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- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 18 hours ago:
Your username has a typo
- Comment on Fan hacks Animal Crossing to make it compatible with GameCube Keyboard Controller and much more 3 days ago:
The GC didn’t have a keyboard, so it was useful for MMORPGs. Not sure if I should be pluralizing that, though. It might’ve only been PSO.
- Comment on I'm setting up a Windows 11 laptop for my uncle. Is there a sneaky way to make it block right-wing bullshit websites? 3 days ago:
If he’s living with you, you could try to block it at the router/firewall level.
On the machine, I’d just make it really slow rather than block it outright. Make it as unpleasant as possible to access those sites without blocking them outright. Making them slow makes it look like the sites suck. Blocking them makes it look like you did it or some conspiracy thing.
But if he lives with you, blocking them from your network is perfectly ethical imo
- Comment on Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition is free to claim on Epic 5 days ago:
I got the base game for free a few years ago.
I played and enjoyed it so much I bought the Platinum edition…on Steam, because it was cheaper there. (And other reasons, but this was the biggest one)
One of the few games I actually went out and bought thanks to Epic. I feel slightly bad for not buying from them, lol
- Comment on The Switch 2's price won't be impacted by Japan's new tariffs, but its games might 2 weeks ago:
“impacts” has been in my vocabulary for as long as I remember, and it’s common to use it that way. The dictionaries even have that definition.
I’m not afraid of language evolving.
- Comment on The Switch 2's price won't be impacted by Japan's new tariffs, but its games might 2 weeks ago:
If media can say “slammed” to mean “said something about”, I can use “impacted” to mean “affected”. Especially when we have the word “impactful”.
- Comment on Can it take months to get over being laid off? 3 weeks ago:
Yes.
And I see that you asked a different question in your post, too.
Yes to that, too.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 4 weeks ago:
If an ordered item arrives broken once, it’s a shitty delivery company. 1-star probably isn’t warranted unless the company is shitty about replacing it.
If an ordered item arrives broken regularly, it’s a problem that the company should’ve fixed.
If a game doesn’t work on one person’s machine, maybe they’ve got a bunch of malware installed or something.
If it doesn’t work on many people’s machines that meet the recommended specs, the company is at fault and deserves bad reviews.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 4 weeks ago:
If it runs poorly on the recommended specs, bad reviews are warranted.
- Comment on What do you think the solution to selling progressive politics to young men is ? 5 weeks ago:
Real men are woke
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 5 weeks ago:
I dunno, Yoshi’s Island can get pretty hard…
- Comment on Why can countries recognise both... 5 weeks ago:
Why are North Korea and South Korea both recognized internationally?
[the rest of the explanation here]
- Comment on Why can countries recognise both... 5 weeks ago:
It’s a bad choice, imo. The title should usually have the entire question within.
- Comment on Why can countries recognise both... 5 weeks ago:
I know this doesn’t answer your question, but I think something went wrong with your formatting. In Voyager (Lemmy), your title seems to be cut off, and the body of your post is way bigger than it should be, lol
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Do you live somewhere that you can get around without relying on a car (or someone with a car)?
If not, can you reasonably move to and live in a place like that?
If those are options, do those.
If not, learn how to drive properly and safely. DO NOT drive unless you feel in control of the car on public roads.
“Not being good at multitasking” isn’t an excuse to put people’s lives in danger.
Some people need more time to learn and practice and that’s fine. You need to take responsibility and take that time to learn and practice.
It may need more than lessons. It might require therapy. But if you need to drive, then you need to drive safely. And relying on other people to drive for you is not the answer either.
- Comment on Instead of asking all my stupid questions separately, could I just get a ton of "How to Adult" type resources in the comments? 5 weeks ago:
Last I heard, “learning styles” are a myth
- Comment on How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years? 1 month ago:
Going forward? RetroAchievements, Steam, GOG, and LaunchBox to tie it all together. PSN trophy integration to LaunchBox would be cool too, because PS3 stuff is never coming to any of those platforms and I have history there, too.
For historical stuff, that’s in my memory exclusively.
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 month ago:
The first console with a framebuffer was the 3DO. The first console people cared about with a framebuffer was the PSX.
I cared about the 3DO…
Thanks for the info though!
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 month ago:
I was looking it up, and games like Super Mario World are allegedly at 60fps according to some random things on the internet
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure the 16-bit era were generally 60FPS
- Comment on Why do low framerates *feel* so much worse on modern video games? 1 month ago:
Bro when Majora’s mask came out nothing was 60fps lol
Huh? 60fps was the standard, at least in Japan and North America, because TVs were at 60Hz/fps.
Actually, 60.0988fps according to speed runners.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
To the last point, I wouldn’t trust anyone at your departing airport who tells you your bag will go to the destination. Almost lost a bag that way. Thankfully, my uncertainty made me ask again at the layover airport “just in case”…lol
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Gotta ask. Do you really think this community has a list of pornographic actresses names and automatically filters posts with them?
Aside from that, ChatGPT isn’t a reliable source of information, and probably can’t tell you much about another source’s reliability… especially on a topic like this.
- Comment on The McRecession - Has Fast Food Cooked Itself? 2 months ago:
Gatekeeping food, of all things? Lol
- Comment on Can the Internet be an ethnicity? 2 months ago:
Yeah, there are subcultures within “Internet culture”…but these days, I don’t think “Internet culture” is cohesive (and omnipresent) enough yet to call it a “culture”.
It’s complicated and messy. Hard to define, lol
- Comment on Can the Internet be an ethnicity? 2 months ago:
Ethnicity, no.
Culture, I think that’d be a bit of a strong claim.
Sub-culture, definitely.
- Comment on SILENT HILL 2 remake gets a surprise GOG release 2 months ago:
GOG is doing amazing work these days. I’m always happy to support them when I can.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Should’ve been “Until the tariffs are gone, right?”
- Comment on Gaming Website Polgyon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Layoffs 2 months ago:
“Mom! I want to read articles on Polygon!”
We have Polygon at home.
The Polygon at home:
Polgyon
- Comment on 34% of the US population doesn't vote. Why do polticalitcians cling to the idea that these voters can't be reached? 2 months ago:
your options are shite and I refuse them all is a valid vote, why make it harder for someone to choose that than necessary?
The only way that’s communicated is by officially declining the ballot. And I agree with the other commenter that it should be easier to do this.
By not voting, you’re communicating “They’re all fine; I can’t be assed to pick”.