cybernihongo

@cybernihongo@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All the employers where I am. Heck, they have some group chat “newsletters” and such set up to let us know of updates and things. Sometimes it’ll be used for informal group chats where things aren’t really binding, and reserve email for official communications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A premium tier for WhatsApp? The app I want to get rid of but can’t because employers can’t be assed to send emails or make phone calls first?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I once saw someone somewhere comment that HL2 is actually a tech demo meant to show off the physics stuff. Which I wholeheartedly agree with, and even that didn’t win me over. The game doesn’t feel like a shooter meant to be enjoyed, rather it feels like Valve flexing its muscles only because they can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wish we could all do more of that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played this game twice, and tried to get to the end twice, and in both times I just WALKED AWAY. The original was actually playable and beatable in comparison.

  One moment it’s a shooter, then it becomes a driving game, then it becomes one of the earliest walking sims with long stretches of nothing, then a horror game, then a tactical shooter, and it wasn’t good at any of them - it was all just cobbled together. Valve would have had a much better game if they sold just Ravenholm.

  And by this point in time I can’t help but think the funny letter G guy is just a Mary Sue to glue the game together with very little character or substance besides “man in black”.

  I firmly believe the only reason this game is “beloved” is the same reason that iPhones sell just because of the logo of the company that made them. (And also because of this game every fucking company that breathes has an online DRM launcher)

  Fear by Monolith and its expansions on the other hand, they were so much better despite the aiming system being unintuitive in comparison to HL the 2. Everything just clicks. I just loved Fear. But I’m sure this won’t save me from “Ubisoft target audience” allegations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We were all thinking it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s actually better. I assumed she was writing a prompt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, what you mentioned is just one of the options. They literally go over “bare metal” installs even if it’s just a skim. I always find their article funny because of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it really freak them out?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you might be underestimating how some people type really slowly when given a full sized QWERTY keyboard, numpad and all.

  Then again the one limiting factor of phone keyboards (touch or physical) is that they’re designed for two thumbs, instead of just whatever fingers happen to be closer to the button you want. Though I’ll admit I do miss when Nokia, BlackBerry, etc, came up with unique solutions for how to get a small physical keyboard attached to a phone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemme copy my own post from somewhere else

  GOG’s installers work great with Wine as do the games themselves. If you desperately need a launcher before you can even consider them, you can use Heroic Games Launcher - in fact I’d prefer if they throw their weight behind it than on Galaxy. A match made in heaven.

  I guess the other good thing is GOG is not a US company, they’re based in Poland. No tax money going to the American regime and their shenanigans I never asked for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Might be an unpopular opinion but

  In the late 2010s or early 2020s, I wrote a short story in the Notes app on a Nokia C3-00. It was one of the budget offerings with a QWERTY keyboard and WiFi support, and it was pretty awesome for the time, and still is to an extent.

  By that point I cycled through a few touchscreen phones beginning from tiny Samsung junkers to mid-range Chinese phones we would have called “phablets” a few years back and got used to touchscreens. I’m typing this right now on a touchscreen and it’s pretty nice, yeah autocorrect is wrong some of the time but it is solid most of the time, and I can type really fast. Typing on a phone with a small physical keyboard was eye opening in a way. It felt slow, and I had to actually put some effort into pushing the buttons to make them register. In all fairness, it could be the age of the phone making the buttons stiff.

  Something else is how the labels on the buttons eventually wear out. If this was a physical keyboard I could just replace it, but a small panel of keys built into a phone? Yeah not really replaceable.

  I get that all those very tall, very flat slabs of plastic and metal can get boring very quickly, but I guess because there’s not so much more left to perfect that form factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever had a shave in a barber shop or spa?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m almost 30 for fuck’s sake, I know it’s not rational

  But I have this impulse go to a barber like that. It’s just a kind of refreshingly different vibe I guess?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quite true⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many more memes are like this? More popular than their original show? The Office memes maybe? Dinkleberg or Mr. Turner’s trophy if he had one? That new show about superheroes with one of them called Homelander?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I swear, the whole outrage over EGS can only be plainly and simply explained as the stupid “no steam no buy”. When a game remains exclusive to this DRM launcher madr by an American corporation for 50 years, all is well in the world, but when the game becomes exclusives to that DRM launcher by made that other American corporation for a year, suddenly all hell breaks loose. They’re both the same toxin! Just blind devotion to a company that only did very pro-consumer things like make lootboxes really popular and making it hip and cool to give up ownership of your games.

  For the record, that other American corporation’s wealthy CEO should really just shut up. Or really, any American wealthy CEO for that matter, their grand standing over freeze peach isn’t worth the oxygen required to produce it instead of just… not enabling CSAM like normal platforms do?