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- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 1 day ago:
The main quest was terrible. Should never center the plot around the player when there’s custom creation and open world. It’s forcing a backstory or behaviour onto the player even if they don’t want it.
I played a big Michael Clarke Duncan brute rolling melee as Idiot Savant. The intro and main quest was entirely incompatible with character, full of things they wouldn’t have done, would do, or should do.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 3 days ago:
And Fallout 4 was kind of mediocre.
- Comment on company-wide email 4 days ago:
They have poop supervisors?
- Comment on Annual merit increase 4 days ago:
And before anyone complains about “Not everyone can switch jobs” bullshit, yes you can. You’re literally employed right now. You’re in the best position you can be if looking for work.
- Comment on Given the way GPT operates, I bet it would be more accurate if we trained it to speak like Yoda. 4 days ago:
Crank the temperature settings and have it say “Trust me, bro.”
- Comment on Whoever invented the 12-hour clock never doubted that people will always know if it's day or night 4 days ago:
I still don’t know why everyone doesn’t just use the 24-hour clock. It’s so much easier.
It’s like someone had doubts people could count much past 12, so just had them do that twice. Or maybe Big Clock didn’t want to manufacture 24 hour faces and sold the lie.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I thought this wasn’t a legal requirement of US carriers, sharing their towers for emergencies. Maybe it’s a state thing.
- Comment on GOG's new owner says Steam is winning due to ease of use, not quality, while criticizing the platform for releasing hundreds of games daily that are "not super high quality" 6 days ago:
And they’ll enjoy the game or refund it, since both options are incredibly easy to do.
- Comment on YSK: You can use uBlock Origin to filter Lemmy posts based on certain words 6 days ago:
Because it’s easier just to toggle on the keywords US, Trump, ICE and take a break for a few days.
- Comment on UK government exempting itself from flagship cyber law inspires little confidence 1 week ago:
The latest from the avant garde of “how not to do it”
- Comment on Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944 1 week ago:
Bingo. And in reference to our entire history, I don’t see why it would suddenly be any different forr singular generations. It’s so much a pattern set in stone that it could be said it is our nature.
- Comment on Innocent African-American child George Stinney executed after being falsely accused of murdering two white girls | 1944 1 week ago:
Oh, it was always worse. But it does always get better. They’ll say it about us one day, if we aren’t forward the finish line of society as it stands.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I suspect the recipient was not the problem.
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 weeks ago:
Comparing everything to their insignificant home town.
“Wow! Ancient aqueducts! We don’t have that back in Springfield, but we have faster table service.”
Okaaaay…
- Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying? 2 weeks ago:
I ask, “So what do you do?”
If they answer with hobbies and interests, they’re more my kind of person. If they answer with their job stuff, well that’s just their main life thing.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 2 weeks ago:
I frequently check Wikipedia citations, just to be disappointed. Wiki sources can be a great shortcut to good citations, but often I realise much of an article’s content is built out of the soggiest cardboard.
- Comment on Among games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated 2 weeks ago:
WolfQuest RP servers were not what I thought they’d be. They are definitely not playing the season through cooperatively but without using the chat.
- Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ? 2 weeks ago:
Google epidemiological and immunological reviews yourself. Better yet, ask your grade 7 science teacher.
- Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ? 2 weeks ago:
No I didn’t realise that because I’ve never seen it before.
We literally know that people with germophobia ironically suffer infection much more because they shoot their immune system to hell. If someone’s paying attention to the ridges of a token, I can only imagine the levels of auto-immunity they self-inflict on their body.
But, no, the ridges in the token are the threat to their health /s
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 2 weeks ago:
There’s kind of been an increase in things being more accessible and usable by the standard user where previously they would need to be quite savvy or know a language.
But, yeah, I can’t think of much else. Not user-based tech anyway. Just the usual insignificant increases and a bunch of bullshit no one asked for and actually ends up using, but has to pay for.
I think smartphones are an excellent example. Most people wouldn’t notice the differences between a second-hand $150 Samsung Galaxy from five years ago, and the latest flagship for 10× the price. The innovation is almost entirely unnoticeable.
- Comment on How do you feel about the removal of tokens from arcades ? 2 weeks ago:
Everything you touch is “unsanitary as all hell”. Like, you think whatever’s on tokens stops there and isn’t on the machine you’re playing, the door handle you’re turning, the counter you’re touching? In the last hour you’ve handled shit way worse and you’ll handle much more of it before the day’s over.
- Comment on The ID_10_ts 3 weeks ago:
Well even if it were intentional, that individual was dependent on the incompetence and they were right.
- Comment on NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions 3 weeks ago:
How good is hospital recovery?
Sure, there’s some cons, but you basically get a free card to game relentlessly, undisturbed, and guilt-free. Tragically, you eventually heal up and have to go back to being a normie.
- Comment on Bruh... 3 weeks ago:
Nah, his voice would still be annoying af to everyone there too. If Bob Marley is Jamaican, Jar Jar is the noise a balloon makes when you pinch the mouthpiece and let the air back out.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 3 weeks ago:
Yeah but it’s like the gearbox. While everything’s pulled apart, you may as well swap out the clutch, bearing, and flywheel too because they’ll need replacing again first. Especially if better versions of them are now supported.
- Comment on Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title 4 weeks ago:
Yeah. But if they did, they’d best surprise us with a 7 day countdown appearing or something, so everyone has time to replay Episode 2 to remember wtf was going on.
It wouldn’t really be something you could enjoy by watching a recap video. And everyone under the age of like 25 wouldn’t know wtf is going on anyway, without a very well put together HL1/Opposing Force/Blueshift/Decay mashup into HL2 and episodes recap. “Ooooooh, so that’s what Half-Life is and where we’re at.”
A new title would be most likely, for new generations to start with.
Then they too can get hooked and wait two decades for more.
- Comment on Attitudes 4 weeks ago:
I’d do my job for free for a few days just to help people out (which I like doing) and there’s parts of it I enjoy.
But I like paddling down the river much more.
For most people, a paycheck is a business financially compensating you for the time you lost and the effort you did, for them. The business is of no value to the employee otherwise. The compensation must be fair and worth their while.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 4 weeks ago:
There’s just a lot of thought put in for the user. Excellent UI and productivity features, so much customisability. It’s super fast and light. Then there’s built in blockers, VPN, all the usual. To top it all off, it’s made by a small group of Norwegians that hate corporate control and love an open and free internet. They even have their own feduverse instances.
After I had spent an hour going down the rabbit hole of tweaking every UI element so the browser was now my browser, I was hooked. I still have to use Firefox at work, but I now find it intrusive, sluggish, and crude. I also hate having to restart it for updates lol.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page 4 weeks ago:
I prefer Edge of Chrome, but I don’t like either. Been with Vivaldi for years after switching off FF.
- Comment on Google's latest reason to give them $14/month: "Watch in faster playback speeds with Premium" 4 weeks ago:
In case anyone’s wondering, scytale’s ad blocker.
