wolfshadowheart

@wolfshadowheart@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people complain about multiple streaming platforms existing?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People went from paying for cable and addon channels, to having a consolidated service, to having that service split and paid for addon channels again.

  Not to mention keeping track of when they pay, since they’re all different dates unless you do it on specific days all at once.

  Then there’s self hosting and having everything in one spot. Phew, nothing like it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Luckily steamless is piss easy to use because Steams “DRM” is only meant to be preventative. As in, you’re playing it on steam for the community, workshop, cloud saves, per game notes, control scheme setups, etc etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ive bought two⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, only slate and graphite

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s in my garage at the moment, but from memory (it’s been a year or two now) the USB-3.0 header straight up fell off. The PCB should be fine, which is why I have a feeling that I could likely just resolder it, so long as the pads themselves on the PCB were ok.

  I’ll see if I can find some time this week to dig it out and share a photo, thank you for the offer!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah EVGA were my go-to. I have a 1660, 2070s, and 3080 all from them.

  In fact they have been my only GPU manufacturer. I don’t know what I’ll do for the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol, yeah. The ROG line of phone has an RGB backlight with the ROG logo.

  Honestly, I liked it. Could be configured to per-app notifications, and could be synced to other phones that had it. Not that I ever got to use this feature, it was returned to me BROKEN! lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate ASUS. Used to be way in on them – well not way but relatively. I had the ASUS ROG Phone. The screen unfortunately broke and needed to be sent into service. More unfortunate, it was just about 1 month out of warranty.

  So I get it set up to send it. ASUS charges me $300 for the phone screen replacement. It took over 8 months for them to get it back to me. When the phone finally did arrive, the RGB lighting didn’t work, the NFC didn’t work, and the screen itself had an orange hue in the upper right corner. To boot, it would only connect to AES Wi-Fi networks, so I can’t even use it without a SIM card because who the fuck uses AES. They didn’t even fucking fix it properly. I never got responses, sending e-mails for months after it was finally returned to me.

  Now, in this time I was really patient. I was using a temporary phone. Around month 5, I just needed a new phone and was looking into the newly released ROG Phone 2. I figured the ROG 1 would still get plenty of usage as a spare device. Well I had the ROG 2 until AT&T decided that the phone didn’t have the supported bands anymore, so my >1 year old phone is now as effective as an iPod 3g. Just 6 months later, screen itself just died, no fall, no nothing. I can use SCRCPY to use it, the screen just doesn’t work. I really, really tried to give them a shot and the benefit of the doubt.

  Now, in between these ~2 years I’d accumulated a few accessories for the phones, keycaps and backpacks. Just little things – ngl, the bag and the keycaps are still really good quality. I also decided to upgrade my PC, and was looking at a nice new motherboard to rebuild my existing PC with.

  So I get the ASUS B550 or something like that. Stupidly bought it from Newegg, first time. The motherboard arrives and upon building the computer I just cannot get it to POST. I reach out to the 2 likely culprits, the PSU and the MoBo. EVGA sends me an entirely new PSU, free of charge, and tells me not to bother shipping it back. ASUS on the other hand would not accept that the motherboard could have been the point of failure! And when I FINALLY was able to fully prove that every single component in the board works EXCEPT the MoBo, they told me to take it up with where I purchased it from, Newegg. So I would get to pay some ~20% restocking fee on a broken motherboard, instead of the manufacturr just replacing a defective board. Oh, the best part? The motherboards USB-3.0 header was broken, came right off when trying to plug it in. No wonder it wouldn’t POST.

  Fuck you, ASUS. Fuck your shitty warranty, your awful customer support, your horrible treatment of customers who put their trust into you. I will never support ASUS again and I will always vehemently suggest anyone else. It’s really, really simple to be a good OEM, all it takes is replacing things that break. ASUS treats every single customer like a scammer who is trying to get free stuff out of them, which IMO just goes to show that’s exactly the mindset ASUS has as well.

  I still have the motherboard btw. If anyone knows how to repair a USB-3.0 header I’ll either be glad to be guided through a repair or I’ll just send it to you for cost of shipping. It’s just going to sit in my garage otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ByteDance won't sell TikTok, would rather pull it from the US⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve pretty much saturated the U.S. market; there’s not much room left to grow here

  That… doesn’t make sense to me. So because there’s no room to grow, they pull out of the U.S. and lose the likely ~$1 bil spent on digital stickers for live streamers?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poignant post on the state of things⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not what they’re saying the issue is though, the issue is how it’s redistributed. In fact, what you’re saying quite literally is the living example of anti-progress.

  It could be fine in the current state if companies paid people fairly, but they don’t, any progress or efficiency that could have been made was stifled by the company pocketing the ex-employees wage. Rather than supporting the current employee by giving them a raise or a team of members to work with, it’s taken.

  To put it this way: Bob and Janet are janitors who split their work equally. A new tool the company bought is able to cut their workload down by 15% each. Now Bob and Janet only have 35% of their work, instead of 50%.

  A good workplace will support Bob and Janet in various ways, making them both more efficient by being able to accomplish more tasks.

  A bad workplace will fire one of them, making the work load for one of them to 70%, without supplemental pay.

  That 35% of value Janet brought is no longer going into the economy, it’s going into the corporate profit.

  It’s very efficient. That’s why corporations do it. Now one worker is extremely overworked and underpaid, but the job still gets done and the company makes more money? Sounds like a win.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube now suggests new content *by colour*⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not? Not you, I mean but why not have it as an option?

  Frankly I wouldn’t use it either, but I can absolutely see the appeal. Sometimes you want some warm tones, sometimes you want cool tones. Maybe you’re having a Green party for 4/20 and you’re playing Green Day and watching green videos idk.

  Lol dumbness aside, my immediate thought was “this seems like it could be nice for those who sleep to videos” - I know that I don’t always want a white-blue heavy video but something darker and red

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld isn’t slowing down, hits 19 million players across Steam and Xbox⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been seeing people mention “the game has been in development for 2 years” and all these trailers and stuff but… I didn’t hear a thing until the game released, it exploded and now it’s all I’m seeing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mothers know that this is a wholesome combination.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is it, for kids that don’t like milk or for kids that like milk and want it with their 7-Up?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had some that looked exactly like this⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember that. Along with the distinct smell they all had, the scent of whatever the portable materials were used.

  And because of the compact size, all the sound has this sort of reverb to it. It’s not really an echo, just an elevated hum of busy noise, with only the higher pitched ticking current going through the fluorescents.

  And how that size also affected the lighting. Somehow even with the florescents it all was oddly sepia toned, no doubt because the only colors on the inside were white, grey, tan, and beige…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had some that looked exactly like this⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NorCal as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doing the important work⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are very right my edible friend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Doing the important work⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it unwraps when you aren’t holding it, is it really a burrito?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8 Years later my Steam Link is still getting regular updates⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Steam Link itself has USB ports, the Steam Link apps all use Bluetooth controllers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Introducing a $48,000 Ship Bundle, but Only for Players Who Have Already Spent $10,000⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t forget, you gotta pay for those licenses and classes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nic Cage through the years⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Raising Arizona is something pretty different of his that I like a lot as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL - Linux supports tilted monitors... apparently 22° is best⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve gone down that far… Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Lemmy trend incoming⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the butric acid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why we should be putting solar panels on our fields and lakes | DW⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel the same way about lakes, I would imagine the sun hitting the water is pretty important for the life inside the lakes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Slammed For AI-Generated Art Promoting Indie Games⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Buzzibee absolutely DISMANTLING article headlines! More above!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'The Last of Us' Was the Most-Pirated Show of 2023⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The characters are both fatherlike and have PTSD, yeah, but the actual acting? They are entirely different human beings who show different reactions and emotional cadences, where Din’s childhood trauma has him become the savior of himself (Grogu) - there is little anger, mostly fear which is rebuffed by his dedication to his religion, the other thing that saved him. Joel’s fear on the other hand is rebuffed by his anger. Him saving Ellie is something that he almost seems to regret because it makes him that much more afraid, but also fights through it because it’s worth it to have a chance at being a father again. He’s also an older character which he does well and probably helps a bit with that separation.

  I’d say yes, the characters have similar aspects to them, but between his portrayal and the wider scope of both characters I think they’re actually quite different. Plus, in Mando he’s legitimately in the costume most of the time so not just him always, just his voice and sometimes body.

  Not as a slight against Chris Pratt for this example but compare Starlord to his character in Jurassic Park - besides their backstories how they are portrayed is basically the same, down to how he cries over loss of a loved one. I don’t think it’s entirely his fault, it’s likely a symptom of the industry/writing opportunities/directing but they are pretty stark contrasts. Like for 2 characters to be so wildly different and get portrayed so similarly, compared to the 2 similar father-like characters who are portrayed so differently. When Pascal cries it’s a range from insanity (WW84) to dismay and grief (TLoU) to pain and relief (Mando)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Update: Everyone said GameVault's UI was garbage, so we completely overhauled it.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice, looking good! Are there ways to customize it to a users liking? You could get a pretty good theme store going I bet!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'The Last of Us' Was the Most-Pirated Show of 2023⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the few actors to actually have differentiation between his characters.

  Who he is on The Bubble vs. WW84 vs. TLoU vs. The Mandalorian are all very different, much moreso than many of the “repeat cast” actors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure if it’s on sale but I’ll just keep talking about Revita because it’s such a succinct rogue like that blends hollow knight and TBOI very well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Steam] Which lesser known games have you bought or are planning to buy in this sale?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That still happened on PC, or on my OG steam deck at least, but it was somewhat remedied by some commands to adjust settings. Things like turning off visible bots, background settings, UI elements. That leaves most of the processing just being you walking around/gathering and whatever background machinery you have going, vs all of everything.

  I imagine those were not present on Switch/Xbox since these were basically commands applied to the game .ini.

  Also FWIW, may not really be worth picking up again unless you really want to endgame it. The developer was kind of a chud to the team from some of the stories I read which seemed to result in the endgame kind of teetering off into nothing. Like, once you find all the NPC’s you’re not playing for anything but to build and optimize, even though it feels like it’s leading you on with more to unlock somehow.

  I’d double check of course, as with anything it could be a bunch of nonsense. But yeah I pretty much agree, it’s an ok game with some issues, they can be remedied on PC but even then it’s just kind of like you work to it, you did it, it’s done and what was the point. There’s nothing to take away from the game, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 50 per cent of users may shun social media by 2025 as misinformation, toxicity grow⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are social, a busy bar bathroom? You’ll make a friend for life in there. There’s little media though. Unless they have TVs inside the bathroom/stalls, and I wouldn’t really count music since the focus isn’t the music but doing your business.