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verysoft,

He likes attention and look what he is getting plenty of with this change.

verysoft,

Rebranding one of the worlds most recognisable brands is a bad idea.

verysoft,

The systems seem cool, but visually the game looks a bit lackluster, it's kinda uncanny in places. Also what's with that smoke and the flickering shadows?
I guess they just wanna resell the DLC though, it is Paradox we are talking about.
I will probably make a sale purchase if it gets good reception though, I hope the mod support is still good.

verysoft,

Everyone is too serious these days, we need this goofy shit to return!

verysoft,

I wish RPGs would be more RPG again, immerse us in the world with things like directions rather than a UI for everything. Make players figure things out instead of being so hand-holdy.

verysoft, (edited )

Yeah can give an option to enable markers and such for accessibility.

Its true, its sad to see devs don't wanna do that anymore, like with a bunch complaining recently that Baldurs Gate 3 will 'be an anomaly'.

Having to follow roads/signposts/landmarks and go back and ask for their directions again because you forgot would be awesome, maybe you could buy a map and hand mark it with notes and stuff to find your way, a companion could offer assistance and remind you what the quest giver said etc.

Is Tidal/Deezer worth it?

Hello, everybody, I’ve been thinking to move on from my Spotify subscription to move to Tidal or Deezer. I want to try out HIFI audio, but still get a good and stable experience. Are there any suggestions for which one I should pick? Could you also tell about your experience with those apps, or are there any other you would...

verysoft,

Spotify is unfortunately on track to completely destroy its UX. They are also horrendously slow at implementing highly requested features. Competition seems to be finally creeping up though.

verysoft,

X11 and multi monitors is also a mess.

Linux will continue to be a frustrating geeks-only club unless and until somebody starts getting paid to work on it

Hot take incoming. Just some thoughts I’ve been having recently as I experience Linux at work for several years now. To clarify, I mean Linux on the desktop as a consumer. As in, what our lord and savior Richard M. Stallman would call “GNU/Linux”; pick your favorite distro here. I’m leaving out Linux on the server,...

verysoft,

Hit the nail on the head.
And they will come and say "it works fine for me" in classic fashion.
Or tell you that you are using it wrong.
I do hope Linux desktop does get some good investment in the future, but maybe its fine just existing for a niche audience or specific use cases.

verysoft,

NewPipe has the nicer layout for sure, but you have to use a fork for SponsorBlock, which means its behind on other fixes, most notably some audio track issues.

verysoft,

OW2 was just a cash grab cleverly marketed. They said they would never add a battle pass or sell heroes in Overwatch. In order to keep their promise they had to make a new game.
New game? But won't everyone stay on OW1? Yes. So they made the new 'game' a mandatory patch. They wouldn't get away with just patching in a store though, so they had to change things to justify it, which is where they started blind firing on random things and the promise of pve.

The game was made for 6v6, it was balanced by the end largely for 2 tanks, 2 damage and 2 support, even though the original design philosophy was to be constantly changing heroes to counter the enemies, the role lock kinda worked well (notbperfect, I think they needed to keep 1 rank and allow people to swap roles mid match) and the balance was good, well as good as it can be from blizzard.

OW2 deleted a tank spot to make it 5v5 and this completely ruined all balance the game had. They randomly changed heroes that didn't need touching, once you start fucking with core heroes that the game was balanced around, then you know its over. They removed mccrees flashbang, citing "there's too much CC in the game", but then at the same time changing orisa to have even more disgusting CC. There's so many examples of shitty changes, all made for one reason, to make each hero feel strong to the user, in order to sell skins.

The game doesn't need new heroes, it didn't need them since after Ana was released, but they wanted to sell them, so they create some strong bs and whack it in the store and in a battle pass, its new, it's strong, people are gonna wanna buy it, they cant help themselves.

They removed random systems, tried hiding others, they changed maps randomly, removed the 2CP mode only to replace it with something far worse and they destroyed the UI across the board. The game lost all its charm.

All to sell skins and battle passes. The worst thing? It was a success. People love spending $25 on skins that they only see the arms of 90% of the time.

They could have released a PVE DLC, I imagine they wanted to, but others at blizzard had other ideas. Either way, blizzard is gone, the good devs moved on or were involved in controversy. Its a skeleton crew remaining, pushing lifeless updates to the game. Overwatch is dead.

verysoft,

Why not just use LocalSend? Open source, simple and cross-platform.

verysoft,

Reduced the amount of videos per row too, had to find a ublock filter for that one.

If anyone is interested: https://pastebin.com/raw/SMVYXFHe

verysoft,

There's a fine line of acceptable ads that I think websites stepped over and now everyone hates ads of any kind. They were mostly unobtrusive with the odd banner ad, slowly the whole web started getting more and more aggressive with ads, targeted ads begun and then people wanted rid of them. The cycle of more blocked ads, so they put more ads on, but then more people block, then they add more ads... on and on. Now it's too hard to convince people to go back to acceptable unobtrusive ads.

Game of Thrones was nearly "destroyed" by pirates illegally streaming HBO content (www.forevergeek.com)

At first this article reads like your typical anti-piracy screed. It rants about how 10x more people watched GoT illegally (confusing them with lost sales) and ends with how downloading movies can get your credit card stolen....

verysoft,

Classic bait post. Can we leave this bs on reddit?

verysoft,

But they make you click and engage by having a deceptive title. Which incites the rage comments, or people commenting to correct them. I also commented, so they got what they want from me too, but had to point it out at least once.

verysoft,

Twitch could have massively ate into YouTube if they wanted, but they must have decided it wasn't worth the cost to host videos.

verysoft,

They are more watching than playing. All coming to pc anyway now, so could grab them super cheap eventually anyway if you really wanted.

verysoft,

Yeah, was more the point of why even buy consoles at this point if you really enjoy gaming. Consoles are great for quick plug and play sure, but with just minimal setup you can have a much better machine that pays for itself in the long run due to the cheaper games and lack of forced online subscriptions.

I agree, I don't think any exclusives are good enough to justify buying a specific console.

verysoft,

SMS support got more people to use it, its easy to convince friends/family to swap if they can do all their regular texting in there. I understand why they removed it, but I think they did it way too early, they still needed a larger userbase.

verysoft,

I kind of like seeing the clickbait, it lets me know which videos/channels arent worth my time. I know most use at least a little clickbait these days, but from the better channels its usually managable and still on topic (like the Real Engineering example shown here, whereas the others are complete clickbait that I would avoid).

verysoft,

I think everyone who thought twitter was bad/hated it just really used it the wrong way.

All you had to do was follow specific accounts akin to your interest (and probably avoid reading comments) and it was fab. That was the intended use anyway until they started forcing more algorithmic content you didn't ask for into a new 'home' feed.

It was a fantastic tool for keeping up to date with things you are interested in and there was nothing else like it, still isn't to that scale.

If you were browsing trending sections and engaging in comment threads, then you were always going to have a bad time and get bullshit shoved into your face.

verysoft,

Prolonged kissing/sex scenes just feel like filler, we can understand how intimate the characters are after 10s, we dont need 2 minutes of it. Obviously this is different if its specifically a porno.

verysoft,

Faceit oof, need full access to your pc, refuse to let you use features of your pc and you have to strangle them during a gdpr request to make them finally hand over data. Shame how they fell, but they have that market share advantage.

verysoft,

Absolutely, people forget its a privilege to drive heavy killing machines around and it should come with more tests for all drivers and harsher penalties for law breaking to keep the roads more safe.

verysoft,

Is your pc clock wrong maybe?

verysoft,

Linux, currently, cannot handle everything Windows can unfortunately. Windows also has a massive software support advantage. Valve are in the best place to try and give Linux to the masses, but that's a lot of work and it won't have much return for them. Windows getting worse is the way Linux will get more market share, but most people are not power users and will probably just use Windows anyway as it 'just works'.

verysoft,

I get it you like Linux, so do I. And I just have yet to have a smooth experience with it as a desktop and for games. We talking about the average gaming market here, nothing more, Linux is obviously very powerful and is the most used OS outside of desktops.

Most users have Nvidia cards that still do not play nicely with a lot of Linux setups, although that seems to be coming around now. Linux is a very customisable platform and it can be a lot better than Windows if you spend the time tweaking every aspect of it, but you are kidding yourself if you think Linux is better OOTB than Windows for most users. It's fine for us to stick our heads into wikis and play around in the terminal, but most people don't want to bother with all that.

I hope Linux does get more adoption so that support is further improved and I hope it reaches that tipping point where most people can pick up for their everyday machines.

verysoft, (edited )

RIF is also still working

(logout if it doesnt, i've never personally used it logged in)

verysoft,

Average consumer these days eat all this shit up unfortunately.

People preorder any old shit, they buy the ultra deluxe editions because they get some red boots for a character and the new thing thats hot right now: X days early access!

People have 0 patience atm, they dont wanna wait a month to see if a game sucks or to save a bit of money, they fork over anything for anything and its completely ruined the triple A gaming scene, with it trickling down into less budgeted games now.

verysoft, (edited )

Reddit turned into an echo chamber because of karma, people didn't want to express a different opinion than what the 'masses' have already decided on, because they would be downvoted and lose karma. The downvote feature itself being misused there too.

Reputation should be hidden or removed imo, keep the up/downs/boosts for sorting.

verysoft,

I will never not recommend Subnautica.

It's a brilliant game, probably my all time favourite. I wish I could play it again for the first time.

If you have never played the Halo games, they are worth it too, Halo 1 to Halo Reach are fantastic.

verysoft,

I hope they remove the reputation display, people farming karma points was stupid.

Up/down votes should be used for post/comment organising and nothing more imo.

verysoft,

Perhaps they should make posts in their new kbin/fedi communties and then only allow links to them posts in their subreddits and disable commenting on reddit. People will then see the new platforms and be likely to sign-up to interact with it.

Or just let the fediverse grow organically, perhaps the masses are better off staying away, but if they are trying to protest reddit, they are doing it the wrong way.

verysoft,

They used to be great value, good specs for affordable prices, then slowly turned into premium shit when they got more popular. Same happening with Nothing now.

verysoft,

They still trying to gaslight lmao.
CDPR have good writers and terrible management. Cyberpunk 2077 was in development for 7 years, one of the most expensive games ever made and still released as a pile of shit marketed behind false promises. Where the money went and what happened during that time, only they know, but something went seriously wrong.

OceanGate CEO Bragged About Using Expired Carbon Fiber to Build Doomed Sub (futurism.com)

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verysoft,

A bit of the 'it wont happen to me' mindset.

verysoft,

Got me thinking how awkward 911, 112 is to call on modern phones with one hand. 999 and 000 are much quicker to dial being only 1 number and at the bottom of the dial pad, 000 especially, being in the middle for left and right handers.

verysoft,

Yeah, pros and cons to it.
I have never heard of this being a problem until recently, the feature has been around a while. It should probably be disabled by default or have some other failsafe in place.

verysoft,

Its all about that PSP-1000. Still working fine to this day!

verysoft,

I want to keep it vanilla, for nostalgias sake when I use it :D

verysoft,

No, absolutely not.

verysoft,

Not like RIF, more modern space wasting with the 'card' approach. Although I'm not sure about customisation, I just remember trying it and it had the same design 'flaws' every other had until I stumbled into RIF, which was perfect.

Would love a RIF-like app.

verysoft,

That is pretty good to be fair, I'd settle for that, but RIF's compact is still superior for me.

verysoft,

This is the best malicious compliance so far, still reddit could 'force' them to remove the approval restriction.

But subreddits like pics doing the john oliver thing are completely missing the point, reddit dont care if they do that, it's still getting thousands of views and upvotes because its 'cool and funny', its such a 'we did it reddit' moment. Just stop using reddit, let the subreddits go to shit with no moderation, make a sticky linking to alternatives.

verysoft,

If these subreddits all had a sticky thread linking to their new magazines/communities on other platforms, then it would help them grow.

But they don't. They just make a copy/paste post about reddit killing 3rd party apps and "go use alternatives", most people need directly linking to them with a simple description of how they work.

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