… Are they ripping off the “Suicide Squad” trailer?

That’s not exactly a promising sign for the game.

(Also, identity theft is not a joke, Bioware!)

I hope Bioware go back to their roots and take more inspiration from DA:O and BG3 instead of DA:I and go back to more tactical and less action-y gameplay. The overwhelming success of Baldur’s Gate 3 proves there is a market for traditional CRPG, especially coming from the the studio that made the first two Baldur’s Gate.

Also, less Ubisoft/Skyrim-esquelarge empty open world and more carefully crafted maps with emphasis on choices. DA:I wasn’t a bad game, but if Bioware releases another DA:I in 2024 it will definitely be compared unfavorably to Bg3.

And it comes in pink!

(Magenta, but still)

That’s just marketing, since everyone put their phone in a big case immediately anyway.

Waterproofing requirements makes everything harder, because there can’t be any gaps between the screen and the back.

Glass backs are popular because it makes assembly easier, because if the front and back are made from the same material, then they would have the same thermal expansion coefficient, which means that you can get a less variable fit between the front and the back.

It is for the benefit of the manufacturer and not the customer.

Google Docs, I guess?

Not really a big fan of them though.

Have you checked out the buying guide on the sidebar yet?

Xiaomi phones tend to have more active custom rim communities since they have historically been fairly liberal with bootloader unlocks. Make sure it covers your provider’s frequency bands if you buy the global version and you live in the US, for example, otherwise you may have reception issues.

Still, the Zenfone 10 is probably your safest bet if a 3.5mm jack is mandatory for you.

Do you think we will see alternative wallet apps pop up from Cashapp or PayPal or even directly from bank apps? Also, would they be able to support the other non-payment functions of electronic wallets with transportation/event tickets and such?

No one will hold it against him personally, it’s not uncommon.

There are certain actors who performs great in every single movie they appear in, yet still have many of these movies flop. Many times, it’s out of the actor’s control.

All we can do is our best.

They advertisd heavily on “complex branching storyline” and “every decision will have consequences” so the expectation was at the minimum a bigger Deus Ex Human Revolution, but then what they actually delivered is a worse GTA 5 with neon lights.

Yes, he did. But neither the main praise nor criticism of the game was not directed towards him but on the overall buginess and removal of RPG elements from the game.

Celebrity endorsement has never been a factor in how well a videogame does either way, regardless of level of star power or degree of involvement for the celebrity: Keanu Reeves playing a heavy hand (heh) in the story of Cyberpunk 2077 did little to stop the game’s initial bad press, and the main reason Baldur’s Gate 3 did well isn’t because JK Simmons is playing Kethric Thorm. (still, he had a great performance). Gameplay matters a lot more for a videogame.

It’s unsurprising then, that Oscar winning actor Will Smith’s involvement in a game in the oversaturated genre of zombie survival shooters did not become successful.

Plus, I don’t think paying celebrities to promote videos on their YouTube channel is an effective marketing strategy, mainly because nobody really watches any celebrities’ own YouTube channel, with the exception of Jack Black’s gaming channel, of course.

Thanks.

This post is against Rule 6, but I’ll leave it up this time since there are a decent amount of discussion here now.

[email protected], please remove the image when you can. You can post it in the comments.

Oh, that’s good news.

Have they open sourced it yet? I think I read something about that a while back.

“Why are you the top moderator of an Android community on an obscure technology forum?”, they asked.

Well, guess who’s ahead of the curve again. ☺️

I think the main reason for a thin phone nowadays is to have it fit in your trouser pocket. (or lack thereof). Having a flip style folding phone (as opposed to a book style) really helps.

I don’t think Linus Sebastian is worth watching during the NCIX days because he always seem like someone who would spend the least amount of effort and say whatever is popular to get the most amount of views. As you can see in this video, a lot of the criticism he made on the Fairphone are really nitpicking and isn’t fair (heh) at all.

For example, the phone thickness, which he measured with a caliper as a point, is not a metric most people outside of reviewers would care about, especially since most people puts a beefy case on their phone immediately anyways, and size is usually the main tradeoff with modularity.

Or their point about using a Qualcomm industrial chip instead of a Snapdragon chip as a point against Fairphone, when they have previously stated that it is to get a longer time of support.

That being said, having a long, uncut and unfiltered reaction video towards criticism by having the co-founder improv on the spot was not the smartest thing to do on Fairphone’s part. He came off as defensive and completely unprepared in the video and failed to address the criticism effectively (with some easy rebuttals if he was given even a little time to prepare) effectively, which is not great for PR.

The video could be much more effective if they cut it down to half the length with an actual script. It’s a YouTube video, there’s no reason to do it completely live and unscripted.

Samsung is really only worth it for their high end models, their midrange had always been lackluster compared to their competitions (though improved in recent years), I’m surprised they lasted this long on top, especially since Apple’s SE has been gaining traction in recent years.

Look at the silver lining, at least someone won’t be in the worst reviewed Suicide Squad related media anymore.

A small win is still a win.

What a beautiful award acceptance speech.

They should get you to host the Golden Globes next year.

Dear lemmings:

If this is the Golden Lemmy Awards, then why does the winner recieve a Lemmy Silver?

Curious.

Not even going to joke about this, but I am really hoping nobody there gets the bright idea to make a Barbie blockchain or NFT or anything like that.

Speaking of “Ready Player One”, the author Ernest Cline also wrote literally the absolute worst, grossest, most misogynistic poem I’ve ever had the displeasure of reading in my life. Now you’ll have to read it too to make sure the “Reqdyverse” never succeed and thus, zero possibility of Barbie blockchain.

I’ll throw my own nomination in for the Moto Razr Plus.

Because it’s pink and it flips.

Now promise to watch me win my Golden Globe this year on [email protected].

Retroarch is what you are looking for.

I would recommend using individual emulator apps for those that exist on Android, such as PPSSPP or Citra.

They should add an extra camera for the symmetry.

I would like to ask you to please not be so condescending, as it is against Rule 5 here. Thank you.

They don’t. iMessage doesn’t have read receipts built in for SMS (green bubbles), only blue bubbles sent from an Apple device.

Koreader on FDroid.

I have ebooks on my phone that I read when I can’t get Internet.

My point is, when the NSA and US intelligence had essentially full access to Huawei’s infrastructure and private documents, as shown in the leak in 2014, they could not produce the smoking gun that that proves Huawei had allowed the Chinese government any kind of backdoor access, nor did they claim that until 6 years later, and again, without any presentable evidence despite full access to Huawei’s internal infrastructure besides “take our word for it”, so forgive me for doubting the Trump administration’s honesty during the middle of the US-China trade war.

I’m not saying that the backdoor doesn’t exist, but I would like to see evidence, logs or leaks that proves unauthorized access, before making any kind of conclusion, otherwise, it is all just conjecture and not "have been caught having them in their devices.”

Otherwise, remember the Bloomberg story on the “spy chip” on the Supermicro motherboard a few years back? To date, nobody has ever produced examples of a Supermicro motherboard with this “spy chip” after years, but Bloomberg has never retracted that story as far as I know.

This Reuters article and NPR podcast transcript from 2014 directly contradicts what you said.

If you are not that big of an emulator guy, the old Square Enix Europe mobile games, like Hitman Go, were great puzzle games. I think the full game is accessable for a flat fee.

Part of the reason why I prefer to use open source apps whenever possible is because of this, you never really know if an app will be bought out by someone shady and start adding gross stuff to it, but open source apps can and will be forked.

Not an ideological reason, but a practical one.

I like their hardware, but MIUI is a bit too much bloat for a UI for me. Different strokes for different people.

Do you know the model for this Lenovo tablet?

Oh, right, emulation is another big thing to do on Android tablets. However, I still feel that Windows tablets would be better for gaming tasks though.

Pre-alpha build. After more than a decade.

If Star Citizen is a person it would be starting junior high/middle school now.