Rai
@Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe dies at 78 3 hours ago:
I think that’s both fitting and called-for!
- Comment on BDSM 1 day ago:
I love the peacefulness of Meadows! I can never get tired of the theme, too. I find my main home is almost always in the Swamp; I’m way more comfy there than when I started, and it’s such a useful place. I’d love a main Mountain home, but it’s soooo inconvenient.
- Comment on We've all been there 1 day ago:
Poison is more of an Andariel thing…
Blood Raven and Andariel were voiced by Nancy Drew!
- Comment on Walls within walls 2 days ago:
> says something really dumb and bad
> angry edit that people call out their smelly mouth filled with corn
It’s everyone’s fault but your own.
- Comment on The year is 2036 and I’ve been brought in for questioning because my PlayStation Plus subscription lapsed well over 3 months ago. 2 days ago:
I’m actually just a random third party who saw your exchange and felt it’d be fun to point out that it’s funny you’re so horny to defend your false equivalence for some reason!
- Comment on The year is 2036 and I’ve been brought in for questioning because my PlayStation Plus subscription lapsed well over 3 months ago. 2 days ago:
Yeah it happens if you’re scamming them and not paying, oh wow what a surprise
On Sony it happens if you legitimately pay for a thing you’re supposed to be able to keep in your library.
Kind of a different thing completely, but it seems you can’t tell the difference.
- Comment on The year is 2036 and I’ve been brought in for questioning because my PlayStation Plus subscription lapsed well over 3 months ago. 2 days ago:
connects to the totally legit server hosted by the game company that I absolutely made an account for, the server that’s certainly not being spoofed on my local machine or hosted on my living room server
There you go, lil guy, you’re good to play this legitimate game on the server you were definitely designed for!
- Comment on How has Apple tricked so many people into believing that they "just need to get another Apple product"? 1 week ago:
I have a MacBook Air that I connect to any of my screens through HDMI using a plethora of sub-20USD USB-C docks that are not made by Apple. I use the same docks for my other laptops. Would I make my MacBook Air bigger to have more ports in it? Fuck no, keep it tiny and put the ports on a SEVENTEEN US DOLLAR DOCK so I don’t need to put the motherfucka on life support every time I want to use my keyboard/mouse/monitor/external SSD/10key/controller/DAC
I plug one cable in and it all works (and charges at 100w!)
If I’m traveling and want to plug in a flash drive but don’t want to use a dock that’s less than half the size of a phone? My travel bag has USB A-to-c (and C-to-A) converters. Plug that wired bitch right in.
- Comment on No room for romance when there's rising and grinding to be had! 1 week ago:
Ooo that’s a good one. If you changed the emdashes to periods or semicolons and did a little cleanup to the more stilted parts, I could see myself being convinced that’s human-made. I thiiiink I have a pretty good eye for recognizing LLM stuff. It’s REALLY obvious in review articles, and they’re insanely common now. They fill up the top slots of search engines.
I was looking for an article describing features of a device recently and I clicked on a good looking top-link. If you blur your eyes and look at how the text is formatted, you could already taste that it was LLM-generated. That wouldn’t even be a problem for me if the information contained within was good… It was explaining things like how to get OUT of modes without stating how to get INTO those modes to begin with, and a lot of the “opinions” were worded like they were straight out of press releases.
A page later in my search engine, I find an article with very similar information but within a few sentences, it’s extremely obvious a person with, like… passion? wrote it. I told my partner and, even being very literate and tech savvy, they guessed the wrong article as being LLM-generated.
I’m not the best at detecting LLM writing, but I do feel some folks just have a better sense for it than others.
- Comment on Hannibal was right 🔥 2 weeks ago:
Miracles everywhere in this bitch.
I am shocked those songs came out so long ago. They’ll always feel like “New ICP songs” to me, but I also graduated from school in the mid-2000s, so the world had many more juggalos in it than there are now.
My experience with juggalos has been “universally crusty and brash, yet inclusive and with a vehement seething hatred for bigotry and almost always religion,” so their pivot to God was an interesting development for me.
I love the fursuit thing though, that’s just sweet.
- Comment on Sonic turns 35 today—what does this franchise mean to you? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a travesty that Tamers’ “Sonic The Hedgehog Gets Stuck in a Hole Because He’s Fat” was removed from YouTube.
- Comment on GOG when available, but what should I choose between PS5 physical and Steam when not? 2 weeks ago:
Oh, see, I thought we were just making up dumb bullshit.
- Comment on GOG when available, but what should I choose between PS5 physical and Steam when not? 2 weeks ago:
That wasn’t even your point, you were talking about another service.
- Comment on GOG when available, but what should I choose between PS5 physical and Steam when not? 2 weeks ago:
I was just trying to answer your question but you’re just inventing things to make some stupid point. You’re bad at this.
- Comment on GOG when available, but what should I choose between PS5 physical and Steam when not? 2 weeks ago:
I literally said I bought the game on Steam despite it being available for free elsewhere
use your eyes and brain to read words
- Comment on GOG when available, but what should I choose between PS5 physical and Steam when not? 2 weeks ago:
In a lot of cases, yes! I’ve run into quite a few. Some I’ve even been able to run through the browser, but I threw a couple bucks for the Stream version because it was the easiest way to give them some money where I live, and the other versions they put out for free. I think they just put it on steam for a couple bucks for more reach, and made it a couple bucks instead of free to cover the cost of listing? Or just to have a way to buy it easily. I dunno, but yep you can
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations 2 weeks ago:
Mhm thanks I have all those, they’re great and all, but this one is different
(It sounds like I’m being sarcastic but I do actually have two of all modern first party controllers including two original steam controllers and I am psyched for the eventual arrival of my updated steam controller yay)
- Comment on Valve’s Steam Controller stock shortage will last until next year after fans massively exceeded expectations 2 weeks ago:
Yep! You absolutely can.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for your thoughtful perspective! I didn’t mean to be so harsh on the game—it just really didn’t hit for me. I think honestly the “adult versions of characters imagining themselves but younger” wasn’t something I even thought of; I took the dialogue as if it was just coming straight from the writers. That’s an interesting way to frame it, and I should take another look with that in mind.
I’m also about the right age bracket, maybe a tad older? My childhood and teen years generally ranged from boring to “pretty alright” with a little bad sprinkled in though; very little gives me nostalgia for that time of my life. I suppose that’s a good thing? Kinda? I dunno. But thank you again! :3 I have not played any DA games but I do have some, and I’ve heard they’re great. The beginning of DA2 you describe sounds great, hahaha
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I don’t even mind what happens in Bloom and Rage, both my partner and I were in psychic pain listening to the horrible, unnatural dialogue from all of the extremely unlikable characters the whole time.
Haven’t heard of Vampyr or Banishers—I’ll look into those!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I really enjoyed the first game, but the rest of them got progressively worse from me. Out of curiosity, what stuck out about Bloom and Rage? I found it to be the worst of all of them; the characters were written in an insanely out-of-touch way, the dialogue was sooo painful to me.
I gotta go through Before the Storm, though!
- Comment on Bluetooth earphones won't connect and need manual connection again 🤬 3 weeks ago:
I still have my first pair of AirPods I got 13 years ago. Used them for 40+ hours a week when I’d be in an office doing nothing all day. Never had any issues with them, and I still use them occasionally (although rarely, after getting a pair of pros.) The batteries are pretty sad after all these years—I get about two or three hours of charge before they have to go in the case.
But they still work, and that’s pretty old!
- Comment on I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do? 3 weeks ago:
I’m curious how they’d respond to this… as far as I know, there were a handful of mods for other games that kinda did the concept but no actual games, certainly not the way any games do BR after PUBG’s release. H1Z1? But not really, as PUBG’s creator did a lot of that…
the closest things would probably be last-man-standing shooters but those aren’t BR games.
- Comment on You need to think long term 3 weeks ago:
I worked with a Barb Adcock! Her E-mail was indeed [firstinitial][lastname]@school, which must’ve been a hoot with students.
- Comment on The 1996 experience 3 weeks ago:
I had a friend with rich parents who had one and it diiiiiid have some burn-in. Old rear-projection and early plasma TVs were verrry susceptible to that hahaha
As a kid, I would have been CRUSHED if we had one of these and I couldn’t play SNES on it…
- Comment on The 1996 experience 3 weeks ago:
If only… our 27” family CRT was like a thousand dollars. A nobody had rear projection TVs until like the 2000s!
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 3 weeks ago:
Thank yoooou! <3 It was very interesting!
Never tried an opiate before (by choice—I’ve tried everything else!) but they asked me if I wanted something for pain, and after my partner chastising me a lil bit about me minimizing my pain (“oh, I’m at a six or so” “RAI, you’ve been curled into a ball crying for two days. YOU’RE IN HOSPITAL!” “…okay, maybe a nine. I’m still conscious so it’s probably fine”) I said I’d love that. They injected me with morphene which was neat, then a later nurse was like “oh strange, they marked you down to get (other type of thing with morphene in the name but more words before it), do you want to change or stay with what you’ve got? It’s quite a bit stronger.” I figured I’ll proooobably (and very hopefully) never have that chance/option again, so I happily agreed. That was a very floaty week.
- Comment on Nice 3 weeks ago:
ehehehe that’s a good one
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 3 weeks ago:
Oh man, have you heard of Dragonborn Speaks Naturally? You can scream the shouts, for sure, but you actually say the lines of dialogue your character speaks to NPCs to select them! Paired with VR (and a hundred other mods) it’s one of the craziest game experiences I’ve ever played!
- Comment on PC Games like Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 4 weeks ago:
Enshrouded and Palworld feel a lot like BotW/TotK to me, but better overall gameplay and worse dungeon puzzles!
I went straight from BotW to Elden Ring and ER was like exploring BotW but every part of the map had interesting things everywhere, made BotW feel really empty in comparison.