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- Comment on Help. 2 days ago:
If it even partially alleviates loneliness, and if it encourages the person to become more open and confident when communicating with humans, then it’s a great thing.
/cope
~We’re so fucking fucked.~
- Submitted 2 days ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 85 comments
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- Comment on Who would win Kernel level anti-cheat or middle age man with a Raspberry Pi? 3 days ago:
That’s awesome 🤣 definitely PED-like cheating though.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 5 days ago:
An entire thread of people missing the point 🙄
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 days ago:
Literally no one on this green earth asked for this shit. In fact, we’ve been pretty direct about how much we don’t want it.
It’s exhausting.
- Comment on How Wikipedia is fighting AI slop content 6 days ago:
Would be funny if the Wikimedia Foundation developed an AI that is trained on all the major AI models, and uses that to detect AI slop.
- Comment on Grand Theft Auto Games 'At Risk' From Being Pulled From Sale Ahead Of GTA 6 1 week ago:
One of the only times I’ve ever been grateful that Rockstar Games - a litigious and thoroughly despicable crew of money-grubbing cunts - are being pressed in their most sensitive and tender area: their bank account.
Now John Indiegame doesn’t need to worry about the Collective Shout campaign. The scumbags with the army of lawyers and endless rivers of money will take care of things.
/cope
- Comment on When life gives ya lemons. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 week ago:
A VPN is a must if you wanna go down this route
Soulseek (and I recommend the Nicotine+ client over the official one) is a fantastic source for all music in all formats, and particularly obscure off-label shit you won’t get anywhere else. You’ll even have some success finding audiobooks there, although this is very hit-and-miss. I wish audiobook pirates would use it more heavily. It’s P2P, like Napster used to be. You’ll have to share something or you’ll get auto-ignored by most users.
RuTracker is a great non-private/non-ratio-monitoring torrent site for music (does require a free account though). I’ve never had a single torrent from there that wasn’t seemingly seeded by a Godzilla’s dick. Obviously it’s in Russian, but there’s really no difficulty navigating around. The only thing you might struggle with is signing up for an account, but just have your favourite translation tool open in another tab 👍
If you don’t mind slow download speeds (from the likes of RapidGator), I enjoy Exystence. It’s a blog that shares link to the latest albums and offers both lossy and lossless versions. Nice RSS subscription to have.
If you do find yourself using RapidGator a lot, don’t waste money buying a sub directly from them, it’s insanely pricey. Instead, get a reseller like Real Debrid, which costs like 10% as much and also covers you for about two-dozen other file hosters. I highly recommend putting as much distance between your credit card and the company as possible, just for safety reasons. Using PaySafeCard is fine, as Real Debrid will never see your details in that case. I don’t have any specific reason to be weary of them, I just don’t trust random/small/hitherto unheard of companies as a rule.
- Comment on So GOG going to relist Devotion? Seeing how they're about freedom to buy games. 1 week ago:
I haven’t spent a dime on GOG since this happened. Fuck them. Not only is their professed anti-censorship stance fucking laughable in light of the Devotion débâcle, their game preservation efforts are even more laughable when they literally excluded a game from possible preservation because of a hoard of thin-skinned CCP hostages.
Even without that episode I would have stopped using GOG eventually, because they also went against their one selling point - no DRM - more than once. They sold Witcher 3 hard copies with online verification (you had to link it to your account with a serial number, you couldn’t just install it and play it from the disc offline). They included a little card in the box with an apology for this requirement, citing their need to protect their sales. Which is fair enough, but don’t pretend that this isn’t DRM. The fact that it was one of their own games shows how much hypocrisy they have when they complain about other developers doing the same thing. Being able to share the downloaded files freely makes me wonder why they bothered with any DRM, but bother they did.
Then they sold Hitman (2016) which has literally the most egregious and hateful DRM in the history of gaming. If you don’t submit to it, your game is essentially a very expensive demo. Most content and even basic game features like saving and progress tracking is disabled unless you’re connected to the DRM server. GOG users complained and the game was delisted, but the fact remains that they fucking tried. If GOG doesn’t even believe in being anti-DRM anymore, then I see no reason to use their [apparently] CCP-curated games library.
GOG may have started out as a plucky band of disruptors and idealists, but that dream died about 10 years ago. They’re EA cosplaying as Che Guevara. I wouldn’t even mind if they behaved like every other storefront, but it’s the pretence and the morality-washing that makes them especially despicable. I mean EA and Ubisoft aren’t feigning to be motivated by some grand political or societal good; they’re malignant capitalists who would sell their own children, and would tell you as much. GOG dons the robes of a grassroots pinko activist while dancing to the exact same corporate tune.
- Comment on GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship 1 week ago:
RedCandleGames watching this situation like:
- Comment on GOG is fighting back censorship - Freedom To Buy Bundle 2 weeks ago:
Do I have the freedom to buy Devotion by RedCandleGames? Or is some censorship fine?
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 2 weeks ago:
Nice gesture, but keep in mind that this is the same GOG that was poised to release Devotion by RedCandleGames, only to renege on it because CCP imbeciles told them to. They are brave against censorship except when it involves actual conflict with censors. As soon as that happens, it’s bootlick city.
- Comment on "A guitarist who's also an astronaut" sounds more impressive than "An astronaut who plays the guitar", despite both meaning the same thing. 2 weeks ago:
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The president of the United States is a rapist
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A rapist is president of the United States
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- Comment on Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people 2 weeks ago:
Joe Pesci, circa 1995
Joe Bond: You hear a little girl, Moneypenny? Where’s the big tough guy who told my friend to shove his pen up his ass? *more stabbing*
Q: Sir, please… *choke* I was just explaining… *cough* the pen’s unique bidet feature…
Joe Bond: Bidet feature? You made me pop your eye outta your head over a fuckin’ BIDET FEATURE? You dumb motherfucker!
Q: Sir, I apologise, but if you just… *splutter* use the pen’s other feature, the wound-cauterising laser, I might yet… *gasp* live…
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on advertisement 3 weeks ago:
If you suffer from erectile softness, sliding yourself into an MRI like this will cause the iron-rich blood from your whole body to be drawn into your pennis by the powerful magnet. Then you just tie a tourniquet on it at the base, and you’re good to go.
Also works in a large centrifuge in which they train fighter pilots, if you don’t have access to a hospital.
- Comment on Can't Fool Me! 3 weeks ago:
I’m in my 40s and I still occasionally get a dream where I’m using the toilet, and that in the dream I’m making sure I’m really awake by looking around the room reading labels on things etc. People say you can’t read text in dreams, because it looks mangled and makes no sense. Well, if you believe it makes sense within the logic of the dream - that is, whatever switch in your brain that makes you go from “not sure” to “100% confident” gets flipped - then it matters not what lorem ipsum horseshit is printed in melting calligraphy on the shampoo bottle. My brain yearns for a piss-filled mattress and it will not be dissuaded by my feeble attempts at some sort of dreamworld scientific method.
- Comment on It’s the little things 4 weeks ago:
What if each H~2~O molecule was coated in a hydrophobic substance?
- Comment on It's transportation not cisportation 4 weeks ago:
I think my bank manager has a kink, keeps texting me about “transaction”??
- Comment on What do you call the first person with a new genetic mutation 4 weeks ago:
Patient 1
- Comment on Can reading assholes be considered science? 5 weeks ago:
I can tell by the flavour that a new love interest will come into your life imminently.
- Comment on The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed) 5 weeks ago:
Say what you will about Musk, but you gotta hand it to the man; for someone who has sired so many bastards with so many different women, he has somehow remained the world’s biggest virgin.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. 5 weeks ago:
Oh, I’m sorry, I didn’t realise loving the white race and wanting a secure future for white children makes me a BIGOT.
/s
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 24 comments
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 5 weeks ago:
“Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the
childrendevs!?”The last refuge of a dying argument 😴
- Comment on We'd like to welcome our newest Student to Hogwarts, Hun-Gary Mc'Spud. 1 month ago:
Potatrick Tuberman
- Submitted 1 month ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 13 comments
- Comment on If nudity was more widely accepted, tattoos would be more popular. 1 month ago:
I bet it’d also cause a huge comeback for those rub-on tattoos you used to get with bubblegum.
