umbraroze
@umbraroze@lemmy.world
- Comment on Skill issue 3 weeks ago:
I remember the last time I got messaged by some misogynist dipshit, way back in Halo 5, blaming me for losing the game. …When he was the worst performing player in the team. I just stared at the post game report and wondered how the heck the dude even managed to get a ranking as low as he did.
- Comment on Eat it 3 weeks ago:
In Finland we have this one liquorice candy that looks like chalk. The school children yearn for the chalk. It’s normal.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 4 weeks ago:
Much of my PC gaming, back in the day, was “oh this looks like a good game. Runs like dogshit on my PC though. Maybe I’ll wait until I get a better PC.” [wait 10 years] “My ADHD has gone worse, I can’t play all this stuff”
- Comment on Physicists vs Normal People 4 weeks ago:
There’s this Finnish joke that doesn’t translate well, about a physicist who got pulled over by police. “Uh, I guess I accelerated a bit.”
Tap for spoiler
(A particle accelerator is a machine that accelerates little bits. Do you get it now?)
- Comment on SHUT UP ABOUT NICOLE 4 weeks ago:
I’ve only received the spam once. I guess I do not qualify as an active Fediverse user. 😒
- Comment on they did the math 🦀 4 weeks ago:
Some people may be asking “is that a bit too many crabs?”
The answer is that it’s an adequate amount of crabs. For that task at least.
- Comment on Welp. 5 weeks ago:
I’m from Finland. It’s late winter now. It’s not Smiling Season yet.
- Comment on Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way" 5 weeks ago:
I’ve often been like “I don’t know why people complain about Fandom, this is fine”. And then I saw what the site looks like without uBlock. Sweet merciful heavens. Hey, there’s some ads. Let’s cram some ads in the ads. Some prime blank space? Shove some annoying video things in there. Autoplaying. See that navigation bar over there? Let’s make it pointless. (If you come to the article via web search, surely you want to read about some completely random stuff in another game!)
Fandom is garbage, Fextralife is garbage (and at this rate will probably be bought by Fandom one day). Indie wikis rule.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Botted comments and admins not in the helm.
I’ll admit, the thing that made me go from Kbin to Lemmy was seeing tons of spam on unmoderated places. (Not blaming the admin for not being able to manage the site in that particular case, they had more pressing issues.)
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Big American TTS
(Microsoft Sam is a text-to-speech system with a considerable install base, yes)
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Hello all! I’m Rose. Also a Fediverse chick. Unlike Nicole I don’t spam people. Also I’m not on Friendica (not many people are) and you probably shouldn’t add me as a friend on any Fedi platform because I’m a hella boring nerd.
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 1 month ago:
I never got such a survey. Guess they figured that bunch of people would cancel the subscription in the month before an announced price hike.
- Comment on Spent half an hour on it. Felt good. 1 month ago:
SQL is an Old Language of Ancient Power. You have to write the keywords in all caps.
(Fortran is basically the same, but it’s rarer. Lisp is too, but you don’t need to capitalise everything, as the Ancient Power is contained in the parentheses.)
- Comment on This fucking bot is still out there messaging 1 month ago:
You can add me on Friendica
Well that’s a huge red flag right there. Nobody uses Friendica.
- Comment on I am from a different millenia 1 month ago:
“…and ripping that CD was annoying, because you then had an over long last track with the secret song, and you had to split the tracks manually and come up with tags on your own, or…”
(Seriously, the only reason I listened rarely to the last song in Halo CE soundtrack was because of this.)
- Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 2 comments
- Comment on Guess I'll starve 2 months ago:
Me: “Oh I’m fine with scanning QR codes for menus, actually.”
[QR code goes to Facebook]
Me: “Guess I’ll starve after all.” - Comment on I am unobservant 2 months ago:
One day I was walking about.
Someone said “Excuse me, could you tell me where is (random street)?”
I was like “That sounds familiar, hold on a second.”
Looked it up from the map on my phone.
It’s literally the next street over.
It was about that time I decided people perhaps shouldn’t ask me directions if they value their time. - Comment on Same 2 months ago:
Well, I suppose they’re less “AAA” and more “Games With Actual Noticeable Budget”. Simulators aren’t exactly mainstream these days, yes.
- Comment on Same 2 months ago:
I don’t think I even remember what “AAA” games I bought last year. Uh… Baldur’s Gate III and Train Sim World 5. That’s about that.
Thing is, I didn’t play much of those either! I have an absolutely gigantic backlog! And in December I got somehow addicted to Skyrim again. It never ends
Best and awesomest and most profound game experience I had last year was Chants of Sennaar, and even that technically came out in 2023.
- Comment on Not enough people buying Premium, eh? 3 months ago:
YouTube already randomly drops me to 360p on my big-ass broadband sometimes because it just feels like it. What are the guarantees YouTube Premium won’t do that? ANSWER ME YOUTUBE, THIS IS CRUCIAL PRE-PURCHASE INFORMATION.
- Comment on Destiny 2 Players Struggle To Find Fireteams As Population Drops To All-Time Low 3 months ago:
I had a rad cloak for my Hunter. They sunsetted it. Why was I even playing from then out.
- Comment on Cotylorhynchus, a genus of late Permian synapsids. It's herbivorous and it's huge gut was possibly necessary to digest the nutrient-poor plant life it fed on. 3 months ago:
I don’t know where this particular fella fits in the history, but turtles evolved from similar quadruped reptiles. Basically, their ribs evolved flat and wide so that their chests could support them better while burrowing tunnels. That turned into the turtle plastron.
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 3 months ago:
Hngh. Balatro already had a bunch of hassle on Switch eShop due to the PEGI ratings change.
Earlier, Nintendo somehow got a PEGI 12 rating for 51 Worldwide Games, which includes poker and blackjack. I wonder what they argued to avoid the 18 rating. “Sure, this compilation has poker and blackjack, but it’s not like we made it fun.” (It’s adequate but compared to Balatro it’s very much a non-frills experience.)
- Comment on It's all a little bit mathy. 4 months ago:
There was some 1990s documentary about fractals, narrated by Arthur C. Clarke (I think), where he said something along the lines of “I’ve not tried this myself, but I’ve been told there’s certain illegal chemicals that can cause hallucinations that look like fractals”.
(I have this on VHS tape somewhere. Should probably digitise it.)
- Comment on Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot 4 months ago:
I have them on CD-ROM.
I also think I have the final patches for them on floppies that I stuffed in the boxes. Not sure if they’re readable (or in fact the final patches)
- Submitted 4 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Plasticccc 4 months ago:
Authors have to submit manuscripts to publishers individually (or, in some markets, agents who work with multiple publishers in the same niche).
Publishers get showered with manuscripts. Very small percentage of them are what publishers deem will meet market goals.
In standard publishing contracts, the author gets paid an advance. This is basically the royalty percentage for the entire first print run. It’s not refundable. It represents the trust the publisher puts on the author, and if the publisher can’t sell all copies, well, tough for them. (They’d probably just not work with that author again.)
Getting to that point is a pretty massive hurdle to clear for first time authors.
So no, authors don’t really get to pick their publishers. The only scenario where people get to pick their publishers is some celebrity deal bullshit.
- Comment on Plasticccc 4 months ago:
The way publishing industry has been for a very long time, authors (especially first time ones) don’t get to pick whoever pays the best deal. Just whoever pays the first.
- Comment on Frog's Gift 4 months ago:
Anyone remember the early days of Musk’s Twitter takeover?
“I don’t know what this ‘microservice’ nonsense is, I’m gonna remove it”
“…Sir, everything is fucking broken now, could you please stop messing with the system”
“Ur fired lol”
…Expect more of that.