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  1. Comment on Steam game recording - available now in ~games

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    With all the features that come with Steam, it's genuinely a wonder this wasn't there before. Oh well, I say it's a great addition. Making it easy for end users to share video clips of gameplay is...

    With all the features that come with Steam, it's genuinely a wonder this wasn't there before.

    Oh well, I say it's a great addition. Making it easy for end users to share video clips of gameplay is a no-brainer and is basically a free marketing tool for video game companies (or the thing that tanks them if their game is buggy as hell).

    5 votes

  2. Comment on "Valve are gathering the avengers": we believe Gabe Newell is assembling the ultimate dream team for the one game everyone's been waiting for in ~games

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    My cynical take is that the only time Valve would conjure up a dream team is to have some multiplayer game with an in-game economy. That, or a new game to sell some expensive hardware like Half...

    My cynical take is that the only time Valve would conjure up a dream team is to have some multiplayer game with an in-game economy. That, or a new game to sell some expensive hardware like Half Life Alyx.

    1 vote

  3. Comment on Anthony Fantano discusses how social media disincentivises well thought out discussion in ~music

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    I figured folks on Tildes would have a lot to say about this topic! How long have you been on music based forums? Have you found the discussion to have gotten better or worse?

    I figured folks on Tildes would have a lot to say about this topic!

    How long have you been on music based forums? Have you found the discussion to have gotten better or worse?

    8 votes

  5. Comment on Is National Cinema Day happening this year? I can't get a straight answer online! in ~movies

  6. Comment on Google Pixel 9 launch event live coverage: all the news in ~tech

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    I swore off OnePlus after getting their 7 Pro as an upgrade from the 3T. The 7 Pro was really expensive and I found the curved screen to be such a massive pain in terms of touch screen. That, and...

    I swore off OnePlus after getting their 7 Pro as an upgrade from the 3T. The 7 Pro was really expensive and I found the curved screen to be such a massive pain in terms of touch screen. That, and there was no real perceived improvements, even with the new 90Hz display.

    I now have the OnePlus Nord CE 3 Lite 5G (rolls off the tongue, right?). With that said, I had iPhones before - they were OK, but I did miss customising my phone and actually having some level of control over it like I could do with an Android phone (for a start, it has a proper filesystem that is user accessible). I got this phone for £180, and for that price it is absolutely phenomenal. The camera is crap, but I'm not someone who takes many photos anyway, so it was an incredible bargain.

    Failing that, I would've gone with used/refurbished phones from reliable manufacturers (Google, possibly Samsung although they tend to bloat their phones)

    2 votes

  7. Comment on People looking to be first time homeowners soon, what's your plan? in ~life

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    I'm in the process of buying my own house, actually! I'm in the UK and I'm near the tail-end of things: Started signing the contracts, paid all my deposit off, now waiting for other side to sign...

    I'm in the process of buying my own house, actually! I'm in the UK and I'm near the tail-end of things:

    Started signing the contracts, paid all my deposit off, now waiting for other side to sign contracts, agree completion date and celebrate having my own house!

    It has been very stressful so far, as I've paid the deposit but it doesn't guarantee that the deal won't fall through.

    One thing I'm realising though that there is never a good time. House prices have started climbing down recently here in the UK, but that's because interest rates have been climbing up. So it's a matter of picking your poison: do you want high monthly interest rates with the chance of a cheaper house, or do you want a more expensive house but "reasonable" interest rates on your mortgage?

    Also, I've saved for nearly a decade now, so I feel like I should be able to afford it. I do worry if the deal falls through, I do wonder what happens to my deposit. I should get it back, but who knows. I try not to think about it though.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on Reddit is going to enforce rate-limiting the API's free tier as well as charging for higher rates in ~tech

  14. Comment on What is a highly regarded/critically acclaimed movie that you do not like/understand the appeal? in ~movies

  15. Comment on What is a highly regarded/critically acclaimed movie that you do not like/understand the appeal? in ~movies

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    Not so sure when their coolness factor expired, but I remember watching these like a decade ago and even then they didn't appeal to me.

    It was cool when it was released, but now not so much. Nowadays, people may talk about Die Hard, but their sentiments take the sequels into account. At the time, Bruce Willis was a popular comedic actor and that was the beginning of his career as an action star.

    Similar to Die Hard, it was cool back then but didn't age well. It was also the beginning of Will Smith's movie stardom and he was very popular at the time.

    Not so sure when their coolness factor expired, but I remember watching these like a decade ago and even then they didn't appeal to me.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on What is a highly regarded/critically acclaimed movie that you do not like/understand the appeal? in ~movies

  17. Comment on What is a highly regarded/critically acclaimed movie that you do not like/understand the appeal? in ~movies

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    Bad Boys 2 - Crappy Michael Bay action that has no purpose in terms of plot. That, and weird animal sex scenes that appears in like half of his films... wtf dude?? Die Hard - it's OK, but I just...
    • Bad Boys 2 - Crappy Michael Bay action that has no purpose in terms of plot. That, and weird animal sex scenes that appears in like half of his films... wtf dude??
    • Die Hard - it's OK, but I just do not get the obsession over this film like it's the second coming of christ and/or the definitive movie. It's an OK movie, nothing more, nothing less.
    • Hot Fuzz - it's just a whole bunch of yellow brick jokes that goes on for waaaay too long. That, and being a brown British man, I can't say I'm the biggest fan of the UK police, so seeing them glamorised a bit is a bit yuck. Of course, it also is a love letter to Michael Bay, which... urgh. Finally, the whole NWA joke for some reason irks me - the whole film is filled with white folks - it feels a bit like the NWA band name is being co-opted for a dumb joke, when NWA (at least to me) stood for something, even if I don't like all their music.
    • Once Upon A Time In Hollywood - it just feels a bit like a crappy re-run of QT's movies
    • The Hateful Eight - I was bored to tears watching this film. It's just a bunch of repungnant folks together causing chaos the only way QT knows how.
    • The Dark Knight Rises - I felt like this sequel was far too long and not quite as tightly directed. Lots of things didn't make logical or thematical sense, and of course Batman always talking with a growl was very silly.
    • Toy Story 3 - Maybe I'm a miserable sod, but I didn't feel any emotional connection. I remember there was a lava bit in the film, and to me it was so over the top and ridiculous that I started laughing throughout. It's just toys, for christ sakes. And the ending where Andy is giving away his toys and getting all emotional... I just thought to myself "dude, you're 18. Who is still attached to their childhood toys at 18??"

    OK so I can go on all day, but yeah - feel free to rip into me over my takes :)

    5 votes

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

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    Just completed Red Dead Redemption on Xbox Series X. Forgot how much I loved that game. Before that (and this was last week, but I haven't done these in a while), I completed my second playthrough...

    Just completed Red Dead Redemption on Xbox Series X. Forgot how much I loved that game.

    Before that (and this was last week, but I haven't done these in a while), I completed my second playthrough of Resident Evil 4. Another great game!

    6 votes

  19. Comment on Bluesky is Jack Dorsey’s attempt at a Twitter redo and it’s already growing fast in ~tech

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    I thought that was by design - i.e. Mastodon does its absolute best to hide retweet/like counts until you click on the post itself. I'm pretty sure this was done to stop the issue of ratio'ing...

    I thought that was by design - i.e. Mastodon does its absolute best to hide retweet/like counts until you click on the post itself. I'm pretty sure this was done to stop the issue of ratio'ing folks and whatnot, and trying to enable a more civil conversation around things.

    A lot of Twitter/social media gamification is super hard when coming to Mastodon, but then once you get used to it, it feels weird coming back to Twitter and seeing people go nuts over random numbers under tweets. Reminds me when caring about karma was all the rage on Reddit to the point where folks who had massive amounts of karma would act like dicks because they had so much karma they could "afford" to burn some of the karma. In reality, it was a loser who was obsessed with numbers being played by algorithms to interact with the machine more than he would've done.

    3 votes

  20. Comment on Bye bye blue checkmarks: Twitter removes legacy verifications in ~tech

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    Elon Musk decried the old verification system as a "lord and peasants system". In the process of making this new "verification" system, he's created an actual "lord and peasants" system where the...

    Elon Musk decried the old verification system as a "lord and peasants system". In the process of making this new "verification" system, he's created an actual "lord and peasants" system where the peasants have to pay for verification while the rich folk get it handed to them on a plate.

    Elon says he paid for their account, but I'm sure he got his engineers to flick a switch somewhere in the database to allow them to have it.

    13 votes