I like it quite a bit. Not dishonored or prey level good, but it’s fun, it’s got cool setpieces, I liked the town. I enjoyed the loot system even though it’s simple. Satisfying shooting. Very few bugs, for me. The AI is dumb but I found that easy to ignore with this game, and I’d still die sometimes.

It’s not a “great” game but is a good one, for me. It’s like I played a completely different game than all the reviewers and reddit commenters. shrug

In this case, yes.

Cnet, too. They crapped out some misinformation ridden ai generated articles a while ago.

I want a ublock origin list for this.

There are fewer computer users, when you look at it by proportion of the population, since most people who aren’t into PC gaming, programming, video editing and similar have switched to just using phones and tablets.

That said, there are still plenty enough people to keep the fediverse going, and frankly I don’t think it needs to be nearly as unintuitive to the average user as it is. That’s a design problem.

Granted, I’ve thought the same of Linux for ages. It could be as intuitive and user friendly as windows… Except the people who create it are largely nerds who cater to themselves and fellow nerds, and who even take pride in using a relatively inaccessible system, which results in both the absence of basic features (like no color blind mode! In 2023! C’mon) and forums that are mean and condescending to anyone who asks a question (not everyone is like this, of course - there are people who genuinely try to help others get into Linux - but there are enough other people doing the opposite that it’s very unpleasant to deal with as a newbie.)

All of which is to say, whether the fediverse can become mainstream or not depends on whether it can overcome its own nerd culture and prioritize ease of use. I hope it will, but Linux hasn’t yet, even after all these years (although it is a little better, arguably, at least). We’ll see I guess.

It’s both PC and mobile too. I prefer the PC version but if you want something to idly play on the bus or whatever that’s also great.

So would I. Particularly for the “how do I solve this super specific problem?” troubleshooting posts. Those are treasures.

RIP to everything lost on Geocities.

It will never be possible to preserve all information forever, nor do we need to, but we could certainly do better than the usual thus far.

Firefox isn’t giving me that warning on my desktop, at least. Do you have HTTPS-Only mode on in Firefox security settings, maybe? I used to have that on, but it gave me false security risk errors all the time for some reason (no idea why) for a lot of websites. Especially it’d tell me a site didn’t allow a secure connection/https, but then if I bypassed it and went to the site anyway, sure enough the url would actually show https and the little secure connection lock symbol, so as far as I can tell https is actually working fine.

If you’re on a public network though I suppose interception is also a risk, when you’re logging into things.

It comes down to language no matter how you look at it. Nothing we describe with discrete words is actually discrete. If you think of evolution, it comes down to: when did the bird the chicken evolved from become a chicken? Was there a first chicken, born of not-a-chicken? Where do you draw the line between “chicken” and “not a chicken”? Only when you find that line can you decide “the first chicken came out of an egg not laid by a chicken/not a chicken egg, therefore the first chicken came before the first chicken egg” or “A not-a-chicken laid the first chicken egg, aka the egg from which the first chicken hatched”. Which again is just another, long and roundabout way of saying it depends on if you define the egg by what laid it or what it contains, like you said.

So, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” boils down to just an older form of “is a hotdog a sandwich?”

Language requires words, and we treat the words like they have specific meanings to one degree or another because otherwise we couldn’t communicate, but reality isn’t beholden to the structure of our language, or to the structure of the way our brains evolved to divvy concepts up into boxes. Sometimes big boxes, sometimes little boxes, but still boxes that don’t perfectly match reality.

Tldr questions like this don’t have any true answer because the premise that there is a real, sharp border between the concept of a chicken and the concept of not-a-chicken-yet, or between the concept of a sandwich and the concept of a hotdog, is false. They can be fun to argue about, with everyone proposing different but equally arbitrary differences between the two concepts, but ultimately it’s just a linguistic amusement.

Sidenote: the chicken vs not-a-chicken-yet conundrum crops up in taxonomic classification all the time, too, even across present day species. I remember reading a Stephen J. Gould essay ages ago about some lizards; some lived on one side of a mountain range, and others lived on the other side, so the populations were somewhat separated by the terrain and didn’t intermix evenly over time.

On the far end of one side of that range, there is lizard Species A (let’s call it), and on the far side of the end of the range, there is Species B, and Species A and B are obviously different and cannot mate and produce viable offspring, so they’re clearly different species. Except, if you start at Species A’s end of the range and start looking at the lizards between them and Species B’s end, you find a steady spectrum of lizards that look phenotypically and genetically less and less like Species A and more and more like Species B, and which can still breed with each other and produce viable offspring, until at some point you reach Species B. So what do you do, if you’re trying to put animals into species boxes? Even though A is clearly different from B, there’s all these lizards in the middle that don’t fit either box. And cutting them off into a separate Species C wouldn’t make sense either because then you’d still have a species of which some members can breed only with Species C and Species A, but of which others can only breed with Species C and Species B, plus having other differing traits.

You have to pick a place to draw a line to be able to talk about the differences between Species A and B, but that line is always quite arbitrary and artificial no matter where you put it.

Tldr language and everything about the way we use it to describe the world is a social construct, more at 11.

I wosh we had an alternative site together, so as to avoid newcomers immediately seeing a) lemmygrad and b) that one NSFW instance that bills itself as “shota/loli/cub friendly”. That turns people away, understandably, especially because it’s not clear from the outset how easy you can avoid interacting with those instances at all, or that the rules and culture between instances can be totally different.

I’m aggravated by all the people who said the 3DS was “dead” now, when the eshop closed. Like, no? There are no new games, sure, but there’s a shitload of old ones, and nothing has actually replaced the 3DS. I’ll be playing and enjoying it for a long time yet!

It feels like saying a kitten is dead just because they’ve finished growing - it just means they’re a complete cat now. That’s great. (yes, I realize this metaphor is a bit much. But even so.)

I’m actually getting impatient when a weapon lasts too long, because I want it to break already so I can use something new and interesting without feeling like I’m wasting it. :P

I think part of it is having enough weapon slots that I’m choosing different weapons in different contexts, and so they all subjectively feel like they’re lasting longer than they did at the start of the game (even accounting for regular vs sturdy weapons).

Also making more use of shield fusions lately, and consumables on arrows, which again results in using the weapons less.

I keep kinda wishing I could fuse things to my bows though lol, even though I can use so many different consumables with the arrows already.

You could play on gamepass, then just wait a while for the steam version to fall off the price cliff, then buy goty version too

At least some of the AI spam might start to point me at the solution to my problem, unlike a lot of current “we just put a shitload of this keyword in this listicle that says exactly nothing” SEO garbage.

But yeah. I miss old search that actually worked.

I get what you mean, though on the other hand, a company that bills itself as privacy focused and is funded by user payments is (most likely) serving the users with search as the product, and not harvesting minute data from the users in order to serve advertizers with users as the product. Maybe they have your name and credit card, but don’t track and retain anything else? I wouldn’t assume that and would read through their actual terms - I think this could go either way - but I wouldn’t write the whole thing off automatically either.

Edit: could be it’s not unlike paying a VPN/privacy focused email provider like Proton, which supposedly has your payment info (for premium/pro) but not the content of your emails, etc.

More star trek fans in the fediverse = awesome, imo. Welcome aboard, and thanks.

You know, I wonder if that was in all seriousness actually part of it, because they do have positive associations with the word federation, and that’s the same effect marketing mainly tries to achieve. Might make people just that little bit more interested in it and more willing to work through any troubles getting used to a new system.

This is what I did, too. I even included a little blurb about Lemmy.

I suspect the account might just get banned and comments deleted, but nevertheless they were (or will be) there for at least a little while, and it removed my participation in reddit’s profit machine. It was oh so satisfying to do even if it only had a super small impact.

The fact all those private and shuttered subreddits and deleted comments/posts already break a lot of “site:reddit.com” searches is a big deal for their traffic, too.