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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many crts yall have?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a 19” compaq computer monitor for my 98 PC and a 27” Magnavox that uses S-Video

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The CIA proposed a 9/11 style false flag attack on US citizens to justify invading Cuba⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Plans were rejected by JFK in 1962. Hmmm I wonder what happened to him the next year or so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Joseph Stalin created the Great Terror. He started killing people randomly including artists, generals, doctors, scientists, government officials. Everyone was terrified.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t tell if this is a circlejerk or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Gamers could collectively boycott NVidia cards and it would barely make a dent in their bottom line. It’s time for gamers to show nvidia that they are unequally important to us as we are to them

  I haven’t bought a nvidia card in over a decade. Start buying APUs, handhelds, or just keep your current card and turn the graphics down or start playing your backlog. And for the love of god don’t pay for GeForce now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, pretty much every active server on UO has one. This one is ours if you feel the fancy to hop on sometime (I go by VE_AG_RA on UO [long story])

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the good old days of the 300 pingers either being people on dial up or Aussies getting a morning game in. Yeah it’s be hard to scrim with that ping for sure. Thanks for sharing the game date URL. It’s a nice little site, we’ve used it a few times

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t know if you are interested in COD UO but we have biweekly pugs every Tuesday and Sunday evening. I think the cod1 scene is pretty much like us. CoD2 seems to be the active community with a running league with like 9 teams or so.

  Trying to build the community up on these old games

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it had prerolls during the flash days but it had banner ads as far back as I can remember

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You would think that I would do some basic fact checking…

  I missed when Vince Z went from Respawn to Dice LA. I retract my claims of AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You would think IGN would have budget for basic fact checking but this article was probably written by AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨World’s Biggest Gaming YouTube Creators (2025)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Markiplier did not invent Let’s Plays lol. Let’s Plays were nearly dead by the time he created his channel. He just was the first person to make FNAF Let’s Plays popular (I would assume, I’ve never watched anyone on this list because I’m over the age of 30)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty good at not being Reddit which is my number one reason for using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Datacenters in space are a terrible, horrible, no good idea.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Granted I never made it further than freshman level physics in college but doesn’t heat needs a media to radiate away. Otherwise it just stays in place? So there would be nothing to move the heat away from installation? The ISS uses these big radiators the emit the waste heat as infrared light. That seems like a plausible method to exhaust waste heat. But I don’t have any clue if that can scale up to the level of a huge data center compared to the systems on the ISS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The PS5 Pro is way overpriced and the regular PS5 doesn’t really have many exclusives over PS4 so it’s not a big surprise they can’t move consoles

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be Wary of Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am skeptical that it can grow to be a network the size of twitter, be ran as a for-profit, and not enshittify. I can’t think of a single example that hasn’t. Bluesky has ran as a public benefit corporation so far, but it has to keep the lights on somehow.

  It took twitter years to run somewhat profitably. Even then Twitter was enshittified before Musk bought it. Premium subs are probably the least enshittified way to raise revenue, but ads and algorithms meant to raise engagement towards those ads are very much enshittification in action. That “normal people” have a high level of monetization they are willing to tolerate, is just grease on the wheels toward enshittification.

  I admittedly have a limited understanding of the full operation of ATProto so please correct me if wrong. Appviews/lists/feeds are supposed to be the defense of ad/algorithm enshittification, anyone could write an appview with a different algorithm.

  And this is why I assume that the network can only be run without enshittification, is by a benevolent provider. If Bluesky becomes hostile to an Appview that allows users to bypass ads or engagement farming, users can move their PDS to another relay that isn’t hostile to it. But there still remains the underlying reason that Bluesky would theoretically have become hostile to it. I don’t see how blacksky, for instance, wouldn’t also have to eventually take the same steps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a single exclusive for PlayStation 5 that didn’t also come out on ps4. So idk, I’d probably say Astro Bot is PlayStation’s game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be Wary of Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If twitter but with less right wing voices is what the people wanted then they will be sorely disappointed when bluesky enshittifies with no real recourse to prevent it. If everyone just hops on over to blacksky or whatever other 3rd party relay exists, they’ve still got the same problem. All the power resides in a single entity. Bluesky’s basic defense of their platform is that if they enshittify then ATProto allows some other benevolent corporation to take their place but has one major flaw. Corporations are not benevolent

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Playstation: we have one game

  FTFY

  The generation has been hell

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today is the 40th Anniversay of Zelda!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played this game all the way through without a guide about 3 years ago. It has NES jank but the only really frustrating parts are unlocking the dungeon with the flute and with the candle. Everything else had a hint to tell you how to find it or was just out in the open

  The key was to write everything down. The dungeons are fine, it’s just the overworld that needs hints

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t pay for the Verge, and if I did and still saw ads, I definitely wouldn’t renew. “Maximizing profit” only works, if we fold. If we fold to ad supported journalism, then companies will plaster their sites with ads. The market regulates itself if the consumer is principled enough. The problem is that your average consumer is weak willed and less-than-principled. I’m fine going without even if it ends up being a pointless endeavor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Then they know their audience. Source: Nintendo customer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Phil was probably the last thing keep Xbox from fully imploding. You could tell he was an actual gamer that cared about the Xbox as a games console and not whatever Frankenstein they are going to turn it into.

  It’s sad but Xbox had a really good run. Xbox won’t exist beyond the next console generation, it may not even make it that far before it just becomes gamepass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastodon is testing easier ways to get you started in the fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get it, but reader-funded journalism is always better than advertiser-funded. But if the reporting isn’t worth paying for to you, I don’t blame you for skipping them. I feel the same way some times. One article might be worth paying for but I’m not so interested in what they report to justify a full subscription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the steam deck would have been priced higher than it was as well, so I thought that they’d probably surprise us with a $600 machine. $800 made sense for the specs (Now I expect it to be $1000)

  Once GPU prices super inflated 6 or 7 years ago, I got out of PC gaming for new titles. I built a top spec machine for $1200 in 2012 (when I had disposable income and no kids), that barely gets you an entry level today. I guess PC gaming, for new titles at least, will forever be out of my budget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was gonna upgrade when the steam machine came out but with the likely price hike taking it to $800+ I think I’ll just keep playing 20 year old Call of Duty: United Offensive

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This will probably be unpopular but the leftist - liberal infighting is my least favorite part of the fediverse and why I usually end up having to give people a warning before telling them to get on the fediverse.

  This drama is kind of the epitome of that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare now serves sites in Markdown to AI agents⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this mean that if I pretend to be a bot, I can access any cloudflare site ad-free?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which is it?.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as it is roasted in salt and olive oil, the whole thing is good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the same thing as people who are concerned about AI generating non-consensual sexual imagery.

  Sure anyone with photoshop could have done it before but unless they had enormous skill they couldn’t do it convincingly and there were well defined precedents that they broke the law. Now Grok can do it for anyone who can type a prompt and cops won’t do anything about it.

  So yes, anyone could have technically done it before but now it’s removing the barriers that prevented every angry crazy person with a keyboard from being able to cause significant harm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s not telling you to be terrified of the single bot writing a blog post. He’s telling you to be terrified of the blog post being ingested by other bots and then seen as a source of truth. Resulting in AI recruiters automatically rejecting his resume for job postings. Or for other agents deciding to harass him for the same reason.