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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 5x05 "Series Acclimation Mil"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be honest with you, I’m by no means a fan of “nu-trek”. couldn’t stand Discovery, SNW I enjoyed but then it kinda went belly up, and I only really enjoyed Picard season 3.

  So I went into Starfleet Academy and I was optimistic. Utilizing plot points from Discovery made me groan. but I must say this last episode has won me over. It’s about time Star Trek does a decent homage to DS9. it’s been a long time coming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the definitive way to play certain games?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  if you’re playing FFXIV, especially on Linux, don’t bother with the official launcher/updater. Use XIVLauncher, hell even use that if you’re playing on Windows. Updates a hell of a lot faster plus you also get the dalamud stuff which adds a few quality of life plugin improvements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t call this a victory. I’d call this a “re-evaluation”. they’ve invested way too much into AI/LLMs to simply drop it because users don’t like any of it. They’re simply going to pivot and come at this shit from a different angle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to wonder what the end goal here is for Ubisoft. you got people leaving in droves, people leaving and forming their own studios and producing games that are quite literally games of the year, and they’re axing people left right and center.

  And lets not kid ourselves this company is essentially the cockroach of gaming, how it’s still alive in 2026 is in it’s own right quite the achievement. I can’t even recall the last good Ubisoft game I played.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  well to be fair you don’t even need to look at the md since right at the top it says it’s built with loveable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah it’s to the point now where if I see emojis in the readme.md on the repo I just don’t even bother.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Anthropic has done a good enough job of poisoning Claude themselves within the past 4 to 5 months or so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The recent Star Trek series are often criticized for "not being woke enough", but I've come to feel the envelope they are pushing is much more radical, bolder, and important to our specific time...⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have a problem with “nu-trek” being “woke”. Star Trek has always been “woke” (I really hate that word). My issue is it just feels dumb now. all of it. it doesn’t challenge the viewer anymore.

  TNG had that in spades. a problem would arise before the intro even rolled and it challenged the viewer to figure out what’s going on. That was most of the fun. Like the episodes where all the damn clues were right in front of you and it wasn’t until the end with the “ooooh of course!” moment. Primary example of this is the episode when the Enterprise kept blowing up and Data had to keep going back to try and figure out how to avoid it. Or the episode where Barclay, Picard, and Data were trapped in the Holodeck and they didn’t even know they were in the Holodeck. And there were clues all over the place like Geordi using his left hand for something when he’s right handed. I want more trek like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton's predictions for the internet, 2025 reviewed and 2026 projections⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Proton spends time predicting the future of the internet while ensuring the eatshitification of its own products and ignoring long standing issues”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what is good remote desktop software?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I use freerdp. it’s simple, works well, just use it via the terminal. I have it alias’d so I don’t even have to think about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...is this retro?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel old consider the new resurgence in people wanting a PS2. you can’t find them anywhere anymore. all the retro game stores are selling out of them. Even the PSP is hard to come by.

  I remember waiting in line at the midnight launch of the PS2. I also remember waiting in line at the midnight launch of the first Xbox and having to convince my friend to also pick up Halo because I heard good things about it. He just wanted to get Cel Damage and Fusion Frenzy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'FTL in a Warhammer 40,000 Skin' Game Pulled From Steam After What May Be a Nuisance DMCA Takedown From a Troll Claiming to Be Games Workshop - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hope it gets reversed soon and man honestly GW should just let them use the license. I mean hell they hand out the 40k license to anyone with a pulse at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a Blackberry Curve in like 2012 when everyone was using iphone and android and I loved that damn thing. Other than the Nokia Lumia it was the best phone I ever had.

  I would use this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox ditching hardware and exclusive games "makes sense," former Microsoft exec and Blizzard boss says, as "only a moron would continue" making consoles as games go third party⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe if a new generation of consoles are released they’re just going to be glorified streaming boxes. Sony has pretty much hit a plateau as far as graphics go, there’s not much you can improve upon now. And sure people are cancelling and complaining about gamepass but Microsoft might just go the route of “we’ll tell you what you want, and if you want this exclusive you’ll have no choice but to subscribe”.

  So you’ll pay for this streaming box, you’ll get maybe a couple months of the subscription for free, then you’ll pay $30 to $50 a month to get access to their catalog. Sony and Nintendo will follow suite. If you want to actually “own” anything you’ll play on PC and even then that’s truly up for debate. Like do you actually own the content you buy on Steam?

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t even watch anything on Twitch anymore. I used to watch moonmoon, gigaboots, cohhcarnage, northern lion, etc and I just stopped months ago. It’s not fun anymore. I might tune in to watch desert bus or AGDQ but that’s about it and that’s just for background noise when those events are happening.

  But the site, overall, just isn’t the same. Maybe the content got worse or I just grew out of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bioshock, Dark Souls 3, and Cyberpunk 2077

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  someone likely borked IAM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  as others have stated, Friendica. The issue is finding a stable working instance. I was on Friendica.world but doesn’t work anymore as far as I can tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They must have a decent marketing budget because I’ve seen A LOT of big streamers playing it. It looked ok. not my cup o tea.

  also funny note that the new Call of Duty apparently censors “ARC Raiders” in the in game chat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was the same with the Dark Souls games. I just had no interest in them because they just looked way too punishing.

  Then I discovered the lore. I’m a huge lore nerd. I mean I absolutely love Warhammer 40k and I’ve never played it and don’t know how to play it. I don’t have any of the minitures but man the lore for that is awesome. It was the same for the Dark Souls games. I just stumbled across a video by that VatiiVidya guy and I was hooked. Now I wanted to play and just pick up everything and read the tiny bits of lore attached to every item in the games and then piece together this universe.

  Dark Souls 3 being my favourite. That story once you discover what’s REALLY happening is amazing. The lore for DS3 really turns the whole playing experience on its head. Suddenly you go from thinking you’re the good guy trying to save this fucked up world to realizing that “wait, am I the baddie?” Like you have to return these guys to their thrones but you begin to understand WHY they don’t want to sit on their thrones and in the end you honestly don’t blame any of them for abandoning their task.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Last of Us.

  When the first one came out everyone was ranting and raving over it so I picked it up for my PS3. Granted the beginning of the game was an absolute gut punch and I thought I was hooked, I was not. I found the rest of the game so damn boring. I didn’t like the story, I felt it was forced fed to the player, and honestly I just never bothered finishing it. for me it wasn’t fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study proves being rude to AI chatbots gets better results than being nice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I found you get more specific solutions the worse you treat it. none of the “it’s a known issue” or problem confirmations or any of that. you just call it an idiot, moron, use all caps, cuss at it a few times.

  The funny thing is, at least with Claude, is that it will mimic your language and start cussing back. ChatGPT on the other hand will just start insulting you back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cry Havoc for this open world cyberpunk dog-fighter inspired by G-Police⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I loved G-Police and will be checking this out

  Come to think of it the PSX did have some pretty good flight/space sims. The Colony Wars series was awesome especially Vengeance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨another social network?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  mobile only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean honeslty why use base firefox when there are much better forks of firefox. Floorp for example which I like.

  If I want straight up firefox without the AI stuff then I’ll just go use Librewolf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Built to last⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember I had NHL 95 on the Genesis brand new and could never figure out why it would never save my season. Years later I realized “damn battery was dead, why didn’t I just return it?” still played the hell out of the game though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Backup recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just use borg on a timer. I can set it on my various machines via a shell script or on my NixOS machine in the config. I have it backup stuff daily at the same time, have automatically remove old backups after a certain period of time, and I can easily mount it to whatever computer using an alias. I don’t think about it, just does it, easy peasy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No Mans Sky exclusively in creative mode.

  I don’t care for getting resources or any of that. I just want to build stuff and explore. it would be 10x better if they made building regular ships as easy as the new ones and that’s my only gripe, having to sit in a station to wait for a ship to show up with a part you want. It’s an incredibly idiotic system for creative mode.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meant the first one on the NES.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great games you would recommend from before 1990?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  can’t remember WHEN it came out, might have been 89 might have been 90 but Batman The Videogame for the NES (the first batman game)

  absolutely fantastic game, amazing soundtrack, easily one of the best Batman games ever.