Feyd

@Feyd@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Declare tab bankruptcy and start a new tab life

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My mouse needs internet to function⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll actually put the blame for this on Apple. The fact that the operating system is so hostile to power users and customization is the reason you have to have a third party application to get the scroll to work how you want and assign functions to mouse buttons in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even the benign psychological manipulation away from just starting a game and enjoying it that is achievements is annoying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to understand credit scores⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t listen to people saying you should keep extra accounts open. If you have 1 credit card open that you use regularly and pay off every month you’ll pay no interest and have a good enough credit score.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How often do you change your towels?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pfft you can’t trick me everyone knows towels are single use

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a can of beans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t say they’re evil. It’s basically like thinking you can be friends with a tiger. They’re on a completely alien ethical framework to humans. Killing humans is the natural thing to do, so of course they do it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a can of beans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They also act like the show doesn’t explore the dynamic at all, and that somehow it’s not legitimate to say the manga has answers the show doesn’t have when the manga is several arcs ahead of the anime. This person just wants to accuse people of being Nazis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a can of beans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That also wasn’t the answer they received on stack exchange. The anime is also still being adapted, and the manga isn’t even finished.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys a can of beans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow the only thing true in this post is that you asked a question on stack overflow

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox dev clarifies that AI features will be 'opt-in' and there will be a 'killswitch' to disable them⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno that seems very compatible with

  AI should always be a choice — something people can easily turn off.

  Also here is a link to the posts mastodon.social/…/115740500373677782

  Also, the dev says the following and I think they have a point.

  I’m not asking for faith in our direction - the thing I love about the Firefox community is how open, honest, and technical it is.

  But I do ask that you don’t have the opposite of faith. Like, try not to be determined that we’re going to do the wrong thing here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a linguist⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does the private equity bubble compare to the AI bubble if at all?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Running those power hungry gpu based data centers is going to cost beaucoup bucks regardless of the usage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you want to get into handheld gaming, but don't want to spend a lot, buy one of these.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use retro achievements because games are supposed to be fun rather than about checking boxes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why you keep replying without even pretending to engage the points and arguments that I’ve made.

  Do you think saying “the game is available elsewhere” addresses what I said about marketplace dominance at all?

  Do you think anything you’ve said that only applies to this specific game addresses anything I said about systemic problems?

  You aren’t even trying to have a discussion. You’re just saying “I don’t like the game anyway so it’s good it’s not on steam” and pretending it being available on other storefronts and that it happened to go viral has any bearing on any of the points I’ve made when it obviously doesn’t.

  In any case, it’s pretty clear at this point that you’re not going to engage with me faithfully, so I’ll be on my way. Have a good day!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They are getting loads of marketing from this

  This particular game is. It won’t always apply to every game, which is why I want digital marketplaces that have so much market dominance they can make or break studios to not choose which games they allow on their platforms to not be based on vibes.

  This seems pretty straightforward and your argument is incoherent at this point. They are getting loads of marketing from this

  My argument isn’t incoherent just because you have terrible reading comprehension.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah and what I am saying is this is stupid shit to do that for.

  You need to work on your reading comprehension.

  So what you are arguing for really is for Steam and Epic to distribute this.

  Yes, I am. There doesn’t appear to be a non-moral-panic reason for it to be barred, and being barred from steam will have a deleterious effect on the game and on the studio’s ability to keep making games. I wish company didn’t have that power, but they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not even trying to understand what I’m saying if you think that deciding if this particular game is what I care about. I don’t give a shit about this particular game. I care about maintaining the principles of not letting moralists dictate what art and media is appropriate for everyone else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
  1. The person in these comments that has actually played the game said there isn’t actually a single child in the game.
  2. I’m never going to decide to just accept bullshit “because it’s not surprising”. That’s completely asinine.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I literally don’t care if they had a little girl talk to a naked horseman (who is being treated by the game like a regular horse and not a man at all to make a point). My point is that banning things that aren’t child porn because of moral outrage leads to the moral crusaders escalating. Next thing you know they’re gunning for lgbt themes, then going after violence. It’s ridiculous and should be ridiculed and dismissed instead of pretending things are child porn just because you don’t like them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unsettling indie game about horses keeps getting banned from stores⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Submitting to moral panic bullshit doesn’t placate them. It only emboldens them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shut up science!!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/believe

  “To consider to be true or honest”

  I don’t know what you think believe means but you’re wrong

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI plans to enshitify ChatGPT with adverts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the space pope reptilian?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you beat post-work floppiness?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  After work is exercise, which you need anyway, but it also shakes off the doldrums and provides a clean break between work and evening

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  continues playing trails games in the corner

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not defending pseudoscientific health regimens, but the acid in “a spritz of lemon” doesn’t neutralize an arbitrary amount of alkalinity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apocalypse is a sequel to the neutral route of iv

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anytime I’ve ever complained about lootboxes/gacha/gambling mechanics, I’ve not been excluding valve. That said, there is a contingent of people that likes to chime in to conversations about steam to say people shouldn’t use steam because valve does lootboxes, and I don’t think it’s terribly relevant in those conversations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow this thread. Clearly but you have the understanding of the mechanics and are both assholes intentionally mischaracterizing what the other is saying. You both need to go touch some grass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t photopea run locally?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trails in the Sky 1st Chapter, a JRPG, just got released on Steam—and this is a big deal because this game is to PC what Final Fantasy VII was to PlayStation.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s like the last few trails game, it’s not really “you chose whether to play a action or turn based” but “play action mode to build up a meter to get an advantage in turn based node when you switch” and you only spend 10 seconds ago in action mode, and also bosses don’t even have an action phase.