TheRtRevKaiser

@TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Are People Still Doing on X?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a sh.itjust.works account that I use to join meme communities there and on .world + a few other instances. The comments are a cesspool but the memes are…reasonably dank?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elden Ring live-action film officially in development⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure I understand this take. The game was a commercial product, Fromsoft made it to sell to people. That doesn’t preclude it from being art, and a film adaptation being made of it also doesn’t preclude that.

  A24 has a pretty good reputation for taking risks, and they’re an independent production company. Seems like probably the best possible way something like an Elden Ring film could be made, IMO.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 11th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve really enjoyed it, and it’s been a breath of fresh air for this friend group that was really struggling to find stuff to play together. We used to get deep into a lot of survival crafting type games, think Ark and Conan, but several of us had gotten pretty burned out on those, and most of the multiplayer stuff we were interested in either didn’t grab everybody or was limited to just a few players. Stuff like Helldivers being only 4 players meant that not all of us could play together, which felt bad. These multiworld games, though, mean that we can all get on a discord call and kick the runs off at the same time, and it feels like we’re playing together as we call out stuff we’re sending to each other or items we need, but then we can wrap the runs up over the course of the next week as we have time. Plus there are enough games that most folks have been able to find something that feels comfortable for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 11th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve gotten sucked into the rabbit hole that is multiworld randomizers lately. I’ve done several smaller multiworlds with a group of friends (4-8 players) all playing different games, and a week or so ago got involved in a larger one (15 or so players) that was organized on a forum I frequent. All of these have been through Archipelago, and if you’re not familiar with multiworld randomizers their FAQ is a decent introduction. I’ve played a few different games in these - Minecraft, Wind Waker, and most recently Balatro, and all of them have been really interesting and fun ways to play games that I was already pretty familiar with. Also, my regular gaming group has had trouble finding multiplayer games that we all want to play recently, and these archipelago multiworlds make it so that we can play something together without all having to agree on what to play, plus you can play asynchronously so we can start together but then finish runs out as we have time. It’s been really cool and I’m jonesing for more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨100,000 People Are Using a Telegram Bot That Makes AI Cumshot Videos of Anyone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you aren’t trolling, then you should consider that more than one thing can be bad, and that non-consensual pornography is a violation of a person’s autonomy. Please don’t leave comments like this on Beehaw, if it happens again you will be banned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Enter the Gungeon 2](https://store.steampowered.com/app/2339840/Enter_the_Gungeon_2/)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey just FYI, links in the post title don’t work on Beehaw. Here’s the link to the steam store page: store.steampowered.com/…/Enter_the_Gungeon_2/

  I loved the first EtG and played a ton of it. I’m not entirely sold on the new 3d art style, but I’ll try to give it a fair shot once it gets here.

  Also, the original Enter the Gungeon is available on Xbox Game Pass for any of you folks that have it. It’s absolutely worth checking out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brian Eno: “The biggest problem about AI is not intrinsic to AI. It’s to do with the fact that it’s owned by the same few people”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on board with Eno here. There are issues with the current wave of generative AI, but the main reason they are such huge problems is the people who are pushing these technologies have zero concern for the potential social harms they could cause or exacerbate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please have the common sense not to call for violence on a public forum, especially one run by other people. I get where you’re coming from, but it’s doing anyone any good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yahoo is selling TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This kind of behavior is antithetical to Beehaw’s ethos. It’s fine to be dismissive of systems, but ever user here is a person who should be treated with kindness and respect. Please do better in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord heightens ad focus by introducing video ads to mobile apps in June - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  or not enough of a gamer

  Yeah, Discord’s easy/free voice chat was the reason it got so popular. It was so much easier to use than any of the alternatives, and in-game VC was a mixture of piss-poor quality and full of toxic 14 year olds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control Reality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The audience for an author’s gripping life story in every goddamn recipe was never humans, either. That was just for Google’s algorithm. I know this sentiment gets repeated a lot, but I’m not sure it’s universally true. I know back in 2012/2012 my wife was very invested in a bunch of bloggers along the lines of Pioneer Woman. A lot of the posts on those blogs were a mixture of personal anecdotes and recipes and I know my wife was there for both. It’s frustrating when you’re ready to cook and just want the recipe, but that’s not the only (or maybe even the primary) way that a lot of these cooking/homemaking blogs were made to be consumed, I don’t think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk says X hit by 'massive cyber attack' as users unable to log in⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey @anachronist@midwest.social, I realize you’re not trying to be hurtful to anyone in this comment (except maybe Musk, but honestly fuck that guy) but including a common condition that many folks live with in a list of things that make Musk a bad manager likely is hurtful to those folks, even if that’s not your intention. If Elon does have ADHD, that’s clearly not the problem since I suspect we all know tons of people with ADHD who are a) great at their jobs and b) not trying to dismantle the United States. In the future, please try to “Be(e) Nice”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Please don’t post full article text in post bodies or comments. If you want to help people read a paywalled article, feel free to post an archive link.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game publishers are starting to use "anti-DEI" as a marketing meme⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi. You’ve gotten some very good responses from the community so I’m going to leave the thread up for now, but please be aware that pushing more will likely result in removal or a temp ban. Thanks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No big deal, you’re good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout 76 Ghoul Experience Detailed by Bethesda⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Go touch grass.

  There’s no need for this, seriously. I get that it’s a gaming community but we’re trying to be better than the usual toxic mess, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asleep at the Wheel in the Headlight Brightness Wars⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve wondered before if my perception of headlights being so much brighter was them really getting brighter, cars getting taller, my eyes getting older, or a combination of all those (and other) factors. It seems like there might be a few things going on, but it does definitely look like lights are getting a lot brighter, and I’m obviously not the only one to be frustrated by it…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout London is a better game than Fallout 4⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It was very early on, the first week or so after it released. I’m sure they’ve fixed a lot of the bugs but honestly I just haven’t really been motivated to try it out again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout London is a better game than Fallout 4⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I tried to play London and it crashed constantly. Now, that’s not all that different an experience from playing any Bethesda game, but it did kind of kill any interest I had in the mod.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We only learnt of our son’s secret online life after he died at 20⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw this headline and expected something very different than what I got, and I’m really glad. I think the last decade has made me really cynical about technology and the internet, for some good reasons, to the point where a story like this is almost surprising. I found myself a little caught off guard by how emotional I got while reading it. Thank you for posting this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AIPAC Planned to Spend $100M on Elections This Year. It Already Surpassed That.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This post isn’t really on-topic for c/technology. Please post it in c/Politics instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Sells Fake, Dead Toshiba Hard Drives as New: Detailed Inspection & Proof of Their Scam⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I suspect their argument would be that they are more like a flea market. If you buy something fake or faulty at a flea market then the flea market probably isn’t liable, the seller is. Now, I don’t think this argument holds water, especially in light of Amazon’s practice of combining all of the stock of a single product into one place, regardless of who the seller is, so that there’s no way to know if you’ll actually get product from that seller.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I Gazed Lovingly Into Strangers’ Eyes on ‘Eyechat’⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think you’re trying to be xenophobic with this just, but I feel like you should know that it’s probably not landing the way you want it to…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, tomato, “people are trying to make you ashamed of being white” is a pretty common white supremacist dogwhistle. I’m sure that’s not how you intended it, but I think you’d be better served avoiding it in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hi Tomato - a lot of what you’re saying here has already been addressed elsewhere in the thread. The OP isn’t just addressing Lemmy, but other Fediverse services like Mastodon as well. He also notes in the article several people who been addressing ways in which Fediverse culture has been toxic to black users. These aren’t imagined problems, they exist in a lot of places off of and on Lemmy, and providing suggestions to make these sites better for black users is a good thing, not something to get defensive about. This post isn’t accusing you personally of anything, but if you feel challenged by it then it might be a good opportunity for you to interrogate those feelings.

  Also, others have addressed your comments about not seeing other’s race online, etc, but I think it’s worth taking a step back and pausing. If people of color say they experience racism online, even though you don’t notice what race other people are, do you think it’s possible that there may be systemic problems or unconscious biases that might cause those folks to experience racism even when it is unintended? Those are the kinds of problems that aren’t solved by saying “I don’t say racist things to people and I don’t see color”. They’re problems that are built into our society just by the fact that we were all born and raised in an imperfect culture.

  Nobody is accusing anyone of anything here, and nobody is trying to make anyone feel ashamed of who they are. But we can all benefit from stopping, thinking about the ways that we interact with others, and taking the time to try and be sure that we aren’t acting in ways that harm others even if that isn’t our intent or we weren’t aware of the harm in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technology@Beehaw.org, Community Culture, and Moderation⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I completely agree. Thank you for this comment. This is one of the reasons that in many cases we try first to just talk to users. Lots of folks have bad days, or just have certain issues that they really struggle with staying calm and being kind about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technology@Beehaw.org, Community Culture, and Moderation⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d love to hear your thoughts on this, but please remember:

  1. Be Nice. You might think your cranky comment isn’t a big deal, but when there are dozens of them it can get pretty overwhelming. The dogpile is real.
  2. Technology@Beehaw.org is not a “free speech zone”. I think Beehaw admins have been pretty clear on this, but our overriding concern is community building and creating a corner of the internet where people are good to one another, not creating yet another site where people can say whatever they like regardless of the harm it might cause others. I understand this might clash with what some see as a fundamental philosophy of the fediverse, but we disagree. This isn’t the place to re-litigate those disagreements.
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s misinformation machine made the horrors of Southport, a small town in the UK, much worse⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s practically a guarantee that this Sharon’s dog is the most obnoxious, poorly trained little shit to ever walk the earth on four legs, too. Nobody wants your fucking dog, Sharon, it’s an unholy terror.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read that point as posting less when it comes to issues of race and racism specifically, but it’s possible I’m reading that into it. If so, it could be a little clearer.