There was a time when all my shopping would be on Amazon with Prime. I was spending £200+ a month on Amazon. Over a year ago I decided I didn’t want to give Bezos my money anymore. It wasn’t difficult at all to switch. It’s not difficult to buy direct from seller’s websites. Amazon has made this easier by flooding their site with nonsense brands+sellers+nonsense reviews. Ditch Amazon today. You may be surprised with how easy it is.

Lemmy is the only social media I use and it has been great. It feels like this is the more appropriate meme:

I’m a huge fan of rogue-lites. I don’t think I’ve come across any meta-progression mechanic that has bothered me as much as you say.

Hades was probably the most jarring example for me. Mirror upgrades made the game significantly easier and there was little chance of a beginner rogue-lite player managing to complete a run without these. Then by the time the mirror upgrades were unlocked then it felt like I needed to rapidly turn up the “heat” to keep the game challenging at all. I can see why they’ve made such a drastic difficulty curve because they’re appealing to a wider audience than normal rogue-lite audiences (Binding of Isaac audiences would never tolerate such hand holding). I’m still fine with that.

I’ve got a bigger problem with abilities/items being locked behind impossible difficulty. Some items I will never unlock in Dead Cells, because I will never be able to do 5BC (got to 4BC max). Same with Enter the Gungeon and beating the final final boss and extra bosses. In those cases I wonder why the devs have made aspects of the game that the majority of the population will never get to engage with. I just download a 100% completed save file when I’ve made all the progress I could have. I think we should be given the option to access all unlocks after 100 or 150 hours of gameplay or some such option.

Overall, I’ve got no problem with the inclusion of meta-progression (or not). If they implement it well and make a fun game, that’s all that matters to me.

You guys are seeing sponsors? Don’t people use sponsorblock? I’ve never heard of (or seen) half these things.

I got sick of the cat and mouse with updates and youtube making changes.

I tried Grayjay from f-droid and I’m never going back. Getting all my video platforms on one amazing app with excellent queueing, background play, pop-out player, etc. It even has ad-blocking and sponsorblock built in. I’ve happily paid for this app and set it up ok my PC too. Highly recommended.

I remember that being from a Chris Rock standup.

I think it was in this somewhere but I’m not going to watch the whole thing again.

If anyone like getting their hands dirty with tinkering, then you can get inspiration from Zac’s YouTube video about modernising an iPod.

Not NSFW… But otherwise in this context, the animated movie Hoodwinked was such a fun movie. Don’t know why it has such average reviews.

“That was a damn good wank… I must tell the others!!”

Its a community service really. Heroes doing good things for the sake of being good.

Some people finish the game on normal difficulty and like to restart on “New Game+, Nightmare Mode”.

m’lady

We will… When the time is right.

I think if Charles Xavier (from X-men) made Cerebro in real life, he would quickly end up burning the building and end up living in a remote cave somewhere.

Into The Breach

It works perfectly with just touch controls. Eden emulator runs the Switch version perfectly on my phone. I hadn’t really played the game properly before (would just die quickly and not know how to proceed). Now I’m starting to get the hang of it and can play it for brief gaps in my day now that it is on my phone.

This is the origin of the phrase “where there’s a will, there’s a way”.

I’ve spent time with firefighters and paramedics. They can end up sitting around doing nothing for a significant portion of the day. This is the nature of emergency work. If you want someone to be instantly available the minute there’s an emergency, then you can’t really have them do anything else important. All they can do is work that can be dropped instantly (or do nothing). The same applies to any emergency service… emergency doctors, emergency plumbers, emergency locksmiths, emergency IT workers. Business managers hate this because no one likes the idea of paying someone who is not doing 100% work the whole time, but you just have to pay people to be available and do nothing else of major significance.

We will keep in touch grandma… When Facebook uses all your data and voice samples to sell me a subscription to put your deep faked voice into my bedside alarm clock.

They’re desperate to get data about human activity. They wanted data about what people do online and they’ve got all of that. Now they need to move into the human world as much as possible. It used to be just for selling to advertisers, but now they also need to feed it into AI.

They already try to force these into every area of our lives… all phone data, all online content, dating apps, phone keyboards, browser fingerprinting, internet connected fridges, cars, door bells, home cameras, etc etc. Now they will try to find new and novel ways to put more data collection devices (camera, mic, GPS, gryo and movement trackers, any physical parameter they can think of, etc etc) into more insane devices.

They will push “smart” clothes, wearable AI devices, furniture, toilet, etc etc. They will say these are absolutely essential and add value to our lives. People will eat this up immediately and fall over themselves to incorporate these into their lives and celebrate how amazing this is.

It started with the initial days of Facebook when I didn’t want to be on Facebook, but people I know would still upload my pictures and tag them with my name. They need more and more ways to get information on people not in their ecosystem. This shit will only get more and more invasive.

Use a podcast app that works with Android Auto and subscribe to all the audio podcasts you want.

All of it is painful… but the pain of watching someone need to go between 2 windows repeatedly without using alt/tab.Just shoot me