Telorand

@Telorand@reddthat.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel game, developed with the Chinese firm NetEase, ‘bans’ the words ‘free Taiwan’ and ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh sure. I’m still gonna make fun of them for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marvel game, developed with the Chinese firm NetEase, ‘bans’ the words ‘free Taiwan’ and ‘Winnie-the-Pooh’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The game is one of the most popular on the market and is No 5 in the charts on Steam, the gaming platform.

  Ah, yes. Thanks for the clarification. I was thinking Steam, the third state of water, and I was confused how people were playing videogames on that. /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No shitpost, just posting the best soda in America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Late to the party, but yes. In fact, you can buy brewing kits with yeast and sugar to create the carbonation, which are the same components you’d use to brew and ferment beer.

  No idea what the alcohol content would be, but it would be more than typical soda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 12th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just started Deathloop over the weekend.

  The VA work is amazing, and it controls a lot like Dishonored, but there’s less emphasis on stealth and more on playing how you want. I’ve been able to blend stealth and regular gunplay, and it still feels nice and balanced. The AI seems to have much more awareness and combat ability, so picking how and where to pick people off or start a gunfight is fun!

  And since the game is based around time travel, choosing not to kill some people might open up future paths. It’s great!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disgusting money driven mindset⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It would only be more obvious if they used sock puppets, controlled by the CEO as he tries to use different voices for each one.

  One of the bots even copy-pasted the CEO’s words as if they were their own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disgusting money driven mindset⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Big “you can’t quit, because you’re fired” energy.

  I’m sure people will be lining up to work for you, now!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Extreme Disconnect between Game Journalists, Developers, and their Audience⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My instance doesn’t show any of that, and neither does my app. So if anyone has that info automatically, it’s because their instance admin or app dev did that for their specific case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout 76 Ghoul Experience Detailed by Bethesda⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the first two games, but I’ve never played them. I’ve done 3 and 76 (the latter of which I hear borrows heavily from 4).

  Are the first two better narrative-wise?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout 76 Ghoul Experience Detailed by Bethesda⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and it’s not that I think Fallout is bad, it’s just…I think it feels too cartoonish? Like, people are supposed to be struggling, but despite the post-apocalyptic setting, each faction has their own little kingdom and seems to be doing alright. Medicine and stim packs abound, and nobody is really living on the knife’s edge.

  And while that’s at least partly by design (supposed to be satirical sometimes), it doesn’t feel completely satirical, like Saints Row, or completely serious, like the Metro series. It’s caught somewhere in the middle, and I think that’s what doesn’t appeal to me; I want it to be silly or not silly, and it rides that line in a way I don’t like.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout 76 Ghoul Experience Detailed by Bethesda⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t hate it, I just got bored. I felt similarly after Fallout 3. I think that universe just isn’t for me (also, the weight limits are ass for free players). I played the Metro series before Fallout, and I think it kinda set the bar too high.

  I’m not surprised people still play, though. It’s pretty fun, and people are generally nice. There’s lots to do, and the quests are decent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like Elon Musk, 1 in 3 bosses admit they are pushing RTO because they're so upset about wasting money on all those empty desks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ours tried full RTO, and then they compromised with hybrid WFH when they lost many skilled people who had been there for 10+ years to remote positions at other companies. Sometimes with little to no warning.

  Some execs gotta learn the hard way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I worked at the state University, we had lists to check that stuff. Sometimes it’s obvious, other times, not so much. Good catch!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the reason. Every public school, like University of Chicago, has non-resident pricing that’s typically two to four times higher than in-state resident tuition. Source: used to work at a state university.

  The original idea was probably to encourage people to stay within their state and boost the state economy, but greed from the admins kinda changed the nature of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks is on the cusp of a major barista strike⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Barista strike” sounds so cool.

  Baristas locked and loaded. Starbucks headquarters is in our sights. Ready to strike on your command, sir.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Two Genders⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s literally supposed to become a Witcher in her own right. Geralt isn’t training her to be his eternal assistant or some kind of sidepiece, after all.

  It would be neat if this leads to two storylines that sometimes intersect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot Games is cracking down on players’ off-platform conduct⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I stopped playing years ago because I was tired of the toxicity directed just at other people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RomCom exploits Firefox and Windows zero days in the wild⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tldr:

  • Analysis of the exploit led to the discovery of the vulnerability, now assigned CVE-2024-9680: a use-after-free bug in the animation timeline feature in Firefox. Mozilla patched the vulnerability on October 9th, 2024.

  • Further analysis revealed another zero-day vulnerability in Windows: a privilege escalation bug, now assigned CVE‑2024‑49039, that allows code to run outside of Firefox’s sandbox. Microsoft released a patch for this second vulnerability on November 12th, 2024.

  If you’re up to date on your security patches, you’re fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best anti-work movies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
  • Hackers
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was in the same boat. Banks are lazy and often won’t underwrite custom loans that fall outside their automatic software, but there are still some who will.

  If you don’t have a score (which I’m convinced some mortgage people think means a bad score, because they’re fucking idiots who can’t listen), you can ask to speak to someone in charge or go elsewhere, but there are lenders who will work with you. Got ours through USDA, which took longer and was custom underwriting, but still got the terms about two weeks later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are Americans supposed to survive the next 30 years?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, the ones who survive well are the ones who build communities that take care of each other: Sharing meals, sharing gardens, sharing skills and labor, sharing rides, sharing emotions and stories, etc.

  Capitalism was always pushing the US towards a gigantic class divide, and Boomers and Gen X carried that torch at the expense of their descendants’ future. Communities of support are something that will have helped regardless of who is carrying what ideology and regardless of who is in charge, and they thrive in adversity.

  So if you’re looking for advice, build your local communities. Strengthen your bonds with your neighbors. Participate in local governance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk and Ramaswamy float ending remote work for federal employees and ‘large-scale firings’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know what I said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk and Ramaswamy float ending remote work for federal employees and ‘large-scale firings’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a joint effort of idiocy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk and Ramaswamy float ending remote work for federal employees and ‘large-scale firings’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because half the voting population is idiots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tetris Forever is an incomplete tribute to the best game of all time⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it mention the Shnigedy Ding Dong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jake Rule vs Mike Ruleson⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably, but a bit of wounded pride on top would be good for Jake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jake Rule vs Mike Ruleson⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, Jake has already lost. If he wins, people will say he beat up a 58yo man, former boxer or not. If he loses, he got beat up by a 58yo man.

  Like, there’s no way he can actually win in the square of public opinion, and I’m here for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh, if this is how Japan does patent law, it’s a wonder they have as much technological progress as they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not, but there’s a preexisting patent, and these three are basically extensions of that patent.

  Essentially, Palworld needed to know what supplementary payments Nintendo was going to file in the future in Japan so they didn’t run afoul of the patent from the past. You know, textbook legal psychic stuff, really. /s

  I hope Nintendo hurts itself in its confusion as its lawyers flail before the Japanese courts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨malicious backdoor found in widely used game mod by Low Level [YouTube]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Man if that’s the case, that really sucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨malicious backdoor found in widely used game mod by Low Level [YouTube]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tldr: it’s a crypto wallet stealer.

  Always be wary of unknown code. Check comments on sites like Nexus. Run installers through virus checks.