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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I always hope for a horsey⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep Java installed for one thing and one thing only… modded Minecraft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tantrum & sulk seem to be a loop.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, academics love their publication biases.

  Wait, I mean journal publishers. Publishers love their publication biases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Very Hungry Kittypillar⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Language learning is just a hobby when you’ve got universal translators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh god⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skype was shut down for good today⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it funny Microsoft gave me a survey on my work PC asking about how I’m enjoying its products (I laughed in Linux, “how do you like windows customizablity” let me go off about KDE lol)

  But back to the subject. Literally everything they work on seems to turn to shit — I wonder what kind of survey feedback are they usually getting? “Oh, Skypes cool but I really like Teams”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny how, despite corporate trying it’s hardest to kill it, we’ve only managed to get better, more organized and safer with file sharing (and perhaps because of them, in many ways).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me that Nintendo had help lines you could call for stuff like Zelda secrets, and they may have intentionally added things like secret caves to incentivize that lucrative service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tiramisuitcase⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, Tiramisu should be America’s favorite dessert.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You want the absolute “guide damn it” example? Try playing the OG Dragon Quest games. They’re nonlinear by nature and there’s a spot in 2 (or was it 3) where you need to literally check an unmarked floor for an item. No indicator, save maybe a vague NPC dialogue in another part of the planet that didn’t get adequately translated in English so you’re truly aimless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s certainly some improvement. I’ve played Sunshine recently on an emulator and it’s not as refined as Odyssey and yes, the physics jump a bit from 64 to Sunshine to Galaxy to Odyssey. They’re all quite enjoyable, just the Switch admits to only being a slight step up from a Wii U, lol. They all use tricks to look better, same with Zelda BotW artistic blur, etc.

  In any case, Mario doesn’t exactly need picture perfect ray traced lit graphics where you can see every fiber of his mustache or how his overalls reflect light just right so you can see the denim texture. Then again … Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The fact that even 3D games are old now blows my mind on a regular basis.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think what’s more interesting is Mario today doesn’t even look much different than Mario 20 years ago. The Switch just never bothered, plus graphics in general are flattening out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Starter homes' cost at least $1 million in over 200 U.S. cities, Zillow data finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotcha. So yes, it’s misleading headline, mostly for the first part since you can probably pull up 200 “cities” where you’d be nuts to find your first home. You aren’t getting your first home in Malibu, that’s just silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Starter homes' cost at least $1 million in over 200 U.S. cities, Zillow data finds⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… define starter home. I got a starter for about half that in LA but I have a shared wall townhome. Not great, but if we’re talking no shared walls and a yard, ya I can see that costing more… Except I also saw those for about this price, only with like… 600sq ft? Pick you battles, but those aren’t a million even in the city.

  Now, maybe the 200 cities are specific neighborhoods, like how Santa Monica isn’t technically Los Angeles since it’s got it’s own city government. Same with Beverly Hills, Bel Air, etc. You sure as hell ain’t getting a place for 1 mil there, even if it’s a small “starter home.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8BitDo no longer shipping to US from China due to Trump tariffs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh. I hate this timeline.

  My 8bitdo story, back when they’re we’re just starting to put joysticks on their SNES style controllers, I used mine to the point that the joysticks were falling apart. I sent them a support email, and even though it wasn’t covered by any warranty or anything, a very nice Chinese person working there sent me a spare set of joysticks in the mail, plus words of encouragement (in somewhat broken English) since I wasn’t shy about fixing the thing myself.

  Can’t imagine that today, but it was a nice gesture and I’m glad they’re still making stuff today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The youtube algorithm is so bad, I say to my screen "why the fuck would I care about this!?" like 10 times a day.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I still find it funny it thinks my 3 year old is interested in solar panels.

  The more concerning one was a divorce lawyer for fathers. That shit wasn’t even on my account or my computer, it just assumed daytime watching of kids stuff means a guys going through a divorce, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Advanced OpenAI models hallucinate more than older versions, internal report finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, I was about to say the same thing until I saw your comment. I had a little bit of success learning a few tricks with o3 but trying to use o4 is a tremendous headache for coding.

  There might be some utility in dialing it all back so it’s more straight to what I need based more on package documentation than random redditor suggestion amalgamation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human Intelligence Sharply Declining⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, hence why it impacted who I mentioned: low income, rural and people of color (who get bad Internet due to racial redlining). Good point regarding changed attitudes of sick days, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a cancelled game you really miss?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Concord

  Haha, just kidding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human Intelligence Sharply Declining⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit sensationalized, but there is a solid evidence that students are doing worse in the US than a few years back. From what I’ve read, it’s probably the year gap from COVID because data suggested the decline was steeply after that year and mostly impacted low income, rural, and communities of color who were most impacted by the shift to remote school.

  This is an averages thing, though, as it’s tied to other data that suggests absenteeism skyrocketed and never quite came back to pre-pandemic levels.

  Now, people citing biological reasons like long COVID and microplastics aren’t necessarily wrong, but I haven’t seen as much evidence of cognitive impacts. The reason I still give it some credit, though, is historically IQ goes up every generation (and then recalibrated since it’s centered on 100) and a big part of that is biological (e g. deleading gas), though access to information (radio, TV, internet) also contributes.

  Interestingly enough, you’d think reliance on social media makes you dumb but we don’t have evidence of that, it’s mostly just really bad for teens mental health. We’ve always had stupid forms of entertainment.