TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus
@TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.world
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 2 weeks ago:
They never accepted the passwords because of that. One or more alphanumeric characters, I was sitting there thinking – what do you want from me, evil computer?
- Comment on Anon argues on reddit 2 weeks ago:
It’s a social plugin that used to host many [redacted] opinions, so being private on there had its merits, but at some point it acted like a forum of its own. Now it’s somewhat dead, but not quite.
- Comment on 8 characters? How about we make it 16? 2 weeks ago:
My underdeveloped brain racted badly to to to word “alphanumeric chatacter(s)”
- Comment on Anon argues on reddit 2 weeks ago:
Disqus had private profiles for years before that and nobody even care
- Comment on Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe 2 weeks ago:
addictions i guess…
Adults are generally on their own, and they should know that. Now I know 3 different gambling spots just here, and I could be betting on horses, football, sport, things, things that move. Drop a lot of money into the slot machine monster known as VLT, the one where there is no direct limit as to how much I can bet. It’s a damn maze but once you make it to the second layer you pass from the sport betting to the slot machine hellscape, entirey shrouded in darkness, and only lit up by these screens. These sounds are nauseating, to the core. If you, an adult, fall into that, nobody cares about you, really. Gaming addiction might be the same thing.
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 2 weeks ago:
It is a fair assessment, for an early industrial society. I just think we live in the ear of informations, we have more of everything, which is not a good thining, in the end, but we do have more and more. At some point, you’d think that having easy access to information and entertainment would be great, and it is. But I might want to add more friction between me and the informstions, I might avoid further automations.
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 2 weeks ago:
You could have watched tv than…where does the idea that streaming invented customers, that pdocasts are the only means to listen? Radio, tv, news?
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
if you’re interested i used AI to learn a library to make my link-scraping script and return me only the open access pdf from Google scholar. yeah. it is virtually useless because i need to check all the same. But boy did it make me feel smart.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
If i exclude the offline software I use, from xed to libreoffice and the likes, I own very little of the services in my hand.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
the hardest part is coming up with ideas when it’s not a job and just an interest, than finding a path to the realisation of these ideas.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
the temptation of using claude code is probably higher than it looks like for a single dev, I think. Hey, in the end one can just have this in their IDE and essentially have your own unpaid intern. It’s a fairly new situation.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 2 weeks ago:
one of my favourite series out there is the submachine series (mysterious point and click thing), the rest of pastel games (Aurora was good but as of now it’s abandoned). i will add GARE sapphire mechs, really good game, raft wars and city siete. nitrome, some obscure game on municipio like fragger or ufo joe. pepsi pinball, chasm (a point and click gane), i’ll see what else i can find.
oh, sure, a kitty dream (nitrome jam game, by rayumi). bubble trouble,the flash player version of bubble bubble.
- Comment on Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices while making Battle Passes and Crew way worse in value 2 weeks ago:
Well…I lost access to my email account assosiated with my Epic Games login.
my only regret is that I had celeste over that account, but it’s no biggie because it’s not exactly expensive either. i also had fez but gawd the puzzles in that game, i tried to solo it and of course i couldn’t get a lot out of it. than i found out that the final puzzle bruteforced by reverse engineering, so i’m at piece now, i’m not dumb after all.
- Comment on Ubisoft could rely heavily on microtransactions and live-service Assassin's Creed games 2 weeks ago:
A July 2025 investor’s report argued that microtransactions “make the player experience more fun.”
- Comment on Anon misses flash 2 weeks ago:
I remember a horrible tower defence with dinos and ugly towers, maps and really strange upgrade designs. Rated one star on some old flash games website.
However absolute masterpieces like fancy pants man are forever good.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 2 weeks ago:
the time commitement bit is real.
- Comment on Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii says English translations inevitably strip away a lot of a game's "flavor" 2 weeks ago:
There used to be botched localisation attempts. Hardcore gamers of the past obsessed over the orginal language of the niche Jrpg they couldn’t find.
- Comment on Generative AI Use Among Game Developers Falls to 29% in 2026, Survey Shows | Outlook Respawn 2 weeks ago:
anectodally, I accidentally vibe coded a web app while i mistakenly loaded my dictionary file (a .txt) in the wrong page. Surprisingly the website works, but I doesn’t permanently save any new addition to the flashcard set. I think I can restructure this thing to accept a .txt file as an input and make it actually useful, but If I didn’t know input / output on basic things like this i’d be unable to fix it. Well. Now imagine the number of users who are trying to make these web apps. Also it is 2026 and knowing java is still important apparently, so yeah also keep java in mind. And python.
I wanted to make my own flashcard thing with python. I was thinking at In / Out. I wasn’t thinking at automation. Some people are already getting used to that, tho, Idk if it is a problem. I wouldn’t use AI without a proper introduction to coding. Oh btw I know anki is better I was just thinkering with ideas.
- Comment on Generative AI Use Among Game Developers Falls to 29% in 2026, Survey Shows | Outlook Respawn 2 weeks ago:
The problem of genAI software is that it comes from non technical users. Ideally, knowing the logic of a program is necessary to even imagine one. They always show these nicey nicey flow-charts with logic and decision based pathways. A non technical user will spit out a software that they wouldn’t know how to fix, don’t you think? And if fixing the software is more time consuming than writing it, the balance shifts towards manual work
- Comment on Generative AI Use Among Game Developers Falls to 29% in 2026, Survey Shows | Outlook Respawn 2 weeks ago:
They’re far too aware that this is a bubble, so I think they must know that they have a relatively short time window to make themselves necessary.
- Comment on Generative AI Use Among Game Developers Falls to 29% in 2026, Survey Shows | Outlook Respawn 2 weeks ago:
anti consumer practices that would not fly in the .com era I was curious about the whole ordeal again, and even than corporations tried, and obtained, many things that we deem as good in comparison with the thing we have now, but 1999 -2001 laid the groudwork for the next social media revoltion (2005 - 2007) that brought us here. But the outlook on technology was more positive, overall, and we weren’t digital addicts wandering around the streets. But there are analogies here and there. I don’t think the AI bubble is a subprime like event.
- Comment on Generative AI Use Among Game Developers Falls to 29% in 2026, Survey Shows | Outlook Respawn 2 weeks ago:
AI is just another dot com bubble event. We still have websites, don’t you think? Most AI services are providing little to no value for the average person, but some are. I am willing to bet that these are going to be the survivors. As in every new technology driven revolution, I’d say. And with higher complexity comes higher automation rates. The current technology has more complexity, data and information than ever, hence automation is still there. But who am i to tell.
- Comment on My glasses 2 weeks ago:
I love me some medical joke that I am one of the few to understand
- Comment on Worst day of the year 3 weeks ago:
The grand sonnerie / westminster / grandfathe clock (2 or 3 barrels - mainsprings) with relative train wheels. The snail like feature in the middle is what tells the chime how to tell the time - with the mallets. two or three mallets. Setting the time anticlockwise undoes the sync between the time on the dial and the chime. Even worse in perpetual calendars like these, where the time must be synced with the 100-years worth of calculations done by the complications, a problem that happens even while letting it idle for too long, because you’d have to manually set date, year, decade, moonphase, and everything else. But i’m too poor to own one of them. Image
- Comment on Worst day of the year 3 weeks ago:
The only real problem with daylight savings for me is this kind of thing, because they can’t be adjusted anticlockwise.
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 3 weeks ago:
which is true (and i played difficult games in the past) but does it deserve the kind of response they had? My feelings about online gaming is that it was either the most fun (not relevant to the difficulty) or weirdly miserable. In the end, I think it’s the overly online crowd that does this, usually active players can be far more chill—
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 3 weeks ago:
I can give some; A player started a charity event (proposed to) involving the dev team playing the game at its highest possible difficulty, difficulty 10, in a game where the highest achievement is obtained at difficulty 7, after which there are no achivements, so to play dif 10 you gotta love the game and be insanely good at it. Said challenge happens on the hardest scenario of the game, a difficult planet with a weird name that i forgot.
Cool, I guess.
Another player added to the challenge that he would pay the dev 1000 dollars, but not for charity, no no, but to prove that dif10 is fucking impossible. Which triggered a ’ discussion ’ that brought some ‘git gud’ players to be overzealous. They doxed the first guy, sent death threats and other things to.
in short, he got his life ruined because he attempted a fun charity event.
I don’t engage with these communities…but it ended up in an article so i happen to know about it.
- Comment on The Helldivers 2 Community needs to get a fucking grip on itself 3 weeks ago:
Today I realized I’m too outta the loop on games since halo 3.
It’s a peaceful life…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This hurts on so many levels, Terry Davis was one of a kind programmer. It’s sad to see what happened. He could still provide valuable informations and be a formative presence on occasions, even in his late days.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Oh I thought about that. Fake memories. Alterating the past. Whenever i interact with these automations i contantly write mentally or otherwise a way back.
