Psythik
@Psythik@lemmy.world
- Comment on What’s up with Myrrh being more prevalent? 6 days ago:
Confirmation bias. I’m not seeing this word anywhere except in your post.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Same. Been arguing with the realtor and wife with this? Who the fuck wants painted white cabinets over a nice stained wood? Whoever buys the house is going to have a hell of a time sanding it off.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’m having this argument with my realtor right now. She wants me to paint the entire house a boring white color, destroying all of its character; even ruin the wood cabinets by painting them too. I think she’s crazy but the wife is siding with her so I don’t know what the fuck to do. I don’t want to ruin my beautiful stained wood with ugly, white paint. I find it hard to believe that this is what actually sells.
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you can, but the game is so boring that I never played long enough to find out. That’s the point I’m making.
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 2 weeks ago:
No.
The sameness of every planet was a major turnoff for me, plus the scale of the universe pretty much guarantees that you’ll never run into another player organically. The game is basically just Minecraft in space, except worse.
This is the reason why I don’t like procedurally-generated games. What’s the point of a big, massive universe, if it’s nothing but a bunch of generated sameness? Environments that weren’t handcrafted are a major turnoff for me. As someone who sees video games as art, it just feels soulless and empty. Like AI-generated art, except it’s an entire game.
- Comment on Free PC Game Keys to Give Away (Merry Christmas!) 2 weeks ago:
Bruh you forgot about me… :|
Pretty sure I asked for Arkham Knight before anyone else. No point in complaining about free lunch, but still…
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
There is no guarantee, because they’re not seeding. There’s one hit-and-run, then the torrent is cached on a server for anyone to directly download. Again, IMO one hit-and-run is still better than thousands.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
Correct. Without a Debrid service, you stream the torrent directly from the tracker. It’s also slow AF for all but the most popular content so you really don’t want to go without.
(In my experience most torrents are already cached on Debrid, BTW, so there’s no hit and run since you’re just downloading the file directly from a server.)
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
Caching a torrent isn’t leeching. Like the other person said, it actually helps because it prevents multiple people from doing a hit and run. The torrent only needs to get cached once, and then everyone can just directly download that file, bypassing the torrent entirely.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
Stremio is free, the service you need to cache the torrents (Real-Debrid) isn’t. It’s about $/€3 per month, which is still cheaper than a VPN (which you need for torrents but not for Stremio/Debrid).
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
Stremio isn’t going away, just like Qbittorrent isn’t going away.
It doesn’t actually host any illegal content. Stremio alone is nothing more than a film and TV database. It’s not illegal to make a database.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
I’d argue that you’re not really hurting the torrent, since most torrents are already pre-cached. It only needs to be cached once for thousands to enjoy the file.
Yeah it’s not ideal, but one hit and run isn’t going to make a dent in the grand scheme of things.
- Comment on The show I was watching went from "Free" to "Paid" *while I was watching it* 2 weeks ago:
Nah fuck all that. Just get Stremio + Torrentio
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything? 2 weeks ago:
The only use I could see for learning the language is if you use a lot of Russian torrent sites, and are too lazy to switch the language back to English when installing games from them.
- Comment on Free PC Game Keys to Give Away (Merry Christmas!) 2 weeks ago:
Arkham Knight, please and thank you
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 3 weeks ago:
Yep I split my time between Lemmy and Imgur to fill the void after leaving reddit, cause Lemmy alone unfortunately isn’t enough to show you everything there was to see on reddit.
That said, be warned that it’s corporate owners have no problems with collecting as much data as they can off your phone and selling it to anyone who’s buying. Just look at this shit:
So if you do decide to go there, do yourself a favor and wear a condom. Install DuckDuckGo and enable “app tracking protection”, and get a DNS-level adblocker on your phone as well. AdGuard or NextDNS are both fine choices.
- Comment on How pixel art looked completely different on CRT monitors 3 weeks ago:
And this is the reason why I use pixel filters like HQ4X, because it’s the closest you’ll get to how the games actually looked back in the day, with the added bonus of a much increased resolution.
IMO if you can see the pixels, you’re not playing vintage games the right way. You couldn’t see them then, so why should you see them now? CRT filters are getting much better too if you hate the HQX look.
- Comment on We're going backwards 3 weeks ago:
Why would anyone want to stay anywhere but a hotel/resort on vacation? How does AirBnB handle housekeeping services? It’s not really up to the guest to clean, right?
- Comment on We're going backwards 3 weeks ago:
Perfectly sums up why I always pick a chain hotel for my vacations. I’m here to relax, not follow a cleaning checklist.
I mean, seriously, does AirBnB really not include housekeeping services as part of your stay? Why would anyone agree to this?
- Comment on Apparently, all YouTube Rewinds have been unlisted as of today. 3 weeks ago:
The only good thing YT Rewind was for was finding out what kind of boring bullshit channels normies watch.
- Comment on don't tell the cable company about the splitter 3 weeks ago:
I just bought RGB to VGA adapters for my consoles instead (and S-Video to VGA for the earlier consoles that didn’t support VGA without a mod chip). It was a lot easier to haul a 19" CRT monitor over a 25" CRT TV, due to not only being smaller, but having fewer circuitry as well since you don’t need a tuner. The image was a lot better too for obvious reasons.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 3 weeks ago:
You guys talking about RoboCop: Rogue City that’s already on PC?
If so, don’t get too excited. The game is mostly a mindless shoot-em-up. I was bored in under an hour.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Optimus Robot shuts down after reproducing the gesture of its human operator removing their headset 3 weeks ago:
There was a RoboCop 2!?
- Comment on Bread mold 4 weeks ago:
Anytime I hear this argument from someone, I tell them to go look up the term, “survivorship bias”.
- Comment on Bread mold 4 weeks ago:
You can do this with harder foods that aren’t filled with moisture and air like bread is. Please don’t eat around moldy bread ever.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 4 weeks ago:
I used to back in the late 90s-early 2000s in StarCraft: BroodWar when I was a kid. Mainly because I was absolute trash and was trying to compete.
My favorite hacks were map hacks (removes fog of war) and stack hacks (construct buildings on top of each other to fit more in your base). I also used a no-CD crack and a disconnect hack so that I would never have a loss on my record.
Even with these hacks I was still trash at StarCraft, and always will be. Gave up on RTS games a long time ago. Hacks can’t save you from poor resource management and low APM.
Haven’t hacked in a game since. I heard that hacks cost money these days. I couldn’t possibly imagine paying real money to cheat. The closest I get to cheating in games today is playing mobile shooters in an Android emulator on PC. That way I can take advantage of mouse & keyboard + playing on a larger 4K HFR screen for smoother framerates and better visibility over a phone screen. But that’s allowed (Tencent even has an official emulator for this very thing), and many mobile shooters will detect M&KB input and try to only match you with other players using the same input method, so I’m not sure if you can really call that cheating.
It does give me an advantage, though.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 weeks ago:
I answered a similar question from another user. Here is my response:
The criteria is whatever I feel like at the moment if/when I ultimately decide to bookmark. There is no hard set rule, because again, I have ADHD.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 weeks ago:
The criteria is whatever I feel like at the moment if/when I ultimately decide to bookmark. There is no hard set rule, because again, I have ADHD.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 4 weeks ago:
For me it’s because I have ADHD and thrive among organized clutter.
I may have 100 tabs open, but they’re all categorized: One tab group for YouTube, one for porn, one for my website, and one for everything else. I keep stuff in there that’s good enough to hang onto for a while, but not good enough to bookmark.
- Comment on Can I make a Bluetooth button to skip YouTube ads on the computer? 5 weeks ago:
I thought RVX was dead? Did they bring it back? I’ve been using the normal ReVanced and it works great.
