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- Comment on lemm.ee is shutting down at the end of this month 3 days ago:
Oh so it’s your fault then. Please stop ruining instances
- Comment on The solution to many problems 5 days ago:
As a tobacco fiend I couldn’t ever get into smoking cigs. The only time in my life I’ve smoked consistently was when I was extra depressed and trying to microdose suicide. Guess I’m lucky
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Celeste. Emotional narrative that seamlessly blends with the gameplay, which implementa never before seen accessibility configuration, enhanced by one of the best soundtracks ever. All while being cheap, indie, and one of the best speedrun games ever made
- Comment on (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) 1 week ago:
Long wedge are the juiciest ones
- Comment on Wait, that game is still playable online? 1 week ago:
It should have been marketed as the moba you play casually with friends, and it would have done great
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 week ago:
The correlation between code quality and game quality is almost negative. When you’re doing groundbreaking stuff or going for your own artistic vision it’s tough to code well, even more so when you hit a jackpot and have to expand quickly (e.g. League spaghetti, Palworld)
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 week ago:
Do you yell at waiters by any chance?
- Comment on For the little guys. 2 weeks ago:
How will any system fjx this, though? There will always be disasters, hunger, war, crime…
- Comment on For the little guys. 2 weeks ago:
There’s something to be said about choosing not to care about some stuff, though. Being constantly contemplating every single crisis in the world and worrying equally about them all will be damaging to your mental health… And these days there are more pressing issues than the moths to me. It’s not that I don’t value them
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
True but a downvote magnet on Lemmy. But I would dispute the “benefit” part… What exactly is the benefit in not having to learn anything? Why would I even want to exist if not to be good at something and create something? It just seems like we’re building towards stuff that’s better than us at doing what WE want to do as a society. Thinking about chess here: why would I care about the best Stockfish moves in every line of my favorite opening if no one will ever be able to explain them?
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 2 weeks ago:
Honestly, just erase all graded homework, papers included. All of it. It wasn’t even good at anything to begin with and we would just cheat off each other, but now it’s even worse.
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 3 weeks ago:
I agree but it can get pretty close. Try asking gpt-4o to generate a realistic picture of an adventure who wears a hat and wields a whip to find lost treasure. It returns basically a picture of Harrison Ford
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 3 weeks ago:
This looks insane
- Comment on Barrage, a turn-based boardgame style economic strategy game where you develop a hydroelectric corporation, released on Steam. 3 weeks ago:
It’s a real boardgame, too. Looks like this is the digital adaptation
- Comment on Even Starfield's community patch modders are growing 'disenchanted' with the sci-fi RPG, as volunteers depart in droves: 'If nobody comes forward, we may have to retire the project' 3 weeks ago:
Bethesda is such a garbage company. No idea why people buy these half assed games
- Comment on Prices are out of control 4 weeks ago:
It can make you blind due to high methanol concentrations
- Comment on If it's good enough to keep your house warm, it's good enough to keep your insides warm 4 weeks ago:
Stop the liberal anti wallcandy propaganda. It feels so good to eat the wall candy. It tastes exactly like cotton candy but it’s available in my walls and my mattress
- Comment on Tabletop Convection Oven* 4 weeks ago:
It is an oven with the convection setting turned on by default. So it’s like having an oven but for a regular person instead of the design made for 1960s suburban moms cooking for 10, like the “regular” oven
- Comment on What is your favorite indie game? 4 weeks ago:
Gotta go with Dwarf Fortress. Been playing on and off for the past 10 years at least, it’s just endless !!FUN!!
- Comment on Texas goes after toothpaste in escalating fight over fluoride 4 weeks ago:
Truly one of the countries of all time
- Comment on Texas goes after toothpaste in escalating fight over fluoride 4 weeks ago:
Can someone explain what the deal with fluoride is to a non american?
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Cards destroyed so many lives but if you say it out loud people think you’re a tin foil hat nutjob
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 1 month ago:
In the mornings I’ll usually read news while enjoying a cup of coffee and a Zyn, too, forgot to mention that
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 1 month ago:
Does finance count? I’m usually studying something in the alternative data space (that is, using non-financial data to make decisions on investments) so I can, in the end, make a presentation or deliver a product to someone. For example, an analyst decides to study a clothing company and asks me to scrape their prices in the main Latin American markets (because he thinks they can grow there or something). So I do that for a while and report back to him what I found. If it is interesting, I may be tasked with implementing something in our Excel add-in so he can plug that information into his own models, or I’ll need to develop a model myself.
Lots of spacing out, browsing lemmy and playing bullet chess on my phone, too - Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 month ago:
Running the service itself over Tor is the only way to prevent local governments knocking on the admin’s door, though
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 month ago:
Hard agree. Decentralization itself doesn’t really work against censorship, you need an additional layer of privacy, or, more ideally, anonymity. Is there a way of running a lemmy instance over Tor?
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Can’t disagree here, this would be great
- Comment on The best thing *you* can do for the fediverse is *just be kind* 1 month ago:
We also need people sharing their niche interests and creating discussion… Reddit thrives on these small communities that only find an accessible entrypoint on their platform.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 2 months ago:
I don’t know about stopping entirely. I built a pretty cool RAG system for internal use in my company, it very much facilitates navigating very large amounts of text data.
- Comment on If you're still on Reddit... 2 months ago:
The PE firms buying the entire downtown are raising prices, not muh immigrants