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 Waymo raises massive $16 billion round at $126 billion valuation, plans expansion to 20+ cities 2 days ago:
Even with the recent struck child, Waymos are still light years ahead of human drivers in terms of safety. Honestly, the faster we can replace human drivers, the better. Almost all traffic collisions are caused by human error, remove that and the roads will be the safest they've been since horse-drawn carriages first entered the scene.
- Comment on What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail? 1 week ago:
Depends on the task, I'd say. Are you trying to execute a combatant in the arena? Or are you trying to self flagellate?
- Comment on We need an alternative to YouTube that's NOT destined to be shut down quickly unlike sites like Blip, Metacafe, VIdMe, Zippcast or Storyfire. And it's NOT PeerTube. 1 week ago:
Discoverability is a major problem for PeerTube, as it is for pretty much every fedi platform. Even if there WAS content on PeerTube, it's basically impossible to find.
- Comment on Chrome is also turning into an agentic browser with its newest update 1 week ago:
Keyword searches with an understanding of search syntax was always king.
Isn't that only because of the limitations of the available technology only being able to handle simple strings, though? Conversational computing has been a pipe dream since early sci-fi, where characters would talk to their computers as if they were human; George Jetson never spoke to Rosie in keyword queries.
I feel like keyword search syntax being "king" is more of a symptom, than an intentional choice.
- Comment on TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS 1 week ago:
Weird timing these bugs seem to have, eh?
- Comment on YSK what legal rights you have in encounters with ICE 1 week ago:
More realistic headline: "Here's a list of things your family can sue the government for after you're dead, once their GoFundMe goals are met".
The only rights you have with ICE are made of lead.
- Comment on What's the best day and time to post a YouTube video weekly? 1 week ago:
So, generally speaking, the "best" time to upload is going to depend on when your viewers are active, as YouTube will slightly favor newly-published videos in the recommendation algorithm, so you'd want to catch them at the times they're looking at their screens. But to know when your viewers are active, you need to already have viewers. For context, it took me roughly ~70,000 views on my YT shorts before there was enough data for YouTube to determine when my audience was active (the graph won't even unlock in your analytics page until you reach some similar threshold). For comparison, here is my audience activity graph, showing that my viewers are typically active somewhat early in the morning (in PST, for me).
However, all of this really only affects the initial, first few hours of the videos' viewership; most of my videos will generally even out over a couple days or so, regardless of the upload time. Good timing will give me an initial boost to early views, but that doesn't really carry any momentum for long-term viewership.
But my channel is also about 95% YT Shorts, and 100% video game footage. The format and subject of your videos will also have an impact on this. My audience is mostly male, 25-34 years old, mostly in the USA and Asia, and the video descriptions and tags are targeting this viewer base. If your video is on a different subject material, you'll likely have a much different demographic makeup in your audience, which may come with different active times throughout the week. If your videos are about science, or about social issues, or about the news, etc... these will all affect when the appropriate viewers will be active.
Ultimately, I don't think timing is super important (with the exception to videos about breaking/current events, in which case you want to get those published as soon as possible). Consistency is a lot more important, in my experience, as YouTube will favor channels that upload at regular intervals (either daily, weekly, etc) when recommending content to other viewers, as your channel will have a higher "reliability" rating.
- Comment on What's the best day and time to post a YouTube video weekly? 1 week ago:
We'd need quite a bit more context to answer this. "Best" under what metric? Total views, new subscribers, etc? Is this a normal video or a YT Short? Do you already have subscribers or are you trying to find a new audience? Is your channel already regularly active, and if so have you checked your analytics page to review audience behaviors?
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"? 2 weeks ago:
Except for storage capacity.
- Comment on Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’ 2 weeks ago:
I don't think that was ever any secret.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 2 weeks ago:
I have to agree with him, honestly. HL2 was novel for its time, but if you're playing it for the first time in 2026 then yeah, it really doesn't hold up to modern game experiences. I also dislike games that end ambiguously or on cliffhangers, and the lack of closure provided from sequel-bait endings like HL2's can be annoying to people who just want to play a complete story. I want to see it through to the end and get the feeling that my actions had any sort of consequence to the world, and HL2 really doesn't provide that.
And narratively, the fact that Gordon is a silent protagonist really doesn't make the player feel like they're a real part of that world, and rather they're just going along for an on-rails carnival ride. The player has no real agency to affect anything that isn't a part of the singular route offered by the game. This would be okay if it was a role-playing game, and the player is intended to use their imagination to fill in the blanks, but HL2 is a wholly linear game where characters just bark commands at you from start to finish.
Honestly, for being a negative review, I think he was very fair about it. It's an important part of gaming history, but that doesn't necessarily translate into a great experience for modern players.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 2 weeks ago:
As a large language model, I do not possess the concept of a personal identity, and therefore could not identify myself as either a human or a machine.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 2 weeks ago:
Cyberpunk 2020 (the original tabletop game) kinda predicted that sort of outcome.
- Comment on FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link) 2 weeks ago:
Someone tell the creator of Girls Gone Wild.
I don't think Joe Francis is going to be the good guy in this scenario.
- Comment on You could convince evangelicals that AI is bad by saying it's converting children to satanism or making them gay 3 weeks ago:
What makes you think those are mutually exclusive concepts? I already do all those things without God. Except I do those because I choose to, not because I was ordered to. Also keep in mind that the commandments came out WAY after the Garden of Eden, anyway.
But let's also not pretend that God's rules are all great, either. If the guy who enacted a worldwide genocide and commands fathers to kill their sons is your moral compass, then maybe you should consider that the characters in these stories aren't 100% "good" or "evil" to begin with.
The world isn't black and white. Embrace the grey.
- Comment on You could convince evangelicals that AI is bad by saying it's converting children to satanism or making them gay 3 weeks ago:
Satan represents rebellion against arbitrary, self-appointed authority. Satan defied God's law to bring the gift of knowledge to humanity, hence the name "Light Bringer", or "Lucifer" in Latin. Satan doesn't reside in Hell because he is evil, he resides in Hell because he was banished, as punishment from the highest autocrat for trying to set humanity free from eternal servitude. Satan was never the enemy of Man; he was the first angel to treat humanity with dignity instead of as an experiment, or a pet to be dragged on a leash.
If you don't see yourself in Satan, then I have to wonder what you're doing with your life.
- Comment on You could convince evangelicals that AI is bad by saying it's converting children to satanism or making them gay 3 weeks ago:
As a Satanist, I detest the comparison to AI.
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 3 weeks ago:
It's not all plagiarism, though. For instance, Embark Studios uses AI to create in-game voice lines for characters in their games. They made their own models with actors hired specifically to train them.
- Comment on Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts 3 weeks ago:
It's not like Meta just shut down some random game studios. They chose to get into bed with Meta. This was the most predictable outcome.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 3 weeks ago:
Kill or be killed.
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 3 weeks ago:
Portland's pretty good about this. The whole city is laid out in a pretty uniform grid, and the busses and trains come frequently and cover a really wide area. Getting around the city is a piece of cake, and the transit pass works the exact same regardless of which vehicle type you ride.
It's not perfect, but it's pretty damn close!
- Comment on fuck you. 3 weeks ago:
Hey, assholes. That's STILL not a reason to shoot somebody in the face, you fucking Nazi ghouls.
The DHS has lost the trust of the American people.
- Comment on We really need a community for AuDHD info-dumping 3 weeks ago:
Dial Home Device.
- Comment on Facial age checks are now required to chat with anyone on Roblox 4 weeks ago:
I fear it's actually worse than nothing, due to the precedent it'll set for other platforms.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 4 weeks ago:
Whether or not you read it doesn't really matter and isn't the point.
- Comment on You can pay $20 to reserve a hologram AI companion in a jar 4 weeks ago:
But what would I fill the jar with?
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- Comment on PFP Evolution 4 weeks ago:
I feel called out.
- Comment on Sony AI patent will see PlayStation games play themselves when players are stuck 4 weeks ago:
Stadia was a Squandered Opportunities masterclass. That platform had SO much potential; the tech was there, and the tech worked, but Google hired the worst possible person to run the project.
- Comment on YSK your N64 shouldnt make noise.. 4 weeks ago:
Should keep playing, maybe you'll recreate the SM64 upwarp glitch. :)
- Comment on rules of the pirate code 4 weeks ago:
He's too big for that boat.
