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Comment on Stremio is an impressive program in ~tech
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Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv
danke Link ParentI mean that is a fair point, but I'd expect it to at least be known among people who were fans of the first two seasons – and yet none of the people I know who've watched the other two even knew...How were we supposed to discuss something before it was released?
I mean that is a fair point, but I'd expect it to at least be known among people who were fans of the first two seasons – and yet none of the people I know who've watched the other two even knew this was announced, maybe because of said horrible naming convention and/or a huge lack of advertising. While the seasons are (strictly speaking) not related to each other and are more of an anthology of thematically very similar series, they're basically throwing away name recognition every time with these different titles.
Even Crunchyroll has them listed under completely independent series, which is awful for informing people who've subscribed for future updates.
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Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv
danke Link ParentFirst episode aired Saturday (Crunchyroll), 24 episodes planned.First episode aired Saturday (Crunchyroll), 24 episodes planned.
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Comment on TV Tuesdays Free Talk in ~tv
danke LinkTo Be Hero X continues the series's trend of being barely discussed in the west while having some of the most stunning visuals of the season. It not only has a superficially similar aesthetic to...To Be Hero X continues the series's trend of being barely discussed in the west while having some of the most stunning visuals of the season. It not only has a superficially similar aesthetic to Arcane and Nimona, but even the animation quality is between the two.
Of minor note is that, unlike the first two seasons, you won't see this one discussed in many anime communities as it's not anime (Emon – Haoliners's Japanese subsidiary – is no longer involved).
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
danke LinkThe First Berserker: Khazan I went into this blind and didn't know it'd be a Soulslike. Got my ass handed to me, both in-game and by NVIDIA's latest drivers causing me to BSOD multiple times and...The First Berserker: Khazan
I went into this blind and didn't know it'd be a Soulslike. Got my ass handed to me, both in-game and by NVIDIA's latest drivers causing me to BSOD multiple times and having to roll them back.
Metaphor: ReFantazio
This is perhaps the second-longest RPG I've ever played, having completed it in 90 hours over 14 days.
The only comments I read before playing this game were "baby's first philosophy class" and that the game basically throws away any dilemmas or nuance in the home stretch, which I'd consider valid critique. The messaging is very hamfisted (as you frankly have to be, given the median consumer's media literacy), though the execution of the Machiavellian antagonist was nuanced and compelling… until the final act.
On a meta level, there's baffling writing early on where the in-universe narrator tells Will (the protagonist's canon name) that he must
Royal Capital arc spoilers
acquire the strength, traits and supporters he needs to one day fight Louis and become king, but (a) he's never expressed any interest in doing so and (b) someone from his party is already planning to assassinate Louis tomorrow, so he's essentially telling Will that his friend is imminently about to mortally fail… and he says nothing to anyone about any of this. It doesn't make even the slightest sense, because Will clearly retains his memories of what occurs in that place whenever he leaves.The game's biggest twist was predictable if you've seen a certain highly popular manga/anime series. I'm inclined to believe the game is directly inspired by that series given how many niche tropes are paralleled.
Visually, the aesthetic is pleasing other than how vibrantly red and blue it becomes after the early game; it felt like it took place in a Marvel movie or a GoHands anime. The music (Aftermath) was stuck in my head for the entire two weeks I played.
I've never played an Atlus game before, so the Press Turn Battle mechanic was novel and interesting to me. It did become very clear that the no-penalty retry mechanic was there because the RNG could be complete garbage and unfairly screw you over on the very first turn.
As a purely political aside from an Americentric PoV, I think the main reason the messaging ceased to connect with me toward the end was the naïvely optimistic outlook on human nature. My immersion was broken not by
penultimate arc spoilers / nonconstructive rant
Louis repeatedly shooting people in the middle of Fifth Avenue but rather that he actually lost support for doing so. When Louis's right-hand man, having been mutilated into a monster by his liege, flings himself from the drum tower to his death below in front of Louis's supporters and it begins waking them from their violent populist fervor, I couldn't help but despair that the supporters of a certain aspiring fascist regime would more likely run to the nearest pro-Louis crier to request their talking points on why it's Actually a Good Thing™ that he's turning his most loyal supporters into literal eldritch nightmares than they would ever admit fault in supporting him, because "a few broken eggs" (dead/oppressed people) are needed to make an "omelet" (dictatorship) or whatever goddamned imbecilic, non sequitur, thought-terminating cliché they were last ordered to robotically parrot. Living in a post-truth society with such a frighteningly large proportion of gaslighting, perpetually hateful people who view everything – *especially* human rights – as zero-sum transactions is genuinely a horrific waking nightmare.Anyway, a lot of that is unfair criticism; this is a mass market product, not a deep philosophical treatise. For the most part, I enjoyed the game and would recommend it should Atlus ever remove Denuvo.
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Comment on Spotify down? No, your Spotify mod was just blocked—here's why it won't work anymore. in ~tech
danke LinkReVanced's recently launched Spotify Premium patches seem to work flawlessly thus far. It is a bit unfortunate that users have to go through the additional friction of creating a merged APK...ReVanced's recently launched Spotify Premium patches seem to work flawlessly thus far. It is a bit unfortunate that users have to go through the additional friction of creating a merged APK themselves though.
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Comment on Stremio is an impressive program in ~tech
danke LinkDo Debrid services normally only cache bitstarved files to save on bandwidth or is it common to find a good BD encode/remux (or untouched WEB-DLs that filter down from private trackers)? Are there...Do Debrid services normally only cache bitstarved files to save on bandwidth or is it common to find a good BD encode/remux (or untouched WEB-DLs that filter down from private trackers)? Are there services focused on quality content curation the same way that top private trackers are?
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Comment on How can I prevent my work computers turning my home into an oven? in ~comp
danke Linkre: #1-3, I asked something similar here. Probably a dumb question, but have you already undervolted all of the GPUs to shave off the stock "50-100W for 5% performance"?re: #1-3, I asked something similar here.
Probably a dumb question, but have you already undervolted all of the GPUs to shave off the stock "50-100W for 5% performance"?
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Comment on Spotify down? No, your Spotify mod was just blocked—here's why it won't work anymore. in ~tech
danke (edited )LinkDoes anyone have information on what Play Integrity attestation level is currently required? If it's BASIC or DEVICE, there are likely to be workarounds for rooted devices by mounting over the...Does anyone have information on what Play Integrity attestation level is currently required? If it's BASIC or DEVICE, there are likely to be workarounds for rooted devices by mounting over the original app.
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Comment on Warner Bros. shuts down three game studios, cancels Wonder Woman title in ~games
danke Link ParentThe internet controversy over the Nemesis patent is extremely overblown – a game would have to plagiarize basically the entirety of the intricate game loop described to infringe upon it. It's a...The internet controversy over the Nemesis patent is extremely overblown – a game would have to plagiarize basically the entirety of the intricate game loop described to infringe upon it. It's a patent on a highly specific collection of several mechanics, not a patent on each mechanic. Studios could easily implement something similar without infringing if they thought it were worth the cost to develop a whole game around it.
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Comment on Have you altered the way you write to avoid being perceived as AI? in ~tech
danke LinkI've seen enough people make nonsensical allegations of GenAI based on incorrect syntax or grammar (the two things LLMs generally don't mess up) that I think it's a fool's errand trying to avoid...I've seen enough people make nonsensical allegations of GenAI based on incorrect syntax or grammar (the two things LLMs generally don't mess up) that I think it's a fool's errand trying to avoid such accusations. If someone's lobbing that claim, they already either consider the substance of your posts to be indistinguishable from slop or they're incapable of discerning substance from slop, so trying to appease their broken radar seems pointless.
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Comment on Phishing tests, the bane of work life, are getting meaner in ~tech
danke Link ParentAh, I specifically avoided doing that after "failing" the previous phishing test (apparently even right-clicking in Outlook to copy-link made a request). I think their traffic analysis was just...I wonder if you accidentally opened a preview of the link somehow.
Ah, I specifically avoided doing that after "failing" the previous phishing test (apparently even right-clicking in Outlook to copy-link made a request). I think their traffic analysis was just extremely aggressive and included the plaintext TCP 43 traffic. But yeah, after that second strike, I did exactly what the parent comment did and started auto-dumpstering all emails that had non-Proofpoint links, because those phishing test URLs are the only ones that didn't get proxied by URL defense for some reason…
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Comment on Phishing tests, the bane of work life, are getting meaner in ~tech
danke Link ParentAt one of my companies, I received an obvious phishing email and was similarly curious, so I ran a whois on the domain – that was somehow enough to fail me on the test and required me to retake...At one of my companies, I received an obvious phishing email and was similarly curious, so I ran a
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Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (February 2025) — Version 1.3 uses edge-to-edge UI on Android in ~tildes
danke Link ParentYeah I just looked it up and apparently it requires root to disable (which I have). A few minutes and a magisk module later, and presto!Yeah I just looked it up and apparently it requires root to disable (which I have). A few minutes and a magisk module later, and presto!
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Comment on Three Cheers for Tildes: App updates and feedback (February 2025) — Version 1.3 uses edge-to-edge UI on Android in ~tildes
danke LinkI didn't know edge-to-edge was a thing; this is nice. I'm using a Pixel 8 Pro and there's still that "swipe bar" at the bottom [1], is visibility for that component under the app's control? [1]...I didn't know edge-to-edge was a thing; this is nice. I'm using a Pixel 8 Pro and there's still that "swipe bar" at the bottom [1], is visibility for that component under the app's control?
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Comment on PlayStation Network is still down after fourteen hours and no one knows why in ~games
danke Link ParentCurrently looks sporadically available depending on the region, service and game.Currently looks sporadically available depending on the region, service and game.
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~life
danke Link ParentNot to mention how he regularly posts about how female engineers are inferior and wrote a "DEl mandates backfired disastrously" fanfic so cartoonishly stupid that even the /r/MensRights mods...Not to mention how he regularly posts about how female engineers are inferior and wrote a "DEl mandates backfired disastrously" fanfic so cartoonishly stupid that even the /r/MensRights mods wouldn't leave it up. Doesn't really scream "reliable narrator" to me.
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Comment on Stack Exchange to begin AI-generated Answers experiment on opted-in Stack Exchange sites in ~comp
danke LinkIt seems that we now have an answer to "What will happen to Stack Overflow now that it has been sold to Prosus for $1.8 Billion?", and it's that they plan to turn it into a Quora-style graveyard...It seems that we now have an answer to "What will happen to Stack Overflow now that it has been sold to Prosus for $1.8 Billion?", and it's that they plan to turn it into a Quora-style graveyard of automatically posted AI slop while asking humans to volunteer their time evaluating and editing said slop.
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Stack Exchange to begin AI-generated Answers experiment on opted-in Stack Exchange sites
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
danke Link ParentFinished watching earlier today; thank you for recommending that wonderful fan work.Finished watching earlier today; thank you for recommending that wonderful fan work.
I set this up a few days ago; it is impressively simple and fast, but I found even having to select a file every time an entry is first watched to be too much friction to replace the PleX setup for my family members. Searching for a series on the Android TV app is also quite a poor experience; it failed to find a lot of recent anime for me and the navigation just isn't nearly as fluid as PleX+Overseerr. Might anyone who's set this up for tech-illiterate family have recommendations on how to reduce friction from the out-of-box experience?
Being fairly technical myself, I loosely referenced this and retrofitted RealDebrid into my Overseerr+PleX setup using pd_zurg and Jackett/FlareSolverr so that my users didn't have to learn an entirely new frontend. I also proxy all debrid store/API traffic through a Mullvad tunnel using wireproxy and stremthru, allowing me to a) use it on a banned hosting provider and b) multiplex my single $3/mo subscription without single-concurrent-IP limitations.
Yesterday I replaced 20TiB with identical (or untouched remux) files cached on the debrid and downgraded to the lowest storage instance on my provider with gigabit speeds. Overseerr requests are now automatically approved due to the lack of space concerns and users can see their requests on PleX within seconds. I've also let them know that they can now add content from within PleX simply by subscribing it to their watchlist, which is very neat.