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- Comment on Uh oh: Ubisoft postpones its quarterly financial report at the last minute and halts stock trading 3 days ago:
Either way, he recommended that everyone “freak the fuck out for the next few days and speculate as much as possible until they announce something,”
Advice after my own heart. Freaking out and speculating are always the best move.
- Comment on How do you beat post-work floppiness? 3 days ago:
The point here, IMO, is to make moving - some kind of exercise - part of your daily routine. Unless you have a physical job, try to find some way to stay physical. Bike to work (I know this is often not practical), or go for a walk at lunchtime, or start always using the stairs in the office , or …
It sounds contradictory, but staying physically active really does give you more energy.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update November 2025 1 week ago:
The missing step is preparation of the ingredients and liquid, all together. Gazpacho is blended. So are milkshakes, for which I left the door open.
Other soups have other preparations, but the key is they’re prepared together with the liquid.
If you blend and/or boil your cereal, I’ll grant you it’s soup. And please do record yourself eating it.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update November 2025 1 week ago:
Putting a raw tomato and a raw chicken breast into a bowl and adding water doesn’t make chicken soup. In soup all the ingredients are prepared together in the liquid, which is not drained after.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 1 week ago:
its *
Ironically, that’s definitely something AI could check for.
- Comment on Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 1 week ago:
What does Q&A stand for?
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update November 2025 1 week ago:
I’ll grant you bread sandwich, but cereal soup? That’s where I draw the line. Just adding a liquid to something does not make it soup.
An argument could be made for milkshake being soup though…
- Comment on Finally playing Mass Effect (LE). Got to this part in 2 and just... 1 week ago:
At one point he thought I was coming onto him. I shut that down so fast.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 1 week ago:
The best part was: this was even in the installer! When setting up your sound card, there was a test button. If it worked, you heard “your sound card works perfectly”. But if you kept pressing it, eventually it would say “enjoying yourself?” And if you kept going after that, in an angry voice, “it doesn’t get any better than this!”
Ah old Blizzard, when even the installers had character.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 1 week ago:
I also love how reincarnation is a fact of life in that world, and souls are a real, almost physical, thing that can be manipulated and used.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Icewind Dale and Baldur’s Gate 2. Same engine and world, yet different enough that they both hold my interest. Baldur’s Gate is quite involved, with tons of quests and NPCs all vying for attention. I literally had a moment where I entered a new area, a bunch of enemies spawned and attacked, and during the fight another NPC spawned and initiated a completely unrelated conversation, ending in removing one of my party members. The quests and characters are interesting, but it can get a bit much when you have so many people telling you about their very urgent problem.
Icewind Dale on the other hand is petty straightforward: go to a new area, fight through it, report back, and repeat. Which doesn’t mean its quests are uninteresting, they are just less complex.
The Icewind Dale party is also much lower level, making fights much simpler, though not always easier.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 2 weeks ago:
You can use Linux-like text navigation on macOS: ctrl-a goes to the start of the line, ctrl-e to the end, ctrl-f forward, etc.
I mostly use Windows, macOS second, with some Linux in distant third. Yet those Unix-style bindings are what I miss most in Windows applications that don’t support remapping.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 weeks ago:
About thirty years ago I was a teen. I remember talking with a girl only a few years younger than me, and being astounded that she didn’t know how to read an analogue clock.
Exactly as you indicated, this is nothing new.
- Comment on #environmentalist 3 weeks ago:
The only thing that comes with a straw in the restaurants I visit, is cocktails.
- Comment on The Internet's Biggest Annoyance:Why Cookie Laws Should Target Browsers, Not Websites 3 weeks ago:
IANAL
Two things: “reject all” should be as easy as “accept all”. GDPR seems pretty clear about that, to me at least. Almost all (if not simply all) 3rd party implementations get this wrong. I can only assume they’ve never been challenged on this, or found a loophole. “Native” European sites (governments, official bodies, TV stations, …. ) are the only ones I’ve seen do this correctly.
If your cookies don’t have any tracking you don’t need to ask consent. You don’t need a pop-up. You don’t need any user interaction. All you need is a notification somewhere on the page.
- Comment on similar to the word of mouth post, what game did you not expect much from but loved it? 4 weeks ago:
Thomas Was Alone.
I stuck at platformers, and don’t like playing them. But this game, and most especially its narration, made me fall in love with quadrilaterals.
I won’t say more, but if you haven’t tried it please give it a chance.
- Comment on New trailer for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown has a rather bald Borg crew member 4 weeks ago:
what did they do to Seven of Nine?! Why do they have no hair?
When she first came aboard she didn’t have any hair either.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 4 weeks ago:
To me as a European, posts and comments about US politics can be very confusing. There’s the different interpretation on the word liberal you mentioned. There’s also the fact that the colours are reversed: here red is for the left - socialists and communists - while blue is the liberal right (not so much conservative right, though there are conservative subgroups of the “blues”). And there’s the fact that they often assume familiarity with political events and people unknown to me.
Somewhat related: posts and comments from the far and extreme left are often even more incomprehensible. They seem to have their own language entirely.
- Comment on Great games you would recommend from before 1990? 5 weeks ago:
The gold box RPG series: Pool of Radiance, Curse of the Azure Bonds, Secret of the Silver Blades, and Pools of Darkness.
These are set in the Forgotten Realms, and using the old AD&D ruleset.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Using “streaming” instead of “broadcasting” struck me as an odd choice for someone old enough to remember it.
It’s fine of course, it just stood out to me.
- Comment on xkcd #3151: Window Screen 5 weeks ago:
Wait wait wait, if a GenX or Boomer used 3D software to make Toy Story, who made that software?
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I blame the shoes for looking so throw-up-on-able.
- Comment on 'The Thing: The Game: The Remaster' - Civvie11 1 month ago:
The Thing: The Game: The Remaster: The Video
- Comment on Obsidian Temporarily Removes Games From Sale Due to Unity Exploit 1 month ago:
From what I heard, they delisted only the premium editions of Avowed because some part of those use Unity. It looks like the same is true for the other games. Even for Pillars they only delisted the definitive edition.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
The companion system is definitely a weak point. The companions themselves are fine, but you can’t refuse any and have very limited choice in party composition.
You can disagree with them at some points, and you can influence their story, but the gameplay impact is pretty much nothing.
The impact your choices can have on the world are definitely bigger - and visible in the game itself. I won’t spoil it, but there’s a pretty huge consequence not long after meeting Giatta.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I haven’t decided on a final party yet. In BG1 at one point I noticed I had an all female party, except for one guy - so I gave that guy a certain belt…. I was hoping to get an all female party going again, but I don’t know if it’ll be feasible.
Right now I have my sorcerer, Minsc, Aerie, Jaheira, Nalia, and I just replaced Valygar by Mazzy.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I’ve finished Avowed, and am going back to Baldur’s Gate 2, which I had put aside for it.
I liked Avowed well enough, though it is far from perfect. I would have preferred a classic CRPG like its predecessors, but it was fun to see the Living Lands in 3D - and the graphics really shine at night. It is absolutely gorgeous after sunset. And I loved the ending, although it seemed a bit too positive.
In BG2 I’m only in chapter 2. I just found Mazzy and am continuing to explore the dungeon she’s in.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 1 month ago:
Throat singing is cool. Try blasting en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_noise instead.
- Comment on Poland will shoot down objects in clear-cut airspace violations, prime minister says 1 month ago:
Yes.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 1 month ago:
Actually yes, I do cross platform development on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Mac is by far the most work and breaks constantly.