Meatwagon

@Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the solutions to doomerism, and that "can't find love" feeling that I've been seeing on Twitter (specifically a frontend)?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Finding love: You get a hobby that you participate in with other people. You have to be friends first before entering a relationship because why would you want to be with anyone who isn’t your friend or doesn’t share the same interests you do?

  Everything else: Yeah we’re fucked

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If AI is so smart, how come it doesn't track the time and date?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is only active when it’s answering a prompt then goes inactive again. It has no concept of time.

  It’s training data is from 1 set time with the date in there, so that’s all it ever sees.

  It can Google the current date and time, but it’s just guessing and only does that when requested, otherwise it assumes it’s the date of its training data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are you using your laptop (with internet) that still runs Windows10?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m running 10 with no security features as my main gaming system. I turned off as much of Windows defender as I could because it was slowing down texture downloads in Second Life + was trying to say my fan control software was malware.

  I hope I get a virus because it’ll be the final tug I need to fully cover to linux. I just converted a 10 year old laptop to linux mint to run as a server since everything is getting enshittified and requiring monthly fees, like Mint the budgeting app, so I’m dipping my toe into self-hosting.

  I have nothing to lose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't people complain about Gary Stus?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are more Mary Sues than Gary Stus in fiction because women aren’t written as people I’m a lot of media, so they aren’t allowed to have the realistic flaws that keep them from being Mary Sues.

  Light is a power fantasy, but I wouldn’t call him a Stu because he’s a megalomaniac and has an actual personality. He also fails at the end.

  Stark has his own personality issues, but some of the TV shows fail to highlight those so he does come off as a Stu.

  The biggest Mary Sue and Fary Stu genres are romance where you’re supposed to self insert, so the MC has to be very plain and boring and just like the reader or viewer. Romance novels for women and harem anime for men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It was such a long time ago I just remember more of the vibes than the solid reasons I didn’t like it.

  *The levels weren’t as open as 64. It felt more guardrailed. There was a lot less exploration.

  *My favourite thing in 64 was getting flying caps and flying around which wasn’t a thing in Sunshine.

  *64 had a darker, more mysterious tone that felt a lot more meaningful and Sunshine felt very frivolous

  *cleaning up the sludge wasn’t a very fun minigame for me, it was a weird villain

  By itself it was probably a good game but it shouldn’t have been a Mario game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had got it solely for Twilight Princess but that game was a huge letdown for me too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Your entertainment center is so cool I didn’t even notice the so called “mess”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gamecube.

  The other consoles were pushing for more, but instead the Gamecube only cared about being small?

  I was fresh off Nintendo 64 so I was expecting Banjo-threeie, other awesome Rare games, a new Mario, the new Zelda, and finally a Pokemon game on a modern console!

  Hahaha

  Mario Sunshine was such a bad game that had none of Mario 64’s soul I never touched another Mario game after that. I hated the art of Zelda Windwaker and that it had lost all the dark vibes, and obviously none of the other games I was expecting never happened. I felt completely scammed for being loyal to Nintendo. I taught me to never be loyal to a brand.

  The one and only game I enjoyed on that system was Metroid Prime, but as a child I was only allowed one new console like every 5 years and I deeply regretted not getting a PS2 instead like my friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top-selling video games ever (2025)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Overwatch ranks in the top 15 and that still wasn’t good enough for Blizzard to not chase out all their good devs because the numbers weren’t as high as they promised their shareholders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo isn’t doing much better. I was a Nintendo stan for most my youth but now they’re the leaders in stagnant games and dark patterns. You just can’t trust corporations not to backstab you anymore. Indie and opensource only for me here on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was one of the haters when it first launched because I was on dialup at the time and physical discs I bought were forcing me to install steam AND THEN install a massive patch that did not work on dialup. My first day playthrough of Skyrim was ruined because of that. Took a week for that shit to download even though I went physically to a store.

  But now Steam is the last man standing between us and corporate greed.

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use a quest 2 headset through my desktop via desktop streamer for VRchat. Would this all work on linux? it’s already a pain on windows.