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- Comment on I made two new communities on lemmings.world, InsanePeopleQuora and ChavLovers 1 day ago:
I used to contribute to Quora when I was in grad school, since I was actually learning a lot of the stuff people wondered about. Between lack of mods and their monetization schemes though, can’t do that anymore lol
- Comment on I made two new communities on lemmings.world, InsanePeopleQuora and ChavLovers 1 day ago:
Reminds me why I stopped going to quora. Do they just not have a way to moderate leading questions? Those people obviously know they’re just posting their BS in the form of a question, jeopardy style.
Subbed in any case. Lol
- Comment on Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task 1 day ago:
I like this analogy and generally avoid using GPS (admittedly it’s out of laziness lol). The most insane part to me is I live where everything is on a grid and somehow people are still impressed I can figure out how to get places, even without having been there. GPS brain is real.
- Comment on For the first time, social media overtakes TV as Americans’ top news source 2 days ago:
Bad news except you can’t trust TV either. Or reading the news, lately. At least regardless of the medium, general advice carries-- double check sources, learn which are credible, etc.
I just hope people are following links and not just reading headlines, right? …Right?
- Comment on Behold 2 days ago:
Sometimes the alt text makes the image even better. I saw one from Shen comics the other day that went above and beyond on that alt text.
- Comment on Protip: 4 days ago:
There is an actual belief out there that your feet get some sort of power by connecting to mother nature barefoot. It’s insane woo nonsense, but that meme lifehack literally would be something they might do, lol
- Comment on *pat pat pat* 4 days ago:
That’s the expression of a man who just had a random naked encounter with an albatross. It’s a mix of befuddlement and wonder.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I hadn’t even thought about it until you brought it up. Kind of disappointed in people jumping on this like flies on shit but like… it’s 2025, so bigger things to be upset about.
In any case, apples and oranges. And PSA, if you need a Switch 2, grab em on the rebound. There’ll be used ones, likely hackable in 6 months and none of that goes to Nintendo. Don’t forget what their legal department has done in the past few years.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Hacked in 48 Hours — But Here’s Why It’s Just the Beginning 1 week ago:
Piracy and emulation is inevitable, although we’ll see if it’s months or years. I’m boycotting Nintendo over their legal practices, but that doesn’t mean I don’t want to play their games. It’ll be extra juicy to be able to emulate it eventually, although buying used is technically an option too.
- Comment on Police make 'mass arrests' in LA during nighttime curfew 1 week ago:
I really don’t want to be the one to say it, but there are opportunists that take advantage of these situations that the curfews are to impact (which, if I remember right, are supported by the city). I still remember what happened to Santa Monica not too many years ago which also resulted in a curfew. Temporary curfews are kind of a common practice anywhere in the US when there prolonged unrest.
That’s not to say it’s the protestors fault, of course; the whole situation is obviously escalated by Trump and the media. Most cities aren’t getting the same coverage and attention (and resulting opportunists). Also, still not a riot no matter how much these assholes insist it is.
- Comment on Police make 'mass arrests' in LA during nighttime curfew 1 week ago:
Most of the unrest is just in a small pocket of downtown in a city with millions of people. A vast majority of us are not impacted by any of this directly, although it’s still depressing to see.
- Comment on the cake is a lie 1 week ago:
I mean, they still do (especially with rats). But yeah, blinding kittens and giving people PTSD and such was pretty bad.
- Comment on I don't really need it but it makes me feel better about myself 1 week ago:
Oh please, just tuck it into your sock like the rest of us.
- Comment on YouTube’s Deliberate Indifference Exposes Kids to disgusting Content 1 week ago:
Honestly their algorithm seems to mostly push low quality, South Asian, and/or AI generated content lately, when randomly playing off of something like Ms Rachel or Sesame Street. Nothing disgusting, although maybe a little trippy (in AI case). My daughter really digs the Bollywood inspired kids stuff though.
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 1 week ago:
I’ve been using Launchbox, especially since I play emulator games. They’ve improved the efficiency of large libraries and added support for RetroAchievements, although I manually toggle completion status since I don’t always use it to launch my games so the time tracker isn’t accurate.
More importantly it let’s me hit randomize, so if I’m feeling adventurous it’ll pull a game from my backlog I might have got from anywhere.
- Comment on I always hope for a horsey 2 weeks ago:
Free to play players can at least restart their account until they get at least one 5* Queen, but even then it’s hard to beat the whales.
- Comment on Om nom 2 weeks ago:
Jokes on Om Nom, Rule 34 exists.
- Comment on Holy shit I got Retro Achievements working on my Pi Gameboy! Lmao this is so cool. I get to achievement hunt in my favorite game, earthbound after 30 years. Amazing 2 weeks ago:
A year ago is certainly a while back, although RA has such active forums I’m not surprised people aren’t really using Lemmy for it, haha. I would have posted about my GCN summer last year, haha.
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 2 weeks ago:
I keep Java installed for one thing and one thing only… modded Minecraft.
- Comment on Tantrum & sulk seem to be a loop. 3 weeks ago:
Nah, academics love their publication biases.
Wait, I mean journal publishers. Publishers love their publication biases.
- Comment on The Very Hungry Kittypillar 3 weeks ago:
What I’m hearing is we should joke about alimony and suicide? Dark.
I’m kidding! You’re right, although I want to add that I’ve even heard the worm thing as a reason for his bad decisions, etc… Cover there, too, as plenty of people with no brain damage make terrible choices and have horrible anti-science views.
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 4 weeks ago:
In other words-- your sexting is safe, friends.
- Comment on Square Enix considered ending Final Fantasy 11 in 2024, but player interest was high enough to keep it alive even after 20+ years 4 weeks ago:
Same, but given the time sink I’d like an abridged experience. I heard they doing that with DQX so why not FFXI?
- Comment on Damn 4 weeks ago:
The Subway training videos have gotten pretty weird, it seems.
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 4 weeks ago:
Couple other things to add to this beautiful list others have: meta gaming and chat.
They barely added achievements and only for a couple games, while steam has that, guides, community art, and even a newish notes feature in case you’re playing an OG game that makes you track stuff. Guides have kind of been better than more traditional sources.
Chat is… better on steam, although discord kind of supplanted it. Game based emoji, stickers, etc. It’s actually very good, though, with support for couch coop stream gaming, etc, with voice comms.
One could also point to the generous family sharing function, but I’m not sure what Epic does in that regard. DRM is DRM though. Do keep in mind, though, the philosophy behind Steam is to make DRM palatable by adding features. Epic philosophy (on paper) is to give devs a higher cut, although I’ve heard devs feel more supported by steam-- especially since they aren’t afraid to throw obscure indie games into a users discovery queue.
- Comment on Too much screen time before bed 4 weeks ago:
Language learning is just a hobby when you’ve got universal translators.
- Comment on Oh god 5 weeks ago:
Idk how to interpret this when I read it while laying on my right side. What’s on my left… the sun?
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 5 weeks ago:
A steam deck lite would probably dominate, lol
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 5 weeks ago:
At this point I want Switch 2 to flop so hard they go the way of the Sega and start licensing their IPs on other platforms, giving up on consoles. A shame, too, since their tech is little kid hand friendly and the PC market doesn’t seem keen on tiny screen handhelds.
- Comment on Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College 1 month ago:
Always have been, as I’ve seen during my UCLA days of people buying exam answers from previous weekends and paying for papers, etc… I’m glad I never bothered, mostly because of dignity but what because I was poor (although those correlate). Rich people have plenty of ways to game the system, though.