Ethalis

@Ethalis@jlai.lu

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Home Depot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the word genre comes directly from the french word (“genre”, meaning “type”), which in the plural form is “genres”. I don’t think “genera” means anything, it’s probably a typo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friend gifted me a "fighting RPG" that turned out to be something else entirely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You creates this post in order to give yourself an alibi when someone notices this game appears in your “Last games played”, didn’t you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glorious Victory⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, not trying to tell you how to enjoy your games at all! I was just explaining why people would want to play this specific game closer to launch rather than later

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Glorious Victory⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d agree with this statement for most games, but the best way to enjoy Helldivers 2 specifically is to play it when the playerbase and the hype is at its peak. The gameplay will still be just as good a year from now, sure, but you’d miss the emergent story being built right now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$70 titles are doomed to go “the way of the dodo” says Saber Interactive CEO⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I honestly thought that was what the headline meant before reading the comments. Paying 70 bucks for a single game sounds wild to me when all my favourite games from the last few years have cost me less than 40, and sometimes less than 20

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AliExpress is first online marketplace to face DSA investigation by EU⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean what would be the point of passing these regulations and then not trying to enforce them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨English may be a hot mess but at least we don't have to worry about this nonsense⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No offense intended since I’m fully incapable of pronouncing tons of English words properly (fuck “squirrel” specifically), but as a Frenchman who has lived near Mulhouse for a few years and interacted with a lot of foreign students, what you said probably wasn’t close to being the exact same as that guy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey, I'm new to GitHub!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, Big Tech’s quest for UX and frictionless Interfaces has lead to a generation of people who vastly overestimate their tech savviness and are basically only great at navigating walled gardens made specifically to be easy to use.

  It’s not really their fault though: in addition to frontends becoming ever easier to use, backends are also becoming increasingly complex. 20 years ago you could learn a bit of HTML and CSS and throw a decent website together, but nowadays you need to master tons of other skills (graphical design, scripting, etc.) to make even so much as a web page that won’t scare people away immediately. It’s hard to get interested in this stuff when the barrier of entry is getting higher and higher, while tons of GAFAM-made alternative are already available for “free”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great! I like getting tracked by 766 third parties! thanks Outlook⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FYI, tracking based on legitimate interest can be rejected, it just isn’t by default. If you click on “reject all” both tracking based on consent and tracking based on legitimate interests are rejected (at least if Microsoft wants to be in compliance with EU rules on tracking).

  The only trackers that can be used even if you click on “reject all” are those that are used exclusively for technical purposes and some very light analytics

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quizzle – Can you guess the word in fewer than twenty questions?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty cool game, didn’t manage to find the answer in 20 questions though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit revamps gold system with opportunities to earn real money for posts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate this so much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the difference between communism and socialism?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends a lot on what you actually mean by socialism and communism because these words can have very different meanings to different people and ideology.

  As a very broad baseline, socialism is the socialization of the means of production, as opposed to the current privatization of those means. Now there are a lot of ways this could be done, and thus a lot of ways to define socialism. Some socialists want a strong State that can enforce strict rules of ownership, others want no State at all and a free cooperation between individuals, with a lot of variations in between. An anarchist, a communist, a social-democrat would all consider themselves socialists, even when they actually have very distinct ideologies.

  Now communism, at least in its most recognizable form, is basically the end state of socialism in the Marxist ideology specifically. It designates a stateless, classless society in which each person contributes according to their ability and receives according to their needs. It’s basically the end goal theorized by Marx that has never been achieved yet in History.