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- Comment on Aeroplane 3 days ago:
Me flipping on reverse thrust and parking brake before touching the ground in FSX because I’m like 100 kts above the landing speed
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 1 week ago:
gg ez ease of use feature, which is hilarious because that’s exactly where smishing attacks come in. People are actually more willing to give out the OTP than their actual password, so it definitely less secure.
I think this started out as a decently good idea, like sign in with a device type of feature (think QR code from an authenticated device), but then along the way someone just went “screw it” and changed it to an OTP.
Even in 2025 password managers are rare, people still reuse the same 8 character password everywhere, and people fall for low effort scams. So someone thought “if they’re gonna be insecure anyway, lets just make it so they never have to use a password and sync it to their phone or email”.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 1 week ago:
Finally we can view Mojang’s shitty server multi-threading implementation in all its glory.
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- Comment on PC Master Race 1 week ago:
$400 console
The only thing that qualifies is an Xbox series S, even Switch 2 is $450 lmao.
Even funnier when you consider “PC” consoles like Steam Deck or Legion which gives you a even wider access to games, including exclusives thanks to emulation.
Hell Sony and Microsoft gave up on the console exclusive system because PC & Steam demonstrated the expanded market is worth the tradeoff when your console hardware is basically a computer.
That didn’t used to be the case even up to the PS4 when the hardware was still targeted for games like high VRAM, but that’s no longer the case.
It gets even better with Switch emulation because it was a glorified Android tablet that was already outdated on arrival, meaning you can play Switch games even on your phone thanks to ARM instruction pass-through techniques.
- Comment on There was no need to ever improve upon THIS 2 weeks ago:
Only missing a night picture with the red LED backlight on
- Comment on Are there any good 3D Nintendo FAN made games? 3 weeks ago:
If the 3D of Gen 5 qualifies: smilingzero.github.io/BlazeBlack2ReduxWiki/
Don’t quote me on this, but I believe it should also be compatible with pkmnclassic.net which includes online WFC features such as:
### What works GTS Battle Videos Dressup (PtHGSS) Box uploads (PtHGSS) Musical photos (BW1/2) Wi-Fi Battle Tower and Subway Random Match ups (Currently requires AR Code: https://github.com/mm201/pkmn-classic-framework/issues/116) ### What doesn't Trainer Rankings (PtHGSS) ~~Wi-Fi Plaza (PtHGSS)~~ Seems to work now Game Sync Rating Battles / Competitions
- Comment on Are there any good 3D Nintendo FAN made games? 3 weeks ago:
First time ever I’ve seen someone complain about Pokemon on lemmy. Only other time I saw Nintendo complaints was a couple of posts about Mario Kart during the Switch 2 launch.
I’m so damn sick of the bitching about fun games I’m trying to enjoy.
Most of us here aren’t braindead consumers who throw money at even subpar media, much less Game Freak slop. Could probably guarantee you most people on lemmy probably haven’t touched a Pokemon game since they were a kid.
It’s like a McDonald’s Happy Meal. It’s a targeted cheap product designed to make money.
- Comment on Republican? Democrat? There is a third option: 4 weeks ago:
You dropped your /s
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I did a 2 minute lazy search when people were talking about this, and its not just some random reddit post, several people working at stores posted online on several platforms that stock was being moved around or removed entirely.
Most likely its just brick and mortar stores moving product around to locations that are actually selling, or planning ahead for black friday deals. Nothing groundbreaking, but this site was the first that was heavily defending Microsoft for no reason lol.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 5 weeks ago:
People pay to stream music?
I thought most people just put up with ads, or get the revanced version of the app with ads removed.
Then you have the smaller group that downloads off of any good distribution site, and then the small minority of music archive torrentors.
I think I only ever met one person who actually paid for youtube premium, but my sample size is probably too small.
- Comment on If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action? 1 month ago:
None of you fools in this thread have ever encountered a public situation, much less a dangerous public situation huh?
- Comment on ... 1 month ago:
Forgot the “Thinks his skills at hitting 100m targets will allow him to fight the government in a civil war situation”
- Comment on DO IT! 1 month ago:
Would that make Bart Nite Owl lol?
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 1 month ago:
D by far has the widest available palette, it includes the silk road which is the thing that fueled C, B, and E.
- Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 1 month ago:
Team Fortress was a quake mod
Half Life used a modded version of the quake engine
Counter Strike was a Half Life mod
L4D was a Counter Strike mod
Gary’s Mod is literally just a game revolving around you modding the Source Game Engine
Seems legit Nintendo.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 2 months ago:
Yeah the only environment it seems to fit is the military which sort of makes sense for how often you get smoked long before you ever see combat or even just active duty.
And even then most military people have a cleaned up citizen dictionary for whenever they’re not with their buddies.
Anything outside of that just seems excessive and vulgar for no apparent gain or reason. Even funny and wildly profane comments online don’t use expletives as much as some people do IRL.
There has to be wordplay and emphasis to make it justied (or funny like the gorilla warfare copypasta), otherwise it just comes of the same as ending every single sentence or phrase with “lol”.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 2 months ago:
- Comment on Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy 2 months ago:
Welcome to the bank owned oligopoly lol.
Debit cards use the same PCI DSS backend, which is owned by Visa and Mastercard, both of which were created by banks (I think BofA made Visa)
“ePayment” systems like PayPal, Cashapp, Zelle, etc rely on the same backend, or also publicly owned by several major banks.
Direct bank wire transfers still have a useless transfer fee for literally no reason. I think maybe echecks don’t, but they expose your full bank account numbers (for no good reason), and they’re still controlled by the bank, and they don’t offer it as a solution for rapid payments.
Bitcoin technically solved this problem except the supply system wasn’t designed for stability, so the value is way too volatile. Even though there are better crypto currencies that have solved this problem like XRP, the blockchain hype train crashed so a ton of vendors don’t accept crypto anymore even though they used to.
This entire system is nothing but a highly organized and legalized fraudulent scam to ensure banks can rip off vendors and consumers with transaction fees and debt.
The only thing that bypasses this system at the moment is using physical cash, which doesn’t work online.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 months ago:
Just like how Pakistan administers Jammu & Kashmir and India administers AJK & Gilgit Baltistan, both of which are across the Line of Control in the opposite country’s border lol.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 months ago:
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 3 months ago:
Pentagon wasted tax money on facebook bots to convince people in East Asia that the chinese covid vaccine was poison, so no one is really buying the “China human rights abuses are what allow China to succeed” idea anymore.
Especially since you can just as easily point to Japan’s infrastructure projects which achieved the same thing under US supervision post WWII, meaning said human rights violations aren’t even a supposed cost if there’s less evidence of it that of UAE literally pirating in immigrants to build their lavish towers and stadiums.
Of which the US fully supports, so this just goes back to the blame game of who is worse.
Yes, China has some shady ideas of what is considered acceptable behavior and work output from citizens, but the point is that they are using it to rapidly grow their infrastructure, unlike NA which take a decade for a single transit system to get approved all while car OEMs are pumping out dumpsterfire vehicles of whose parts are overwhelmingly made in China.
- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 3 months ago:
Lol I remember Dunkey complaining about this guy and twitch streamers in general showing up to E3 because “The only Twitch streamer that plays games is Pete Dorr, and he wasn’t even on there”
- Comment on Reddit assemble 4 months ago:
- Comment on How bad is it that Israel has attacked Iran? 4 months ago:
I honestly think Iran is too defanged to make a difference with escalation. Israel flexed their capability heavily and eliminated part of Iran’s C&C and a lot of their military and nuclear assets in one go, and they’re still continuing with strikes for any mop up.
It’s a win-win situation for them because they’ve got the US to defend them and they can go almost full force on whatever they deem a threat.
It might technically backfire for Netanyahu if Iran fails to mount any serious counteroffensive, at which point he won’t have any escalation path to stay in power, but it’s still a big win for Israel’s interests.
Also not related to the question, but this proves HTS in Syria is just another CIA project that will follow Washington’s demands no questions asked since they clearly allowed Israel to operate within their airspace.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 5 months ago:
–recurse-depth=3 --max-hits=256
- Comment on Comfy cozy 5 months ago:
The funny thing is that statistically, there’s a 43% chance that you’re living in one of the other 8 countries with nuclear warheads lol.
- Comment on 🌊🌊🌊 6 months ago:
- Comment on do crimes 6 months ago:
Big grants and research money connections are typically only accessible because your paper got in a “reputable” journal, which of course you only have a chance of getting if you publish with a “reputable” system.
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Reputable my ass
- Comment on Things are about to finally change! 6 months ago:
Criticism of one of the worst democratic party campaigns is clearly the mark of a tankie.
There’s just no way telling your constituency and voter base to “fuck off” would have any kind of negative consequence on the election.
It’s just simply impossible. We clearly lost because the tankies from .ml ran a nationwide psyop that lead to losing every single swing state.
- Comment on Things are about to finally change! 6 months ago:
At this rate I fully expect the democrats to fumble the midterm elections which should be literally the easiest campaign in decades.
