Yes. That’s what I said.

If anything, this change serves to inhibit loot box gambling by cutting the possibility of hitting a real money jackpot.

Oh, I didn’t think of that. With the smaller difference betwen the most expensive and least expensive items, gambling gets less random in terms of return.

That’s an improvement, though I still think the whole systems should be taken out.

That there is a “counter strike skins investment ‘industry’” is utterly insane.

I agree.

But it’s important to note that just because it flies under the radar of most people, doesn’t mean it isn’t an absolutely deplorable system that exploits the difficult to control tendencies of vulnerable people.

It’s evil, and while it’s “only a little bit of evil” compared to most similar system, there is no amount of evil that is ok.

Do you think aws engineers use aws services to maintain aws?

I set up !ballisticng@sopuli.xyz. I’ve maxed out my skills, and currently working up the speed classes again, but with double speed turned on.

Also, get that PS4. Omega (or rather 2048 which is included) is IMO the best WipEout ever made. The way the ships in 2048 handle always feels barely controlled, and it adds so much to the sense of speed. The airbrakes on my favorite the Pirhana Speed, are the most violent in the game (save the prototype) and using them you get thrown around sideways, and you just have to learn to deal with it.

Redout 2 was a disappointment for me. I love the first game, it struck a balance between speed a technicality. (Basically a merging of WipEout and F-Zero). Redout 2 went too far into speed, with wider more sweeping tracks, rather than twisty and narrow with the occasional full hairpin. New tracks stopped being interesting very quickly with little to learn. It also has a worse soundtrack IMO.

I legit got a used ps4 for to play WipEout Omega, Gravity Rush 1/2, Horizon ZD (also later FW), God of War (also later Ragnarok).

All four are some of my most beloved games. For the hundred bucks I paid for it, amazing deal.

Still waiting for Omega and Gravity Rush to come to PC…

That’s not what I’m saying.

Obviously not everyone needs to code. Once I write a bot, it could potentially be used by anyone.

Only a small percentage of mods need to also be developers. But since that group isn’t big enough yet, the solution is growth.

Not asking the platform devs to do even more. They too, are volunteers.

I’m not against any of that.

What I disagree with is that this is a priority. It’s a nice-to-have.

Once mod actions are supported, and an API exists, any imaginable automation can be implemented by anyone with the impetus to do so.

As such, the priority of further integration drops drastically and platform developer attention can and should move elsewhere.

Mod tools are best created by the people who use them. Even better when they are created for the needs of a specific community. As such, more advanced features should be deferred until later.

Once communities grow large enough that there are a significant number of moderator-developers around, it might be worth creating a generic bot that can be configured as needed. (As has happened with reddit, discord, etc.)

Asking for these tools before then, is inefficient, because the people who ideally should be working on them, haven’t shown up yet, and the platform developers time is better spent on other things.

Indeed.

My core point is that when it comes to moderation, I would prioritize actual mod actions (such as a mod being able to mark posts nsfw instead of deleting them outright) and API support for those actions, over built-in automod features.

Once you have an API, anyone with the skills can implement whatever automation they need.

After that, I would priotize a bunch of other things, too, before ever coming back around to built-in automod features.

If everything is a priority, nothing is a priority.

By now I’ve written four bots using the lemmy API.

Any one of your ideas is doable in a weekend if I ever feel the need for a modding bot. But I haven’t. Several communities and instances already have them.

Honestly that’s how it should be. Modding can have such diverse needs depending on community that just implementing every possible eventuality into lemmy itself, is a huge ask.

Any large community on discord, reddit and other platforms, make extensive use of automod bots. Because using the API, you can write bots that do whatever you can think of.

Modding is volunteer work, but it is work.

If you need tools, find them. If they don’t exist, create them. If you don’t have the skills or time, then don’t volunteer.

Asking some volunteers to do more than they already are because you think they are letting down another set of volunteers just risks burning out a different set of volunteers.

Yes.

If you always direct-play, the only bitrate you can use is original.

If you ever need to watch on a slow connections using a lower bitrate, that will require transcoding.

I am shocked.

HEVC is proprietary.

AV1 is what we need. And a lot of newer hardware finally supports it.

understand the difference between egoism/hedonism

I can see why they might seem similar. And you can certainly pursue hedonism in an egoistic manner.

But I prefer a utilitarian version of hedonism, which doesn’t necesserily need to come with any level of selfishness. It can, but it doesn’t have to.

I make selfish decisions at times, but try to make sure that doing things for my benefit doesn’t cost someone else.

Taking it even further, putting in a bunch of work to throw someone else a super fun surprise party, is hedonistic, but not very egoistic.

Hedonism is to maximise pleasure while avoiding pain. But unlike egoism, it doesn’t have to focus on only your own pain or pleasure.

I think they should make it a daily deal, but not for a week. They should also eat the discount cost, which they apparently aren’t doing, and entirely waive their cut.

What I think they should do instead of extending the deal, is reset the games launch.

There is absolutdly no reason Valve couldn’t re-launch the game, along with all the algoritm benefits an unbugged 1.0 launch should have had.

Also, you seem to have missed that the article says they are contractually obligated to complete their current WIP game. Valve giving them a bunch of money would not give them time to work on further updates for Planet Centauri before then.

That is such a chad move.

It’s going to sell no matter what the price. But knowing that, they set the price low, trusting they’ll still make a profit on volume.

If MS, EA, UBI, or any other publisher were in control, they’d set the price high, no matter how big the actual game was, knowing they’d make even more because of the hype train around the game.

NAS drives matter. Even without disk activity, 24/7 means they’ll do a LOT more spinning than other use cases.

You don’t run a torrent server on the NAS? Generally you wanna be doing the actual torrenting on something with uptime and storage.

Then to manage the torrents you either use a webui or app.

Are you just using a desktop client?

Forest Nymph Bath Water

ah, typo