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- Comment on "I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS! 2 days ago:
This is quite tame compared to what American Nazis got in the 30s and 40s.
Remember, when you beat them bad enough they’ll have more time to think about the error of their ways while confined to a hospital bed.
- Comment on *FREEEEM*; *sad birthday boy noises* 3 days ago:
So the narrative the other day was drug cartels were swarming the airport with drones and that’s why they had to shut it down.
Was that a total fabrication to cover for this obvious false positive?
Also answers my question for “How come nobody has drone bombed you-know-who yet?”
- Comment on Discord walks back age verification fears for most users 3 days ago:
So they haven’t walked anything back, they’re just adding in a motherfucking clanker as a middleman. What could go wrong?
Big corporations have absolutely laid waste to the internet. There’s nothing left unspoiled at this point.
- Comment on Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. 4 days ago:
Im surprised as how many people discount this feature. Sometimes I sit in voice chat in my small Discord server alone for hours because nobody would show up if nobody was around.
We’re all adults with jobs and responsibilities and shit, we don’t want to have to dial people in to shoot the shit late at night. That would feel like a chore.
An alternative with no drop in voice chat is a non starter for my group.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 4 days ago:
I think it’s great that acting like a cunt online can have consequences.
It doesn’t seem to have deterred you at all…
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 4 days ago:
I use Slack for work and I kinda hate it. I can’t really explain why. Something about it offends my senses on a subconscious level.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 4 days ago:
I haven’t used it in over a decade so I’m not surprised it has new features. Good to know. Thanks for sharing.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 4 days ago:
I think Discord does a lot of things that no one other program can also do. There are certainly better programs out there for voice chat, for text chat, for screen sharing, etc. but none of those programs that do it better can do all the other stuff.
If Discord dies, you would need like two or three other apps to replace all of the features you’ve lost.
For people who only use Discord for voice, it’s easy to say “Let’s just got back to using TeamSpeak or Ventrillo”, but if you also used Discord to stream your games to your friends, you now need to find another alternative for that since TS and Vent don’t have that function and likely never will.
It sucks because I think the Discord app is great for what it does. Yes, it creates information silos when everybody uses it for their support/documentation, but before Discord it was Facebook/Twitter and I didn’t use those platforms either. I like that Discord is packed with features and the most basic ones are free to use. Finding an alternative will be tough.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 5 days ago:
Guilded is dead. Their website redirects to a thank-you page of some sort. I remember trying it out ages ago and I thought it was pretty decent competition for Discord and had a lot of the same features, but ultimately it would have been susceptible to the same kind of fuckery that Discord is giving us right now. These private companies only want to extract value out of their users.
- Comment on We really need to bring back the 70s conversation pits 6 days ago:
Most placed with conversation pits that I’ve seen in person did have a false floor panel to cover it when there was no company over. Turned it back into regular floor space.
- Comment on i mean 6 days ago:
Honestly, this picture is close to accurate if you were trying to input the code for the debug menu in Shadows of The Empire.
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 1 week ago:
I’ve never understood their disdain for liberals. They don’t like them because… they’re easy to goof on? Because some people, both liberals and conservatives, have no concept of nuance?
There are absolutely some episodes of South Park where I fundamentally, vehemently disagree with the political statement it’s trying to make. I don’t know if that is their unique brand of politics seeping into the episode’s discourse, but I can hardly expect them to hit the bullseye every time and I’m still able to appreciate the show in general.
- Comment on Im curious what they will come up with 1 week ago:
Oops! All Onions!
- Comment on “IG is a drug”: Internal messages may doom Meta at social media addiction trial 2 weeks ago:
It’s okay though because Zuck greased the Trump admin’s palms with his Presidential Library bribe, so they’ll get a slap on the wrist at best.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 2 weeks ago:
Literally anything but FOSS, huh?
Out of the frying pan and into a cold frying pan.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 3 weeks ago:
Begging your pardon for that, sorry.
- Comment on How can we convince Trump voters to NOT vote for Trump (or Vance) in the 2026 midterms and the 2028 election? 3 weeks ago:
Well, 2026 is easy because neither of them will be on that ballot. That’s why midterms are tough for incumbents, because there’s less motivation for their party to turn out, but the aggrieved opposition are highly motivated to turn out as a referendum on the current administration.
2028, who knows man. Anything can happen between now and then. I feel like if someone voted for Trump in 2020 or 2024 then they are terminally stupid.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 3 weeks ago:
Thanks Uncle. I’ll meditate on your wisdom.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 3 weeks ago:
I tried doing Ironman a while back. Not even on classic, just on whatever the latest patch was. It was only getting easier with time and I wanted my name on that leaderboard. In my mind, it didn’t seem like it would be that difficult as long as I played carefully.
I gave up after level 20. I didn’t die, but I had a few close calls and figured it wasn’t going to be worth it to grind out 90+ more levels using the worst gear in the game and no healing or stat boosting items.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 3 weeks ago:
That dominoes shit makes no sense to me. I’ve tried to look up the rules multiple times online and then I go into the game and try to make a legal move and the game won’t let me.
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 4 weeks ago:
I miss my Blackberry Pearl…
I fear that that design of phone layout/UI will never make a comeback.
- Comment on What a great idea 4 weeks ago:
The most oblivious people on earth gather at Costco, I swear.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
So, these idiots didn’t learn their lesson the first time with the colossal flop that was Stadia and now they want to convince us that, this time for sure, we really don’t want to own our own hardware and cloud computing is the future?
These guys should not be getting a single bent penny for convincing people to switch over to cloud computing when their AI slop machines are responsible for the scarcity that is causing hardware prices to be completely uneconomical.
- Comment on You shall not cut! 4 weeks ago:
This sounds insane, and I used to think so as well until my ex did just that in front of me one day and then I tried it the next time I cooked a pizza at home. 1000% a better tool than a pizza cutter wheel. I’m a convert.
- Comment on A complete tier list for our solar system 5 weeks ago:
Ganymede and Titan are an easy shoe-in for A tier.
- Comment on Unquestionably high class 5 weeks ago:
Agreed. Fill it with frosting or whipped cream or something, not Greek salad… wtf.
- Comment on (A)lbert e(I)nstein 1 month ago:
Your code sucks. I don’t even need to see it, I just know.
- Comment on Priorities 1 month ago:
That advice was likely a holdover from the time when wedding rings were essentially insurance for the wife if her husband died suddenly - sell the ring and be able to live for a while on that money while you search for a new husband.
Now that women are, y’know, allowed to work for a living rather than being forced into homemakers, it makes a lot less sense for the wedding band to be outside of one’s means to purchase.
I just tell people to buy what looks nice to them and is in budget. My wife has a gold band with some inscribed decorations, and I have a band of silver and inlayed meteorite. They were both under $1000. No need for flawless diamonds, rare stones or precious metals. We’re happy.
- Comment on wisdom 1 month ago:
Don’t worry, I found the phylactery.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I think even Dhalsim would be impressed by this level of yoga.