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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU citizens on here, Ross Scott is warning about a draconian law in the European Unio.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  KYC laws should be mandatory for any service that allows you to type the terrorist codeword characters “Palestine” into a text box especially where someone under the age of 500,000$ stock portfolio can see it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You have to ENABLE the DISABLE of AI features in Firefox.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  On device translation is amazing and exactly what this software should be approved for, I think it’s good that they let you pick this separately. I don’t care for surrendering my cognitive functions to an advertising panopticon machine, but translating pages without letting Google know what sites I’m looking at? Yes please

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  See Dave the Diver for a corporate game people assume is indie because of its style

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember feeling bad about how the original PvZ was absolutely wasted on EA, who made sequels that are just mobile slop. Relatively recently I found out that a huge community exists to make more of the good stuff and it’s legitimately overwhelming how much community stuff there exists for this one game alone.

  The other obvious example is Minecraft which for me has basically just been a platform for individual mod packs that are basically their own games. And of course, Skyrim. I’ll get back to that one day.

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  Am I turning into those people I used to see all over forums when I was a kid talking about games from the 90s that didn’t seem that compelling to me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whomever mapped this is wrong⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a very very specific kind of body horror

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They opened in Beirut too for a while. I don’t know what marketing genius thought that would work here. I remember the place being empty all the time because it was very expensive (and also had the word slut on the sign which I don’t think most people found particularly appetizing.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Next to a church in Missouri⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why did I watch all the way when I knew where it was going

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How would I go about turning this into a power-generating wind turbine.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Simple answer: making it do meaningful work will make it harder to rotate (kind of like increasing the setting on a stationary bike) and something this size won’t be enough to power anything useful.

  Maybe one of those solar garden lights? But those already run fine on solar.

  I’d say leave it and enjoy the free spins in the wind, those are more valuable than the tiny bit of energy this can give you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lord give me strength⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They drew a real kid to sell their product. Cringe aside that’s not cool, like even if they pay him

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨r/bald is whatever the male equivalent of a magical girl transformation is⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh if I was a student today I would be getting in trouble over those stickers. My sticker printing budget would be irresponsible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games did you sleep on for too long?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never finished it but I jump into it every five or so years. It still gives me a bit of that open world magic that I used to feel. The world is just full enough of stuff to do without feeling like cheap padding, and the atmosphere is really nice. It just makes me feel like how I want these games to make me feel. The graphics and physics are dated but they are all I need for this atmosphere.

  I think like a lot of people I wasn’t as enthused about the uniformed police missions. Especially because of the setting. The protests in Beirut and in HK had a lot of overlap so there was a lot of “tried and tested” safety measures we were getting directly from what was happening there. It’s not quite copaganda so it’s fine

  Maybe I should make an effort to finish it already. I can’t keep relearning the combat every few years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey looky! I'm on a list a just learned about three minutes ago!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mom look at me I’m on the front page!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Badge of Honor⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m on the list? That’s so fucking funny I’m just some random user. Amazing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just as Nolan intended⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Boomer horror: the monster in the lake ate the campers Zoomer horror: you invited your friend into your house

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well you see, uh...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve unironically had entire existential crises over noticing someone younger than me at work or volunteering looking at me with a similar respect. Nothing says I’m having a great time like having someone’s confidence in you create doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re alluding to the inherent entitlement to systematic abuse that is a feature not a bug of capitalism.

  If you think lefties being crass and exasperated online is us being batshit lunatics maybe Lemmy isn’t for you. Most online communication and aggregation that most people use on a daily basis is hyper-corporate, so the alternative being full of the people who don’t feel welcome there or are censored there or feel cast off from there shouldn’t surprise you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, sorry about the Playstation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"You'll own nothing and you'll be happy"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We never had game shops around me that look like the ones we saw online in other countries, those looked like relatively cool places to have around. I also once told a friend coming from the US to buy me a whole bunch of used games from a Gamestop and I was amazed how cheap they were. We only had overpriced originals or super cheap pirated games here, used cheap originals were neat.

  I wouldn’t hang out in such a place as an adult (and I’m icked by retail-as-community-space) but maybe as a teenager it would have seemed nice. Just being able to ask the people working there for opinions or recommendations was probably a big part of how games work for people I’d imagine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember first encountering this in the Gulf and feeling quite bad for the birds, and then remembering they’re native species so it’s actually them feeling bad for me in the heat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not that there’s a big overlap of people who care about those games and people who use Lemmy, but most people bought the DLC on deep discount. And they’ve stopped doing those discounts like they used to.

  They also re-introduced premium currency to buy micro DLC, which is something they did with the previous game that was universally hated and they didn’t re-implement in the current one for a decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the one that came to my mind. Much funnier

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditors hate humor⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It could be mildly funny if it was written in Hungarian. The translate button now being integrated into their UI might help.

  Unfortunately they probably will just be banned over this

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨indoor mushroom farming⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally. The mush room.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In some heavy Muslim countries women seems always to wear a black hijab and get in trouble for not wearing one. Why don't they wear colorful ones or with slogans? Is black all to wear?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Different cultures and different religious traditions have different norms, that’s the main thing. Giant religions, especially relatively decentralized ones are not a monolith.

  In the Gulf states the all-black style is more common for locals, Saudi is massive so it’s different in some areas, here in Lebanon you have many sects and the all-black is more associated with fundamentalist Shia Islam, and so on. Most women who wear headscarves are wearing colorful ones.

  As a little kid when we still had a bit more tourists coming from Kuwait and the UAE, I would see some women in Niqabs (full face cover) and metal face plates, which would freak me out. Those are not a thing here.

  I think most Americans think all of these are one blob, and use “burka” as a catch-all. And that one is only a thing in super fundamentalist societies in places like Afghanistan, not something common at all. It would be like me assuming all Americans live like the FLDS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How men are different than women⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing this post I had to bang it out, on an old game I have on my phone that I probably bought 15 years ago.

  I only missed Cape Verde and Seychelles! Still got it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨long live the queen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m aniseed 🥀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's with black superheroes and lightning powers?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  New bit idea: guy who insists he doesn’t have any internalized racism to confront, since he doesn’t have a sexual preference for interracial scenes, he simply believes they are better from a composition and cinematography perspective

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I drink more water?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had this exact conversation with an (online) coworker. I will just drink feel compelled to cups of water, sometimes multiple in a row, and feel refreshed. They don’t exactly taste good but we’re wired to find it pleasant.

  My coworker said he had to basically remember to drink water. When he’s exercising it’s more instinctual.

  Well I was shocked the first time I actually met this coworker, at the Dubai office where he works from. The water there felt wrong! Apparently I was having good tasting water my whole life. I was kind of dehydrated the entire trip. Literally all the water there didn’t feel refreshing, honestly. It comes out of desalination factories, I get it, it’s still water, but it’s something to think about. I’ve appreciated my delicious Lebanese mineral water a lot more since then.

  I hope this doesn’t sound out of touch, I understand most people in many countries can just drink tap water safely, and bottled is seen as a luxury and not a cheap necessity like it is here. But maybe try changing the water? All the answers here feel blasphemous to me. Cucumbers? Flavors?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve found myself reading much older text and still being annoyed by it. I think I paused a YouTube video from like 2015 after hearing it spoken and having to pace a little before continuing. I’ve completely cut that out of my own writing style.

  Text extrusion software will obviously favor some writing elements over others, and it is just a supercharged version of bland-yet-saccharine corporate writing style. So all of it, seen sparingly, wouldn’t make you feel like the society is falling apart. But when you see it 10000x more often you really question if anyone is even trying to communicate a novel idea anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Control theory⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’ve implemented stuff on that level by pulling in a library in a university project. But there were higher level research projects going on where they were going into real nitty gritty fine control, I think they had a control model with an obscene number of degrees (as in xth order physical model implemented as a PPIIIIDDD system or whatever). That was a little intuitive since there was a physical process that you can observe.

  But the theory is definitely something I’d like to at least understand a little