SaraTonin
@SaraTonin@lemmy.world
- Comment on Wish I was her 1 week ago:
This was 10+ years ago now, too, so more then
- Comment on Wish I was her 1 week ago:
The best half of a business conversation i ever heard was “look, the bottom line is this: give her £100,000 a year, give her a Porsche, give her her own office, give her a secretary, and she’ll bring in more than a million in profit every year.”
- Comment on Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked? 1 week ago:
No i never had windows 8. Unless they retroactively updated windows 7 to go fullscreen it had to be 10
- Comment on Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked? 1 week ago:
You did still have to install a third-party app to get the start menu not to take up the whole screen, though
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 2 weeks ago:
Not even retail. I can’t count the number of professional emails I’ve had, including from managers with huge salaries with basic grammar and spelling mistakes.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 2 weeks ago:
That would be hilarious. Please let him accomplish that and nothing else.
- Comment on The reason women cover their drinks 3 weeks ago:
No i didn’t
- Comment on The reason women cover their drinks 3 weeks ago:
I hate that I like his suit
- Comment on FACTS 4 weeks ago:
There are genuinely and unironically men out there who don’t wash their own arses because touching a man’s arse is gay.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m burnt out on it at this point. In the whole bullet haven gameplay loop.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’ve got something like 200 hours in Vampire Survivors, and it cost me less than a fiver
- Comment on sometimes it ain't just about dat math 4 weeks ago:
I mean…you do see the irony here, right?
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 4 weeks ago:
I’ve got perhaps an unusual one - 99% of the time I play games with the music turned off. I just find it much more immersive and I enjoy, for example, not knowing that combat is about to start because the music’s just changed.
There are plenty of games where you can’t turn the music off. I’m not a fan of that, but I get it. The devs want you to play their game in a certain way, and turning the music off isn’t part of that. No complaints.
But then there are games which allow you to turn the music off, but all the rest of the sound has been made under the assumption that the music will be playing. The music often covers up a litany of jankiness like background sound effects not looping well. And sometimes the atmosphere sounds (say the drone of an engine in a spaceship) are also controlled by the music slider.
So, if you’re going to give the option to turn the music off, make sure that the game still sounds good without the music.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 4 weeks ago:
For me, it’s cutscenes in general. I know there are people who do care in general, but for me a game where I care about the plot is very rare. And the examples I can think of (Outer Wilds, or Ico, for two examples) either have no cutscenes or very few brief ones, and tell the story in a different, more immersive way.
For me, a general rule is - if the game forces moments on me when I can put the controller down and wander into a different room, then that’s not what I’m interested in. I want to actually play the game.
- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 4 weeks ago:
If you like 8-bit gaming, I recommend getting the free BBC micro emulator BeebEm
Then get the ROM Citadel
It’s a Metroidvania from before either Metroid or Castlevania. It still plays well, it’s still difficult, the puzzles are logical but require thought, and it’s several hours of gameplay to complete.
- Comment on It's been downhill from that day 4 weeks ago:
Not that many years ago Noddy Holder said that with royalties “Merry Xmas Everybody” he can live comfortably for the entire year. I imagine Carey gets a lot more than he does.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 5 weeks ago:
I once asked why anybody would want a smart fridge. Most people didn’t seem to know. The most common answer was that it could act as a focal point for a busy family for keeping track of things like appointments.
So, like a blackboard/whiteboard, cork board, or even a normal fridge, some paper, and magnets.
I’m no Luddite. I’ve got smart lamps so i can change the lighting in my living room & bedroom without getting up. And I’m looking into heating so i can have my heating come on when i leave work, rather than at a specific time. That saves effort and money.
But i just see no reason whatsoever for anybody to have a smart fridge.
- Comment on Truth is way more fucked up than fiction 5 weeks ago:
More significantly, he’s one of the key instigators and powers behind the current us government. Explicitly wants to create a technocratic dictatorship.
- Comment on They were well informed. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think this is accurate. I think they’re brought in by the dinosaurs.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 1 month ago:
I’ll buy the VR headset if, as well as streaming games, you can also play video/mirror your desktop. I know that’s not the market they’re going for, but it seems to me that those are the main use-cases of VR headsets aside from gaming and to my non-tech way of thinking it doesn’t seem harder than streaming a game.
- Comment on The holy trinity 1 month ago:
There’s a Korean film called A Tale Of Two Sisters. In the commentary, the director says that the actor playing the younger sister had three modes: “eat, sleep, and run”
- Comment on UK Pension Age Changes: Workers Warned They May Work Until 80 1 month ago:
Once upon a time, that was basically the idea. Retirement was expected to be a year or maybe two if you were lucky before you died, and the reasoning behind it was so that you could get your affairs in order.
I know that retirement has to be paid for, but the entire point of progress is supposed to be that people are better off. Instead, simply because they’re the largest generation and therefore the largest voter block, everything has always been catered to the Boomers. That’s the reason the triple lock exists in the first place, because it benefited the Boomers. Now that later generations look like they’re going to start benefiting from it, suddenly it’s a problem that they have to deal with by making sure the later generations don’t get as big a slice of the pie.
- Comment on This is exactly what it feels like to watch some ads with motivational slogan, by some company who want just to sell you useless shit. 1 month ago:
I remember when, to make a point,a blogger put Hitler quotes over images of Taylor Swift and people shared them around
- Comment on What 1 month ago:
I once saw a Japanese person post that if you can’t think of a word in Japanese and instead just say the English word in a really racist Japanese accent, then you’ve got about a 50% chance of being right
- Comment on What's the name of the early-mid 2000's song that sounds like Beyonce, starts with a "dun...dun... dun DUN!" guitar part, and the singer makes this "dabudabudabu" sound? 1 month ago:
Oh, I misread the “oooaaaaahhhaaaaaaahhh” bit, so my mind went Kelis, I Hate You So Much Right Now
- Comment on 3-bean soup 1 month ago:
Is this some strawberries aren’t berries but cucumbers are stuff?
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 1 month ago:
There’s no way Microsoft support hand-writes each email. This would be a form letter, written by corporate, which they then insert relevant details in to.
- Comment on My friend got hacked and of course microsoft will not even try to help 1 month ago:
Oh come on! I’m sure that all genuine Microsoft support emails start with “Greetings [customer name]”…
- Comment on NOW! 1 month ago:
When I was in school a teacher told us that washing powder manufacturers would have a way of getting around “advertising needs to be true and accurate” laws. What they’d do is gradually reduce the strength of their product over time (normally by just cutting it with something cheap). Then they’d revert it back to its original strength so that they could announce “Now TWICE as strong!”
- Comment on Over 47% of Stop Killing Games Signatures Have Already Been Verified 1 month ago:
My favourite thing about this post is that it doesn’t explain what Stop Killing Games is, and links to an article which also doesn’t explain what Stop Killing Games is.