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William

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  • Are souls games really as hard as everyone says?

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  • Oh man. There's only one of those dungeons that I actually like, and I got almost 2/3 through it solo, and decided that I just didn't care enough. I'm sure I could have done it with enough tries... But ugh. So time consuming.

    I totally respect people that do it even once, and people that do it for every dungeon are basically gods.

  • Are souls games really as hard as everyone says?

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  • When I was a kid, Tomb Raider was a pretty easy game, except this one part that required absolutely perfect timing for a some running and jumping between platforms for a bonus item.

    At the start, I could make it to the next platform. After a while, I could do 2. Eventually, I got 3. After a long, long time, I finally managed to string all of them together... And screwed up the very last one.

    Here's the thing, though. I got it on the very next attempt. I had learned that sequence so well that it actually wasn't hard any more, even though it was nearly impossible for me at the start.

    Afterwards, my parents (who watched the whole thing) told me they had never seen me focus on something so intently for so long and they couldn't believe I managed it.

    That's what souls games are, from start to finish. Every single encounter is basically impossible at first, until you die and learn enough to get through it. But you start from the beginning of the game every freaking time.

  • Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions

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  • They've been quietly preventing Firefox from becoming a threat for a long time. There are constant little things that just mysteriously don't work as well on Firefox, for no reason. People have changed the user agent and found that it works just like on Chrome with Chrome's agent. Youtube was doing it for a while, and reviews on the search are another instance. I was at the Dentist's and they were asking for a Google review, but I couldn't find the spot to leave it. I switched to Chrome and it was magically right where it was supposed to be.

    So they already think Firefox could be a threat, and preventing ad-block is going to make it a bigger threat.

  • Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions

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  • Because this is likely to drive a lot of people to try switching. And they're the type of people who try to convince other people to switch, too. Techies, etc.

    When forced with trying to keep family safe from abusive and/or manipulative ads, this is a pretty hot topic. Plenty of people tell their family what browser to use and even set it up for them with ad blockers, etc.

    I've recently had some experiences that tell me my parents are at a vulnerable age and can't fully protect themselves, so it's pretty important to have control of this.

  • We're losing our digital history. Can the Internet Archive save it?

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  • There's a few things going on. At first blush, I agree with you. The vast majority of that stuff doesn't need to be captured.

    But if you don't capture everything, how do you know you got the stuff that will be important or wanted in the future?

    Also, historians are going to find that data to be an absolute gold mine. Unfortunately, a lot of it is in the form of video now and takes a ton of storage space.

    I think, in the end, most people are not willing to pay the price to archive everything. But some are, and they're doing it.

  • Exclusive: How Intel lost the Sony PlayStation business

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  • Any time I see the word "exclusive" I know it's a crap article. Yes, your own writers only write for you. That's not what "exclusive" was supposed to mean for journalism.

    Being unable to come to an agreement isn't "exclusive" news. No shit. It's not even article-worthy.

  • Not everyone needs to have an opinion on AI

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  • I don't think they meant "you" you. They meant "you" in the general sense. They're saying that people either love it or hate it, with not very many centrists.

    I'm not sure that's true, though. I think, like you, most people are either centrist, or have no opinion at all. The vocal people go all one way or the other, though... Except you for some reason. :D

  • Pixel 9 Fold Pro - Backordered on Day 1 with T-Mobile (US)

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  • Nice! Congrats!

  • YouTube to restrict teenagers’ exposure to videos about weight and fitness

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  • FTA: YouTube’s global head of health, Dr Garth Graham, said: “As a teen is developing thoughts about who they are and their own standards for themselves, repeated consumption of content featuring idealised standards that starts to shape an unrealistic internal standard could lead some to form negative beliefs about themselves.”

    And while I'm sure this is true, this is a minority of people, and they should seek help for their problem. There are far more who benefit from hearing about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle and how to achieve it.

    They should already be hearing that stuff from their parents and teachers, but I have my doubts. And they're much more likely to listen to influencers than authority figures at certain ages.

    But the whole thing is even more pointless. They're mostly influenced by seeing these beautiful people constantly on TV, movies, and Youtube, and thinking that they don't measure up to them. Simply stopping some health care videos is going to do nothing for the problem and only prevent videos with the information they need.

  • Pixel 9 Fold Pro - Backordered on Day 1 with T-Mobile (US)

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  • Ah, I see. Well, I'm a little surprised it's backordered that far then.

    For fun, I checked Fi... Oct 23-30 for me.

  • Pixel 9 Fold Pro - Backordered on Day 1 with T-Mobile (US)

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  • It's been possible to order pixel 9s for a couple weeks, hasn't it? When I looked at one after the announcement, it was going to be here on release day. When I looked a few days later, it was going to be a couple more weeks.

    I'm not surprised that they're backordered for a while at this point.

  • Does your Duolingo app icon look sick? You're not alone

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  • I'm on the free trial of DL. It's still this ugly icon.

  • [Second Wind] Game Devs Lying to You is A Good Thing, Actually | Design Delve

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  • First off, I think you're absolutely right about your right to disable "this nonsense". I support you in that.

    But "this nonsense" is what makes games fun for me.

    I'm not about struggling and finally overcoming.

    I'm about having an adventure. It's the interactive version of a book, where I engage my brain a bit more and explore or solve puzzles, instead of the book just telling me the answers immediately. I enjoy gun fights in games, but I don't want to play them even twice. I want to win them and move on to more content. Losing a scenario doesn't make me feel even better when I win. It just drags me down.

    I have enough things in my life that I've accomplished by struggle that I don't need it from games, too.

    But again, if that's what does it for you, I think you should have it, too. There's no good reason you can't disable it, IMO. (Other than the devs just not providing the option.)

  • Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"

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  • I think that's the point? They're saying that those coders will turn into prompt engineers. They didn't say they wouldn't have a job, just that they wouldn't be "coding".

    Which I don't believe for a minute. I could see it eventually, but it's not "2 years" away by any stretch of the imagination.

  • Asked about SAG-AFTRA's strike for better AI protections, Amazon Games Boss claims AI 'has nothing to do with taking work away' from actors because 'for games, we don't really have acting'

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  • Well, then there shouldn't be any hesitation about signing up for the better protections for the actors then.

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  • Yeah. I recognize the bias and the need for clicks/eyeballs, and their motivations, and it applies to all of them. I generally expect someone telling me something to not be deceiving me, and I'm so often disappointed.

  • In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past

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  • I haven't tried to scaffold whole projects, but otherwise that lines up with my usage of AI copilots so far.

    At this point, they're good at helping you interface with the built in commands and maybe some specific APIs, but it won't do your thinking for you. It just removes the need for some specific base-level knowledge.

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  • In this case, it looks like they're in high school, too. I love anime and have seen the worst of it, and I'd never expect this to have explicit sex in it. If you told me it ended up being incredibly violent I'd be less surprised than about the sex.

    "You shouldn't judge a book by its cover", but that's exactly what the cover is made for. This cover failed to represent its book.

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    Apple is still standing in the way of Epic’s app store

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  • IIRC, they even have a rewards thing right now where you can get some free stuff for playing their games specifically on mobile, trying to draw more attention to their new store.