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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shark Dentist is a 'horror roguelike' that's basically The Meg mashed up with an early '90s Milton Bradley toy⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Christ I have to stop browsing Lemmy in the middle of the night.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda is allegedly working on ‘multiple Fallout games’, including Fallout 3 Remastered, teases report⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft gave me a free copy so I checked it out. It sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why there are a lot of people migrating from Windows to Linux these days?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For me it’s because it seems evident that Microsoft wants Windows to be saas and here’s the thing: I don’t like Windows that much. For over 20 years now, I’ve preferred Linux for server stuff and Mac for daily driver stuff, I’ve only tolerated Windows, mainly for gaming.

  Since Windows 7 died (I skipped 8 altogether and reluctantly have been dealing with 10 with lots of hacks to keep it locked down), I have only been barely tolerating it - and games were the sole reason.

  Well, Proton has now obliterated that, conveniently right as Microsoft has decided that what people REALLY need is for them to be 100% shit. I refuse to install 11. So I’m out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Really Dark Truth About Bots⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a fantastic video. I spend less and less time on Reddit now because every time I’m there I eventually get struck with a “this isn’t real people” feeling after reading something. It will always be either mundane repetitive bullshit or yet another post demanding civil war or stoking a feeling of helplessness.

  Lemmy and Mastodon are slow AF but they still feel mostly real.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices that harm developers and consumers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope that’s a joke. Airpods could be a Fortune 500 company all on their own.

  No, I was serious, although after looking into it, I am surprised that hardware makes up 72% of their income. Perhaps they could make up the 28% software revenue shortfall with innovative new hardware and still maintain that 3.06T market cap, eh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton joins suit against Apple for predatory practices that harm developers and consumers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Proton cannot even link to FAQ or customer support pages from its apps, as Apple believes it’s possible that users will then navigate from the support page to a pricing page and upgrade their accounts without paying Apple its fee.

  I didn’t realize this either.

  Yeah, this also is why Apple has been so sluggish on PWAs (this is also why they won’t allow third party browsers). There is literally nothing that can be done in an app that can’t be done quicker and easier as a PWA these days. But how is Apple going to make any money if you can publish your own app and take your own payments? They would then become a hardware vendor and that would absolutely ruin them as a company.

  Apple will throw everything they’ve got at this to attempt to maintain the status quo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remedy is in control | The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Almost. When you make it back into the tunnels, the game considers it a finished loop and advances to the next day segment, which is considered a type of “save,” but you never save it. There is no "hit escape " “save game.” And yet, even after you make it into the tunnel and the day advances and you know you’re saved, when you hit escape and exit the game, the game is all “Are you sure you want to do this? All unsaved progress will be lost.” It’s like they had a save in, but decided against it, then never fixed the verbiage. Anyway, it’s a relatively minor annoyance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remedy is in control | The Verge⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had the same complaint about Deathloop. If I’m playing the single-player only version, then why do I have to restart the loop if I suddenly have to quit? And why does the game warn me that I will lose all unsaved progress? You literally can’t save!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is not capitalism […] it’s really us expecting shit to be free

  No, “we” are not the problem. “We” donated and participated (by making mods) and “we” are responsible for giving the site what value it had. If it had no value, then it couldn’t have been sold.

  Quit trying to blame the users for fuck’s sake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Been a good couple of years⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I never used RIF but I came over at the same time due to the fuckery over mods. I quit all my mod positions that day too, no more working for Reddit for free.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people like Mario Kart?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ironically, the older you get, the better video games are for you, flexing your memory and hand-eye coordination.

  I don’t understand why it’s difficult to see the appeal. To me it’s just like watching TV, but you can participate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have launched a PieFed instance!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then? I’m not really clear on how communicating “freely” between them works. I understand that’s how the Fediverse works, but I have a Mastodon account and I haven’t sorted out any way to post on/read lemmy content with it, so I’m not sure what the integration actually means in practical application?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t imagine how this poor teenager will think of his mother over time.

  Not well, this much is certain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI to buy Jony Ive’s io Products for $6.5bn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenAI said it aims to “create a family of products for the AGI era”

  A family of products that no one will be able to afford, sounds great Sam! 👍

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Home Depot tax at work!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Home Despot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been clear for over a decade that the Creation Engine (let’s be honest it’s still Gamebryo) has run its course. It is not a viable option for a modern game anymore. It has architectural limitations that simply prevent a modern gaming experience.

  And yet, I’m having a blast with Oblivion Remastered. The problem with Starfield is that the writing sucks and the game loops aren’t fun. Because of these things it’s an unforgivable bore. Oblivion proves you’ll trudge back and forth and deal with all the copied and pasted caves in the world if the story is engaging and the gameplay loop is fun. The dated graphics engine has little to do with Starfield’s problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would this list look like for your generation?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to look it up too. A slang term among Zoomers and Gen Alpha, mostly used ironically in Brainrot and Slang Overload memes, such as the Ohio Rizz Gyatt trend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You think this is a half assed remake? To me this feels like a significant upgrade (and not just to graphics) while maintaining the core experience and I’m kinda shocked at how good it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump 'thinks' Zelensky ready to give up Crimea to Russia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The US has recently warned it would walk away from negotiations if progress was not made.

  Aren’t negotiations typically between the two parties involved in the conflict? Who the fuck cares if the US walks away? The US currently provides nothing to Ukraine. Take away nothing from nothing and you still have nothing. Why is this story even reported?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait 612 years and buy Microsoft.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lab-grown teeth might become an alternative to fillings following research breakthrough⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And boy it sounds expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen this movie before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea y cunt was this powerful⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It the right really comprised 100% of self-loathing homosexuals and their beards?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I discover the Pixelfed content that is out there when so many big instances block exploration?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Algorithms are not universally good and helpful. They should be designed to boost engagement only in that they serve to find content you wouldn’t be able to see otherwise, not to boost engagement at all costs by feeding you things they think you will click on. It’s an important distinction.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Discord is bad because its forums are not world-readable, therefore not indexable. It’s very useful to the rest of the world to have conversations be public. I bet the youngest users here don’t even remember but searching Google in the 2000s before Facebook went huge and when forums were all world-readable, it was a different world. You could find somebody who was talking about your niche issue/product - no matter what it was. It was kind of magical. No matter what thing happened to you, you could be pretty sure it had happened to someone else and they were talking about it.

  Not anymore. Everything’s on Facebook now and Google can’t see it, nor can anyone else - except Facebook. All that legacy knowledge just tucked away in Facebook’s data vault and essentially useless to anybody but Facebook, which makes it less than useless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comrade Krasnov is just a follower of Leninist tought !⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe, like Michael Lewis, that the stock market is nearly 100% price controlled via HFT algorithms, leveraging the dark pools run by the wealthiest banks and hedge funds. If this is correct, then the market will never outright crash again. Therefore, no one, from this point forward, should take have any notion that the stock market will punish Trump. Ultimately, the stock market will fluctuate for dramatic effect, but will continue on a steady upward trend completely decoupled from any particular reality.

  Oh would you look at that, it’s up 353 points today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ribbit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly the author of the original meme has never read Watership Down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Try not caring. The more Reddit users come here the more it’s going to suck.

  This is just bot-driven FUD anyway, Lemmy is nothing like old Reddit and it wouldn’t be disqualifying if it was.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss when you could get a flagship phone that could fit in your hand⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m rocking an SE2 and probably next year I’ll reluctantly upgrade to an SE3, which I will keep for at least two more years. After that, I’m fairly certain I’m cooked, as all available phones will be faceid phablets. FML.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed's first plateau in progress⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly, whatever secret sauce it is that makes social media popular is also what drives them to be such shit and be so shit for society. I like Lemmy way more than I like Reddit, and even though I have to go back to Reddit from time to time to fill the needs of my niche interests (which can get no traction where there are not mobs of participants in the greater whole) I never ever look at my interactions there and go “I wish Lemmy was more like this.”

  It’s a conundrum.