Silinde
@Silinde@lemmy.world
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 1 week ago:
Because no system is perfectly secure. It only takes one foolish mistake by someone with global access to the data, and it’s leaked forever, and they have forever to keep trying.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 1 week ago:
If we had capable leadership, I’d absolutely agree with you. Evidence is telling me that’s just not happening, and not going to happen any time soon, though. Instead, it’s far more likely any data they do get will be “anonymised”, bundled up and sold off to a company the person making the decision has a large stake in, if not by this government than by the next.
No idea why would would be downvoted without a comment, though. It might be wishful thinking, but your commentary is legitimate.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 1 week ago:
They have no idea who I did or didn’t vote for when I complain about them, so it’s completely possible to both complain as well as not vote for anyone at all. A spoiled ballot indicates that you intend to vote, but that nobody running for election is suitable, which is exactly how I feel. Spoiled ballots need to be read by multiple people, generally including the candidates, in case they feel my paper indicates a vote for them. My spoiled ballots have been seen and sent a message to more people than an x in a random box ever will. So yes, I do think it’s a clever move to spoil a ballot as opposed to being a good little voter and putting my x in the box like the other ~99.7% of voters. If more people did the same, that would say more than voting for a specific person ever will.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 1 week ago:
You speak as if these shithead politicians actually care about us and what we have to say. Sorry, but that’s utterly delusional, and one look at what’s going on in this country makes that very clear. Voting clearly doesn’t do anything, otherwise things would actually be changing now that someone else was voted in. So you can chalk it up to me being some edgy little rebel with a chip on my shoulder if you like, but I will continue to spoil ballots and talk shit to pricks in power until we actually get some real change or I’m dead, and I know exactly what one of those will happen first.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 1 week ago:
When there’s nobody worth voting for, I refuse to play their game. I’m a proud ballot spoiler. Some will say I threw away my democratic right, but when my right is worth as much as pissing in an ocean of piss, it’s not worth having. I’m sure plenty of people here feel some sort of victory for placing Cameron-Hiding-Behind-A-Red-Rosette into number 10 because “at least it’s not the other one”, and I likewise have the same feeling about leaving a message of dissent that a couple people will be forced to read.
- Comment on UK digital ID plan gets a price tag at last – £1.8B 1 week ago:
We’re constantly told that the country is broke, taxes will need to go up, old ladies will need to freeze, the disabled don’t deserve what few benefits they get… but we’ve got 1.8B to spend on a scheme that will eventually balloon to 4B+ so that hackers and fraudsters can get access to every piece of information about everyone all in one place, just so we can be spied on even more than we already are. Fuck Reeves. Fuck Starmer. Fuck Labour, and anyone that voted for those cunts.
- Comment on Your character's title 3 weeks ago:
One day I’ll get that 7 orb Liadri achievement too, lol. Every year I give it a token gesture of effort then tell myself I’ll give it a proper try later.
- Comment on Your character's title 3 weeks ago:
My Necro main is in full VoE mode right now, so I’m using Eternal Alchemist as a Male Asura Ritualist, while dressed in the Ritualist outfit.
Before that, I used “Master of the Rifts” since it’s apparently the rarest title I have, despite being relatively easy to get (just time consuming).
I use Kingslayer on one of my alts since I enjoyed the challenge of getting it as a glass-cannon DPS without exploiting or cheesing it.
Dark Traveller on another character since it’s a reasonably cool title.
- Comment on UK lawmaker urged ministers to crack down on Palestine Action at request of US company 4 months ago:
Feels like it’s been less Great Britain and more Little America for decades now, with no signs of slowing down.
- Comment on My Guess for Class Professions 4 months ago:
Something or someone that has been denounced by an authority, usually with a religious context. Since every Revenant elite specialisation is named according to the legend tied to it, I considered a specific character that was a villain who I thought would be really interesting to channel the powers of - ::: story spoiler Palawa Joko :::
- Comment on My Guess for Class Professions 4 months ago:
Oh nice, I haven’t heard anyone suggest the fire-fox-rabbit could be for Guardian. I wonder what we could call that? If the virtues are linked to different creatures, Menagerist could be something.
- Comment on My Guess for Class Professions 4 months ago:
Image I’m going for some more unusual picks. I’d prefer the lute to be on Mesmer, but that throws everything else out, and I really want that swirly icon to represent Dervish, which has to be on Elementalist IMO.
- Comment on Man who lost bitcoin fortune in Welsh tip explores purchase of entire landfill 9 months ago:
I can’t imagine the data would even be readable after all this time. Hard Drives ain’t built to survive being in a tip for a decade, so the odds that water, corrosive liquid and gas got in there is pretty high. That layer that actually holds the data on the platter is incredibly delicate of course, so I wouldn’t hold any hope that the platter could even be removed and read. Must be terrible to have to get up for work every day knowing what slipped through your fingers.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 1 year ago:
After around 16,000 hours, I’ve found WoW to be a lot more fun playing with others than just restricting myself to open world and full-PUG content. The last expansion was decent (story was a bit meh, but gameplay was great) and the current expansion has been okay so far. I just hope they can get balancing right on events going forward, since it’s getting tiring seeing them create a massive artificial grind then walk back on it a week or two later.
- Comment on What are your favorite 1000+ hour games? 1 year ago:
After playing for 2000 hours, this one is an easy recommendation from me, too. The game was quite light on endgame content at release, but due to the design of the game, now the vast majority of the game occurs at ‘endgame’ and can be very fun. I love how I can come back after a couple of years, buy access to any content I missed in the meantime and have a character that doesn’t need to grind levels or gear, just jump straight into story mode and get caught up on the story. Even better when you don’t have to worry about making your playtime feel like it needs to be ‘worth it’, since you don’t need to pay monthly to play.
- Comment on Why Britain is the world’s worst on homelessness 1 year ago:
Until we:
- Ban buy-to-let mortgages.
- Ban landlords from owning multiple houses.
- Invest into social housing and ban so-called “affordable housing” lettings. We’ll continue to be stuck in this downward spiral.
The problem is, everyone in power is a landlord or otherwise benefits from the current system, so nothing changes and we continue circling the drain as a society.
- Comment on Tales of the Shire - Official Announcement Trailer - PEGI 1 year ago:
Looks like Palia with hobbits. Personally I’m not too impressed, but maybe it’ll find its niche.
- Comment on World of Warcraft Subscription Numbers Are Higher Now Than at Expansion Launch in a Franchise First 1 year ago:
As someone who’s played a lot of GW2 over the past couple of years, I can confirm that it’s still fantastic. It doesn’t get anywhere near the amount of content that WoW gets, but it’s on a good cadance these days and outside of buying expansions, is absolutely playable without spending a penny.
- Comment on Keir Starmer set to reject EU overtures to join revamped bloc as 'non-starter' 2 years ago:
Politics is fucked up, glad you noticed. Lib Dems are also sellout liars and there will never be another referendum. Sorry to burst all your bubbles at once, but that’s the way it goes in this country.
- Comment on Keir Starmer set to reject EU overtures to join revamped bloc as 'non-starter' 2 years ago:
Voting for a party that will get into bed with the Tories at the first sign of power coming their way, a party that has repeatedly said they will not do a deal with Labour, is a vote for another Tory hegemony.
Lib Dems had one chance to show they wouldn’t sell out and they cheated their core demographic that got them power. They don’t deserve a second chance.
- Comment on Keir Starmer set to reject EU overtures to join revamped bloc as 'non-starter' 2 years ago:
I’m surprised he said anything considering his track record on not taking a stance on things.
- Comment on Brexit: Labour will seek re-write of deal, Starmer says 2 years ago:
Wow, Starmer actually managed to decide on a manifesto pledge? I was starting to think that indecisive git was incapable of actually standing behind a statement. At this rate, we might know where Labour stand on a whole three issues by the time the general election is called.
- Comment on Wizard's Vault Objectives Updates: Valdhertz Crypts and Daily Objective Choices 2 years ago:
I guess I have a higher expectation for working content than you do. My surprise isn’t that a low priority task isn’t getting done (ignoring the fact that nobody from ArenaNet has stated what its priority is), it’s that it would be given such a low priority in the first place, and that the best course of action is to remove it as a daily rather than fix it. It’s even more surprising when you consider that entry into the mini-dungeon is hidden behind an achievement that the player can’t possibly know about without looking it up (which is probably a good argument for it not being a daily in the first place). Therefore you can spend half an hour or more just getting to the final room just to find out it’s bugged and to give up. It’s not a good look for a game that is relatively bug-free.
- Comment on Wizard's Vault Objectives Updates: Valdhertz Crypts and Daily Objective Choices 2 years ago:
It blows my mind that Valdhertz is still bugged 18+ months after it was introduced. I think I’ve had it work correctly once in the half-dozen times I’ve tried it - enough to get the achievement but not enough to actually finish my dailies yesterday. Still, at least they’re acknowledging the issue and are doing something.
It would be nice to be able to select PvE and WvW and get a more varied selection of activities, and the extra daily change goes a little way to enabling that, at least.
- Comment on Early opinion 2 years ago:
My experience has been similar to what was already posted, to be honest. I reached chapter 7 before finishing last night and found the story so far to be quite engaging. I like the new characters, and introducing them while removing the pact members from the story really makes it feel like we’re in a new era. I feel the narrative team has done a good job moving the story forward, so far.
Skywatch Archipelago is a good map - decently sized with enough unique biomes to not get tired of it quickly. At first I felt it was a little bit of a cop-out to make a “Dragonfall” map with existing parts of the world, but when I really explored it, I realised the entire map is unique - and has some really interesting concepts at work in a ‘what-if’, fractal way. I haven’t explored too much of the hub yet, but it feels like a nice hub with everything we need in a tight area, which I like. From what I’ve seen, it also doesnt have any NPCs giving the same dialogue every single time you walk past them, which is a big bonus.
In regards to systems, I’m not blown away by the glyph system - most of the ones I’ve seen are useless to my spec, I’ve gained 4 so far and, at least for my main character, I don’t really feel like I want any more. The daily system is a big downgrade in my opinion, however. I like how we can select what we want now instead of constantly being given items we don’t want, but that’s massively offset by the new daily/weekly system. I don’t want to guess ahead of time what content I want to do, and I don’t want to be forced to complete activities I don’t enjoy just to finish the daily / weekly path. The old system of choosing four of the available twelve activities worked great for me, all they needed to do was maybe remove some of the trivial ones like Mystic Forger, Forager, Vista Viewer and add in ones from EoD and SotO. Personally, I don’t want to be forced to log in for 30 minutes every day just to do my dailies, as well as be forced to do exactly what the game wants me to do with no exceptions. For me, GW2 is a casual game I’ll play for a time when not subbed to WoW or engaged with another game, but then I’ll want to drop back to 10-15 minutes of login, dailies and crafting when I’ve got other things to play. GW2 doesn’t have enough engaging current content for me to make it my “only game”, so forcing me to spend more time doing mundane daily tasks is just going to make me want to quit entirely. Thats just my opinion, though.
- Comment on Alan Turing: Stolen items returned to UK school from US after 40 years 2 years ago:
So a random woman stole the items, changed her name to Turing a few years later, then 35 years later tries to loan the stolen items to a university pretending to be a relative? What an absolute nutcase!!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 years ago:
Yet another scummy energy company led by grifters and ripe for nationalisation.
