Quazatron
@Quazatron@lemmy.world
A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
- Comment on xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems 1 day ago:
I thought long hair was a requisite for metal, especially headbanging.
- Comment on A chat with Gary Carlston of Brøderbund 3 days ago:
I was very happy with The Print Shop. You could print huge signs and banners by stitching smaller pages together. Fun times.
- Comment on When tech hardware becomes paperweights 1 week ago:
It’s not a new phenomena, but it seems to be growing.
I remember when perfectly functional scanners and printers were ditched because the new Windows version would not support them and the vendor would not provide OEM drivers either.
Nowadays they unplug some servers and you are left with an expensive doorstop. That’s progress, I guess.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
effluencers
It perfectly describes their contribution to this reality. Thank you.
- Comment on Cold water was probably less refreshing for early humans due to most cold water likely only being available during colder weather. 1 week ago:
Depending on the aquifer the water temperature at the spring can be really cold, even in the warmest days.
- Comment on Cold water was probably less refreshing for early humans due to most cold water likely only being available during colder weather. 2 weeks ago:
You never actually drank from a natural spring, have you?
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 2 weeks ago:
To me it is the inverse of socializing. It’s an escape to a world where I don’t have to deal with people.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Faraway 1, 2 and 3.
Really chill first person puzzle game.
- Comment on Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2 2 weeks ago:
There was the Homebrew Channel back then, but it seemed to have gone offline. I assumed people just lost interest and moved on.
Based on what you said I did a quick search and found that there’s still an active community around the console, so thank you!
I’m updating my Homebrew Browser to see what’s new.
- Comment on Nintendo’s Anti-Consumer Anti-Piracy Measures Also Reduce The Value Of The Switch 2 2 weeks ago:
Any platform that restricts how and what I can run in it has inherently less value to me. This is why I mostrly avoided consoles all my life.
The only console I bought was the original Wii. The games were extremely expensive, and they disabled all the services that made the console useful after a few years (weather channel, news channel, store).
Fortunately I added a few SNES, PCEngine, Genesis/Megadrive and Gamecube emulators otherwise I would now have a very pretty white doorstop.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You probably need them just to deal with the stress induced by teenagers.
I really admire teachers, in my country they don’t make much money and are subject to be placed hundreds of km away from their families for years.
- Comment on Sable is free on Epic until tomorrow 2 weeks ago:
That may be the reason. I play the GoG version on Linux and it’s great.
- Comment on Sable is free on Epic until tomorrow 2 weeks ago:
I have never encountered the bugs you describe. Maybe you got a bad version?
- Comment on Sable is free on Epic until tomorrow 2 weeks ago:
This is one of the games that I always keep installed. Just chilling, gliding around, trying to climb higher and higher. Love it.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 2 weeks ago:
I jumped to Tidal many years ago because Spotify could not be bothered to provide high quality output. Yes, you can eat the difference, even on shitty gear.
For the stuff I could not get on either platform I started buying CDs on Discogs and ripping them to FLAC.
- Comment on Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026. 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry to disagree. I’ve been using Microsoft crap since the days where you had to free up memory in config.sys to load Novell Netware drivers, and never has Microsoft been the cool kid in town. It was always the fat bastard bully kid that would beat and extort the other kids.
- Comment on The end of humanity will come about through people's apathy. 3 weeks ago:
That’s, like, your opinion, man.
- Comment on Pornhub is Back in France. 3 weeks ago:
I see what you did there…
- Comment on What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality 4 weeks ago:
The Halo series.
I like shooters, so I got the full bundle and I tried hard to like it.
None of the games gave me a lasting impression. The plot didn’t stick with me, the enemies were weird, the guns felt weak and flimsy, the rooms kept repeating in some sections and it got very boring. There were some fun bits with the vehicles, etc., but overall the experience was… pretty much average.
I was expecting something like the Half-Life series, but this wasn’t it.
- Comment on Donald Trump is going to make the troops at his birthday parade swear an oath of fealty to him during the event. 5 weeks ago:
No typo, apparently fealty is similar to fidelity in English, which is not my native language. Sorry about that.
- Comment on Donald Trump is going to make the troops at his birthday parade swear an oath of fealty to him during the event. 5 weeks ago:
That’s one typo that actually makes this less bad.
- Comment on So many bands emphatically demonstrate that successful communication is not about what you say, but how you say it 5 weeks ago:
I’ll upvote any PUSA reference, but I agree that a lot of lyrics seem meaningless, as they refer to bugs and balloons and whatever. Or are they?
Anyway, the music is great if you like rock, and I’ll take lyrics about Matchbox cars over lyrics about bitches and bling.
- Comment on The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It 5 weeks ago:
Well, for starters, games are going to get more expensive.
That is their prerogative. Mine is not buying overpriced games.
- Comment on An analysis of X(Twitter)'s new XChat features shows that X can probably decrypt users' messages, as it holds users' private keys on its servers 5 weeks ago:
I’m surprised nobody posted the surprised_pikachu.gif yet.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Recall feature is still threat to privacy despite recent tweaks 5 weeks ago:
Maybe it’s time you invested some time in finding alternatives that let you stay in control of said hardware. I know time is in short supply for all of us, so consider your priorities.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 5 weeks ago:
Now that you put it like that, I think what puts me off is all the melee and glory kills. Not my cup of tea. I need my social distancing from hellspawn. That, and the puny amounts of ammo. When I play a boomer shooter, I want to shoot. If I wanted melee, I’d play Mortal Kombat or something.
- Comment on Zynga shuts down Torchlight 3 developer four years after its acquisition 1 month ago:
Different tastes.
The simplicity, artwork and playability appeals to me.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 month ago:
Finally installed Doom 2016. It’s nice, but the gameplay is not clicking with me.
- Comment on The first weekly What Are You Playing? thread! 1 month ago:
I’ve sunk nearly 800 hours on it.
Good luck.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
Thanks for the warning.
I have the original Talos plus the DLC and love it but I’ll wait some years until I have the iron to run the remaster.