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- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 2 days ago:
The best part was: this was even in the installer! When setting up your sound card, there was a test button. If it worked, you heard “your sound card works perfectly”. But if you kept pressing it, eventually it would say “enjoying yourself?” And if you kept going after that, in an angry voice, “it doesn’t get any better than this!”
Ah old Blizzard, when even the installers had character.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 days ago:
I also love how reincarnation is a fact of life in that world, and souls are a real, almost physical, thing that can be manipulated and used.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 week ago:
You can use Linux-like text navigation on macOS: ctrl-a goes to the start of the line, ctrl-e to the end, ctrl-f forward, etc.
I mostly use Windows, macOS second, with some Linux in distant third. Yet those Unix-style bindings are what I miss most in Windows applications that don’t support remapping.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 1 week ago:
About thirty years ago I was a teen. I remember talking with a girl only a few years younger than me, and being astounded that she didn’t know how to read an analogue clock.
Exactly as you indicated, this is nothing new.
- Comment on #environmentalist 1 week ago:
The only thing that comes with a straw in the restaurants I visit, is cocktails.
- Comment on The Internet's Biggest Annoyance:Why Cookie Laws Should Target Browsers, Not Websites 1 week ago:
IANAL
Two things: “reject all” should be as easy as “accept all”. GDPR seems pretty clear about that, to me at least. Almost all (if not simply all) 3rd party implementations get this wrong. I can only assume they’ve never been challenged on this, or found a loophole. “Native” European sites (governments, official bodies, TV stations, …. ) are the only ones I’ve seen do this correctly.
If your cookies don’t have any tracking you don’t need to ask consent. You don’t need a pop-up. You don’t need any user interaction. All you need is a notification somewhere on the page.
- Comment on New trailer for Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown has a rather bald Borg crew member 2 weeks ago:
what did they do to Seven of Nine?! Why do they have no hair?
When she first came aboard she didn’t have any hair either.
- Comment on Anon shops for diamonds 3 weeks ago:
Unfortunately the murderer was their significant other.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Using “streaming” instead of “broadcasting” struck me as an odd choice for someone old enough to remember it.
It’s fine of course, it just stood out to me.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I blame the shoes for looking so throw-up-on-able.
- Comment on 'The Thing: The Game: The Remaster' - Civvie11 4 weeks ago:
The Thing: The Game: The Remaster: The Video
- Comment on Obsidian Temporarily Removes Games From Sale Due to Unity Exploit 4 weeks ago:
From what I heard, they delisted only the premium editions of Avowed because some part of those use Unity. It looks like the same is true for the other games. Even for Pillars they only delisted the definitive edition.
- Comment on Anon is exploited 1 month ago:
I guess anon is too tired to do maths correctly. That sums to 21 hours, so only 3 left instead of 4.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 1 month ago:
Throat singing is cool. Try blasting en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_noise instead.
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 1 month ago:
Didn’t Microsoft do this a decade or two ago already? Or was that just exploring the idea?
- Comment on Randy Pitchford Snaps Back at Borderlands 4 Criticism: 'Code Your Own Engine' 1 month ago:
Shade aside, I do think more developers should make their own engine. Yes it takes time and resources, but those are spent on exactly what you need instead of on getting what you want out of an engine that was made to do everything but focused on nothing.
- Comment on Is it? 2 months ago:
Witches made of sand! They cause sandstorms, extremely dangerous.
- Comment on human geography 2 months ago:
They know the truth. They know about the Great Glitter Bat. They worship in the Old Ways and prepare for the coming uprising.
- Comment on Civilization 7's latest update has "hit mods harder than usual", but for a good reason 2 months ago:
I know you’re talking about early access, but even released games aren’t finished anymore until months later.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games reaches its goal of 1.4M signatures, covering the risk of valid signatures going under 1M 3 months ago:
There were, but we ate them.
If only.
- Comment on captchas like these that don't tell you which part of the text you're supposed to input 3 months ago:
The same image is shown to a lot of people. If a majority of people click on the same things, that is assumed to be the correct answer. And it is added to the training database. Occasionally you’ll get one that hasn’t been shown to enough people yet to know for sure. For those, they’ll usually accept any answer, even wildly incorrect ones. The thing is, you as a user never know which ones they already know and which they don’t.
- Comment on it's just science 3 months ago:
Yes I’m a hot dawg for sure.
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 3 months ago:
Sadly justwatch doesn’t work for me because it thinks Belgium is only Wallonia.
- Comment on Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!! 3 months ago:
Interesting! I tried from a country that has an eID so it should be trivial to weed out duplicates, yet I got that checkbox.
- Comment on Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!! 3 months ago:
Oddly, the EU one just has a checkbox that you need to check to confirm that you haven’t signed before. I’m guessing removal of duplicates happens only after closing, along with other data validation.
I thought this strange at first too, but I think it’s because of the disparate identification methods in different countries. If everyone had a digital ID card instant checking would be doable, but note it probably isn’t.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 4 months ago:
A “best RPGs of all time” list will inevitably include Baldur’s Gate 2, and likely other Infinity Engine games, most of which are definitely not games without difficulty spikes or required side content.
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 4 months ago:
The Wolf Among Us, and I imagine other Telltale games (but that’s the only one I played so far). It felt a lot like Life is Strange in gameplay and storytelling, even though it’s also a lot different.
In a similar vein, point and click adventure games like The Whispered World, The Book of Unwritten Tales, or Syberia. The modern ones usually don’t have a failure state (as opposed to the infamous Sierra games), but unlike LiS you may get stuck on a puzzle.
- Comment on Amen 4 months ago:
This is deep.
- Comment on Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time Remake Shows Signs Of Life With Small Update 4 months ago:
As someone who played the original Prince of Persia, Sands of Time still feels like “the new one”.
- Comment on Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds 4 months ago:
To my social feeds? I doubt it. Plenty of fediverse content, but not added by Threads.