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- Comment on Heck AI 4 hours ago:
Is this a Rimworld reference? It has been ages since I have booted the game up, but those caterpillars look familiar…
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 4 hours ago:
Yeah, my favorite bans are the ones from the News communities, with notes like “bad punctuation” or “spreading misinformation” because they posted an MSNBC article.
- Comment on how to get unbanned from communities? 4 hours ago:
I wouldn’t have bothered digging through their modlog, but some of those ban reasons are outright hilarious.
“are you victim-blaming a cat?” has me fucking rolling.
- Comment on What is the most "Indie Feeling" game that is definitely NOT from an Indie Studio? 4 hours ago:
That was my very first thought. It has all of the indie vibes, but was published by the OG evil tech company.
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 20 hours ago:
maybe ppl just have enough money to survive for a while and dont want to work while they pursue hobbies
The issue is that this is exactly what employers are trying to avoid. They want a good little worker bee who will show up every day and complete their tasks as assigned for 25 years straight. They don’t want someone who will just randomly decide to quit and focus on their hobbies.
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 23 hours ago:
For the most part, yes. They only really ask the question because they automatically assume you were in jail if you have a gap over 2’ish weeks long. So they’re really just looking for some sort of explanation besides “I was just unemployed for no reason.” Because they assume “no reason” is really “I don’t want to admit that I was in jail.”
- Comment on Why does it seem like every other post on here is deleted shortly after being posted? 1 day ago:
Nah, mod logs are open on Lemmy, and the mod logs for this community tend to be relatively calm. It’s more likely due to people deleting their own posts, or content-farming bot accounts getting nuked.
AFAIK, a deleted account won’t show individual deletions in the mod logs for each community they were participating in. So if an account gets nuked by an admin, that wouldn’t necessarily show up in this community’s mod logs.
- Comment on My doctor's office now has ads when checking in online 1 day ago:
That would be even worse, because autocorrect is based on your typing history. My phone autocorrects “hippa” to “hips” or “HIPAA”, not the other way around. In fact, it autocorrects “hipaa” to “HIPAA”. If it’s autocorrecting in the other (incorrect) direction, that means they misspell it often enough for their autocorrect to have it noted as a pattern.
- Comment on Open World Games: yay or nay? 1 day ago:
Yeah, Horizon’s big issue is that it only rewarded exploration with materials. The only reason to actually explore was to gather more crafting materials. Which is fine in a game like Minecraft or Terraria, where the game is heavily focused on crafting… Materials unlock new things to craft. But HZD isn’t heavily focused on crafting; You simply need to find increasingly obscure parts to be able to make stronger end-game weapons, which largely do the exact same thing as your current weapons, but slightly better. And once you have the better weapon, there’s no reason to continue gathering those materials. Which means there’s no reason to continue exploring.
There were only a few quests which could actually be discovered through exploration… And even those were just short fetch quests, kill quests, or were close enough to the main story’s locations that you reasonably would have stumbled across them during normal gameplay anyways.
The issue with HZD is that virtually all of your exploration-related unlockables happen via the main story. It means you can unlock every single new shiny exploration aid without actually exploring.
- Comment on Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be? 1 day ago:
To clarify: There are only two actual reasons that you can legally be held without bail. The first reason is that you’re considered a flight risk. The second reason is that you’re considered a danger to yourself or others if let out of prison before your trial.
For the first reason, this basically means that the courts don’t believe you would return for your trial, and would flee instead. Maybe you’re rich enough that you can afford to lose the bail money. Maybe you have international connections and can disappear to another country. Maybe you just have a history of fleeing. The Adjuster is 100% without a doubt a flight risk. He fled authorities and evaded a nationwide manhunt for an entire week. And since Luigi is accused of being The Adjuster, he is considered a flight risk.
For the second reason, this is basically the court going “you were accused of something so violent or egregious that we don’t trust you to avoid doing something similar again while out on bail.” This is most often used with cases like school shooters, serial killers, serial rapists, serial burglars, domestic abusers where the victim could be targeted again, etc… But a scummy pro-corporation judge could construe The Adjuster as a violent offender who is likely to strike again.
- Comment on My doctor's office now has ads when checking in online 1 day ago:
You run three offices, but don’t know that it’s spelled “HIPAA”, instead of the commonly-misspelled-by-laypeople “HIPPA”? I’m not calling you a liar, but it’s a big red flag when someone claims to work in healthcare and doesn’t know what the single largest piece of legislation surrounding their job is.
- Comment on Gears of War: Reloaded announced, coming this summer to PC, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 days ago:
Is that actually the reason GOW never came to PC? I never heard that, but it was also before I had a gaming PC. So it’s not like I was actively invested in whether or not it was available.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories 2 days ago:
Honestly the most surprising thing in this post is how little yen inflated over time. I know it’s 2019 vs 2024, but still… Most of the currencies on there had ~75-100% inflation, while Yen is at like 4%.
- Comment on Today's featured article on Wikipedia: Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories 2 days ago:
It was weird when it was originally announced. It’s even weird today. But the weirdest part about the entire series is that it’s actually really fucking entertaining. There’s a reason so many teenaged nerds in the late 2000’s and early 2010’s adopted KH2 as their entire personality.
- Comment on 100,000 People Are Using a Telegram Bot That Makes AI Cumshot Videos of Anyone 2 days ago:
Yeah, given that LLMs are trained from the internet, they all eventually devolve into “Hitler did nothing wrong” memes and/or hardcore racism.
- Comment on You could get anything you wanted and it was FREE 3 days ago:
Even if somehow a quarter of the songs you downloaded started with “My fellow Americans…”
- Comment on Generational differences 4 days ago:
My very first experience with weed was hitting a gravity bong made out of a 2L bottle of Coke, a big jug of Hawaiian Punch at a party, and the fattest bowl I’ve ever fucking seen:
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I hit the entire 2L, (essentially 1-hitting the entire bowl), accidentally sucked too hard at the end of the hit and got a mouthful of dirty bong water, immediately coughed up a lung while trying not to puke my guts out, and had the most wicked high of my life… The way God intended.That shit teaches respect. If my first experience with weed was hitting a pen, I wouldn’t have learned that a plant can rip your soul out for like 15 minutes. The same way a newbie beachgoer doesn’t respect the sea until they almost drown, I would have been full of hubris if I had a fucking vape pen as my first experience.
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 5 days ago:
One of the most difficult parts of veterinary medicine is the fact that your patients can’t directly communicate. Luckily, the vet knew this hedgehog had something wrong, because it kept exploding into a bunch of golden rings.
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 1 week ago:
Sort of. The new leveling system has minor skills contribute to your levels, to a lesser degree. IIRC it’s something like 10 major levels or 20 minor levels (or some combination thereof) to get a character level.
- Comment on [Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems 1 week ago:
It’s definitely not smooth. Interior cells run decently, but my OLED Steam Deck dips into the low 20’s in exterior cells.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 week ago:
I’m actually against companies running their own subreddits, purely because I’m an old redditor who remembers when it was specifically disallowed by Reddit. The original intent was for the site to the run by the people, not by companies. Companies were actually prevented from moderating their own subs; the worry was that they would use their mod powers to suppress any sort of negative press or criticism, no matter how valid.
For instance, maybe there’s a popular TV show. The company wasn’t allowed to have a hand in moderating the official fan sub for the show, because it was left up to the public. If the show did something unpopular, the broadcasting company shouldn’t have the ability to suppress the criticism about it.
But Reddit has since done a complete 180 on that topic, and now goes out of their way to install corporate moderators. Subs are now run as an extension of the company’s marketing and/or PR departments
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, nothing else has really matched Discord’s combination of voice, video, and text chatting. Matrix doesn’t even have a functional client, which means it’s only really viable for the people who care enough to learn how to set it up. And the average user does not care enough to learn.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 week ago:
We need both for different purposes. Discord is amazing for voice, video, and IM chatting. But forums are intended for a vastly different use-case. Forums are play-by-post. They’re meant for responding at your earliest convenience, not for talking to someone right now in real-time. The fact that so many people began using Discord as a forum replacement is a fucking travesty, because Discord is a fucking awful medium for forums… Not due to any fault of Discord’s, but because they’re completely different use cases.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 1 week ago:
Yeah, and it’s doubly infuriating because Discord is not a good replacement for support forums. It isn’t searchable via search engines, and even the built in search is fucking dog water.
Let’s say I have an error, so I google “{Program} {Error code} Solved”. With a forum, I would find a thread that is already talking about the specific error, with comments regarding troubleshooting steps or a solution… But with Discord, all I get is a generic link to the program’s server.
And even once I’m in the server, there often isn’t a good way for me to find existing threads about my specific error. Maybe I check the pinned messages, but some servers have dozens of channels; am I expected to check the pins on every single channel? Oftentimes that seems to be the expectation, because asking a question will often just get a “check the pinned messages, ya thud-fuck” type of response.
Or maybe I search it, but (again) am I expected to search every single channel? And since Discord doesn’t use fuzzed searches, searching for “Error code 0x00548327” won’t return any results if the thread simply uses “Error 548327” instead. With Google (or any half-decent search engine, really) you get results for both. But not with Discord.
So instead, I ask in the support channel. And that leads me to my final gripe… My response takes actual effort from another person in order to solve. If there are 200 people with the same issue, that’s 200 times that someone needs to respond to what is essentially the same message. With a forum, you could simply find the post, and read the responses. No human interaction necessary, because it has already been done. The question and answer process has already happened. But with Discord, I’m forced to wait on someone to actually respond, and the devs/admins actually need to dedicate time and resources to ensuring it gets answered. That constant vigilance takes a lot more time and effort away from actual mod duties.
- Comment on Choose one 1 week ago:
“Hey Frank, can we borrow your hammer? We need to see if the pope is dead.”
“Did you submit a maintenance ticket for it? I don’t see it on my task list.”
“Oh, no, but I figured if I just called you…”
“Gotta have a ticket for it; I get in trouble if I spend too much time on other things.” - Comment on Oblivion Remastered troubleshooting 1 week ago:
Try moving it out of your Program Files folder. Some programs don’t do well in those folders, because writing requires admin rights. It looks like the game is trying to do some sort of operation on a game file, and that operation is failing because it can’t actually access the file. Maybe move it to something like C:\Games instead, which won’t require admin rights to access. You probably shouldn’t be installing games to Program Files anyways.
I suppose the quick and dirty way to test would be to run the game as administrator. If that solves the issue, you know it’s likely something to do with Program Files being write-protected.
- Comment on When you fail the DC 8 "JD, CHILL!" Persualsion check 2 weeks ago:
It was leaked earlier in the week via some screenshots, but yes it was essentially a shadow launch. Which is honestly better than the “TES6 was teased over a decade ago and we haven’t heard anything about it since” limbo.
It’s good so far! I haven’t had time to properly dig into it yet (stupid life and chores and job keep dragging me away) but it feels like they tried to keep the spirit of Oblivion alive, while adding some more modern Skyrim-like combat mechanics.
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, the two aren’t mutually exclusive; Nintendo is a shitty litigious company and the dude is a fucking idiot. The first rule of Switch piracy is that you don’t talk about Switch piracy, and this dude was blatantly streaming a game that hadn’t even released yet.
- Comment on When you fail the DC 8 "JD, CHILL!" Persualsion check 2 weeks ago:
I (very sloppily) made this while waiting on Oblivion Remastered to download…
Image - Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer (Available Today!) 2 weeks ago:
Nope, the old DLC is available in the base game. The Deluxe edition adds some new armor (and yes, new horse armor) but isn’t necessary to access the old DLC.
