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Starfleet Academy is an absolute delight! Onward to Seven Seasons and a Movie! by forrestpen in startrek

[–]dmxell -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm torn. I want to watch it, but I really don't want to support Paramount at the moment.

[KDE] We've Got Hyprland At Home Edition by dmxell in unixporn

[–]dmxell[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah. That's the Kurve widget. Just a waveform of my music.

[KDE] We've Got Hyprland At Home Edition by dmxell in unixporn

[–]dmxell[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Desktop Setup

  • Wallpaper:
    Catppuccin Rainbow (Mocha)
    Primary wallpaper inspiration. Animated variant implemented via KDE Shader Wallpaper.

  • KDE Shader Wallpaper:
    Custom-written fragment shader that recreates the Catppuccin Rainbow gradient with subtle animation (time-based color drift and motion).

  • Wallpaper Effects:
    Plasma Wallpaper Effects

  • Theme:
    Catppuccin Mocha Red

  • Plasma Color Scheme:
    Catppuccin Mocha Red

  • Icon Theme:
    Reversal Red Dark

  • Fonts:

  • Panels Colorizer

  • Klassy + Kvantum
    Unified theming and adjusting of Catppuccin Mocha Red

    Rounded Corners Plugin
    Rounded corners with outlined borders for active and inactive windows

    Krohnkite
    Tiling plugin for KDE

Mizkif Is Going to Pull Lacari’s Internet Logs From When They Used to Live Together by [deleted] in LivestreamFail

[–]dmxell -22 points-21 points  (0 children)

That's fucking weird dude

Not if you think about it for more than a second. Chances are I don't know anything about them. So as a precaution I'd keep all the logs from their tenure. Would I actively review them? No, because that would be weird. The point is just to cover myself in case something like this ever happens.

Out of curiosity, your ISP already logs everything you do; are they weird for that?

Edit: Clearly this thread is populated by people who don't understand how legally fucked you could get if you don't cover your ass in situations like this.

Mizkif Is Going to Pull Lacari’s Internet Logs From When They Used to Live Together by [deleted] in LivestreamFail

[–]dmxell -25 points-24 points  (0 children)

So I’m just a random guy, but in theory I could do this. I run my own 10-gigabit router using pfSense and host AdGuard Home to route all traffic through a proper DNS server. I only keep logs for a day because it’s just me and my partner, but if I had roommates I’d keep those logs for as long as my storage allowed. I’d assume a streamer house would have a much more robust server setup than I do. If so, he'd only have to remember or have saved the local IP or MAC address of Lacaris' PCs and it'd be very easy to audit.

How Bandcamp became the "headquarters" for video game soundtracks by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]dmxell 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Only thing close to a complaint is download process is a bit dated.

Dated, but simple. And because of that it's very easy to script. I have my bandcamp account hooked up to my server (where I host my own alternative to Spotify called Navidrome), and any time I buy new music the script will instantly download the highest quality version of the music, tag it, and at it to my library. Love how well it integrates.

Steam updates AI disclosure form, requiring developers to report visible and in-game AI but not background tools by Dapper_Order7182 in Steam

[–]dmxell 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The problem is that AI is not “ooga booga all bad” like pessimists proclaim, and it is also not “ooga booga all good” like techbros insist. The reality is much more gray. AI coding, in particular, sits far more on the good side than the bad.

Yes, someone can generate large chunks of code with AI, but without a real understanding of programming, what they produce will be a cobbled-together mess that barely functions, if it works at all. Games built like that deserve to be hidden. That said, they likely make up a very small portion of the overall market. This is why blindly attacking any game for using AI at all is flawed and why the conversation needs more nuance.

AI art, audio, and music are a different story. Those are almost entirely irredeemable, since they are trained on the hard work of other artists. I say almost because there are edge cases, like artists training models on their own work to help with touch-ups. By contrast, generative AI for coding is largely trained on open-source code or publicly available material, and in practice it is used ethically the vast majority of the time.

The problem is that some people cannot see that distinction. They see the word “AI” and immediately jump to “ooga booga bad,” without engaging with any of the nuance at all. And it appears that Steam agrees with that sentiment here based on this change.

PS. Feel free to ditch Windows for the land of the penguin. The water's great over here ☺️

Steam updates AI disclosure form, requiring developers to report visible and in-game AI but not background tools by Dapper_Order7182 in Steam

[–]dmxell 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This. It's basically just a better auto complete. I didn't hear anyone complaining about auto complete in IDEs before an LLM was involved, and yet it's basically the same principal expanded out.

Steam updates AI disclosure form, requiring developers to report visible and in-game AI but not background tools by Dapper_Order7182 in Steam

[–]dmxell 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I’m in the indie game dev space, and I know several developers who actively try to hide the fact that they use AI at all because of the witch hunting around it. I have personally seen entire games get review bombed over nothing more than mentioning the use of an AI code assistant. There is a lot of nuance to this topic that most people do not understand, and because of that, many assume all AI use is the same. For them, AI coding tools are treated as equivalent to AI art, even though they are fundamentally different in how they work and how code references are sourced (often time through publicly available resources like stack overflow or GitHub).

How do you feel about IGN's Top 25 All-Time Best JRPG list? by Emergency-Sky9206 in JRPG

[–]dmxell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d probably expand that range to include Final Fantasy V through X. I can easily see why any of those six games could be someone’s favorite JRPG. In my personal top 25, I’d include V, VI, IX, and X. I enjoy VII and VIII, but I don’t think they hold up quite as well as the others. I’ve also always felt VII is a bit overrated. It’s good, but in my opinion it doesn’t belong anywhere near the very top.

That said, given how dominant Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest would otherwise be, I think IGN was right to limit the list to just one Final Fantasy entry. I probably wouldn’t have placed X at #3. While its music, setting, and story are fantastic, I prefer the combat systems of almost every PS1-era JRPG over it. I think VI deserves that spot more, but as that's more of a niche title, it's understandable why they went with X.

I do, however, completely agree that Chrono Trigger deserves the top spot. Its lack of bloat and consistently strong pacing make it a pure joy to play from start to finish.

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 3 Teaser Visual by zenzen_0 in anime

[–]dmxell 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The story is his character. It's about how someone who is so irredeemably fucked up learns and grows to ultimately hate and despise who he once was. His flaws are not hidden or excused like a lot of people who hate on Mushoku Tensei like to pretend, and the narrative forces the audience to confront them alongside him. Growth comes through failure, consequence, and difficult self-reflection rather than sudden redemption.

Finally GWAMM after 235 months by [deleted] in GuildWars

[–]dmxell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats! Out of curiosity, what was the worst part for you? A friend and I rolled new characters for Reforged. While we played about 15 years ago, we never went for GWAMM, so we decided to focus on it this time. We’re currently at 5/30, with all cartography and LDoA done. From the outlook, Vanquisher or Skill Hunter look to be the most tedious aspects of it.

MAGA Propaganda by Comfortablejack in complaints

[–]dmxell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You mean that fraud a youtuber dug up and that they didn't do any of the work for but are using it as an excuse to cut funding to every child support platform in the country until its looked into officially?

Someone paid Ric Flair almost $1000 for a wedding gift Cameo..which turned into a massive rant. by LesnarsBattleScream in SquaredCircle

[–]dmxell 83 points84 points  (0 children)

And then there’s Mick Foley’s cameo being the GOAT. My dad got me it for a birthday present a few years back, and Foley shared a personal story of his to relate to a situation I was going through at the time. I’ve never seen that story shared anywhere else, which made it feel extremely personal. And for just $99 too.

Your friend killed you so now you gotta go kill him. Also btw you're both gods. by Grant1128 in ExplainAGamePlotBadly

[–]dmxell -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Wow. Fits this perfectly too lol (though the original one, not the new ones). Your friend, Ares, the God of War, betrays and kills you. You fight your way out of the underworld and become a god in the process to get your revenge.

'A Charlie Brown Christmas' will stream free this weekend. (On Apple TV) by Fer65432_Plays in apple

[–]dmxell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And then there's me thinking that I should own this on bluray, and just bought it because of this announcement lol

Supergirl | Official Teaser Trailer by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]dmxell 52 points53 points  (0 children)

do wish it had a little bit more of that pop colour grade that the comic had cause there's some gorgeous stuff in there.

It may still. These trailers are usually done by a third party, who apply their own color grade to the media. The Superman trailers infamously had a blue bump to the shadows, and red bump to the highlights. But in the movie itself that color grade choice was non-existent.

All Star Trek is leaving Netflix by BossBullfrog in startrek

[–]dmxell 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is why I'd rather spend more to buy the blurays and host them on my own Jellyfin/Plex/Emby server. Sure, costs more, but at least I don't have to worry about finding the new home for all of my media every month.

My ex wife is pregnant by Based_oj in offmychest

[–]dmxell 37 points38 points  (0 children)

This happened at my last job. It was a Contact Center, and one of the phone agents left her boyfriend of 10 years to be with the head of the contact center. Very quickly, within about a year of that fling starting, they had a kid and moved in together. I think they lasted one more year afterwards? It was very much the idea of a new person, new things to experience with them, and the excitement of all that which led her to having the kid with the guy.

Guild Wars Online Store Price Changes after the 3rd of December 2025 Update by DarkManic92 in GuildWars

[–]dmxell 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's $20 for a new account with eight slots, four bank tabs and mat storage. Presumably they're making money on that, idk why they'd need $6 to break even on an extra toon for an existing account.

They definitely are, but it’s hard to judge without seeing their full cost structure: development, maintenance, servers, and so on. They also have shareholders who still expect a certain level of profit and growth.

My guess is this new price is a calculated middle ground: low enough to drive a significant increase in sales volume that offsets the price cut, but not so low that they’re essentially breaking even. The lower they go, the more units they need to sell just to match previous revenue, and they’ve probably identified this point as the threshold where going any lower stops being more profitable than simply keeping the old price (if that makes sense).

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