snownyte
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- Comment on Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago? 5 months ago:
There's some people on here trying to make Lemmy like Reddit was when Reddit's idea of communicating in 2016 and onwards.
Let's not let that happen.
- Comment on Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good 5 months ago:
Which they most likely will, just won't say anything.
- Comment on Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand 5 months ago:
And they totally wasted a new Earthworm Jim game on that thing.
But yeah, Tommy Tallarico had a personal vendetta with Pat the NES Punk for a while, taking swipes at them as he was covering the whole issue on his podcast the CUPodcast. It's a really wild ride from beginning to end, if it ever did end.
- Comment on Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand 5 months ago:
Which is hilarious because they were both part of the reason the video game market crashed back then.
- Comment on Atari Acquires Intellivision Brand 5 months ago:
They've been this way since the late 90s and 2000s. More publishing than doing. Sometimes they'll throw out a Atari Classics compilation but that's it.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Google search needs to just branch itself off into several micro-search engines. It is useless as a general purpose search engine.
Again, try searching 'skillet' and you'll get more results on the band with the name than the pan itself. Make a media-based micro search engine where it's nothing but music, movies, shows .etc
But as big as Google is, they won't do it.
- Comment on What are some eras of gaming that you've stopped feeling nostalgic for? 5 months ago:
And that is when you start seeing pockets of people defend their favorites. Very hard to gauge.
- Comment on What are some eras of gaming that you've stopped feeling nostalgic for? 5 months ago:
There's a point here. The N64 too had a significantly lower count of games than the PS1. The PS1 had like three times larger the amount of games with 1,278 than N64. So there was a lot more options to pick and choose from. And there were definitely superior versions of some of the games listed.
But it is sort of like the Genesis vs Super Nintendo comparison. People can list banger after banger off of the SNES library that it easily fills a Top 50 list, whereas people can list maybe 20 good Genesis games? So I do believe that's where a lot of the favoritism stems off from is that, Nintendo had to make their games good for the N64, least the first party titles. Everything else off of it were really more misses than hits, you probably had 10 underrated gems that people now talk about (and pretend they always were that when nobody had a clue back then).
- Comment on What are some eras of gaming that you've stopped feeling nostalgic for? 5 months ago:
What turned me off from multiplayer games was the entitled obnoxiousness of the other players. Playing with others is cool for a few minutes, but if you run into several shit players, ruins everything. This is when the whole "if all you find are assholes, you must be one yourself" rhetoric does not apply when it comes to multiplayer games. People just choose to be bastards.
- Comment on What are some eras of gaming that you've stopped feeling nostalgic for? 5 months ago:
I remember how many damn licensed games came out during that period. There was just almost a game for everything, it was nuts.
American Choppers had a game. Hannah Montana had several. Let's give Dukes of Hazzard a game, let's give Starsky and Hutch a game. Do they have to be good? Nope, they never were but let them be a thing anyways.
- Submitted 5 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 66 comments
- Comment on How do you search for honest product recommendations? 5 months ago:
The thing people need to remind themselves is that - it's subjective. You don't really know how good a product is, unless it's in your hands or you've got hands-on experience. It sucks, because we can't demo everything and it forces us to sometimes take financial risks.
It just comes down to what you're looking for out of a product. Is it X-free from Y chemicals? Does it meet a specific standard you're looking for?
What pisses me off with reviews sometimes is how vague and scarce a review can be. Most of the time it's people just going "It works! Thanks!" or "It sucks. Don't buy!". Like, I can't evaluate a product on that alone, I need a little more to work with. And a lot of the time too is that people will just complain in a review of something that isn't even about the product like "it didn't arrive on time...0 stars". How is that relevant to the product? Sounds more like a problem with the shipping service, two different things.
You don't need to always write reviews spanning 10 paragraphs. But christ, just write more than "it sucks, don't buy". Why does it suck? What makes it suck? Come on, details.
- Comment on What happens to my domain, website and email when I die? 5 months ago:
Yeah but these days, if someone sets up mobile verification or 2FA, it's not going to be that easy going through forgot password links. Codes will just be sent to a mobile phone or a recovery address that most likely won't be seen and it'll force the individual wanting access to go the route of hacking means.
- Comment on What happens to my domain, website and email when I die? 5 months ago:
I used to once believe, that a lot of what is on the internet lasts forever. It was a little naive to think, because over the course of my time online, I've seen things that I thought would last, ended up not lasting.
I would sometimes cross-search old usernames of mine because I do get around online. I can only now see my past accounts that I've made at least 5 years ago. Only 2 accounts that I recall, are 10+ years old when it used to be a bit more. It tells me that things will shut down eventually and it'll take down many accounts with it.
Unless you are on platforms hosted by Google or Microsoft by using their services, it's going to last for a long time because they're a little too big to just simply vanish overnight.
Your best option is to just back up what you can and if you remember to before you die, make arrangements for preservation purposes with instructions to those you'd want in on it.
- Comment on Seriously, Wikibooks? 5 months ago:
Agreed. I know it must be inconvenient to come across this thing. But people have to realize, it is done for a reason.
You wouldn't want anyone to pretend they're you online and ruining your credibility and reputation.
- Comment on Are all phone calls voip (voice over Internet protocol) now? 5 months ago:
It's starting to feel that way. The ISP I use that also serves telephone, only serves VoIP and I've had other services before do the same.
Like, why do that when I've gotten a Google Voice number for free to use?
- Comment on Why are people talking about flying a flag upside-down? 5 months ago:
Funny because THEY were the ones causing the country to go in distress.
- Comment on Corporate astroturfing is the norm 5 months ago:
There are people who are hired specifically to pad reviews. They're easy to spot though. Every 5 star review reads exactly the same even if it's different wording.
"This app changed my life!"
"I was looking for so long to have an app like this so I'm happy this app exists!"
"This app is so easy to use and install, I don't understand why people are complaining about it"
If you want true honesty, read some of the 3 star reviews and below.
- Comment on When you have to use multiple browsers because one place doesn't work 6 months ago:
I cleaned the cache like 2 or 3 days ago. Even then, because of my browsing habit that would've made it go to a gig again, ProtonMail still loaded fine.
And not 2 minutes longer after posting this - ProtonMail worked. I don't know sometimes, I just don't with these things.
- Submitted 6 months ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Good news and bad news 6 months ago:
This is just his cover to make us think he died.
- Comment on That's Life 6 months ago:
And burn mountains of money whenever he feels like it.
- Comment on That's Life 6 months ago:
I always almost wonder what exactly villains do when they've failed to beat the superhero and didn't get caught. Now we know.
- Comment on A while ago one of my old accounts got banned from r/news for saying I wouldn't bone some celebrity. Now if I forget and comment on a front page post with any account this happens. 6 months ago:
The image says otherwise, fuckwad. Now shut up and eat the 5 days.
- Comment on A while ago one of my old accounts got banned from r/news for saying I wouldn't bone some celebrity. Now if I forget and comment on a front page post with any account this happens. 6 months ago:
It's 5 days dude, get over it.
- Comment on What is Reddit doing 6 months ago:
It's been like this for quite some time now.
And anytime you use a browser, you'll always be nagged to continue viewing through browser or use their app. It comes up so obnoxiously and I swear it slows you down. They also make the viewing experience subpar unless you use the app.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
I don't hate veganism.
I just don't like the militant and pompous attitude that some vegans seem to possess, that they feel that they have to flaunt their vegan lifestyles on others over.
Yes, go eat as many vegetables as you like, go eat meat alternatives and whatever. You do you, eat what you want. But I don't want to ever have someone like that coming up to my face and tell me what I'm allowed to eat in their eyes.
- Comment on [Serious] What is project 2025? What kind of risk is involved? 6 months ago:
It's already bad enough that Florida is practically a small fraction of this in practice.
- Comment on [Serious] What is project 2025? What kind of risk is involved? 6 months ago:
And it is something he has spent 4 years trying to do. We've seen him cycle through so many people in his administration, that is Trump's we're talking here. He'd bring this guy in, he'd last 2 months, then he'd leave. Some people he acquired, lasted just a week and few a day.
It's because he was wheeling around to find the loyalists he needed that won't challenge him or feels that they aren't up to snuff with his requirements. That's a dangerous precedent to be functioning under as a president. Normally, presidents stick to who they have because they've picked carefully and they pick bright minds in the right places. Not a lot of presidents had a lot of great people, but they can say that they were far, far more qualified than anyone Trump has personally assigned.
Even George W. Bush's administration was better than Trump's.
But yeah, the 4 years with Trump, will exactly be repeated here in Project 2025. Except, far worse than ever and it'll all be unchallenged. This isn't even about trying to play into people's fears. The 4 years with Trump, he turned this country into his playground. If we have 4 more years of him, he's going to turn it into his amusement park.
And no I don't want to hear arguments from people going like "well, it's only 4 years of him and once it's over, he can't run again!". How the fuck would you know? If impeaching the bastard twice didn't do anything, do you think he's going to abide by term limit rules? He might just override that and make himself dictator for the rest of his life.
- Comment on [Serious] What is project 2025? What kind of risk is involved? 6 months ago:
In my own words...
Project 2025 is a blueprint of what Republicans (particularly Trump) have in mind in what they want to do to this country if they get power again.
It's literally the ultimate plan of all of the collective Republican psychopaths. This is the ultimate dream a lot of those white-trash supporters would want.