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  1. Comment on Update to Kagi Search pricing in ~tech

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    Mind mentioning what userscripts? (or if you did them yourself and they aren't public, just mentioning what they do?)

    StartPage + some userscripts

    Mind mentioning what userscripts? (or if you did them yourself and they aren't public, just mentioning what they do?)

    3 votes

  2. Comment on Unpopular opinion: Wikipedia's old look was much better than the new one in ~talk

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    The comment I replied to conceded that it may be the best for most people, so that isn't a relevant point. What frustrates me is being told that my preferences and issues with reading thin...

    The comment I replied to conceded that it may be the best for most people, so that isn't a relevant point. What frustrates me is being told that my preferences and issues with reading thin mobile-looking pages are wrong and that I don't know what I want because my experience clashes with the average and is inconvenient for people in favor of these design trends to work around.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on Unpopular opinion: Wikipedia's old look was much better than the new one in ~talk

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    Yeah, reading these comments is deeply frustrating. People can say super thin line lengths are "objectively" better based on studies of people who aren't me all they want, but that doesn't change...

    Yeah, reading these comments is deeply frustrating. People can say super thin line lengths are "objectively" better based on studies of people who aren't me all they want, but that doesn't change that it is uncomfortable for me and causes much more trouble because I have to search for new lines more often. I feel like there's a lot of dismissal of human diversity here.

    4 votes

  4. Comment on ROBLOX_OOF.mp3 in ~games

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    She mentions at the end that there'll be another, but afaik she hasn't committed beyond that.

    She mentions at the end that there'll be another, but afaik she hasn't committed beyond that.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Tumblr will now allow nudity but not explicit sex in ~tech

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    It's weird, because this change opens them back up to those issues. It's just as illegal to have nudes of minors on your platform as it is to have porn proper, so I'm not sure what the deal is.

    It's weird, because this change opens them back up to those issues. It's just as illegal to have nudes of minors on your platform as it is to have porn proper, so I'm not sure what the deal is.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Unlaunching the 12GB 4080 in ~tech

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    We're currently at the launch of a new generation, where we know what's going on with Nvidia but AMD hasn't revealed anything of substance. We don't yet know what AMD's going to offer or what...

    We're currently at the launch of a new generation, where we know what's going on with Nvidia but AMD hasn't revealed anything of substance. We don't yet know what AMD's going to offer or what prices they'll be at.

    Lately the deal has been that Nvidia has the more powerful cards in general, but there are certain workload / price point combinations where AMD makes more sense. I'm certainly no industry analyst, but I wouldn't be surprised if that continued to be the case, or even if AMD kept with roughly previous gen pricing and made some gains like that.

    Regardless, Nvidia's pricing here is almost certainly just to scare people into buying up the extra 3000 series stock that was overproduced before the crypto crash. Nvidia have proven to be assholes time and time again, but I don't think they'd be dumb enough to have these be their actual long term price points.

    3 votes

  7. Comment on Artosis, esports casting godfather, moves on in ~games

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    Honestly, I mostly just blame SC2 being enough for the niche that was left over after MOBAs and the like swooped in and captured a huge portion of the old audience. It's funny, because while I do...

    StarCraft 2 was the only massively successful RTS at the time and everyone thought it had to be like that

    Honestly, I mostly just blame SC2 being enough for the niche that was left over after MOBAs and the like swooped in and captured a huge portion of the old audience. It's funny, because while I do think you're right that SC2 became the only face of RTS, that didn't really translate into developers trying to make their games like it. In fact, the whole macro-driven 1v1 focused subgenre dried up. I was always interested in trying other RTSes, but whenever something would come out it'd be like Company of Heroes, Total War, or whatever those ones with the giant mechs were. Not to say there's anything wrong with those, but they're not my side of the genre and there was very little for people like me who liked StarCraft and AoE-styled games. Beyond the odd Grey Goo, no one really tried.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Artosis, esports casting godfather, moves on in ~games

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    There was a lively RTS scene with many different awesome games for years after Brood War's release, so I dunno about blaming it.

    There was a lively RTS scene with many different awesome games for years after Brood War's release, so I dunno about blaming it.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Artosis, esports casting godfather, moves on in ~games

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    That's lovely to hear!

    That's lovely to hear!

    2 votes

  10. Comment on Artosis, esports casting godfather, moves on in ~games

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    Many see it as the superior competitive game and there's been a revival movement over the past ~5-6 years. They see the play that comes from it as much more dynamic and positional. I'm not up to...

    Many see it as the superior competitive game and there's been a revival movement over the past ~5-6 years. They see the play that comes from it as much more dynamic and positional. I'm not up to date with the current SC2 meta, but I'd be pretty surprised if it wasn't very deathbally like it has been throughout most of its life, and for a number of reasons that kind of thing can't really happen in BW.

    For both Tasteless and Artosis specifically, it was always "their game" in a way SC2 never was, much as they love that as well. That was the game they fell in love with and competed in themselves, and they were open in saying nothing could ever really replace that.

    5 votes

  11. Comment on Artosis, esports casting godfather, moves on in ~games

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    That hurts a bit. It was always comforting seeing tastosis still in Korea doing their thing whenever my interest in StarCraft flared up again. Not having the pair which were so important in...

    That hurts a bit. It was always comforting seeing tastosis still in Korea doing their thing whenever my interest in StarCraft flared up again. Not having the pair which were so important in bringing us to the modern era of esports sucks, but I hope it makes Artosis and his family happy.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Is there an equivalent of IMDB for video games? Would you recommend one? in ~games

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    Next Episode looks decent but also seems to lack reviews, which are really important for this kind of site imo.

    Next Episode looks decent but also seems to lack reviews, which are really important for this kind of site imo.

  13. Comment on Is there an equivalent of IMDB for video games? Would you recommend one? in ~games

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    I could, I just find its interface to be the worst of modern design and its particular points of focus making it more like last.fm than any of these sites. If your goal is primarily just tracking...

    I could, I just find its interface to be the worst of modern design and its particular points of focus making it more like last.fm than any of these sites. If your goal is primarily just tracking though, it's probably fine.

  14. Comment on Is there an equivalent of IMDB for video games? Would you recommend one? in ~games

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    Thought I'd throw in my favorites of these kinds of logging / review / database sites for different kinds of art, since I really love them: Games - Backloggd for logging, referencing Glitchwave...

    Thought I'd throw in my favorites of these kinds of logging / review / database sites for different kinds of art, since I really love them:

    Games - Backloggd for logging, referencing Glitchwave for advanced sorting

    Music - rateyourmusic

    Movies - Letterboxd

    Anime/Manga - AniList, aniDB is also excellent. I'd probably use kitsu due to its open source nature if it wasn't for its community being awful and exceptionally tolerant of pedophiles.

    Visual Novels - vndb

    Interactive Fiction - ifdb

    Books - bookwyrm (librarything is okay too)

    I'd REALLY love one for non-Japanese cartoons or even just one for TV in general which is good. imdb is probably the best there is and I'm not really a fan of its lack of focus and the fact that it's owned by Amazon. I really can't stand trakt or tvtime.

    6 votes

  15. Comment on Is there an equivalent of IMDB for video games? Would you recommend one? in ~games

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    Backloggd is a rating and review site which uses IGDB's database and tries to stick to Letterboxd's design philosophy. IGDB is a database which happens to have support for a few social features...

    Backloggd is a rating and review site which uses IGDB's database and tries to stick to Letterboxd's design philosophy. IGDB is a database which happens to have support for a few social features but is mostly just the database itself. I wouldn't be surprised if most of their userbase is Backloggd users who join to add things to the DB so they show up on Backloggd...I know that's what I do.

    Glitchwave has a few excellent things about it (particularly its genre tags and chart sorting which it carries over from RYM), but honestly its development has been at a standstill for a very long time and I wouldn't recommend it as anything more than a supplement for finding things.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on Signal removing support for SMS in Android in ~tech

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    I wouldn't say we're happy to use it, but what are you gonna do, cut off family because they won't move to your messaging system of choice? It's a reality we've gotta live with, and Signal...

    What's more amazing is how many people on here I thought were very pro-privacy, but appear to be happy to use a system which sends messages in the clear and has government backdoors built in to it's delivery system. I rarely give a damn about "privacy" (as it's usually defined, at least) and even I am wary of SMS.

    I wouldn't say we're happy to use it, but what are you gonna do, cut off family because they won't move to your messaging system of choice? It's a reality we've gotta live with, and Signal supporting it alongside its normal functionality made that easier to swallow (and easier to move people off of it gradually).

    4 votes

  17. Comment on Lindsay Ellis - How they adapted the Lord of the Rings (the good one) in ~tv

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    I don't know if she plans on living off Nebula and Patreon or if she's simply doing this for fun in a much lower risk environment than youtube, not trying to make money on it...but god do I wish...

    I don't know if she plans on living off Nebula and Patreon or if she's simply doing this for fun in a much lower risk environment than youtube, not trying to make money on it...but god do I wish her the best and I'm here for whatever Lindsay wants to do. She got fucked over and everyone knows it.

    I hope a more hands off and distant approach (staying far from social media) can shield her from future bullshit.

    7 votes

  18. Comment on Writers, be wary of throat-clearers and wan intensifiers. Very, very wary. in ~creative

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    I never understood it as a kid when we were taught to clap along with syllables! I still don't understand that exercise...they would slow down and break apart words in ways you would never...

    I never understood it as a kid when we were taught to clap along with syllables! I still don't understand that exercise...they would slow down and break apart words in ways you would never actually say them to clap along and I was just like "I can do this at any point and break up words however I want to! I can clap any time how is this supposed to teach me anything???"

    This really hurt me in college when I had to do linguistics and quite a few things relied on that basic understanding everyone around me had. Over time I've learned to fake it and have a decent guess at what they are, but it still hasn't really clicked with me. I'm somewhat convinced they're just a lie and no one wants to admit that they don't know either and are just cutting up words randomly.

    1 vote

  19. Comment on Signal removing support for SMS in Android in ~tech

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    That's really a shame, I was looking forward to having this back when I go back to Android on my next phone. I don't think they realize just how important this was for pushing adoption in places...

    That's really a shame, I was looking forward to having this back when I go back to Android on my next phone. I don't think they realize just how important this was for pushing adoption in places where SMS is still king.

    4 votes

  20. Comment on ‘Bros’ director, producer open up about “confusing” opening weekend and the fierce debate it sparked in ~movies

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    Putting aside the meta for a second, this is it for me. I haven't heard of this movie outside of this website. Did homophobia limit its reach? Maybe, but it hasn't made much of an impression on...

    Not one of my queer friends has even mentioned Bros in our conversations. Were it not for the online blowback, I wouldn't even know this movie exists. This move has no real-world footprint for me.

    Putting aside the meta for a second, this is it for me. I haven't heard of this movie outside of this website. Did homophobia limit its reach? Maybe, but it hasn't made much of an impression on The Gays either. Outside of my family, I almost exclusively spend my time with queer people (though admittedly, not mainly cis gay men) and no one has even made me aware of this movie's existence. Clearly there's some problem there other than it not appealing to straight people.

    5 votes