nekusoul

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (25 children)

"A single company does this and while the other 99 won't, saying pretty please will certainly work. See? No intervention required!"

Bootlicker indeed.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Isn't the issue you're describing less about the OS and more about cheap keyboards with awful or nonexistent NKRO? On my keyboard with full NKRO I can press as many keys as I want and the OS will recognize all of them being pressed without fail.

Also, if I'm in a text editorand hold down one key, then start holding down another one, the new one is immediately picked up, which is pretty much identical to this situation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (4 children)

While being able to do this from outside the game is definitely cheating, I'd personally say that being able to decide what happens with conflicting inputs should be an option in any game where that matters.

Whenever I start pressing A while I'm still holding D it should be obvious that I now intend to go left, so the game should interpret it that way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

That's one thing I checked first, but compared to Germany for example, the average age and percentage of people playing video-games is apparently just a few percentage points of difference. Though "people playing video-games" could of course mean anything and I'd wager that the average person playing casual games on their phone might not care as much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I can kind of see the benefits when it's a single person speaking from a podium. Everything else though is just awkward to frame properly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

At this point I'd that say getting enough individual countries is almost inevitable in the process of getting 1M signatures. If the distribution between countries remains as it is, every country with more than 25% right now would reach the threshold by the end.

Seems to me like the individual country threshold is only added to prevent initiatives getting single-handedly pushed by a single big country and never be the blocker for regular initiatives.

So yeah, the best strategy would most likely be to keep pushing the big countries: Germany, France, Spain and Italy. Speaking of Italy, what's up with them? Only 18%? Those are rookie numbers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

At the very least, a save game editor wouldn't be too hard to create when running your own server.

Though that got me thinking if there's some kind of GDPR shenanigans one could already utilize to get all your account data. I kind of doubt it, but it would be hilarious.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Looking at this map there seems to be at least some correlation. There really needs to be popular advocates for each language and country, particularly for the smaller ones and those with a low english speaking population.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Agree. I don't know this person, but at best he didn't understand the campaign and also overdosed on defeatism. At worst he's intentionally misrepresenting the campaign and lobbying against better consumer rights.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Well, in the case of Silksong specifically, an early announcement was all but inevitable, as it was originally a stretch goal that got turned into its own game. Even with their apparent preference towards minimal communication, they had to explain what's happening if they didn't want to appear like fraudsters.

Generally, I wouldn't even be opposed to early announcements, as long as the devs were transparent about the status of the project and made it clear in which capacity the game is currently being worked on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

There really should be a right to adequate human support that's not hidden behind multiple barriers. As you said, it can be a timesaver for the simple stuff, but there's nothing worse than the dread when you know that your case is going to need some explanation and an actual human that is able to do more than just following a flowchart.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Horribly written AI slop that doesn't even bother with linking sources or crediting an "author".

For example:

AMD, another major player in the GPU market, has also embraced this trend by adding next-gen RDNA 4 GPU support in its Linux kernel driver.

That's technically not wrong, but no sane human would ever describe it like that.

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