umbraroze
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- Comment on Top of the world, ma 49 minutes ago:
Oh thank goodness, I saw the link in the photo is to Roosh V forum, and I was like, hell no, I’m not going there
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 53 minutes ago:
I’ve said this before, but “AI vegan” is a pretty odd term. It’d imply that using AI is somehow a default, entrenched, normalised thing. That not using AI is going against the status quo.
This makes as much sense as calling Linux users “Windows vegans”. Go on. Go say that to some Linux user’s face, I’m waiting.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 5 days ago:
There’s like a boatload of really classic Xbox 360/One era games that I’d love to play on PC.
Problem is they were made by Ubisoft or EA. Repurchasing them is already dubious from the get-go, but chances are the versions in Steam, if they’re still there at all, are old neglected buggy builds. And things are not much rosier on the Uplay or Origin! They may have gotten a patch or two, but old shit’s janky. These need the GOG treatment.
I did get the Mass Effect trilogy rerelease for a pittance. Also found out I somehow had Dragon Age Origins already. These should keep me occupied for a while, as (to paraphrase a certain video game villain) at this very moment, EA burns.
- Comment on So disappointing 5 days ago:
“From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the radness of the rave…”
- Comment on My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht! 5 days ago:
Long ago, in Finland, the election night live coverage was on YLE TV1 and there was some other show on TV2. Since they both had the same Teletext pages and the same subtitle pages, someone posted online some choice screenshots.
(Don’t remember much, besides one with the main reporter guy, with the subtitles going like “goddamn it”.)
- Comment on 'Scowling Void of Pure Nothingness': Critics Destroy $75 Million Melania Trump Documentary | Common Dreams 6 days ago:
75 million dollars. 75. Million. Dollars.
How much of it went to the crew and other people who actually made the damn thing?
Or even used for their benefit in other way, for that matter - I’m asking because apparently the crew did overtime hours with no food while the director lorded over the underlings and stuffed his face. (Don’t do overtime if your boss isn’t personally ordering a ton of pizza, guys.)
- Comment on 6 days ago:
As pointed out, Goodreads has been owned by Amazon for a good while. And they also own slices of some other similar book sites (LibraryThing, for example, and some other site that was merged into Goodreads).
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Also, to avoid doing unpaid labour for Jeff Bezos, go from Goodreads to Bookwyrm!
- Comment on De-Escalating Social Media 6 days ago:
What I need is “this post really seemed like a good idea when I was drunk, but in retrospect, maybe it’s not”.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 1 week ago:
The fuck you on about?
May I enquire if you are completely informed on the topic?
Have you ever played Portal beyond the first rooms? You definitely need fast and precise aiming in Portal.
Have you played Portal on controller? I’ve played through the game twice on controller on Xbox 360 and with mouse and keyboard on PC.
Both are very much playable. You don’t need goddamn motherfucking MLG 100% 360° 720° noscope quickscope blaze it mtn dew it skillz only attainable through rarest of gamer mice and finest of mechanical keyboards. It’s perfectly serviceable on controller. That was my point.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 1 week ago:
The official Xbox 360 rechargeable batteries were absolute hogwash. Terrible battery life when they were new, and it just kept getting even worse really fast.
I could imagine the third party batteries being better. I’ve only ever had one set of Xbox One/Series controller rechargeable batteries (third party but AFAIK officially licensed) and they’re working just fine.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 1 week ago:
To be fair to be fair, Portal on Xbox controller is entirely serviceable. You don’t need super fast precision control in Portal anyway.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 1 week ago:
My current annoyance: my Xbox 360 works just fine, but none of the controllers turn on while battery powered. (IR remote works, but it’s not exactly suitable for gaming.) And Xbox 360 was the pinnacle of Microsoft’s “well we have to do slightly incompatible shit just for the hell of it” attitude - you can’t just use a standard USB cable, it uses USB over a weird proprietary connector. (On the other hand, I’ve looooooved Xbox One and later controllers on PC)
My Halloween tradition is Bullet Witch - had to jank up the PC version to working state last year when I first noticed this problem with the 360 controllers.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m in Finland. I sometimes say stuff like “oh it’s -30°C today. It’s getting just a little bit nippy.”
A friend of mine in California is like “Jesus Christ what are you talking about” and yes, he can convert that
- Comment on I liek tudles 1 week ago:
Ancient shellmaster! Awww.
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- Comment on I miss play-by-email games 2 weeks ago:
Really interesting, because just a while ago I remembered my experience of playing VGA Planets at the local BBS during my school years in early-mid 1990s. (This is a turn based game where people would submit their turn files, the arbitrator software thing would do its thing weekly, and we’d download the results.) The sysop was a classmate and, since the international money transfers were complicated for school kids at the time, organised getting everyone a registered copy in bulk. I do remember I said something in global messages and people thought it was, in modern vernacular, cringe. I don’t remember how the game ended up. I played some underwhelming race. I can’t remember.
- Comment on 'Worst in Show' CES products include AI refrigerators, AI companions and AI doorbells 3 weeks ago:
A candy that plays music while you eat it
This is the sort of misapplication of technology that traumatised me as a kid, dammit
- Comment on The most bizarre tech announced so far at CES 2026 4 weeks ago:
Ultrasonic chef’s knife
3 years ago I wrote a cyberpunk novel for NaNoWriMo. In it, one of the hoodlums was waving around a “compu-knife”. A knife that you have to pair to a smartphone app over Bluetooth, or it won’t work.
All together now: Cyberpunk was meant to be a warning, not just an aesthetic.
(I know, I know, the article doesn’t say the knife needs to be paired to an app. I feel lucky about guessing it does though)
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Wherever you are on Mastodon, back up your data!
Dear lazyweb (or lazystodon or lazyverse), are there dead simple scripts for periodic backup? You know, something you just authorise to act as a client and then stick into a crontab to run daily/weekly and it’ll keep a local copy of your stuff. Preferably something you can just install via pip or gem or (oh please gods no) npm.
- Comment on I'm there! 5 weeks ago:
I would totally go to a camp that involved turtle weighing. Any activity involving turtles, really! They’re so shelly aww
- Comment on Intro to Pico-8? 5 weeks ago:
This is kind of a side note, but in addition to Pico-8 I also recommend checking out TIC-80. Has an Android build on F-Droid.
It is a platform very similar to Pico-8, but it also has integration to the website where people post their projects. Just type “surf” to browse and download and play games automatically.
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 5 weeks ago:
I’m so sorry about this thread and everything. I was drunk and I had no idea what I was doing and I really shouldn’t post some stuff when I’m drunk.
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 5 weeks ago:
This place? Retro gaming community? Here? Now? What are you talking about?
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 5 weeks ago:
None of this makes any sense. Why are you voluntarily talking to me like that? What the fuck provoked any of this?
I assume you know where your basement is. Go back there. Wait for the signal.
- Comment on "When did video games become so violent and scary?" -Wreck-It Ralph 5 weeks ago:
In the 90s they put random English phrases instead of translating.
Buuullllcrap. Sure, the translations of many games didn’t “match” the original, strictest literary sense, but a whole lot of cultural references just didn’t translate well, and they also had to work with platform limitations. Had to do with what they did.
Come on now. Prove it. Give me the original Japanese line from POCKET MONSTERS (apologies for slight mispronounciation, I’m drunk, I swear I won’t do this soon). Let us compare it to the official English translations. Let us see how RANDOM it got.
GIVE US THE CAVALCADE OF BAD TRANSLATIONS YOU PROMISED.
The fact that everything alive must someday die, isn’t really that dark in Eastern cultures/religions.
Obviously not. Everyone’s still traumatised by Marowak shit. And Lt. Surge’s undiscussed war history. What was he doing.
you still don’t understand what they’re saying.
Okay, what were they saying.
WHY DID THE COMMENT SECTION TURN TO THIS
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 27 comments
- Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 5 weeks ago:
Boomers in the 1980s: “Those damn robots took our darn jorbs”
Trump in 2025: “We’re giving these jorbs to the robots”
- Comment on Santa rounds up migrants for ICE in Trump administration’s Christmas-themed AI video 1 month ago:
For years, the conservatives only had one joke (attack helicopter). Looks like they found another now (we’re deporting anyone we want, now laugh dammit)
- Comment on What is the cheapest console to get and collect for that still holds up? 1 month ago:
Why do anything? Isn’t existence pointless?
Nintendo is making downloading ROMs mildly annoying.
Meanwhile, ripping discs yourself, ensuring checksums match with Redump, compressing them to RVZ and keeping the collection straight in Dolphin is kinda fun. And best of all, Nintendo can’t do shit about it.
