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- Comment on So next time you see a rat remember they paid for sex in their previous life. 4 days ago:
Make sex to 1 buttock (1!)!
- Comment on Moisturize me 4 days ago:
Or a .nomedia file in a folder irrc.
- Comment on Many Top MAGA Trolls Aren’t Even in the U.S - Elon Musk’s new X feature has been very revealing. 5 days ago:
He and his friends want these chaos and evergrowing divide for they make people easier to manipulate. Truth won’t hurt the elites if it doesn’t exist, if everything is a lie. Demasking US patriot-bots as foreigners won’t affect maga subscribers, it just further discourages everyone else from even talking to them.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 5 days ago:
Heal-over-time systems in CoD-like shooters lack feedback and are unreliable in terms of measuring difficulty of a task and feeling like you did something special. Everything becomes boringly average.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 5 days ago:
Another one is QTE in the middle of a cutscene, ugh.
- Comment on Vermintide 2 is currently free on Steam 6 days ago:
EAC works on Linux, FatShark just didn’t initially choose that option, and about a year ago game became playable again. IIRC you should choose a beta workaround version in your steam client for that.
Yet, it’s fair to feel salty about that. Versus is a fine gimmick but wasn’t worth introducing EAC, like gatekeeping mods wasn’t too. It is too heavy-handed for a game with a small, tight-knit community, that would rather play a four Bardin game than install wallhack or aimbot for whatever reason.
- Comment on We have one at home 1 week ago:
The logo circle is so big and vulgar it looks like a fake gucci bag. It’s great they got rid of that.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting Theory. 1 week ago:
Double barrel Bill
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting Theory. 1 week ago:
I start to get tired of these jokes, if they are jokes at all. What’s to get from them, with them? While I don’t think it hurts his base at all, it does occupy others and stirs some of them wrong. Like that meme playing into the stereotype of gay people being grotesque and shallow movie-esque characters. Playing with that bone thrown to non-believers is not productive, even Epsteing files are irrelevant because him sucking off Clinton or diddling kids in the past does nothing to his current reign, destruction of economy, mass imprisonment. He can eat a cock, a pussy, or shoot a person on Main St., but nevertheless the damage he does right now, his cult and his friendly elites are what really matters. His supposed blowjob is a nothing-burger, but also a cutting board to break lemmy-like communities around how homophobic these, present assumptions are, and they do sound ill-biased.
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 1 week ago:
Them having an office large enough to moderate in-game communications, on every popular language? They have some billions to spare. Serving kids requires a lot of work they have neglected for a very long time.
Facebook was a vehicle for hateful, genocidal messages in Myanmar, and they seemingly got of the hook having no person understanding local language on the market they occupied.
If Roblox primarily targets kids, they can’t go without agressive moderation, psy-help on demand, things one would find obvious, but these are never required, not to say it’s not that sexy as getting profits and cutting corners.
I don’t know if their business model would be viable if they started things right from the beginning, but it would be more stressful to them to finally start doing something about that.
- Comment on 'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them 1 week ago:
I think it’s better not to release something than to release something weird
He wrote wearing Emil’s head.
- Comment on Ratioed 1 week ago:
BOSS HOG GETS NO CRANKING TODAY, AWOOO
- Comment on My BF never bakes anything. Get up this morning and there is a sheet of these cookies on the counter. Is he trying to tell me something? 1 week ago:
Gingerbreed that cake, now.
- Comment on Why is the package that you want to check feel so warm? 2 weeks ago:
That’s the one ordering them.
- Comment on GTA 6 dev Rockstar says recent firings were due to leaks of "confidential information" and were "in no way related to people's right to join a union" 3 weeks ago:
Rockstar patched out a bunch of radio music they had time-limited licenses for. I don’t think you would notice that, though there are mods to bring them back. Performance-wise it only had problems with integrated graphic cards under Windows in my expirience. Haven’t tried it on Linux.
- Comment on Microsoft killed Win 10 support to rob you of your rights. Fight back by installing Linux. 3 weeks ago:
We haven’t seen the worst of it. Most people won’t care about lack of security updates unless nagged by MS directly. What damages older platforms worse is incompatible apps, especially Chromium-based browsers and Electron-based apps, and therefore individual websites that block outdated versions.
If you are to join a chat with your boss in MS Teams, you need to make it work. That won’t fly on older versions of Win10, neither on previous OSes. But their service’s web version, probably limited, works as long as Firefox keeps working on aging systems, while Chrome gave up a long ago, and may abandon Win10 too if they’d like to.
When that would happen, when there would be a popular piece of software requiring a non-negotiable switch, that would pronounce Win10 a dying platform. That may be more of a streamlining choice on devs’ side rather than an obvious necessity, but who cares? If baby me had Steam or a favorite meme page stop working, I could’ve cried to my parents until they fix it with money.
Like in marketing, you don’t sell the product itself, you sell vibes, benefits of ownership, not wheels but miles. Win11 should become a choice of ultimate convinience, usability, comfort - compared to erroring out Win10 PCs. This needs enough momentum, and the end of Chromium on W10 is the best thing that would happen to modern MS targeting existing users.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 4 weeks ago:
The problem with Meta (also russian Yandex) is that it was caught having web-side trackers that send stuff to localhost, where it gets caught by Meta apps and then sent to Zucker servers. This two-bit scheme was noticed by researchers and isn’t there anymore, but it is a clear display why having these apps preinstalled is a problem. Regular ads are better than Mark looking over your shoulder whenever his meta pixel triggers.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 4 weeks ago:
That does sound edgy and pointless, like x dot com, but it fits their focus on visual style and branding over everything else.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
The idea of unified interface layout itself wasn’t bad, that’s the implementation. It felt like they both didn’t have people testing desktop UI at all and didn’t have any idea how to leverage that idea on a desktop.
Things they could do:
- Seamless device switching, projecting and control across Win platforms over local wireless;
- Crossplatform app development, with a wordpress-like UI wrapper;
- Tiling DE, so you can have a couple of vertical mobile-like apps contained in their constant positions for ease of use.
Let it be an ecosystem where every new Windows device can be an opportunity multiplier. Like how KDE Connect makes my phone a media remote or a mouse+kb, and my PC a handler of recent photos I took with my phone today, no cloud involved. With their huge marketshare they could’ve pushed anything they wanted onto hardware producers as a demand and put Apple out of game entirely.
Instead, we had horizontal scroll in Start menu, fullscreen Calc app, no third party desktop app bothering with Metro interface, everything being like a worse Win7 and the only living reminder of Metro phase ever existing being rectangular squares in w10 Start, now retired for MacOS copycat. GG WP M$. It could’ve been your turning point going into smartphone age, but you had too much money and yesmen to care.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 4 weeks ago:
Idk what was your problem, but mine was not reading on filesystems when the choice occured and not knowing how awesome BTRFS is with incrimental backups.
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 4 weeks ago:
The thing with Valve is that, outside of this monetization of online games, they’ve unquestionably had an enormous positive impact on all sorts of things in this medium just by way of sheer market forces. They’ve done a lot of great open source work, and they’ve helped create a viable exit ramp from Windows.
I don’t know about the exit ramp for a casual user, if you mean ditching Windows altogether, since that’s not really happening. But what did happen - Microsoft didn’t get to own the central position in gaming on their own platform, and Steam is a program that installs other programs uninterrupted - just to take a sense of what rights it has there for almost two decades. They had GFWL, now MS Store, integrated with XBOX, and they still aren’t mentioned as a PC marketplace anywhere besides having a monopoly on Minecraft. There hasn’t been their IE for games, and it’s awesome. I can’t say Valve and MS even compete there, but having eggs in two different baskets is better than having them in just one. Two different monopolies instead of one.
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 4 weeks ago:
Casinos and gambling venues IRL are almost always their own thing, you can’t go one by mistake and you shouldn’t see them surfacing in unspecialized common spaces, e.g. on Olympics stadium.
In videogames the casino element penetrates recreational spaces that were mostly safe from that for years. Not as a shadow scheme with reselling/gambling on some third party site - this can’t be stopped - but in the game itself. Valve’s promotional algorythm walks around the lobby giving everyone free spins coupons, that not only reaches mentally unstable addicts, but also normalizes the practice of jerking the slot machine from time to time for the larger userbase. Every actor in that trend is a self-serving agent, but their collective influence puts a foot in the door and proclaims that gambling is a casual part of a daily life and there’s nothing wrong in seeing it everywhere, even parting with a couple of bucks recreationally, that in the end makes bazillions to the house.
- Comment on Sad to see 4 weeks ago:
At least it took him five days, not five years to know they aren’t compatible.
- Comment on thats all 5 weeks ago:
Fella fails.
- Comment on concert 5 weeks ago:
Iirc ticket services helped it a lot. Having a sizeable market share they were able to rise them accross all events and venues.
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- Comment on One of my favorites 1 month ago:
Neat sha(mbles)
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 1 month ago:
If I don’t see that, am I the problem? 🤔
- Comment on What is the most overrated game gamers hype up? 1 month ago:
Whaaaaa…?
That’s wild. And an instant buy too.
- Comment on What is the most overrated game gamers hype up? 1 month ago:
I’m pissed most youtubers cherished it like a God’s own baby. It led me to finally unsub from Angry Joe I forgot I followed from earlier years. There were just a few bloggers who said they didn’t like it or pointed any problem with it.