whelk

@whelk@retrolemmy.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to make a game where you seize all the assets of the rich and need to make decisions on how to best redistribute the wealth to the people and/or public serving projects and infrastructure. Of course whatever you choose, there will be someone unhappy with it, so you have to try and balance things to prevent angry riots or being overthrown by some other group who feels they can do better, while the deposed rich class and their sympathizers keep trying to cause trouble and regain power. Kind of like a Sim Revolution. Hmmm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Password managers are less secure than promised⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s start a club

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want to take my stress out on randos, I want to take it out on the ones responsible for my stress

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The EU Moves To Kill Infinite Scrolling⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know man, I’m not a fan of infinite scroll

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Heck yeah brother! Not in Nottingham is another good one to play

  I also love that my wife got me a shirt with Skippy brandishing his wooden sword and his quote “DEATH TO TYRANTS!” on it. She’s a keeper for sure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I make it easy, I sit right out in the open by my sign playing songs from subversive pro terrorist media like Disney’s Robin Hood

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"I am going to punch you" WHAT A BOSS!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Brown sweater kid is the man, get em brother

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is self-hosted voice chat so hard?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I found out the other day that I had a mumble server still running that I had been tinkering with a year or so ago and just forgot about. Hadn’t noticed it was still running this whole time because it’s so low in resource usage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Return to Pidgin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give your Matrix account a Discord UI with Commet⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Glad people who like the UI can get it in Matrix too but personally yeah, the Discord UI has never been one I’ve liked. Way to insist on being fullscreen at all times

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t wait til they’re blasted and shredded

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Stay strong partner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out libera.chat, one of the most popular IRC networks today. Freenode suffered a hostile takeover and there was a mass migration away from it so I’d avoid that one

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a big thing that made it catch on was the ease of joining. Just send someone a link and boom, they’re in the intended server. No immediate registration process, no buttons or commands to use, just a single click and entering a username. For all that I dislike Discord about, they did that part really well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Appreciate the info, thanks for taking the time to reply. I loved when Google was using XMPP for their chat just because that meant I could chat with people who insisted on using their Google accounts, without having to use one myself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really want to love Matrix but man, it just feels janky. And this is from someone who likes IRC and XMPP. I can’t put my finger on why Matrix just doesn’t feel great, that’s the most frustrating part. Might be solvable with a decent client. I don’t like Element. Quaternion seems nice and simple but keeps crashing on me, and I don’t think it handles voice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d miss the history in my family server, but we’d get over it. If I can convince everyone else to move

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I love IRC, just need some user friendly client recommendations if we want wider adoption by less tech savvy folks. Though I get the impression there are a good few IRC users who prefer how that filters out the “normies”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like everyone and their dog trying to sign up at once due to this Discord news is overwhelming them, give it a while and try again later. I’m waiting a bit before I try. im_doing_my_part.jpg

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah … A complete anything-goes free for all is always going to devolve into a nasty cesspool dominated by the worst actors who have driven everyone else away. I get it, there’s a lot of awful censorship out there, but on the flip side you need to have at least some rules to prevent the otherwise inevitable descent into the worst environment possible

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still trying to understand why XMPP isn’t more widely used. Probably the whole no single centralized service thing like most other federated protocols/services

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3204: Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d put the stapler in the “seem like/are not” section. Raaaarrrrr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Made a plywood stand for my vacuum⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Very nice, well done

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People with no friends needs to get the fuck up over it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know man, you’re kind of doing the same sort of thing right now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Among games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, as much fun as I’ve had playing the game itself, there’s a lot of fun and magic talking with my kids about it and sharing theories and stuff, watching videos about theories and discoveries, anticipating what will happen next, all that. Then again I’m older, so the wait doesn’t feel as long as I’m sure it does to younger folks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Darth Vader was NOT a bad person⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t agree with the jealous council not giving him what he deserved claim. Anakin was exceptionally powerful and talented but that alone doesn’t make one eligible. I’m not big into Star Wars lore like some people but I can’t imagine getting on the council is just a Jedi powers skill test and that’s it.

  It’s similar to the thing with Tai Lung thinking he deserved to be proclaimed the Dragon Warrior. He was incredibly powerful and skilled but was also the type to become a villain for being denied the greatness he felt he deserved. Oogway saw that in him, and his reaction to being denied proved that he didn’t deserve it, because there was more to it than just being really skilled and powerful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Could well be more to it beyond my guesses. I’m pretty mystified by how controversial the whole thing is honestly, and how often I see it coming up in various areas of Lemmy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not someone who has such strong feelings about it, but it’s a pretty fascinating thing to see. Some people clearly get annoyed that the thorn is used incorrectly, others apparently just don’t like seeing it at all, probably because it makes writing more difficult to parse by having an unfamiliar symbol. That’s understandable, but it’s kind of wild how deeply it seems to bother some people. For example, we’re getting downvoted just for talking about it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, but be careful. People around here have really strong opinions about thorn usage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sooo... This is happening on Imgur⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I came here to say I’m still mad they make me hesitate to write in Futhark. One more reason to give them the Indiana Jones treatment