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- Comment on Musk Exploits AWS Outage To Unfairly Slam Signal, Promote His Shittier Chat Software 1 week ago:
Amusingly the last Signal outage I remember was actually caused by Musk when he tweeted “use Signal” and so many people did that it took down their sign-up servers
- Comment on egg time 1 week ago:
The pope approves
- Comment on Why aren't Linux based mobile OSes more popular? 2 weeks ago:
Not even based on, it is Android
- Comment on Who's your favorite female protagonist in a video game? (Add pic of character in response) 2 weeks ago:
I played Metroid Prime for the first time recently and Samus Aran is an absolute badass. She crash lands on a planet and kills every single thing she encounters. If you read the logs of the space pirates you find scattered around they basically say “oh fuck the hunter is here, she’s coming for us next”.
The atmosphere is almost a little survival-horror-esque, but the experience is more like doom: you’re not locked in here with all these monsters, all these monsters are locked in here with you.
- Comment on Switch 2 continues to break US launch sales records, selling more in its first three months than PS4 | VGC 2 weeks ago:
Odyssey wasn’t a launch title and BotW was a WiiU game, but I get your point. Plenty of consoles don’t have many unique games at launch.
- Comment on More than 60% of US game players only buy two games or fewer per year, survey finds | VGC 3 weeks ago:
Since I started !freegames@feddit.uk I’ve not bought a single game but my backlog is growing way faster than I can play through it. Not a bad first-world problem to have, really!
- Comment on Android/Phone Alternatives? [Discussion] 3 weeks ago:
There’s !linuxphones@lemmy.ca / !linuxphones@lemmy.ml which often have some interesting chats about projects like PostMarketOS. I’ve not seen anything that is a viable replacement for a “daily driver” smartphone yet, but if you’re keen to tinker then there’s probably some cool stuff to try out.
- Comment on Being a noob in heist games 4 weeks ago:
I loved that game. It’s been a while since I played but I remember the only way I could reliably do the max-difficulty missions quickly was by using the brick spaceship to smash directly into the room where the target was or something insane like that!
- Comment on Fun yet unknown gameplay MECHANICS? (POLL) 4 weeks ago:
“Dodo cheat”, at least according to the little cheat book I had back in the day. It gave cars the same mechanics as the dodo (which I think was the little sea plane). Using the tank like a rocket and aiming for a ramp was the best.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’m not really that fussed about story, it’s a nice bonus but the gameplay is what keeps me hooked. Sounds like Inscryption is the one to play first; Slay the Spire sounds more like the Binding of Isaac, something I’ve probably put a thousand hours into already!
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Keep at it, the mirror unlocks really help (plus you just get better at dodging etc)
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I’ve got both of these games, which one should I play first? I’m fully expecting to put hundreds of hours into each so I guess I want the smaller/simpler one first, but if you’ve played both and can make a (spoiler free) recommendation then please do!
- Comment on The ultimate all-in-one PC: Raspberry Pi 500+ 4 weeks ago:
The true cyberdeck experience
- Comment on Fat Goblins: Online Hat-Based PvP inspired by Fat Princess - Kickstarter and Playtest Live Now! 5 weeks ago:
upgrade your base to access new hats, steal enemy hats
Seems so!
- Comment on Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun 5 weeks ago:
Solaar is the one I use, it was a Lemmy recommendation and I think there’s at least one other implementation out there
- Comment on Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun 5 weeks ago:
Good point, I’ve used a Logitech mouse and I think that needs software (FOSS implementation available) for button remapping, could be different for a keyboard though
- Comment on Logitech’s new light-powered keyboard doesn’t even need the sun 5 weeks ago:
Alternatively, you can assign one of Logitech’s Smart Actions to the key to, say, ask Perplexity for an answer to your query in your browser. Or, you can just set it to be right CTRL.
Entirely reprogrammable though, as with most uses of “AI” it’s just a buzzword to sell to a few extra chumps.
- Comment on Can you think of any now? 5 weeks ago:
What you were taught
“Mobile phones will never replace desktop computers”
What we know now
Mobile devices became the primary computing platform for billions of people worldwide.
That isn’t a response to the initial statement at all, which is very much an opinion or prediction rather than any claim to be a fact. I’m suddenly feeling pretty sceptical about this website.
- Comment on 100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam) 5 weeks ago:
I’m seeing this slightly unusual arrangement:
but pressing
Add to Libraryseemed to work with no further hoops to jump through! - Comment on UNDER THE THC 🎶 1 month ago:
Science isn’t about why, it’s about why not?
- Comment on Super Mario Galaxy + Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Official Nintendo Switch Trailer 1 month ago:
When I last played them Dolphin really struggled, but fortunately you can buy a Wii and the discs for a few quid each!
- Comment on Microsoft mandates a return to office, 3 days per week 1 month ago:
I don’t know if things are different at Microsoft or across the pond in general, but from people I’ve spoken to who’ve been given similar “mandates”, they’re not as compulsory as they first sound. If you’re reasonably good at your job and your manager is keen to keep you then you can get away with just ignoring these rules. More what you’d call “guidelines” and all that.
- Comment on have some standards 1 month ago:
Ah, so FIFA but for Americans?
- Comment on Britain’s illegal e-bike boom: desperation, delivery drivers – and unthinkable danger 1 month ago:
The issue is, says Ford, that these illegal e-bikes are in effect motorbikes. “These people have passed no test, have no road training and don’t have the road skills. They just get on and ride around without insurance, tax, the bike not conforming to lights and everything else it should conform to, it’s not registered with the DVLA, all these things.”
Obviously “unthinkable” is one person’s opinion, but you get their point
- Comment on What games have mastered "Both emotional extremes"? 1 month ago:
I’m not really a “plot” sort of gamer so probably don’t have a huge amount of experience to choose from, but Undertale really sounds like it fits the bill. It’s all laughs and jokes until it’s not.
- Comment on here there be lions 2 months ago:
I think bad::5 is IPv6
- Comment on 🏹🏹🏹 2 months ago:
Looks realistic to me!
- Comment on Why do new Silent Hill entries attract so much negativity? 2 months ago:
The thing about Arsenal is they always try and wank it in
- Comment on Me too. 2 months ago:
I didn’t either til I looked it up!
- Comment on Me too. 2 months ago:
In a vegetative state would be more accurate:
The vegetative state is a chronic or long-term condition. This condition differs from a coma: a coma is a state that lacks both awareness and wakefulness. Patients in a vegetative state may have awoken from a coma, but still have not regained awareness. In the vegetative state patients can open their eyelids occasionally and demonstrate sleep-wake cycles, but completely lack cognitive function.
