umbraroze
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- Comment on fr fr 4 days ago:
I’m literally at a weird phase where I find random old things and I’m like “remember that one time back in the day when the future looked kinda nice?” and I’m tearing up.
And the worst part, back then I was a depressed mess (I mean, more so than now) and I thought the world was bright and it’s my own fault my life sucked. And now I’m like, actually, looks like I was wrong. I’m fine, it’s just the world that is going to hell… oh shit.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Way back in the late 1990s, there was Slige, a program that generated Doom maps procedurally. With rather nice results, too. So people started posting these maps and saying they made them by hand. Map download sites had to start banning them.
So yeah, the more things change, the more they stay the same.
- Comment on sorted bins 1 week ago:
But how do you safely recycle batteries? You know, from all of those apps that use “batteries included” frameworks?
- Comment on You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox. 2 weeks ago:
It’s functionally a killswitch, yes, but it’s presented as a confusing mess. Enabling a disabling is still silly no matter what.
- Comment on You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox. 2 weeks ago:
For the record, I know it was marketed as “AI killswitch”. I know it functions as one.
But it’s still hella confusing as presented in the configuration! Don’t do double negatives! If your design goal is “disable everything”, maybe give the users the option to, I don’t know, “disable everything”.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 67 comments
- Comment on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo 3 weeks ago:
Grumpy fans: “Halo has nowhere to go but up.”
Microsoft: “Guys guys guys, I have an idea. We need to go sideways.”
Grumpy fans: “Let me say this one more time, Microsoft: What the hell are you guys doing?”
- Comment on DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input 3 weeks ago:
DSP is a bit of a one joke YouTuber. Yeah, we get it, he’s terrible at games, any sensible person can just continue on with their lives. I have no idea why people watch him, let alone donate to him.
I only hear about him randomly when an odd compilation pops up in the recommendations. I think he recently played Dark Souls 2 and it was a total shitshow from the looks of it? People kept invading him and he just alt+F4d every time.
- Comment on Insomniac's Wolverine hits 1.9 million sales despite controversy, becomes Sony's top first-party game of 2026 4 weeks ago:
Who among us can truly know what numbers lie in the hearts of AAA publisher executives? Mark my words, mere consumers can’t even begin to guess the immense scale of these numbers. They are numbers of cosmic magnitude we do not comprehend. Verily, even the executives in question have even vaguest idea of what they are actually asking for, unaware of the true import of their demands.
- Comment on The White House removed a MAGA-themed game called Build the Wall from its website after the Tetris Company issues a statement online alluding to copyright infringement 5 weeks ago:
I can’t believe they posted a Tetris clone to begin with.
Tetris is a game where the perfection is taken away from you. You will only be left with your mistakes, mistakes that haunt you and which keep piling up when pressure increases and it just keeps happening until you lose. You are left with an imperfect wall.
Also it’s a game from Russia.
So, definitely a metaphor for the Trump administration and the border wall.
- Comment on Video games 1 month ago:
Things have changed significantly since Super Mario Bros. was released. For example, vast majority of video games released these days feature no senseless violence toward turtles. Many even portray turtles in factual, chilly way! 🐢
- Comment on 1 month ago:
In the DVD I have, there’s this hilarious behind the scenes clip where the T-Rex animatronic starts twitching and jerking when exposed to the artificial rain, Steven Spielberg watches stuff unfold with his jaw on the ground, and the folks try to dry the animatronic up with towels (as seen here).
Can’t get this shit on streaming services, tell ya what!
- Comment on Elons not a gamer. 1 month ago:
Game that was literally named after a crime involves doing crimes? I’m sure this came as a surprise to Elon, but I must say that I’m a seasoned video game enthusiast, so this wasn’t surprising to me at all.
(Also I never got too far into GTA5. Decided to instead go back to Saints Row. GTAs pretend to be super serious games while still being satirical at the core. Saints Row was basically ramping up wackiness constantly and being unapologetic about it.)
- Comment on Cybersecurity as a Creative Writing major 1 month ago:
Just use #.
It was just an obscure character, toiling in the sidelines. Then Twitter happened.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 1 month ago:
Skyrim.
Oh yeah, the world is going to fear my stealth archery powers.
- Comment on Never Gonna Give You Up 1 month ago:
I’m in my 40s, and last time when I was at McD I saw some 20-somethings sitting at their table, looking at the liner notes of an AC/DC CD they had no doubt grabbed from the second hand store one block over.
I almost went over to say “oh wow, am I ever happy to see you kids enjoy classical music, eh?” but I didn’t, because this is Finland and talking to random people at McD is considered weird, of course.
- Comment on The legendary PS2 2 months ago:
I have seen a PS2, never had one. I’ve also seen an IBM PS/2.
(I have a PS1 somewhere, too. And the first computer I ran Linux on was an IBM PS/1.)
- Comment on Going Back ↪️🏨 2 months ago:
During the Plague, I had plenty of experience with both meal delivery apps (finding weird new ways how befuddled immigrants get scammed) and app scoots (it’s like public transport, but more unreliable and more expensive).
Don’t do app shit under normal circumstances, being the main lesson here. It’s going to be full of weird fucking shit.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Stereotypes.
Americans are incredibly obsessed about which European countries their distant ancestors came from, even if they basically know nothing about these countries or how they are today.
Meanwhile, in Europe, friendly neighbour ribbing is alive and well. Everyone slings mud over the border, and it’s fine, usually, they’ll do the same to us, you see.
- Why is there malware on my Britney Spears CD? - The Sony Rootkit Scandal explained [HowardHandsTV]www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Well that’s the neat part, they do, so I rarely need to test them!
- Comment on 2 months ago:
There’s a legit use for Edge: if I have to test out how a website looks on Chromium, I don’t need to install Chrome, yay.
For everything else, there’s Firefox though.
- Comment on You needed to exhibit at least one to be admitted to the "lunatic asylum" 3 months ago:
The War
Yes, The War is making us all very anxious and we hear nothing but horrible news about it all day long. Please stop The War. That’s the only way we can ever be happy again.
- Comment on Mitch McConnel's Wikipedia page has been heavily edited the last few days, with the last ones being 4 hours ago. So around 1PM EST. What could that mean? 3 months ago:
He never was. He’s a bad turtle. A disgrace to turtles.
- Comment on Do you think that Trump is the most hated U.S. president? 3 months ago:
(Insert that thing from The Simpsons)
No, the most hated US president so far.
- Comment on Spot on 3 months ago:
I believe the locations of the buildings are a simple result of this having been made with genAI.
That, or the fact that it’s a political cartoon, and nobody expects political cartoonists to do meticulous, impeccable research what comes to the appearance of people or buildings or geography or whatnot.
If they were required to do that, Ben Garrison would have been smoked out out of job decades ago.
- Comment on look 3 months ago:
[Starts the umpteenth playthrough of Dragon Age: Origins]
…It’s called Sword Therapy, you dumbasses, you wouldn’t get it
- Comment on Do you know examples of mistranslations of in-game dialog from cutscenes via subtitles whilst playing in another language? 3 months ago:
My memory is hazy, but I think the original PC release of FF7 fixed a bunch of translation bungles. I played that version first and was surprised how many errors were found in the PlayStation version.
I can’t remember if they fixed that particular mistake though. Or if the newer PC releases incorporate any of those fixes, haven’t played much of them.
- Comment on End of an era? 3 months ago:
I’m an Xbox fangirl (a resentingly disappointed one, of course), and the recent industry shenanigans made me get apprehensive about whatever is going to come out next from Microsoft’s direction. They could turn the direction around. Not sure if they can.
I liked Nintendo Switch, but Switch 2 was pretty much “yeah, I’ll probably get a Steam Deck at some point, sorry”.
This PlayStation stuff basically switched my opinion of them from “Nnno” to “Oh hell no”.
I will be back to PC gaming! And will be building a new PC once the industry quits being stupid for a moment. Until then, my 2020 laptop will have to do.
- Comment on Library Apps are GOATed 3 months ago:
I visit the library often.
Not that I check out many books, but I love the fact that the local main library is a giant big concrete building with air conditioning and nice quiet desks with power strips for laptops. Immense productivity.
The library was closed for renovations last summer and the heat waves really put a huge dent on my work.
