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- Comment on Surprise! 16 hours ago:
*friends (2 guys), and idk about them being discriminating because at least one of them is quite open and nonjudgmental. That’s the whole point of why I shared, to find out how accurate or inaccurate their sentiment is. We don’t have to suddenly attack them by saying they’re discriminating just because their experience isn’t universal (which I now know is the case, thanks to everyone here)…
- Comment on Surprise! 16 hours ago:
Um, I personally know these people and they weren’t trolling… Someone having a different experience than you doesn’t automatically make them dumb, geez.
- Comment on Surprise! 1 day ago:
Two bisexual friends have independently told me from their own experiences that “bisexual” mostly = “gay with a dash of hetero,” effectively, and that it’s not at all 50/50. I wonder how true that is.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update August 2025 3 days ago:
Great writeup, and screw that botnet.
- Comment on Recommendations for games to play on a treadmill (i.e. not too intense) 3 days ago:
Slice & Dice, which is on Steam, Android, iOS, DRM-free PC download, and probably more.
- Comment on Bad vibes: How an AI agent coded its way to disaster 1 week ago:
Vibe-wrecking.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 1 week ago:
So wear many different hats. Got it.
- Comment on Do you think GOG might be the next? 1 week ago:
Someone update me. /r/OutOfTheLoop
- Comment on MEGA launches new large file transfer service Transfer.it with no file size limit 1 week ago:
Yikes, thanks for sharing this data point. Hopefully it’s been fixed…
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 1 week ago:
There wouldn’t need to be much of a line if we simply got such companies to cough up for UBI.
- Comment on MEGA launches new large file transfer service Transfer.it with no file size limit 2 weeks ago:
Oh, huh. Then everything saying it’s Win-only is outdated. Thanks. Is it back to being king, then?
- Comment on MEGA launches new large file transfer service Transfer.it with no file size limit 2 weeks ago:
It’s pointless; you can have both sides download PeaZip (which, FYI, is superior to 7-Zip because it’s cross-platform instead of being Windows-only) and run part splicers; easy workaround. This only adds to the problem of yet another non-E2E service in the running.
- Comment on Netflix uses AI effects for first time to cut costs 2 weeks ago:
I’ll add that to the watchlist, thanks!
- Comment on Netflix uses AI effects for first time to cut costs 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been crawling through Star Trek: The Next Generation on P+. Go old-school and you’ll avoid all this!
- Comment on Would you considering watching playthroughs of a game the same as playing that game? 2 weeks ago:
It’s sometimes better because I myself may not even like the actual gameplay (such as long grinds, which you can skip over in a video if it’s not a theatrical cut to begin with), but otherwise wanna see the story.
- Comment on I just realized some people LIKE talking to each other. 2 weeks ago:
Why did you break up and who dumped who?
- Comment on McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’ 3 weeks ago:
This is my first time reading about this alternate “ETA” initialism. Interesting…
- Comment on [UPDATE] - Anyone up for some OpenRA on friday evening (CEST) 4 weeks ago:
Not to burst your bubble, but upvotes may come from people just applauding your attempt to increase community here but who may not even play or like the game 😬🫣 I hope you do get some action, though! I am unavailable, personally.
- Comment on How would I repurpose a work laptop? 4 weeks ago:
Ha, curve ball deflected!
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 5 weeks ago:
Fine, *could literally be.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 5 weeks ago:
Let me offer a spin on this: the point-&-click adventure Technobabylon, which is more a staggeringly creative and massive series of escape rooms, and not that much of an open world to explore and revisit.
Perceptibly, it has zero grinding and is to the point with what you’ve gotta do. It is one of the only point-&-click adventure games that I’ve beaten; I normally dislike the genre, which speaks volumes to how incredible it is.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 5 weeks ago:
Ironically, I couldn’t get into Outer Wilds, myself; it sucks to get stuck.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 5 weeks ago:
Sable is on a giveaway this week by Epic Games. Use the free-&-open-source Heroic Games Launcher to play it without having to download their platform.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 5 weeks ago:
Fun fact: Portal was originally a university student project called Narbacular Drop that got hired by Steam. In a sense from its limited narration and story, it felt a bit more like a proof-of-concept than almost a full-fleshed game to me at times, which, for me, was hands-down Portal 2.
They’re great fun to stream and watch, too.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 5 weeks ago:
ChatGPT 2 was literally an Excel spreadsheet.
I guesstimate that it’s effectively a supermassive autocomplete algo that uses some TOTP-like factor to help it produce “unique” output every time.
And they’re running into issues due to increasingly ingesting AI-generated data.
Get your popcorn out! 🍿
- Comment on If stererypical nerds have profile pics of cute anime girls, have cute anime girls therefore profile pics of steretypical nerds? 1 month ago:
Maybe exposure therapy is the way! Treat it out to lunch and then go volunteer at a soup kitchen together; you never know…
- Comment on If stererypical nerds have profile pics of cute anime girls, have cute anime girls therefore profile pics of steretypical nerds? 1 month ago:
Heck, it doesn’t even have to be a girl. dateeverything.com
- Comment on Day 333 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 month ago:
Oh. Well, if the mods are this active, then that could probably be changed, too! I’m not trying to insult you or something; I just think the titles could be made much more meaningful with just a bit more focus (which also means they could potentially attract more redditors or other lurking, fence-sitting denizens of the Internet through quality stuff in both title and body).
- Comment on Day 333 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 month ago:
Could you please rename such a long and misleading title to something more succinct and accurate?
Day 333 of game commentary: Minecraft
I strongly believe it would genuinely boost the quality of your submissions.
- Comment on Scientists spot ‘superorganism’ in the wild for the first time — and it’s made of worms 1 month ago:
