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- Comment on Fan hacks Animal Crossing to make it compatible with GameCube Keyboard Controller and much more 1 day ago:
The GC didn’t have a keyboard, so it was useful for MMORPGs. Not sure if I should be pluralizing that, though. It might’ve only been PSO.
- Comment on I'm setting up a Windows 11 laptop for my uncle. Is there a sneaky way to make it block right-wing bullshit websites? 1 day ago:
If he’s living with you, you could try to block it at the router/firewall level.
On the machine, I’d just make it really slow rather than block it outright. Make it as unpleasant as possible to access those sites without blocking them outright. Making them slow makes it look like the sites suck. Blocking them makes it look like you did it or some conspiracy thing.
But if he lives with you, blocking them from your network is perfectly ethical imo
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 3 days ago:
I got the base game for free a few years ago.
I played and enjoyed it so much I bought the Platinum edition…on Steam, because it was cheaper there. (And other reasons, but this was the biggest one)
One of the few games I actually went out and bought thanks to Epic. I feel slightly bad for not buying from them, lol
- Comment on What was the first water level in a platformer? 1 week ago:
A lot of water levels in Platformers have swimming instead of platforms like the entire rest of the game does
- Comment on Robot performs first realistic surgery without human help: System trained on videos of surgeries performs like an expert surgeon 1 week ago:
If it were the only option, I’d gladly take it.
I rely on robots to do a lot of other things in my life, directly and indirectly.
Well, not many directly. But machines, definitely.
- Comment on The Switch 2's price won't be impacted by Japan's new tariffs, but its games might 1 week ago:
“impacts” has been in my vocabulary for as long as I remember, and it’s common to use it that way. The dictionaries even have that definition.
I’m not afraid of language evolving.
- Comment on The Switch 2's price won't be impacted by Japan's new tariffs, but its games might 1 week ago:
If media can say “slammed” to mean “said something about”, I can use “impacted” to mean “affected”. Especially when we have the word “impactful”.
- Comment on Can it take months to get over being laid off? 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
And I see that you asked a different question in your post, too.
Yes to that, too.
- Comment on What are the games you played in your youth that you still play today? 3 weeks ago:
Most of them! Well, not regularly. But I love going back to the games and consoles of my earlier days.
My favourites are the 16-bit and early 32-bit eras
- Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall. 3 weeks ago:
As a Canadian, I’d be upset if we got paywalled. The BBC is where I go to for trusted news on international concerns.
Understandable, but I’d still be upset.
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 3 weeks ago:
I actually like this. No politics. No big name personalities. No distractions.
Just a search bar to ASK me what I want to see before it tells me what it thinks I want to see.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 4 weeks ago:
If an ordered item arrives broken once, it’s a shitty delivery company. 1-star probably isn’t warranted unless the company is shitty about replacing it.
If an ordered item arrives broken regularly, it’s a problem that the company should’ve fixed.
If a game doesn’t work on one person’s machine, maybe they’ve got a bunch of malware installed or something.
If it doesn’t work on many people’s machines that meet the recommended specs, the company is at fault and deserves bad reviews.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 4 weeks ago:
If it runs poorly on the recommended specs, bad reviews are warranted.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 4 weeks ago:
Real men are woke
- Comment on Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads 5 weeks ago:
If it wasn’t for the AI nonsense, this could’ve actually been a great idea.
Businesses might want to use Reddit comments as ads.
Reddit says “Hey, let us find those glowing reviews that we have as Reddit comments, and you can link directly to the original source!”
Then the original comment writer could edit their comments to call political figures pedos, and businesses learn their lesson that this kind of stuff is not suited for using Reddit as a primary source, lol
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 5 weeks ago:
I dunno, Yoshi’s Island can get pretty hard…
- Comment on Why can countries recognise both... 5 weeks ago:
Why are North Korea and South Korea both recognized internationally?
[the rest of the explanation here]
- Comment on Why can countries recognise both... 5 weeks ago:
It’s a bad choice, imo. The title should usually have the entire question within.
- Comment on Why can countries recognise both... 5 weeks ago:
I know this doesn’t answer your question, but I think something went wrong with your formatting. In Voyager (Lemmy), your title seems to be cut off, and the body of your post is way bigger than it should be, lol
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Do you live somewhere that you can get around without relying on a car (or someone with a car)?
If not, can you reasonably move to and live in a place like that?
If those are options, do those.
If not, learn how to drive properly and safely. DO NOT drive unless you feel in control of the car on public roads.
“Not being good at multitasking” isn’t an excuse to put people’s lives in danger.
Some people need more time to learn and practice and that’s fine. You need to take responsibility and take that time to learn and practice.
It may need more than lessons. It might require therapy. But if you need to drive, then you need to drive safely. And relying on other people to drive for you is not the answer either.
- Comment on [iOS/Android] SEGA is discontinuing support for their retro games and these formerly paid games are currently playable for free without any ads or IAPs. Includes Crazy Taxi, Streets of Rage, Sonic th 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for sharing! Never would’ve known about this otherwise.
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 5 weeks ago:
Last I heard, “learning styles” are a myth
- Comment on Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash 5 weeks ago:
If I wanted an AI summary, I’d put the article into my favourite LLM and ask for one.
I’m sure LLMs can take links sometimes.
And if Wikipedia wanted to include it directly into the site…make it a button, not an insertion.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 5 weeks ago:
These tools are marketed as replacing lots of jobs that are a hell of a lot more complex than a simple board game.
There isn’t really a single sliding scale of “complexity” when it comes to certain tasks.
Given the appropriate input, a calculator can divide two numbers. But it can’t count the number of R’s in the word “strawberry”.
Meanwhile, a script that could count the number of instances of a letter in a word could count those R’s, but it couldn’t divide any two numbers.
Similarly, we didn’t complain that a typewriter couldn’t put pepperoni slices onto a pizza.
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 month ago:
I’d be interested in seeing marketing of ChatGPT as a competitive boardgame player. Is there any?
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 month ago:
That is more a failure of the person who made that decision than a failing of ChatBots, lol
- Comment on ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logic 1 month ago:
Because people want to feel superior because they
don’t know how to use a ChatBotcan count the number of "r"s in the word “strawberry”, lol - Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 1 month ago:
Going forward? RetroAchievements, Steam, GOG, and LaunchBox to tie it all together. PSN trophy integration to LaunchBox would be cool too, because PS3 stuff is never coming to any of those platforms and I have history there, too.
For historical stuff, that’s in my memory exclusively.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 month ago:
The first console with a framebuffer was the 3DO. The first console people cared about with a framebuffer was the PSX.
I cared about the 3DO…
Thanks for the info though!
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 month ago:
I was looking it up, and games like Super Mario World are allegedly at 60fps according to some random things on the internet