TacticsConsort
@TacticsConsort@yiffit.net
- Comment on Launching c/Latvija, the community for Latvia on the Fediverse! Calling all Latvians and those interested in Latvia and the Baltic countries to join and support us. 3 weeks ago:
Ooh, very nice! I’ve visited the country once, and ever since that visit whenever I taste dill I’m instantly transported back there. You guys have some really underrated good food!
- Comment on So, my weirdo Stanley Parable inspired game finally made it to Most Wishlisted Steam Games. And I'm pretty sure a lot of you are to blame... 5 weeks ago:
TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK BOYS
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 5 weeks ago:
Adblock my beloved
- Comment on Microsoft inks deal to restart Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to fuel its voracious AI ambitions 1 month ago:
Holy sunk cost fallacy, batman. How fucking much does it cost to operate an ENTIRE GODDAMN NUCLEAR REACTOR just to fuel a tech project that nobody wants???
- Comment on rabioli 1 month ago:
Babe wake up, new forbidden snack just dropped
- Comment on A European consumer watchdog wants you to be able to buy exactly as much in-game currency as you need, not fixed chunks 1 month ago:
“The group in question are the Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs, or BEUC, who represent 44 non-governmental consumer organisations from 31 countries, and have been around since 1962.”
Thank you BEUC, very based, we appreciate your looking out for us.
- Comment on X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders 2 months ago:
Insane how the Republicans made ‘unconstitutional’ into another meaningless buzzword in order to try and dodge the responsibility for Jan 6th.
- Comment on The Curvaceous Period 2 months ago:
Walking Wake
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
I will pay for an adblocker before I pay for an ad provider to stop harassing me
- Comment on Most important map 3 months ago:
Oh, this is handy, I specifically avoid these guys.
Not for ethical reasons or anything, just I had these weird frozen meatballs from them when I was like 7 and nearly vomited myself to death in a holiday caravan’s bedroom before collapsing unable to move for an hour, conscious the entire time and simply unable to make my body respond. 1/10, not reccommended.
- Comment on Bethesda Game Studios developers form 'wall to wall' union that includes artists, designers, and programmers 3 months ago:
Thank fuck for that. With any luck the better conditions will even give them the power to push back on management if management demands something stupid be added to a game.
In an industry as notoriously dreadful as game development, every bit of quality of life counts.
- Comment on China starts smartphone inspections to boost 'anti-espionage efforts', raising fears among expatriates and foreign business people about arbitrary enforcement 4 months ago:
There’s not going to be anything ‘arbitrary’ about those inspections… In a bad way.
- Comment on Team Fortress 2 players report that Valve have carried out a ban-wave against aimbots 4 months ago:
Thank goodness for that! I don’t even play TF2, but it’s a really important cultural landmark in the history of online gaming and of a large era of the internet, so keeping the game in good condition and taking care of it is still quite important to me.
- Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising 4 months ago:
They haven’t gone overboard with THIS one, because they already went way the fuck overboard years ago and never got back on board
Man I’m gonna have to bite the bullet and make my next machine a linux one
- Comment on It's almost the week-end, what are you guys going to play? Also, could we have a monthly thread for July? 4 months ago:
This! I’m on one of the lategame bosses in the v6 expansion; they’re a lot tougher than the rest of the game so it’ll probably take me all weekend to get good enough to beat them
- Comment on Arizona toddler rescued after getting trapped in a Tesla with a dead battery | The Model Y’s 12-volt battery, which powers things like the doors and windows, died 4 months ago:
Fun fact, a Tesla spokesperson describing the car’s features was talking about how they wanted something on the car that didn’t make it to final release and said “But sadly we couldn’t get that law changed”, which does… kind of imply that they lobbied the regulatory bodies into allowing this piece of shit to exist.
- Comment on I am inevitable. 4 months ago:
“AAA Developers aren’t getting money from real keys either, what’s your point?”
- Comment on Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds 4 months ago:
Somehow this is worse than Reddit. Sure Reddit isn’t good, but at least Reddit was sane enough to understand concepts like ‘working too much is deeply unhealthy both physically and mentally’ and ‘corporations should not hold absolute power’
- Comment on Britain’s richest family sentenced to 4 years in jail 4 months ago:
Honestly, you love to see it. A wealthy person? Suffering actual, meaningful CONSEQUENCES?! It almost defies belief
- Comment on It's almost the week-end, what are you guys going to play? 4 months ago:
Megaman 8-bit Deathmatch, Heroes of the Storm, Pizza Tower, and DnD!
- Comment on Chaos Reigns Inside Tesla as Workers Await Next Slew of Job Cuts – One worker likened the state of the company to ‘Squid Game,’ the TV series where contestants fight for survival. 5 months ago:
Aside from the usual conundrum of “any way to not starve or become homeless that doesn’t involve whoring out to corporations has been removed from society”, Tesla… wasn’t always like this. Musk didn’t found it. Musk didn’t build it. He just bought it so he could pretend to be clever.
- Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI 5 months ago:
Holy fuck. I knew that AI did use above average amounts of power, but THIRTY FUCKING PERCENT added to the total emissions of a data giant like Microsoft??? That’s absurd! How the hell did they create something so inefficient??
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 5 months ago:
Well… that’s probably the most expected thing to ever be expected. It was never a matter of ‘if’, it was a matter of when.
- Comment on Have win7 laptop. What to play on it? 5 months ago:
Megaman 8-bit Deathmatch!
- Comment on HELLDIVERS 2 sees over 130K bad reviews on Steam as Sony double down 6 months ago:
Requiring all players make a PSN account to keep playing.
PSN is notorious for two things:
A) Leaking your data
B) SELLING your data
It’s an account that has absolutely no benefits to own (apart from making a company line go up), is about as anti-privacy as it gets, and also makes the game straight up unplayable if you’re from a region of the world that doesn’t have PSN.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 6 months ago:
Adblock is a godsend.
Although I actually use Invidious for most videos these days. The only things Youtube has going for it are a decent autoplay function and a professional maintenance team. Invidious has things like ‘not aggressively selling my preferences to every algorithm under the fucking sun’ and ‘a functioning search bar’ and ‘not actively fighting against adblockers’
- Comment on Theoretical Physics 6 months ago:
Tbh as far as I know, the universe being a mystery IS one of the bigger problems for physics lads
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 6 months ago:
They’re £1 a piece over where I am, me and my brother literally always joke that they’re the number one indicator that the economy is in shambles
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 6 months ago:
I don’t think the immigrants are to blame. They make a really easy target for politicians to blame, but… I mean, we both saw Boris Johnson campaigning for his fucking life on ‘SAVE THE NHS SAVE THE NHS, JUST LET ME BAN ALL IMMIGRANTS AND RESTRICT HEALTHCARE SO I CAN SAVE THE NHS’ and then he didn’t give the NHS any money or support or investment, he just slipped a an absolutely fat bonus to all his tory friends and big businesses.
We should have invested in ourselves, yes. Just, please don’t be fooled into thinking we invested into immigrants. ‘We’ (the Tories) invested into the offshore bank accounts of the 0.1%.
- Comment on Life was better in the nineties and noughties, say most Britons 6 months ago:
I mean, I was pretty young at the time, but good god even I can see how we’ve been obliterated by inflation. There’s a specific chocolate here in the UK, a tiny little one for children called Freddo the Frog. Just a little cartoon chocolate frog, nothing fancy.
Their price has multiplied by a factor of TWENTY in the past 20 years. And I know pretty damn well that the amount everyone is getting paid has not increased by a factor of 20. Sure this is just a small irrelevant little chocolate bar and other things have inflated less, but like. It’s probably the easiest thing to notice.
But yeah also playing in the street or taking a bike ride around town with your friends was a thing when I was a kid. Sure we were all probably a nuisance, but these days… I don’t think I’ve seen anyone playing outside in ten years. The places we’d ride bikes got bought up and removed. And even the idea of allowing children to play outside feels… socially unacceptable.
Also early Youtube and Facebook were COMPLETELY different beasts that just didn’t have the millions of hours of design work put into them to suck people in and keep them there. Oh, and flash games were a really big thing too if you wanted to play on the computer. They were amazing. And big-name games were in a really good spot, paid DLC and the pay-to-win blight hadn’t really started, and stuff like World of Warcraft, LAN Halo, and other games you could play over at a friend’s house were at their peaks from a social point of view.
…I know nostalgia is a trap, but god, it really isn’t hard to think of things to be nostalgic for from that time, and I was only born in the very late 90s. At least I’ve got plenty of friends online these days though.