Firipu
@Firipu@startrek.website
- Comment on Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST 1 day ago:
This doesn’t surprise me. If I hear stories of some of my teenager son’s classmates it sounds realistic. The other day one of his mates spent 20k in an arcade on claw machines in a single afternoon. He “won” like 4-5 massive plush dolls, and had to hide them at our place to avoid parental wrath. Can buy them for 2000jpy incl shipping on aliexpress.
Some of his friends spent their entire allowance and more on fortnite every month. Parental failure imo. Parents should teach their kids the value of things…
- Comment on Space Chef (in development), a space exploration/hunting x restaurant management game hybrid, releases demo on Steam. 3 days ago:
Cool concept. But the art style ain’t my thing unfortunately. I hope they clean up the art and animation a bit. The cover art has a cool style.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 1 week ago:
Except for the assassination of Abe, which was a resounding success by any measure. The perp got everything he wanted and more.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, nothing beats parsec tbh.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
For how I use my pc, everything just works. To give you a counter argument. My logitech devices just work out of the box on windows. For Linux I had to get a little specific tool. Also try installing Japanese language input on Linux. Compare how much simpler it is on windows. Linux is NOT simpler than windows in all situations. Maybe your own research methods are flawed?
I game, manage my NAS (truenas running jellyfish for media etc) , sail the high seas, and browse on my pc. I also remote into a small spare mini pc running Ubuntu server with a minecraft server on it. Could’ve ran the server on windows, but wanted to tinker with Linux to learn)
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
I use popOS. Windows is still simpler
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
I run Linux on a small mini pc for some casual browsing.
I run windows on my main pc.
As long as some kernel anticheat (fortnite, cod, etc…) doesn’t run on Linux, I won’t be swapping.
30+y of windows use also makes me infinitely more comfortable with windows. All the complaints I always read about are totally moot for me (I understand the issue of privacy in windows. It’s the price I pay to have an OS that “just works” for me) .
While I enjoy tinkering, Linux is a royal PITA to use if you’re not used to it. I spend hours trying to figure out how to fix something that takes me 5m max in windows. I understand it’s a more a me than a Linux problem. But I’m certain many people struggle with the same things.
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 2 weeks ago:
A 10usd Chinese knockoff Bluetooth controller works well enough for multi-player. The true little brother experience is to play with the shitty controller.
For the steam deck, you’d have to buy 2 controllers (potentially both shitty), so the benefit for the switch is still there.
- Comment on Switch 2 mouse mode (such potential) 2 weeks ago:
From my 12y old kids perspective:
The switch 2 plays fortnite and Mario kart. The steamdeck doesn’t.
There is no difficult choice for him.
He doesn’t give a fuck about anything else. Neither do his friends.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Cancels Planned ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ Game Expansion 3 weeks ago:
Tesla has a ceo that is arguably evil, his companies flaunt labour laws and he is actively trying to make the world a worse place through multiple means.
The HP writer makes mean tweets and complains women use her bathroom.
Both are bad people, but not even remotely at the same level.
- Comment on Junk Store: BIG update on what is next 3 weeks ago:
If it’s a one time payment and it works well enough, chances are big I’ll get it.
If it’s a subscription, I wish you the very best, but it won’t be for me.
Unfortunately the explanation seems to point towards the latter :(
- Comment on Multiverse 2 months ago:
Lol, OK. Yeah. Didn’t think about caveats. :D
- Comment on Multiverse 2 months ago:
Ah, fair enough. So that’s similar to “infinite universes of infinite possibilities, except light can never go faster than 300.000 km/sec”?
- Comment on Multiverse 2 months ago:
In an infinite list of letters, every single book ever written, every word ever spoken (and to be written/spoken) should be present no?
I guess the only caveat is that in an infinite universe certain physical laws could be universal (which would prevent eg any universe to break the speed of light)? But some version of me having hair past my 30s should certainly exist no?
Or am I getting this completely wrong?
- Comment on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review & Benchmarks: Gaming, Thermals, & Power [ch: Gamers Nexus, t: 40:02] 2 months ago:
Don’t want to get into a whole argument, But ltt suggested to stop throwing dirt. GN turned around and just continued slinging dirt. Just feels weird to me.
- Comment on Would not adding a stamp and return address on a letter give you free postage 2 months ago:
Depending on your local postal laws and how willing your postman is, it would either get delivered, and the delivery address gets asked to pay, or it would not get delivered. Or it would get delivered, with just a little complaint note attached.
I’d argue the risk of non delivery is probably relatively high in most countries.
Place where I live has super good postal delivery. My workplace gets quite a lot of post. They deliver it with a little note to inform you postal fees should be paid.
- Comment on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review & Benchmarks: Gaming, Thermals, & Power [ch: Gamers Nexus, t: 40:02] 2 months ago:
A whole lot of shit slinging at LTT for no real reason. At when LTT rebuked the claims and suggested to stop doing so and work together in the future, GN just decided to double down and continue.
A bunch of childish stupid drama tbh, but very one-sided.
- Comment on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition Review & Benchmarks: Gaming, Thermals, & Power [ch: Gamers Nexus, t: 40:02] 2 months ago:
To be honest, GN is not worth your viewing time anymore. He’s just trying to stir drama on tech YouTube for the sake of starting drama…
He got multiple olive branches offered to stop the drama and he just threw them on top of the fire. He’s being a manchild for no reason.
- Comment on SNES Mods and Romhacks Collection 2025 2 months ago:
Cheers. Rom hacks are like indie gaming lite. Some of them are great fun.
- Comment on Is there anything Lemmy has more/better content for than Reddit and other mainstream sites? 4 months ago:
Star trek memes
- Comment on is it possible to download Tiktok videos on mobile? 5 months ago:
The revanced version of tiktok also allows you to download videos iirc.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Or native gestures in Firefox. Either would be perfect.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Flooding Medium 5 months ago:
Is there a single good article on Forbes? It’s always fucking clickbait without actual content.
- Comment on Vivaldi polishes its browser, adds a dashboard • The Register 5 months ago:
Yeah, as long as Firefox (or a fork) doesn’t have native gestures, I can’t fulltime swap to it. Gestures addons are not the same. Anyone that used vivaldi (or opera) for any serious length of time knows what I mean.
- Comment on Why EU leaders should get off Musk's X 7 months ago:
I work for a large eu government agency. Why the hell they still insist that we promote our workings on Twitter completely eludes me. It does not make any sense whatsoever. They should get off and stop promoting that cesspool. Go to any of the myriad of competitors or just go back to Facebook and Instagram…
- Comment on Why is prostitution called sometimes world's oldest profession? 9 months ago:
What’s the last time you met a gatherer doing it as a profession and not a hobby?
Hunters are a little bit more common, but still, full time food hunters are rare.
Prostitutes on the other hand.
So as a simple saying used in a daily life, I can kinda see why it’s used :)
- Comment on Steam is now banned in Vietnam 11 months ago:
You don’t have a separate 100% anonymous steam account to use in case of having to fake your death? Your loss tbh…
- Comment on Larian Started Work on Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, Then Canceled It: "The Studio Was Elated" 1 year ago:
In what world is paying 40usd for a game and 3x 30usd for 500h of entertainment not a good deal? (not particularly aimed at you, but at dlc haters in general)
I am glad when they release a dlc. I get more great content. They get some more financial support.
I am 100% against cheap cash grabs. I am 100% pro multiple well made extentions for a game that allow me to support the studio.
- Comment on Larian Started Work on Baldur's Gate 3 DLC, Then Canceled It: "The Studio Was Elated" 1 year ago:
Just a few dlc/expansion packs that were totally worth their money
All Rimworld expansions. Diablo 3 reaper of souls/ D2 lord of destruction The witcher Ballad of gay tony Star craft ones Red alert yuris revenge Horizon zero dawn frozen wilds
Etc… There are good expansions that are totally worth their money and add to the overall game.
That being said, I’m not a huge dlc fan and rarely spend money on them if they don’t really add to the game. More partial to spend on dlc for smaller studio games rather than large ones.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Considering how lazy I am, there is no way my brain would bother with all the little details I see everywhere when I go out. When I’m at a busy station or crossing and I literally see thousands of different people walk by, not a single repeat face? Proof enough for me this is real tbh.
(and if you go the simulation way, who cares? If a simulation can give billions of ppl their own lives, feelings, dreams and hopes, it does not matter in the slightest to the ppl living in it that it’s real or a simulation)