MimicJar

@MimicJar@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Niche Communities won't be able to reach their true potential until lemmy adds a sort that takes engagement into account.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Algorithms are fine when an algorithm is open, clear and optional. The default sort for many apps/UI is “Active”, that’s an algorithm. It may be a simple one, but it’s an algorithm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Star Trek Origin” Movie Reportedly Headed To Greenlight For Production Start In Early 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking around online, further rumors seem to lean towards it being a Federation origin film.

  That would put us in ENT era, but I don’t see them following the existing canon. Maybe following a non-Enterprise ship to recruit an early but non-founding planet. The origin in this case being about how the Federation first expanded.

  The other option could be picking up right after First Contact. How mankind adapts to learning about the Vulcans.

  I just don’t see either of those films getting greenlit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2003).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure it isn’t a perfect comparison, but the idea is the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have a bad friend if he isn't willing to help you bury a dead body or if he is willing to help you.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, asking a friend is the right thing to do. Demanding things is how I ended up with a body in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Comcast introduced the “Xfinity” branding in 2010. I still call refer to it as “Comcast”. Any conversation I have where an ISP comes up, the word “Comcast” is used. If someone says “Xfinity”, they often follow it up with “you know, Comcast”.

  Now that’s a VERY clear brand change.

  The name “X” is a VERY confusing brand change. It will likely be called Twitter forever. In fact at some point Musk will sell or give up on “X” and I guarantee within a year the new owner will change the name back to Twitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Conversations like this are why I want more people, especially "normies", in the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  we can get random experts chiming in about interesting topics

  Lol we have that now… just be sure to phrase your question in the form of a Linux distro.

  But to be serious I do think we’re heading that way, but it’s going to take a long time, likely as long as it took Reddit (if not longer).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Dr. Strange ever given a diagnosis mid fight?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not technically what you mean, but during the first Doctor Strange film he gets injured and teleports himself to a Hospital. I seem to recall he gives a diagnosis of himself to Christine Palmer while he is in his spirit form, since his body is dying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The article we’re talking about?

  Those dropped from the maintainer list

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smash Bros. Creator Masahiro Sakurai Quits YouTube With Final Video Teasing Mystery New Game⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I always knew Sakurai worked hard to deliver high quality games, but after watching this video, it’s insane.

  Creating a whole YouTube channel with 260 videos just because he had a few free months. Doing the majority (pre editing) in just a few months, scripting and recording nearly ever video in advance.

  Absolutely wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X fails to avoid Australia child safety fine by arguing Twitter doesn’t exist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The article mentions that the fine will stand and likely be doubled, but I feel like for arguments that are especially stupid, like this one, it should be doubled again.

  There are enough corporate loopholes as it is, I can only imagine the chaos if this were allowed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I love children's sense of humour⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You just pick something obvious and over elaborate on it. Big glasses, bright blue hat, etc also kids are mean, so pick a flaw, same idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla issues 5th recall for the new Cybertruck within a year, the latest due to rearview camera⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand I agree, but also just because it can be fixed over the air doesn’t mean it’s not a major problem.

  Plus imagine if a car manufacturer put VERY shitty software into their cars. If a manufacturer has 100 recalls a year, I want to know why. If they have 1, I want to know why.

  Just because they are more easily fixed, doesn’t mean the recall isn’t important.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The ghost of StarCraft: Ghost endures as a new shooter set in the RTS universe is in the works at Blizzard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is my $5 down preorder still valid?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Movies and TV shows - active communities promotion thread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard to say.

  For discussion threads I think it makes sense and that’s what I really want to see grow. When we only had films it was easier since you had only a few new films per week, and even less if you focused only on the blockbusters/comic book movies.

  Now with TV shows you’ve got a new episode every week.

  If you look at Reddit communities you had great discussion and memes week to week, and it only worked with folks hyper focused on the TV show.

  Ideally I’d have separate communities for each show, but that would be spread super thin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Movies and TV shows - active communities promotion thread⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re a fan of Comic Book TV & Movies I want to highlight,

  • !marvelstudios@lemmy.world

  We’re discussing the latest MCU films and TV shows. Agatha All Along is airing right now, but we’re also excited for next year with Captain America: Brave New World & Thunderbolts*.

  We’re also open to discussing Sony’s terrible Marvel films like Venom and Madam Web. And I’m looking forward to Sony’s excellent Marvel films like Spider-verse.

  Of course to be fair I’ve also reignited,

  • !dcstudios@lemmy.world

  It’s just discussing The Penguin TV series at the moment, but as James Gunn and Peter Safran put together their DCU I expect we’ll talk about it a lot more. Also the upcoming Joker sequel. If it’s DC it’s fair game.

  And of course for either community if you just want to visit after watching the latest film or TV show, that works too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the streamer says their favourite pokemon is Pikachu...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lorelei.

  Gen 1 Aurora Beam has a niche.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The nice thing about BG3 is that it isn’t going anywhere. In fact it’s getting a little extra polish the longer you wait (not that it needs it, just as a bonus).

  BG3 was an excellent game a year ago, it’s an excellent game today, and I feel confident in saying it will be an excellent game for years to come.

  It’s not some live service play every day for a chance to win a hat game. It isn’t an MMO where a year from now every will have moved on to new content. It isn’t a game with season passes and unrelated DLCs that screw up the balance or over gear your starting character or awkwardly take you out of the main game.

  It’s just a solidly excellent game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Planet Of The Apes [spoilers]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  🎵I guess they finally made a monkey! 🎵

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For Pokemon Legends Arceus I think what would prevent me from playing it again after 100% isn’t the amount of repeated tasks to max out the Pokedex, most of which are fun and a few of which just suck. I think it’s the slow dialogue/gameplay. When playing the actual game I’m usually having fun. When I’m stuck in a forced tutorial or dialogue it’s just a slog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Metroid Dread.

  I beat the game on Normal, then went back to 100% it, then immediately played again on Hard mode, beat that and 100% it again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s a game you can 100% without hating by the end?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I remember correctly to 100% Mario Odyssey you need 999 moons. The game gives you 850 or so normal/good/fun moons, but the last 150 or so you have to buy with coins. For me this meant grinding a flower challenge in Bowsers Castle ~20 times in a row.

  I did it, but that part wasn’t fun.

  The rest of the game is perfect, but that part would keep me from 100 percenting the game again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Instance] Kbin.run down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And what’s stopping that from happening now?

  I assumed, perhaps incorrectly, that servers die because they are difficult to maintain. This is perhaps especially true for kbin/mbin based servers.

  I suppose for enough money some might be willing to maintain, but I’m not sure it’s that simple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Instance] Kbin.run down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a solution to make the whole ecosystem mature and professional?

  Certainly having everyone on one instance isn’t the way to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech’s Subscription Mouse Idea Pulled Back After Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A feel a little bad for the Logitech CEO here. It was basically a softball question, do you ever think you’ll have software subscriptions, which is a common thing, and he answered “Yeah, that’s possible.”

  Obviously for a mouse it doesn’t really make sense, but paid software updates are common in the industry so who knows.

  Obviously it’s stupid, but it’s funny to see it play out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨perspective⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  O <— Sun Earth —> .

  O <— Stephen Sun —> .

  O <— Tom Stephen —> .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unofficial Metroid Pixel Art eBook Is Free For A Very Limited Time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone wondering you only need an email and and an address to checkout, once checked out you’ll get a link to download.

  The email and address don’t have to be anything particularly accurate/real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some players in the ecosystem have not been transparent with their use of Reddit’s content, and in those instances, we block access to protect Reddit content and user privacy.

  Aka “Fuck you, pay me”, at least Reddit is transparent that data is for sale and they think they own it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google is discontinuing the Chromecast line⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They killed support for the first gen Chromecast and the YouTube “app” has been broken for 3+ years. They’ll just stop supporting it one day and you’ll have to buy a new one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “the annoying webp” AFAIK is the same problem as JPEG XL, apps just didn’t implement it.

  It is supported in browsers, which is good, but not in third party apps. AVIF or whatever is going to have the same problem.