saigot
@saigot@lemmy.ca
- Comment on and we thought our thing with beans was bad 3 days ago:
- Comment on No one showed up to his party 6 days ago:
It’s a bit blurry but that is definitely a NA plug in the background.
- Comment on Congratulations. 6 days ago:
And you don’t do it why exactly? It’s Wikipedia after all
- Comment on ohh ... 1 week ago:
People in those countries absolutelly aren’t going bankrupt due to being denied life-saving treatment and having to pay for it from their own pocket.
The meme has an “or” in it though. About 20% of Canadian bankruptcy is due to health and illness.Here in Canada the maximum disability in ~1500cad a month, which might pay your rent if you live in a really really cheap area. Part of the reason it’s bad like that is because it is so often compared to America, and often greatly exaggerated like in this meme.
- Comment on What happened to gaming? 2 weeks ago:
there’s plenty of “ugly” games here’s some I’ve played recently that came out this year:
- UFO 50: A collection of new games in the style (mechanically and visually) of the 8bit games. 8 bit graphics
- Balatro: A GOTY nominee, it’s a roguelike that is extremely loosely based on poker. modern pixel art style static images
- Children of the sun: a puzzle game where you are a sniper that bends and deflects bullets to kill whole rooms of people with 1 bullet. Graphics are pretty imo but not advanced.
- Echo Point Nova: a movement focused shooter. games plays on a potato. There is technically a a ray tracing option, but I think it’s more of a future proofing thing/a personal interest of the dev.
- Comment on [from 2020] Why Don’t We Just Ban Targeted Advertising? 2 weeks ago:
Ironically street signage is generally one of the more regulated forms of advertising. Those guys that spin signs were originally there to get around those laws.
- Comment on ROFL 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on New oven and they lock the air fryer functionality behind wifi. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t love touch screens on ovens either, but you just press the lock button and then you can clean to your hearts content.
- Comment on 22 million on bluesky 3 weeks ago:
Do you think that’s low or high?
- Comment on 22 million on bluesky 3 weeks ago:
Having a fast way of getting announcements to people is important. Everyone from the WHO to official government announcements to musicians with a new album to activists announce(d) things on Twitter. For that purpose the first and foremost thing is maximizing the reach of the announcement.
Now there are a myriad of better platforms for this (irc or a mastodon instance owned by the org) but quite frankly they will never have the same populations as bluesky or Twitter (in the short term) because they are a as you out it a “good” social media that isn’t just about infinite growth.
Be glad that the billionaire actively and openly trying to censor the world is losing out to the billionaore that will leave it alone and sell out again in decade or two. And on the side mastodon picks up the more traditional social media role among those in the know and maybe one day sustainable growth will make it the biggest fish and can take over from the replacement for the replacement of bluesky as the primary announcements channel.
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 3 weeks ago:
I want youtube to fail. I want content creators to move on to other platforms.
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 3 weeks ago:
I use nebula and a handful of other platforms. But of course most creators are exclusively available on YouTube.
- Comment on Damn it YouTube! 3 weeks ago:
If you want YouTube to keep existing, you should pay for it. That’s why I use adblocker.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah probably. If you told me in 2013 that reddit would go to shit in 2023 I would not really do anything different. Knowing bluesky will go to shit wouldn’t really change anything if I was a fan of the Twitter format.
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
Yep alongside
- Comment on This world is cruel… 4 weeks ago:
It’s unclear what countries this poll includes, having minimum paid leave is the law in most of the world. There’s also quite a few careers that involve forced time off.
- Comment on I swear to god 4 weeks ago:
A Giraffe’s shoulder height is like 8 to 13ft, no way ms.curly is only 5’11
- Comment on FearNoPeer is open for 48 hours 5 weeks ago:
Yeah that thread did seem fishy thanks ill give em a shot!
- Comment on FearNoPeer is open for 48 hours 5 weeks ago:
couple things:
- generally the rules prevent torrents from becoming incomplete
- usually theres a request system, which can be very useful for old or obscure stuff.
- usually much faster for all but the most popular stuff
- way more timely and consistent. Less problems where it takes a few days after a release for it to show up or for a series to stop being uploaded half way through a season.
- less chance of honeypots or other malicious behaviour (you should still use a VPN though obviously)
- more consistent quality and naming enforcement (which means it usually works better with *arr)
I can’t vouch for this particular tracker but in general (free) private trackers are very nice.
- Comment on FearNoPeer is open for 48 hours 5 weeks ago:
I looked up some reviews for the tracker and reddit was shitting all over it, claiming it’s pretty pay to use and the admins are tyrants. Can anyone share their experience?
- Comment on Hacker says they banned ‘thousands’ of Call of Duty gamers by abusing anti-cheat flaw 1 month ago:
Vizor said they could simply send a private message — known as a “whisper” in the game — that included one of these hardcoded strings, such as “Trigger Bot,” and get the player they were messaging banned from the game.
That is so fucking stupid.
- Comment on Please ban data caps, Internet users tell FCC 1 month ago:
Does it?
user A uses their full bandwidth from 2am-4am when the network is empty then watches a 720p video at 5pm (or whenever the networks peak is).
User B watches an 8k video at 5pm and nothing at any other time.
UserB clearly contributes to congestion on the network more than user A despite user A using more data. Furthermore throttling user A does less to resolve the congestion than throttling user B.
IMO If the network needs to throttle then the people the most data at that instant in time need to be throttled and the network needs to start upgrading its infrastructure or amending its marketing materials.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Uplifting Games 1 month ago:
Outer wilds felt really good to play, optimistic nihilism and a happy lonliness. One moment that really stood out to me was when I followed a certain object out of the solar system, spent pretty much 20minutes drifting in space listening to the other astronauts play together planets apart and watching the stars
spoiler
Watching the stars slowly blink out and realizing that I won’t be able to save the sun, that it’s the whole universe going away. Givining in to the inevitability of it all ending and just watching everything end.
It’s one of the most peaceful times I’ve had with a game, and playing it in the middle of covid I cried happy tears.
- Comment on How to clean a rescued pigeon 1 month ago:
Im no fan of ai, but this argument drives me crazy, there are a lot of things that are easy to verify but hard to come up with, quite famously in fact.
- Comment on Netflix raises prices as password boost fades 1 month ago:
Spotify is trying this with their audiobook subscription service.
- Comment on Ok boomer 2 months ago:
Messaging services replace pagers, texting and phone calls more than email.
- Comment on Which unplayed game in your library are you most looking forward to playing eventually? 2 months ago:
Return of the obra dinn
I feel like it’s a game to be played in one long go, so I’m waiting for the right time.
- Comment on The Rocky Horror Video Game is a thing, and coming out this month [Eurogamer] 2 months ago:
anticigarette! They hate smoking
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 2 months ago:
In a perfect world stick it in a secondary reactor and make lithium. But that’s obviously even further off than hydrogen fusion.
- Comment on I always get them confused. 2 months ago:
If it’s not from the fantasy region of middle earth then it’s just sparkling fiction.
