BlemboTheThird

@BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Leaving it to rot for 15 years was far more unjust than a slightly less “revolutionary” game. And the concepts they show in the new doc are cool as hell! I would have loved to shoot at blobmonster! They just decided singleplayer FPS games weren’t as profitable, and that’s fine, I guess. They’re a company, they want to make money. But pretending they were somehow doing us a favor by leaving the cliffhanger for long is utter nonsense. Especially since they wound up simply retconning it so the whole wait was pointless anyway!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do the ultra-rich consume popular media?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or he watched one (1) JJ Abrams movie and is just trying to use the cool kids’ space jargon in an attempt to get people on his side

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I look at the steam store Portal has a price tag of $9.99.

  Portal didn’t come out until 2007 with the orange box, which also had hl2: episode 2 (and tf2), but the base game of hl2 came out standalone in 2004. This giveaway is a celebration of hl2’s 20th anniversary, so maybe they’ll do a portal giveaway in 2027.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you really want it in your body???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, that’s an avocado

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tencent collaborated with Snoop Dogg for Fortnite, officially adding the 'C-Walk' as a dance, a notorious gang sign for the Crips.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  99% sure Lemmy has a higher average age than any social media other than maybe facebook

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just need to keep it steady⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I had one of these and somehow it also picked up a radio station, so no matter what I played it’d be mixed with some random techno music

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon plays DnD⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Roll with disadvantage, the NPC is fucking pissed at your genie logic and desperately wants to kick your ass

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There can be only one winner⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Melatonin actually has a scientific basis. It’s a naturally produced hormone that will have an effect on most people, but being a hormone, ymmv. Homeopathy is pure quackery from top to bottom

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That might be because they actually aren’t binding in many cases. Courts have held that if the contract can’t be reasonably expected to be read or understood by the people it “binds,” it’s not really enforceable, and 99% of EULAs are ridiculously long and legalese-heavy. But that doesn’t change the fact companies can and will treat them as such until challenged in court, and they’ll almost always be allowed to refuse service to pretty much whoever they want.

  So you’d be right here; grandma’s post about not giving Facebook the right to her data is meaningless. Don’t want Facebook to have your data? Don’t use Facebook!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Halo 2 look worse than Halo 1? The shadows. Or well, the *lack* of them.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. High res is not the same thing as good graphics. The Halo 1 remaster is another great example of that; the og graphics look SO much better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Fortress 2 players report that Valve have carried out a ban-wave against aimbots⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s Valve. But it will be funny when #saveTF2 happens for the third time next year, and Valve does their now-yearly ban wave again and everyone repeats wondering if the problem is solved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another mystery solved.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s way cuter if he’s kicking his stubby ol legs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The SaveTF2 campaign to get Valve to beat the Team Fortress 2 bots has begun⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Has begun? Didn’t it happen like a year or two ago, resulting in Valve tweeting about solutions coming “soon” and then predictably doing nothing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is cloudflare breaking the internet or fixing it?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m no expert either but as I understand it, the core service they are most well known for is protection against DDOS attacks. By routing traffic first to Cloudflare before sending it to the intended destination, it can try to check to make sure that whatever it’s routing isn’t coming from a botnet or whatever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Such a relatable conversation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Holy shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lil grippers⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The little coal guys from spirited away are real!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arthropods⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is happening now but evolution takes a long time. If there were a ton of adaptations that happened in the next 10,000 years, that would be incredibly fast on an evolutionary timescale

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ghibli Studio Food always looks so satisfying ♥⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Ruined” seems like a strong word but the yolk wasn’t supposed to break

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon goes bouldering⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s reasonable to be afraid that someone who stole JUST your socks might be stalking you or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon buys an air fryer⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re not the one with reading comprehension problems. OP said the air fryer removes that moist air more quickly, which would dry it out faster.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that is exactly the over-broad, willy-nilly, tossed-around definition they were talking about. Gaslighting has a much more insidious context than simply making someone question themselves. It means doing it on purpose; intentionally lying to someone and trying to convince them that they’re crazy. Like if I said I was going to the grocery and then when I came back with nothing, I insisted I never said that. Or if i borrowed $50 and when it came time to pay you back, I try to tell you I only borrowed $25. It’s inherently deceptive and cruel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High fashion⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I read the comment about it being a designer’s funeral, this is clearly something they requested

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High fashion⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why this is a shitpost. Watched the whole thing waiting for something to happen.

  Y’all just now learning that high fashion is unconventional? It’s not my bag either but at the end of the day this is pretty mundane. There’s way weirder stuff at fashion shows

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A long and distinguished family⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  dont u ever talk shit about corn dogs again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voyagers writers and Memory Alpha don't know when Voyagers final 3 episodes are set.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Trek tends to fudge the dates on purpose. It’s supposed to take place In The Future, and you’re supposed to be thinking about whatever philosophical concept the episode is about, not the exact timeline of events. From Wikipedia: “stardates were originally intended to avoid specifying exactly when Star Trek takes place.” I hate linking to Fandom wiki pages, but I’ll say the page on stardates goes on at length about how inconsistent Trek time is.

  Jumping around within a single episode is a little funny, but doesn’t surprise me. Some writers try to be consistent, but maybe only for a few connected episodes, and some don’t try at all. Sometimes a character will die, but an earlier episode or a flashback with a clearly later stardate will see them alive. There’s all kinds of technobabble about where they are in the universe, and light speed relativity, and so on, but at the end of the day the show isn’t trying to hide any serious messages in its timeline so long as the story of the episode makes some level of sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Redmond and blutarch are gonna be SEETHING when I collapse the gravel industry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic man⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  it head blowed up

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making a button to do this is apparently far too difficult⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a local paper do this to me a few years ago. Turns out I can ask my credit card provider to block payments to them at 2am on a Saturday and I still get access to the paper for another two months.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open for discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have an account on lemm.ee that I use occasionally. In my experience the instance’s owner is extremely responsive. You should try making a post on the support community first, and then if that fails, messaging him directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open for discussion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I’m browsing all. I don’t even have any subscriptions on this account.