InfiniteFlow

@InfiniteFlow@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard is delisting the OG Warcrafts from GOG, but GOG says it's gonna preserve them forever anyway, hands out a discount, and announces new policy for its preservation program to boot⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Short of suing me for it (after finding out who I am and making sure I own the games), how would they do that for non-DRM games whose installer lives on my hard drive and that I can install whenever I want, wherever I want?

  Is the “everything is a rental and you use it on sufferance until we say so” bullshit so ingrained now that people are no longer able to conceive of other ways for things to work?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scared the shit out of me ngl⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  1643 day streak here, and it still looks like it’s going to die on me any second now. I guess it was just an icon change (but… why?!)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$70 titles are doomed to go “the way of the dodo” says Saber Interactive CEO⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How about, instead of spending millions on marketing and exercises or graphical virtuosity that do nothing in terms of playability, innovation and fun, focusing on what matters and do games where $70 still turns a huge profit?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨autoexec.bat⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess someone should come up with an idea for config.sys next!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone feel like an actual adult?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

  So much this!

  I see myself a bit in all those stages, but i don’t think i ever really ever (temporarily) outgrew “childish” things. Always liked cartoons, always read comics, always played games, and always told those that chided me for not growing up to fuck off. Now entering my 50s, the biggest difference is that people don’t have the courage to bother me about it anymore (and in the rare occasions when they do they don’t argue back after being told off :P )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Defederate/delete communities from FMHY lemmy instances?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t there a way to defederate but leave history intact? The fact that no new posts are coming from that source doesn’t mean there aren’t useful posts from when they were active/federated (that some users may have saved, etc.). As a general rule, the loss of information seems to me like a bad thing. Defederating should prevent new posts from reaching other servers, but not retroactively change what was already there.

  As for new users subscribing: is should be something baked in the subscription mechanism, not letting you subscribe to something from a (currently) defederated server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the body's natural temperature is about 98 degrees (F), why does it still feel really hot when the ambient temperature is 98F?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Your body, as a warm-blooded animal, tries to keep a constant temperature (around 98°F or 37°C). Thing is, the body is constantly producing more heat (your metabolism at work…) and needs to get rid of the excess. If the air around you is at the same temperature as you are, it is very hard for heat exchange to take place (for you to get cooler as the air gets hotter) and, thus, you overheat a bit and feel warm.

  This is why wind makes you feel cooler: it moves the heated air away from your body and brings in new, cooler air, making the exchange more efficient. Evaporation takes heat away as well, hence we sweat to col ourselves down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hasbro Wants Old Transformers Games To Return, But Activision Lost Them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had one for the PS2, if memory serves, that sucked balls so hard it is a clear contender for Worst Game I’ve ever played (and I’ve been playing for over 40 years, now…)