JayGray91

@JayGray91@lemmy.zip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably just that. As an ESL, I never encountered or taught about em dash. I would use semicolons they way OP uses those weid longer dashes. Probably the em dash is better / more “proper” way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can we make lemmy have more relevance?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is where I feel piefed is better for onboarding new threadiverse users, from reddit or elsewhere.

  On sign up, they ask you for some topics you’d like to see, ask about how you want to see US politics being in your feed, and lastly they have set topics feed already that you can choose to view.

  Personally I think piefed is the next good iteration of the threadiverse. It’s an in between of having to curate your feeds on your own (Lemmy and mbin) and algorithmic feed (reddit and other thread based social media).

  Desktop use is already good, although personally I’d like Tesseract front end support. Mobile still needs to be picked up by more apps personally. Interstellar is good, but I like the “read on scroll” and “hide read posts” from Thunder. Despite that though, it’s also good already on mobile browsers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The first folding e-reader is smaller than a paperback⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Adjacent to an e-reader, but Microsoft tried that. Typical Microsoft fashion, they fumbled it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an easy way to create blocklist of post or comment for other people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When bluesky blew up last year almost instantly people made block lists, curated feeds list, etc of the sort. All built in. As much shit bluesky is getting for their wrongdoings, they did make very useful good things too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anime Fans Score Big Win as Crunchyroll U-Turns on Massively Unpopular A.I. Plan⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They were better when they were a piracy site, price not withstanding

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised and not surprised I guess that there’s a business offering to write Wikipedia articles like this. I suppose it’s naivety to think that Wikipedia articles are written with good intentions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He said it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Detroit Metal City

  Spoiler

  Devil May Cry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In your opinion, which anime has the most badass villains?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One comes to mind, but it doesn’t have an anime in a long time. Kind of. Desty Nova from GUNNM. To explain it would be spoilers, and I don’t really remember lol

  Would need to reread Gunnm and Last Order again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  After rereading your comment, I see it. My bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some countries you’ve visited that shocked you with unexpected friendliness?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Back when the world is simpler (because I was young and ignorant mostly) Moscow shocked me too. Had to study there for a few years and despite their gruff outward look they are some of the friendliest I’ve met at that time.

  Only exception is riding the metro/tram during rush hour. Those babushkas aren’t playing around and will tackle you down

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s odd in the sense that it’s supposed to be software so it should already know what 36 plus 59 is in a picosecond, instead of doing mental arithmetics like we do

  At least that’s my takeaway

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt this is because of the recent tariffs. Nintendo is a cold calculating bastard of an old corpo they must have planned this for years.

  So my assumption this isn’t caused by that but just pure greed.

  No doubt they’ll jack up the price more because of orange fuckhead pissing to the wind

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish the steam deck is smaller NGL.

  Or even offered officially to purchase in my country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I got flack in a group chat for being highly cynical that the games industry, at least the “AAA” publishers, will adopt the new pricing standard.

  Nintendo is doing it. They can use a flimsy excuse that they are using a stupid proprietary cart. Gamefreak was already doing it to save cost on higher storage carts. Even then they ship unoptimized shit and people lap it up like swines

  GTA 6 will definitely be $100 and have no flimsy excuse

  Ubitencent will get to it eventually I reckon after they finish fucking each other

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, not all. It’s a an option. Basically yubikey DRM

  Like even the game carts have a few choices for storage. For example, Pokemon pearl and diamond remake were notorious to go with the smaller storage carts where half the game is only downloadable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not just Switch 2: ESA warns Trump’s tariffs will hurt the entire game industry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking forward to it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hmm. Yea.. Kill La Kill..⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  One of my 10/10 anime. No that’s not my first ecchi anime. Ikki tousen was. Maybe. At least one of the earlier firsts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Media Do Distributor Sells MyAnimeList Site to Web3/AI Company Gaudiy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I have a soft spot for MAL just because it’s one of the first and they have pretty lively forum still.

  And I like their rating system as well as tracking.

  I can even, and did, myspace the heck out of my lists page. A quirky and welcome holdout from the semi old internet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Possible. It’s been years since I watched the show on YouTube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨American and British English spelling and pronunciations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  _H_erbs, because there’s a frikking h in it.

  Thanks Eddie Izzard for her skit, that still stuck with me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They can dispel doubt because they are hunting pedophiles.

  “You wouldn’t defend a pedophile now, would you?” - clout chasing violence monger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BuzzKill Vs FilterBox⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be nice to link it, for a start

  I assume it’s this one?

  play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.catchin…

  And if the filterbox dev would, you know, advertise their app like I remember Sam Ruston of buzzkill did on Reddit, maybe filter box would’ve been recommended more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Other than a faulty charging port, is there any reason to use a wireless phone charger over wired?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is a hassle, even if very very slight. One you need to plug in something small. The other you just drop a big thing onto a slightly smaller big thing.

  Arthritis, poor eyesight, poor lighting, temporary/permanent hand disability are some that I can think of that greatly benefits wireless charging and found plugging in a cable a hassle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t want to put piefed yet since it’s still developing, but pretty fast and hard to give them credit. Is one I most looking forward to because of their topics and feeds. I thought I’d appreciate mbin having built in sorry for microblogs, but I didn’t even explore much of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Feels that way to me. I wasn’t there like at the very beginning, but was able to be in a few small subreddits turn big. Lemmy/mbin a.k.a. threadiverse seems like it was before my time I started with reddit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Lemmy only popular in the western World?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  monyet.cc instance is made by Malaysians. Funnily enough it’s hosted in Singapore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh it’s Garmin. I misread the title and was wondering why Gemini is adding more AI, as if they don’t already have enough.

  Par for the course, everything just have to have AI 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Heck yeah, OnlyOffice gang

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your Top 10 anime?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quintessential CGDCT list if I ever saw one. Yes, including Gintama.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your Top 10 anime?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering all the other 9 anime you listed, Demon Slayer getting in your list as one of the more generic shounen anime plot wise is a miracle in my opinion.