TheTechnician27

The “Ronda Center Tourist Apartments” in the background adds a funny touch. Specifically tourists. I wonder if Nathan Drake checked in while he uses this bridge for climbing practice.

I’ll bet the babies who eat around the box are the same ones who’d throw a fit if their parents didn’t cut the crust off their sandwiches.

Heroic is an impressive achievement. It just isn’t a full replacement – and most of these points I’m about to list aren’t things it’s trying to or should necessarily do as a games launcher. Off the top of my head:

• It doesn’t work for social aspects like friends, statuses, etc.
• It doesn’t work for monitoring achievements.
• The storefront is just the actual gog.com webpage rendered as a surface. GOG Galaxy’s store UI, by contrast, flows with everything else.
• I don’t think games auto-update, although I could be wrong.
• It’s bloated by nature of also being a launcher for Epic and Amazon – platforms I will never use. GOG Galaxy allows crossplatform stuff, but it’s not a full-on multilauncher.
• The UI is pretty ass. I sympathize a lot with this one as someone who works on the (often disastrously undercoordinated) UI of a similar-profile project.
  • Rectangular UI elements’ corner rounding is all over the place (from sharp 90° to Material 3 and everything inbetween).
  • Themes are extremely samey with an enormous bias toward dark themes (I say this as someone who exclusively uses dark themes: a single light theme and thirteen dark themes means you don’t give a shit).
  • You can’t hide the left-hand menu bar to actually center the page you’re viewing.
  • Actions like toolbar dropdowns have no animations (I understand not wanting these; that’s accommodated with a “Disable Animations” option).
  • There’s absolutely zero compatibility with Orca (screen reader) that I can find.
  • Etc.

Again, all of these except the UI aren’t things Heroic is doing wrong or even supposed to be doing at all.

Side note: in Heroic, the GOG storefront opens with UTM parameters in the URL for “adtraction”. Wonder what that’s about.

I take some sense of ownership over my Steam library in that I can and will immediately pirate the game with the DRM stripped out if Valve ever decides to revoke my access to it.

On the other hand, this – and buying from a better company – is why I actively prefer GOG, even in cases when the price is higher. (But pssst, hey, Beyond a Steel Sky is $3.50 on GOG right now compared to Steam’s $35.) The fact I have to launch the Steam client to play a game I paid for is absurd, and I regret every purchase I made, like Stardew Valley Terraria, before I knew GOG existed. The main outstanding issue to me now is that GOG refuses to port its Galaxy client to Linux.

Just showing a quote verbatim from Harry Truman isn’t a “political meme”. Communities mean nothing, I guess, just like when Reddit enshittified.

… I guess as opposed to the Elon kind of African American?

Isn’t this the same “HR News” whose Medium article you posted the other day that cited a nonexistent study in its headline? And you didn’t leave Lemmy in embarrassment yet? Fuck out of here.

People who premeditatively use words like “cunt” and then decide to censor it are behaving like 12-year-olds playing MW2 on Xbox Live who want to call somebody a “fucking bitch” but whisper it into the mic so their parents don’t ground them.

Like, we all know what you mean, and you censoring it isn’t protecting anyone’s delicate sensibilities. You only end up looking immature. Just use polite language or fucking don’t, you daft cunts.

Do they mean that he was impersonating ICE by wearing their uniform or that he was impersonating them by violently breaking into a random home without a warrant?

I recommend starting with a low-FODMAP diet if you don’t want that kind of fermentation.

Also, buddy, no, you aren’t making “your own” logo; that piece of shit’s in the public domain by nature of how it was created.

In your urethra, and then you shoot it out during sex. Sex work is generally outlawed because this practice is so dangerous.

It sounds like they’re already living in their own personal Hell if they have to eat Pasta Roni.

The full quote in case anybody wants it.

No problem at all. Full disclosure: I’m a longtime member of and frequent contributor to Wikipedia. I have a bias in this. I’ll say, however, that because we’re not a monolith, internal criticism of the project is varied, rampant, and welcomed. It’s no surprise when everyone is a volunteer and the entire draw of editing is “this thing sucks; make it better”. Criticism is so prolific that for the project’s 25th anniversary, the English Wikipedia’s official newsletter, The Signpost, published a dire, 6500-word warning about our trajectory.

We’re constantly looking for criticism so we can improve, and it’s why, if you can believe it, we love seeing new faces and articles published like “I tried to edit Wikipedia for a week; here’s how it burned my house down”. What we don’t value is criticism made in bad faith; there’s nothing to talk about when one side of the discussion wants to just sit around and Gish gallop all day for transparent political ends.

For those out of the loop, this user’s entire purpose on Lemmy is to spread negative coverage of Wikipedia, one of the few remaining strongholds against far-right disinformation.

And yes, that does include signal-boosting criticism from literally anyone who’s against the project, including Israeli courts, US House Republicans…

Effectively, their job is to stir up FUD.

if you can’t exercise, that for me walking daily for at least an hour has made an improvement on my life.

This is still exercise. That’s over 30 km of walking per week assuming a roughly average speed. It’s mild-intensity exercise that doesn’t target all muscle groups, but it’s nevertheless exercise. If you’re walking outdoors, that’s another factor that can help depression.

> “study finds”

> Doesn’t link to or name the study

> Links to a generic stock image of two people walking

Who upvotes this swill?

Edit: okay, here’s what they meant to link to but accidentally just linked the thumbnail image instead. Reassuring that this got upvoted 20 times, 0 downvotes, and multiple comments before someone pointed it out.

Here’s the Cochrane systematic review in case anyone wants to cut past Morning Edition’s (reasonably good) commentary on it.

“One of the things I like doing most is bangin’ hoors.”

If you use DuckDuckGo, you can just type !wt wordyouwant. This takes you to the English Wiktionary entry (EDIT: I forgot to mention this language depends on your DDG locale), where Wiktionary is a (really rich and underappreciated) sister project to Wikipedia that acts as an every-language-to-English dictionary (or e.g. an every-language-to-French dictionary in the case of fr.wiktionary.org, etc.)

As an example of the first random word that came to mind: concentric

Ah, yeah, I knew what you meant. I just thought it was funny imagining the serious tone of Blade Runner’s replicants pasted onto Reddit bots astroturfing for Burger King.