Akir's recent activity
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Comment on Nintendo - Customer appreciation sale in ~games
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Comment on OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May in ~comp
Akir Link ParentI never once believed that they legitimately believed that. That was always for show. That was theater. It was them saying “hey guys we have this technology that is so good it can not only replace...I never once believed that they legitimately believed that. That was always for show. That was theater. It was them saying “hey guys we have this technology that is so good it can not only replace all of your workers wink wink it can annihilate them if we’re not careful! So hey Washington, regulate us for these science fiction things so that you guys can ignore us for these reality things for a while longer.”
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Comment on putt.day — a daily hole of mini golf in ~games
Akir Link ParentThe physics were really antagonistic, too. Try to put too much force to overcome the twistyness and it'd just jump over and toss your ball away. 💢The physics were really antagonistic, too. Try to put too much force to overcome the twistyness and it'd just jump over and toss your ball away. 💢
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Comment on Colossal Game Adventure: September 2026 nominations topic in ~games
Akir Link ParentI'd play Sonic 3D again just for the criminally underrated soundtrack. Those SSG flourishes in stage 1-2 are just chef's kiss. Oh wait, that's not what you meant.... 😿I'd play Sonic 3D again just for the criminally underrated soundtrack. Those SSG flourishes in stage 1-2 are just chef's kiss.
Oh wait, that's not what you meant.... 😿
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Comment on Where do we go from here? (Regarding AI) in ~tech
Akir LinkI'm just tired of it. These days I see it as the people in charge getting really excited because they are have been trying to replace people with monkeys forever, and now they have the ability to...I'm just tired of it. These days I see it as the people in charge getting really excited because they are have been trying to replace people with monkeys forever, and now they have the ability to special-order monkeys that have been bred specially for their application by monkeys that have been made to breed other monkeys. It's just monkeys all the way down, and it strikes me a something that's incredibly misanthropic (hurr hurr).
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Comment on Musk | Official teaser trailer in ~movies
Akir Link ParentBoy oh boy would I love to see government implement laws that protect the public and actually enforce those laws and things actually happen. But these days I have more faith in a Luigi Mangione...Boy oh boy would I love to see government implement laws that protect the public and actually enforce those laws and things actually happen. But these days I have more faith in a Luigi Mangione scenario happening.
But frankly there is a missing grassroots to begin government action. Most people don’t think that social media companies should be moderated the way we do. This is a topic on which people are “useful idiots” by default and it’s extremely difficult to educate them out of. I don’t have a lot of hope for society at this point in time.
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Comment on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in ~tech
Akir Link ParentOur global society has a convenience problem. The company I work for has the bad habit of asking its workers to sign up with random service providers. Just this week, they sent out a link with...Our global society has a convenience problem.
The company I work for has the bad habit of asking its workers to sign up with random service providers. Just this week, they sent out a link with calendly, which requires everyone who responds to them to accept their terms of service and privacy policies, which includes mandatory arbitration agreements and class action waivers - clauses which sometimes are able to be opted out of by jumping through insane hoops such as sending certified mail, but in this case didn’t have any way out of. Another time I was told to use this screen recording application that I only learned later was owned by Atlassian, and it took months to fully delete my account and data from their systems.
Basically everything on the internet is a mouse trap; it’s designed to be really easy to get ensnared in and really hard to get out of. But they’ve built mouse traps where the mice really don’t care if they’ve been trapped. Why should the mouse care if they can’t sue Amazon if they aren’t usually suing Amazon in the first place? 😮💨
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Comment on UN says world will miss its climate target, warming must be reversed in ~enviro
Akir Link ParentIt would be a next level irony if it turned out that the conspiracy theories of it being a bioweapon turned out to not only be true but also to be something to try to save the world as a “lesser...It would be a next level irony if it turned out that the conspiracy theories of it being a bioweapon turned out to not only be true but also to be something to try to save the world as a “lesser of two evils” kind of bad choice thing.
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Comment on I made a chill minimal 3D golf game that fits in 13 kilobytes - Sunshine Golf Classic in ~creative
Akir Link ParentI'm more than willing to just chalk the arrow thing to "safari just being dumb".I'm more than willing to just chalk the arrow thing to "safari just being dumb".
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Comment on I made a chill minimal 3D golf game that fits in 13 kilobytes - Sunshine Golf Classic in ~creative
Akir LinkThere's three things that bug me about this game playing it on my iPhone: Sometimes the arrow buttons to change the directions of shots stick. I'm not entirely sure what causes it - maybe when my...There's three things that bug me about this game playing it on my iPhone:
Sometimes the arrow buttons to change the directions of shots stick. I'm not entirely sure what causes it - maybe when my finger slides off of it before it lifts off?
The fly-by showing off the current course seems to follow the ground, which can be kind of bumpy for some of them. It would be better if it had a smooth arc.
No Craig Stadler.
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Comment on Musk | Official teaser trailer in ~movies
Akir LinkHuh, interesting that I see this the day after I see a trailer to the sequel to The Social Network which paints Zuckerberg as a sociopath destroying society. Maybe 2027 will be the year society...Huh, interesting that I see this the day after I see a trailer to the sequel to The Social Network which paints Zuckerberg as a sociopath destroying society. Maybe 2027 will be the year society stops accepting oligarchs destroying the fabric of society?
Please?
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Comment on Summer US box office hits all-time $4.76B record: how audiences surrendered to moviegoing in ~movies
Akir Link ParentShe somehow made a JJ Abrams movie not suck. Anne Hathaway literally is movie magic and is worth whatever her talent agency is asking for.She somehow made a JJ Abrams movie not suck. Anne Hathaway literally is movie magic and is worth whatever her talent agency is asking for.
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Comment on What's a show you love that's from before your time? in ~tv
Akir LinkI Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched. I haven't watched either of them in a very long time, but who doesn't want to watch a wish fulfillment show where you can be a gay man with a pretty wife with...I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched.
I haven't watched either of them in a very long time, but who doesn't want to watch a wish fulfillment show where you can be a gay man with a pretty wife with whom you have a purely platonic relationship with who magically solves all of your problems? Plus they were made when color TV was pretty new so everything was so pretty and colorful (or weird and gross)!
The Bewitched movie they made a few decades back was complete garbage, though, and the world is a worse place for having made it.
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Comment on What's a show you love that's from before your time? in ~tv
Akir Link ParentIt really feels like she should have had an acting school. Comedy is the hardest form of acting to get right, and I don't think there is a modern performer who can match her breadth of skills,...It really feels like she should have had an acting school. Comedy is the hardest form of acting to get right, and I don't think there is a modern performer who can match her breadth of skills, especially when it comes to timing, exaggeration, and understatement.
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Comment on Adulting -- what advice or encouragement did you receive / wish you had received when you were just starting out moving out? in ~life
Akir Link ParentI’ll also add that I’ve also seen a lot of young people who simply haven’t built in the register in their head for how much money they have left in their budget. Credit cards become an infinite...I’ll also add that I’ve also seen a lot of young people who simply haven’t built in the register in their head for how much money they have left in their budget. Credit cards become an infinite well to draw from, whereas keeping with cash helps them to develop the register so they can keep up with a mental budget.
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Comment on Fitness Weekly Discussion in ~health
Akir LinkI've been on weight loss medications for about three weeks and it's been... a lot. I'm not on GLP agonists, I'm on the old stuff, phentermine and topiramate. I'm finding it to be very effective so...I've been on weight loss medications for about three weeks and it's been... a lot. I'm not on GLP agonists, I'm on the old stuff, phentermine and topiramate. I'm finding it to be very effective so far, in fact perhaps too effective. My doctor has me calorie counting and they gave me an 1800 calorie target which seemed very small given my activity levels and my size. But in spite of taking half of a pill, I am finding it hard to reach that goal and I've lost over 10 pounds already. Probably more, I haven't checked in a few days.
On the other hand, I've been to the gym exactly once since I started, and I didn't have a good time then. I had little energy and my muscles burned for what I did. I haven't been because I have been feeling very low energy and that's because I've been simultaneously been trying to wrangle with my sleep apnea problem again. The doctor who put me on the weight loss medication said to talk to the sleep doctors again because they might have an alternative, and talking to said sleep doctor literally made me have an emotional breakdown because no, there is no alternative, so now I'm back using a machine that is literally strangling me with my own phlegm every night and waking up with headaches from having terrible sleep that is worse than when I just try to sleep unimpeded.
So basically I have been making a ton of progress on weight but no progress on actual fitness and probably actually negative fitness since I'm basically completely sedate now. My apple watch didn't even log 12 hours of standing today. I'm really frustrated so I am considering asking the doctor to discontinue the medications.
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Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games
Akir Link ParentThe thing that really pisses me off is that if I'm watching on my phone, I'm watching the same things that I've been watching or that are on my watchlist. Those should already be cached. There...The thing that really pisses me off is that if I'm watching on my phone, I'm watching the same things that I've been watching or that are on my watchlist. Those should already be cached. There shouldn't be anything that needs to load, but they want to show me new things to annoy me instead.
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Comment on Ahead of an all-digital future for PlayStation, Sony needs to prove in courts that players know they don't own digitally purchased games in ~games
Akir Link ParentI know this is an extreme tangent but I am sooooo pissed off how every fricking streaming app needs to waste my time with their fricking song and dance logo video whenever I start up their app. I...I know this is an extreme tangent but I am sooooo pissed off how every fricking streaming app needs to waste my time with their fricking song and dance logo video whenever I start up their app. I already know what app I am using! It’s the one I tapped on!
Actually the worst thing is that my banking apps do it too.
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Comment on CGA-2026-09 🕹️🙎♂️🛹 INSERT CARTRIDGE 🟢 Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 in ~games
Akir LinkI actually picked up the series on the Dreamcast. In spite of this I’ll actually be playing the PlayStation version out of pure convenience because I don’t want to dig out the Dreamcast or deal...I actually picked up the series on the Dreamcast. In spite of this I’ll actually be playing the PlayStation version out of pure convenience because I don’t want to dig out the Dreamcast or deal with emulation.
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Comment on Gamergate but actually in ~games
Akir Link ParentIf that is your definition of trust than trust is something that one literally cannot determine for themselves if they have. There are almost certainly people who still trust CBS news after Bari...If that is your definition of trust than trust is something that one literally cannot determine for themselves if they have. There are almost certainly people who still trust CBS news after Bari Weiss, but she has doubtlessly directed her people to misdirect and lie to the audience.
Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival was a pretty terrible Nintendo release and it was pretty much the thing that made me realize where Nintendo was going - just looking for more ways to get more money out of its customers like every other publisher.
You don’t become one of the largest most profitable companies on the planet by being generous. Nintendo still has a great track record compared to everyone else but frankly it seems like a great number of people are all too willing to turn a blind eye to their less than savory practices because of it. It’s fandom, to put it simply.