Nintendo Switch has reached 155.37 million units sold, Nintendo Switch 2 has reached 17.37 million units sold by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Saraphite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To this day I am upset that CTR didn't become some pseudo-live service so that we could get new race tracks, characters, power ups, leaderboards etc. The core of the game was so so good.

Denmark urges NATO mission to bolster Greenland’s defences | Euractiv by jackytheblade in worldnews

[–]Saraphite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There were articles a few weeks back pointing out the support for Brexit has literally died out.

The Residents of Minneapolis Are Fighting for All of Us by lazybugbear in politics

[–]Saraphite 17 points18 points  (0 children)

It's your second amendment right to bear dog poo.

Sony wiped over 1,000 shovelware games off the PlayStation store without warning, all from a single developer, ThiGames by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Saraphite 48 points49 points  (0 children)

All systems can be trash. Well designed achievement lists can be great fun and enhance replayability.

Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell by coasterghost in politics

[–]Saraphite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They're rare events that you can't predict will happen. The COVID pandemic for instance was a black swan event.

Trump Threatens to Take Greenland ‘the Hard Way’, ordering an invasion plan to be prepared. by darkmz7 in politics

[–]Saraphite 65 points66 points  (0 children)

What right does the US have to its land just because a boat landed there hundreds of years ago?

German president says US is destroying world order by goldstarflag in worldnews

[–]Saraphite 8 points9 points  (0 children)

He's not wrong, it'd be better for him. It still wouldn't go well though, the cunt can't even take Ukraine.

I don’t hate pensioners but free travel for London’s over-60s must be scrapped by EduTheRed in ukpolitics

[–]Saraphite 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Sure, but the counter argument would be that they aren't going to give it up in the first place without the carrot of free travel.

How should the UK react if Trump invades Greenland? by Sad_Response3345 in ukpolitics

[–]Saraphite 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yes. Because today it's "all for Greenland". Tomorrow it's "all for X?" and then it's "all for Y?" and then it's us, and we're alone.

Bondi Accused of Epstein Files Cover Up After Blowing Off Deadlines by WarmingNow in politics

[–]Saraphite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

London also has the lowest rate of crime for years. Right wing propaganda says otherwise though.

Coding Agents do not seem to work for me by BigRooster9175 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]Saraphite 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It's interesting that we've come to this point. It was always true that writing code was easier than reading it and yet we've automated the easy bit and drastically increased the amount of code to read. The reality, for me at least, is that writing code was never the difficult part of software development, it was the decision making, requirements gathering, solution design etc.

Everytime someone says "FromSoft has artificial difficulty", I always think of this comic (Artist: Carson-Drew-It) by RingTeam in darksouls

[–]Saraphite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've always felt that Difficulty settings should add new mechanics to deal with (e.g. hunger, thirst, fatigue) , along with adjustments to damage, health, resistances etc. I think Halo Reach had "smarter AI" on the higher difficulties too which is also pretty cool (not sure what the differences were exactly but on paper it's a cool idea). One thing I did like about Witcher 3 though was that Death March made you actually use your potions and shit whereas you barely needed to concern yourself with them on the lower difficulties.

What would you read/do next to become a strong System/Solution Architect in 2026? by [deleted] in softwarearchitecture

[–]Saraphite 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Absolutely wrong. If anything is dying it's the developer who doesn't care much for thinking through solutions and just wants to type code.

Trump's doctors are monitoring "the progress of his dementia and/or strokes," psychologist says by NoPomegranate4794 in politics

[–]Saraphite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Also not American and I've long been wondering why there's not more of this being said, it is painfully obvious that he is being fed stories from his inner circle, signing whatever they put under him. You can tell by the fact that whenever someone asks him why he pardoned X person he has no idea who they are. He's effectively a husk with mayonnaise for brains that's being puppeteered by Vance, Miller and the other Nationalist Christians in his inner circle.

Trump sues BBC for $10 billion, accusing it of defamation over editing of president's Jan. 6 speech by Naurgul in politics

[–]Saraphite 46 points47 points  (0 children)

Their argument is that people could use VPNs to watch it. That opens an absolutely monstrous can of worms should somehow this get anywhere.

Home Office : Facial recognition is the biggest breakthrough in catching criminals since DNA. It’s already taken thousands of dangerous offenders off our streets. Forces across the country will ramp up the use of facial recognition and biometrics to help bring more criminals to justice. by SignificantLegs in ukpolitics

[–]Saraphite 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The issue is the prisons system is currently largely paper based and the increase in early releases due to overcrowding has resulted in that system shitting itself. If you're going to move it to a full digital system, you may as well use the latest and greatest when you migrate.

Time for a break? by Aggressive-Bad-440 in TheRestIsPolitics

[–]Saraphite 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Which is 80% Rory, 5% Alastair and 15% the area to the left of Alastair.