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- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 1 day ago:
It can cause issues with default settings on the occasional site.
Since I had it on hand, here’s a screenshot of what I encountered when playing Jackbox with friends. All images would look like this.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 1 day ago:
Maybe, but if you want Librewolf but less extreme, that’s what Waterfox is for. May as well just install that and avoid the 5 minute search. And this is coming from a long time Librewolf user.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Overwatch Beats Marvel Rivals' 24-Hour Steam Concurrent Player Peak 1 day ago:
I didn’t care for Rivals too much because none of the characters really clicked with me, the shark’s ult was total bullshit imo, and there were far too many characters that spent the entire game just flying in the air.
Overwatch has a few characters I really enjoy playing in each role, doesn’t really have any crazy ults like Rivals, and only one character (the newly added cat) spends the entire game in the air.
Overwatch is probably in the best state it’s been in since launch, but only if you’re not susceptible to FOMO. Because holy hell do they abuse FOMO at every opportunity with absurdly expensive character skins, that shit’s their bread and butter. Like, don’t want to buy the battlepass? Oh well, that’s one more mythic skin (the game’s highest quality, customizable skins) you’ll never get. Want to get one of those skins at a later point? That’ll cost you 80 fucking dollars.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Truly, when I went into that argument, I wasn’t expecting so much nuance, subtleties, and unique perspectives. They really showed me. I’m a changed man, from this point forward I will never buy games I’ve pirated because Rhoeri says I don’t do that!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
You know, I had a bunch of screenshots ready of me talking to a friend about pirating the game on discord, talking about my thoughts on the game after doing so, and then screenshots of me getting the game on steam the very next day. But this is already way too much effort put into a discussion with somebody as unserious as you. So I’m going to respect my own privacy and just not do that. Have fun living your life without nuance I guess.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Thank you for completely ignoring what I said and just repeating your rhetoric for the third time. Very constitutive. Much discussion. Wow!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
You think game developers don’t deserve to be paid for their work.
I literally do not think that though. This is that nuance I was talking about that you’re afraid to engage with. Not everybody pirates games and then never buys them.
I’m very tight on money and cannot buy every game I’m interested in. So I pirate games and treat them as demos. If I dislike the game, I stop playing it, and no harm is done since I would have either never bought it or refunded it regardless. If I like the game, I’ll buy it at the first opportunity.
Esoteric Ebb is the most recent example of that, I played it for a few hours and it immediately jumped to the #2 spot on my wishlist. I haven’t bought it yet, but I plan to soon. It’s also recently happened with Schedule I, and this one I actually got. Me pirating the game has literally earned them a sale they otherwise would not have gotten.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Shame. It’s a more nuanced discussion than you seem to believe.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Denvuo can cause issues for Linux users trying to switch proton versions. Denuvo is also terrible for game preservation. It’s not just pirates that are affected negatively.
- Comment on Day 604 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
Looking up old legacy edition screenshots, it looks like it did. Super weird that I don’t remember that at all, I played the hell out of MC on the 360 as a kid lol. I guess that kinda thing just didn’t bother me back then.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
You… either completely missed or completely ignored the point. The point being that, in order to attack the pirates who wouldn’t have bought the game anyway, regular paying users are getting screwed over by a significant performance hit.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Why is pirating inherently dishonest in your opinion?
- Comment on Day 604 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 days ago:
Was the hotbar always that high up in legacy console edition? I started playing around like TU3 or something (it was before creative came out is all I remember), but I don’t remember that at all. It has been a long time though.
- Comment on [TheGamer] Indie Dev Reveals Awful Returns After Paid Appearance In Mix Showcase 3 days ago:
People might have simply not liked what they saw.
Problem is more that nobody saw it in the first place. Despite being a YouTube channel with 1.25 million subs, the 2 hour long stream got a grand total of 1,600 views. For $600, that’s less than 3 views per dollar. And that’s assuming these people got far enough into the stream to see this particular trailer. Honestly I’m impressed they even got 65 new wishlists with numbers like that.
- Comment on Day 601 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 days ago:
Mine’s actually a shiny female!
For Emerald specifically, I learned shiny starter hunting is actually especially difficult. For other pokemon games, your seed is randomly generated when reloading the game, so you have a random change to get a shiny starter every time you select it. But for whatever reason in Emerald, your seed stays the same from the moment you start a new game. So the RNG is completely fixed. What this means is you can’t really soft-reset for the shiny right in front of the bag as easily as you can in other games, because if you pick the pokemon at, say, the 100th frame, then you’ll always see that exact version of the pokemon at the 100th frame. So in between each soft-reset you need to wait longer and longer each time so you don’t risk grabbing it on the same frame as before.
Eventually you’ll be waiting 20+ seconds between each reset, and rather than continue to soft-reset, it will be faster to just start a new save entirely, which properly resets the seed. Which you’ll then need to do again and again until you eventually get the shiny. Now I was perfectly ready for a regular shiny starter hunt, but this? No, this was some crap I wasn’t willing to put up with. So I instead went down a whole rabbit hole of learning how to RNG manipulate using a hex reader. Still took me multiple days on and off, but it was an interesting learning experience. I could technically use this to guarantee any pokemon is shiny by waiting for the correct frame (the one upside to static RNG) since I now know my secret ID (the hard part), but that wont do me much good in a mudkip-only run lol.
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 5 days ago:
I like achievements. I don’t compare them to anybody else, they just give me a goal and personal sense of accomplishment. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth would have been a lot less satisfying to complete if I didn’t get to see 641/641 achievements on my profile.
In 99% of games I’ve played that disable achievements with mods, there’s a way around that on PC. In the aforementioned The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, as long as you beat the first “final” boss a single time, you can use mods freely. In Fallout 4 as you’ve mentioned… there’s a mod that re-enables achievements. So this is an irrelevant issue to me.
As far as your other question goes, I’d be more than happy to see achievements be opt-out. On Steam you can always hide your library or use SAM to get rid of them all when you’re done playing, but that’s obviously not ideal.
- Comment on Day 601 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 days ago:
A shiny dex sounds like it’s own layer of hell. In my mudkip-only game, I decided I may as well get a shiny mudkip if I’m stuck with it for the entire game, and that took me way, way too long even with fast forward.
- Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
By catching double, do you mean you have one of each final evolution, or that you have one of the entire evolution line? So for example, do you own a Beautifly and Dustox, or do you own a Wurmple, Silcoon, Cascoon, Beautifly, and Dustox? I’ve heard of people doing a latter, but that sounds like a pain in the ass even for me lol.
- Comment on I want to replay Skyrim but 1 week ago:
Nexus now supports collections too. Check out their collections page if you want to browse some curated mod collections.
- Comment on Day 595 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I see you chose Torchic as well. Gen 3 has such a good selection of starters. Most games there’s a clear loser for me that I’m never very interested in picking, but all of Gen 3 are great. I named mine Torchwick based on the character from the show RWBY.
- Comment on Day 595 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Haha, same here. And here I thought I was being creative.
- Comment on Day 595 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I initially chose “ADULT TOYS” and felt bad when the small child mentioned they collect all kinds of “Official ADULT TOYS”.
- Comment on Day 594 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Even though Black and White were newly out by the time I got into Pokemon, the only one I had growing up was my older brother’s Blue. So I’ve always been a fan of the originals even if they’re missing a LOT of polish, though the gen 3 remakes like Leaf Green are much better in about every way. I mostly just did Gen 1 and 2 for the nostalgia and RA achievements.
I just pirated the ROMs and played them on RetroArch. I’ve owned the physical games before, and, personally, I’ll never feel bad pirating from Nintendo regardless.
The mudkip vs the world challenge is pretty fun (I got to the 5th gym before deciding to pause it), but from what I saw in the discussions board, a certain post-game(?) section is absolutely brutal to an unfair degree and is like 99% of the challenge’s difficulty. I saw people recommending keeping mudkip leveled as low as possible since trainers there scale with you, and to stock up on tons of the PP-restoring berry. So I look forward to whatever the hell is up with that whenever I continue.
- Comment on Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash 1 week ago:
So Microslop is censoring its own name? Strange choice, but okay.
- Comment on Day 594 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
I’m currently playing through Emerald with RA enabled as well! I’ve completed the pokedex in Red and Crystal, but I’ve never played far into anything past gen 2 (despite mudkip being one of my all-time favorite starters), so I’m looking to work my way up and 100% at least one game in every gen and their pokedex. Eventually. My motivation to catch them all wanes somewhat once I start actually doing it.
I had also temporarily started a mudkip-only (plus castform who’s forced on you) run prior to this, but decided to put it on hold so it wasn’t my first experience of Emerald lol.
- Comment on LumenTale, the one monster collector that delivers what matters most: strong monster design 1 week ago:
Cassette Beasts is my personal favorite creature collector. I’m excited to try this one out when it eventually comes out.
- Comment on Dominion of Darkness - free Dark Lord Simulator 2 weeks ago:
Looks like a lot of, if not all of, the art is AI-generated. And this isn’t disclosed anywhere on the game’s page from what I can tell. Disappointing, to say the least.
- Comment on Dominion of Darkness - free Dark Lord Simulator 2 weeks ago:
After watching the first 15 seconds or so of the video, my takeaway is that it’s a very popular Roblox YouTuber (almost 5 million subs) playing a bunch of scam games and showing that they don’t give robux. So it’s not actually advertising a scam.
Still super fucking weird and random to put it there though.
- Comment on [Spoilers!] Pokemon Winds and Waves New Starters 2 weeks ago:
Good point, I completely forgot it wasn’t bipedal. A second quadruped since gen 5 would still be appreciated though.
- Comment on [Spoilers!] Pokemon Winds and Waves New Starters 2 weeks ago:
Oh right, I completely forgot about Skeledirge becoming a quadruped. I stand corrected then, we did get one quadruped starter in the last 15 years.
