KoboldCoterie
@KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
Kobolds with a keyboard.
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 2 days ago:
Didn’t know that! I use an always-on VPN and I’ve never had issues with Catbox (but imgur blocks me), for what it’s worth.
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 3 days ago:
Catbox is basically what Imgur used to be before it went to absolute shit. You upload images, you can link to them. That’s it. You don’t need to create an account, but if you do, you can see everything you’ve uploaded. It’s free. Not really sure what more you can ask for in an image host.
- Comment on [serious] when was the last time Donald Trump went swimming, has he ever swam? 3 days ago:
He should absolutely try it anyway. Maybe after the Fed mints those coins with his face on it. Just give him a room full and let him dive in head first.
- Comment on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? 4 days ago:
…which makes it so baffling. They could buy a lot of goodwill if they just made the store more consumer-focused, even if they earned less from it in the process. But no, they have to just commit whole hog to just being the worst.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
It’s not so much about the shovelware crap they release every year, but rather about the IPs that they own but aren’t doing anything with.
- Comment on YouTube Music is testing AI hosts that will interrupt your tunes 1 week ago:
Spotify has this currently. It’s an AI DJ that will introduce blocks of music similar to what you’d expect from a radio DJ. I don’t think it’s too popular, but I actually kind of like it. It’s definitely more interesting to listen to than just putting on a playlist - it pulls in music you’ve liked / favorited and plays genre-centric or themed blocks, and sometimes tosses in new stuff that Spotify thinks you might like. You can freely skip tracks, and if you skip a few in a row it’ll take the hint and move onto something else.
- Comment on Impossible 1 week ago:
This woman is using her standard-issue hand-held matter replicator to fabricate an ice cream cone in her hand. How hard was that?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
“Trash mods” on Reddit, who block and ban you for not agreeing with their views… completely different…
I have faith in Lemmy mods
Go post something that paints Russia / China / North Korea in a negative light on .ml and see how long you keep your faith in lemmy mods (and even admins). Not to burst your bubble… most mods here are fine, but every platform has those mods that push an agenda.
- Comment on Starbreeze says sorry, reverses price increase on Payday 2 DLC bundle: 'We definitely didn't handle this right' 1 week ago:
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I actually like these “DLC Subscription” type things, particularly for older games with tons of DLC. There’s a huge barrier to entry for someone trying to pick up an older game, and being able to pay $5 or $10 and ‘demo’ all of the DLC for a month is a nice way to see what’s worth buying or if the game is even going to have enough longevity to make buying the DLC worth it.
Obviously when it’s accompanied by a huge increase in the price of the DLC, it sours it considerably, but at its core, the subscription itself is not a bad thing.
- Comment on Both Sega and PocketPair are taking jabs at Nintendo and I'm loving it 2 weeks ago:
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed still holds up as, in my opinion, the best kart-racing game out there, for sure beating out all of the Mario Karts. Got high hopes for Sonic Racing Crossworlds.
Similarly, very much looking forward to Palfarm, assuming it’s real (which it seems to be). Fuck Nintendo.
- Comment on Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch 2 weeks ago:
unbugged 1.0 launch
Based on recent Steam reviews, it seems to actually be pretty buggy, and the Mixed review score doesn’t bode well for it anyway.
- Comment on 100% free - The Leviathan's Fantasy (on Steam) 2 weeks ago:
Why does this work (and why is it a morally grey area)? I’m so confused by this.
- Comment on Path of Exile 2 is free to play this weekend (Aug 29 - Sept 01) 5 weeks ago:
I don’t need an EA key, and I’m not really one for jokes, but for some reason you just reminded me of this wild article I read recently - you might have seen it; apparently there was a short-term art exhibit featuring Salvador Dali’s works at some museum a couple months ago. The arrtwork had been displayed for two or three weeks already when it was discovered - by a patron, no less - that every single one of the works on display were forgeries. Absolutely wild. Apparently nobody inspects the Spanish exposition.
- Comment on Path of Exile 2 is free to play this weekend (Aug 29 - Sept 01) 5 weeks ago:
I bet they’re going to get a ton of sales off of this, because the campaign - especially the beginning of the campaign - is a masterpiece. Absolutely fantastic gameplay. It’s not until you get most of the way through and into the endgame that the cracks start to show, but oh boy do they show.
Strongly recommend that anyone who plays this this weekend and enjoys it give the reviews a good read if you’re considering buying it. Also, you should know that the game will be free to play once it’s out of early access.
- Comment on Let's put ice in the wine and chocolate in the hummus 1 month ago:
It’s all ‘pasta’ in my house. Including the spaghetti.
- Comment on ‘Hollow Knight: Silksong’ Gets September Release Date After Seven Years in Development (Gaming News Roundup) 1 month ago:
If they didn’t want to over hype or give false hope on development for the game, maybe they shouldn’t have hyped the game off the back of their first game more than 6 years too early, idiotic choice imo.
Hey, just in case you’re unaware, they kickstarted the original Hollow Knight, and one of the stretch goals (which was met) was a second playable character (Hornet) as a DLC that backers would get for free. While they were making that DLC, the scope just expanded to the point of it being an entire standalone game (Silksong). They had to communicate to backers that they were forestalling the promised DLC in favor of a sequel; the cat would have been out of the bag then whether they wanted it to be or not. Better for them to announce the sequel publicly at the same time, rather than have it leak via their Kickstarter update.
- Comment on hawk alignment 1 month ago:
I don’t think anyone could argue that Tony is a Hawk.
- Comment on The dreaded police station interrogation 1 month ago:
We desperately need an active Boomer Humor community, so all of this stuff can be corralled into one easily blocked place.
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 1 month ago:
Well, you can’t just make a statement like that without showing us which one. That’s against the internet law.
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 1 month ago:
You can buy more ‘favorite game’ showcases (with the Steam ‘points’ you get when you buy games, not actual money), so if you wanted, you could have them all.
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 1 month ago:
There’s a ‘Favorite Game’ showcase that highlights a single game!
View your profile, then click ‘Edit My Profile’. Click down to the ‘Featured Showcase’ item on the left nav, choose ‘Favorite Game’ from the dropdown, choose the game you want, and click Save. Voila!
- Comment on A dedicated section in my Steam library 1 month ago:
Why not a dedicated showcase on your Steam profile? Arguably even more prestigious, since they’re limited in quantity.
- Comment on claw 2 months ago:
Had to read this three times before I understood that they weren’t trying to imply that lobsters use their varied claws to break open different types of teeth. I was very confused as to what the intended joke was.
- Comment on Silky Smooth 2 months ago:
Scientific basis for an answer to the “If [animal] wore pants, how would they do it?” meme.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 2 months ago:
Sure, it’s not about wasting their time; this says they’re using a 3rd party service to verify, so theoretically they’re paying for that service. It’s about wasting their money.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 2 months ago:
I wonder if they pay per verification. If so, I wonder how hard it would be to set up a script to just keep submitting new requests a few hundred or thousands of times a day with random photos…
- Comment on What are the best free mmorpgs for a beginner? 2 months ago:
If you enjoy the old school vibe, City of Heroes has been revived through a community effort, and is free with all of the original content plus some new stuff. This has been given official blessing so it’s not going to disappear suddenly.
- Comment on Meta shareholders vs Mark Zuckerberg in $8 billion lawsuit 2 months ago:
$8 billion lawsuit
They want Mr Zuckerberg and his co-defendants to reimburse the company for more than $US8 billion ($12.2 billion) in fines and other costs Meta paid following the controversy.
So… a $12.2 billion lawsuit, then?
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 2 months ago:
I don’t know how much truth there is to it, but one compelling reason I’ve heard is that adult content has a considerably higher chargeback rate than other content, making the risk much higher for payment processors. This makes sense - I could absolutely see some horny person buying some adult content, getting off to it, then doing a chargeback in their moment of introspection.
- Comment on Grandma is on her own 2 months ago:
True equality!