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- Comment on English Wikipedia bans archive.today 3 days ago:
nice one, cheers. it’s there in line 16607 in EasyPrivacy, same guy runs btdig dot com?
||gyrovague.com^$domain=archive.fo|archive.is|archive.li|archive.md|archive.ph|archive.today|archive.vn|btdig.com - Comment on English Wikipedia bans archive.today 3 days ago:
from the blog in question
On January 21, commit ^bbf70ec (warning: very large) added gyrovague.com to dns-blocklists, used by ad blocking services like uBlock Origin. This is actually beneficial, since if you have an ad blocker installed, the DDOS script’s network requests are now blocked. (It does not stop users from browsing to my blog directly.)
- https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
can’t find anything from a quick look that confirms this list is used by default in ublock though
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 4 days ago:
now that’s initiative. and steam tags could hardly be much worse anyway
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 4 days ago:
of course it’s right that a core feature of roguelikes is that each new game starts from scratch. it’s roguelite that is vague
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 4 days ago:
this makes sense, appreciate the perspective
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 5 days ago:
I like most games that fall into the category
same. but thinking about it a bit more, i still think it’s a bad name for a sub (sub sub) genre at best, not a top level one, your RPG and Action examples are quite right
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 5 days ago:
i think i agree with this which means i only dislike roguelite as a top level category. in your mario tennis example it might go something like
sports ¬ tennis ¬ arcade (as opposed to simulation)
a mario tennis where it would be practically impossible to win a randomly generated tournament without grinding out some progression would be
sports ¬ tennis ¬ roguelite
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 5 days ago:
agree re roguelikes but roguelite seems far too broad to work as a genre? like if there was a ‘combos’ genre that included blazblue, bayonetta, and bejewelled
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 5 days ago:
most-played roguelike/roguelite
hit action roguelike The Binding of Isaac
[…] highly acclaimed roguelite and roguelike games, such as Hades, Vampire Survivors, and Balatro
i’ll accept that roguelite means fuck all except ‘has meta progression’ but none of the games mentioned in this article are roguelikes
- Comment on A new homelessness law in Wales is being called 'world-leading' 1 week ago:
This is probably, overall, a welcome change. a couple of thoughts:
The ‘prevention duty’ will increase from 56 days to six months. This gives local authorities much more time to support anyone at risk of homelessness.
the prevention duty arises from the homeless reduction act 2018. before 56 days are up, a local authority must attempt to prevent or relieve homelessness before it can accept main duty (this is the point where a household is placed into temporary accommodation awaiting an offer of permanent accomm)
prevention mainly consists of persuading your landlord or family not to kick you out, or finding somewhere else for you to stay before you become actually homeless
if the 56 days is extended to six months, does this mean an LA can wait that long before accepting main duty? if so expect the homelessness stats to decrease, as nobody is counted as being accepted as homeless before that time is up
The priority need test and intentionality test – which have excluded people from life-saving support for far too long – will be abolished.
interesting as the priority need test is essentially are you more vulnerable than the average bloke, practically excluding all street homeless as to meet the test you generally will have to be under 18, very old or ill, or have dependents. this will entitle a large swathe of potential applicants who will previously have been fobbed off to some aassisstance, which is good. it will also inevitably attract plenty of chancers who would previously have had no hope of getting any help
will also be interesting to see what removing the intentionality test does. one of the main effects of this was to trip up tenants who thought they were doing the right thing when they received an eviction notice by just leaving their home. seems obvious but if they did this before the landlord got a court order, they could be assessed as intentionally homeless because they left without being forced to do so. another one is about evictions due to rent arrears, where if your bank statements showed you could well have paid the rent if you didn’t spend so much on candy crush powerups etc, you would likely be found intentional
all in all probably quite a good development, i don’t mind if it lets a few more blaggers through if help is more accessible to those who need it. but i suspect the increase to six months will actually reduce the number of homeless cases who end up being offered council accomm, and just shuffle them around the private rented market. hope to be wrong about that.
( quotes from https://thewallich.com/news/homelessness-and-social-housing-allocation-wales-bill/ )
- Comment on Reform faces police investigation over ‘concerned neighbour’ byelection letters 2 weeks ago:
There was no mistake, not sure why the article didn’t include a picture but it wasn’t a typical leaflet, it looks like this
- Comment on New PieFed instance: MULTIVERSE 5 weeks ago:
great news. love to the swarm
- Comment on We'll probably never see a Grand Theft Auto set in a futuristic city like GTA 2 because the team "hated it": "People didn’t connect with the game or its city" 1 month ago:
Three weeks into the future. One teeming city. Seven streets gangs. Unlimited criminal opportunity
-gta2 manual
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 1 month ago:
cretinous loser, natural evangelist starts getting into fucky (8)
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 3 months ago:
by design
fair point but it’s not mainly a software problem. there’s no reason that e.g. an article on vpn use in response to the UK online safety act shouldn’t be posted/reposted to technology@instance.uk, privacy@instance.ml, worldnews@instance.elsewhere etc
what is disappointing about this cm0002 stuff is what i’ve seen of the general community response to the high effort attempt to flood the timeline with low effort posts. the supportive comments and upvotes suggest that people like it, and that is baffling to me
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 3 months ago:
it reflects extremely poorly on lemmy/threadiverse in general that this type of behaviour is tolerated at all let alone encouraged
- Comment on A 50/50 chance is an 100% chance. 3 months ago:
pun-ctuation
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
good points, the inter class rivalry in particular. i think it’s a reasonable guess that the term lost its more specific original sense when it escaped containment and got into the mouths of littlejohn et al but just saying middle class was reductive. sun/mirror hacks would have been in on the action too
i had heard of chav being derived from charva but never heard it said personally - i’m from the south though
re hooligans there’s definite similarities but chavs lack the same kind of rallying point so were more dispersed. maybe some chavs got promoted to casuals
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
i don’t know much about usa subcultures either but it might be somewhat similar to guidos? i’m not sure how well they are known for antisocial behaviour. the closest international comparison i can think of is russian gopniks
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
there is a grain of truth in this. chav culture certainly existed and still exists in the south of england but they came in around 2000-2010 or so for much greater demonisation than their northern (scally) or scottish (ned) counterparts, likely due to UK media being concentrated in the south
the great chav danger was blown wildly out of proportion and i’ve no doubt the term expanded beyond the original sense of a sort of tracksuit/burberry clad antisocial petty criminal youth to include just about any working class kid in the minds of home counties handbag clutchers
so to say they never existed is false, and to say they never caused anyone any bother is false. but the middle class media confected version of them never existed in any great number either
- Comment on It's interesting to see what qualifies as a swear in different languages. 3 months ago:
I’ll confirm this, my english mother in her 70s who happily uses swears of all strengths up to and including fuck used to screw her face up in a scowl if you dropped a cunt in conversation, but now doesn’t bat an eye
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 4 months ago:
well now you’re just doing it on purpose
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 4 months ago:
i’ll tell you what man i’ll do all that and your dad’s as well if you stop formatting your mundane opinions as headers to try and get people to notice you
- Comment on 'This is definitely my last TwitchCon': High-profile streamer Emiru was assaulted at the event, even as streamers have been sounding the alarm about stalkers and harassment 4 months ago:
using header markdown to make your text enormous is far more obnoxious than saying like
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 4 months ago:
first you see anthropomorphic cartoon animals and find them appealing, then the internet shits in your brain and makes you want to fuck them. after that you start pretending to be one on the internet. if somebody intervenes at this point or your remaining sense of shame kicks in you may be able to recover, otherwise your condition will deteriorate until you are found dead under a bodily fluid sodden pile of threadbare animal toys with holes cut in the crotches
- Comment on Replacement.AI: Humans no longer necessary 4 months ago:
If I have to ask, it’s lame
i don’t understand jokes and that’s your fault
- Comment on Tommy Robinson says Elon Musk is paying his legal costs as trial begins 4 months ago:
times like this i can hardly blame the simulation theorists, if this was a novel you’d throw it at the cat
- Comment on Green leader Zack Polanski backs legalisation of all drugs 4 months ago:
this pushed me on to the green bandwagon, signed up today
- Comment on Who owns Britain? The effects of privatisation on the costs of living in the UK 5 months ago:
I know nationalising water right now would cost hundreds of billions
a hundred billion or so is the government’s own line. other more believable opinions suggest this is bollocks
https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06/27/how-much-would-it-really-cost-to-nationalise-water
https://weownit.org.uk/news/government-100-billion-water-nationalisation
- Comment on NHS surgeon who had his legs removed is jailed for fraud 5 months ago:
neil hopper
what is the opposite of nominative determinism
