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  1. Comment on Make new friends here! in ~life

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    Yeah, I was going to say – it would be much harder for me to find a Billy Talent song that isn't still relevant than to name the ones that are (at least as far as the songs criticizing society go...

    Yeah, I was going to say – it would be much harder for me to find a Billy Talent song that isn't still relevant than to name the ones that are (at least as far as the songs criticizing society go – BT does have a few songs like For You or Afraid of Heights that don't do that, but I still love them too).

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Make new friends here! in ~life

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    Writing a public introduction is definitely not a requirement to participate! It's completely okay to just wait for people to write their posts, then to send a DM to anyone whose post piques your...

    Writing a public introduction is definitely not a requirement to participate! It's completely okay to just wait for people to write their posts, then to send a DM to anyone whose post piques your interest. That way you'll keep your conversations completely private.

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  3. Comment on Make new friends here! in ~life

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    Completely agree with this. I don't have kids (or any plans for any in the near future), but this is definitely also one of my fears. I'm guessing most of us grew up in a world where smartphones...

    Terrified of the influence silicon valley tech will have on my kids

    Completely agree with this. I don't have kids (or any plans for any in the near future), but this is definitely also one of my fears. I'm guessing most of us grew up in a world where smartphones either didn't exist yet or were still considered luxury goods. I honestly don't know what kind of person I'd be if I'd been exposed to the full breadth of the internet at that kind of age... probably not a better one, especially with the state of the internet today.

    And the worst part is, you can't even control or curtail your kids' phone/internet usage either, because then they'll either be ostracized by their peers, or their peers will be in full control of your children's exposure to the internet, which is really not something I would want.

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  4. Comment on Make new friends here! in ~life

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    A fellow game sales enjoyer, I see. I'm the same way. I never buy games at full price unless there's a substantial risk I'd end up getting passively spoiled about story or other content by...

    A fellow game sales enjoyer, I see. I'm the same way. I never buy games at full price unless there's a substantial risk I'd end up getting passively spoiled about story or other content by browsing the internet. I waited half a year for the Final Fantasy XVI PC version to go on sale before I bought it, despite being a big Final Fantasy fan.

    What are the last games you purchased and what did you think of them? Any recommendations?

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Make new friends here! in ~life

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    FYI, the "fixed" link now just leads right back to this topic :P

    FYI, the "fixed" link now just leads right back to this topic :P

  6. Comment on Make new friends here! in ~life

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    My favourite is Cure For The Enemy. Also incredibly and perpetually relevant...

    My favourite is Cure For The Enemy. Also incredibly and perpetually relevant...

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  7. Comment on Make new friends here! in ~life

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    Not Canadian! Not even close, actually – I'm EU. I can't speak to Billy Talent's popularity outside of Canada (I don't listen to radio music or anything like that), but I believe the way I...

    Not Canadian! Not even close, actually – I'm EU. I can't speak to Billy Talent's popularity outside of Canada (I don't listen to radio music or anything like that), but I believe the way I discovered them was waaay back, like 20 years ago or so, when FPS montages were still a common thing, Red Flag was one of the songs that was frequently used as the background music for some of those montages.

    Agree completely! There are very few Billy Talent songs that I skip. Same for Machinae Supremacy and LP. Looks like we have pretty similar song taste!

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  8. Comment on Make new friends here! in ~life

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    Yeah, good call. I was on the fence about joining the MC server last time since I dislike the idea of the things I build vanishing after some time, when the server shuts down again, but I'll keep...

    Yeah, good call. I was on the fence about joining the MC server last time since I dislike the idea of the things I build vanishing after some time, when the server shuts down again, but I'll keep it in mind for the next round.

    P.S.: Your thread link is giving me a 404.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Make new friends here! in ~life

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    I'll make the start. I'm mainly looking for a discussion partner at the moment, not a playmate (though I could be down for that too). General interests Writing (SFF, though I haven't actually been...

    I'll make the start. I'm mainly looking for a discussion partner at the moment, not a playmate (though I could be down for that too).

    General interests

    • Writing (SFF, though I haven't actually been able to muster the motivation to write much this past year or so, but I still think about my worlds and characters all the time)
    • Programming and UI/UX design (also my profession)

    Games I regularly play right now

    • Final Fantasy XIV (by far my most played game)
    • Dune: Awakening (at endgame and just biding my time until the next content update really)
    • The Division 2 (just started playing; enjoying it so far)
    • Zenless Zone Zero (the only gacha I still play)

    Musical interests

    • Billy Talent
    • Machinae Supremacy
    • Video game scores (too many to list)

    Other things about me

    • I'm a very neat person and I love to track things, to an almost obsessive degree. For instance, I've written a timetracking app that I use every day to track every single little thing I do. (Okay, I don't track every time I go to the bathroom, so most things I do.) If someone got access to that file, they'd have a detailed account of my entire life for the past few years.
    • I would consider myself an "outgoing introvert" which, let me tell you, is a tricky combination to pull off.
    8 votes

  10. Make new friends here!

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    Recently there has been a discussion thread about how many people (myself included) are recently finding it difficult to find meaningful, lasting friendships. Let's change that. I don't know if...

    Recently there has been a discussion thread about how many people (myself included) are recently finding it difficult to find meaningful, lasting friendships. Let's change that. I don't know if we've ever had a thread like this, but if we did then it must have been a while ago (or my search juju failed me).

    Normally, the "finding friends 101" involves finding a small community that revolves around one of your interests, then make friends within that community. Finding those kinds of small communities on the internet has become nigh-on impossible, at least for me. Discord is no substitute; most Discord servers revolving around a certain interest are massive in size, with text channels flying by faster than a popular streamer's Twitch chat.

    So we're breaking the code. Instead of finding a specialized community for your interests, just type up a list of your interests, quirks, or whatever other things you'd like to lure new potential friends with as a response to this thread. Go into as much detail as you'd like. If anyone has mentioned an interest you share, send them a DM and start a conversation! (That goes for the lurkers too – if you are one, don't be shy; you play an essential part in making this thread work.)

    Note: it may be helpful to add other details too, like your age (if you want friends in a similar age group) and what kind of friends you're looking for in your post. Some people may be looking for people to hang in voice chat and play games with; others may just look for people to discuss topics via Discord DM; and others still may not even necessarily be looking to take their new friendship outside of Tildes. All of these are completely valid.

    71 votes

  11. Comment on Is someone using Filen? in ~tech

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    I've been using Filen for a few months now and am quite happy with it so far. I was using Tresorit before, but I uninstalled it when it permanently deleted some of the files from my disk instead...

    I've been using Filen for a few months now and am quite happy with it so far. I was using Tresorit before, but I uninstalled it when it permanently deleted some of the files from my disk instead of backing them up.

    2 votes

  12. Comment on What is the most insane, tedious, difficult, and/or noteworthy gaming achievement you have completed or given up on? in ~games

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    First try-ing a boss feels great. I'm currently playing V Rising, which is basically all about beating difficult bosses to unlock more crafting recipes, so I'm currently experiencing this feeling...

    First try-ing a boss feels great. I'm currently playing V Rising, which is basically all about beating difficult bosses to unlock more crafting recipes, so I'm currently experiencing this feeling again too with some of the bosses.

    And yes, of course there are some that feel absolutely impossible without enough gear. So as you've said, it evens out, haha.

    1 vote

  13. Comment on What is the most insane, tedious, difficult, and/or noteworthy gaming achievement you have completed or given up on? in ~games

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    This isn't actually a "real" programmed-in achievement, but I'm still quite proud of my Bloodborne BL4 (basically a no-leveling run, since the minimum level in that game is 4) all bosses (DLC...

    This isn't actually a "real" programmed-in achievement, but I'm still quite proud of my Bloodborne BL4 (basically a no-leveling run, since the minimum level in that game is 4) all bosses (DLC included) run. A very satisfying and rewarding run to complete. You have to master every boss's moveset since about midway through the game every boss attack begins to oneshot you at full health. I thought that would be the hardest thing I'd ever do in a game – until I set out to beat all ultimates in Final Fantasy XIV, that is, which took me several orders of magnitude longer (and actually rewards you with real achievements, so I guess that makes this a more "proper" answer to the question). And since they usually release two new ones every expansion, I'm not done yet, though right now all I can do is play the waiting game since the next ultimate got delayed.

    On the flipside of the coin: I did the BL4 run because Bloodborne is my favourite FromSoft game. My second-favourite is Sekiro, so naturally I initially set out to do a no-leveling run for Sekiro as well (which is actually more of a "no upgrades" run since Sekiro doesn't have a real leveling system), but I quickly realized that this was more tedious than fun, since you have to play the game in an unintended way. In case you don't know, Sekiro is based entirely around deflections (essentially parrying). Enemies, including bosses, have ridiculous amounts of health, so instead of slowly chipping away at their health bar, you instead deflect their attacks, which eventually breaks their posture and allows you to one-shot them.

    The problem is that, without any upgrades, even if you deflect every single attack, their posture bar recovers so fast you'll never be able to break their posture. The only way around this is to actually ignore deflections entirely and go for health damage after all, which makes most fights take half an hour or more. It's exacerbated by the fact that (without upgrades) your own posture bar is broken in a single attack midway through the game. If you thought dodging every attack in Bloodborne was hard, try having to deflect every single attack in Sekiro or you die instantly. Not particularly fun, so I gave up on that run.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on What's a game that you feel like you missed out on? in ~games

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    Yeah, Final Fantasy XIV is not a great game to pick up if your only goal is to reach endgame quickly. It is, at the end of the day, still a Final Fantasy game, and that means that the greatest...

    Yeah, Final Fantasy XIV is not a great game to pick up if your only goal is to reach endgame quickly. It is, at the end of the day, still a Final Fantasy game, and that means that the greatest focus is always on the story.

    For what it's worth though, as someone who has been in endgame for several years now, it's really nothing to write home about. The raids are very fun, but beyond that there's really nothing to do in most patch cycles. I'd love to be able to go back and experience the story again for the first time.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on What have you been putting off/procrastinating about doing? in ~life

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    I recently got a new graphics card, and after installing it it told me that it doesn't support running under CSM. This led me to the discovery that I'm running Windows on an MBR partition, not...

    I recently got a new graphics card, and after installing it it told me that it doesn't support running under CSM. This led me to the discovery that I'm running Windows on an MBR partition, not GPT, and am running my UEFI in BIOS emulation mode. I honestly have no idea why that would be the case since I completely formatted the drive when I initially installed Windows 11, and GPT was already the de-facto standard for many, many years at that point.

    There's a Windows utility that can automatically convert an MBR partition to GPT, but I'm a bit apprehensive about data loss, so I've been holding off on it for now. I'm planning to backup the most important data once I have some time and then try to run the utility, but so far I haven't had any problems with the graphics card yet, so I've not felt particularly stressed about it just yet. My theory is that they didn't actually test whether the GPU runs fine under CSM or not and the "CSM is not supported" disclaimer is just a legal thing to waive liability in case it does unexpectedly cause any issues.

    Update (Apr 18): Since I've been getting some weird graphical artifacts, I decided to stop procrastinating and instead ran the MBR2GPT.exe tool. It really wasn't as scary as expected. The conversion completed successfully and painlessly. Very fast, too. Didn't take more than 10 seconds.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on What randomizers have you tried and what interesting runs have you had? in ~games

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    Not just the text, Archipelago can even insert the sprite for the item from another game into your game. To my knowledge this only works in some games though (mainly retro games that support...

    Not just the text, Archipelago can even insert the sprite for the item from another game into your game. To my knowledge this only works in some games though (mainly retro games that support arbitrary code injection, think the kind of shenanigans TASBot gets up to in GDQ segments; or games that are very easy to mod), but it's still pretty trippy to see a Zelda bomb show up in your Minecraft, for instance.

    1 vote

  17. Comment on What randomizers have you tried and what interesting runs have you had? in ~games

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    The thing I really like about it is that you can play any of the supported games with your friends, even if your friends aren't well-versed in your game. In fact, your friends don't need to care...

    The thing I really like about it is that you can play any of the supported games with your friends, even if your friends aren't well-versed in your game. In fact, your friends don't need to care about your game at all, or even own it. It really fixes the only too common problem of "I want to play something with my friends, but my friends don't enjoy any of the games I do".

    1 vote

  18. Comment on What randomizers have you tried and what interesting runs have you had? in ~games

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    Basically, you and your friends can run multiple different randomized games at the same time. Whenever you pick up an item, it may give you an item you personally need - but it can also give your...

    Basically, you and your friends can run multiple different randomized games at the same time. Whenever you pick up an item, it may give you an item you personally need - but it can also give your friends an item they need instead. So sometimes when your friends are stuck in their game, it's up to you to progress more in your game so that they get the key items (from you) that they need to progress in their game.

    It's pretty cool and really facilitates proper communication. For instance, your game may have a shopkeeper that sells some items that belong in another game, and so you'd ask the friend running that game whether they need any of those items.

    This whole system is even softlock-proof, so you generally can't end up in a situation where you are missing a key item necessary to reach a friend's key item, while they need that key item to reach your key item, and when you beat your game, it automatically sends all your friends' items that you missed to their respective games.

  19. Comment on Tildes feels like the last bastion of the Information Superhighway in ~tildes

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    Yes! Back in the days I hung out a lot on various video game related RP bulletin boards (Elder Scrolls for example), where we'd just pass a role play back and forth between our characters. It was...

    Yes! Back in the days I hung out a lot on various video game related RP bulletin boards (Elder Scrolls for example), where we'd just pass a role play back and forth between our characters. It was a lot of fun, and it's actually how I met my best friend. It's so much harder to connect with people online on a personal level nowadays.

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  20. Comment on The lights don’t just go out: A lifelong fainter on how fiction gets fainting all wrong in ~health

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    I've fainted twice in my life as far as I can remember, and I also didn't have any warning either time. First time was when we had mandatory church service in school. We were standing for a prayer...

    I've fainted twice in my life as far as I can remember, and I also didn't have any warning either time.

    First time was when we had mandatory church service in school. We were standing for a prayer and I just remember getting really hot. Then I blinked and suddenly I was lying on the steps of the church outside. I blame the incense.

    The other time I was having an IV set before a major surgery. After setting my IV the nurse left the room for a second. I only realized that I fainted because my mum was in the room with me and watched it happen. If not for her I would've never even noticed since I was already lying down and I was only out for about 15 seconds. It's just like cutting out a segment of the video in a video editor; no warning, I just jumped from one point of time to the next.

    5 votes