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  1. Comment on Funny, crazy and silly mods in ~games

  2. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I heard there was a lot of really overactive admins on Space Station 14, as well as a very easy banhammer. Has this gotten better? My love for Space Station 13 came from just how wild west it was.

    I heard there was a lot of really overactive admins on Space Station 14, as well as a very easy banhammer.

    Has this gotten better? My love for Space Station 13 came from just how wild west it was.

  3. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I never grew up with a PS1 as a kid, but my friends did. While I had some exposure to some games such as Metal Gear Solid I realized I never played the original Spyro and Crash trilogies. With...

    I never grew up with a PS1 as a kid, but my friends did. While I had some exposure to some games such as Metal Gear Solid I realized I never played the original Spyro and Crash trilogies. With this in mind I have decided to play Crash 1, Spyro 1, and Super Mario 64 back to back.

    Holy shit Crash and Spyro are incredibly tight games and I was missing out. Playing Super Mario 64 after those two feels like a boring chore compared to the tighter contained level design in Crash and Spyro. I think all three games/series have their merits but I can't believe I missed out on it for so long.

    I bought Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner on sale as well and plan to play through that soon. Intro seemed cool as hell though.

    2 votes

  4. Comment on A Reddit-led boycott of Loblaws, one of Canadas largest grocers, begins today in ~food

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    Redditors couldn't even boycott their own website. Best of luck to them on that.

    Redditors couldn't even boycott their own website. Best of luck to them on that.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Mount Fuji view to be blocked as tourists overcrowd popular photo spot in ~travel

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    To be clear as well, this isn't Chinese tourists. Chinese visitors to Japan have seen a massive fall off. Japan is a beautiful country and this is the second area that Japan has blocked off to...

    To be clear as well, this isn't Chinese tourists. Chinese visitors to Japan have seen a massive fall off.

    Japan is a beautiful country and this is the second area that Japan has blocked off to foreigners now. Absolutely infuriates me that idiots are going and making a mess of things by being absolute twits.

    5 votes

  6. Comment on The search for the ultimate home/apartment spring cleaning guide in ~life.home_improvement

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    This is pretty close to what I had in mind. Thank you!

    This is pretty close to what I had in mind. Thank you!

    1 vote

  7. The search for the ultimate home/apartment spring cleaning guide

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    I've always considered myself a rather clean and tidy person (and get comments from others to that effect), but realized I was never formally taught on best practices for cleaning. There are...

    I've always considered myself a rather clean and tidy person (and get comments from others to that effect), but realized I was never formally taught on best practices for cleaning. There are probably things I tend to overlook, things that may not be visible (best practices for cleaning pipes for example). There is likely a lot of "traditional" knowledge on cleaning I don't know.

    I am curious if anyone here has some sort of "ultimate guide for spring cleaning" around the house to get everything to a nice deep clean, and some sort of routine on what someone should do every week/month/whatever in order to upkeep this cleanliness over the course of the year.

    Not looking for some extreme clean freaks guide but I am genuinely curious as to what I may have missed and overlook as I was never really "taught" how to clean.

    30 votes

  8. Comment on With Vids, Google thinks it has the next big productivity tool for work in ~tech

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    If anyone dares to send me a vid instead of a text email I'll just ignore it. Thankfully, they are likely easy to filter.

    If anyone dares to send me a vid instead of a text email I'll just ignore it.

    Thankfully, they are likely easy to filter.

    5 votes

  9. Comment on Why Bluesky remains the most interesting experiment in social media, by far in ~tech

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    Fair enough, and that's my bad if it came across that way. I think I got so tired of people in certain corners of the internet evangelizing about it so much that now I just got left with a bad...

    Fair enough, and that's my bad if it came across that way. I think I got so tired of people in certain corners of the internet evangelizing about it so much that now I just got left with a bad taste.

    If it meets your use case, it's all good. I just found nothing I was particularly interested in there.

    5 votes

  10. Comment on "PS5 has no games" in ~games

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    ...and absolutely ruined the story and gameplay pacing as a result.

    ...and absolutely ruined the story and gameplay pacing as a result.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Why Bluesky remains the most interesting experiment in social media, by far in ~tech

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    I find the idea of "oh you just didn't try the right instance, take time to browse the couple hundred that exist" to just be a massive cope from most Mastodon users (not saying you in particular,...

    I find the idea of "oh you just didn't try the right instance, take time to browse the couple hundred that exist" to just be a massive cope from most Mastodon users (not saying you in particular, I just find it to be a bad thing to bring up).

    I tried going through the list of different instances on fedidb, and the vast majority are just ghost towns or still populated by the absolute schizos that put me off the platform in the first place.

    Mastodon will never take off. If a tech inclined individual has tried on three separate occasions to try and use a service and was put off by it by both it's user base and instance hunting, not many other people will care to or they will shortly abandon it. I'm happy that you had a good experience, but I would be willing to go out on a limb and say that your experience is the exception and not the norm.

    12 votes

  12. Comment on Why Bluesky remains the most interesting experiment in social media, by far in ~tech

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    Mastodon has to have some of the single most annoying user-bases of any currently promoted social media website. I've tried it, three times now, and just left because of how inane I felt...

    Mastodon has to have some of the single most annoying user-bases of any currently promoted social media website. I've tried it, three times now, and just left because of how inane I felt everything was over there.

    Actually stuck with BlueSky, though I don't think their version of "federation" is really going to work out. I feel a lot of what we are seeing right now is going to be a stepping stone for whatever the next big social media websites end up being, whatever that may be.

    19 votes

  13. Comment on "PS5 has no games" in ~games

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    Compare the output of a game console in 2003 to 2024 and it's absolutely pathetic. There was a time you could get an entire trilogy of games from an IP in 5-6 years (one console gen, or into the...

    Compare the output of a game console in 2003 to 2024 and it's absolutely pathetic. There was a time you could get an entire trilogy of games from an IP in 5-6 years (one console gen, or into the next one).

    Now current gen consoles are out for 5 years, with maybe one game in a franchise, and it's multi-platform. You will also be lucky if that one game isn't a "remake" that released last gen.

    The last generation of consoles worth owning was 7th generation, but the rot of the video game industry began to take hold a few years into that gen.

    7 votes

  14. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~games

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    Boycotting games that are involved with a consulting company isn't a harassment campaign. Hell, it was going quietly unnoticed until the company itself started a harassment campaign against the...

    Boycotting games that are involved with a consulting company isn't a harassment campaign. Hell, it was going quietly unnoticed until the company itself started a harassment campaign against the boycott group. Then they Streisand effect'd themselves and it grew to 300k people basically overnight.

    You are allowed to boycott things for anything you want.

  15. Comment on The small company at the center of ‘Gamergate 2.0’ in ~games

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    There are people in this comment section washing away what Zoe Quinn did, saying she was simply a target of misogony or that she had no impact on gaming culture. Zoe Quinn was key. It was her...

    There are people in this comment section washing away what Zoe Quinn did, saying she was simply a target of misogony or that she had no impact on gaming culture.

    Zoe Quinn was key. It was her ex-boyfriend exposing that she was entering an unethical relationship with a game reporter for positive games coverage. This unravelled a whole look at the games industry as a whole. Zoe played the victim perfectly, and later on falsely accused Alec Holowka of abuse which cased him to commit suicide as he was struggling with other mental disorders when those accusations were levied against him.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on The small company at the center of ‘Gamergate 2.0’ in ~games

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    It appears I replied to the wrong comment by accident. I meant to reply to @JasSmith.

    It appears I replied to the wrong comment by accident. I meant to reply to @JasSmith.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on The small company at the center of ‘Gamergate 2.0’ in ~games

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    People are allowed to boycott things for whatever they want. There are groups that list Denuvo games for example, it isn’t a harassment campaign.

    People are allowed to boycott things for whatever they want. There are groups that list Denuvo games for example, it isn’t a harassment campaign.

    2 votes

  18. Comment on Sony is laying off 900 PlayStation employees in ~games

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    They need to learn to just start making fun video games again, not interactive movies where the game basically plays for you or you are just watching glorified cutscenes with walking segments in...

    They need to learn to just start making fun video games again, not interactive movies where the game basically plays for you or you are just watching glorified cutscenes with walking segments in between. Stop making games where a vast majority of playing time is walking around an open world just picking up things off the ground.

    There is zero reason for the games having the insane budgets they have, especially as I can't remember the last time a AAA game brought something fun, fresh, and new.

    Take that budget and spin up smaller studios working on original IPs. Stop chasing graphics, we reached diminishing returns two console generations ago. The fact that their executive team thinks that $500 million for Spiderman 2 was a worthwhile investment is absolutely insane.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    I have been playing Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered. I actually owned the original games, but after hearing a lot of good things about the Remaster I gave it a shot. Turns out, they just hired a bunch...

    I have been playing Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered. I actually owned the original games, but after hearing a lot of good things about the Remaster I gave it a shot. Turns out, they just hired a bunch of fans and modders to work on it and it turned out great. I remember being filtered as a kid by the maps, and it took a moment to get used to the controls, but it's amazing how smooth it feels for a platformer with tank controls. Just beat TR1, having a blast so far. My biggest critique is the new graphics can be a bit hit or miss, like they didn't even test some of it. What were they thinking with the Cistern keys.

    On the side I also recently started a playthrough of Paper Mario. I haven't played it since I was a kid, and wanted a game a bit more relaxing. Also, I am almost done going through Grim Fandango. Grim Fandango has been pretty reasonable for a puzzle game and the only thing I have had to actually look up was

    spoiler. ripping the damn boat in half.
    4 votes

  20. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    You forgot the most important thing. Ghost Trick has the best dog in video games, the top pom.

    You forgot the most important thing.

    Ghost Trick has the best dog in video games, the top pom.

    2 votes