finthechat
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Don't talk to me unless you're an alien, a time traveler, or an esper
- Comment on Zelda 64: Recompiled for PC - Majora's Mask Release Trailer 1 week ago:
- Comment on Neuralink's first in-human brain implant has experienced a problem, company says 1 week ago:
Did a worm eat it?
- Comment on If you or somebody you know ever fell for a romance scam, how did you or the person fall for it? 2 weeks ago:
activates lightsaber
- Comment on Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking 3 weeks ago:
They're just tanking so they can get a high draft pick next year.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 3 weeks ago:
I hate it. It's been used so much that it's lost all meaning.
- Comment on Ringleader of global monkey torture network, 'The Torture King', is charged 1 month ago:
He will formally make a plea later this month and is facing up to five years in prison.
Only up to 5 years...
- Comment on Intel’s 6.2 GHz Core i9-14900KS is a reminder of why the MHz wars ended 1 month ago:
tldr: diminishing returns on performance gain for power consumption
In one Blender rendering benchmark, the i9-14900KS consumed 31 percent more power than the i9-14900K for a less than 1 percent performance gain. The gap isn't always quite that large, but the power usage increase is generally disproportionate to the performance increase.
- Comment on Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO 2 months ago:
It's expensive to research and develop Spez's apocalypse bunker.
Or as I like to call it: Super Weenie Hut Jr.
- Comment on Nintendo Is Telling Game Publishers Switch 2 Will Be Delayed 2 months ago:
Nintendo Wii^2
The Nintendo Wii Wii
- Comment on Hi so i am trying some shit for fun like summoning any kind of entities. 2 months ago:
Why summon scary things? Try to summon a succubus instead so you can die happy.
- Comment on Why do we use average instead of mode? 3 months ago:
Because we can't have nice things.
- Comment on Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users 3 months ago:
Microsoft
EdgeDeath Grip - Comment on Shout-out to the mods, keeping this instance clean 3 months ago:
I'm not on this instance, though I have to say this is a far better post than the multiple people making posts that were like "oh my god I found CP, here's the link, everyone come look at it!"
- Comment on How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPT 3 months ago:
I am both joking and being serious when I say this: the engine doesn't matter, it's a skill issue.
- Comment on DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH – State of Play Announce Trailer 3 months ago:
Someone sell me on the appeal of Death Stranding. I own it but never got into it.
- Comment on Running my Sega Saturn. 3 months ago:
Careful. That is an old system. Maybe consider walking it instead.
- Comment on One thing I hope to see in the Fediverse is people engaging with old content 3 months ago:
For technical discussion, sure. I'll be one of the first people to say look at the sticky, look at the pins, look at the megathread, read the FAQ, read the wiki.
For purely social discussion like casual chat, entertainment discussion, or random musings, I would say it doesn't make sense.
- Comment on One thing I hope to see in the Fediverse is people engaging with old content 3 months ago:
This is the way it should be.
I've never understood the people who get upset over 'necroing' a thread, whether it is on an old school forum or something formatted like Reddit.
- Comment on Can you survive on pickles alone, for a while? 4 months ago:
Hey are you by any chance trapped in a recently abandoned pickle factory?
- Comment on Is there a term for someone that likes other people to smell their farts? 4 months ago:
Kevin
- Comment on Welp, it happened. For the first time a Lemmy comment of mine was removed because a mod didn't like the viewpoint expressed. 4 months ago:
First_Time?.jpg
- Comment on Did someone tell Steam it's not April 1st yet? 4 months ago:
That is an insult to diarrhea dookie
- Comment on Stackoverflow Mod proposes prohibiting questions from being closed as duplicates to catch-all questions 4 months ago:
I can relate to this. I joined a modding Discord and got treated similarly by the regulars there because I made the mistake of admitting in chat that I was not a programmer. I distinctly remember using the phrase "Could you explain the concept?" and some pretentious illiterate fuck thought for some reason that that meant "Can you write the code for me?" and kept telling me that I would never learn that way.
- Comment on Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation | Hacker News 5 months ago:
Think of how different the entire world would be today if Mark Fuckerberg wasn't an irredeemable sack of complete garbage.
- Comment on What moment from a video game made you cry? 5 months ago:
I had a really good time with DDLC. I'm glad I went in blind.
- Comment on Star Citizen Just Had its Biggest Crowdfunding Day Ever With $3.5 Million in 24 Hours 5 months ago:
This is just like EVE Online for me - I am more interested in reading about the drama than the actual game itself.
- Comment on Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files 5 months ago:
F
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Me too. I thought it was a great read.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
tl;dr - a small number of bad actors are causing too much trouble, so the owner is pulling the plug on Omegle rather than continuing to fight uphill against it. The post is also a sad farewell letter where Leif reminisces a bit about the old internet and how people used to actually use it to not be total assholes to strangers all the time
Relevant bits:
In recent years, it seems like the whole world has become more ornery. Maybe that has something to do with the pandemic, or with political disagreements. Whatever the reason, people have become faster to attack, and slower to recognize each other’s shared humanity. One aspect of this has been a constant barrage of attacks on communication services, Omegle included, based on the behavior of a malicious subset of users.
The battle for Omegle has been lost, but the war against the Internet rages on. Virtually every online communication service has been subject to the same kinds of attack as Omegle; and while some of them are much larger companies with much greater resources, they all have their breaking point somewhere. I worry that, unless the tide turns soon, the Internet I fell in love with may cease to exist, and in its place, we will have something closer to a souped-up version of TV – focused largely on passive consumption, with much less opportunity for active participation and genuine human connection. If that sounds like a bad idea to you, please consider donating to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an organization that fights for your rights online.
- Comment on Overfeeding cats will mess with their guts and poop 6 months ago:
Axshully, yes shit
