Xbox.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

Yeah but 360/PS3 were barely pulling 720p @30fps so it wasn’t as stark. Lots of games couldn’t even 720p.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

WoT was utter garbage. LOTR was meh to good depending on who you talked to. They are definitely not on the same level.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

When they actually get around to filming due to the strike lol

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

And of course, they all are arguing about whether or not this post counts, because we simply have to carry that ridiculous Reddit pedantry everywhere we go don’t we?

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

Why are the Pyramids in Giza?
They couldn't fit in a British museum.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

After Hurricane Katrina I lived in Houston for about six months. I still have nightmares about your highways. I don’t know how y’all do it.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

Luckily I was a typical self-centered teenager, so I was pretty good at being oblivious and ignoring what was going on around me. It also helped that I had very strong parents who worked tirelessly to make it as seamless/normal for my siblings and me haha.

Well hopefully they will come up with a solution that isn’t just adding more lanes! Don’t have a lot of hope for Texas and public transit these days, but I feel like y’all would be prime candidates for high speed rail between some of your cities.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

So here's a part of the history you (and many others) are actually missing that will help contextualize this. Make no mistake, I have issues with the primaries too. But this is interesting and may even reshape your opinion.

For over a century we couldn't vote at all on the candidates. They were completely selected by the parties. People actually protested that system saying they had no say in the candidates, and thus the first presidential primary happened in 1912 I believe (forgot the state). It rolled out over the 20th century because people felt it was unfair the party got to select without their input.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Please do not talk down to me. Nothing I said indicates I think this is standard. I was giving the historical context for why it is that way in the US. So please don't come at me with this "well actually" nonsense please. It's needlessly hostile.

The flip side is that independent candidates are fairly common.

That's not the result of not having people vote in primaries. That's generally the result of a parliamentary system, which is more common than anything resembling the US's representative democracy system.

As for the rest of your comment, you're grinding an axe over something I did not say.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

As much as I am against the two-party system I am not in favor of sacrificing our right to assembly, especially in the context of assembling over shared politics, on the altar of "hopefully that'll make elections go better."

hoodatninja , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

To make political parties illegal is an attack on free-speech and the right to peaceful assembly. You would have to directly violate the first amendment in order to ban political parties.

I hope you are not being literal with your concept of a “competency test.”

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

No more than you can say that about any organization/business that has ever received a grant or government contracts. This is a common misconception. They are not in the budget for US.

By Musk’s definition SpaceX is “funded by the state.” And far more than NPR is.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

This is a common misconception. NPR does not receive any of the US federal budget directly. They just apply for and win federal grants like many others can.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

$10/mo = $120/yr.
15yr @ $120/yr = $1800

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

Defederating, at its most simple, means when you're browsing one instance (let's call them the defederat-or) content and conversation from the instance that they defederated from (the defederat-ee) can no longer appear on the defederat-or's instance. If someone from the defederate-ee comments on a post shared over in their instance, the users of each instance do not see each other.

None of this stops you from browsing the defederat-ee's instance either with a login on their instance or as a lurker. You have the ability to see and engage with that instance virtually as you see fit. While not everyone is like this, generally the people who understand this and are still mad about it are just free speech warriors who don't want to ever feel like anyone is ever telling them what to say.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

The thing that is bothering me right now is seeing “cashless” establishments. Frankly, it’s kind of discriminatory, and I do not know how you can justify denying people goods and services if they are carrying the currency of the country they live in. That does not sit right with me.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

800p!

Also the 42fps setting is wonderful

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

Lol guess so. So it really strips that stuff away?

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

Do you know if there are plans for an iOS app? I only see one or two third-party apps. Are they any good?

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

Thanks!

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

Cool! Just joined the largest instance via Verrisage (sp?) hope to see you around! Going to post some 35mm shots of mine soon.

hoodatninja , 10 months ago

There’s nothing to evaluate. Megathreads were designed to kill topics on Reddit (unless it was a MAJOR, developing, current event) and they do the same here. You’re the first person to comment at all in this thread in over a month.