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- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 3 hours ago:
Advance Wars, of course.
I haven’t seen any mention of “Steamworld: Heist”, yet. It’s a very different sort of game engine, but scratches the same itch.
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 3 hours ago:
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, above all else.
Yes. The day is full of moments. (Relevant Penny Arcade)
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 14 hours ago:
Cool. I learned something. Thanks!
- Comment on If you can't make it yourself, store bought is fine 15 hours ago:
As a non-chemistry person, I assume the red diamonds are to ensure I don’t put this in my mouth?
- Comment on A game you "didn't know it was bad 'til people told you so"? 2 days ago:
That’s the one! We can also bully him with snowballs in the opening scene, if we want to.
- Comment on Should I be worried about "Prompt ejection" attacks on my gmail? 4 days ago:
it’s important to be aware of future potential issues,
New code tends to have flaws. There’s no strong reason to expect that the current new implement has a serious flaw.
But if I was still using Gmail, I would turn the new feature off.
Anything that can be exploited in a software stack is a higher risk when exposed to the risk cesspool of modern email.
So in summary: chance that this new feature is an injection risk: low.
Risk of harm if there’s any security flaws in it: high.
- Comment on Should I be worried about "Prompt ejection" attacks on my gmail? 4 days ago:
I don’t think this is a reason to leave Gmail.
I agree. I left Gmail long ago for other reasons.
Mainly that I’ve seen nothing in the terms of sevice that says they won’t sell what they know about me to employers to help employers low-ball me during a salary negotiation.
- Comment on Should I be worried about "Prompt ejection" attacks on my gmail? 4 days ago:
Agreed. Architecturally, there’s no reason to have a prompt injection risk, of any kind, here.
But, that was true about Log4J, as well - until we learned otherwise.
I tend toward extra caution in this modern era of libraries stacked on libraries.
- Comment on Should I be worried about "Prompt ejection" attacks on my gmail? 5 days ago:
Yea. It is a difficult long process to DeGoogle.
We even have a support group for it, here:
We’re all at different stages, but swap tips and tricks.
- Comment on Should I be worried about "Prompt ejection" attacks on my gmail? 5 days ago:
Yes. Email has always been one of the more vulnerable parts of the computer ecosystem, because any stranger can use it to send a file into your computer or server for precessing.
Simpler email is safer. Every new feature has bugs. Some bugs are vulnerabilities.
Gmail adding leaning models is creating a new risk for you.
How large that risk is, has yet to be discovered.
My armchair opinion is that the new risk is minimal, compared to the rest of the risks is using email. But time will tell.
- Comment on The massive Satisfactory 1.1 update is out now with controller support 1 week ago:
This is an exciting update!
I’ve been wanting to play Satisfactory on SteamDeck, but the controls/user interface were low quality to the point of unplayability.
I hope they decide it’s okay to highlight things I should trying clicking on. It doesn’t break immersion to live in a sci-fi galaxy where space engineers also have taken some accessibility training.
I really want to play through Satisfactory, so I love to see this effort to make it SteamDeck ready.
- Comment on Jared Leto Accused of Sexual Misconduct by Multiple Women, Including Some Who Say They Were Underage, as Actor Denies Allegations 1 week ago:
Maybe I’m an asshole but this didn’t surprise me at all
Along that same line of thinking…
I couldn’t remember if the “Could have sworn…” Onion article had been Jared Leto. Apparently it was Russel Brand.
- Comment on Do you care about up/down votes? 1 week ago:
Good point. I’ve invented a new tag - Not Safe for Grammar.
- Comment on Do you care about up/down votes? 1 week ago:
I’ve learned that resonding with “I” statements helps with this kind of interaction.
“I don’t see it that way.” works as well as “You are wrong.”, but the “I” version implies fewer assumptions about what the other person is trying to communicate.
- Comment on Do you care about up/down votes? 1 week ago:
I check my downvotes every so often to see if I’ve made an ass of myself.
Thankfully, people often explain they’re downvotes here, so I tend to learn something.
If I haven’t internalized whatever it is, I’ll find that their still downvoting me, so I get another chance to improve there opinion of me.
- Comment on where are worker rights parades? why are we focusing on very limited issues? 1 week ago:
I’m saying that gay rights and trans rights are workers rights parades, because they are our fellow workers.
Exactly. LGBTQ+ folks the current target for the authoritarians and fascists, but all of us non-billionaires are on the target list.
We will all be abused, beaten, broken and sometimes murdered, unless we push the fascists back into their holes.
We must stand together.
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 1 week ago:
I am new to this whole Fediverse stuff. Trying to privatize my life and break away from big tech.
Welcome!
I have found the “DeGoogle Yourself” Lemmy to be full of good information about gaining some privacy from big tech: lemmy.ca/c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 1 week ago:
But why did you migrate entirely instead of just going to the main app or a browser with Ublock Origen?
It doesn’t feel good being herded into increasingly constrained solutions.
First they shut off the API, then all mobile apps, then various moderation tools…
They just keep making the situation worse, intentionally, as much as they can get away with.
In contrast, this place keeps getting better, as features are added to the Fediverse.
- Comment on Kevin Smith says he's cracked the story for the Dogma sequel 1 week ago:
Also, Ready Player One is masterpiece!
…I should go add it to that thread of shitty movies I will defend.
I told you I have bad taste.
I will say, it was fun to see Spielberg do a faithful adaptation of a shitty little fun book into a shitty little fun movie.
- Comment on Kevin Smith says he's cracked the story for the Dogma sequel 1 week ago:
Okay. Fuck it, this is the Internet. I’m gonna spend a few minutes as a Kevin Smith apologist, while I take a shit.
Please don’t take any of this seriously, but I’ll share it in case it helps you enjoy his films more.
I hope he’s not murdering anyone while I type this up.
“People like that movie (Clerks)? That’s craaaazy”
I think Kevin Smith has some crazy impostor syndrome.
Maybe I missed it, but i haven’t seen him ungrateful at his success, just surprised.
And it’s pretty normal to think one’s own earlier work isn’t as well done as ones own later work.
- It’s often wrong*, but it’s a pretty normal comfortable belief.
He wants nothing more than get into the disney money, that’s why he can’t say a bad thing about the new star wars movies, he praises them.
The only creative works I have ever seen Kevin Smith be critical of are his own. I take it as professionalism, and it fits his brand.
Kevin accomplished a lot for weed legalization, under the banner of “we should just let people enjoy things”.
That slogan has become a big part of his public brand, and I don’t blame him for sticking to it.
Now let’s pause and admit that in this entire defense of Kevin Smith, I didn’t actually really say anything nice about his movies.
I will say that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed all of Kevin Smiths movies.
Sadly, by many people’s standards, I still haven’t said anything nice about his movies. It’s pretty easy to verify that I have bad taste in movies.
- Comment on Kevin Smith says he's cracked the story for the Dogma sequel 1 week ago:
That’s fair. Haha.
- Comment on Kevin Smith says he's cracked the story for the Dogma sequel 1 week ago:
Hang on… disappointed by “Yoga Hosers”?
I got exactly what I expected from “Yoga Hosers”.
It’s not like Kevin Smith is out there demanding we sip wine while we watch, haha.
- Comment on Discord CTO says he’s “constantly bringing up enshittification” during meetings 1 week ago:
Element with Matrix.org is getting pretty decent.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Me too. Is this the line for the unhealthy dynamic? Haha.
I guess I actually have had some friends like that - folks with access to tools or a boat or just a really helpful skill that they felt shared. They’re the best and I try to pay it forward.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 1 week ago:
Exactly. Stallone’s Dredd should still hold it’s head high alongside the other films you mentioned.
It’s not the best of them, and it’s not the worst (insert obligated loving “Super Mario Brothers” jab here).
Stallone’s Dredd nails the campy retro future vibe, and is a pretty fun watch…as long as we’re not expecting a faithful comic adaptation.
Ironically, it’s a film made better by the existence of Urban’s Dredd. The worst offense of Stallone’s Dredd was that - at the time - there wasn’t a faithful adaptation of the comic. Now that there is one, I can enjoy Stallone’s version guilt free!
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 weeks ago:
I actually have died in the hill defending the Stallone version of Dredd. It’s a poor adaptation of the comic, but a pretty good science fiction film.
It doesn’t hold a candle to the Karl Urban film, but if it had come out sooner, I think it would be remembered more fondly.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 weeks ago:
Waterworld?
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 weeks ago:
“George not even trying hard.”
- Comment on New character posters for "Superman" 2 weeks ago:
Well, now I’m excited for this.
I was quietly hopeful, since Peacemaker is so great, and James Gunn is a huge comics nerd in all of the best ways.
But including Guy Gardener and Mr. Terrific is a power play. There’s so many things this could be, and all of them sound fun.
- Comment on The Faculty, any day 2 weeks ago:
Oh, good one!
Pitch Black, in particular, is one that is hard to explain to anyone who didn’t see it under ideal circumstances.
I feel like folks ask me:
“Isn’t that just another dark sci-fi edgelord apocalypse movies?”
I mean, technically, I guess, yes - but it’s so well done that it becomes something more.