I guess I play a ton of shorter, achievement-heavy games, because I’m not really an achievement hunter (I’ll get the easy ones, but I’m not spending more than 5-10 min on it).
I only tried a tiling WM for a few days several years ago. I am ok using the terminal but not everything can be done easily there. In the screenshots of people setups, there are always fancy terminals. Are tiling WM good also for other GUI a part from terminals?
Yup. Main issues I’ve had are GIMP (seriously, what’s with that floating toolbar) and weird pop-ups in browsers.
I forget why I switched away from them because I was annoyed at games messing stuff up, but it really wasn’t that bad. I currently don’t use it because my kids use my computer and I’m not interested in teaching them my shortcuts.
35% - Payment History - on time payments, late payments, and public records (e.g. bankruptcy)
30% - Amount Owed - in other words, credit utilization; the absolute amount doesn’t matter, just the percentage of your available credit; keep under 30%, lower is better (per account also matters, so spread it around)
15% - Length of Credit History - average age of accounts and age of oldest account
10% - New Credit - hard inquiries (i.e. credit card applications)
10% - Types of Credit Accounts - “credit mix,” ideally have multiple credit cards, mortgage or auto loan, etc
And some notes:
things like collections stay on your credit for up to 7 years from the date of first delinquency, and reduce in impact as they age
closed accounts help your credit (under most scoring models) for 10 years
credit utilization has no memory, so you only need to care if you’re going to be applying for credit in the next couple months
generally speaking, 2+ years is pretty good per card, and 5+ years is fantastic; so if you’re going to apply for a major loan, hold off on new credit cards until the loan goes through (i.e. you have the title in your name)
Hopefully this makes sense. Credit scores are kind of mysterious, but they are relatively easy to understand if you do a little reading. Pay your credit cards on time, keep cards open longer, and don’t apply for a ton of new cards (unless you’re careful about average age) and you’ll have a solid score.
Edit: Here’s an idea of what FICO score ranges mean (make sure you’re getting a FICO score, many banks display VantageScore scores, which are rarely used in credit decisions):
<600 - bad, you probably won’t get any decent credit card or loan terms
600-650 - poor, you can probably get “easier” credit cards like Discover or no-rewards cards; loan terms will suck
650-700 - decent; can get most average credit cards, mediocre loan terms
700+ - good; can get most credit cards, pretty good loan terms
750+ - top tier loan terms, you’re probably more limited for credit cards by income and total credit, not score
The max is 850, but anything >750 is essentially ideal, you’re really not going to see much difference with a higher score.
You probably should because it determines the rates you’ll pay when you get a loan (mortgage, auto, etc).
But I agree, security is absolutely the bigger concern, especially if you won’t need a loan anytime soon. That said, those monitoring agencies are worthless, just get an app like Credit Karma or Experian (free, don’t pay for anything they offer) so you get alerts when anything changes in your credit file. If you get a new account alert and you didn’t open one, congrats, you’ve been hacked! You’ll get a lot of spammy notifications, so maybe check it every month or two and disable notifications.
Woot, that’s awful. Is your social like a super memorable one or something? Surely at this point you could just get a new one. I know they don’t like that, but if you’re getting the FBI involved, surely he’s cheaper to do some paperwork.
Ugh, but I absolutely love MtG. That’s really disappointing, but I guess it fits with the trend in MtG for pushing profit over content. Prices have gone up and I honestly don’t see a ton of new ideas like I did some years ago.
I’ll probably still do MtG drafts and whatnot until I find a viable alternative, but I’ll probably buy less of their stuff.
I just don’t play Standard or Modern and stick to Limited (tournaments) and Commander (casual play with friends). I tried MtG Arena, but hated the focus on the meta, and drafting was way too expensive for the enjoyment I got, especially since I don’t care about building a collection.
If MtG Arena had a cheap subscription for unlimited drafting (don’t keep the cards), I’d do it in a heartbeat and I wouldn’t play much else. But it doesn’t, so I just draft a few times a year with friends and play Commander with mostly premade decks with friends.
Looking for a brokerage with functional, individual API access to, at least, account positions, balances, and equity/fund/bond prices. Used to be happy with TDA, but they got bought by Scwab, whose API has been “pending” for six months.
Bonus points if it has a debit card. I would totally switch if it meant I could replace my current brokerage, which I use for a checking account as well.
Right now I use a budgeting app (Tiller) to pull balances, but the one I use doesn’t pull tickers (unless i missed something). I think Personal Capital does, but AFAIK there’s no API to pull that data into a spreadsheet. I really don’t like using these third parties, so I would be happy to pay a bit if it meant I could do it directly.
And IMO a comment is far better than a vote. A vote says “I clicked a button,” whereas a comment says, “I cared enough to express myself.” I only downvote w/o commenting if another comment communicates what I wanted to, in which case I upvote that one.
I never said we should eliminate votes, just that comments are more useful than votes alone. If you down vote, leave or upvote a comment that explains why.
The problem with votes on their own is brigading, as in people down vote stuff because it’s unpopular (at least to a very mobilized and motivated group). The vote itself doesn’t explain what’s wrong with the content, only that a lot of people clicked the button.
So I’m in favor of requiring the user to either leave or upvote a comment for the down vote function to count.
That’s not the point at all though. The point is that it hides good content that a motivated group wants to silence. We had precisely this problem earlier in Lemmy’s history where posts critical of China were heavily down voted, not because of quality, but because the group didn’t like the message.
Requiring a comment gives context to the negative reaction. It’s not a silver bullet, but it should increase the barrier to hiding content, hopefully enough that good, controversial content stays visible.
I’m actually working on a Lemmy alternative that uses a web of trust instead of votes to prioritize and moderate content. Reddit has shown the limitations of voting, and I’m more interested in interesting content than content the majority likes.
That’s a false dichotomy. They oversold (read: lied about) NMS, so I have no reason to trust that they won’t do so again on this one. Trust is earned, and I have no reason to take them at their word. I trust other devs that consistently deliver, such as Rockstar and Nintendo.
So I’ll believe it when I see it. But I’ll require actual proof this time instead of promises. The same goes for CDPR and Bethesda and every other studio where promises didn’t line up with what was actually delivered.
Maybe at a very high level, but comments have the very obvious advantage that they provide something that moderators can block. Lemmy does have open voting logs, but I highly doubt any decent moderator would feel comfortable blocking people based purely on how they vote, and they’d only actually look if there was an obvious problem (e.g. maybe they need to consider blocking an entire instance).
directly incentivizing only interaction via people with the time to type up a comment
This only applies to negative interactions, you would always be able to upvote a post.
I think there’s an argument for hiding the voting buttons inside of the comment thread so users can’t just drive-by vote without actually looking at the comments, much less the linked content, but that’s not what I’m arguing for.
You cannot police opinion quality
You’re absolutely right, but you can increase the effort needed to downvote something. A downvote tends to have more weight than an upvote, so it should require more effort as well (e.g. a post with 8 upvotes and 0 downvotes would probably be ranked higher than one with 20 upvotes and 12 downvotes).
it sounds like you want to build a personal group chat, not a social media site
No, I definitely want a social media site, I just want everything distributed, including moderation.
Basically, I want something like BitTorrent, but for social media instead of files. That way there’s no central authority for pretty much anything, so moderation pretty much has to be opt-in (otherwise you’d pick a different client with different moderation). Ideally, you’d select a moderation team that would filter out bad stuff like CSAM, but not filter out high quality content that you simply disagree with. So you’d pick a diverse set of content moderators to trust, and content would only get filtered out if a certain number of them flagged it. You could use the tools to create an echo chamber for yourself, or you can use it to expose yourself to diverse, high quality content that may challenge your beliefs (my personal preference).
That said, things tend to work differently in practice. At the very least, I’m not going to release it until I have a way for users to review the quality of the moderators they pick.
I don’t like the term “retired,” it should really be split into two: trashed and on hold.
I personally group my library by my desire to play:
probably never - essentially trash
replay - games I enjoyed and intend to revisit
done - games I enjoyed and have no intent to revisit
So for me, “retired” could be any of those three. I don’t always “finish” games (credits roll, 100% complete, etc), so the label doesn’t really say much about the quality of the game or whether people enjoyed it, just that they decided to set it aside for whatever reason.
Perhaps, but we don’t know anything about those figures, so it’s going to need to be investigated by the IRS or state equivalent who can get that information. But at this point there’s merely a suggestion of fraud, no solid proof. They’ve said their piece, now it’s up to the authorities.
I’m not going to defend or attack the guy, merely point out that facts. How much he knew and when is certainly up for debate, we just have limited evidence of that.
What we do have are facts, and those facts can certainly be used for cause for tht authorities to investigate.
His family also runs a golf tournament which was supposed to donate all the money they recive to his charity
That’s partially true. What we know is that his dad runs a golf tournament and put the Open Hand Foundation on the ads. Usually this means all proceeds go to the charity, or at least that they get the sponsorship money (i.e. merch and whatnot) according to the prices they have listed for sponsors, but we don’t have the actual agreement AFAIK between the tournament and the charity.
So there’s certainly enough to warrant an investigation, but not enough to actually prove any kind of crime. There does seem to be enough to prove negligence for holding onto the money for 10 years though, which should be enough to trigger a thorough audit, including alleged golf tournament income.
And that’s what I don’t like about this whole thing. They’ve already presented facts and contacted the relevant authorities, so anything further they say is conjecture and therefore YouTube drama. The first video by Mutahar was informative, the second was a bit of drama (they should’ve investigated the golf thing a bit more), the third was just dunking on him, and any further videos I see that aren’t directly related to an investigation are pure Internet drama at this point.
running a charity and saying that you’re donating money and then not donating that money is still charity fraud
Potentially. I’m not a tax expert, and I do know there’s usually some leeway about timing, though there’s a good chance delaying for 10 years does violate the law (not sure how the process of moving from private to public nonprofit changes things). This would hinge on how the IRS sees the “promises” Jirard made when asking for donations, whether the eventual donation fits with those promises, and how the IRS interprets the law.
There’s certainly enough to allege that they committed charity fraud, but there absolutely must be an official investigation before conclusions can be drawn. If you jump to conclusions, you can legitimately be sued for defamation and perhaps libel, depending on the statements.
the money from those events do not add up to the money they have on their non-profit statements
Again, that’s not proof, it’s evidence, and it certainly warrants closer inspection. We don’t know the deal between the groups involved, and we have no way of getting those without an investigation.
You can absolutely say, “this is really fishy, explain yourselves” and file reports to the relevant authorities (crowd-sourcing reports is a step too far since it just increases the crap authorities need to wade through).
He’s a scumbag, and a criminal, and a thief
There’s a good chance of that, but at the end of the day, he is innocent until proven guilty, and if you assume otherwise, you open yourself up to defamation lawsuits. That doesn’t matter on something like Lemmy, but it absolutely does for people use make their living off public statements.
He mentioned he knew the number hadn’t been donated as of 2021, so it’s entirely possible he wasn’t directly involved in the charity other than running donation drives. Yes he was an officer that whole time, but it’s very reasonable to say that a sibling was doing most of the charity work.
This doesn’t absolve him of responsibility (he’s an officer, so he should be aware), and he still didn’t donate it for two years. But it’s entirely possible he didn’t know it hadn’t been donated for 7-8 years, and after that point he just followed the same script he’d been using. Again, it doesn’t absolve him, but it does provide some important context.
Then again, this assumes what he said was true. I don’t have any reason to doubt it though, because he basically admitted to multiple allegations in the same call.
He claimed he knew the money hadn’t been donated in 2021, so if that’s true, we’re looking at 2 years, not 10. He was an officer the whole time, but it’s very common for family run businesses and charities to name people as officers even when they don’t have an active role.
My point is that it’s very possible that he didn’t know for the first 7-8 years, and later just followed the same script he’d been following. That’s still bad, especially since he didn’t get the money donated until called out, but not as bad as sitting on it for 10 years.
The golf thing is the final smoking gun, and I’d very much like to hear his explanation of that before jumping to conclusions. It could very well be that one of his siblings is doing something shady there and he wasn’t involved. Until I have details, I’ll keep my finger pointed at the charity itself and not Jirard, though he is a prime suspect. I think it should absolutely be investigated by the authorities, who’ll have access to all of the account data and can provide proof of what happened.
My point is that he could have just been evaluating charities for the past two years, and before that his siblings were supposed to take care of that. We don’t know what the internal agreements were, or the communication between him and the rest of the people in the foundation. All we know is that he claims he knew the money wasn’t donated in 2021, and that pushing on him last month got the money donated.
None of this is particularly relevant to those who have donated, but it’s pretty important when looking at legal consequences and culpability. I think there’s enough here to say Jirard is a scumbag, but not enough to necessarily claim that he is a criminal, though there’s a good chance someone at the foundation has committed a crime.
I don’t think you can draw either conclusion confidently. Here’s an alternate explanation: his sister acknowledged that the money wasn’t donated, and told him that it would once they pick a charity, and he didn’t press on it until it got publicity. I haven’t reviewed every time he boosted his charity, but in the ones I did see, he said he “worked with charities X, Y, and Z,” not that they’ve actually donated money to them (i.e. they’ve been in talks about the donation process). I don’t know how likely that is, but it’s plausible enough for me to hold back on personal accusations, especially if I had a public platform like a popular YouTube channel (e.g. Mutahar @ someordinarygamers YT channel)
The way I see it, he’s either complicit, lying, or negligent. I’m not going to guess which one until I see more evidence.
Exactly. I love Zelda games because of the progression in each dungeon (also why I didn’t like BotW much). The dungeons themselves are rarely challenging (some bosses can be though), and the puzzles are mostly interesting because you use tools you’ve collected along the way, sometimes in ways you didn’t think of at first. You may do something a certain way in dungeon A, and then when you get a new tool, you see something similar but solve it differently (i.e. the old way is blocked) using the new tool. It all builds on each other.
Standalone dungeons miss that context.
That said, maybe it makes sense in TotK because it likely has BotW-like shrines that aren’t tied to progression elsewhere. Idk, I didn’t play it because I was disappointed w/ BotW.
Maybe at a very high level, but as a huge fan of the original NES games, BotW completely falls flat on dungeon design. The fun of TLoZ was two-fold: exploration and dungeons. Most of the rest of the series leaned way more on dungeons than exploration, but they all had some element of that.
And yes, the puzzles did center on combat, but they were still puzzles nonetheless. For example, for Dodongo (my favorite puzzle), you’d get a hint in one room, then try to figure out what it meant while fighting the boss unsuccessfully. Likewise for most of the bosses and mini bosses, there was usually some puzzle to figure out how to beat it.
BotW goes the opposite direction, leaning far more into exploration than dungeons, and I think they totally messed up the balance. After the first divine beast, the rest felt boring to me. There’s usually some gimmick (e.g. rotate rings to access doors) that felt more annoying than fun, and the boss fight had one gimmick that’s pretty easy to figure out and otherwise feels pretty much the same as the others. They fill in the game with crafting, which I really didn’t like interacting with, especially since Zelda games almost never rely on consumables (outside of 2-4 slots for potions/fairies), and I didn’t need healing once I got Mipha’s Grace. Shrines were fun, but they were too shallow and short, so I’d spend way more time finding the puzzle than completing it, and the reward was 1/4 of an upgrade? Shrines and divine beasts just didn’t feel as good as completing a dungeon.
role of the overworld got shrunk to just a thing that connects dungeons
I absolutely agree, and this is one thing I really didn’t like about Ocarina of Time. The overworld was large, but largely empty, outside of 3 or so locations. I always knew where to go, so exploration really want necessary to find and finish the dungeons.
I very much want both to be substantial. ALttP is fantastic as you said, and I really like TLoZ (wish it would get a remake with better contextual hints baked in so you don’t need a game guide).
That said, I played Skyward Sword right after BotW and loved it way more, so I guess I’m on the dungeon side of the equation. However, I found the overworld quite sufficient, I just got annoyed at having to use the stupid bird to get around between islands, I really wanted fast travel. But Skyward Sword is absolutely one of my favorite Zelda games, perhaps beat only by TLoZ (largely nostalgia) and ALttP.
I mean the one you do when you want something easy to do, but not when you’re tired at the point you microwave a frozen-meal, or just cut down a piece of cheese and put it in a bread
It sounds super fancy and foreign, but it’s really just a simple omelette with some fish sauce thrown in. You can get fancy with cornstarch to make it a little crispy, but I ain’t got time for that.
Instructions:
Beat some eggs with some fish sauce (not a lot, just a splash or a spoonful)
Fry eggs in oil, pulling from the side so the liquid on top cooks
It’s done when there’s no more liquid on top. Eat with rice (can microwave some precooked rice).
Total time: 5-10 min. Try it even if you don’t like fish sauce.
Could they also port and translate their Japanese exclusives? For example, Ys IV and Ys V (and Ys X this year). Bonus points for a remaster/remake, but I’d be happy with a straight translation port.
The main benefit GOG provides is their installers, which you can backup yourself. DRM-free Steam games don’t, so you’d need to package up the files yourself (usually all in the steam directory).
That’s not a huge advantage imo, so I generally take the convenience of Steam over GOG, especially since I use Linux and GOG hasn’t bothered to port their client to my platform. Regardless, DRM-free is better.
I prefer to buy from platforms that actively support me instead of leaving it to the community. Valve invests a lot of time and money into improving Proton/WINE, and they build in useful features like controller configuration into their platform.
If GOG supported Galaxy on Linux, I’d probably buy more from them. But they don’t, and I have a Steam Deck, so I prefer Steam.
No, he didn’t say it needs more users to port it, just to support it. Support means more than getting it working, it means testing and customer support if there are issues, which means training testers and support people.
The extra load here would be much lower if it was a single player game, but because it’s MP, they need to know how exploitable it is by cheaters, and perhaps patch some vulnerabilities out.
It’s a lot more than flipping a switch, but it’s also something Epic could totally handle. He’s not lying, he’s just content to milk his cash cow as long as he expects to not lose too many customers by not supporting Linux.
IDK, Unreal Engine runs on Linux, can export to Linux, and the Unreal Tournament games are released on Linux.
I really don’t think he hates Linux, I believe him that he didn’t see a financial point in supporting it for their games. People seem willing to use Windows to play their games, so there’s not a strong financial incentive to support another platform.
If you want Sweeney to change his mind, get more people to use Linux exclusively. Personally, I prefer to ignore him.
Then they get bad press for cheaters using Linux or whatever due to some bug they easily could’ve caught during the QA they didn’t do. So they either need to scramble to fix it, or pull Linux support and block those older versions from connecting.
All of that is worse than never supporting Linux in the first place. So if they’re going to support it, they’re going to need to do proper QA and get their support staff trained to deal with Linux issues.
A smaller studio or something with SP only mode can get away with it, but it’s a lot more tricky for big MP games.
Not preventing Linux use is implicit support, and it opens up another platform for cheaters to exploit. So if it works and your entire game is based on the online, MP experience, you need to QA on all possible platforms to stay on top of cheaters.
Why should they have a distribution platform? Pretty much every game except , and at least I never considered a digital distribution platform as a kid since boxed games worked just fine. I didn’t have a Steam account until Steam came to Linux, yet I played plenty of PC games in the meantime on both Windows and Linux. I bought a mixture of boxed games and online downloads, I didn’t need a launcher to do that for me.
Yes, they missed the boat, but it wasn’t obvious that the boat was going where they wanted to go. Valve took that risk and won big, but other large studios didn’t and were absolutely fine focusing on game dev, and it wasn’t until recently that they wanted in.
Yeah, I think 10% is where it’s definitely attractive, though macOS got away with far less, probably because of how much their customers tend to spend on hardware and software.
What are you talking about? I’m merely showing that he has supported Linux in the past, and at least some of his companies products support it today (Unreal and EAC).
The reason EGS and Fortnite don’t support Linux isn’t because he hates Linux, but because he doesn’t see profit in it. And I don’t blame him, Linux probably isn’t profitable in the short or medium term for EGS or Fortnite.
Steam didn’t start supporting Linux because they saw short or medium term profit, it was a long term investment to keep an option open in case Windows was able to force stores to share profit on their platform. Now that Windows has kind of backed off that, they’re doubling down because the Steam Deck provides another option to increasing sales and appealing to more people.
I don’t hate Tim Sweeney for not supporting Linux, but I am a bit disappointed though. But if Linux gains enough marketshare (not sure how much we’d need, but maybe 5%?), he’ll likely change his mind. He’s interested in profit, and Linux just isn’t an attractive enough platform for that right now for EGS. Maybe that’ll change in the future.
I have never and probably will never give EGS any of my money, but that didn’t mean I hate Sweeney or his products, it just means they provide no value to me, so I’m uninterested, much like he is with Linux.
Age of Water - Official Steam Announcement Trailer (www.youtube.com)
VGC’s Platform of the Year is Nintendo Switch (www.videogameschronicle.com)
In History: The first ever video game console, 50 years on (www.bbc.com)
Steam Year in Review for 2023 now available (store.steampowered.com)
Facebook Is Being Overrun With Stolen, AI-Generated Images That People Think Are Real (www.404media.co)
Tencent has reportedly shut down "AAA multiplayer" studio Team Kaiju (www.eurogamer.net)
Sony Patent Aims To Change Game Difficulty In Real Time As You Play (insider-gaming.com)
Crackers (lemmy.world)
are tiling WM good only for terminal?
I only tried a tiling WM for a few days several years ago. I am ok using the terminal but not everything can be done easily there. In the screenshots of people setups, there are always fancy terminals. Are tiling WM good also for other GUI a part from terminals?
What your credit score actually means (www.vox.com)
‘Almost nobody left’ of D&D team that helped get Baldur’s Gate 3 off the ground, says Larian CEO (www.polygon.com)
[US] Brokerage with decent API?
Looking for a brokerage with functional, individual API access to, at least, account positions, balances, and equity/fund/bond prices. Used to be happy with TDA, but they got bought by Scwab, whose API has been “pending” for six months.
Sean Murray is risking another No Man's Sky launch disaster, but he knows exactly what he's doing and it's kinda genius marketing (www.pcgamer.com)
HowLongToBeat: Most Retired Games of 2023 (twitter.com)
Nitter link: nitter.net/HowLongToBeat/…/1735750590091739428...
Sea Of Stars Developers To Release Patch That Removes The Completionist (noisypixel.net)
SEGA plans to lift the region lock on the Steam versions of Sonic DX and Sonic Adventure 2 for Japan in early 2024 (twitter.com)
Nitter link: nitter.net/SonicOfficialJP/…/1735941523651633504...
Hideo Kojima: Death Stranding, our first child (original IP) after the establishment of KJP, has over 16 million users worldwide 4 years after its launch (as of December 16, 2023). Thank You. (twitter.com)
Nitter link: nitter.net/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/…/1735820385340584237...
Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom devs on why we likely won’t get a Zelda Mario Maker game (www.polygon.com)
Questions about LibreWolf
I have a few questions about it before I try it...
What are your"too lazy to cook" recipe ?
I mean the one you do when you want something easy to do, but not when you’re tired at the point you microwave a frozen-meal, or just cut down a piece of cheese and put it in a bread
Nihon Falcom wants to "eventually" re-release Trails in the Sky for modern platforms (www.rpgsite.net)
Baldur's Gate 3 'Isn't Going to be on Game Pass', Insists Larian Boss (www.ign.com)
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asked by Verge why there is no support for the Steam Deck for Fortnite (lemmy.ml)