vortexal

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s probably not the reason for everyone but where I live, tap water has a slightly rancid taste and bottled water used to taste like it was mixed with bleach. I used to not drink water because I thought that all water tasted like that but then we got a cheap water cooler about four or five years ago and the water from it tastes much better. So, I’ve been drinking water from a water cooler ever since.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you keep track of what games you have played over the years?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t intentionally use it to keep track of the games I’ve played but I’ve been using GameFAQs to keep track of older console games I have not yet played. It’s not perfect for this as I need to use documents to keep track of some additional information but I have yet to find a better alternative.

  For PC games, some of the platforms I use, like GOG and Itch, actually have built in features to help me to keep track of what games I haven’t played yet. For the others (and mobile) I still have to use documents to keep track of this as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it not fully compatible with newer versions of Linux? All the gameplay and comparison videos I’ve seen look identical to the Windows version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that also applicable to the Linux version, assuming that Aspyr did actually port the game to Linux and not just use Wine or something?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t use protective cases with any of my phones. I’ve read that phone cases can cause them to overheat, as they trap the heat in and seeing that my phones already get pretty hot after most gaming sessions, I just don’t use them.

  I do, however, have pop sockets for all of my phones and when I leave the house, I always carry my phones in a purse when I’m not using them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing this pains me, especially considering Id Software’s history with Linux. Prior to being bought by Bethesda, every Doom game, and at least most of Id’s other games, had native Linux ports. Even Doom 3 had a native Linux port, it doesn’t seem to work anymore but there are source ports like Dhewm3 available for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you think Square Enix should remake other Final Fantasy entries?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but the problem is with Square Enix themselves. For some reason, they have the mindset that the only remake that would sell is FF7. This is the reason why they’ve been working not just two completely different remakes of the original game but also remakes of the sequels and prequels, along at least one new game that takes place in FF7’s universe. A remake of any game prior to FF11 would sell well but they exclusively chose to remake FF7.

  They wouldn’t even have to go as far as they did the FF7 remake. They could easily remake one of the games in the style of something simpler like either Crisis Core or FF12 and it would probably sell very well, especially if it’s decently priced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨are there bots that downvote every comment users have?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that Reddit does (at least it did back when I still used it) but I’m not sure about Lemmy. I know that Lemmy does have bot accounts for other purposes, so I guess it’s not impossible but I haven’t heard of or seen one here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨need help finding a racing game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you remember what platform(s) it was on? There are a bunch of games that come to mind but none of them have everything you’ve mentioned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people consistently vote against their own interests to benefit the rich?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kind of an indirect answer, but I’ve heard people state that they vote the way they do because they believe that there needs to be a balance between “good and bad”. Obviously, this is complete bullshit. Even if there should be a “balance”, we already have enough problems as is, we don’t need the government making it worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just looked into it, according to this post account scores were removed from Lemmy. I’ll have to edit my comment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They must have changed it because Boost was the only app I ever used.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Lemmy have a system like Reddit's Karma?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It does, it’s just disabled by default. Some third party clients, like Boost for Lemmy, have it enabled (or at least it did, it’s been a while since I’ve used it).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There, I fixed it. It took me a while to understand what the problem was but I figured it out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RuneScape is increasing their membership price by 50%, and Reddit is trying to censor it⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Reddit community is part of the reason I stopped playing RuneScape a few years ago. The in-game community was fine for the most part, as players would mostly keep to themselves or just talk with their own groups. But the subreddit would get super offended/aggressive towards each other for the stupidest things and the mods always seemed to make things worse.

  I’ve always been of the believe that all online games with subscription services should always be $60 a year at most. If you do the math, $60 a year per player is way more than what single-player games make and maintaining/updating online games doesn’t require as much work either.

  And yes, I’m aware of the whole thing with the bonds and how they technically allow you to play the game for free but, at least compared to the old prices, they aren’t as efficient as just buying a member and Jagex makes more money off of them. So, I still think that Jagex shouldn’t change the membership prices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good game soundtracks?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can provide some examples if you are looking for something specific but to list some games that haven’t been mentioned yet, there:

  The Touhou games along with the remixes/covers and fan games like the two “Touhouvania” games.

  Most of the Castlevania games.

  Most of the Sonic games and fan games like Sonic After the Sequel and SRB2.

  And to go with something really obscure, Chaos Legion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do other languages have similar acronyms to 'tbh', 'imo', 'smh', etc?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One that I’m aware of is “tskr” in Japanese. It’s a slang term that derives from たすかる (tasukaru). The meaning depends on the context and it can mean something like either “you saved me” or “thanks for helping me”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't use ladybird browser lol⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like I can’t even use it anyways, lol. I’m using Linux Mint and the software required to build it is outdated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So I just read the article and I was right and I’ll be editing my comment to reflect that.

  Also, I did just re look at the tweets, they weren’t calling for the mass genocide of gay people, they were calling for the mass genocide of jewish people. The problem was that the tweet was linked with another tweet where they used the F-slur, so I forgot they said “jews” and not the F-slur. I’m going to have fix that too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just out of curiosity, have you even seen any of the tweets that I’m referring too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have time to read the article, is this another one of those articles that defends Sweet Baby Inc without acknowledging any of the reasons why they are getting backlash? Like all of the tweets from SBI employees that either use racist/anti-LGBT slurs and advocating for the mass genocide of gay people or the fact that this whole thing started because SBI started a harassment campaign towards the creator of a steam group despite not having any information that actually proved that the group was in the wrong and also ignoring the fact that the group was created by someone from Brazil and claiming that the group was created by right-winged conspiracy theorists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What multiplayer games having singleplayer/offline mods?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s technically not a mod but most older versions of RuneScape can be played “offline” by creating a personal private server. Everything from RSC to HDScape can have private servers but I don’t think I’ve seen private servers for RS3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People who dont particularly care for or celebrate Christmas, Whats your favorite Christmas song?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ring The Bells - Eurobeat Union

  For some reason the only real version I could find on YouTube is the first song in Zenki’s [www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkqtj-mn87A](Christmas Touhou Eurobeat Mix) and it’s kind of ironic because it’s the only song in that mix that is actually Christmas related.