MimicJar

@MimicJar@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So I’ve always felt this way about video games.

  Can you imagine a kids first Mario game being Mario Wonder? That’s a twist on Mario games, it’s not the base Mario!? They won’t understand what makes it an interesting new game!

  But the thing is, it’s fine. Everything new is old. Plus it’s the Internet, it’s impossible to actually sort out everything.

  Like, what is Roblox? I know it’s some online game. Then I saw John Green play Roblox with his daughter. It was a dress up simulator. That’s Roblox?

  Or how about the song Gangnam Style? I remember when that reached 1 billion views on YouTube. That was a moment. But then remember Despacito? When I first heard that song it was already at 1.2 billion views. How could I clearly remember the first billion views video, but completely miss it happening again?

  Think about the entirety of history that happened before you. How did you sort that out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Star Trek Discovery that bad?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think if you’re looking for a recommendation, both Strange New Worlds and Enterprise are better than Discovery.

  If you were ok with Picard season 1, at worst you’ll be ok with Discovery.

  I will say that Strange New Worlds is technically a spinoff of Discovery, so a watching Discovery first makes more sense if you’re planning on watching them all eventually anyway.

  Discovery has good episodes, but probably more bad episodes than good episodes. If you’re binge watching, which you can do now that it’s all been released, it won’t be so bad. If you watch a bad episode, you’ll come across a good episode soon enough. When we had to watch week to week, it was rough going bad after bad, week to week.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simpsons fans are the Star Wars fans of animation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve watched every episode of The Simpsons and every Star Wars film and TV show.

  Which kind of fan am I?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Purpose of Difficulty | GMTK Mini⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the run back is fun for some people and I think the game should deliver the best version they can for those people. For me, it’s just not fun. The reward is smaller than the frustration it causes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Purpose of Difficulty | GMTK Mini⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It took Silksong coming out for me to identify why I wasn’t a fan of Hollow Knight, and it’s touched on in this video.

  It’s the runback.

  The Dark Souls series of games have the same “problem”, and it’s why I don’t enjoy them either.

  I’m a huge fan of Celeste, Super Meat Boy, the Ori series. When I fail at these games, I’m right back in the action.

  I’m not against having to learn boss patterns, I really enjoyed Cuphead because after I’ve failed I’m right back in the action.

  And while it’s an easier game by comparison, Shovel Knight was a fun game. The checkpoints were plentifully and I could increase the difficulty by destroying them.

  But when I played Hollow Knight I reached a point where I was just running to the boss and dying. Then again. And again. And again. I wasn’t getting better. And the time it took to get back just took too long and wasn’t fun. It wasn’t a rage quit. I was having fun at one point… But then the game wore me down and eventually it wasn’t.

  I don’t think the game needs to change. Although I think adding difficultly modifiers would be a good idea. I played through Metroid Dread on normal difficulty and after beating it was having so much fun I immediately played it again on Hard difficulty. If there were a mode with more checkpoints in Hollow Knight and Silksong I might give them a shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DC Cinematic Community⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that I’m against new communities, any reason you made a new community instead of joining !dc_studios@lemmy.world ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, but this book is the best thing Microsoft has made.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If we can find information by asking GenAI, who needs the Web?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  who needs the web?

  Generative AI that’s who. For it to spit out information, it needs information. The argument may be that it is better at collecting all that information in one place and returning an answer, although we know it hallucinates responses. But to even begin a response it needs data, it needs the web.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, you’re right, season 3, fixed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jonathan Frakes Surprised ‘Strange New Worlds’ Star Trek Spoof Was Controversial; Talks Directing ‘Academy’ And More⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t seen the most recent episode yet, but so far the best episodes this season have been the silly episodes.

  Strange New Worlds season 2 spoilers

  - Episode 1, the second part of two parter. Neat trick to make the Gorn sleep but otherwise boring. - Episode 2, a fun Trelane/Q wedding episode. (Silly) - Episode 3, zombies I think. - Episode 4, hologram episode, the best parts of which were the over the top parts. (Half silly) - Episode 5, the best serious episode exploring the ruins and solving puzzles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Section 31 was perfectly passable as a non Star Trek thing. If it were a random sci-fi movie it had fun moments. As Star Trek? Good lord it was garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[OC] Hank Hill Catches Up on Pokémon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, Bobby’s outside playing in the tall grass pretending to be a Rattata.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what video game deserves to be in a museum?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Assuming a single game, Minecraft. It should be a kids museum style where you can build things. You can make each room a different biome or structure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I ain't got no time to maintain some stupid little plastic bread clip. I got a landlord to feed.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pfft, I just eat the entire loaf in one sitting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Security vulnerability for Nvidia drivers on Linux/Windows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
  do not click

  gottem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed.World is now open⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s exactly what piefed does actually.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed.World is now open⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit sorta half did it with the “other discussions” or duplicate tab.

  As an example,

  old.reddit.com/…/a_clicktocancel_rule_intended_to…

  I never saw any apps implement it, but it does look like it was part of the API, but maybe it wasn’t robust enough.

  I also know at one point, and possibly still, is that it lacked URL normalization. So for example, exanple.com/headline and example.com/headline#topstory would be treated as two different articles.

  Similarly youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ and youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

  Would be treated as separate articles.

  These are all fixable problems, but require work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Summer Games Done Quick 2025 started a few hours ago⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that Doom or Sonic 2 or Goldeneye or other 90s games aren’t guaranteed a place every year

  FWIW Sonic 2 was the game that kicked things off this year.

  But also I think the goal should be either showing off new tricks or showing off new games. Older games are going to have fewer new tricks. Obviously sometimes a barrier is broken or a new category is put together that has interesting gameplay, but in general we probably will see fewer old games.

  That isn’t to say that old games should go away completely, but if there is a bias towards newer games, it makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But you are not buying a game, you are renting it.

  I absolutely agree that companies shouldn’t be able to say they’re selling you a game. They should make it 100% clear that you are renting it.

  I’m also onboard with requiring p2p/LAN functionality for multiplayer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I pay to see a film in a theater, I don’t own the film. I don’t get to watch the film again after it leaves the theater.

  While I pay to see a concert, a play, or a musical, I don’t own those performances. I don’t get to see them again. They generally aren’t recorded (Although that is changing in some limited cases.)

  I do think a game dying is terrible and I do think games should be clearly labeled (so people can make an education decision if they want to rent the game).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sebastian Lauwers: "What Lemm.ee’s shutdown means (and doesn’t) for the Fediverse" - Mastodon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But here’s a bonus feature: many platforms allow you to easily migrate your account to a new instance.

  But Lemmy isn’t one of those platforms. Right?

  Generally I agree with the article that the shutdown of lemm.ee isn’t a big deal. It sucks for sure, but the Fediverse survives.

  Personally I don’t care about account migration. Export/import works fine, but I get that it’s a little clunky for some.

  Community migration is something that I think is more important and as I understand PieFed handles this. Hopefully Lemmy will someday and even better between Lemmy & PieFed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The name "seagull" implies the existence of landgulls, airgulls, and firegulls.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen many seagulls in my life.

  But I’ve never seen any of the others.

  And that’s terrifying. Stay vigilant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reevaluating my password management⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You also have to keep track the site and how you spell it. For example is it “Microsoft” or “microsoft”?

  And keep track of the current name of the site vs the old name. For example am I signing into Microsoft or Live.com or Xbox?

  And keep track of my username. Is it my email? Which email? Which username?

  I understand the concept but I think if falls apart fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky is more open than you think.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  then you lose half the users and perhaps half the communities

  As a thought, do you really lose them?

  For example the “Television” community previously existed on the lemm.ee instance. The lemm.ee instance is scheduled for shutdown. The “Television” community is now hosted on the piefed.social instance.

  It has the same users and has the same topics of discussion. Were the users really lost? Did the community really go away?

  Let’s pretend Reddit decided it would no longer allow discussion on “Television”. What if BlueSky no longer allowed discussion on “Television”. You’d have to leave those platforms completely. You really would lose those communities. Those users (at least in part) really would be gone.

  Is Lemmy.World a big instance? Sure. Would the users and communities really be lost if it went away? I don’t think so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not surprised, but I agree with the hot take, so maybe it’s only warm.

  I think they keep interest in ActivityPub in order to keep regulators concerned with Antitrust at bay. The Fediverse isn’t a real threat in Meta’s view and keeping an engineer or two on it in order to stay invested is worth the cost.

  Threads can say they are making an honest effort to work with the larger open source community and open federated internet. As an added bonus, it isn’t actually a lie. Now the effort they’re putting in is the absolute minimum, but it’s there.

  Now I still do think this is a positive. While most people on Threads will probably never leave, it does introduce them to the wider Fediverse. It makes the Fediverse a less scary thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Tried Pre-Ordering the Trump Phone. The Page Failed and It Charged My Credit Card the Wrong Amount⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …because the author is an investigative journalist?

  We all know it’s a scam, but it’s their job is to prove it. To prove it you have to (attempt to) buy it.

  I agree any actual people trying to buy it are morons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Search sucks! Yeah, it does, and here's why.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google Image Labeler apparently, but I don’t actually just remember the game. Looks like it’s called Crowdsource now, and you can get points, but it isn’t a competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Search sucks! Yeah, it does, and here's why.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Search also sucks because people suck.

  If I post a picture of a flower with the caption “Look what grew in my garden!”, that’s a terrible post from a search point of view.

  Later on someone will search for “flower” but I didn’t use the word “flower” so now search sucks.

  Of course a much more common post is someone posting a picture of text, from Twitter, Tumblr, etc. with, once again, a vague caption. You remember the picture, but not what the poster actually said.

  Searching comments will sometimes help, but that depends on the comments being related.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suppose the reason I’m so forgiving of the online features, is that I don’t use them. They’re a nice little addition for sure, but I do not see them as core to the game.

  I think it’s embarrassing that they’re sooooo far behind. Definitely if they’re a thing you’re expecting, it’s going to sour your view of the game.

  Performance is a personal thing.You’re not alone, it’s a common complaint, I won’t deny that. I’ve played all three of those games, Kirby, Zelda & Mario but never remember having an issue. I’m sure I did, but it never stuck with me. I remember Arceus looking like an GameCube game. But I also remember completing the Pokedex 100%.

  I was burned by Super Mario Party, so that franchise is dead to me. Maybe others will burn me too.

  I think the Switch 2 launching with just Mario Kart was a huge mistake. No Mario. No Zelda. I can’t remember the last time that happened. Donkey Kong is coming soon, and it’s supposedly similar to Oddessy… But we’ll have to see. There are great DK games, but he’s no Mario and it’s been a while.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh I absolutely agree there are plenty of criticisms about the company itself and their other offerings, but the games are absolutely top tier.

  Their online is miles behind, games from Smash Bros to Mario Maker to Mario Kart could all be improving with better online, but since they were terrible at online I never used them, but those games were still excellent.

  A lower powered system or poorly optimized game has some frame rate dips or stuttering, but never in a way that gameplay was affected. I know people will disagree but I’ve never had an issue with it.

  Yes, joycon drift is a real problem. But that’s a hardware problem. We should absolutely give Nintendo shit for hardware problems.

  Suing fan projects or being aggressive about YouTube/Twitch take down, all fair. Fuck Nintendo for all that.

  But all of that is different from their games being solid. I don’t blame people who choose to emulate their games, they’re awesome games.

  I’ll give you that Sony might be competitive, I don’t see Xbox/Microsoft anywhere close. I think Valve and the SteamDeck are probably 4th in the race, but Valve has to actually make a game. They made great games and should continue to do so.