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- Comment on SILENT HILL f | Release Date Trailer (September 25) 4 days ago:
F in the chat
- Comment on Musk and Zuck ‘Use Our Love for Each Other to Hold Us Hostage’ 1 week ago:
Ditching FB was one of the easier things for me back when I did it right after the Cambridge Analytica thing.
Still share photos with family, just do it directly now.
I keep in touch with all my friends who are actually friends.
EZPZ.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 week ago:
Interesting.
I have switched to Mango Languages because my library gives free access to it. So I’ve been trying to share that information with people. Or, at least, check your local library to see if they offer something.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 2 weeks ago:
If you have a library card, you might check with your library to see if they have free access to something like Mango Languages, as well.
Mine does, so I can use that app for free. I’m probably going to switch to it as my main app soon because this guy is an asshole.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 2 weeks ago:
I’m so close to letting my streak die because of this dude. Fuck him.
My library (and check yours, too!) has free access to Mango Languages, and what I have tried there has been nice. But they don’t guilt trip you into doing lessons so you have to keep on top of it yourself.
- Comment on Square Enix considered ending Final Fantasy 11 in 2024, but player interest was high enough to keep it alive even after 20+ years 2 weeks ago:
I appreciate that they didn’t kill the game. If people are still paying for it, and presumably making even a little profit, it’s probably not that hard to keep it running.
Too, I don’t really know how I’ll feel if/when FFXIV ever shuts down. I have had a character now since 2.0, and I would be very sad to see them go. I imagine it’s the same for some folks who have been playing 11 for 20 years.
- Comment on Square Enix considered ending Final Fantasy 11 in 2024, but player interest was high enough to keep it alive even after 20+ years 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I played it for the first time in the last couple of years, too.
And I enjoyed the game more than I expected to. It’s a lot slower, like you said, than FFXIV for example, but that’s OK.
I agree that I’d love a bit of a remake that just made a few things more streamlined like linking up attacks with my trust party - which I found to be often nearly impossible to do, even with mods.
- Comment on Square Enix considered ending Final Fantasy 11 in 2024, but player interest was high enough to keep it alive even after 20+ years 2 weeks ago:
So I was on a personal mission to beat every mainline FF game a couple years ago. For 14 I considered “beat” to mean be up to date with the story (which I was doing anyway), and for 11 I wanted to at least complete the story that the game shipped with simply because I didn’t want to sink TOO much time into it.
Anyway, you are able to get from 1-50 and kill the Shadowlord on your own now. I can attest to that. And after doing that I have now successfully finished FF1-16!
On my server there were still plenty of people. I don’t know how many are gold bot farmers. But there was still lots of characters running around.
- Comment on Court ruling bars Apple from charging 27% commission on purchases outside the App Store 5 weeks ago:
Haha, get fucked.
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- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 1 month ago:
Sure, Jan.
- Comment on Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? - Hackaday 1 month ago:
I’ve dumped FF for Zen and Waterfox.
Zen’s only downside is that it can’t play some DRM media like some sports websites.
- Comment on Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? - Hackaday 1 month ago:
I wonder if Waterfox allows this. It’s MOSTLY Firefox but without going down the AI trash route.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
My Windows 10 PC’s only function at this point is to play FFXIV in my living room, so I’m not super worried about viruses or anything.
But maybe eventually I’ll switch to Linux on that box and do that weird set-up to get FFXIV running there.
- Comment on Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages 2 months ago:
“Hello?”
“Hey Dave…wait what’s that noise?”
“Oh that’s my washer and dryer going.”
“Can you move to the other room? I can’t hear you very well.”
“No, the call is on my washer.”
“WHAT?”
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds: First Impressions After the Long-Awaited Release 2 months ago:
I think last night I hit HR38 or so, so I have played it about 40 hours.
And I will start by saying this my first Monster Hunter. I have zero old baggage or knowledge coming in (other than trying Rise for maybe an hour because it was free on PSN+ and that not clicking at all).
Performance: I fortunately have a 120hz VRR OLED, so the 40fps mode on my PS5 is pretty solid. It feels good. No, I will not be taking questions from PC zealots at this time - though I do feel bad for you guys that it sounds like there are some issues there they need to resolve. On console it’s pretty solid.
The game: I’m really enjoying it. Like I said, I don’t have any prior experience really coming in, so it’s all new to me. And after what felt like climbing a sheer cliffside of learning curve to understand how to just play the game, I’m vibing with most all of it now. It was really hard to adjust my brain to think that Square is NOT the attack button, but rather Circle and Triangle. But once that clicked finally, I’m Charge Blading and Bug Lancing all over the place. It’s fun.
I’ve read some complaints here and there about the wound system, but I like it. I like doing cool moves in the middle of a fight for big damage.
The worst part of the game is playing with others. Once you get it working it’s fun to play with friends. But just getting to that point is awful. I’m reminded of that meme of the three dragon heads where the two, serious ones on the left are the graphics and gameplay, and the derpy one on the right is multiplayer. I shouldn’t have to look up online how to do what I’d assume is a simple thing: play with my friends. No one knows what a lobby is versus a link party versus an environment link party versus a squad…It’s all too much shit up front to learn and untangle. It took my brothers and I about an hour to set up a game the first time we tried. It’s madness.
But overall, I’m still enjoying this game. I don’t care that it’s “easier” like I hear from some people. It’s fun. My sword and shield turns into a chainsaw. I’m having a good time.
- Comment on New study shows more Americans want TikTok to stay as sale deadline approaches 2 months ago:
I’ve never used TikTok other than seeing some posts a friend might share in a group chat. But I don’t think it’s for me.
I’ve tried Loops, and maybe the “swipe down for a new video of someone saying/doing something dumb” just isn’t my cup of tea. I dunno.
“But the algorithm knows what you like!” someone will say. I don’t want algorithms anymore, to be honest.
- Comment on Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees 2 months ago:
Hah, I JUST had a conversation with my boss about whether or not I was using the “new” outlook or the “old” outlook.
He’s apparently using the “old” outlook because there’s a toggle switch in the upper right of his window that says “try the new outlook!” and I don’t have that, meaning…I guess I’m using the “new” outlook?
Who knows at this point. It’s all trash.
- Comment on Teslas have been consuming a lot of gasoline lately. 2 months ago:
I thought this joke was going to be about all the cybertrucks needing towing because of yet another recall.
- Comment on The Humane Ai Pin Will Become E-Waste Next Week 3 months ago:
“Become?”
🌎🧑🚀🔫👨🚀
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 3 months ago:
I hate this dumbshit as much as trump, but we shouldn’t be sharing fake twitter posts. It doesn’t help anything.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 3 months ago:
The first planes only flew for a few seconds.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 3 months ago:
What’s also wild to me is if these were buddies of Jesus, they had this story of his birth, then nothing for thirty years, then a couple things, then death.
Where are all the stories about teenage Jesus doing sick jumps off a camel or whatever? We are missing a few decades of knowledge about this supposed most important person ever.
- Comment on Far to many people think that Jesus from the Bible was light skinned, even though he grew up in what we call the Middle East. 3 months ago:
I remember when I learned all the gospels were written decades after the “fact.”
I can’t remember what I ate for lunch yesterday, and we are supposed to believe people played a game of telephone for a few decades and got everything correct when writing it down?
Sure, Jan.
- Comment on Gulf of Make a Report to Apple 3 months ago:
Yep.
I have tried on my phone and Mac, and I can’t submit anything. Even for other locations.
- Comment on “This was CS50”: Yale ends largest computer science course 3 months ago:
I took one of the free CS50 classes (among others) on EdX years and years ago, and honestly it helped get me into the business and into the job I have now.
It’s fun to joke I took a MIT class for free. But it honestly helped me learn some logic and enough stuff to get me going.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 3 months ago:
Unless the game has its own subscription, like Final Fantasy XIV.
Unless that has changed over the years. I’m not sure.
- Comment on Is Civilization 7 not fun? 3 months ago:
Yeah, I now have six hours in the game between last night and today. I actually finally just stopped after a few hour stretch.
I’m having fun! But I also have seen some bugs. I can get behind waiting if some smaller bugs are annoying, but I’m enjoying the game quite a bit.
I’m pretty happy that it runs alright on my Mac Mini M4. Starts up quick and gets going. It defaults to High settings but I turned the shadows down a bit just to keep things a little smoother.
- Comment on MSI and ASUS hike GeForce RTX 50 series prices in official stores, now up to $3,409 for RTX 5090 3 months ago:
My 1070 still plays Final Fantasy XIV just fine, so I think I keep my $3,400, thanks.
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 4 months ago:
AMD now has “Max” chips and Dell now has “Pro” and “Max” laptops.
Everyone copying Apple.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 4 months ago:
“…whenever we have 8K TVs and content.”
The TVs exist, but there won’t be content for years and years. Companies barely stream usable 4K right now.