KubeRoot

The first episode for me was the VR fighting game (to avoid more spoilers), which didn’t exactly motivate me to watch more

I wouldn’t call those games objectively shit, but rather low effort. Often involving janky physics, rough models, bad game balance and friendly fire, all elements that can be funny in the right scenario.

USB drivers aren’t working either.

What the hell do you mean, USB drivers need to be downloaded? Isn’t that standardized and included with the system?

Maybe, but I would be worried about spoilers personally. You can only experience a game freshly once, once you know what’s coming it’s never the same.

One counterpoint to that argument is that you might not know what’s OP, what’s a normal balance level, and what’s gonna be cosmetic when first starting a game.

I believe that’s what they’re saying, that if released software has any bugs that users encounter, and the developers want to know about them to fix them, they’re “outsourcing QA” to the users.

So yeah, good luck creating software and updates with literally no issues :P

On the other hand, the point of ranking and matchmaking is to match you with players of similar skill. When working optimally, you’ll end up with the appropriate ranking, play with players of the same skill, and (in 1v1/1 team vs 1 team games) win 50% of the time.

Some people whine a lot about the idea of losing 50% of the games you play, but if you actually enjoy the game and ignore the rank you have, it’s a great deal.

unfortunately dynamos(like above) and batteries work on DC current. that time machine works on AC.

That might not be true, a lot of AC powered electronics just convert the input to DC, so if you’re lucky you might be able to use DC. One issue is it probably also has a transformer to reduce the voltage, so you’d need to figure out what voltage it wants after the transformer and bypass it.

One reason I’ve heard is that oiling up the pasta sort of saturates the surface making sauce stick less to it. But I also don’t think that matters much for leftovers, you’re already losing some “quality” compared to eating it fresh, and it sounds like a way to mitigate that.

IIRC he was telling people to spam sponsorblock with fake segments, because in some videos he had parts where he just stopped discussing the topic and talked to his (sickly?) cat when it came by, and people were accurately marking those segments as offtopic or whatever it’s called. He was presenting it as evil sponsorblock blocking his sick elderly cat. I could try to find a link later when I’m at my PC.

Other than that, he’s generally alarmist and arrogant, but I do appreciate him and what he’s doing.

Greentexts are popular outside of 4chan, good ones are often screenshotted and spread around. I don’t have proof that this is the actual original post, but here’s an image of the greentext on knowyourmeme: https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/2016597-greentext-stories

Heck, there’s at least one opensource generic steam emulator that you just drop into the game files. I used it before when messing around with modding a multiplayer game, to run multiple copies at once.

The short version is - if you’ve ever heard of infrared cameras that can see heat, that’s because everything glows based on heat. When things are very hot the glow is visible, but even cool things emit light outside of the visible spectrum. And emitting light takes energy, which means blackbody radiation (as this is called) takes energy (heat) away.

Are people seriously going to buy a console that doesn’t even read a disk, just to download a game from the internet?

Are you seriously asking? Because I’ve seen time and time again, the answer to those kinds of questions seems to be yes. I think most people just don’t care, and they don’t need to, they’ll only buy a few games in a console’s lifespan to play for multiple years, and they’ll either just pick up what’s popular, or whichever one has a game they want to play.

I’m pretty sure that’s a 4chan greentext, and I think it was even “Are you fucking sorry!?”. I also believe it was kicking a goalie in the face in a more outlandish scenario, followed by yelling that.

Router doesn’t matter if the device is trusted and the service you’re using doesn’t have shite security, with things like HTTPS.

Snail mail is traditional mail, in this case presumably sending a physical data storage device for those terabytes of data, which could maybe be faster and more reliable than networking it.

inadvertently

I suspect Valve knew what they were doing, and while they probably care more about having prebuilts with Steam preinstalled and convenient to use, they included desktop mode in SteamOS and made sure the steam deck was open to tinkering.

A little bit more than just hardware, it’s also official support from Valve, who are also the creators and maintainers of both Steam and SteamOS. We’ll see how much that counts for, I think Valve doesn’t have a great reputation for their support.

I think a more reasonable assumption (than trying to destroy the fediverse) would be marketing or propaganda - somebody creates users using LLMs, gets them accepted, legitimizes them by generating interactions, then either sells the accounts or uses them to sell a service to have them promote something, with a history that looks like a real user.