Main reason games like Deathloop, Outer Wilds, Gunfire Reborn, Slay the Spire, Vampire Survivors, etc. got their hooks in me so deep - something I can sit down, fire up to play solo (it’s tough as hell to get friends together to squad in games when all your friends are also 35 and busy), knock out a 30min - 2hr play session, and put down without feeling like I’m in the middle of something.

Love how many games there are these days who play like this. Seems like rogue-lites do it best, but it’s nice to see other genres making it work, too.

There’s an XKCD for everything

Always loved the alt text on that one:

I can’t remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you’re saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it’s not literally illegal to express.

It’s wild how many people seem to have slept on Prey. It’s an amazing game.

Also +1 on Antichamber. Portal-like but with some very unusual and fun mechanics.

What’s the reason for both Plex and Jellyfin?

I’ve been using Kagi for a couple weeks. I’ve so far found it to be excellent. One thing to note is it supports DDG-style bangs, and those don’t count against your search quota, so getting used to using them for wiki, youtube, IMDB, etc., is worth it. I also bumped up to the $10 plan, just to wash out any second-guessing on searches, although the price even if you exceed your quota is pretty cheap, and it seems like most people probably do far fewer searches than I do.

I still find DDG to be pretty terrible, but I have very occasionally fallen back to google, mainly for specifically searches for businesses / services near me, that kind of thing, or for searches for very recent things - somebody had posted a screenshot of an article on IIRC Fortune Magazine’s site. I wanted to read it, and it turned out the article was only a few hours old at that time. Google had it indexed, but Kagi didn’t yet.

For more general searches and technical searches I do for work, though, it’s been very very good, and those are the most important searches, to me.

I hope it has more bug cleanup. I really want to like the game. I tried it at release and bugs made it miserable, tried it again last Autumn and got a decent ways into it before hitting a hard progress-blocking bug…meh.

I’d love to be able to actually play through the game. Like I say I was having fun, but damn.

IIRC, they cited google as a reason not to work on their own search, since that’s what most of their userbase had got used to searching reddit with anyway by that point.

Too late. On the advice of another Lemmy thread, I started trying Kagi a couple weeks ago, for exactly this reason. I highly doubt I’ll come back; it’s been working great for me, and given how important search is to me both personally and professionally, it’s easily, easily worth the price.

I honestly can’t remember. There’s some options listed here. I might have used Soundiiz? I seem to remember it was something I had to subscribe to, but only for a month just to get all my playlists and likes moved, and then once that was done, canceled the subscription. I remember there were a few cases where a song didn’t convert because the name or specific mix or whatever was different, but I could just search it on YTM and add it.

Agreed. The net effect of this kind of choice - what the person above you is saying - is exactly the intended effect. It lowers the value of Nvidia users’ cards to them, but, critically, only because Nvidia plays these bullshit exclusivity games.

Nvidia users can’t get the most out of their cards on a big, popular new game and they’re all mad about it? Well, there’s an easy fix, Nvidia, to prevent these situations in the future: Just open DLSS up to everybody. Boom, done. AMD and Bethesda aren’t the ones being assholes, here, and it’s not their fault that Nvidia’s customers aren’t getting the most out of their cards.

All the computers in the Electronics lab had it installed on them; we wasted so much time playing. That was such a complete screw-off class, haha.

I moved to YTM when Spotify just would not stop trying to shove Rogan down my throat at every opportunity. The iOS app itself has some rough edges but otherwise, no regrets. I used a tool to transfer over my playlists and likes, and from there it’s been perfectly good. Plus YT Premium is nice to have, too.

Adding notes to users (for moderation purposes)

Honestly would be cool if that could be done for anybody, not just admins / mods, like Reddit with RES. It lets you add something sort of like a flair to any user that only you can see. You can pick from a list of font colors and just add a short thing, it’s very handy.

Even better would be customizable sorting algorithm.

I definitely do not think we should support them, in any way. Meta is just…fundamentally corrupt, greed-driven, with no concerns for the harms they cause. They go beyond just the normal level you expect from big companies. I don’t trust them not to mine data from other servers. They’ve already shown they’re more than willing to play fast and loose with legalities around data. They’ll do anything they think they can get away with, or can afford the fine for, and sell that data to any devil that can pay.

Like, sure, any other server could do the same thing. But anybody walking by you on the street could knife you, too, right? But the vast, vast majority won’t. They wouldn’t even think to, let alone have to choose not to. The difference with Meta is that we know that they are actually willing to. Eager to, if there’s money to be made.

I would support an outright block. I don’t have any real feelings about ‘formally’ signing onto the pact. There’s no reason not to just quietly block, if you rather. Anybody who wants to join fedi can just as easily do it on another instance. For the ones who don’t want to stray far from meta…well, I’ve long since left Facebook behind. I’ve already said I don’t care about losing them.

I call BS. I think this is something that people like to think that they believe, but they really don’t.

The first time they found themselves standing in the kitchen and thinking, “How long am I supposed to cook chicken?” and realizing the only way to find out is to clean up, get dressed, drive down to the bookstore and find a cooking-for-beginners book (or, if they’re lucky and know somebody who would know the answer, they could try to call them, but it would only work if that person was home and able to hear their landline and felt like gambling on answering an unknown call - unless they maybe had caller ID), they’ll be right back on board with the digital age.

Like, go watch early-seasons episodes of The X-Files and realize how many of the plot lines only work because the show started in a time that was pre-mobile phones, and then realize that kind of hilariously stupid and inconvenient situation was just, like, everyday life for everybody not so very long ago. Plan to meet a friend for lunch but they don’t show up? You can decide to wait and risk eating alone, or go home, because there’s literally no way to find out if they’re just running a little late or if they’re completely unable to come or what.

Sure, social media is a bit of a hellscape, but there is so much convenience that people take for granted that comes from cell phones and internet. I just do not believe more than a single-digit percentage of people would seriously enjoy going back for more than a few days, tops. No more than a camping trip.

It used to be a near-daily visit for me, but I haven’t gone there in years and years.

I had actually just been starting to build up an RSS roster prior to reddit’s API meltdown. Perfect timing!

Just been getting tired of the internet being basically a small few sites, and wanting to get back to reading articles and blogs more.

I think back to this article quite a bit, lately. The basic idea is that social media sites seem, by the numbers, to be doing fine, and then they abruptly collapse. The trick is that when the people who create high engagement - people who make posts that make people super happy or angry or whatever, as long as they are feeling something and therefor getting engaged - when those people start to post less because they’re spending some of their energy on some other new site, the old one gets kinda hollowed out. It’s not obvious it’s dying until it’s dead.

I don’t know if reddit is done for, but I can say that lemmy and mastodon are feeling a lot more fleshed out, lately, compared to past waves of people coming from twitter. It feels like turning a corner, or crossing a critical mass threshold; it’s getting easier to stay engaged and not feel the need to check the old giant sites.