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- Comment on Why do people hate reality? 3 days ago:
I mean, theres the obvious answer that the world sucks right now. Even in the richest country in the world, large parts are the population are starving and/or homeless.
That said, your argument seems to conflate “nature” with “reality”. That answer to that is that nature is generally very bad for us. Bugs and animals will try to eat us if given a chance - killing us first is a luxury often not afforded. Plants, trying to avoid being eaten, are poisonous almost as often as not. With the limited availablility of food in nature, starvation is common. Even common diseases can kill hundreds of thousands without the use of modern medicine. We build and innovate to get away from all this. We build houses and weapons to protect ourselves from the elements and the animals. We develop pesticides and GMOs because they’re easier to grow and more nutritious, making feeding ourselves cheaper. We develop medicine to save billions of lives that would otherwise be lost. Being natural doesn’t mean something is good for us, and in fact generally means the opposite.
- Comment on Steam, Riot Games hit by disruptions: massive DDoS attack suspected 5 days ago:
My game last night was more like a couple of lag. Luckily, Dota has an in-built system to detect it, so the game wasn’t recorded and those of us who didn’t leave spent the remainder of the game messing around.
- Comment on Are the character names in most Anime real Japanese names or just made up? 1 week ago:
Some are real, many are exaggerated or fantastical. It varies a lot. If you think of western shows, some use realistic names, esspecially in a more grounded setting, but most cartoons or more fantastical works will either use names that are over-the-top (I.E. Marty McFly), while others are loosely based on other languages or completely made up.
- Comment on how come Lemmy show more upvoted posts further down the thread instead of at the top? 2 weeks ago:
I believe “Hot” sorting filters by a mix of recency, score and possibly also activity. If you want to sort by score alone, you can use the dropdown to change the sorting to use “top” instead. There may also be an option in your settings to make this the default if you want to.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 2 weeks ago:
I do.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 2 weeks ago:
Probably at least some form of staged rollout. Its broken for me too, but I’m in NA.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 2 weeks ago:
My settings are mostly default, and from a quick skim, there isn’t much to change for that in settings, so probably a staged rollout. Thats how they usually do it anyway.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 2 weeks ago:
Seems pretty broken to me. Nothing is loading now.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
The whole website seems to be just AI nonsense, and AI nonsense running at 2fps at that.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
A lot of the same reasons younger women often like older men. Maturity and stability is attractive, people often have sexual preferences for those who are older, those who are older often have money they can throw around (IE sugar daddies), and people often find the power imbalance attractive.
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- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] How Razer Screws Customers | Hardware, Software, & Support Failures 1 month ago:
Their older stuff was absolutely great. Theres a reason I tried to replace my original Logitech mouse with a duplicate twice. Its their more recent stuff (and esspecially more recent software) that has fallen off in quality.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] How Razer Screws Customers | Hardware, Software, & Support Failures 1 month ago:
The only reason they’re still so common is that you could swap out “Razer” in your comment with 90% of the other gaming or performance brands and it would be just as true if not moreso. I had to swap to razer after I had two Corsair mice fail in as many months, and what seemed like a software bug kill three Logitech mice (One I had been using previously, and two more bought to replace it, which were broken out of the box).
- Submitted 1 month ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
The last graph is total posts across Lemmy, so its only about 300,000 posts a month, although notably, about 250,000 of those are on a bot server no one is federated with.
- Comment on Game recommendations 1 month ago:
So far as I know, there aren’t a lot of 8-player local multiplayer games. The only obvious answer is the Jackbox games, using your phones as controllers.
Beyond that, I did find this Steam curator, who seems to specialize in 8-player games. From thier list, I recognize Gang Beasts, and Pico Park: Classic Edition. Party Golf, Screen Cheat, and Cobalt also all looked interesting, but I’ve never seen anyone play them.
- Comment on Game recommendations 1 month ago:
Maybe I’m wrong, but I don’t think Boomerang Fu or Overcooked support 8 players?
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
I’d expect that, although I’ve noticed this trend continuing (and seemingly getting worse) for months now.
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
Looking at the more detailed breakdowns, it looks like there are a couple of servers (Lemmit.online, alien.top among others) with huge numbers of posts/comments that appear to be entirely bots. Are those counted in the stats? Could those be messing with the overall graphs?
- Comment on Is the amount of Lemmy activity declining? 1 month ago:
I’ve definately noticed it too. I’ve tried to look for stats, and most seem to indicate that there is plenty of activity, but really see it. At this point, I can scroll through the day’s all feed in like 15 minutes, nonetheless my subscribed feed. I kind-of wonder if theres one or two instances with a lot of bot activity effectively inflating the numbers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Embarrassed? No.
Annoyed/mad? Maybe a bit?
It does feel like its a boundary violation, and inconsiderable to both you and the woman to suprise you and force a specifc date and time on you like that. At the same time, you didn’t do anything wrong, and if the opportunity has presented itself, and you areinterested in dating, its still worth it to go.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 2 months ago:
The economy is terrible with both hardware and software becoming more expensive, theres a good selection of free and long-lifetime games (be it live-service or just very long and replayable), and a lot of the newer paid games have become worse.
I’d be significantly more suprised if this wasn’t the case.
- Comment on Chad NATO 2 months ago:
Given that you’re on a two day old account, I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt.
.ml is notoriously run by, and has a large population of tankies - people who support China and Russia, and defend or deny their countless atrocities. I.E. people who deny the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and say Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and all the war crimes they’ve committed are justified.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 2 months ago:
Its not normally sought out, in fact, its nearly the opposite. If you don’t filter what you search for and you just mindlessly scroll on most social media, its low effort slop (AI and not) that you end up with.
Its in the same vien as most mobile games - Most people download the first thing that catches their eye on the app store (part of why top grossing is so prominently featured) and if it holds their attention at all, they keep playing. They’re not looking for good games, they’re looking for something to reduce boredom on their bus ride.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 months ago:
Mastercard? Yes, but then they’d have to admit that they were in the wromg.
- Comment on Lever reloads 2 months ago:
What hero is that? The ult looks like Wraith King but the other abilities don’t seem to line up.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 2 months ago:
Tl;dr: Mastercard syas didn’t “force” Valve to remove nsfw games. It just told them that if they didn’t remove the games that were complained about by Collect Shout, they’ll block them.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 2 months ago:
They’re just bored.
- Comment on Why do neurotypicals like AI slop? 2 months ago:
Aside from what others are saying, I think you’re also making a mistake in interpreting people’s interest in generative AI. Most people making/using AI art aren’t looking for “good art”, they’re looking for a “good enough asset” to fufill a niche they don’t or can’t value. For example, a small buisness owner might use AI to create their logo. It won’t be good, but its only competing with what they can draw as a non-artist. It only needs to be passable, not good. In the same vein from the viewer perspective, they often aren’t looking for something high-quality or thought provoking (esspecially on a platform like Tik-Tok). Generally, people scrolling on Tik-Tok aren’t looking for something good, they’re looking for something mindless to distract them, thus the emphasis on mindless scrolling over guided or curated content.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 2 months ago:
The vast majority of it was driven by speculation and outright scams. The few who were genuinely trying to make a currency couldn’t make something competitve with existing systems, as they all ended up with the same problems and then some. Usually, blockchain based systems are very slow, expensive, centralized (in who has control over it), hard to regulate, and insecure.