harmonea
@harmonea@kbin.social
Middle-aged gamer/creative/wiki maintainer
FFXIV, Genshin Impact, Tears of Themis, Rimworld, and more
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- Comment on When there's shenanigans at Risa, it's the usual suspects. 1 year ago:
I swear some days I see as many memes about the people posting memes as I see memes from those posters.
- Comment on Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ 1 year ago:
"Clobber" implies violence, which is somehow even less elegant than the standard phrase that the haphazard "cobble" implies. Given the shitshow of X so far, clobber probably works better even if it's not the usual way to phrase this at all.
- Comment on Diversity 1 year ago:
Source for fun. Japanese people discussing their favorite countries. The woman in OP is discussing Belgium!
- Comment on Kinda weird bro 1 year ago:
Being horny is harmless and fun. There would be a lot more chill in the world if people would stop being so wound up about it.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 player finds “rarest” ending where characters are dogs and cats - Dexerto 1 year ago:
People can also apply the slightest semblance of critical thinking and realize most gaming journalism outfits, no matter their questionable quality, will realize they won't last long if there are true spoilers in the titles. Therefore this isn't really a spoiler.
Like they're obviously going to phrase things in ways that get more engagement, which is why it's a crucial skill on the internet today that readers need to think critically and not just accept headlines literally.
I'm not saying it's right, but jfc man, you have to develop skills to engage with the internet you have, not the internet you wish you had. I really feel no sympathy for people who thought this was a spoiler. At least this is a cheap lesson in gullibility instead of a costly one.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 player finds “rarest” ending where characters are dogs and cats - Dexerto 1 year ago:
But then they wouldn't get so many clicks and reactions.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3 player finds “rarest” ending where characters are dogs and cats - Dexerto 1 year ago:
Everyone's malding over spoilers and not realizing this isn't an actual ending that's coded into the game, it's just a funny side effect of a spell that malfunctioned during the end boss.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 18-09-2023 1 year ago:
I'm glad you had fun with it. Do accept that my inability to have fun with it doesn't negate any of the enjoyment you got out of it. Respectfully, something this long instructing me of all the ways I must have played it wrong if I didn't enjoy it as much as you comes off as a little condescending. I'm sure it wasn't your intent, but like... I know I have the option to put it down or skip things. I know I can pay off bounties. I was there, these systems and ideas are not hard to find. But for me, the fact that I'm allowed to skip engaging with a system or put it down before I see all the devs put there for me to see is the opposite of a selling point.
For me, it's like I ordered a meal at a favorite restaurant, the plate came out with portions three times larger than expected and gorgeously plated but with so little seasoning I couldn't stomach it. Saying "you don't have to eat it all" and "there's salt on the table" doesn't make it a good meal.
We find different things fun, and that's okay. May we both have a good time with Mirage.
- Comment on The Weekly 'What are you playing?' Discussion - 18-09-2023 1 year ago:
I love AC. Or... did.
AC Odyssey was the first one in the entire series I couldn't push myself to finish. I used to love just bumping around eliminating every single map icon, but Odyssey was way, way too big, and having my zen ruined by bounty hunters all the time was exhausting.
I heard Valhalla was even worse. It was the first one I skipped after playing each one since the original (even some of the 2D ones).
- Comment on Instance Protectionism in the Threadiverse happens because of the Prisoner’s Dilemma (protecting one's own instance is currently more sensible than increasing overall discussion quality) 1 year ago:
I almost never used all on reddit.
On the fediverse, I use it every day. There isn't enough content in my subscribed feed, so I check the "good stuff" first and then pop over to see what's interesting elsewhere.
- Comment on what are these floating on the surface 1 year ago:
the black spots you get in clothes when you leave them in a wet pile for too long
We call that mold or mildew.
- Comment on The Louder the Monkey, the Smaller Its Balls, Study Finds 1 year ago:
I mean, we were all thinking it. Putting the warning to stop us from doing so seriously while still indulging the joke was the right way to go.
- Comment on Hey, new federated user from Hexbear here 1 year ago:
It's specific to Xi Jinping. Chinese memelords started it in ~2013, and he was so offended by it that the Streisand Effect kicked in.
- Comment on A generational gap on Wikipedia - 91% of WP admins started editing before 2010 1 year ago:
It's not that bizarre - a community that's coalescing around an open source project is sure to be a lot more inclined toward technical hobbies than the one that gathers around an otome game. I knew that from the start... but still, I was hoping for more like-minded fans than none. Back when I started editing on an MMORPG wiki, people were a lot more willing to pitch in, even if they weren't that confident.
Glad to hear your project is going well, at least.
- Comment on A generational gap on Wikipedia - 91% of WP admins started editing before 2010 1 year ago:
Everyone's pointing out that this is specifically about admins (not editors) and the general difficulty of wikipedia editing specifically due to its rules and reversions, but I really feel compelled to offer a counterpoint: this applies to wiki editing in general.
I've been editing mediawiki-based game sites since the mid 2000s - before Wikia became Fandom, before it was evil, before it started gobbling up smaller wikis with tempting financial offers. I took a decade+ off and only recently found myself drawn back into the hobby in the last couple of years when I found a game I loved that had a burgeoning wiki that seemed to need help.
I was handed admin privileges within a month because an extension I wanted to use (ReplaceText) was locked behind admin. Two years later, I'm still there because I hold 85-90% of the edits on it. And I. Just. Can't. Get. Help. Not even from the site owner that handed me admin. I've gotten interest from I think seven whole people in all that time, and all but two dropped off within a week or two; the remaining two have a page or two they each maintain but leave the rest of the site to me. And this is a live service game, so it's a neverending stream of event pages and new content that I, and only I, keep going.
No one wants to learn how to edit wikis anymore. It doesn't have to do with the high position or the rules of a specific site. It's a dying hobby viewed as too hard for content consumers to wrap their heads around.
- Comment on People are having sex in self-driving cars, apparently 1 year ago:
Corollary: are there really that many people who don't know their own tastes well enough that they can avoid browsing the general pages for recs like someone who doesn't know what to have for dinner?
Pornhub gets maybe one visit every ~three months from me, and I jump straight to a favorite search term even then. The rest is in niche subs or more specialized sites.
- Comment on The Fall of Stack Overflow 1 year ago:
Most of the comments here seem to be arguing whether it's better to get help now from SO or ChatGPT, but this is a pretty short-sighted mindset.
What happens when the next new standard comes out that ChatGPT hasn't been trained on? If SO tanks and dies, where will you go?
I'm not saying use a lesser resource, I'm saying this is kinda tragic and I hope they can sustain themselves; AI is propped up by human input and can't train itself.