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- Comment on What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today? 5 weeks ago:
Half-Life 1 was the peak of this genre for me
- Comment on What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today? 5 weeks ago:
Still playing Call of Duty: United Offensive multiplayer on PC nearly every day
- Comment on Student visa applicants will now be forced to make their social media accounts public 5 weeks ago:
Lemmy also can’t be used non-publicly so a pointless distinction considering the context.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 5 weeks ago:
YouTube still offers them a service in directing them new viewers. The big creators all lose viewers but YouTube funnels replacement views faster than they lose. They could host their own videos but they are gonna see very little growth without Google either in search or with YouTube as they start to lose the base that followed them.
They also won’t be able to negotiate as good as rates for pre-rolls or in video sponsorships as if they were on YouTube.
The only real alternative would be to band together like the creators that are a part of nebula are doing. Hosting on peertube really isn’t an option unless you are independently supported and you are doing it as a passion project and don’t care about audience growth or retention.
- Comment on UK’s Major Porn Providers Agree to Age Checks From Next Month; Aylo, Owner of Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, Will Add Age Assurance Checks by July 25. 1 month ago:
It already has. Lemmy.zip if unavailable to users (of the admins own volition as they don’t have the capability to comply) in the Uk because of the law
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 1 month ago:
I can see that parents failed young men and the education system failed young men. But these men aren’t entitled to a woman or a high paying job. And quite frankly they probably aren’t capable of those things or they would be solving their own problems instead of blaming women for them
- Comment on 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now 1 month ago:
It’s probably your fault, you loved em dashes too much that AI started using them after stealing all your content
- Comment on 16 Billion Apple, Facebook, Google And Other Passwords Leaked — Act Now 1 month ago:
This passage reads 100% like AI wrote. Right down to the over used turns of phrase that AI inserts into every output to the prompts you give it
- Comment on Protip: 1 month ago:
I’ve seen it in local grocery stores in really small towns. Never a supermarket
- Comment on The magic of remembering—and talking about—video games 1 month ago:
User name checks out, I really enjoy your writing. Do you keep a blog?
Games, as much as anything else, is a hobby and are something that people have to have a passion for to stay up with it. Just like the hobby of your coworker, who hits up the car show circuit every summer weekend, can cite every part number for the general Lee dodge charger out of the Dodge parts catalog, might be intimidating to someone who isn’t a car person. Our hobby has time and financial commitments that gatekeep others out too. We love it anyway.
Chasing an authentic or definitive experience, is like going for tops at a car show. A goal worth striving for but not required to enjoy the hobby.
Just like we can talk about how Donkey Kong, or Super Mario Bros. or Doom impacted gaming forever. So could your car guy about thunderbirds, corvettes, or some other third thing.
Equally sad is cars today, like games, are engineered to make as much money as possible and not for repair or longevity. Meanwhile the classics will always have a community dedicated to preserving them even as the stock of parts grow thin and less accessible.
In 30 years no one is going to be able to drive a car from the near future even if they wanted to as they get reduced to required apps to start and LTE connectivity for the on board computer functionality, the same way Fortnite won’t exist even though Super Mario Bros still plays fine on OG hardware
- Comment on Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up 1 month ago:
The 80s had some great games. Donkey Kong. Pac-Man. Galaga and Galaxian. Super Mario Bros 1,2,3. Zelda 1 & 2. Contra, Castlevania, Megaman
But the 90s had Mario World and Mario Kart. Super Metroid. Link to the Past. Donkey Kong Country. Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time. Crash and Spyro. Sonic. Medal of Honor. Goldeneye. Half - Life.
I’d probably take the 90s slightly over the 80s. Heck even the 00s have Half-Life 2, the GTA series, the good Call of Duty’s and Halos. And the 2010s had RDR2 and GTAV.
2020s haven’t had any super great games yet though.
- Comment on “Piracy is Piracy” – Disney and Universal team up to sue Midjourney 1 month ago:
The worst person you know just made a great point
- Comment on iFixit says the Switch 2 is even harder to repair than the original 1 month ago:
Battery life and weight. That’s what keeps me from getting a pc handheld. Although the switch 2 is so big I don’t know if that holds true anymore
- Comment on Why Decentralized Social Media Matters 1 month ago:
I haven’t had that experience here. I’ve had some unpleasant dustups with some leftists here but beyond having comments removed for being pro capitalist by .ml admins, I haven’t had any issues with moderation. Sure I’ve been heavily downvoted but I’ve never gotten banned.
- Comment on Why Decentralized Social Media Matters 1 month ago:
If you want a place with no bans, then start up your own instance. Nobody can ban you. Sure they could defederate from you, but they couldn’t ban you.
If you want a platform that can’t ban anyone AND can’t block anyone, well you could make your own platform but I wouldn’t expect many to join you because nobody wants that.
We have the freedom to say what we want. We don’t have the freedom to force people to hear it though.
- Comment on Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store? 1 month ago:
Or you can just use f-droid and research in advance if the application you need is on on f-droid and let that influence your purchasing decisions.
- Comment on Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy 2 months ago:
Exactly the reason I left. I was so pleased when Apollo for Lemmy in the form of wefwef/voyager existed too
- Comment on Wait, that game is still playable online? 2 months ago:
Call of Duty: United Offensive on PC. I just recently came back after a decade of not playing (and over 20 years after release) and the community is still there just smaller and the game is still just as fun
- Comment on Which of the Half-Life Expansions are your favorite? 2 months ago:
I’m only about 4 missions in but the puzzle with the rail carts in the 3rd mission feels just like that. I hope there are more coming up
- Comment on Which of the Half-Life Expansions are your favorite? 2 months ago:
I beat blue shift in just 2 nights and I didn’t really stay up late either so I was surprised when it ended. At least it didn’t linger too long or have a bunch of annoying filler like “On a Rail” but it really felt like it ended in the first act
- Comment on Which of the Half-Life Expansions are your favorite? 2 months ago:
I agree that Opposing force has so many weapons that quite a few of them don’t get much time to shine. And a lot of them come in the last third of the game. Would have loved more chances to use the sniper and the squid gun.
I think blue shift is my favorite just due to the story but I do have to agree that none of the expansions can compete with the gameplay of the original.
Decay is its own thing. I’ve quite enjoyed almost more as an arcade experience where you can compete for the high score and get some more half life lore than it being its own stand alone thing.
Solid perspective, thanks for sharing
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- Comment on The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the sports related communities. 2 months ago:
I think I’ve generally been less interested in sports as the pro leagues gatekeep more of their games behind multiple paywalls and less interested in college sports as NIL and conference realignment has killed the traditions and the connection between the students, athletes, and alumni.
If you weren’t already a sports fan, I can’t imagine a much worse time to become one
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 2 months ago:
We live in a society
- Comment on Senators reintroduce the Kids Online Safety Act, mandating platforms like Meta to mitigate harms; Apple endorses KOSA 2 months ago:
Is the predatory advertising that Apple allows towards children in apps that Apple allows on their app stores going to be stopped by this bill, or does this only affect their competitors?
- Comment on Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. 2 months ago:
If you tell the o3 reasoning model to just search the web and give you the top results instead of answering your query it can actually be really useful for obscure queries. I was able to find specific spec sheets for my model of monitor when a google search would only produce the specs for basically any other model the manufacturer made. Even with the model number in quotes
- Comment on Help : Self-Hosting RSS Feed for my blog (pls) 2 months ago:
I’d agree with others that have said to use a framework like Hugo to serve an RSS feed. I wrote an automation using Google apps script to scrape blog pages and manually update the RSS feed but it was more trouble than it was worth. Letting your framework automatically update your feed is much easier.
- Comment on Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy 2 months ago:
Firmware is dumped almost immediately as well, not a big deal to update a switch offline.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto VI Trailer 2 2 months ago:
I don’t think he’s being nasty to you. His frustration is with Rockstar for abandoning GTA to sell microtransactions instead of make content. A lot of people are mad at valve for not making Half-Life/Portal/Left4Dead 3 just like a lot of people are mad at Rockstar for taking 13 years to release a new GTA game.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I think it’s probably cheaper in the long run to self host a tree instead, unless you live in an apartment with absolutely no green space. But I’d rather get a VPF and host a tree there if I had too