twinnie
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- Comment on Amazon started hiding ratings for some products 4 hours ago:
They’ve been under pressure in the EU to tackle fake reviews. Might be something to do with that.
- Comment on People who have legally changed their first or last names (marriage not included), what is the reason you changed it? 12 hours ago:
My mother-in-law’s parents really wanted a boy and they were going to call him Nicholas. When she was born her mother wouldn’t look at her and didn’t want to name her, so a nurse suggested Nicola as she’s a girl, and the mother just shrugged and said okay.
She uses her middle name as her first name now. She did actually make up with her mother while her mother was on her deathbed, it was all frantic and wills were rewritten and all sorts.
- Comment on Some neighbors have no chill 6 days ago:
if it was as bad as she was making it out to be I’d be pretty pissed off too. It’s probably not though. Loud music very occasionally is okay but I’d expect it to be turned off around 10/11 unless it was a very special occasion and I’d been warned in advance (and invited). I doubt the smell of weed is that bad. They shouldn’t be handing out alcohol.
- Comment on What was the worst movie to game adapation you've played? 2 weeks ago:
There were a lot of absolutely awful ones when I was kid, so many I just forget them all. Back then we had a ZX Spectrum and the games cost like £2.99 each so you can imagine how much effort was put into them. I understand why the studios keep cranking out crappy movie tie-ins and why they keep selling well, because when I was a kid if there was a movie I loved I’d jump at the chance to buy the video game for it. Back then there was no internet to instantly check reviews so you just bought whatever had good box art.
I remember the Jaws game being particularly depressing. It was one of those classic games where it just drops you in an environment with no instructions on how to complete the game or anything. It was just a maze with loads of moving things that instantly killed you. I generally just moved around until I ran out of lives then tried again.
- Comment on How would you answer the "ecological" question on self hosting and federated networks ? 3 weeks ago:
Self-hosted services are only serving their purpose, they’re not serving ads, crunching user data, training unwanted AI algorithms…
- Comment on What is likely to happen when/if trump dies? 3 weeks ago:
He only eats fast food on the road, when he’s at the White House or one of his own places he probably eats pretty well.
- Comment on How did internet viruses spread before the internet was invented! 1 month ago:
It was a weird time to like computers. Nobody had an antivirus, and if they didn’t it never got updated. You’d just take floppy disks around to your friend’s house and plug them in. Windows gave everything admin rights.
To be honest, I was using a computer for about five years before the internet happened and I never got a virus.
- Comment on Arrest after Churchill statue defaced with graffiti 1 month ago:
I completely agree. Like it or not if you want your protests to become a movement you have to appeal to “normal” people. When a normal person sees a statue of a person they consider a hero being vandalised or they see a protest full of people with dreadlocks, green hair, and hippy clothes they’re just going to dismiss it as an alternative culture that they don’t relate to.
If I’m being cynical here it almost makes me believe that some of these people care more about their identity and image than they do about the cause. They’ll go to all the effort of turning up to these things but they can’t even get a haircut and throw on a shirt. I’m going off on a tangent here.
- Comment on Earbud question: Does anyone actually like to silicone tipped earbuds over the solid plastic ones? 1 month ago:
I like the silicone ones when they fit. I have some round the ear ones for jogging and they’re great. Never budge.
- Comment on Gottem 1 month ago:
I remember years ago reading about some test where participants lived in a house next to a phone mast. For the first week the phone mast was off, then the next week they turned it on. In the second week a bunch of people complained about getting sick and one person even had to leave. Then it turned out they’d never actually turned it on, I guess to prove that these people were idiots.
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- Comment on Artsy darling Remedy Entertainment has a new CEO - a former EA exec and sports betting platform president - who is there to "accelerate growth" 1 month ago:
Gotta admit, I don’t really play many Remedy games. While the settings and art may be good the gameplay is always kinda boring. I remember when Alan Wake was being developed and there was an insane amount of hype around it but when it came out it was just kind of boring to play. I haven’t finished it to this day. I heard Alan Wake 2 is really good but I just wasn’t going to play it without finishing the first one
- Comment on The Texas man who shot a British woman after an argument about President Trump won’t face charges. The jury hails from a pro-gun pro-Trump part of the state, a legal expert says 2 months ago:
I think the headline’s a little misleading though. The guy was British and the woman was his daughter.
- Comment on do most people really like the taste and smell of eggs? 2 months ago:
As someone’s who’s tasted an egg I can only assume that were part of some elaborate worldwide practical joke to get us to eat them, because I think they smell and taste disgusting.
- Comment on Ubisoft has cancelled 6 games, including the Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake | VGC 2 months ago:
Warrior Within totally fucked up the vibe though, and the combat was rubbish. It’s a puzzle game, the fighting was just a little break, but they tried to make it too big a part.
Two Thrones was 50% SoT and 50% WW, when it should have been 99% SoT and 1% WW. The voice in your head thing from TT was pretty good, until you have to fight it.
- Comment on Tips 2 months ago:
I get what they’re trying to say though. So many people think they need to keep up with other by having a constant supply of new clothes and a modern luxury car, etc. people will take credit to breaking point just to keep up with other people who are doing the same thing. I’ve done it myself and it took years to dig myself out. Now I take comfort in knowing that I’m not scared to open the mail because I have enough saved to handle any surprise bills. Some things Mee me awake at night but it’s not bills, and I don’t care that phone’s 5 years old and my car’s 15 years old.
- Comment on It's easy 2 months ago:
It’s from some funny guy. I don’t know what his job is but his profile’s full of jokes.
- Comment on conditional soap 3 months ago:
I’ve been washing my face with shampoo since I saw a meme about it and it’s been fine. I actually got complimented on my skin.
- Comment on Someone has a LOT of dusty computers 3 months ago:
I wish I had a father.
- Comment on How do you sleep at night? Please respond with a number 4 months ago:
18 or 20.
- Comment on Is it Possible that a Typical Quantity of Sneezes is Inherited/Genetic? 4 months ago:
People who have sun sneezes tend to sneeze a bunch of times at once. Sun sneezes are genetic.
- Comment on Microsoft spent two years and $1B developing the Kin mobile phone line, which failed after just 48 days in 2010(May 14-June 30) due to poor sales. They blamed Verizon for not promoting it enough 4 months ago:
Apps were still kinda new at the time and social media was shit hot. iPhones were still premium products and most people didn’t have one.
I think a lot of people don’t realise that when the iPhone first came out it didn’t have apps. They eventually released an upgrade so that you could pin webpages to the homepage. I remember Apple arguing that web stuff was so good now you didn’t need apps.
From what I recall around that time the Kin never really generated that much interest. It wasn’t being aimed as a product to replace the iPhone and was targeted at the kind of people who nowadays would sit on their phone and scroll TikTok. There was a lot of change in those days; social media was still pretty new, useful internet in your phone was pretty new (it’d been around for years but it wasn’t so expensive to this point nobody had used it, iPhone made constant internet connections a thing) touch screens were still new and sexy, and more I forget about. The idea that your phone was this little mobile computer that you carried around wasn’t really there yet and they were still mostly for communicating.
- Comment on Palworld dev isn’t impressed by "so-called" AAA, prefers indies since they "include the kind of systems you can’t find in other games" 4 months ago:
I think this is pretty normal as you grow up. You get kind of bored of playing games that use the same gameplay mechanisms and you just look for a change. Even if the mechanisms in these indie games aren’t as good, just being different makes the game more interesting.
Nowadays I’d much rather play a short indie games that a big budget game.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 4 months ago:
They don’t need to court developers, they need to court consumers. The games will be sold wherever people are buying.
- Comment on People in the UK Watching the The world using the internet 4 months ago:
Don’t know. No problems for me (UK).
- Comment on Sean Murray just crushed my hopes of playing Light No Fire anytime soon 4 months ago:
I’m not sure how I feel about this game. Seems like a less ambitious NMS.
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 4 months ago:
What a load of bullshit. Maybe I misread it but it says that German companies would be 101% more productive if they bought newer laptops and phones (American ones no doubt). They also claim that businesses are trying to use old hardware for modern workloads. Apparently a six year old laptop can’t handle Outlook and Word.
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 5 months ago:
I have a Samsung smart TV and apart from suggesting I watch stuff on their own Samsung channel thing I don’t think it shows me any adverts. Maybe it’s because I’m not in the US?
- Comment on What a lucky woman 5 months ago:
ChatGPT says it’s just a guy who’s full of himself. I’m inclined to believe it’s correct on this.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 5 months ago:
It can never be too big, but it’s a problem if it’s a big city with nothing to do (Cyberpunk).