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  1. Comment on African Imperial Wizard exposed by Xiu Xiu as a middle-aged white guy in Africa-themed KKK cosplay in ~music

  2. Comment on How investors 10x each dollar, before they even invest in ~finance

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    Life Pro Tip: Don't be poor
    • Exemplary

    Life Pro Tip: Don't be poor

    11 votes

  3. Comment on Hytale is saved! in ~games

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    You said this far better than I would but, yeah, that's almost certainly a very big reason. Skyblock was, IIRC, the most downloaded map ever. And maybe it still is. That, by itself, is a massive...

    You said this far better than I would (well, no surprise you're writing a novel) but, yeah, that's almost certainly a very big reason. Skyblock was, IIRC, the most downloaded map ever. And maybe it still is. That, by itself, is a massive reason as to why a server owner would go "hey, can I get those users to be my clients?".

    But just a clone of the original game won't cut it. Not that it hasn't been attempted before - it very much has, on various smaller servers. But it's just not really enough. Why play it on hypixel specifically? So, of course, they tried to innovate and turn it into its own thing that only somewhat resembles skyblock. I imagine multiple proposals were discussed, and it's just that the MMORPG one seemed the most fitting, profitable, or unique of them all.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on Hytale is saved! in ~games

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    Aren't ranks purely cosmetic since the EULA changes of the mid-2010s?

    Aren't ranks purely cosmetic since the EULA changes of the mid-2010s?

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Hytale is saved! in ~games

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    I hate how they basically killed Warlords on hypixel. It was my favourite game there; I invested SO much time in it and was a pretty high level aquamancer, and could more or less carry my entire...

    I hate how they basically killed Warlords on hypixel.

    It was my favourite game there; I invested SO much time in it and was a pretty high level aquamancer, and could more or less carry my entire team in CTF games... But then, they stopped updating the game altogether. It's not received an update in over 10 years. And now it's completely dead. Last time I checked, there wasn't even anyone in the lobby anymore...

    2 votes

  6. Comment on Moana (2026) | Official teaser in ~movies

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    I never actually watched the original at all, but the trailer made me listen to "How Far I'll Go" again and, Gods, that's accidentally a really trans coded song, huh

    I never actually watched the original at all, but the trailer made me listen to "How Far I'll Go" again and, Gods, that's accidentally a really trans coded song, huh

    5 votes

  7. Comment on ‘Legend of Zelda’ movie first look reveals Link and Zelda in live action in ~movies

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    No Hunter Schafer as Zelda = literally unwatchable :(

    No Hunter Schafer as Zelda = literally unwatchable :(

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Any chance we can get a shorthand for the <details> tag? in ~tildes

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    Oh, if only ve had met back in those hasy days...

    Oh, if only ve had met back in those hasy days...

    1 vote

  9. Comment on That new hit song on Spotify? It was made by AI. in ~music

  10. Comment on Former PM Katrín Jakobsdóttir has said the Icelandic language could be wiped out in as little as a generation due to the sweeping rise of AI and encroaching English language dominance in ~humanities.languages

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    Personal opinion? Nothing that special that we can't already achieve otherwise. We're already using English as a lingua franca where it matters; it's in mainly in our day to day lives that we're...

    I wonder what we could achieve as a species if language barriers no longer existed.

    Personal opinion? Nothing that special that we can't already achieve otherwise. We're already using English as a lingua franca where it matters; it's in mainly in our day to day lives that we're using our local languages.

    10 votes

  11. Comment on Any chance we can get a shorthand for the <details> tag? in ~tildes

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    See, many years ago one of my keyboard's keys (C) randomly died. What did I do? I didn't have a spare keyboard, nor a job (I was still in school), so I... just remapped C and the two keys to the...

    See, many years ago one of my keyboard's keys (C) randomly died.

    What did I do?

    I didn't have a spare keyboard, nor a job (I was still in school), so I... just remapped C and the two keys to the left of it. So my bottom row was in fact only typing XCVBNM,./, with a dead key where C used to be.

    ...

    If you were gaming at the time and ever saw someone always typing "amasing", "pitsa", "lasy", etc... That was me.

    Is that why I now use Bri'ish spelling often, like -ise/-yse? Yes it is.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on The death of punctuation in ~humanities.languages

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    I'm kind of the opposite. I will write massive walls of text and send one singular message no matter the number of topics contained in it. Even if you send me N messages spanning N distinct...

    I'm kind of the opposite. I will write massive walls of text and send one singular message no matter the number of topics contained in it. Even if you send me N messages spanning N distinct topics, you will get a single message containing ≥N paragraphs of text.

    I'm too self-conscious about sending multiple notifications to people, I'm too worried about people getting an incorrect/incomplete meaning from my messages before I'm done, I don't want to keep N parallel pseudo-threads for every distinct topic, and I just am naturally verbose so I always end up producing gigantic word vomits anyway.

    I'm happy to tailor this if someone has a legit reason, but that's what mostly comes naturally

    Edit: That said, it's pretty common for me to not add a period to the last sentence of a message/post, or even the last sentence of a paragraph, depending on the mood

    6 votes

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  14. Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food

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    I tried something like this today. Honestly tasted a lot better than I was expecting. Thanks a lot for the idea as I'd probably not have tried it if you never posted this comment.

    I tried something like this today. Honestly tasted a lot better than I was expecting. Thanks a lot for the idea as I'd probably not have tried it if you never posted this comment.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Google backpedals on new Android developer registration rules in ~tech

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    I installed revanced for my dad because he wanted many youtube features and the standard UI. He honestly hasn't had a problem clicking an update button in the manager(? I think?) when something...

    I installed revanced for my dad because he wanted many youtube features and the standard UI. He honestly hasn't had a problem clicking an update button in the manager(? I think?) when something breaks but he definitely wouldn't have figured out how to install the whole thing from scratch to begin with

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Any chance we can get a shorthand for the <details> tag? in ~tildes

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    {joke} I think we should use the last letter of the English alphabet as a spoiler tag. Think about it. What's the last time you need it to use it? End your verbs with -ise. What are you, some...
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    I think we should use the last letter of the English alphabet as a spoiler tag. Think about it.

    • What's the last time you need it to use it? End your verbs with -ise. What are you, some kinda yank?

    • It's easy to write on a keyboard. No need to press shift or dig inside bespoke menus on your phone

    • That letter is now highly connected with the russian far right, following the russian invasion of Ukraine. You don't want to be thought of as a KGB bot on tildes, do you? Don't visibly use that letter in your comments.

    • The funny moustache man in 20th century Germany used that letter in his political party and dehumanising ideas. You don't want to associate yourself with funny moustache man, right? Don't visibly use that letter in your comments.

    • It's the sleepiest letter. You want other people to think you were borderline sleeping when replying to them?

    • It's way too 90s. You still use it as a replacement for S to look cool? Gosh, so out of fashion.

    • It's way too sharp. "Oh look I'm so aggressive and angular" careful not to cut yourself on that edge babygirl.

    • It's literally just a mirrored, worse S. Just look at those sexy curves. Doesn't it make you horny just looking at it?

    • It's one of the rarest letters of the alphabet anyway, not only in English but also e.g. French. Why are you still using it? Trying to be unique rather than look basic?

    • I wrote this entire comment without using the forbidden letter. If I can do it, so can you. In fact the forbidden letter was not used even once in this thread at the time of writing this comment.

    Join me in removing that horrid letter from our comments and delegating to it the simple role of a spoiler tag.

    8 votes

  17. Comment on Google backpedals on new Android developer registration rules in ~tech

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    They don't by themselves, but they do ask more technically inclined people in their lives to pirate things for them. E.g. my dad: "hey, I hate stupid youtube giving me 1 ad every 2 minutes when I...

    They don't by themselves, but they do ask more technically inclined people in their lives to pirate things for them.

    E.g. my dad: "hey, I hate stupid youtube giving me 1 ad every 2 minutes when I spend so much time every day watching videos, do you know how to disable it?"

    8 votes

  18. Comment on I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla in ~tech

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    Is the first example not an LLM-based example?

    Is the first example not an LLM-based example?

    14 votes

  19. Comment on AI makes an appearance at my union meeting in ~tech

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    I have come to tell you it's pretty terrible. 90% of the time I ask it to do something, it can't do shit. Even when I don't ask it to perform an action and just throw a normal prompt at it, it...

    Technically I'm pilot testing copilot integration with MS office...

    I have come to tell you it's pretty terrible. 90% of the time I ask it to do something, it can't do shit. Even when I don't ask it to perform an action and just throw a normal prompt at it, it does terribly, whereas normal copilot actually works pretty well.

    7 votes

  20. Comment on What are your favorite simple pleasures? in ~talk