CMLVI

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oooooo this is compelling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Americans under 30 are so miserable that the U.S. just fell to a historically low ranking in the world happiness report⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Miserable. Source, almost 34

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky does federation-washing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I left Reddit because of the 3rd party app ban. The core ethos of the Fediverse was not what was appealing for me. It is a feature, to be sure, but it wasn’t why I came here. I just like the Reddit format, and aside from Reddit, I don’t know anywhere that aggregates content and discussion on the scale Reddit does (aside from this side of Fediverse now). If it wasn’t the 3rd party applications, I definitely would be jumping ship with the current censorship, so leaving was inevitable.

  With Bluesky, I just do not care about it. If Bluesky didn’t exist, I wouldn’t have a Mastodon account. I only had a Twitter account because my brother and friend told me in college that if I didn’t make one, they would make one on my behalf to tweet about me and my daily stuff, lol. Bluesky could come out 3 hours from now and announce that it will donate all revenue to the GOP, and I’d just delete the account and be done with the format. It’s purely a protest account, and I landed on Bluesky instead of Mastodon in the moment. And because I don’t care about that format, I have no reason to want to migrate the account to Mastodon. And, if I somehow do come to care about that format in the future, I’d rather start completely over on Mastodon than have an old account with old stuff on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky does federation-washing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure. My goal isn’t to be on the next Twitter, or Mastodon, or anything on short format social media. It’s too make Twitter look worse by inflating Bluesky account numbers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky does federation-washing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk why anyone argues it. I’m on it, but only because I want to support Not Twitter®. I’m there to just be user no. 1663987 who doesn’t want to be on Twitter. I post a stupid thought, some sports commentary, and scroll the feed for a minute or two. If it went away tomorrow, I’d have 0 negative effects on my life in even the most miniscule way.

  Like…I like it there, and people seem to want an alternative to Twitter pretty bad, but idk if Bluesky is it. But I also don’t are to join Mastodon, as that kinda format isn’t something I care about or take seriously, and I’d rather get information here. If I get a Mastodon account in the future, I’d rather not have it tied directly back to my spite posting account lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky and Mastodon users can now talk to each other with Bridgy Fed | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if you could do it like the aggregation apps that used to exist for like…FB, Twitter, Instagram, where you can access/post from multiple accounts. My big thing is I hate having a dozen apps that do the same thing; so having an aggregator app is nice. For people who want the singular account, you could see both Bsky and Mastodon. For people like yourself, you could log in to both accounts and have separate feeds, just homed on the same app. And I imagine it’d be nicer, because Activity Pub would be the base, and it could display different UIs based on what information is being pulled, so it isn’t just like a Twitter feed on FB. You could get the Lemmy view on Lemmy, Twitter view on Bsky/Mastodon, Instagram on PixelFed, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let us never forget a classic⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Speaking of DEI hires…all the cops who are picked over college educated people because they’d be too smart and question orders? Where are the firings there?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 228 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a lot of it is that it’s direction was a bit different. Halo was built on basically immortal Master Chief. Reach had Spartan 3s, which weren’t as “Master Chief”-y, and we see every one of em die on screen as part of the story. That is a pretty stark contrast to Chief never dying. Additionally, if IIRC, the multiplayer was meh, and multiplayer was a huuuuge deal at that time. The story was great (even despite what people said about it at the time) but the multiplayer didn’t carry the game, so it was generally a “play the story, go back to Halo 3” kinda game.

  My perspective on it, tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn DEMONcrats ceNsOriNg innocent superior conservative ideals!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You and Musk have something in common

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make America Great Again *(For white, straight "christian" republicans)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They wanna go back to the 50s and 60s socially, but not fiscally. That would require high corporate and private tax rates. Just like the bible we’re here to pick and choose the things we want to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone is wrong lol. NFL, for example, cannot do anything outside of Twitter at this time. They are apparently working on it, but it’s gotta be implemented league-wide, so it’s taking some time. Idk if they’re even trying to get onto Mastodon, last I heard it was just Bluesky.

  This is a large org with hundreds of millions of fans, with no presence on Fediverse really. I’m sure there are mirror accounts, but none are official.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but I didn’t want a controller for the headache of multiple peripherals, and when you’re 15, it’s hard to convince a parent to spring for more expensive options out of convenience lol. There were options, but even still, some games didn’t come with native controller support (I built my 1st PC in college in…2013? for ESO, and the controller support was through a mod, and it barely worked at the best of times).

  Theyve just gotten so similar in their function, it’s increasingly hard to justify a console anymore. Microsoft basically forgoing exclusives now only strengthens it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It also helps that consoles are becoming more and more PC-esque and expensive. Consoles were a good alternative because they were cheaper, had exclusive titles, and had the ability to couch game, and usually were just “pop disc in and play”. They were also pretty stand-alone devices. My biggest issue with PC gaming prior to really this generation was I cannot stand M+KB, I like sitting back in a chair with a controller. But now, peripherals are more able to operate on multiple platforms, games do cross-platform releases, cross play is more prolific (and cross-saves as of late), and it’s easier to switch now and not “lose” your friends. Plus, the cost of consoles anymore are much closer to equivalent PCs now.

  Console positives are dwindling, or at least becoming neutral to PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready for a smashing time as Wreckfest 2 comes to Early Access in March⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t know that. It took me quite a while to realize Bugbear made Flatout as well lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready for a smashing time as Wreckfest 2 comes to Early Access in March⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ohhhhh this has me amped. Bugbear is a solid studio and OG Wreckfest was a very good game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience, the “lifetime” fees are tied to the Apple ID, so it should move devices with you, so long as you have access to that Apple account. And if not, that’s at least how it works on Android.

  Not to say the price is fair at $80…I think before the Reddit 3rd party stuff, I’d paid for a fair few Reddit apps for no ads, but it was to support a product I liked, and it was maybe $6 at most for it per app. I probably wouldn’t go above $15, and it would have to be a really good app…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Battlefield Labs | Battlefield Studios⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly. Leave it to EA to take what was a winning, recurring formula and shitting on it til irrelevancy. The fast, twitchy movement, weird tools, etc are not what made BF fun. You’re supposed to feel like a cog; nothing special, another soldier in your small squad looking for the small wins. Those don’t get clip farmed, though, and it’s a CoD/Warzone economy right now. I do have some hope with the gritty WW2 games like Hell Let Loose and Enlisted seeing some success, it’s swinging back out of that type of genre and back to the BF roots.

  Question remains, the big issue may be progression and the definitely happening micro transactions and battle pass, and their implementation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Says That XDefiant Has Fallen Behind Expectations⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, that’s the draw XDef has over CoD. It’s F2P and generally the content is earnable, outside of some cosmetics and additional currency. I think both “locked” factions can be bought through challenge completions, so not really P2W either, paying just unlocks it faster. And it’s not a bad shooter either imo, it’s just…the same as every other shooter. Very average.