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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy attempting to radicalise people to enforce class wars?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the resident Lemmy population becoming too easy to troll?

  Hello lemmings are you all left wing because you are CIA and racist?

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why American Films Are Objectively The Best, post # 1/17⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In no particular order, here are some games I’ve enjoyed most in the past decade or so (and found most interesting to shill to my friends):

  • The Roottrees are Dead (online sleuthing game, with a cool but slightly campy story, wears its Obra Dinn influence on its sleeve a bit too obviously for some people)
  • Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic (Cities Skylines for people who understand economics are more than just dollar signs and tweets, it’s more like Factorio than SimCity)
  • Hacknet (Learn basic command line stuff in a game about hacking)
  • Duskers (atmospherically amazing game about controlling distant drones in hostile environments. Genuinely chilling)
  • Chants of Senaar (language deciphering game)
  • Outer Wilds (le le le dae hidden gem for a reason)
  • Dyson Sphere Project (more Factorio)
  • Satisfactory (you guessed it, more Factorio, but very different environment than most of these games)
  • Factorio
  • Shapez (minimalistic Factorio, with a less minimalistic sequel)
  • Nomifactory (Minecraft modpack that was formerly known as Omnifactory. It’s more Factorio.)
  • Curse of the Golden Idol (finally a good retro adventure mystery thing)
  • Return of the Obra Dinn (immaculate game.)
  • CHR$143 (Zachlike-ish)
  • Kerbal Space Program (my next obsession)
  • INFRA (one of my favorite games of all time, I’ve written about this extensively, a sort of urbex walking simulator with incredible atmosphere, deep deep lore, amazing world building, and light puzzles, that goes on for about 40 more hours than you expect it to)
  • Hexcells Trilogy (puzzles)
  • Hexologic (similar puzzles)
  • Baba Is You (puzzles that make you think you’re an idiot)
  • NaissancE (I don’t know how to describe this, I think it’s free)
  • Manifold Garden (you dreamed about this game when you were 8 years old, decades before it existed)
  • The Big Con (be gay do crime 90s)
  • Death Stranding (this game is so boring, I played it for 200 hours and got every achievement, I love it, it sucks)
  • The Forgotten City (this started its life as a Skyrim mod and still has that baggage)
  • Mostly Intense Monster Defense (PvZ homage)
  • The Witcher (1) (CRPG with a cool world. Needs a few mods to cut down on tedium. Pretty different from its sequels but it has a special place in my heart)
  • Binary Domain (absolute schlock, but from a previous era of gaming. Not necessarily a good game, but cool to see from a historical perspective.)
  • Cultist Simulator (needs an eternity of patience but I promise there is something in there)
  • SLUDGE LIFE (SLUDGE LIFE)
  • What Remains of Edith Finch (I fucking love walking simulators with good writing and cool art)
  • Promesa (obscure walking simulator, it’s barely a game, I love it)
  • CUCCCHI (check above description, same guy. Artistic showcase of a painter called Enzo Cuccchi. I’m not a modern art guy, but seeing these works contorted into worlds to walk through… a unique and interesting experience. Soundtrack is someone’s once-lost old experimental tracks and it absolutely slaps)
  • Please Touch the Artwork 1 and 2 (one of them is free, funded by the Belgian public art fund. Weird and cool)
  • Betrayal at Club Low (part of a series of games by Cosmo D, this one is different from the previous few. The first, Off Peak, is free, but it’s also the least polished. Astonishingly excellent music, there’s some cool lore in this series. The art style is a bit out there but this guy’s stuff is gold)
  • Engare and Tandis (mathematical patterns puzzlers, I promise they’re so cool)
  • What the Golf? (An actually good mobile game. I mostly played it with a controller on my TV lol)
  • Cities Skylines (my beloved)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why American Films Are Objectively The Best, post # 1/17⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And then they give a passionate interview about how the original Jeg Spiser Pis short film from 1993 informed their entire creative journey, before immediately going on to direct Mario Movie Minecraft 3 starring Dwayne the Rock Johnson as Sheep and Tilda Swinton as Cat Bowser 64 ft. Ariana Grande burger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why American Films Are Objectively The Best, post # 1/17⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have watched a fair few nigh incoherent French movies with a plot that is simultaneously either the most complex or most banal story ever written (that doesn’t get resolved at the end). You could find me at the one specialty cinema in Beirut every other weekend before it completely collapsed financially in 2020 back when our economy did the funni

  I get that a lot of this is turning people off but this is shockingly accurate of a lot of mid arthouse stuff. It’s like trash TV but for movie tryhards. I love it. For the French ones, I almost feel like the experience is worsened by my grasp of the language.

  Since then I’ve all but stopped watching movies and even series and have moved to games full time. There’s so much more genuinely fun weird interesting shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can do it. It's an easy one⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you noticed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I know Lemmy is mostly populated by computer touchers (I’m one of them) but Pep Guardiola is probably one of the most recognizable human beings on planet earth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. residential solar on the brink of collapse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait wait wait — lease?

  Are you telling me the closest thing humanity has ever made to a true install-once-reap-indefinitely energy machine is a subscription where you are? Solar panel company?!

  Solar has been a major, major life changer for me (I’m not in the US). Probably the most expensive thing that isn’t a car that my family has ever bought, but it’s turned my life completely around. I had never had 24 hour electricity at my own house before throwing a bunch of acid batteries and panels onto my roof and it feels like a decadent luxury. Plus I can tell the electricity mob to go get fucked, at least between February and November. Worth every excruciating penny.

  I know it might be expensive and maybe not easy to get the best deal but I’d think owning your own solar is more important than owning your own home. Although now that I say it this way, I’m thinking maybe you’re renting and that’s why you need to rent the panels too. Different places are different etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨we are not the same⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm. Interesting how negatively coded this scene is when I hear people talk about their own “that one dream public bathroom”.

  I distinctively remember mine having knee-high cloudy water, but it was very dark. My innate “understanding” in the dream is that the water is some kind of natural feature, not sewage. I don’t remember the sinks, tissues, cleanliness or of the bowls, or anything, just the incredibly weird layout and flooding, and the weird lack of privacy due to the doors and walls of the stalls being higher to accommodate the water.

  US style stalls where you can conveniently park your XXXL truck under the divider aren’t a thing here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mindfulness⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Driving leisurely through a nice lush valley? God what a marvel of engineering this crumbling manual 1994 Kia shitbox is. Driving is so calming. Radio off, windows down, I want to hear the birds and the terrible engine. I don’t even care that second gear doesn’t bite anymore. This is nice.

  Driving in start stop traffic? God I hate how we’ve defaced our planet, our home, just to enrich these blood sucking oil companies. The Ottomans and the French built railroads and streetcars here during our servitude. And what did we do with that silver lining? Tore it all out to sell more cars and petrol. For shame. All of these people’s lives are measurably worse from wasting their lives on the road.

  Driving at a normal speed in a normal area with people driving around me at normal speed, pedestrians, street lights, traffic cops, nobody is crashing, I’m not crashing, I’m barely even thinking about doing it? bro what tHE FUCK WHAT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pro-AI Subreddit Bans 'Uptick' of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Boy have I got news for you.

  Look up the Zizians.

  (Ok they’re only a tangential offshoot of people who maybe really like the Basilisk thought experiment and mostly don’t believe it. But hey. It’s underway!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can't buy it, make it: EN25 corner that fits HDMI cables.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, I’ve never looked into what hardware is actually available at the consumer level. That is a lot of money to move a video signal from one place to another.

  FWIW I just looked at the AliExpress-tier options and they are much cheaper, but I don’t know about latency situation even if they do hit advertised bandwidth.

  I didn’t even know HDMI cables went up to 15m for the copper version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can't buy it, make it: EN25 corner that fits HDMI cables.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Again, I just mean literally running Ethernet cables into standard conduits, terminating them, and sticking a HDMI over Ethernet box on either side. In order not to modify the conduits. I don’t know what the bandwidth is for that kind of solution. I’m not presenting it as the only and best option.

  Your solution is cool. My own conduits are surrounded on four sides by concrete, so pulling connectors through is something that I only have to do very very rarely. And more often than not I find myself having to change one thing to wireless or use something that can make use of multiplexing just so I can free up a bit of space in there to do something else.

  My own network is still an absolutely atrocious 200kB/s DSL through decaying, water-damaged copper lines. And those aren’t going through conduits, those have had concrete poured right over them. Over the 2x1mm thick flat two-strand “cable” that was obsolete when the building was built decades ago. RJ11. Plastic sheath that disintegrates into asbestos or some shit when exposed to sunlight. I’m not describing an ideal data transmission environment here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can't buy it, make it: EN25 corner that fits HDMI cables.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Makes sense. I just meant standard conduit, Ethernet cable straight through the conduit. Not into the home network.

  I’ve pulled connectors through odd gaps, I know how it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you can't buy it, make it: EN25 corner that fits HDMI cables.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know everyone’s needs are different (I’m in Third World Nowhere, where building codes don’t exist and our solutions are limited by unusual practical circumstances), but isn’t HDMI-over-Ethernet a thing? I don’t know if I’d trust a 3D printed part with keeping water out in the long run

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am bereaved⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s another one, professionally voice acted for maximum effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LOVE THEM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Extremely underrated game, even after it received popular sequels. I’m shocked nobody talks about the original Witcher game. I played it way after it was released in around 2017 and found it refreshing, like a slightly more modern classic RPG with actual classic game design, plus a few quirks (combat stances and so on).

  The enhanced edition looks perfectly fine. I think I’ve hit the stage in my life where I care more about graphics looking cohesive and how the art style serves the game’s vibe than I care about garish post-processing and needlessly complex models and textures.

  TW1, visually, has a sort of dreamy fantastical blandness with bursts of really cool visual interest. Isn’t that enough? Doesn’t that serve the concept of a video game well?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft says it provided AI to Israeli military for war but denies use to harm people in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Once every few months I remember that there’s virtually no chance my name and information aren’t in these databases, especially now that my country has gone through a recent war phase. Even if I didn’t sign up to Instagram and Facebook when I was a teenager, my family, friends, and whole neighborhood use unscrupulous online services that can be used to map out communities like that. I live far from the border with Palestine but let’s not pretend that makes a difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the worst spelling you've seen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m now thinking of that classic post from the old site that shows someone’s painstakingly cursive-written note of the entire text of a bluescreen (the old bluescreen with a lot of characters on screen) for tech support.

  And thinking of a slightly more tech inclined grandma who doesn’t quite get all of it having a problem with a torrent and just reading the infohash/magnet link to the ISP’s support call center.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I view others in social media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Punchline Situation is Diabolical

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Been thinking of getting a used Switch Mini exclusively to solder in a chip and use it as a nice emulation handheld. As long as it doesn’t rat itself out over Bluetooth or something to its older brother gathering dust behind the tv (which has never been touched by the light of piracy), I should still be good I guess.

  It’s unfortunate, but what I’m actually worried about is that world where different devices will report on each other.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice: We still see people on the fediverse recommending OpenOffice, despite it having year-old unfixed security issues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Libre will really only ever be a French word to me so that’s how I always thought it would be pronounced. With an Americanish R sound.

  Leeb-roffice librɑɔfəs for you IPA enjoyers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the Raspberry Pi 4 -> Pi 5 is a very clear demonstration of this.

  The power requirements went way up, and therefore the needed cooling, after years of the 1->2->3->4 being pretty similar. And most importantly, the prices for those were similar (35 USD MSRP I think, or usually around 60 USD here). The new one is much more expensive than that and that hasn’t gone down without controversy.

  Maybe consoles are more visible to most people but the different versions of Pis are much more apples to apples and are designed to be drop-in upgrades.

  I think I’ll still be using Pi 4s for a long time personally.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stumbled upon this art (?) in Korea⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh. The image was very weird to me, but I’ve played some version of this as a kid. Team one makes this structure against a wall, team two send people to jump and crawl forward, the goal being to break the “bridge”. I can’t even remember what we fucking called this game, this was in Lebanon in the late aughts/early tens.

  There’s something about how most teenage boys are wired that made it feel exceptionally badass when your team was on the bottom and you didn’t crumple when it was the turn of one of the large gentlemen on the other team to jump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I know you all have big plans for this man⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if I’d say Daggerfall to Morrowind was a step backwards. In terms of years they’re not all that far apart. But in terms of capturing the philosophy of their respective eras? I’d call them two different types of maximalism, before things coalesced into the distilled Skyrim experience.

  Both of those games were before my time, but the impression I get with Daggerfall is that this was right when PCs started getting enough memory to go crazy and build giant procedurally generated worlds. Morrowind is like that with maximizing graphics and sounds, it’s in that first generation of games that aged differently to everything that came before. As dated as Morrowind looks, it still looks really high effort and (dare I say it) artfully designed. It’s much more of a game, while DF feels to me like a game program. Am I making any sense?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has now fired the employees who publicly protested the company supplying AI tech to the Israeli military⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see the humor in it anymore. Whenever it comes to even admitting the crimes happening to/in Palestine, it’s always decent people getting the entire book thrown at them, while others who actually do something evil get off scott free.

  You can’t just ask for accountability for crimes. You have to kiss the ring and you have to be made an example of. What we are seeing with the response to student action is actually unprecedented and it’s genuinely unhinged. And it’s not just the US, it’s most of Europe too.

  It’s not enough that our brothers and sisters in Palestine are getting rounded up and massacred. You have to support it with every fiber of your being or you’re a terrorist. After planing my whole life to move to the West I’m now genuinely scared I’ll be jailed for thought crime if it keeps getting crazier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am the one who's aware of my own identity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought about that as I was writing but it would be a little contrived to a general audience, maybe.

  I’ve commented about this link before. The gym bro thing is what made me wrap my mind around some things myself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am the one who's aware of my own identity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly that could actually be interesting. Would probably be able to discuss some nuances and make the mainstream a bit more comfortable with some currently uncomfortable conversations. People can remember complicated things if they’re invested in the narrative.

  I’m a cis-het potato. If any of this sounds insensitive, I can fix it:

  Guy who doesn’t meet the stereotype of a “drug guy” has to cook up drugs to make ends meet. <Narrative device> makes him start making <common drug> for <uncontroversial illness>, which turns out to also be used by <some queer people> for <hormoney things>. At first he sees them as nothing more than the users he was profiting from in an hour of desperation, people who twist their sad lives around acquiring and consuming a substance, but over time as he gets further down this path he begins to understand them in a way that he (and most people) has never had to. “Upstanding-man-who-is-a-secret-chemical-man ally” can go in so many directions.

  With all its many many faults, I remember seeing Dallas Buyers Club as a judgmental kid, and it was successfully able to split “queer identity” from “sexual perversion” for me. I think this understanding was beginning to spread before a tipping point in the past decade. Personally I think people saw a lot of (Western) companies really go all in on rainbow marketing, going directly from “queer identities exist” to “these are being celebrated openly” without the critical middle “this isn’t a sex thing”.

  If you think it’s bad in the US or Europe (and it’s not always great, it’s not a competition) let me assure you the heightened negative attention has also made people who were able to be themselves under the radar here in the Middle East face more bullshit. The average person around me has gone from “This person gives me the ick but it has no effect on my life really, just stay away from me and my kids, it’s between them and God” to “This person should be fixed immediately before they shove their perversion down everyone’s throats.” The former is abysmal, but at that point they weren’t really seen as an active, growing threat. Unfortunately it’s not just “this isn’t a sex thing” that’s missing here, historically most people have thought “queer” = “perversion” = “pedophilia”, and this was fading slowly before being supercharged by all this torrent of negative attention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game is it?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One day I’ll get around to playing Nomifactory CE. I’ve somehow played the base one twice over the past five years.

  I’ve been so alienated from friends playing the most popular game on the planet in multiplayer because I can’t play Vanilla for shit. Not since 1.2.5 probably.

  I’ll play no Minecraft for two years and then immediately nolife a modpack for two months.

  Good shit. The best value game I have ever bought, no question about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Check your DVDs for disc rot — Warner Bros. says it’s replacing them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always been curious about this stuff and I know I need to make some effort soon, ever since we moved our home recordings from VHS to DVD some 15-20 years ago.

  My understanding is that SSDs are also likely to lose data when unpowered for a long time, which is why they haven’t been recommended to me for external backup drives.

  “Spinning rust” is much cheaper than I thought, even if I have to pay 200$ in shipping to get a bunch of massive used server drives here. And it seems to not have that problem, with the downside of either needing to be completely powered off or wasting a bit of power when it’s not active. I’m still not sure where the HDD parking technology is at.

  Of course ripping all the physical media would also be nice. A lot of the original discs I have (most of my discs are straight shitty copies with one file, yay third world) have things like special features and multiple audio tracks, things like that. I wonder how those should be organized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a less stinky way to cook broccoli?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also wondered if there’s varieties. Maybe where I live, they’re different tasting and smelling? Broccoli has only ever been one of the vegetables to me. Nothing repulsive (or even noteworthy).

  Even as a kid it was weird to see cartoon characters complain about specifically broccoli while I literally munched it while watching.

  Now when it spoils, yes, it can get a little sulfury, as can cauliflower, its cousin. But fresh broccoli?