Swordgeek

No.

Don’t normalize the spread of toxic tip culture.

Fuck off with your spam.

Just leave reddit.

Really, the platform has gone straight to shit in the last 18 months. There are possibly more bots than humans at this point, and a huge number of the people who made it good back in the day are gone. Much of the interaction is now driven by algorithmic rage farming.

Its CEO is a small-minded vicious little fascist. Staying on reddit helps support the hard right.

Leave. Don’t look back. If Lemmy and Mastodon don’t seem as exciting, make them better by being active here.

I’m not an American, but I can’t help but notice something:

A clear majority elected Trump. Over 71 million Americans went out of their way to vote for him, saying “I am proud to be a Nazi.”

If you are going to fight (either figuratively or physically), then understand that a majority of the USA supports a fascist state.

That sounds like a dream. Last place I worked aa an employee, we got “col” 9which was actually less than 1/3 the government-declared col) plus as much as 1.1% merit increase.

Typical raise for a high performer was around 2%.

I’ve been playing Shattered Pixel Dungeon, which is an actual roguelike game.

Egg Inc is angrowth game that’s silly and fun. Squad Alpha is a great casual shooter, and all ads are voluntary. (Note, this is NOT Alpha Squad.)

Unlike most, I survived the API garbage because I primarily used the desktop site.

But the subsequent response and then the removal of the “don’t sell my personal info” option was clearly spez saying the quiet part out loud. Asshole doesn’t deserve to get richer off of my effort.

I was active - and I mean ACTIVE - on reddit for well over a decade. When the API fiasco happened, I deleted my mobile apps, and stuck to desktop. When ‘opt out of selling your data’ became impossible, I logged out for good.

Lemmy is both better and worse than reddit ever was. It will likely never reach the same activity level, but will also not reach the same toxicity.

You don’t need an app for that, just replace ‘www’ with ‘old’ in the URL.

PfFt. Amateur level stuff!

Try this on for size:

https://www.audioquest.com/products/dragon-48-hdmi-cable

And that’s not the limit, either.

Gas for the motorcycle, and ride. Maybe $10 for gas and $5 for a coffee somewhere.

Nobody cares anymore.

As frustrating as this may be, it’s even more frustrating when I see exactly the same thing among PROFESSIONAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPERS!

directory structure and basic text editing are foreign concepts to them. If it’s not in their IDE, they really don’t understand it.

Also, 90% of them are hunt-and-peck two finger typists.

Really?

The PDF contains the information. The screenshot contains a picture of the information.

It’s a tree vs. a picture of a tree. A recording vs. a live performance.

Bullshit.

This whole endeavour is looking like a careful plan to implement a smaller, slightly less horrible idea in Win11, and then creep forward from there.

Remember the model to move the goal line, folks:

• Overreach
• Capitulate publicly and fall back to your true target
• Repeat

Best of all, these large steps can be supplemented by nudging things forward with ‘adjusttments.’

Cold watermelon soup with anise and cracked black pepper.

It was the appetizer to a meal that included duck breast smoked with lapsang souchong tea.

All of ot was outstanding.

I wish we could really press the main point here: Google is willfully foisting their LLM on the public, and presenting it as a useful tool. It is not, which makes them guilty of neglicence and fraud.

Pichai needs to end up in jail and Google broken up into at least ten companies.

Morrowind was bundled with a video card I got, and thought I’d at least try it. I had no idea what it was or how it worked, and I fell headfirst into it. WEEKS thrown at it, and I never got bored.

After that, Oblivion was a letdown for me and I didn’t get very far into it. Skyrim was great fun, but the lore was clearly secondary. (I eventually went back to Oblivion and found it a better story than Skyrim, but Morrowind is still the best.)

In no order…

• Grim Fandango
• Psychonauts (I and II combined)
• Fallout New Vegas
• Morrowind
• Portal (I and II combined)
• Thief (1-3 combined)
• Civilization II
• Space Invaders
• Falcon series (F3 and 4.0)
• The Pandora Directive

And some bonus games to add to the mix, because there are too many amazing games in the world.

• The Longest Journey/Dreamfall
• Red Dead Redemption II
• Mass Effect

EDIT Also

• Pac Man
• Quake II

I think I’d disagree with this.

For a while, there was a sense among the robber baron class that loyalty to employees would pay off with loyalty returned. Consider industrialists building towns for their employees and families, complete with schools and arenas.

Regardless of how cynical the reasoning may have been, the result was a degree of mutual loyalty and job security.