Chozo
@Chozo@fedia.io
Hail Satan.
Using Mbin as a backup to my main Kbin account due to tech issues on Kbin.social. May either switch to this one permanently or abandon it, depending on how Kbin's development goes. All my active fedi accounts are linked.
- Comment on When did people start saying "have a good rest of your day" 2 days ago:
Usually after 4 PM.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 4 days ago:
It's hard to be critical of something that hasn't been released yet. All anybody had to go off of were statements from the developers, until the product was actually released and people could get their hands on it.
- Comment on Marylin Mothroe 4 days ago:
Someone please tell me more about this moth.
- Comment on Carrot 5 days ago:
Thumbnail definitely had me expecting something else.
- Comment on Manic Stew 6 days ago:
Hyperfixated Sushi
- Comment on If websites are slow for you, this is why, AWS is breaking everything 6 days ago:
So Roblox is the only of those companies that can handle proper region failover if us-east-1 shits the bed?
Either that, or the reports stopped coming in since it's a school day.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 6 days ago:
Okay, you define "technology" for us, then. Let's see your brilliant solution.
- Comment on Dead Cells 2 doesn't exist because its devs would rather make what they want than listen to external pressures 6 days ago:
What about this is clickbait?
- Comment on YSK - the crazy questions all jobs on usajobs.gov now ask 6 days ago:
How has your commitment to the Constitution and the founding principles of the United States inspired you to pursue this role within the Federal government? Provide a concrete example from professional, academic, or personal experience.
How would you help advance the President's Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role? Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired.
You can either have a commitment to the Constitution, or to the president's unconstitutional EOs. Not both.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 6 days ago:
[gestures broadly at everything]
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 6 days ago:
From how she describes it in the video, he apparently held the stalker by the arm until police arrived. It doesn't seem like he roughed the guy up or injured him at all. It really seems like Twitch applied the "no touching" rule to the wrong person.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
Why?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
A lot of the affected services seem to be partially functional right now. It looks like the AWS network that went offline is one managing real-time analytics data, mostly.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 1 week ago:
"Technology means what I want it to mean."
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 1 week ago:
Emiru did a short stream going into additional details about the incident, as well as some other fuck-ups by Twitch staff that weren't mentioned in this article.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_USuIpVAqAw
tl;dw: Emiru calls out Twitch for lying about the situation in their official statements, expresses concern for what sort of response a smaller streamer would've gotten if they were attacked like this, and draws attention to Twitch's lack of security and professionalism. Twitch staffers originally laughed about the situation to Emiru's face, and didn't seem to care until the video went viral. They ran background checks on everybody who signed up for her meet-and-greet event, but the attendees were allowed to bring a plus-one with them, who did NOT have to get background checked. Twitch staff also allowed people to walk around even after their badges couldn't scan properly.
Also, because this isn't anywhere near the first time Emiru has been attacked in public, she points out that she's spent tens of thousands of dollars for her own private security, and wasn't even allowed to bring her preferred bodyguard with her because he's permanently banned from Twitch events due to restraining a stalker during a previous event.
Twitch fucked up big time here.
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 1 week ago:
Which posts fit here?
Anything that is at least tangentially connected to the technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy.
- Comment on Our user profiles are little time capsules that your children and descendants can learn about who you are. 1 week ago:
What about this one?
- Comment on How should Lemmy sort posts so small communities can compete? 1 week ago:
It's not necessarily about competition, it's about visibility. If I create something and I want to share it with people, that means I want people to see it. It doesn't necessarily mean "I want people to see this more than other posts", just "I'd rather not be posting into the void".
For instance, I make YouTube Shorts for a game I play. I don't post them on Lemmy anymore, because the Lemmy community for the game only has 60 subscribers, most of whom aren't even active accounts anymore. The highest-upvoted thread in the community has 47 votes, the second-highest only has 9. This translates to effectively nobody on Lemmy seeing the videos I made, because this small, slow-paced community's posts get drowned out by everything else.
- Comment on How should Lemmy sort posts so small communities can compete? 1 week ago:
It's a signal-to-noise issue. There are some smaller communities I'd like to keep an eye on, but the posts from those communities get drowned out by the more active ones. I miss a lot of posts that I would have liked to have seen because of this.
- Comment on People dont believe protesting works if they will only do it on their day off. 1 week ago:
Then Brian Thompson gets shot. Literally the next day United Health Care announced they would not follow through on their previously announced ceasure of anestesia coverage. They would remain covering it. Why? Because the board of suits asked "Am I next?"
This is not an accurate description at all. It was delayed in only select states, but they still followed through with that change for a vast majority of states. The only policy change brought by Thompson's death was that UHC execs hired better security details.
- Comment on "loops", the Fediverse Alternative for TikTok-style Short Videos, is now federating 1 week ago:
Loops, the platform, has nothing to do with Meta. Also, that article is over a year old.
- Comment on If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not? 1 week ago:
I usually just sorta hold my hands out in front of me and gesture like I'm describing a fish I caught.
- Comment on Software by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that, when linked up with the correct hardware, becomes a Stingray for detecting Stingrays. 1 week ago:
Whatever you do, you shouldn't accidentally spill saltwater on it. That could destroy a very expensive piece of spying equipment, and would be a terrible, tragic accident that could interfere with the advance of nazism.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You should check out Embark Studios' (ARC Raiders dev) other game, The Finals. Literally the most innovative FPS I've ever played, it completely reinvents the competitive shooter genre.
- Comment on [Technology Connections] Some DVD re-releases got cheapened out in a weird way [17:59] 1 week ago:
Good idea! How do I get past the boarded-up doors, though?
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 2 weeks ago:
Metal Gear?!
- Comment on ICE just bought new tool to monitor hundreds of millions of smartphones. Experts say it’s dangerous 2 weeks ago:
Remember: ICE are not people.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 2 weeks ago:
Xexyz, on the NES, is an underrated gem. It's a mix of platformer and shoot-em-up, and honestly seemed a bit ahead of its time.
- Comment on slur 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Censoring the word "job" is a gen Z meme.
- Comment on Can mental health medication change nature of dreams? 2 weeks ago:
Many psychoactive substances can affect your dreams. Usually when I have fully "sober" dreams, they're mundane and ordinary (in the dream, I'll wake up and go to work and talk to my coworkers and then go home), and I generally wouldn't remember too many details after I wake up. When I took SSRIs, I'd have wilder, more vivid dreams that I remember for years. When I smoke weed heavily, I'm unlikely to dream at all and will just kinda "time-travel" to waking up.