CoderKat

@CoderKat@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microplastic overdose⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s my favourite for burgers. It lasts way longer without going bad (I find real cheese slices will go moldy before I can use them all), tastes better to me, and is meltier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A challenge that most of you will find pretty easy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I also really hate the meme of nerds not having sex or relationships. I’m a software dev that works with the nerdiest people I’ve ever met. The vast majority of my coworkers are married or in long term relationships. I’m active in the kink community and have a number of coworkers I see there too. My experience is that nerds are very common in the kink community. I mostly date and fuck fellow nerds and as far as I can tell, they’re mostly doing alright, too.

  The stereotype from the meme is just self deprecation bordering on toxicity and incel-ness. The only place where “nerd” is still an insult or bad thing is in Disney channel movies, which are eternally stuck in 90s stereotypes, where people nerds are supposed to remove their glasses and let their hair down if they want to be found hot (ps: that is a terrible trope, because glasses are extremely hot).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any way to reverse degrowth of the niche communities on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The sorting algorithm changes are what I’ve been waiting for forever. A bit disappointed it’s taking so long. I basically never see many communities I’m subbed to. I miss having a local city community. It has me constantly thinking of just dealing with Reddit’s bullshit, cause if it’s not big news or memes, Lemmy ain’t cutting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop using Fandom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The video also calls out that one of the challenges in moving off of fandom is SEO. The fandom sites often are above the new sites even when the fandom site becomes a pile of unmaintained, vandalized garbage. This suggests that vandalism actually helps fandom.

  The best thing we can do is not visit the sites and don’t link to them, instead using and linking to their new sites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For some reason, I'm doubtful.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how much of a discount OP can get when they send their machine back?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Today I finally picked up my phone from in-warranty repair (motherboard replacement), I found out the camera doesn't work.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I really preferred it on the right, too. It was the default on my Galaxy. But I have a Pixel for work and it doesn’t seem to let you choose which side the back button is on. I can’t stand to have an inconsistency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What were some movies you had to look up explanations of after watching?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  2001 was a movie that made me go “wait, what? People like this?”

  I heard it come up so often and was excited to watch it. Absolutely hated. One of the worst movies I’ve ever watched. I had to look it up a lot after I watched it because I was sure I had to be missing something big. But no, I wasn’t. Really not my kind of movie, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently, it's not a gaggle.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda agree with you. In theory, they definitely are. But at the same time, in practice, the already bad reputation of HOAs seems to attract the worst kind of people. It’s a political position and suffers just like any other political position. The kinds of people who’d be best at it often don’t want to do it because it’s toxic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games have you been playing recently⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m doing an evil playthrough now and finding various things I missed from the first playthrough. But oof, I feel really awful about the horrible things the game lets you do. 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LPT: Never get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, first 20 years of my life I disliked the idea of tattoos and thought I’d never, ever get any. Turns out all that was just society pushing puritan ideas on me and I just had to get over that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The truth about Canada⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Which half the provinces don’t even recognize (as in, not a stat holiday). Not that it really matters that much. No problem has ever been solved by merely declaring a holiday and there’s no shortage of shitty actions speaking louder than any holiday could.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flashback - Mark Zuckerberg on billionaires: 'No one deserves to have that much money'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s not the author exploiting publishing companies. It’s the execs of those companies exploiting their own workers. The publishing companies make excellent money (and same for paper creators, etc). Just if disproportionately goes to execs and possibly shareholders, not workers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes! Can confirm it’s fixed. It’s great and revitalized my interest in using certain characters. I had almost sworn off some characters because of the bug and now they’re back on the menu.

  Druids are insane. Owlbear does utter bonkers damage. Far beyond what I could do with any other character (I can’t tell if that means I built my other classes wrong). Only downside is that druids feel super limited. Usually to just melee attacks with no items and most equipment doesn’t even do anything (there’s little reason to ever purposefully revert to your original form, since you’d just eat a wild shape charge).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Baldur’s Gate 3 is great at story and choices, which I think is where a lot of praise comes from. But it has a lot of really questionable issues with smaller mechanics.

  The one I’m hating the most is how NPCs react to many summons and wild shape. Having a wild shaped party member makes most NPCs run away screaming, which is very painful in the NPC heavy areas of act 3 and basically discouraged you from even using wild shape or summon elemental, even though those are both incredibly powerful. You can dismiss the summon/wild shape, but it uses resources, so it sucks to do so. People have reported the bug for months but it doesn’t seem on the devs radar (they purposefully made NPCs run away – it’s a “feature”).

  And just the other day, I discovered weirdness with warlock spell slots. Something about having used an elixer that gives me an extra spell slot (and then having consumed the spell slot) was preventing me from casting a warlock spell because it claimed it needed that spell slot, even though I had higher level warlock spell slots. So a bunch of my spells couldn’t be used!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨yeeah⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, so I know furries exist, but do people really crush on the statue of Liberty, of all things??? I’ve literally never heard anyone say they crushed on that before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grindr loses nearly half its staff to strict return-to-work rule⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure about anyone who was hired before WFH, but generally, a substantial change to job duties or location is considered constructive dismissal. ie, it’s legally the same as being fired without cause. That might be eligible for severance and definitely for unemployment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire grindset⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It has what appears to be Patrick Bateman and Homelander, who are both utterly blatant psychopaths. I’m not sure which Cillian Murphy character is pictured, but the Keeanu Reeves one appears to be John Wick, an assassin who kills about every other person in New York from the movies I’ve seen (they don’t really have a plot beyond “apparently every single person is an assassin”).

  So really the only options are satire or literally the dumbest thing ever created.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield, is it getting review bombed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At least with 0-10, I know to ignore any review that gives a zero. And usually I’d view 10s as just a binary recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brexiters shit themselves after eu flags waved at Proms⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea of an “inquiry” for this is so utterly hilarious. What is he expecting it to find? That leaving the EU was a disastrously unpopular decision and that anyone can wave a flag?

  Also, they view Rule, Britannia as a modern, relevant, unironic thing? I see that as the British equivalent to when Americans are like “MURICA, fuck yeah, guns and lifted trucks and bald eagles and school shootings!” Which is to say, incredibly cringy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield, is it getting review bombed?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate Steam’s review system, though. Binary yes or no is not useful to me. I want to know if a game is good (maybe a play eventually) vs absolutely amazing (where I might prioritize playing it right away). Such granularity is also useful because a 10/10 might be worth it even if it’s not my favourite type of game, but a 7/10 can be very worthwhile if it is the type of game I adore.

  It’s a shame that user reviews on sites like Metacritic are just consistent trash. Too many users only know 0 or 10 and the user reviews are often review bombed. I wish regular users could at least give numbers like critics. No professional critic is gonna give a game a 0 because of a handful of problems, for example, but average people will totally give a game a zero for that. Only problem with critics is that they often have a perspective that makes them detached from the average person, since they spend all their time reviewing. Ideally user reviews would fill that gap, but users are incredibly fickle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Updated Edge and it now seems to put a frame with rounded corners around every website⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Only thing I can think of is if you are developing a website or extension and need to make sure there isn’t some subtle browser difference. Though since it uses the same engine as Chrome, that use case should be a lot more niche than it used to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  IMO, it would show the power and value of the EU. The UK would be far more willing to admit that they shouldn’t have left if they can get back in. The EU stands to gain from such a prominent country (and one that can say so from experience) undeniably admitting that it’s better to be in the EU than to leave. That’s some stellar advertising of the economic value of the EU.

  Though they definitely shouldn’t bend every rule to let them back in. The pound should be replaced by the euro. It’s dumb that the UK got that exception.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the United Kingdom rejoin the European Union?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, but in this analogy, your ex wife was great partner that was good for you and you only broke up because you thought you could do better. Only after your divorce, you realize you aren’t actually doing better on your own and want your ex wife back, but are too afraid to admit it. And also your ex wife might not want you back anymore (if she does, she’s gonna ask you to really prove you’re committed).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saints Row developer Volition permanently shuts down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t agree at all. SR3 and 4 were peak for me. I don’t want a game that feels like it lives in the shadow of GTA. SR4 really had it’s own personality and it was a ton of fun for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield Launch Details, PC Specs & More⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, with how long it’s been in development, I can totally believe it. And sure hope so. I mean, it’s been so long and I’ve also been constantly thinking about how long it’s been since Skyrim came out (since it’s been publicly stated that TES6 was blocked behind Starfield). All that time has gotta mean something. And it’s not like Bethesda doesn’t have great talent. I’ve always got the impression it was all a matter of lack of time for the size of the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield Launch Details, PC Specs & More⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I also love space RPGs. SWTOR was pretty great. It’s an MMO, but it has good single player. The Knights of the Fallen Empire/Eternal Throne DLCs are basically single player games and they’re really good quality. The KOTOR games are also really great, if a bit older and KOTOR2 was basically unfinished and requires mods to make it even feel 80% finished.

  Outer Worlds was okay. It certainly does in some ways feel similar to Fallout in space. But not quite as good and I don’t recall being aware of any serious modding scene.

  But huh, I thought there’d be more, but I’m struggling to think of space RPGs with a feel like Mass Effect or Elder Scrolls. I’m really looking forward to this, too, cause despite being a buggy mess, I love Bethesda games and I also love sci fi (especially in space).

  Not an RPG, but I also love Stellaris. It’s a strategy game, but really scratched that hyper advanced sci fi and space exploration itch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lemm.ee plans for mitigating image upload abuse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Strongly agreed. Lemmy needs to grow. I badly miss many smaller communities that are only viable with Reddit’s size. Making prominent instances invite only (or requiring approvals or closing sign ups entirely – as some other instances have done) is just going to hurt Lemmy as a whole.

  Treating new accounts with a lot more scrutiny makes sense to me. We could require the first few comments to have mod approval to even show them (probably more of a per community setting since it would likely have to depend on community mods), restrict images for some period, have more aggressive content filters on young accounts, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea of Stars Review Thread | (95/100 OpenCritic)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, I realize I dunno who uploads their details to these kinda sites, but I’m glad people do. I consult HLTB a lot and it’s always been really useful for judging the time investment a game will take, how worthwhile DLCs will be, and for understanding what kind of game something is (longer is often better in my book, but not always, since games like AC Valhalla have actually gone too long, since I can’t help myself but to play mostly completionist).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sea of Stars Review Thread | (95/100 OpenCritic)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Story is really what I care about the most from RPGs. I’ve never heard of this or the studio, but reviews liken it to Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy, which is a very good look in my book.

  It seems like an especially great year for gaming. I can’t remember the last time there was so many highly rated games coming out (and there’s still more to come – I’m most excited for Starfield).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kevin doesn't share though⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In literally every pair of pants I have, I use that to store a hair elastic or two. Then whenever I need my hair up (eg, eating and hair would get in the way), I have one easily on hand.