Endymion_Mallorn
@Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
Just a nerd who migrated from kbin(dot)social.
- Comment on 10 hours ago:
I knew that there was some kind of unifying force in the Fediverse. Thanks for sharing it.
- Comment on In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet 3 days ago:
ECMAScript was such a mistake.
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 4 days ago:
Advertising. I'm not going to elaborate, because it's all just going to come back to that. Grassroots, paid, you name it. Advertising.
- Comment on "Party in the USA" and "Pink Pony Club" are opposite views on America: "Yay, the US is really all the same!" vs. "Yay, there are real cultural differences within the US!" 5 days ago:
Party in the CIA!
- Comment on The Fediverse and Content Creation: Monetization 6 days ago:
If Fediverse software starts encouraging monetization, I don't think the userbase will even maintain the current strength.
- Comment on Mastodon features 6 days ago:
Wait, you didn't just set up a second account that had a 1970 birthdate?
- Comment on Mastodon features 6 days ago:
I wanted to like Google+, but the way they forced it into YouTube ticked me off.
- Comment on Mastodon features 6 days ago:
Threads in microblogs baffle me too. Doubly if replies occur mid-thread. Tagging should be limited to the person being replied to and the OP, not everyone.
- Comment on Mastodon features 1 week ago:
Oh, so the good idea from Bluesky of Starter Packs is now fully in Mastodon. I know that repost-quotes are in too, which is fun.
- Comment on Mastodon features 1 week ago:
Character limits are a feature, not a bug. I liked the limit of 160 characters (with tags) on Twitter. It's because of SMS, but called for brevity and clarity.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 1 week ago:
Yup!
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 1 week ago:
Multiplayer, don't cheat - join our start lobbies playing the way you want to play.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 1 week ago:
No Oddjob, no Golden Gun.
Otherwise, it's all good.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 1 week ago:
I'm strongly of the mindset that cheating only means taking a dishonest and unfair advantage over another person. Changing the rules of the game is not cheating, it's house ruling - in tabletop discussion, that's part of what we call Rule Zero. If I'm not in competition with another person, it's just playing by my own rules.
I remember one HL1 CS (Specialists Mod) LAN party I was in where we all turned on Matrix Vision and multiplied the slo-mo timer. It was great - utterly chaotic, but everything was equal.
So no, I don't cheat in games. I just play by my own rules as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else. And if I do play multiplayer, I try to bring my house rules to them. I've never had any person accuse me of cheating when I ask about various options. TBH, the closest I come to cheating is turning on all of the assistive features - colorblind mode, target highlighting, auto target, sound notifications in minimaps, custom keybinds, and whatever else is in the menu. Everyone else can also choose to do that, and I'm just as happy if everyone I play with has those same things.
- Comment on Lemmy users who say that Lemmy users are smarter than Reddit users 1 week ago:
Lemmy users are just Reddit users but displaced.
- Comment on This achievement in earthbound had me doing something I never knew about in 30 years of playing my favorite game. 1 week ago:
I love these obscure RA entries. I also love that all the Yugioh games are straightforward.
- Comment on Waiting for Capitalism to collapse, so we can get this over with so we can reverse climate change and have nice memes, technology and the good end 1 week ago:
I wish to highlight that between the Bell Riots and the Phoenix, ST predicted that there would be both the Eugenics Wars and WW3, which leave the world so badly broken that the only "nations" that remain are the Western Alliance and the Eastern Coalition. Alameda, CA gets completely blown off the map; and it's not the only such place.
It's not a pretty picture, when you look at the history they gloss over.
- Comment on Spock check this out 1 week ago:
That happened in TAS.
- Comment on Power word: STUN! 1 week ago:
Two with one shot, that's a good hit, and no cards in sight!
- Comment on What game is a guilty pleasure of yours? 1 week ago:
When it comes to games, I have no guilt anymore. I enjoy some games and despise others. I think the only one that comes to mind for this category is E.V.O. The Search For Eden (SNES). I prefer it with a patch to improve the translation.
- Comment on Technical debt is probably one of the best dramatic tropes 1 week ago:
Me playing Mindustry
- Comment on Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC: Here's what we know 1 week ago:
Okay. Are they going to do the same thing they're doing in Android now? Are we going to need to use ADB to install software without their consent?
- Comment on Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users 2 weeks ago:
Ah, fair enough then. I'll be honest, most video I've got in my storage is still MPEG-2. A tiny amount is MPEG-4. I don't really have anything that's nominally in H.26x
- Comment on Dell and HP disable hardware H.265 decoding on select PCs due to rising royalty costs — companies could save big on HEVC royalties, but at the expense of users 2 weeks ago:
How many users are watching H.265 content? Is that what YouTube uses on desktop?
- Comment on It's been downhill from that day 2 weeks ago:
9/12 was a day of forcing ourselves to live. That's what she's doing here. Living.
- Comment on Valves first title with a 3 in it 3 weeks ago:
Dang it, I was coming in to make the joke.
- Comment on The House Of The Guy Calling You A Libtard 3 weeks ago:
Yup, but he owns it without a mortgage, probably owns the land it's on, and his taxes are half of mine. So...
- Comment on AI country singer Breaking Rust tops Billboard with ‘Walk My Walk’ 3 weeks ago:
I feel like "ai generated" music when it's not lyrical isn't such an awful thing - ambient sound and the like. I mean, music may not be mathematically solved yet, but we've certainly had music-generation algorithms for decades, and there's no real harm in that. There's a time and a place for a human to create art, and times for artificially created pleasant sound.
- Comment on I'm coming for you 4 weeks ago:
We have clearance, Clarence.
- Comment on I'm coming for you 4 weeks ago:
I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.