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- Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! 17 hours ago:
I love the idea.
I hope you’ll reconsider the domain name, though. Dashes make them harder to type, harder to remember (was there a dash? an underscore? nothing?), harder to read aloud to someone else, and (in some user interfaces) impossible to select with a double click. A domain name containing a dash isn’t unusable, of course, but is a perpetual source of friction and mild annoyance that could have been avoided.
- Comment on YSK - All song birds on the planet are descended from ancestors in Australia. 3 days ago:
TIL, not YSK
- Comment on At-home STD tests offer new options for screening and treatment 4 days ago:
I dislike lemmy.ml too, but I your bot-like reposting of their content serves mainly to broaden their reach. I don’t think you’re making things better.
Moreover, your posts are so fast and frequent that they dominate at least some of communities that you target, often leaving local subscribers without a chance to post about the relevant topics on their own. Having watched it happen for more than a few weeks, I have concluded that your posts are mostly annoying, and probably do more harm than good.
I don’t expect to convince you to stop, but would you at least consider delaying your reposts by a day, and then proceeding only if nobody in your targeted community has already posted about that topic?
- Comment on Hero shooter Highguard reportedly didn't even pay for the Game Awards slot that's earned it so much preemptive hate—the showrunners thought it deserved the spotlight 5 days ago:
Almost certainly to protect invasive anti-cheat code that they expect your computer to run with system-level privileges.
- Comment on Hero shooter Highguard reportedly didn't even pay for the Game Awards slot that's earned it so much preemptive hate—the showrunners thought it deserved the spotlight 6 days ago:
Easy Anti-Cheat - Requires manual removal after game uninstall Boot Protection - Requires both Secure Boot & TPM 2.0
- Comment on QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year 1 week ago:
I think there’s plenty of room between gimmick and mainstream for a viable product.
Not everyone uses a phone to watch videos. Not everyone cares if a phone is a little thicker if it means they get a real keyboard.
As for the other challenges, Sony/Ericsson proved years ago that they can be overcome, with the Xperia Mini Pro.
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- Comment on Anybody know a source for old logos as stickers? 1 week ago:
duckduckgo.com/?q=custom+stickers
If I were doing it, I would try to find someone with a laser cutter, make a stencil of the logo, and use it to apply paint (or fingernail polish) directly to the device. I suppose there might even be a custom stencil service out there somewhere.
- Comment on Peter Molyneux's final game Masters of Albion will release in April - "it's the culmination of my life’s work" 1 week ago:
Not to be confused with the MMO ganker hell that also has Albion in its title.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VI is currently free (Epic via Prime) 2 weeks ago:
Civ 4 is great.
Civ 5 is mostly great if you add the Brave New World (or maybe Gods and Kings) expansion. My main complaint is that I don’t like how religion affects the mid-late game, but the game is still great overall.
Both can be had for cheap when they go on sale.
- Comment on Sid Meier's Civilization VI is currently free (Epic via Prime) 2 weeks ago:
I played the tutorial, and continued the game for several hours after the tutorial part ended.
I struggled to stay awake. It was by far the most boring slog I have ever experienced in any edition of Civ. (I haven’t played Civ 7, though.)
- Comment on KDE Plasma 6.6 will finally stop the system sleeping when gaming with a controller 2 weeks ago:
For people who still need it:
- Comment on The best Linux distributions for gaming in 2026 2 weeks ago:
The biggest problem I’ve noticed with every “best distro for gaming” article and social media post is that the author invariably assumes their own needs represent everyone else’s.
The second biggest problem is that they almost always overstate their favorite distro’s gaming performance compared to all the others (spoiler: the differences are negligible) or else present others as though they lack something that cannot be easily added.
The best distro advice I can offer to a newcomer is to consider your other computing needs, like preferred release/upgrade cadence, or availability of help from an experienced friend, or vendor support for non-game software that you need. Pick a distro based on those things, and you’ll almost certainly be able to game on it with good performance, perhaps with a couple extra steps when setting it up in the first place.
- Comment on The 2025 Steam Awards Winners 3 weeks ago:
It’s refreshing to see Expedition 33 winning a category it deserves, and only that category.
- Comment on Day 533 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
you had no objectives.
So you could just stay on your ship forever.
Are you sure you haven’t inverted the cause/effect relationship here? ;)
- Comment on Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI 4 weeks ago:
I’d say that’s a pretty reasonable reaction.
Not nuclear. Human.
- Comment on Hack Reveals the a16z-Backed Phone Farm Flooding TikTok With AI Influencers 5 weeks ago:
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)
I feel this is a stupid abbreviation that needlessly obscures the subject from readers, in favor of corporation-indulgent branding.
404 Media, please do better.
- Comment on Thank Goodness You're Here - most absurd & hilarious game what did I just play? 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on 2025 Game Awards Results Discussion 1 month ago:
Sad to see that so many FANTASTIC games ended up with nil, because E33 stole the show so hard, but it’s tough to argue that they didn’t deserve each one.
I’ll argue it.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is a beautiful game. The music is amazing, the scenery is lovely, and the English voice acting surprisingly good.
But its gameplay is bog standard JRPG battles with a basic parry mechanic. Nothing original or otherwise interesting there.
I feel it deserved every award it received for being a work of art, but Game of the Year? No.
- Comment on Any games I missed in the last 21 months? 1 month ago:
Hi-Fi Rush was released shortly before that time, but it was Denuvo-encumbered until about a week ago.
- Comment on Hytale can now be pre-ordered 1 month ago:
Pre-ordering games encourages publishers to release buggy, unoptimized, incomplete, garbage.
And, since there’s no scarcity, the assurance you might get from pre-ordering physical goods doesn’t exist here.
Please don’t do it.
- Comment on Fox News: for news about foxes 1 month ago:
!foxnews@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on When a video codec wins an Emmy | The Mozilla Blog 1 month ago:
encoding can most often happen ahead-of-time.
If you’re counting in terms of viewer hours, then sure. However, given the rise of Twitch-style live broadcasts, I think the picture would be noticeably different if you count programming hours instead.
- Comment on The tech world is sleeping on the most exciting Bluetooth feature in years 1 month ago:
I editorializing titles as well, but so many headlines these days are written as clickbait, so finding a good alternative link is usually time consuming and sometimes impossible. I compromise by adding [the key info in brackets], which is widely recognized as acceptable when clarification is needed.
- Comment on Day 505 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 month ago:
Thrower is a viable build in this game, and there is a source of rats in Act 2. :)
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 1 month ago:
the HDMI Forum (which manages the official specifications for HDMI standards) has officially blocked any open source implementation of HDMI 2.1.
- Comment on Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators 1 month ago:
nonillion
noun
nō-ˈnil-yən
US : a number equal to 1 followed by 30 zeros
also, British : a number equal to 1 followed by 54 zeros
- Comment on India asks smartphone makers to preinstall its cybersecurity app Sanchar Saathi on phones 1 month ago:
- Comment on My thumb stick on my 3ds is disintegrating, and my switch is starting to follow. Please help. 1 month ago:
I’m talking about the whole stick, which most likely extends into the device. Not just the broken-off piece of the stick.
If you’re determined to avoid opening the enclosure to do the replacement, you might consider drilling a post hole into the remaining piece of the broken stick, and printing a replacement piece with a matching post, but I think you would get better results replacing the entire part.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 month ago:
“Calls to scrap” the disclosures make it sound like a societal movement, when in fact it’s just two people with obvious bias: Tim Sweeney and some guy who promotes Tim Sweeney’s products on youtube.
I hope this doesn’t seem overly rude, but I don’t give a flying frog what they think. When I allow someone to sell me something, I like to know what’s in it.