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- Comment on Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation 1 day ago:
I don’t have the nerve to try to hack my device
their device. You own device, such as Steam Deck, you don’t have to hack, you can run anything on it however you like.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Are there any mods that rebalance difficulty to make it more challenging?
- Comment on 1 day ago:
I hated it, barely pulled through. Great looking game with a wonderfully designed open world and it falls apart if you engage it with any planning. It should have been a linear game, it would waste less time, the only missions worth playing are in the main quest, all of the rest is flimsiest filler, a few dudes standing around waiting for something to happen that you can hack from a distance without them realizing what’s happening. It’s more padding than pudding and it’s way too easy once you level up a few times. Even the story is very uneven in quality across the game, there’s missions that deserve to be a novel, but many are just ridiculously cheap saturday morning cartoon-level trope deployments.
- Comment on Fediverse.com is available for sale 1 week ago:
If you knowingly patronise a nazi bakery, that’s fine?
I live in Croatia, I certainly buy bread from some nazis unless it’s a franchise bakery that these days employ mostly SEA immigrants. The beliefs of the person selling me bread or writing code I’m using don’t come into play at all, that’s what I’m saying. The left is practically falling apart because of principled children who’d cancel anyone for their beliefs.
- Comment on Fediverse.com is available for sale 1 week ago:
You say “knowingly patronise”, I say “buy some bread”. Grownups recognize that we live in a society and people hold different opinions. How can you be sure there are no nazis feeding you, clothing you, transporting you? Especially with the ever-widening scope of that term, it’s on the verge of making no sense, being a catch-all term for stuff people don’t like. Instead of engaging others and finding common ground, people are behaving like kids, completely blocking others out for any documented slight.
- Comment on Fediverse.com is available for sale 1 week ago:
Software works regardless of their political posturing. Your baker might be a nazi as well.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Fucking Perplexity can’t give away licenses. T-mobile is giving Perplexity AI Pro licenses for free (to subscribers), they advertise it as if it’s something worth something, it’s hilarious. Then obviously not many users took the bait because they sent a mass e-mail (from the University) to all of the faculty giving all employees (not just teaching personnel) these valuable Perplexity AI Pro licenses, only hurry up because there’s only 20k of these and it’s first come first served. Still haven’t used their shit and actually don’t know anyone who does.
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 2 weeks ago:
when it costs so much money.
What? Why should it? We married cheap, no rings or anything, it costs next to nothing.
- Comment on I'm bored and desperately search for a proper game 3 weeks ago:
Also Barotrauma
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ 4 weeks ago:
There’s literally not enough shit to do for everyone, some basic existance allowance is not a charity, it’s good for all of society.
- Comment on Follow libreddit with lemmy client 4 weeks ago:
No; libreddit is just a read-only frontend for Reddit.
- Comment on Are PC handhelds like Steam Deck really competitors for Switch 2? 5 weeks ago:
Within an enthusiast bubble, PC handhelds are a big deal, but they do not exist in the same universe as Nintendo consoles.
I keep hearing this shit and it seems like stupid wishful thinking, because in a locked-down universe where Switch 2 is not a shitty proposition for way too much cash compared to getting a PC with 10k+ PC games from the get go and also emulating anything you wish because it’s your hardware and it’s just bits - in that universe, Polygon is a much needed pool of experts that people go to for advice instead of clicking on stupid ragebait titles telling them a log of shit is the new snickers.
- Comment on Microsoft has created an AI-generated version of Quake 5 weeks ago:
Preservation!
- Comment on Unshittification: 3 tech companies that recently made my life… better 5 weeks ago:
This shiticle has no insight whatsoever, it’s basically a composite advert for three different product/services.
- Comment on AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking 1 month ago:
That’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard, you’d have to be deranged to want an extension clicking random shit.
- Comment on Thunderbird plans on expanding offerings with additional services 1 month ago:
Not all features need to be for you.
The only thing I’m asking is not to have to download them since they’re not for me. Just don’t bundle it and I’m happy.
- Comment on Thunderbird plans on expanding offerings with additional services 1 month ago:
The hope is that processing can be done on devices that can support the models
No, the hope is they don’t cram a model in and it can be NOT TURNED ON at all, never downloading a gb of data I won’t use. If it’s opt out, downloaded with the software, I’m jumping on a fork. Just, fuck off and die
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 1 month ago:
I meant the measure quoted
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 1 month ago:
“For personal users, this SSD can store 11,000 90-minute 4K movies,”
This is less useful than libraries of congress.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 1 month ago:
Hardly ruin, you have to purposefully go find them gloating over Steam charts. But it’s too funny that people really have choice enough now in the good graphics segment that Ubisoft is sinking. It’s my fault, I cursed them when they left Steam for their 4-UAC-prompts-whenever-you-start PoS. They showed total contempt for their users with Breakpoint, tried an nft grift on the side, evolved all cosmetics to clown shoes level and totally failed to offer anything new. Where’s Reflextions? Stuff like Grow Up / Home, metroidvanias on UbiArt Framework? They have great 3D engines and can’t keep a team happy or unfired enough to have people that know how to use it and optimize a game and are able to take some risks with game design. It’s all either heavily monetized multiplayer dreck or incremental QoL features in ever larger and shallower sandboxes in one of few large franchise flavors. There’s not that much to discuss, woo bamboo cutting tech, a new coat of paint and some gimmicks. People claiming it’s failing because it’s either woke or culture appropriating are ascribing cultural import to a happy meal.
- Comment on Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a year 1 month ago:
I was misinformed by an Azerbaijani home electronics swap meet board
- Ubi, it's $70 and people are vary of your mile wide puddles that drop 75% in price after half a yearlemmy.world ↗Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 75 comments
- Comment on Gotye is just someone that we used to know. 1 month ago:
His best work IMO is State of the art
- Comment on Meta will roll out its AI chatbot with text-only features in the EU this week on WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger, nearly a year after pausing. 1 month ago:
Luckily it’s eight years since I’ve used anything Zuck-owned so I can enjoy the enshittification and pushback this will cause.
- Comment on The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025 2 months ago:
It’s pretty okay if you’re like me, i.e. have no needs above full hd res and can either take or leave rtx
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 2 months ago:
not everyone is able to nor should become an ambassador for their “group”.
it’s also not everyone’s responsibility
I’m not talking about moral duty or responsibility, I’m just saying the outcomes are better for the person doing the choosing if they engage with the world around them instead of shut it out.
you might find yourself laughing along with hurtful jokes when you don’t want to. Especially when it’s an old friend.
If it’s an old friend, then you especially need to make some effort, for your own sake if not theirs. People are using “nazi” and “bigot” as thought-terminating cliches, but in many cases you can have a normal conversation the person you’d call a nazi for their online output about things not related to your or their identity or politics. You can learn woodworking from a nazi and go on to make furniture hammer&sickle instead of a swastika. It’s an extreme example, perhaps, but in my view it’s also really extreme to peddle this extreme misanthropy as advice to people on the internet you don’t know about their friends you also don’t know. “Engage with them and try” seems to me like less of an error these days if we’re talking generalizations then “cut them off”.
- Comment on uhh… my ex girlfriend and long-time friend is now cishet, very christian, and makes those “i identify as” jokes regarding trans people. would it end up bad for me if i continued to be her friend? 2 months ago:
cutting contact will help your mental health
I keep seeing this as self-help advice and it’s completely wrong in my opinion, both for a person in question and for all trans people around them. On societal level, if nobody engages one another things will just slide even worse. And on a personal level, you don’t always get to choose open-minded friends. If you just push everyone away waiting for more compatible people, you’ll be alone. Poptimism really oversells a strong individual standing alone in a world of bigots.
it also might teach your friend that those jokes hurt, and that her new choices have consequences.
A better way is to not cut the person out but explain it to them, over and over. You cut them out, the lesson they’ll probably learn is that they lost a friend to a biblical plague of gayness or something. Engaging is hard, but unless you try, you’re doing nothing.
- Comment on Kevin Rose officially relaunching Digg.com 2 months ago:
Many such cases
- Comment on Kevin Rose officially relaunching Digg.com 2 months ago:
Fool me thrice…
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 2 months ago:
I didn’t sell your shit, I collected it and shared it to keep myself comercially viable.
