Chozo
@Chozo@fedia.io
Hail Satan.
Using Mbin as a backup to my main Kbin account due to tech issues on Kbin.social. May either switch to this one permanently or abandon it, depending on how Kbin's development goes. All my active fedi accounts are linked.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 1 day ago:
After delivery fees and tips, that's roughly a meal for 2 people, plus a dessert. And a drink, which the driver left at the restaurant.
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 1 day ago:
This happens all the time. For the customer, they'll get a refund if it's the first time it's happened to them, but if it keeps happening then they'll likely be denied refunds after a while, as support will assume the customer is lying to get free food (unless they submit doorbell cam footage, which they often do). For the driver, nothing will happen to them, but if customers keep reporting their food as stolen then eventually the driver will be removed from the platform, as support will assume the driver is stealing.
- Comment on Troof 1 day ago:
Dude looks like a lady!
- Comment on Already going to be a problem child 2 days ago:
No. Let's make it much worse.
- Comment on How do you distance yourself from your country when it doesn't represent your views anymore so you won't be viewed by the rest of the world as part of the problem? 6 days ago:
Worry less about people-pleasing. You will always be seen as part of somebody's problem. Whether you actually are, or they just see you as such, doesn't matter much as you almost certainly can't do anything about it, either way.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
"I can't read this kid's handwriting... Did he write an email dash?"
- Comment on The ole Morning Constitutional 1 week ago:
Oh, I thought that was an old coffee filter somebody threw in the corner.
I think I'm gonna go puke my pants now.
- Comment on A warning from Norm Macdonald 2 weeks ago:
I think a lot of that comes down to our ability to make personal comparisons. When you're 10 years old, a year is 10% of your entire lived experience. When you're 50 years old, a year is just 2% of your life. Life feels like it goes faster as we age, because we have so much more to compare it to as we grow older.
- Comment on A stone cold quote machine 3 weeks ago:
It's a good quote, and it's actually a little ironic because the line sort of proves itself, as it's actually a myth that people ever believed the world was flat pre-Columbus. Scholars have known the Earth was round for literally thousands of years; Pythagoras wrote about the curvature of the earth as early as ~500 BC. The roundness of the Earth was never really contested until the last 50 years or so.
The myth stems from Washington Irving's book "A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus", in which he completely fabricates the idea that Columbus argued with scholars about the shape of the earth (as well as several other stories with zero historical data to back them up). Everybody at the time generally agreed, before Columbus ever set sail, that the Earth is round. That misconception is relatively new, as the book was only published in 1828.
Fact-checking was a much more arduous process back in the 1800s. Back then, you'd typically have to find a book to prove your point, so it's really no surprise that people just accepted these printed words as the truth, but in this case the book is just full of straight-up lies. Lies that eventually made their way into almost every school's history curriculum ever since. In fact, there are more flat-Earthers now than at any point in history, and we can probably directly blame Irving for that, for putting such a stupid idea into the public's eye in the first place.
Interestingly, Columbus was actually WRONG about the shape of the earth. While most scholars accurately believed it to be spherical, Columbus thought the planet was pear-shaped. But "proving" that was never the point of his voyages, either way.
15 minutes ago, some of you reading this "knew" that people believed the world was flat 500 years ago.
- Comment on Office job 4 weeks ago:
And a +1 for egirls in general.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Well done, Henry.
- Comment on Crazy how it does that 5 weeks ago:
Open a new thread and ask again. You'll get a different result. Open a third thread and ask again, you'll get yet another result. That's how LLMs work. You getting a different answer to your prompt doesn't mean anything.
- Comment on Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal? 5 weeks ago:
I like to aim for the little holes way at the top, where the water flows in from when you flush. I try to backflow my stream directly into the pipes. If you get it just right, you get this really deep, gurgling sound that emanates from the walls.
- Comment on So Lemmy, what are your thoughts on Mixtape? 5 weeks ago:
Of course the anti-woke crowd hate it; it's a story about young people finding themselves, instead of being told who to be.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Just look at the hairless pits the character on his shirt has. Clearly this is a man of culture.
- Comment on Child’s school updated the uniform policy 1 month ago:
Get a bunch of other parents together and threaten to change schools. They need your money and your children's enrollments a whole lot more than you need them.
- Comment on No soy chorizo 1 month ago:
Soy Chozo.
- Comment on Resident Evil Starting Point? 1 month ago:
Many of the games are pretty far-disconnected from each other, so really you can start anywhere that feels right for you. Resident Evil 0, 1, 2, and 3 are more tightly-related to each other, so if you want to experience the "original" story, I'd recommend going with RE1 Remake, then RE0 Remake, then RE2 Remake, and RE3 remake. Note that the RE1 and RE0 remakes are a lot older than RE2 and RE3, and are the traditional "tank control" game styles, while RE2 and RE3 remakes are more modern, over-the-shoulder games, so there may be some disconnect while playing through these. But these four games focus more on the Umbrella Corporation and the T-virus outbreak in Raccoon City, while the rest of the series strays away from the events in Raccoon City, entirely.
RE4 is a must-play. There's like a billion different versions of it, too, so just pick up whatever is newest for your platform. You can't go wrong with any of them, IMO. This one is often seen as a soft reboot of the RE series, so it's thematically much different than the games before it. Honestly, if there is any RE that you should play, it's RE4. This is a perfectly fine starting point, if you ask me.
RE5 and RE6 are honestly skippable, if you ask me. These ones kinda continued the "reboot" path RE4 took, but don't really have any iconic moments of their own; I hardly remember anything from these games, and you're not really going to miss out on any important storylines or anything by not playing them.
RE7 and RE8 are a sort of second reboot to the series, and are tightly related to each other. So if you want to start with the most modern "era" of RE, start with 7. I didn't care much for RE7 and RE8 because they didn't "feel" like Resident Evil to me, so I can't really speak to how relevant they are toward the overall story.
There's also a ton of side games, as well. I wouldn't recommend bothering with any of them unless you really like the lore of the games they're related to.
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- Comment on Future 1 month ago:
Roughly 3.7 GB per day, if I had to guess.
- Comment on Future 1 month ago:
What makes you think this is AI?
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- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Won't happen. Google ran YouTube at a net loss for a decade before turning a profit. Very few companies have the kind of money to invest like that. Video hosting is crazy expensive, especially when it's free.
- Comment on What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail? 4 months ago:
Depends on the task, I'd say. Are you trying to execute a combatant in the arena? Or are you trying to self flagellate?
- Comment on Nova Launcher unashamedly inserts malware ads into your home screen now. 4 months ago:
I have to imagine that anybody savvy enough to make the decision to install a third-party launcher is also savvy enough to immediately uninstall that shit.
- Comment on What's the best day and time to post a YouTube video weekly? 4 months ago:
So, generally speaking, the "best" time to upload is going to depend on when your viewers are active, as YouTube will slightly favor newly-published videos in the recommendation algorithm, so you'd want to catch them at the times they're looking at their screens. But to know when your viewers are active, you need to already have viewers. For context, it took me roughly ~70,000 views on my YT shorts before there was enough data for YouTube to determine when my audience was active (the graph won't even unlock in your analytics page until you reach some similar threshold). For comparison, here is my audience activity graph, showing that my viewers are typically active somewhat early in the morning (in PST, for me).
However, all of this really only affects the initial, first few hours of the videos' viewership; most of my videos will generally even out over a couple days or so, regardless of the upload time. Good timing will give me an initial boost to early views, but that doesn't really carry any momentum for long-term viewership.
But my channel is also about 95% YT Shorts, and 100% video game footage. The format and subject of your videos will also have an impact on this. My audience is mostly male, 25-34 years old, mostly in the USA and Asia, and the video descriptions and tags are targeting this viewer base. If your video is on a different subject material, you'll likely have a much different demographic makeup in your audience, which may come with different active times throughout the week. If your videos are about science, or about social issues, or about the news, etc... these will all affect when the appropriate viewers will be active.
Ultimately, I don't think timing is super important (with the exception to videos about breaking/current events, in which case you want to get those published as soon as possible). Consistency is a lot more important, in my experience, as YouTube will favor channels that upload at regular intervals (either daily, weekly, etc) when recommending content to other viewers, as your channel will have a higher "reliability" rating.
- Comment on What's the best day and time to post a YouTube video weekly? 4 months ago:
We'd need quite a bit more context to answer this. "Best" under what metric? Total views, new subscribers, etc? Is this a normal video or a YT Short? Do you already have subscribers or are you trying to find a new audience? Is your channel already regularly active, and if so have you checked your analytics page to review audience behaviors?
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like "analog" stuff is more "tangible"? 4 months ago:
Except for storage capacity.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 5 months ago:
I have to agree with him, honestly. HL2 was novel for its time, but if you're playing it for the first time in 2026 then yeah, it really doesn't hold up to modern game experiences. I also dislike games that end ambiguously or on cliffhangers, and the lack of closure provided from sequel-bait endings like HL2's can be annoying to people who just want to play a complete story. I want to see it through to the end and get the feeling that my actions had any sort of consequence to the world, and HL2 really doesn't provide that.
And narratively, the fact that Gordon is a silent protagonist really doesn't make the player feel like they're a real part of that world, and rather they're just going along for an on-rails carnival ride. The player has no real agency to affect anything that isn't a part of the singular route offered by the game. This would be okay if it was a role-playing game, and the player is intended to use their imagination to fill in the blanks, but HL2 is a wholly linear game where characters just bark commands at you from start to finish.
Honestly, for being a negative review, I think he was very fair about it. It's an important part of gaming history, but that doesn't necessarily translate into a great experience for modern players.
- Comment on Are you people all bots? 5 months ago:
As a large language model, I do not possess the concept of a personal identity, and therefore could not identify myself as either a human or a machine.
