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- Comment on elixir of a god 1 day ago:
Wonder how many meth heads are remembered as a history-altering, millennia-defining individuals.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 4 days ago:
Weird, right? On the one hand - we dont eat banana peels. So, it must be fine, right? But on the other hand, I’d also hesitate to eat a snickers bar washed up on the shore.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 4 days ago:
Yep. Lots of us do, me included. The only thing is that I peel them first and then wash them thoroughly before eating. I do not wash bananas. But I also do not buy bananas washed up on the shore.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 4 days ago:
I mean, I peel them and wash them right after. Then I cook them in boiling water or fry on a pan. Not eat raw.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 4 days ago:
First. As mentioned by MonkderVierte, not fine but a warning.
Second. I’d really think thrice to pick up washed on the shore bananas, or just about anything edible. Basic hygiene to me. Many would disagree with me and say that one can rinse it off. But I don’t know, man. Guess I am a germophobe.
Guess UK government is just trying to protect people from possible health risks. Cause, let’s fucking face it. Tons of people have issues with hygiene. You can’t expect everyone to at the very fucking least rinse these bananas, let alone rinse them well. Also, can you imagine any world government to proudly tell people “There’s bunch of bananas washed up on the shore. Go pick’em up! Free potassium snack!” ?
Sad to see this many of fruit being wasted.
- Comment on How can we stop bots on the fediverse? 4 days ago:
To artificially populate their instance? I dunno.
Bot prosting AI generated images to niche reddit subs also makes no sense to me. But that is a reality we are dealing with here too.
- Comment on Anon's vibing with the boys 4 days ago:
Is there a followup on the raccoon-Taco bell story?
- Comment on It's everywhere 5 days ago:
Reminds me of r/lotrmemes when they find a new template. Every fucking meme is the same until new template is found. Sometimes it takes months.
- Comment on Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video 1 week ago:
Check this guide
You will need:
- To learn/get to know docker-compose or some kind of docker-compose manager. (I suggest Komodo)
- Storage! Lots of it!
- Patience - Arr stack is easy, but might be confusing to configure sometimes
- Preferably USENET account, but private and free torrent trackers will also work fine.
The rest is just trial and error. After you succeed, you’ll have automated media downloads for TV/Movies/Music/Books. Also, don’t hesitate to google around and see what people suggest.
- Comment on Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video 1 week ago:
- Comment on Amazon develops methods for inserting ads onto any flat surface in an existing video 1 week ago:
And that’s why I got myself Verbatim 43888 with BU40N drive and also setup an Arr stack.
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 1 week ago:
Name and shame!
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 1 week ago:
They are talking about bubble popping soon for 2 years except AI is older than that. For a bubble to burst - 2 years is not very long time. How is to have one talking point for 2 years is not a long time?
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 1 week ago:
Broken game seller
Asset flips exploiter
And these two came out of nowhere and have no backbone to support either of these.
Other points are also debateable:
Defending the monopolistic. By definition Valve is not monopoly. Even if we stretch the meaning, Valve would still barely fall under the definition. They are not the ones who decides what games to be sold and at what price. They do have competition and they are not continuously destroying it.
Loot box pushing They adapted lootboxes? Yes! Do they insist on lootboxes? No. These are purely cosmetic and bring no advantage whatsoever. (Except TF2 but you still can get all weps by playing the game and not spending a cent. Also game is half-dead anyway) Many games adopted lootboxes, and some, like Star Wars Battlefront 2, had them as a pay-2-win option.
Gambling economy boosting Not Valve was the one to create csgolobby and other external gambling sites. They did slightly restrict gamingling by locking items as non-tradeable for a week from the time of purchase. That is not enough to kill it, but it does restrict gambling for a bit.
Seasonal FOMO instigator
What exacltly fomo is with Steam? You’d say - sales. Dunno how anyone uses them but I go to check sales - if I see something I like and am willing to pay for, I buy it. I see It Takes Two for 9.99? I get! I see Need For Speed The Run for 9.99 - I pass. I don’t have to buy anything I wouldn’t play on a Steam sale even if it costs fraction of the full price.
Fomo is when League of Legends runs winter/championship skins in store claiming that is one-time offer and that skins never are coming back to be sold so people buy them to look unique in game. This is fomo. And it becomes even more of a clown fiesta when these skins come to store a year later. Maybe even with the same one-time-offer claim.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 1 week ago:
Talks about AI bubble burst been there a long time. I sure hope it will happen tomorrow, but I really wouldn’t put my bets on that happening any time soon.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 1 week ago:
The latest yacht is a research vessel - not a “party-cocaine-hookers” vessel. News articles accurately avoid mentioning that.
There are tons of things to hate on billionaiers. To be fucking fair, Gabe is the most benign out of the bunch.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 1 week ago:
succeeding by not actively running their platform into the ground
As someone who began to use Steam from 2007, and play their games since 2000 - they not only made their platform better over years, they also now branching out lately. Their hardware is either the best in price/performance or outright innovative.
They are not “succeeding by not actively running their platform into the ground”, they succeeding in actually providing a good service and getting better the more time passes. All that while all competition does is to attempt to expand their user base without actually providing a good service.
Just thought that if not Valve, we’d be stuck in the same shithole streaming services been lately.
- Comment on Anon is a fan of GabeN 1 week ago:
It is fair to compare Google to Valve only in a category of “once been good”. Other than that, 2 different companies with 2 different mottos.
- Comment on Is there a uBlock Origin filter or extension for LLM slop in search results 1 week ago:
You can use uBO on shorts to make them dissappear.
For Android, 7 helieve revanced has an option for that.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 1 week ago:
As a hardcore fan of L4D, I just found it hilarious that I had to google for the name of their spiritual successor to L4D and that game before Back 4 Blood where you have 4 teammates hunt or be hunted by 1 big monster. Both are unmemorable abandonware games while L4D2 (also is kind of an abandonware) somehow is still played and is almost old enough to drink. Fucking timeless classic, I may say.
- Comment on Left 4 Dead co-creator is directing a mysterious co-op shooter for JJ Abrams' production company, and Sony's going to publish it: "We hope to deliver a bold, innovative experience" 1 week ago:
Last time I have heard about a L4D
co-creator making another co-op game, we got Back 4 Blood which I got beta for and which sucked some major ass and eventually died in less than 2 years after release. So, no. I am not hyped and nobody should until they actually show a good game. Glad my beta was free. Didn’t had to pay for this crap to figure out it is crap. - Comment on Reddit global rank is going down 1 week ago:
little has been done to mitigate it
They made it more difficult for community to spot bots. Now anyone can hide their profile post/comment history. By design!
pretty much for every legitimate post a day, you’d get 6 to 10 bot posts
Real! I once saw a post in some sub where mods were complaining about bot/AI problems lately. In comments there was a guy who said he is moderating a very niche sub about toyota trucks with a few thousands of users. He said that half of the posts in a day feature AI generated pictures of these cars. Can’t be real people posting it. I wonder what really happens in bigger subs.
- Comment on Reddit global rank is going down 1 week ago:
It is riddled with bots. Like, you know. The whole thing supposed to be where people would collaborate, vote for the best design on their sub and then implement it on the canvas together. But instead we got bunch of bot accounts that would draw pictures faster than a speed of sound and not let anyone draw anything there but themselves.
And also, during IPO incident, spez decided that the best option to distract people from the elephant in the room would be to run (at that point already not so much) beloved r/place.
- Comment on Reddit global rank is going down 1 week ago:
There is nothing to wait for. It has been there for a while now.
- Comment on Controversial horror game Horses is the top-selling new game on GOG even as it gets kicked off the Humble Store one day after launch 1 week ago:
In this crazy world where it could actually happen, I don’t think they did it with intent. Most likely the haven’t had this in their plans, but they did plan on having a minor in the game to ride a horse. They thought that it would be a great idea to capitalize on Steam ban - that is undeniable. And I can’t blame them. That is indeed a perfect advertisement campaign - loud and, most importantly, free.
It is just hilarious to me that with all this clout and attention, their game is getting barely any buzz post-release. And also that the most posted article about Steam ban is mentioning them as one of the best idie devs out there when they are like mid at best.
- Comment on Controversial horror game Horses is the top-selling new game on GOG even as it gets kicked off the Humble Store one day after launch 1 week ago:
Publicity stunt.
They got tons of publicity by being banned from steam. They harnessed it as much as possible which spawned the infamous “one of the best indie game developers” title in some news articles. Being banned from two major game stores brings a lot of eyes on their game. And even with a bright spotlight lightning up their game - still barely anyone is talking about it. My theory is - game is below average at best and can be barely called an art piece in gaming industry. (based on what I know about the game and on one youtube playthrough)
Popularity matters cause it is a good metric to measure sales. If game is good and sells well - people will talk. People are barely talking about this game. Sales are probably very low. But also, what would sales be if it wouldn’t be banned of steam? I bet they would barely exist.
- Comment on Controversial horror game Horses is the top-selling new game on GOG even as it gets kicked off the Humble Store one day after launch 1 week ago:
Ah yes, yes. The game from “one of the best indie game developers” that, as of 2025.12.04 (2 days since release), has <4 Metacritic user reviews (no score) and stands at 77 score with only 7 reviews by game critics. Devs get tons of free clout by being removed, but somehow their game is still unpopular. Wonder why.
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- Comment on Do you cheat in video games? 2 weeks ago:
Years ago - I did cheat in many single player games. For example, I am extremely bad at RTS. Couldn’t beat computer on easy in WC3, even today. I was cheating during campaign just to go thought the story of the game.
I did cheat in WoW pirate server but not in the way of malice. I only did use flight cheat to travel quickly and a small teleport 1m ahead because sometimes quests or dungeons were broken and this was the only way to deal with that. I never used cheats in BGs or against other players but one of my friends did and got banned many times for that.
I have never cheated in any PvP games like CSGO, LoL, HOTS, L4D2, PUBG, COD, Town of Salem. I hate when cheaters ruin my game. I would not want to ruin anyone else’s game.
General rule: single-player cheats are ok. Multiplayer cheats - not ok.
- Comment on idk 2 weeks ago:
For 120v power grid systems these would boil water twice as slow. But still, the beat and most efficient way to do it.
