Phen
@Phen@lemmy.eco.br
- Comment on Delivery Driver Scammed DoorDash Of More Than $2.5 Million 7 minutes ago:
There is no customer involved.
- They place an order and pay for it
- They force the order to be assigned to one of the drivers
- Driver claims the order is delivered
- Doordash pays the driver
- They overwrite the data so that it goes back to step by 2.
- They “deliver” and get paid for the same order hundreds of times.
Books were probably red, but it takes a while to identify something like this.
- Comment on How to avoid a kid who really likes you? 1 day ago:
And treating grown ups like kids is useful sometimes too!
- Comment on Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds 2 days ago:
If you actually think about things and form your own opinions you’ll usually be treated as “the other side” by everyone who signs and follows any pre-made set of opinions.
If you hate AI but thinks there is some specific situation in which it doesn’t 100% suck, you’ll be treated as a troll in anti-AI communities. If you’re MAGA but disagrees with anything Trump says, you’ll be called a leftist in conservative circles. If you’re a fierce active defender of LGBTQ+ rights but thinks it’s OK for a white American to dress up as a Mexican character for Halloween, you’ll be ostracized in many left wing groups.
- Comment on Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds 2 days ago:
Disagreeing is often treated as trolling by those you disagree with, depending on the subject. Mostly because those disagreements are often bad faith talking points from some groups of people.
- Comment on HBO Go HBO Now HBO Max Max Is Changing Its Name to HBO Max 2 days ago:
Streaming service formerly known as HBO Max is changing its name to HBO Max.
- Comment on EA employees "upset and confused" at return to office mandate 2 days ago:
That’s just one of several possible reasons. None of them are better tho.
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ‘Hey, Copilot!’ in Windows 2 days ago:
Next they’ll make it pop-up on its own like Clippy used to do, offering “useful” help based on the context of whatever you’re doing.
You click on a link to an article in Firefox, 3 seconds later copilot opens edge with a summary of that article ready for you to “save time reading”.
“Follow me for more glimpses of the upcoming hell.”
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 3 days ago:
That makes enough sense.
Now to figure out why my language (Portuguese) has unique names going up to 15 instead of 10 or 12.
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 3 days ago:
What’s the right translation for “pepper” in German? And red pepper, green pepper and so on? I found several words that seem to mean pepper, but not sure if any is better than the others.
- Comment on Uncultured 5 days ago:
Do I get a pass if English is not my first language?
No, before now I did not know the name for it in my first language either.
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2 1 week ago:
Now that you mention it, I remember that I would play it with mouse + controller for some reason (back at 1.0), not sure why I picked that as the best way to play but there was probably something bad about using the keyboard and also something bad about not using a mouse.
- Comment on Stardew Valley creator says he might make Stardew Valley 2 1 week ago:
The slow movement is what kept me from playing it forever. I know there’s mods that improve it, but I wish the base speed would be higher.
Back at 1.0 launch it also had a bug where walking diagonally was even slower, so that may have affected my judgment as well - it was fixed after a week or so.
- Comment on Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit 1 week ago:
They could simply have the pals hold on to gliders that the players can use and nothing would change in the gameplay…
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 week ago:
Brazil’s “new” plug (two decades maybe) is pretty good. Doesn’t have any of the problems you mentioned. It’s similar to one used by a few other countries around Europe.
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 1 week ago:
Well, search is the one thing that AI is doing somewhat well at least.
- Comment on Apparently it was in the manual, but I'm just learning it now. 1 week ago:
Back in the day we would often rent games for a weekend and sometimes we would get stuck at some point. There was one particular game that me and my friends really liked (Maui Mallard) on the genesis, but there was one specific point we didn’t know what to do. Every now and then we would rent the game again for a weekend in hopes of figuring it out. The game had basically three buttons IIRC: attack, jump and special. You could also press attack and special at the same time for a different attack. So one day I was playing it and reached the point that we all got stuck, and kept trying to figure out how to jump out of the area I was in (there was a clear exit, but too high up). My brother saw me struggling and mockingly said: “come on, do a super jump” and that made me think: can I do special + jump too? I tried it and then learned that this combination allowed climbing through short gaps (and this was the very first such gap in the game - anywhere else the combination did nothing). I was the neighborhood hero for a while thanks to that.
- Comment on Apparently it was in the manual, but I'm just learning it now. 1 week ago:
I had Duck Hunt but didn’t have the gun to play it with - nor the knowledge that I needed the gun. Every now and then I would try and fail to figure out how to play the game.
So to me, Duck Hunt is a game about a dog that laughs at you.
- Comment on This is a photo of irony. 2 weeks ago:
Ah, shit, I forgot she actually specified “take that flight” in it.
(my comment was supposed to be only a joke, but yeah it doesn’t work as I had intended)
- Comment on This is a photo of irony. 2 weeks ago:
The examples in the song are ironic, she just does not include enough details to clarify it. For example, an old man was afraid to fly so he took the train instead. And an unrelated plane crashed into it, killing him. He died on a plane crash due to avoiding planes. Ironic as fuck.
- Comment on Fishing games? 3 weeks ago:
Friends of Mineral Town is a good remake of one of the most beloved entry in the series.
- Comment on It's kinda crazy that we willingly give money to companies in advance (say for gift vouchers and pre-orders) 3 weeks ago:
Only case where I consider pre-ordering is if there’s a decent discount for doing it and I know that I’ll definitely want the game at launch (for example if most of my group of friends will be playing it at the same time).
- Comment on A quarter of a century after its original release, Capcom’s legendary Breath of Fire IV returns to PC! 3 weeks ago:
This was the first game with which I experienced the joy of not having a pc strong enough to run it. I don’t remember anything about the game, just the stuttering… And I think there was a desert or something.
- Comment on Fishing games? 3 weeks ago:
Have you played any of the harvest moon / story of seasons games? It’s the series that inspired Stardew Valley. Most of them are, in general, much more chill than even Stardew itself. There are a bunch of them on steam (on there, look only for the story of seasons games and ignore the ones named Harvest Moon)
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 3 weeks ago:
I said it as a joke but I suspect it might be true, too. I see a lot of people complaining that they see too many posts of people they block.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 3 weeks ago:
Try blocking her, the algorithm will prioritize her posts if you do.
- Comment on The Circle of iLife 3 weeks ago:
I’m surprised nobody has done yet as I’ve seen all sorts of features be added to earphone cases. Maybe a decent touchscreen is not yet cheap enough to throw at some case without the profit margin of the apple brand.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
The sub-conscious processes of our brain tend to not use any language. Dreams and thoughts may be translated into some regular language for some people but not everyone and when it does the language picked might have more to do with the content of what is being shown than the person’s proficiency in the language.
- Comment on TikTok to start pushing Amber Alerts(missing child notifications) to American users’ For You feeds. 1 month ago:
For a moment there I interpreted the title wrong and thought people would start receiving TikTok content through amber alert systems.
- Comment on Are modern Final Fantasy games bad? 2 months ago:
Squaresoft games were so good that there was a weird full decade there where the name Square Enix still managed to get me interested into checking out games, but the games themselves never did. Eventually this too died out and I finally don’t care at all about square anymore.
- Comment on Why is it considered sexist to ask women to smile? 4 months ago:
The problem lies in wanting women to look better in the first place.