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@taiyang@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Figured I'd join in sharing what I'm playing- my platinum team ☺️⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nice, earlier this year I wanted to to likewise but with Professor Oak challenges, which is get every Pokemon as early in progression we possible. I did it on Blue but it was quite miserable grinding lvl 36 Blastoise fighting only lvl 6 stuff prior to the first badge.

  Suffice to say I took a break after that, but I’ll hit Silver next. Fast forward on emulation was a godsend, as well as achievement tracking for keeping track of how many more I had to grab before the next badge (it got really weird because you can skip Lt Surge and just keep going without the HM lol)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree we don’t know if they’re loss leaders yet. I will say that even if the hardware is priced at a loss, though, it’ll sell more Steam games. Ultimately I don’t know if it really matters.

  Though yeah, people should get past headlines. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How bad is it really to listen to music with headphones? My mother told me if I keep doing that I'd go deaf... Is that fearmongering?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Headphones won’t break your ears any worse than loud speakers do, and noise cancelling headphones are actually a solution to blocking loud noise (e.g. construction), or for people who get overstimulated.

  In fact, since headphones can block out sound you might even be listening at a lower volume than if you were trying to drown out sound with speakers, assuming the headphones have any noise cancellation (even just muffled cups). Even just competing with ambient noise can cause us to raise volumes more than necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate it when people use pictures showing the condiments only on top of a hot dog.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Shitpost aside, my dad did honey mustard under the dog while topping it with chili and cheese. It’s the only way to do that combo right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The moon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Banana for scale, our solar system is a lot smaller than I initially thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To the rapidly aging person reading this: GameFAQs is 30 years old, and people are sharing their memories of the venerable guide hub⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Before the Internet got social media, we had the GameFAQs voting thing; you’d get head to head popularity contests of coolest characters. Cloud always won, but it was nice to check daily to see who was most popular.

  I still use GameFAQs, though. Even after the buyout, the guides are important to those of us RetroAchevement-ing through some older titles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank me later...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Careful, some of us on older hardware have a bug where we overflow and crash the system. My second cousin bricked his system just by stacking the last two.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protests erupt at Rockstar Games offices accusing GTA 6 developers of “Union Busting”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, your quote is almost the exact line I’ve read. HR email was literally saying how they should talk to them first and about them failing. Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protests erupt at Rockstar Games offices accusing GTA 6 developers of “Union Busting”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak to Rockstar directly but I do know some game companies send anti-union propaganda emails regularly. To take the next step and fire people is entirely believable given when I’ve seen HR push out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's OK to just like lemon water.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, only a basic bitch drinks Alkaline water without a like acid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honk⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like this. I also like the one I saw in the wild “I’m speeding because I need to POOP.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well they need someone there; if you just exile people to hell without a plan you end up with Australia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was a post the other day pronouncing female like tamale and it made me take a while to read this post and made it a little more fun, too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aurora Borealis!? At this time of year, at this time of day, in this part of the country, localized entirely within your kitchen!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My dad got a gimmicky aurora beaming lamp thing and it’s kinda cool but if it was mine I 100% would set it up in my kitchen for this exact reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never buying milk from Walmart again⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I found that odd for a Lemmy post but also, one year milk is in much worse condition than this image. Unless they froze it for clout? Why go through the trouble?

  But that just makes me wonder even more why that is blocked out, lol.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denuvo has been removed from Dead Island 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who the fucks been trying to pirate Dead Island 2, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A little known fact that may describe YOU⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, brushing at least once a day while depressed is still an accomplishment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything has a bit of overlap⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Look, you could give me a multi-million dollar grant and I will wouldn’t want to work with cockroaches, lol. (But then again, that’s what grad students are for…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everything has a bit of overlap⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the older social psych frameworks called Social Facilitation says that when we feel watched by others, how comfortable we are with the task determines if we improve or get worse. I’m of course simplifying for Lemmy but you can look to that framework easily.

  They tested it with shoe tying vs putting on lab gear, measuring time to finish in the presence of others. Shoe tying got faster while lab gear, being unfamiliar, was slower.

  I often give a more modern but dated example as when I play Tony Hawk Pro Skater 2, I tend to do choke, because it’s not really my genre, but of the same era I tend to show off if I’m playing Metal Gear Solid 2, except the skateboard level of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only we knew...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, yes and no. I live where gang tags and random acts of vandalism are rather a frequent occurrence so when I say graffiti removal, I’m thinking that. Things like that only work to harm our neighborhood, defacing our storefronts and public transit and making people feel less safe in their community.

  But yes, some forms of graffiti are expression and art. Nazis would take pleasure in removing that we aren’t for that, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Velma can't math.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … Why not just copy the meme they’re referencing? It’s like they’re intentionally trying to screw this up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do they want me to fuckin' honk or not⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honk - Honk for President 2004.

  My other honk is a honk.

  My child was honk of the month at honk honk high honk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If only we knew...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why the death penalty?

  Suspected Nazis should be given community service to work in soup kitchens, clean graffiti and pickup trash and such in majority black and brown neighborhoods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨passage of time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, 2025.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moon talk⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It might be because the moon is falling in 3 days.

  Which… I guess is due to capitalism (Happy Mask Salesman peddling Majora’s Mask) or maybe the male loneliness epidemic (Skull Kid has no friends).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why would I buy this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Marketing weirdly effective, for one. They pump a large portion of their budgets into hype and they make just enough back to keep going. It’s like the same people who watch an ad for a fast food place and go even though it’s never as advertised.

  And most isn’t direct marketing. They very much pay influencers to buy this slop and worse. You pay a half million to a guy to make something look popular and it becomes popular. It’s very annoying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This would be a good thing in the timeline where governments actually gave a shit and we had universal basic income for everyone. No human should have to slave away for 8+ hours a day just to survive when most work can be automated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honestly Bizarre⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Box labeled “burnt to a crisp” and put everything in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨These are your only alternatives. ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m with you on this, I think. It’s not the best spoon but I bet it’s got an eerie glow to it, and perhaps shines blue when in the presence of milk or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like the search summary problem, only worse. Before, people lost traffic already cause Google would try to answer the question with a snippet from your site; however, LLMs (or at least ChatGPT) are trained on Wikipedia, because it’s available data. With Reddit being first, Wikipedia being the second largest source of facts they used (at least, according to statista).

  Side note, you’re not even supposed to source facts from Reddit or Wikipedia, they’re better for finding other sources. It’s like a game of telephone, at the tertiary source you’re getting even less accurate information. It’s just oh so stupid the direction end users are herded towards.