jwiggler
@jwiggler@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on $80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen" 23 hours ago:
Can you recommend me a starting point? For someone who has no experience with these games, or any Japanese games besides Soulsgames and RE4 remake.
Feel free to roast me in the process.
- Comment on Can the Internet be an ethnicity? 6 days ago:
I think totally. 100%. If Wikipedia is to be believed
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of people that perceives themselves to be different from other groups based on shared attributes. These attributes include having a common language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment.[1][2] The term ethnicity is sometimes used interchangeably with the term nation, particularly in cases of ethnic nationalism. It is also used interchangeably with race.
Then I think that your ethnicity could be based on the internet communities you exist in.
Its directly related to things like the slow dissolution of regional accents we see due to the internet and the general melting, appropriation, and reappropriation we of cultural aspects we see facilitated by the internet.
- Comment on At least there's no ads... 1 week ago:
I came back to see if you were still making a fool of yourself on this topic, and lo-and-behold you’re threatening to ban users for calling your comments dumb. You deserve to be called out on this one. Have a good day.
- Comment on At least there's no ads... 1 week ago:
givesome, I’m really disappointed with you in this comment section. Ban me if you want, but you really are embarrassing yourself here, not only with your dumb comments, but now threatening to ban someone for calling you out. It seems like you made this post just to get in a bunch of fights with users, only to threaten to ban them when they push back? Like cmon dude. Really, really not cool.
- Comment on At least there's no ads... 2 weeks ago:
I think you have some confusion with the word fork. You don’t “fork away” from a lemmy instance – instances are their own thing. You can defederate from them, but that’s not forking. Forking is really only in the context of the code – its when you copy a codebase and change it in whatever way you see fit, so a fork of Lemmy would not be lemmy.
That thread has a couple mentions of forks of Lemmy, like piefed and mbin, but there is so much non-technical conversation that its really not about creating forks of lemmy. I think what you’re trying to say is that people want to decrease their reliance (don’t want to donate to, really) the lemmy devs, who also are the lemmy.ml maintainers, who have pro-CCP views. I mean, you can correct me if I’m wrong there. Really most of that thread is discussion of politics.
But the thing is, you don’t have to support them. You don’t have to donate, and if you’re really upset that they are adding a donate button, you can move to another activitypub platform like piefed or mbin or whatever. I mean, you probably should be doing that since you seem so invested in this issue. It’d definitely be more effective protest – because the lemmy devs aren’t going to be ousted or anything like that. Lemmy is their project. The best thing you can do is move to a fork of lemmy. That’s the whole beauty of open source – if you don’t like it, there is a fork. If there’s no fork, you can fork it yourself (but that’s work).
But there’s not much you can do to influence the direction of lemmy as a codebase, and if the devs wretched political opinions outweigh the usefulness of the platform for you, you should just switch platforms. It’d be a bummer to lose your comment history, your moderator status, or whatever, but why would you care about that stuff if it contributes to something that is owned by some tankies you hate?
Idk, maybe something to think about. There are just a lot of avenues built into open-source software, and into the decentralized nature of the fediverse, that allow you an off-ramp. But sounding the alarm on a yearly donate button won’t influence the direction of lemmy because those two devs are in complete control of the codebase.
Hell, I’m looking at mbin now. kinda enticing…hmmmmmm…lol
- Comment on At least there's no ads... 2 weeks ago:
Yep, lots of people have been wanting to fork.
Hm? You make it sound like the devs are blocking that from happening, and that there’s all this chatter about it, but that’s not how forking works. There’s no “people want to fork, but they just cant decide how to proceed, or they’re being blocked from doing it, or there’s been all this talk about forking, whatever whatever.” Like usually it’s not an all or nothing, it’s not a thing everyone has to discuss, “we gotta fork and every instance migrate over to this other codebase.” Anyone can just fork it and self host it. I know you didn’t say exactly those words, but it kinda sounds like you don’t really know much about what you’re saying, sorry to say :/ Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong, I’m not an open source dev, just an admin. But idk dude, it sounds like you have a misunderstanding about the big picture of open-source development.
The problem is maintenance, as mentioned below, but I guess I’m more curious about the federative implications of forking lemmy and running your own fork – is it feasible? Maybe someone else could answer
- Comment on At least there's no ads... 2 weeks ago:
Maybe a stupid question, couldn’t someone just fork it and remove this?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
When i was a kid, my grandma lived with us. She’d listen to this piece of garbage non-stop. She had me parroting the drivel he spouted. Nothing could make me forgive this dude for poisoning her mind, and nothing will make me forget how she helped make me into a hateful little kid. Glad they’re both dead, only hoping my own mother doesn’t take up the mantle with my nieces and nephews. She does not understand the harm and the trauma she perpetuates.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 2 weeks ago:
Spoken like a true 12 year old. Lmao
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 2 weeks ago:
Wow, I gave you a lot of benefit of the doubt in my comments, but you’re really out here to just denigrate other people’s tastes, aren’t you? How refined, how cultured your game library must be. How sweet your shit must smell. How does it feel up there, where you’ll never touch a game frequented by us Dorito-eaters and us Mountain-Dew-drinkers? Feels good, huh? Feels better.
What a fucking joke.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 2 weeks ago:
For sure for sure. I definitely read it that way, in part, because I have to consciously remind myself that my taste is my own and I should try not to dismiss people who like their art to be more…palatable, i guess? Because I have the capacity to be that guy, unfortunately. So I try to watch a blockbuster every once in a while, so to speak.
I think it was probably the comparison between GTA and Madden and CoD that threw me, because they have almost no similarities besides being AAA.
Their comment kinda reminded me of how the Kingdom Come: Deliverance fandom can be. I mean, I fucking love KCD and KCD2, they’re two of the best games I’ve ever played. They can slow AF though, and frustrating at times. But whenever someone mentions that, or that they didn’t like it, someone else invariably comes along and completely dismisses their opinion, like “You just don’t understand it,” or “Maybe you just don’t have the attention span to really immerse yourself.” It’s like dude, you don’t need to make someone feel bad for not liking a game.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 2 weeks ago:
I think GTA online could be compared to Madden and CoD in that they all have aggressive(-ly lame) monetization tactics. But the way jordanlund frames it (sorry jordan, I don’t mean to rag on you – like I said, I can also be like this) sounds more to me like a “i only listen to artists with less than 1000 monthly listeners” type of statement
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto 6 release date has been announced, but the game has been delayed to 2026 | VGC 2 weeks ago:
I get it’s a massive franchise, like Madden or Call of Duty… don’t buy those either.
whew, I’m trying to understand your comment, but this is kinda coming off pretty…holier-than-thou? Which, I do get that because I can find myself like that with movies/tv, but still…we gotta let people like what they like.
In this case though, I honestly think this is a pretty terrible comparison. Madden and CoD don’t have massive single player appeal that GTA or RDR have. They are total schlock in that regard (though, I hear CoD’s recent campaigns are actually good).
GTA and RDR on the other hand very skillfully mix elements of RPG, immersive sim, and adventure game. They’re huge sandboxes for the player to explore and discover new things, within which are nestled very well written stories that critique modern life and touch upon themes that, yes, you could find them in various indie games if you look a bit, but are somewhat unique in the blockbuster gamescape. It’s difficult to find other single player games with the scope of Rockstar games, though I think it is getting easier.
But comparing GTA to Madden or CoD is kinda whack unless you’re looking at GTA Online in isolation.
- Comment on List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs 3 weeks ago:
Darktable is a godsend to me for converting film negatives.But I pretty much only use image conversion, RGB curve, then fidget with the exposure and RGB sliders in negadoctor a little more then I’m done. No idea how to do anything else.
- Comment on Linux help and actual pros and cons 3 weeks ago:
I think installing linux on another hard drive is best. It can be frustrating to jump straight into linux and realize a particular thing doesnt work, not knowing why, and realizing you can’t play games at all before doing work to fix things. Saying this as a linux sysadmin.
For a long time I had a dual boot setup for this reason. I wasn’t sure why Ubuntu always felt so sluggish gaming (especially Rocket League, which requires a very low amount of input lag)
Eventually I found two things that massively MASSIVELY improved my perception of the performance. First, the kernel I was running. Switching to the liquorix kernel with my NVIDIA card made a huge difference in my perceived input latency (please, if someone could correct my verbiage here. Input latency may not be technically correct.) Secondly but almost as important – my desktop compositor. I switched to KDE Plasma so I could manually turn it off and make sure that it was off. I never was certain with Gnome, even though I am more comfortable in that environment. Smooth sailing since then. But it was important for me to be able to reboot into Windows if I wanted to play with friends without running into technical difficulties.
Now, I’m fully off of Windows for gaming and, well, everything. It’s sick.
- Comment on Homeland Security funding for CVE program expires 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 1 month ago:
Ooo shit yeah I actually like this take, I didn’t think about the dating app implications. Like in the sense of highly ironic dating app pics, doing this and hamming it up to the max could actually be hilarious
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 1 month ago:
I think you might be misunderstanding me. I don’t mean to say women aren’t attracted by silliness. I mean to say that a person who tries to be a certain way (can be silly, serious, whatever) because they think it will attract a mate is less attractive, especially compared with than a person who is just a certain way because that’s how they are.
Being your true self is more attractive than trying to be act in a way that you think will attract someone, yknow?
But I agree with you (although I’m a man), silly is attractive. But being silly with the express intent of impressing potential romantic partners? Way less attractive
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 1 month ago:
oop my bad, I wrote out my comment and then deleted my main point. I think you hit the nail on the head, my only differing opinion is that I think at this point, it’s really difficult to change the underlying reason that he’s doing it. At least for me, I wouldnt be able to just “turn off” the original intent of attracting women.
If I went ahead with the plan trying to tell myself, “Well originally it was about getting dates and impressing women, but now its just about having fun,” I feel like I’d still be subconsciously doing it for the female gaze. That’s why I say the jig is up – if I were him, I’d bag the idea and wait for next purely silly fun idea
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 1 month ago:
I think this is the reason he shouldn’t do it. If the whole reason to do it is to attract women, that is pretty unattractive. It would be funny if they just did it for the “fuck it, why not be silly?” aspect of it, but I feel like if the original reason is to attract women, then the jig is up and it is forced and weird.
“Let’s be silly” is cool and attractive. “Let’s be silly so we can attract women” is cringe and off-putting.
- Comment on Kingdom Come: Deliverance II Has Released on GOG! 1 month ago:
Sure dude but in this case your comment comes off as if you were a huge elitist asshole. I mean, maybe you’re not. It’s just that your comment sounds as if it could be written by one. As if you’re just better than the OP because you can understand the complicated, intricate, dynamic mechanics of a game and OP is just not… whatever… enough to “get it”, and that they should just go play this simpler, one-dimensional, easy game, that they don’t even have to pay attention to.
It’s like you went to see an indie art-house film with your friend, and upon hearing that they didn’t like it as much as you did, you say “that’s okay, you’re probably just not smart enough to get it. Maybe you should just watch Marvel movies from now on.”
Just major, major asshole vibes. And I’m saying this as a KCD stan.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It’s weird she’s talking to you as if she were your mom.
- Comment on Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) 2 months ago:
There’s a perspective that some technologically literate people have (not all of them, certainly) that enables them a clearer view of what is going on re: tech oligarchs. That is how much we rely on other people’s computers. Most people don’t think about what is going on when they browse a website or post something on social media, set up their own shop on squarespace, sell a product on Amazon, stream music or TV or movies or games.
Giant tech companies own it all. They own the computer you use to do all these things. They own the computers other smaller businesses use to run their companies. You invented a product and want to drive your cart to the market square? Pay a tax to King Bezos, the market square is Amazon. Did you make a game? Pay Gaben and you can sell it at his marketplace. Don’t wanna use these marketplaces? Wanna set up your own shop? You still have to use Amazon’s, or Microsoft’s, or Google’s computers.
These tech oligarchs are more like feudal lords – enclosing lands (computers) and charging the peasants and merchants access to them.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I’m having some issues with the cross posting from mastodon to lemmy. You can see some of the other photos here mastodon.world/@jwiggler/114076153723742305
I saw this and took pictures and a video today 2/27/2025
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 2 months ago:
It’s still kinda janky IMO, and there are some parts where the performance can tank. But I’m not really treating as a fast-paced action game so it doesn’t really affect my enjoyment.
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 2 months ago:
I’ve really been enjoying Kingdom Come: Deliverance and swapping between my PC and SteamDeck. It run pretty well on the Deck. Reminds me of how I felt playing Skyrim. Excited to get to the sequel.
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- Comment on What do you create? 5 months ago:
35mm film with picture negatives on it
- Comment on Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing 6 months ago:
If people can’t handle the word shit, they probably shouldn’t be looking at shit on Lemmy. Lmao
- Comment on Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Review Thread 6 months ago:
Looks like Skill Up on YouTube did not recommend – I typically trust his takes over review outlets