TheSambassador

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GameVault - The Identity Update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have a lot of DRM free games and want to have your own backup copies and be able to easily share them with your household, this does that. It isn’t for hosting games you buy through Steam or other DRM-protected platforms. It’s for giving you an interface to easily search and download your own library of games that you could get from a bunch of different sources, so you don’t have to go look up your credentials that you used to buy the game to re download it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, many people KNEW your character pre-amnesia. There are very valid reasons for many of them to treat your character like an asshole, because to be frank, he kinda was. This is a very big and very intentional part of the game. You’re also a cop coming to police an area that hasn’t seen a cop come around in literal decades.

  Garte, the hotel manager, doesn’t like that you’re being incredibly loud and trashing your room. He’s a bit of an asshole, but honestly with good reason, and he comes around if you make an effort to apologize.

  Lena, the Cryptozoologist, is really friendly and very charming.

  Cuno is a drugged out kid, he’s supposed to be absurd.

  If anything, Kim is impossibly accomodating and patient with you. Even if you’re an asshole to him. There’s a reason people love him and call him “best boy” because he’s got these little windows into his personality even through his stiff police exterior.

  There are some actual racist assholes in the game, but I feel very confident in stating that the vast majority of them are not assholes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s an opinion article and maybe it’s OK for the author to make an subjective statement of the quality of a thing they love? Like, if they really believe it, is it wrong to state that? Do they need to qualify everything in their article with “this is just my opinion, sorry if you don’t agree.”

  I get being annoyed by hyperbole in articles, but I don’t really think that this warrants this kind of response. Sometimes it’s OK to make strong statements. You can make statements like that without implying that people who think differently are bad/wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s ok to not get it? It really does sound like you just don’t get it. If your example of why it’s bad is a genuinely funny, absurd result of a failed check, it might just not be for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a really bizarre read, how do you come to the conclusion that every character was a terrible person? Even amongst the first 6 or so people you talk to, most of them are decent people living in a very poor area. I usually hate media where everyone is an asshole but DI is so NOT that that I’m just… Confused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨That sounds like a fun thing to do⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why can’t shitposts also be wholesome?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOGWALK is a free casual game from the Blender Studio out now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been mostly abandoned for some time now. It was my main entrance into game dev in middle school, and I used to be really active in the blender artists forums, so it is kinda sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wonder if the spice girls still get along or if that "friendship never ends" thing was just a lie.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t seem to visit that site without it completely redirecting my browser to a full screen ad saying I had been “wiretapped”, so I googled it, and I cannot find any confirmation of that happening. Every article says Victoria Beckham is still not fully confirmed and nothing substantial has been announced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make dinosaurs weirder⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like a fun way to create new creatures. Take existing skeletons and just try to plop on flesh in unique ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Legends is among us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If the server owner gives the bot access to those permissions and the users have activity sharing enabled, yep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Friendica's marketing is terrible.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Giving feedback is the first step to contributing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you a Lemmy Shitbird? Click here to find out.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I realized that I was accidentally voting on posts while scrolling in Jerboa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Turns out you can click the link and find out! It links to a very short Bluesky post! Try it out! Lemmy has more than just headlines!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Accurate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For real. It’s so frustrating how someone will just text “let’s hang out” or “let’s play games tonight” and it’s always me who has to go the extra step of “OK sure how about 7?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The real inflation is on basic human interaction. We use to just be together and no one was trying to make money off of it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depression is definitely a factor for many people. But the death of 3rd spaces is fairly well documented. The problem is that many people don’t know how to make friends. Friends very rarely happen instantly, they usually are a result of repeated and consistent interactions. Adults rarely seek out situations that would give them those types of interactions outside of work and school.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘The damage is done’: Trump’s tariffs put the dollar’s safe haven status in jeopardy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an important distinction that the majority of America does not want this, they’re just paralyzed for various reasons (many of which are self inflicted, but many of which are due to the greed-fueled erosion of our societal connections).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ben Starr recieves Balatro's BAFTA award in a clown costume⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Chess is a war game. Killing and violence in general are devastating. It’d be interesting to compare the brain activity of a murderer with a grandmaster player. I have my suspicions about what we would see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, still about 50-50 with these people. I’ve sent an email with 4 nicely formatted and numbered questions and had them respond only to question 3. Like… You read some of it, decided to answer one, and then give up with no other acknowledgement? Shit is wild.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s obviously not great for the type of community that’s about knowledge sharing and learning, and it does suck that a lot of communities went there.

  But it’s a great platform for simple social servers that are just about communicating. It’s super easy to sign up and set up a server. A lot of it just works well for chat.

  Them going public probably puts a timer on the service though, so if it happens Discord probably just will get worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are a lot more alike than we are different⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  most

  Source?

  I’m pushing back on this viewpoint wherever I’m seeing it. Humans are certainly flawed in a lot of ways, especially in how easy it can be to mislead us, but this cynical worldview that most people are actively wanting others to hurt is not based in reality. Honestly it sounds like me when I was in the depths of depression.

  I think we have a major problem with how we share and consume news. Stories are shared as screen-capped headlines that emphasize the Bad thing that happened, and even if you find the original article, it’s stuffed with ads that make you not want to bother. Random one-off bad/stupid things that one person did somewhere far away are reported as world news without statistics and context.

  The result? Increasing cynicism. The good, uplifting stories rarely come through. People begin to base their worldview and how they interact with other people on this “fact” that most people suck. This culminates in them becoming the thing that they think everyone is - they go through life scared of or angry at other people by default.

  It isn’t an inevitability. Maybe I’m wrong, but believing in people is a much better existence, even when they occasionally let me down.