emmanuelle's recent activity
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Comment on A glitch in the SEO matrix in ~tech
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Comment on Minecraft Wiki strongly considering moving away from Fandom in ~games
emmanuelle Link Parentfeel free to mark this as off-topic/noise but your link is screwed up, it points to this same thread. you probably want something like [Caves of Qud Wiki](https://wiki.cavesofqud.com).feel free to mark this as off-topic/noise but your link is screwed up, it points to this same thread. you probably want something like
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Comment on <deleted topic> in ~science
emmanuelle Link Parentit's lonely down here in the Southern Hemisphere :(it's lonely down here in the Southern Hemisphere :(
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Comment on What game(s) do you love that you never see brought up in conversation? in ~games
emmanuelle LinkInfra is a puzzle/adventure/walking sim that i absolutely never hear be mentioned. it was made by a small finnish dev a few years ago, entirely on the Source engine, and you’re a civil engineer on...Infra is a puzzle/adventure/walking sim that i absolutely never hear be mentioned. it was made by a small finnish dev a few years ago, entirely on the Source engine, and you’re a civil engineer on a field inspection of sorts, but then you end up going deeper and deeper into the underlying infrastructure of the city and you end up unravelling a very cool story.
the main draw for me is the ambience, there’s just no game quite like it, the level design is amazing because it really feels like you’re going through the least-explored places in a city, and i guess it really tickles my the part of my inner self that yearns for urban exploration :) also you get to take pictures of everything!~
i really recommend it to everyone who likes exploration and a good sense of place in games. it’s a really impressive game for such a small team. if i have anything bad to say, is that the voice acting can be a little hit-or-miss, but it doesn’t detract from the experience, at least for me.
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Comment on What game(s) do you love that you never see brought up in conversation? in ~games
emmanuelle Link Parentwhy for good reason? it seems like a good game!probably for good reason.
why for good reason? it seems like a good game!
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Comment on Mark Zuckerberg announces that there has been over five million signups to Meta's Threads in the first four hours in ~tech
emmanuelle Link Parenti also think that, if the fediverse just can’t handle someone as large as Meta joining it, then what’s even the point? it was never going to work then… the whole point of it being decentralised is...i also think that, if the fediverse just can’t handle someone as large as Meta joining it, then what’s even the point? it was never going to work then… the whole point of it being decentralised is to prevent that sort of takeover!
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Comment on More evidence that gas stoves produce suprisingly large amounts of harmful pollutants in ~enviro
emmanuelle Link Parentinteresting that ovens there use methane, i’ve never heard of that. over here it’s all liquefied petroleum gas, which is a mixture of propane and butane mostlyObviously a truly clean methane burn is odorless, but few home stoves combust the methane perfectly.
interesting that ovens there use methane, i’ve never heard of that. over here it’s all liquefied petroleum gas, which is a mixture of propane and butane mostly
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Comment on The main problem with the Fediverse is that people mostly just use it to talk about the Fediverse in ~tech
emmanuelle Link Parentin the early days of reddit’s june debacle, a LOT of the activity here seemed centered on discussing reddit, but now it seems a lot less reddit focused which is nice c:in the early days of reddit’s june debacle, a LOT of the activity here seemed centered on discussing reddit, but now it seems a lot less reddit focused which is nice c:
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Comment on The main problem with the Fediverse is that people mostly just use it to talk about the Fediverse in ~tech
emmanuelle Link Parentmastodon could copy a page off bluesky's book and implement user-created algorithmic feeds, which are very cool! like you have a list of feeds and you can choose one or more to subscribe to, and...mastodon could copy a page off bluesky's book and implement user-created algorithmic feeds, which are very cool! like you have a list of feeds and you can choose one or more to subscribe to, and you can browse them at your pleasure, but the feeds themselves are programmed by users using a surprisingly powerful API
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Comment on What happened in 1971? (various graphs of U.S. economic data, showing turning points in or around 1971) in ~finance
emmanuelle Link Parentthis website is a gish gallop with graphs. i would expect this kind of bullshit to be posted on reddit, not here. and the top comment is someone espousing a conspiracy theory… sigh.this website is a gish gallop with graphs. i would expect this kind of bullshit to be posted on reddit, not here. and the top comment is someone espousing a conspiracy theory… sigh.
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Comment on Meta is launching Threads, an app to rival Twitter in ~tech
emmanuelle Linkwell, i’m never gonna use that… but i’m sure it will be really successful, tbhwell, i’m never gonna use that… but i’m sure it will be really successful, tbh
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Comment on Elon Musk announces new daily Twitter limitations as thousands of users report problems accessing site in ~tech
emmanuelle Link Parenti am very sceptical of any youtube alternative from taking off at the moment. it’s incredibly expensive to host and stream videos, and the big content creators who drive engagement for youtube...i am very sceptical of any youtube alternative from taking off at the moment. it’s incredibly expensive to host and stream videos, and the big content creators who drive engagement for youtube won't move to an alternative if it doesn't pay
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Comment on Elon Musk announces new daily Twitter limitations as thousands of users report problems accessing site in ~tech
emmanuelle Linkin my opinion, this is the dumbest thing Musk has enacted so far. the vast majority of users are both unverified and mostly-lurkers, so he’s removing basically the one reason they used twitter...in my opinion, this is the dumbest thing Musk has enacted so far. the vast majority of users are both unverified and mostly-lurkers, so he’s removing basically the one reason they used twitter for? it's genuinely bewildering lol. i bet it’s because he doesn’t want to pay server costs, rather than “extreme levels of data scraping”, too.
the company's probably broke. if this continues for much longer I can't imagine Twitter lasting for long.
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Comment on Sony’s confidential PlayStation secrets just spilled because of a Sharpie in ~games
emmanuelle Link Parentto be clear, the numbers in the document do not include marketing costs. you can probably add a cool $100 million to that number to get the dev+mkt costs but that’s just my guessI'm assuming a large proportion of 'development costs' would include marketing costs, which are usually pretty obscene.
to be clear, the numbers in the document do not include marketing costs. you can probably add a cool $100 million to that number to get the dev+mkt costs but that’s just my guess
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Comment on Let's add (and rearrange?) some groups + a few notes about other short-term plans in ~tildes.official
emmanuelle Link Parentwould be limited to English-language discussion though, apparently, which is a bummer but understandablewould be limited to English-language discussion though, apparently, which is a bummer but understandable
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Comment on Wagner head says group standing down after claims of deal in ~society
emmanuelle Link Parenti know it’s tongue-in-cheek, but well, Prigozhin downed like 10 army helicopters so that seems like an extremely stupid thing to doi know it’s tongue-in-cheek, but well, Prigozhin downed like 10 army helicopters so that seems like an extremely stupid thing to do
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Comment on BURGER KING - Whopper Whopper (2022) in ~music
emmanuelle Link Parentnot very related but Burger King has always been pretty good compared to McDonalds where i live (Brazil). i usually go for BK if i'm eating that kind of fast foodnot very related but Burger King has always been pretty good compared to McDonalds where i live (Brazil). i usually go for BK if i'm eating that kind of fast food
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Comment on Settling in to new social media patterns after the "Rexxit" in ~tech
emmanuelle Linki haven’t seen anyone mention BlueSky yet—but really, that probably tracks with the userbase of Tildes. it’s basically just Twitter without Elon and that’s why i like it. it could use with a...i haven’t seen anyone mention BlueSky yet—but really, that probably tracks with the userbase of Tildes. it’s basically just Twitter without Elon and that’s why i like it. it could use with a little less “twitter” because sometimes there’s the usual twitter braindead argument-ness, but with how few people there are there yet, probably mainly due to the severe lack of supply in invites, it’s not so bad. it seems to have some interesting ideas around moderation and stuff and it’s a lot easier to join compared to something like Mastodon even though it’s a federated thing. i think it could have potential if it made the site public like Tildes. but keep it invite only for now since it’s still in beta and can have some bugs.
i still use reddit and twitter, and obviously i use tildes too, and i believe this new crop of social media platforms are a lot better than what came before but they just haven’t hit that critical mass yet.
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Comment on Do you know any games with excellent gameplay but horrible graphics? in ~games
emmanuelle Link Parentdo you have a pak recommendation to make the graphics a little less dated/more appealing?do you have a pak recommendation to make the graphics a little less dated/more appealing?
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Comment on Do you know any games with excellent gameplay but horrible graphics? in ~games
emmanuelle Link ParentDeus Ex Revision doesn't increase like model resolution or anything like that, but it changes a lot of stuff to make the game more modern and seem more lived-in and i think it works really well. i...Deus Ex Revision doesn't increase like model resolution or anything like that, but it changes a lot of stuff to make the game more modern and seem more lived-in and i think it works really well. i only ever play Revision when replaying Deus Ex for the 2475372th time hehe
not terribly related but i hate that, through the article, i've been introduced to some despicable "SEO hacking" weirdo who is just ruining the internet. (not the author of the article—they linked to some twitter post claiming to generate 150k blog posts using AI, and you know for sure they are all literally a waste of electricity)