taiyang

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For considerably less than the price of the Super Deluxe Edition of Boarderlands 4. I have almost all of Assassins Creed on one box.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  People shit on the franchise because they did kind of rush production, but honestly they hold up if it’s what you’re into. It’s just kind of sad they can’t all be AC2 quality, that was probably the best of the lot in terms of storytelling, intriguing exploration, etc. I still remember climbing into that girl’s place in the opening as Ezio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For considerably less than the price of the Super Deluxe Edition of Boarderlands 4. I have almost all of Assassins Creed on one box.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oddly, 4 does have a few cities in addition to the nautical stuff. They aren’t big name cities, but Havana, Kingston and Nassau of that period. Kind of interesting, especially right when Pirates of the Caribbean was popular.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Completely Natural Conversation in the NYC Reddit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, use of long dash is the same kind of tell as an image having 6 fingers. Not impossible to find in human interactions but generally very rare, especially in online conversation. (I’m not even sure if my phone can do a long dash, just these fellows: —).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made two new communities on lemmings.world, InsanePeopleQuora and ChavLovers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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:⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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*⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tantrum & sulk seem to be a loop.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, academics love their publication biases.

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Very Hungry Kittypillar⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh god⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk how to interpret this when I read it while laying on my right side. What’s on my left… the sun?