Psythik
@Psythik@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 17 hours 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 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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. 1 day 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 2 days 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 2 days 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 days ago:
There was a RoboCop 2!?
- Comment on Bread mold 1 week ago:
Anytime I hear this argument from someone, I tell them to go look up the term, “survivorship bias”.
- Comment on Bread mold 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 1 week 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? 2 weeks ago:
I thought RVX was dead? Did they bring it back? I’ve been using the normal ReVanced and it works great.
- Comment on Based Red Dead 2 weeks ago:
This actually sounds like a lot of fun. Any good hacking guides to get started? I haven’t cheated in a game since the StarCraft days, back when I was a little; it would be fun to relive the old days, especially since I can do it guilt-free cause the game is abandonware.
- Comment on British plugs 2 weeks ago:
Boris Johnson is practically leftist compared to Trump.
- Comment on Feeling that groove 2 weeks ago:
Simple. Sounds are vibrations. The grooves make the needle vibrate. Those vibrations are amplified.
- Comment on We have one at home 3 weeks ago:
Also VLC requires you to curate a movie collection. I’m too old to keep doing that shit.
These days I use a Debrid service to steam torrents directly to my TV at gigabit speeds, with Stremio as my frontend to give me a Netflix-like experience. You get all the convenience of a modern streaming service, without the exorbitant fees nor the hassle of managing a Jellyfin server. Just fire up the TV and pick something to watch.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 3 weeks ago:
It all comes down to Japanese peoples’ bizarre beliefs. They see modding their games as a shameful behavior because they compare it to theft/plagiarism. It’s the same reason why Nintendo is so god damn evil. In their eyes they’re doing the honorable thing by suing their own customer base.
- Comment on Anon travels overseas 3 weeks ago:
You can’t outrun your diet.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
It’s also not something you can just ignore. Eventually you’ll damage/destroy your engine.
Cam position sensors are cheap and generally easy even for a beginner to replace, so if I were you I’d stop putting it off and just get it fixed.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 4 weeks ago:
Yet still only four face buttons. I don’t know why every controller manufacturer in existence refuses to bring back 6 button pads, even Valve. Instead they all just copy each others’ designs. Even Nintendo—once known for being innovative—is guilty of this. The Switch/Switch 2 Pro controller is literally just a crappier XBOX controller with digital triggers for some bizarre reason.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
If only a diagnosis was as cheap as a $20 scan tool…
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 4 weeks ago:
Damn, remind me to never play them, then.
A good story shouldn’t need to be told through endless dialog boxes, it should be told through gameplay.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah seriously, V gets so worked up over fucking everything and I just couldn’t give a fuck. Calm the fuck down and take your Xanax, V. You’re stressing me out over nothing.
- Comment on What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype? 4 weeks ago:
LOL I could have told you that before you spent the money.
Thankfully there’s a lot of good games that really shine on high-end hardware. Like that Indiana Jones game and the Spider-Man games. Also you never have to worry about games being an unoptimized mess when you can just brute force them with pure processing power.
- Comment on Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it. 5 weeks ago:
You could probably get a replacement even if the jar is completely empty. I used to work customer service in a grocery store. One time a guy returned an empty wine bottle. I gave him a full refund. Why? Because they steal from their employees every single day. I’m just evening the plating field a bit.
- Comment on Time to update your bingo cards 1 month ago:
I thought the police shot them all except one?
- Comment on Just that extra bit of rage 1 month ago:
Yes I know that. But again that’s not my point. The point is that we need to come up with a better method than bars.
