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- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 days ago:
Started playing Half Life 1. Never played any of the Half Life games before.
As for a recommendation, Chrono Trigger and the Silent Hill games (1-3, including the remake of 2).
- Comment on Microsoft cancel Perfect Dark reboot and shut the developers down in the name of "continued success" 3 days ago:
Don’t forget the tax writeoffs!
- Comment on big catch 4 days ago:
I can’t believe the builders morphed the brick and pavement around that one particular fish. Crazy amount of skill.
- Comment on Windows seemingly lost 400 million users in the past three years — official Microsoft statements show hints of a shrinking user base 4 days ago:
And Apple, with people replacing traditional computers with Android and iOS devices.
- Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup 1 week ago:
It is theorized by anthropologists that for most of humanity’s existence, humans operated on gift economies, without keeping any ledgers or IOUs, and also not bartering.
- Comment on Never easier to kidnap people in the USA 1 week ago:
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 1 week ago:
- Comment on Lies of P: Overture devs actually rewarded for making a solid DLC in rare industry W: Getting a bonus, 2 weeks vacation, and a free Switch 2 1 week ago:
I’d like it better if they got a permenant raise.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 1 week ago:
IIRC Revanced uses its own microG fork.
The original YouTube app that it’s pafching is obviously still proprietary, but all patches and the patcher are open source.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 1 week ago:
I started using PipePipe, which is a fork of NewPipe that allows for signing into a Google account to authenticate.
I create dummy Google accounts using an old Android phone, as that doesn’t require a phone number.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 1 week ago:
The vast majority of people stick with defaults, no matter how shitty they are.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 1 week ago:
Hopefully Valve will decide to release their Ibex soon. I do like that this is a split controller, but the ergonomics don’t look great compared to the leaked Ibex image.
- Comment on Operation Narnia: Iran’s nuclear scientists reportedly killed simultaneously using special weapon 1 week ago:
November, you say? I wonder what happened in November that caused Netanyahu to be emboldened to the point of planning Iranian assassinations…
- Comment on Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison' 2 weeks ago:
Popcorn is just a method of eating butter or other oil-based flavours.
- Comment on Scientists discover promising new way to filter microplastics out of human body: 'The dose makes the poison' 2 weeks ago:
Or use Flavacol instead of salt if you want movie theatre popcorn.
- Comment on Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps 2 weeks ago:
You can use an immutable Linux distro (SteamOS being the most popular) and install software with flatpak, which is sandboxed using bubblewrap.
- Comment on AOSP isn't dead, but Google just landed a huge blow to custom ROM developers 3 weeks ago:
Just another example of enshittification from a publicly traded company. Nothing really new here.