LoamImprovement

@LoamImprovement@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you mean “Straight” person

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If I didn’t need to have a profile there for work I wouldn’t. I had two jobs that were kind enough to tell me when I asked that they immediately passed on me because my resume had no LinkedIn or Facebook, and I deleted my Facebook a year ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's LinkedIn: If our AI gets it wrong, that's your problem⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The only thing I use AI for is generating character art for tabletop portraits and when the well is sufficiently poisoned I will probably go back to Pinterest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Rocky Horror Video Game is a thing, and coming out this month [Eurogamer]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  SAY IT!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo has reportedly shut down Ryujinx, the Switch emulator that was supposedly immune⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I like it more, but I’m a fan of the more classic Zeldas. It’s good, but it’s marred by the same technical issues that plagued the LA remake, and the lack of some basic QoL features like a Quick Select or Favorites wheel is bringing it from ‘great’ to ‘good.’

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ex-Twitter staffer wins $600K over Musk’s click-yes-or-resign ultimatum⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes a lot more sense if you reframe it as freedom for rich white landowners in the 1800s to not have to pay taxes to King George, not so much for the peons, paupers and slaves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Simples.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, it’s almost like trying to measure and codify man- and womanhood is inherently dangerous and phobic, even to cisgendered people who don’t meet the nebulous standards set by bigots who are obsessed with other people’s genitals, and we should maybe just stop doing that and let people identify themselves however they want?

  Just a thought.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To add to this, if you’ve already connected to internet, you can disconnect with the same shift + F10 trick to get the command prompt open and type “ipconfig /release” to get rid of your connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The heart we can't neglect indeed⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally 90% of my problems are because billionaires exist. My rent is too high, groceries are unaffordable, my car is one dashboard light away from breaking down. All of these problems are solvable with the money that billionaires extract from my labor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Fresh Jurassic Park: Survival Details Revealed, Including New Locations and More⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually really like the SNES game, it is objectively not great though. You can’t even save, so emulation is a must unless you can dedicate an 8-10 hour sitting to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So I know it’s a joke, but isn’t this why dietary antioxidants are good for you, is because they literally help inhibit the oxidation of your body?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Number 1 Student⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Another kid with a baking soda volcano stole the show!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Book people think they know why 9-year-olds stop reading for fun⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know exactly what it was for me. I used to read all the time in elementary and middle school, right up until 7th grade. To encourage kids to read, they implemented a reading requirement.

  Upon completion of a quiz, every book with a length of ten pages or longer awarded a point per ten pages.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft closes Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and others⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And they’re probably carving themselves a nice bonus out of the tax write-off for the studio closure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, let’s not forget that the early consoles had their own pitfalls, a period of gaming that spawned tropes like ‘Nintendo Hard’ and ‘Guide Dang It’ in order to, among other things, pad out the length of what we would sell time on their hints and tips hotline. I do feel like there was less bullshit in the past, but it definitely still existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like I think that’s the thing that pisses me off the most about this - Sony clearly didn’t give two shits about this game on launch with servers underprepared and overwhelmed for weeks after, but as soon as they smelled money they were more than ready to shit where Arrowhead eats with this godawful requirement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨blast me off, fam⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Uncle Harry, don’t eat that!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has ethernet become illegitimate? A librarian flipped out after spotting me using ethernet⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I asked at a library if I could plug into the Ethernet because my laptop had an RJ45 port and I needed to download something sizable for work and the WiFi was dropping it. They let me hook up on one of the library computer ports and I left it the way I found it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I preferred the switch lite with a protective case that gave the grips a little more body, made it way more comfortable to hold. At least until I picked up a Steam Deck, which ended up being pretty much everything I wanted out of portable gaming, and waaaay easier to emulate on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s the End of the Web as We Know It⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No discredit to R.E.M. but my world’s been ending for over a decade and I feel like dogshit constantly. Nobody told me the apocalypse would be heralded by the dumbest fucking cryptobros and AI prompters the world’s ever seen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BlizzCon won't happen in 2024⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tired of people asking about the out of season April fool’s jokes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meta acquiring Oculus

  As someone with industry experience working with VR, I can tell you it’s a mixed bag. I think there’s certainly no way Oculus (and consumer VR in general) takes off the way it did without Facebook’s dollars behind it, and it’s certainly paved the way to the outstanding quality of standalone HMDs that are on offer today. However, it killed the initiative for PCVR hardware with the non-consolation that Meta, Pico, and HTC offer “Link mode” on all their headsets and it’s iffy on good days, which makes B2B PCVR very difficult to facilitate without some serious legwork on lowering latency over the air connections. Would that we could revive the Rift S, that headset was perfect for our needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 10 will start nagging you to switch from local account to MS Account⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gross. Hopefully I can regedit that shit away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phil Spencer, long cast as Xbox’s saviour, may be remembered as the man who killed it⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Redfall also flopped last year

  Feels like an understatement - this was the game that killed Arkane, because a majority of the team decided they’d rather fuck off than work on whale chasing live-service nonsense. And like, good on them, but it means no more Dishonored, no sequels to Prey, no chance of Arx Fatalis II, and it fucking sucks to see enshittification strangling good talent. I hope they’ll find success outside of MS’ looming shadow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cerveza Cristal⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Malort: Those pants aren’t gonna shit themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “That shit tracks”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Public trust⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean a lot of them also don’t believe we landed unmanned units on mars, or humans on the moon, for that matter, so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good PSP games?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know if I could call it good, exactly, but one unique concept that I haven’t really seen captured anywhere else was the Dungeon Maker series on PSP, that allowed you to build dungeons that you would then explore/fight/loot, to give yourself funds to build out further/deeper, ad infinitum. It was clunky, controlled pretty stiffly and basic as ARPGs go, and after a certain point you kind of went on autopilot, but there’s a certain je ne sais quoi to it that I really quite enjoyed, especially if you planned out your builds. I think a similar title was released on the DS but it was turn-based and not particularly well-executed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinion | Trump Is Losing It⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is losing it? As far as I could tell it’s been long gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capcom adds new DRM to old PC games, raising worries over mods⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The link’s broken for me but I assume it’s the RE8 Dimitrescu flyswatter thing?