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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who's your favourite character?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a basic ass answer but Sisko. Star Trek has tried moral compromise a lot by now, but Sisko remains the only one where it really hit for me. Later Trek, where it’s more common, just doesn’t have the same level of professionalism or idealism for it to feel meaningful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gatekeeping for profit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are companies that still sell new machines of archaic operating systems for this reason. I’d really recommend anyone in the situation of justletmeremember to look into it, all that stuff could be backed up and given redundancies pretty inexpensively considering the risk.

  And yeah, it’s really common. There is way more horrifying applications than research that rely on legacy machines. Everyone has heard that nuclear weapons required floppy disks until very recently, but it wasn’t some isolated case. Stuff like that is all over the military despite the insane amount of money it steals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's what a random person on the internet thought of The Outer Worlds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I struggled with The Outer Worlds really ham fisted centrism. While it’s been awhile, I remember the best result on every major planet was to find compromise between the two factions. It’s done so clumsily that it makes none of the factions feel authentic in anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capcom is worried that mods “offensive to public order and morals” will ‘tarnish’ the rep of their PC games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It was literally the reference point I used in my post for the last time I’ve seen any real backlash, in the first sentence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capcom is worried that mods “offensive to public order and morals” will ‘tarnish’ the rep of their PC games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’ve seen any public backlash hitting the developer or publisher for the content of a mod being “offensive to public order and morals” since the hot coffee stuff, and that was only because it was content already in the game. This is almost certainly a lie and the real reason is they’re worried mods will compete with things they’re selling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop using Fandom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Still haven’t gotten around to playing Elden Ring so I don’t know if there are better alternatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop using Fandom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Another comment without watching so I might be repeating something in the video, but did they mention how poor bloated the site is? I was trying to use the Forgotten Realms wiki and after a few tabs it would grind my browser to a halt. For something that really just needs to be serving text and a few images it’s wild how badly the site performs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop using Fandom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They game SEO to flood search results with articles that are pure, useless placeholders which most of the time will never be written. Even when they’re more than a placeholder page, they’re often wrong outside of a few games because they’re just their to get clicks. Downvote bots were used against links competing wikis, and while Fextralife denies, it they were conveniently spared.