grrgyle
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- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 days ago:
Wait, that can’t be right. No, I was just playing Smash Bros with my room mates a moment ago, like just… twenty … years ago … oh
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 2 days ago:
I mean I am old, yes, but I feel like most North American millennials would get the same.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
Welcome. Your username is a joy to pronounce in my head
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 6 days ago:
Social platform capitalism. Yupppp
- Comment on FL wants more child labor 6 days ago:
How have I not heard this before!
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 6 days ago:
Diablo 1 is like actually scary. I love all those other games but they are farther on the Halloweeny/spooky/edgy spectrum, if that makes sense. I mean so was the original, but in that one I felt like an insignificant little mote, a pathetic ember of humanity, up against overwhelming evil.
The PoE aesthetic definitely comes closest to capturing that feeling.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 6 days ago:
Wow yeah, I can say that going from Eternal to 2016 is the “wrong order” since the sequel really _ really_ ups the tempo and ferocity of its predecessor.
I think I prefer 2016 overall, because I’m just like mentally too slow to fully enjoy Eternal. I don’t have those reflexes anymore lol
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 6 days ago:
That’s curious because I remember Blood Money feeling really good, especially if I compare it to my memories of the original (don’t bump the banners in front of the building - the physics cause my PC to seize up!).
I’ll have to check it out again so I can ruin my memories.
- Comment on Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot 6 days ago:
I’m trying to get back to that. Actually close to it now than I was 5 years ago, so that’s cool
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 1 week ago:
There it is.
So glad I skipped out on buying one of these
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 week ago:
# 2 (lol), but only if I can provide my own type of pencil. Runner up gg1k.
- Comment on Definitely didn't waste half an hour making this 1 week ago:
They enshittified my mech pencil 😞
- Comment on Struggling 1 week ago:
That’s the kind of shit I worry about when people say want Lemmy to become more popular.
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 2 weeks ago:
// NOTE DO NOT EDIT if (me->aboutToRebel()) { don't(); }
- Comment on The Pebble Has Been Brought Back 2 weeks ago:
If only there was a company out there that did it. Alas…
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 2 weeks ago:
The writer
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 2 weeks ago:
There’s moving the goal post and there’s pointing to a deflated beach ball and declaring it the new goal.
- Comment on Judge disses Star Trek icon Data’s poetry while ruling AI can’t author works 2 weeks ago:
Lest we concede the point, LLMs don’t write. They generate.
- Comment on The story behind the Oblivion mod Terry Pratchett worked on 2 weeks ago:
That was great. I can see the appeal of a character who helps you get unstuck and relieves decision fatigue, all in a diegetic way that keeps you immersed.
- Comment on Which game is it? 2 weeks ago:
Is this a personal spiritual successor, or is this there some thread connecting these two games that I’m missing?
They do both rule.
- Comment on Ten reasons to avoid Amazon | Ethical Consumer 3 weeks ago:
… when the need exists.
Like you already said, it’s much easier to separate needs from wants when you just don’t go to Amazon. It was a real eye opener for me, how I could just add a tiny bit of friction to my “customer journey” (just don’t automatically start my search on Amazon), and my desire for the object would usually just … evaporate.
Like a fey mood had overtaken me, but I managed to shake it.
I guess that’s consumerism.
- Comment on Ten reasons to avoid Amazon | Ethical Consumer 3 weeks ago:
That’s vertical integration, and the end result for a virus like Amazon is that, left unchecked, they own everything.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
That’s people just sharing their online freely. Word of mouth chatter is definitely not the same as advertising or even influencing, though of course they try to be.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just ad-free, it’s actively anti-corporate, anti-advertising, even anti-monetization. I would go so far as to say even anti-content in some ways. That’s a cultural disconnect that goes beyond tooling.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
Rofl, Romeo and Juliet is like the definition of a tragedy.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
God yeah, I’ll be like half way through an article before realising it’s just padding out some very surface level details about what I’m looking up. Like the top 3 interesting things about the topic, but never an actual novel, like, human take.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
I get what you’re saying. This stuff hinges on essentially finding small businesses to run, for example, a commercial PeerTube instance. And then leave it up to the rest of the fediverse if they want to federate with them.
I don’t think any of us, or the current devs, would be the ones to add this commercial functionality just because we’re not the sort to chase those types of incentives. But who knows, maybe some business will develop a plugin or peertube wrapper, or hell just a whole new thing, and see if anyone federates. 🤷
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
The journalist does the leg work to produce novel news.
Just to add that in addition to novelty, journalists provide valuable services, like
- holding up a mirror to the present culture
- documenting and disseminating happenings
- packaging up events into narratives
Not to say that you weren’t including these in “novel news,” but just to make it explicit.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
Agreed. The only thing I actually miss is geographically local contacts. But as far as just culture and discourse goes - I’m good.
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 3 weeks ago:
I feel like this is comparing the mall to the park.
They both attract people, but not always the same people, or for the same reasons. And that’s OK.
I get what you’re saying though, because I’ve felt this way when trying to come up with reasons for people (sole proprietors) to get with the fedi, but maybe this place is just not for influencers - not like the corp platforms, anyway. I think the fediverse will attract more and more people with its network effects, but probably never all of the people all of the time.
My modest hope is that the fedi bleeds the big platforms just enough to put them in their place and keep from enshittifying to infinity.