Geth

joined 2 years ago
[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 hours ago

I love that it's blurred like a Japanese adult comic, enough to say technically, but not enough that you can't literally see everything.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

To be fair, RAID is not backup for itself but if they have their stuff on a computer and then sync it to a NAS RAID then that's backup.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago

I guess we're going into the definition of normality. To me this just means average, conventional, within certain limits. I would bet my ass most users of this simple forum are not average people, just based on the friction of the sign-up process alone.

And being unique while being normal is another oximoron from you. Either you are unique or you are average, you can't be both.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I don't know how to paint it more clearly for you. You are talking about interests that are out of the ordinary, not typical for the average population, obscure by definition, you know.. niche. Having obscure interests is relatively common in the grand scheme of things but still not typical of the average person on the street. Which makes it not normal. I would go so far as to call it neurodivergent, since it's most probably the cause of the said interests.

I do prefer abnormality in my life, probably everyone that managed to get themselves on lemmy does, but we are not a representation of the general population, we are but a niche.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Niche in this context literally means to be of interest to a small minority. Or to say it in other words, not normal.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This ia what they call an echo chamber. You took it at face value and didn't question it.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A disgusting behavior that I've seen in Spain is for websites to direct you to their subscription page if you say you don't want to be tracked, either you pay for the content or you don't get any content. Apparently the Spanish courts have deemed this legal.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

And what do you think that is? So far I blame algorithmic/targeted social media that leads to echo chambers and lowering living standards because of rising cost of living and prices without salaries keeping up.

But I'm also getting the impression that no one that can actually do anything about it is aware or cares enough to act so we are fucked either way.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 month ago

There was a long time of that happening and everyone being blisfully unaware. That's the period that feels like the golden age to me because we were getting all these new cool and free services not fully realizing what we are paying.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tried this recently and I hate it. It makes a racket and no matter how careful you are with it it stinks. Plus the constant extra work of filling it up. I'm selling it off and getting a heat pump. Should have done that from the start tbh.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Question still remains, how do 4 different countries lose power at once. Sounds like an insane fuck-up.

[–] Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Same man, it's been a dream since installing this.

 

Like for many other people, Valve single player experiences were one of my favorite of all time growing up. I considered both Half-Life and Portal to be masterpieces. It's true they've always been distracted with multiplayer games as well, things like Counter-Strike or Team Fortress and I did play them for sure, because I was a kid and I had all the time in the world.

These days I'm not a kid anymore and so when I game I tend to look more for memorable experiences instead of mindless grinding. Obviously I remember Valve as the experts in creating memorable experiences and I would like them to keep fully exploring those talents. They don't have that many employees, but they do have all the money in the world, no external pressure, no publisher to shit on them, it's just their developers and artists and a vision. But then they use all that and create this. An Overwatch looking moba shooter, really? I'm sure people will like and play it, but is this the results of the vision and ambition of a company like Valve?

It doesn't have to be Half-Life. I remember them saying that they dont want to do another one in the series because they are looking to innovate and make something truly original. My body is ready, give me anything. I can't imagine a moba shooter really fits with this description. I'm wondering how such a low hanging concept even becomes a real product at a company as ambitious as Valve.

I hear people are having fun with the new game and I'm happy for them. I am no longer the target audience and I wish them good luck with it. In the mean time let me hear your thoughts on it. Would you like to see another single player experience from Valve?

 

No worry about quality when you only get one topic to enjoy for the day.

 

I've been using sync for a while and occasionally I go looking in the settings for the feature to hide read posts automatically, instead of having to do it manually. Other Lemmy clients have this so I was convinced sync should probably have it as well, I just can't find it. Does this exist? If not, is it something that could be added? Thanks!

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