jtrek

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[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 4 days ago

I've seen a couple games that have the high res textures as a free separate download. That'd be nice. I'm not playing in 4k so I don't need all that extra crap.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The fact that rich people stop paying into it is so stupid.

It should be progressive. The first $x you make aren't taxed at all, then the next bucket at a small percent, then a larger percent, and so on.

Instead if you're income-rich you just get a bump to your take home pay partway through the year.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago

Meh. I'm not going to pay for Netflix. Free media heck yeah or bust. My free public library has many options.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 41 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Good. Now fire the people who said it was a good idea and promote the internal people who said it was bad

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 1 points 5 days ago

I find teams won't mark messages as read. Like I'll be focused on the chat and it'll stay unread. I have to click out and back into it.

When there's one of those horrible "teams" things with threads, clicking on a new message on the sidebar shows me just that message. No context. I have to click on the channel and find it.

The core problem is they have "chats" and then some other horrible thing that looks like channels but sucks. Maybe they wanted that to be like a message board? I hate it.

Most of my work uses "chats" instead, but that's horrible. No discoverability. A thousand permutations of people in chats. One for every meeting. (Was that important message in the standup chat? The planning chat? The side chat with the three competent guys?). And no threads.

Just give me channels with threads.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

|| has a similar "oh that's how it works in other places" behavior. I didn't realize that for a while.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 6 days ago

If Sony was selling a backlog going back to 1980 at deep discount with no monthly fees and DRM-free at the seller's discretion, they would get less flak.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think they have incentives to tag broadly but not accurately so they pick up more visitors. Tag it as "anal" when there's like a glimpse of butt, and you might get more views from people looking for that. There's no mechanism to punish inaccurate titles and tagging that I know of.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 11 points 6 days ago (5 children)

I'm pretty sure they don't invest in search because it's a poor return on investment. Most people just hit the first page, crank one out, and leave. The next cohort is similarly easily satisfied with their crap search. The people looking for specifics like "big tit short red hair reverse cowgirl pov outdoors at dusk" aren't profitable enough to spend engineering time on.

That's my hypothesis, anyway.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 53 points 6 days ago (6 children)

My hypothesis is that the least competent people use AI the most, and it's a big multiplier on their incompetence.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 22 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Consoles haven't seemed worth the price since like... the PS2 era, maybe PS3.

I might have a little more tolerance for jank than some people, though. Some people are like "I had to go into the settings and change something" like it's a dozen years hard labor.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 6 points 6 days ago

There's an element of self control to sticking to values. I've seen people proclaim like they're going to boycott EA because of various reasons, but then some shiny new game comes out and those values fall.

Maybe they never really had he values in the first place.

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