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 [deleted] 5 days 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? 1 week 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. 1 week 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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"? 2 weeks ago:
Except for storage capacity.
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on "Not A Single Pixel" Of The New Ecco Game Will Be Generated By AI, Insists Series Creator 3 weeks ago:
It's not all plagiarism, though. For instance, Embark Studios uses AI to create in-game voice lines for characters in their games. They made their own models with actors hired specifically to train them.
- Comment on Meta is closing down three VR studios as part of its metaverse cuts 3 weeks ago:
It's not like Meta just shut down some random game studios. They chose to get into bed with Meta. This was the most predictable outcome.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 3 weeks ago:
Kill or be killed.
- Comment on [meme] choochoo 3 weeks ago:
Portland's pretty good about this. The whole city is laid out in a pretty uniform grid, and the busses and trains come frequently and cover a really wide area. Getting around the city is a piece of cake, and the transit pass works the exact same regardless of which vehicle type you ride.
It's not perfect, but it's pretty damn close!
- Comment on fuck you. 4 weeks ago:
Hey, assholes. That's STILL not a reason to shoot somebody in the face, you fucking Nazi ghouls.
The DHS has lost the trust of the American people.
- Comment on Facial age checks are now required to chat with anyone on Roblox 4 weeks ago:
I fear it's actually worse than nothing, due to the precedent it'll set for other platforms.
- Comment on Just say what you want! 4 weeks ago:
Good afternoon, Frosty.
- Comment on Github Banned a Ton of Adult Game Developers and Won’t Explain Why 4 weeks ago:
Whether or not you read it doesn't really matter and isn't the point.
- Comment on PFP Evolution 4 weeks ago:
I feel called out.
- Comment on It's so foggy 5 weeks ago:
It's actually the backseat, if you move the camera using mods.
- Comment on rules of the pirate code 5 weeks ago:
He's too big for that boat.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 5 weeks ago:
Chronus can be detected on consoles, just not super easily. And it kinda depends on each game's developer and their ability to implement such detections. I know that Embark Studios have said that they've found ways to detect such devices in The Finals.
I believe that, while they can't detect the actual hardware plugged into the console, they're able to detect input patterns that would only be possible from M/K (such as 0ms AD-spamming). Of course, I can't imagine that's 100% foolproof on its own, either.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 5 weeks ago:
I'm kinda out of touch with hardware pricing these days. Let's say I wanted to buy a second PS5 for the purposes of turning into a desktop like this; would that be better or worse than just buying normal hardware and building a PC of equivalent specs?
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 5 weeks ago:
If this is something you want to try for yourself, either buy a second PS5 and use a burner account on it, or be prepared for the possibility of losing your entire PSN account. This goes for pretty much any internet-enabled console modding.
Nintendo deactivated a 10+ year old account of mine when I tried modding a Wii a while back. It wasn't a huge deal at the time, because I still had physical copies of most of my games at that point. But these days, my library is almost entirely digital, so I keep separate fuck-around accounts so that I don't find-out with an account I've spent money on.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 5 weeks ago:
How?
- Comment on "Refrigerate after opening and store in the refrigerator door." Why the door for this mayo? 5 weeks ago:
Honey is different, because it basically never spoils. There have been jars of honey found at archeologist dig sites that were hundreds of years old (or more) that are still perfectly edible.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 5 weeks ago:
Those assholes probably kept a working version of Inbox for themselves. 😡
- Comment on After getting Silent Hill 'back on track,' Konami wants to make it an annual franchise 5 weeks ago:
It's like resuscitating a dying animal, just so you could kill it yourself.
- Comment on Cruising around the OKC cock ring is an honored Oklahoman tradition 1 month ago:
You can tell that they took great efforts to ensure that "C-O-C-K" never lined up.
- Comment on Tiktok math 1 month ago:
Pretty sure the correct answer is 67.
- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 months ago:
Only if I've already beaten the game legitimately before, and usually only to skip something that's tedious.
- Comment on PetSmart won't let you leave a review if you have adblockers on 2 months ago:
"Ad blockers prevented your review submission."
No, you prevented the review submission, by taking the time out of your day to write a dialogue box that prevents submissions.
