Dreaming_Novaling
@Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip
Heyo! Just another random who’s moving over from centralized social media to the Fediverse. Mastodon wasn’t too bad but I love anything like Reddit!
Games, anime, Japanese, food, and music are my loves. Fanfic beats food tho, I can read for hours instead!
- Comment on People were no less thirsty back then 1 day ago:
Okay at first, I was choking back laughter and raising my eyebrows to the heavens while reading, but then I clicked the link and was shocked by the sheer horror of quickly skimming the countless horny-jail letters this guy wrote to Nora. Like my jaw dropped likea fucking SpongeBob character 💀
Nobody should be judging younger gens for their kinks holy shit.
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 4 days ago:
No, she absolutely hates right-wing content and is definitely left. Asmongold is a grifter piece of shit human being who attracts alt-right viewers. It’s not about her not being interested, she quite literally gets upset at the awful ideas and hate that those channels spread and doesn’t want to see them. She never watches their videos on purpose, she’s only ever clicked on them by accident, she always either clicks away immediately or dislikes the video, and never comments on them. She has repeatedly tried to block those channels. YT continues to show them.
- Comment on YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead 4 days ago:
I block content I’m not interested in and it goes away.
I agree with this idea, but unfortunately YT and other engagement social media sites don’t want that to happen. For me, I’m almost never shown videos I hate, but when I say “not interested/don’t show me this channel” it USUALLY works. Not at the time though. I’ve definitely gotten channels recommended to me that I already said I don’t want to see.
This is especially true for my mom, who is frequently getting upset by the fact that YT keeps showing her Fox News and Asmongold clips in her recommendations. I think changing the VPN to Canada helped to reduce the Fox News recommendations, but the Asmongold clips can’t be escaped.
- Comment on Hardware Suggestions For A Beginner? 5 days ago:
Do you think this potential list is appropriate? Other people suggested a minimum of 16 GB RAM.
- Comment on Hardware Suggestions For A Beginner? 1 week ago:
So one pihole would be on the router, while the other runs on another piece of dedicated hardware?
- Comment on twisted 1 week ago:
The text was probably original, but it’s become a copypasta, so this evil Snoo is definitely a shitpost.
- Comment on So is Kingdom Hearts 3 _bad_ or just the normal cringe of Kingdom Hearts? 1 week ago:
TLDR: I probably wouldn’t suggest playing 3 unless you’re willing to play/watch the side games. The conclusion will not hit hard at all if you didn’t play the side games.
I literally just played through all the games (besides Re:coded, watched it) and I have conflicting feelings about it. Storyline wise, I didn’t love or hate it, as some parts were really nice and heartwarming to see (I really loved the reunion of the other two trios) and certain worlds are nice to meet your fave characters (Toy Box my beloved). But the main plot feels both satisfying and meh. I watched the fandub of union x and got really excited to see the lore be teased more in 3, but because 3 tries to appease everyone (crowd who played all the games vs crowd who only played 1 & 2), they don’t get to dive as deep as I wanted. I am more willing to ignore some of the bs and laugh rather than cringe, but I do understand why many find the plot corny.
The combat… I’ve basically hated the combat in every KH game, BBS is the only one where scrolling through the skill menu didn’t feel like ass, meanwhile DDD executes flowmotion beautifully (while it feels useless in 3), and yet CoM had my favorite system overall (might be my favorite game honestly). 3 controls are far better than KH 1, but the actual difficulty is non-existent and makes blocking feel almost useless. The attraction attacks are there I guess (my mom liked them lol). KH 1 normal mode had me near tears (Even the fucking Traverse Town Armor), CoM was frustrating but satisfying, 2 was boring besides the impossible super bosses, all of 358/2 was just awful overall, BBS was very normal until final boss, and DDD was slightly frustrating but beating the final boss was satisfying. 3 was a snooze fest besides final bosses that just made me go, “oh, I guess I won. I kinda just mashed x.”
IDK, I’ve had a KH shaped hole in my heart over these past two days, wondering what I want to play now that I got through my 2 month marathon. I both miss the games but also acknowledge that they get very repetitive and tiring over time. My mom only played 1,2 & 3 and has basically said KH and Square are dead to her.
CoM, BBS, and DDD are a must to watch/play. 358/2 is only worth it if you like challenge missions (I skipped them, hated the gameplay), Fragmentary Passage is only on the 2.8 disc and is literally 4-5 hrs, and Re:coded is supposedly good gameplay but the plot is just “what if data simulation Riku and Sora went through KH 1 together?” And Union X is gonna be vital to watch for those preparing for KH 4.
- Comment on Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows 1 week ago:
Not sure now, as I stopped using it months ago, but no, they give you annoying teasers and force you to make an account to see more than the cropped pic. So people are actually signing up for this.
- Comment on Hardware Suggestions For A Beginner? 1 week ago:
Sorry, corrected my post as I have confused several people lol. Proton has killswitch on mobile and PC, just not Fire TVs.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 1 week ago:
This guy cheated on 35 different women for gifts and you go:
Also, what a legend.
I hope that’s a /s 😔
- Comment on Fediverse alternative for Tiktok? 1 week ago:
Yeah, definitely could be making faster improvements, and it’s disheartening considering Pixelfed hasn’t had major improvements either. But I’m not a coder, so other than the fact that I donated to the spring Kickstarter, I can’t complain much.
- Comment on Fediverse alternative for Tiktok? 1 week ago:
Didn’t realize you just wanted to scroll. Yeah, almost no instance requires registration to scroll. Once again, I think Loops is just requiring registrations now because the project is unfinished, and probably can’t handle a large amount of users. They also need easy feedback from users.
- Comment on Hardware Suggestions For A Beginner? 1 week ago:
But the virus will be removed when you install proxmox Oh yeah, if I do use it I was gonna fully wipe windows into oblivion
I currently have 3 laptops in various degrees of old and broken being used as a proxmox cluster.
Oh so you can cluster multiple devices? I’ll have to check that out.
- Comment on Fediverse alternative for Tiktok? 1 week ago:
Loops is still in beta, so there’s no other instances yet, but it’s gonna use ActivityPub like everyone else does so it can federate with Pixelfed (and probs mastodon). Also, like 90% of Fediverse instances require registration, usually to prevent spam and other crazy shit (CSAM, literal gore, etc.) from being posted. Just gonna have to wait a bit.
- Comment on You can only bring back one. Which do you choose? 1 week ago:
I was like, “Friendly’s is dead?” for a terrifying second before I read this 🥹
Actually I was like 5 the last time I ate there so it’s really not that special to me but happy they’re not dead yet. Started my love for gummy bears in ice cream.
- Comment on Hardware Suggestions For A Beginner? 1 week ago:
I think we’ve got an old MacBook with a broken screen, and a Windows laptop that slowed down because got a virus on it. Didn’t think I could use something with a broken screen, but I’ll try it maybe.
- Comment on Hardware Suggestions For A Beginner? 1 week ago:
Specifically talking about the FireTV, 99% sure the app doesn’t have a Killswitch, I’ve checked. I use it all the time on PC and Mobile though :)
Setting up the VPN on the router sounds great, but can home routers (I have Cox) flash VPN software on them (thought they couldn’t)? Also is it MAC or IP filtering (would I have to set a device to static IP) for deciding which devices use the VPN tunnel? How good is it about switching servers (like if a server I’m connected to is on maintenance or is overloaded)? Not too worried about the web issues, can always hop back on the regular Wi-Fi and use the app.
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- Comment on Game Pass will "either kill everyone else, or give up", says Dishonored and Prey dev Arkane founder 1 week ago:
value proposition isn’t great for long term unless you constantly play new games.
This. I never understood why people bothered with this mess in the first place, you need to be playing a new game like every two-three months to make this worth it/cheaper than just buying a $60 game. Which I think would be extremely hard for some games like RPGs that might take 100hrs to beat, especially if you have a life/obligations. I was busy with college, so Metaphor Re:fantazio took me like 5 months to beat, so a gamepass would be more expensive that buying the damn thing.
- Comment on THIS describes too many people today 1 week ago:
I was just gonna say shitty Facebook meme but r/im14andthisisdeep is about right too.
- Comment on Wafrn: a tumblr clone that federates with fedi and now also has opt in native bluesky 1 week ago:
Exciting! I’ve made an effort to let go of Insta for both privacy and hatred of Zuck’s policies, which left me stuck on Tumblr to look at any fanart/fandom content. Hopefully this could replace people’s need for Tumblr in a few years, especially since they also do a shit job of caring about their users.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah the artstyle immediately gave it away and my disappointment was immesurable. Idk why all AI comics have those thick lines and pale, washed-out colors (if it’s a colored comic). The side mirror was just the confirmation cherry on top 🙄
- Comment on On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. 2 weeks ago:
The whole reason GrapheneOS develops only for Pixels is that you can relock the bootloader though, right? (Along with other security features)
Anyway yeah companies still suck for not letting you relock them.
- Comment on Mr Frisky! Mr Frisky Where Are You? 2 weeks ago:
Openly posting porn with no NSFW or spoiler tag, shitty ass netiquette, smh.
Anyway those are two grown adults lol, hell I think the short guy is supposed to be inspired by the artist or the artist’s boyfriend. This artist has been posting for years and their art style has been the same for years.
You’re a fucking asshole lol
- Comment on Mr Frisky! Mr Frisky Where Are You? 2 weeks ago:
Uhhh, looked at the guy’s history and besides the dog pic, which is probably legit cause I found the website of the dude who does the silly photoshops of people’s pets, he’s posted hurricane data from like a year ago. You’re the one who posted the alligator grandma pic, and posts like 5 memes in a day.
- Comment on pants 2 weeks ago:
Proud of myself, not cause I’m old, but because I managed to guess the intention of the word first try. Excited to see people say frying more often, maybe it’ll be on those “banned words list” posts.
- Comment on Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post) 2 weeks ago:
Reposted it to Mastodon! Hope it makes a change, cause America can usually catch the waves.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 3 weeks ago:
I know that they might not be as secure as GrapheneOS, but you should totally give LineageOS or /e/OS a try, as they’re both not limited to Pixels. I haven’t tested them myself however, since I am a Graphene user. The most I ever tried with one of them was testing ROMs by installing LineageOS on my old Moto G7 play.
- Comment on Doctors are using unapproved AI software to record patient meetings, investigation reveals 3 weeks ago:
To add to this, there’s evidence disproving that Apple and Google are listening 24/7. An article goes over how a phone uses way more power when doing an "OK Google/Hey Siri” request than simply scrolling through Meta/Twitter/Snapchat/etc. Basically it’d take a shit ton of noticeable battery power to constantly be listening to people and phoning home, so they don’t. What they did do instead was take secret screenshots and send them to 3rd party sources.
- Comment on wtf i love capitalism now 4 weeks ago:
You totally can, I’ve seen plenty of people with themed icons and shit of their favorite characters or smth, but I think you need an app to do it or to do some magic in shortcuts. I never bothered or figured it out cause I hated my iPhone so much and I feel like they actively discourage people from doing shit.
