Psythik
@Psythik@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon likes pizza 1 week ago:
I mean it’s kind of hard to beat unlimited toppings for $12 at the pizza place I go to, even if you do make everything from scratch.
- Comment on Anon is a nice guy 1 week ago:
I noticed this too. People like me a lot more when I roast them with confidence, and then laugh in their face about it instead of apologizing or saying “I’m just kidding”. You can get away with saying a lot if you say it with a smile. Of course this only works if the other person is smiling too. Be mean with a smile, but don’t burn too deep and attack their insecurities.
- Comment on Anon likes pizza 1 week ago:
Yeah seriously; I made pizza at home once, and the basic ingredients ended up costing more than getting pizza for takeout. So even though it was fun, I never attempted it again.
- Comment on Anon time travels 2 weeks ago:
Glad I’m not the only one who noticed this as a millennial. Back in the 80s, 90s, and up until around the mid 2000s, technology seemed to make major leaps and bounds into the future every two years. Things were constantly evolving; but ever since HDTV/gaming and Android/iOS hit the scene, it’s like tech stopped evolving and started iterating instead.
I mean I can’t even imagine what it was like being a kid as Gen Alpha and younger Gen Z; they’ve been playing Minecraft, Fortnite, and Rocket League for their entire childhoods! Meanwhile I saw the evolution from 8-bit to 16-bit to 3D to HD, to 4K HDR with Ray Tracing! Every 3-4 months I was playing the newest hot game! The only exception from my childhood was Counter-Strike, and even then, there’s been several CS titles released over the years.
Technology seems to have practically stopped evolving. It’s mind blowing when you think about it. I wonder when we’ll finally hit the limits of die shrinking and enter a technology dark age…?
- Comment on Anon has a tip 3 weeks ago:
I don’t. It never returns relevant results.
- Comment on He took it literally 4 weeks ago:
Yes this only works in the US. No matter what they say, the only words that should be coming out of your mouth is “I would like to speak with a lawyer”. And then close your mouth. Police in the US are allowed to lie to you to get the information you need, but asking for a lawyer right at the start shuts the entire conversation down before they even get a chance to do so. In the US.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 4 weeks ago:
Agreed. We congregate on platforms like this because we’re too weird for the normies in the real world.
- Comment on AI-Induced RAM Crunch Could Push Next PlayStation and Xbox Past 2028 5 weeks ago:
At this point I’m pretending that the game hasn’t even been announced yet.
I admit I bought an XBOX 360 for GTA V so I wouldn’t have to wait for PC, but TBF you could get a used 360 for about $60 because the next gen was just around the corner. I’m not seeing any PS5s selling for sntjerre near that cheap, so I won’t be playing GTA VI until it releases on PC this time around.
- Comment on Grippy handles too. Luxury. 5 weeks ago:
Wait until you find out where vegetables get their nutrients from.
- Comment on If 2025 was a joint 5 weeks ago:
I want to smoke whatever stems you’ve been smoking cause the ones I’m getting don’t do shit.
- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 5 weeks ago:
The what’s the fucking problem? Just buy more RAM.
- Comment on How Are You Guys Handling This? 5 weeks ago:
Wasn’t Game Pass like $6/mo on PC not too long ago? Who’s paying $20 for this crap? The game selection isn’t even that good.
- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 5 weeks ago:
Well luckily you’re on the right generation of Intel that allows you to use DDR4. It’ll probably be cheaper to buy a new motherboard than it would be to buy DDR5
- Comment on What’s up with Myrrh being more prevalent? 1 month ago:
Confirmation bias. I’m not seeing this word anywhere except in your post.
- Comment on 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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!) 1 month 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* 1 month 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* 1 month 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* 1 month 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* 1 month 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* 1 month 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* 1 month 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* 1 month ago:
Nah fuck all that. Just get Stremio + Torrentio
- Comment on Is it a bad idea to learn Russian because of everything? 1 month 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!) 1 month ago:
Arkham Knight, please and thank you
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 1 month 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 1 month 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.
