Sad to me a lot of times means stuff about time passing and getting older or things changing, so most of these are along that line. Some of the ones I think of first:

Time, Fat Old Sun, and High Hopes by Pink Floyd

In My Life by The Beatles (also Ozzy)

Hurt by Johnny Cash (orginally NiN)

Preaching the End of the World by Chris Cornell

There Was a Light Here by Demon Hunter

Thanks!

But yeah, it is rough. No wonder they keep it a secret, lol.

I have occasionally. I’ve got Google Play on my phone and I used to use a small tablet to do some reading.

Ultimately I find much better success rates reading a paper book. Having a single purpose item laying around helps motivate me, and the low-tech approach reduces distraction.

Had no idea they had an app. After peeking at that page, I still don’t. Do you just mean it’s a PWA, or is there a native one?

But yeah, agree that their UI/UX does not make it much fun. Still a great resource.

I just pulled a valuable card and got it graded through PSA. Wound up not being worth it really for me. But that might be because I paid for a single card. At the very least you save some on shipping if you send a bunch for grading at one time, but the submission fee might lower in bulk too, don’t remember.

The fee tho is based on how quick you want it done. I wanted it back within a couple months, so it cost me like 60 bucks. If you’re patient it’s a good bit cheaper (tho they did just send me an email saying they’re raising prices). My card (fresh from the pack) graded at 9, which in my case looks like it’s going about the same as ungraded, a little bit higher. Even if the card seems perfect, 8/9/10 is basically a toss up far as I can tell. My card went up in value a bit in the months the process took, so I pretty much broke even on the grading vs selling immediately. And PSA will handle the actual selling for you if you want, so that can be nice.

Anyway, that’s just my experience, and it’s n=1 so grain of salt.

From a collection perspective, I don’t really see the appeal in owning graded cards. On a base level, I want someone to enjoy them and I think the grading tombs lower the aesthetic appeal. I don’t want to put more graded cards into the world. But in some cases you just want as much money for your cards as possible. So grading might make sense for the valuable ones if they’re in especially good shape. Check pricecharting for the cards you’re considering for grading and see if there’s a nice bump.

I always think that when I see this fact - what counts as a shuffle? If I sloppily cut the deck once and reassemble, that’s most likely not unique. I wonder how many moves before a shuffle is statistically close to a random order. I’m guessing just a few, but I don’t really know.

Here’s how Bruce Schneier approaches it: https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2006/05/the_eternal_value_of.html

Yes! It’s completely silly. A ‘poll’ designed exactly for the people that want a noai option, to be shared in places like this so those people (like me) can get the tiny satisfaction of hitting No.

They were never wondering what the result would be, they were never trying to gauge their userbase’s preferences. It’s just a page they thought people would share to spread awareness of DDG.

It can be convenient. You’re going to launch the games somehow, whether that’s clicking files in a folder or running a command. If you have a bunch of games it’s nice to see them neatly organized in one place with nice visual representation. Non-launcher options tend to either get unwieldy or require more customization work.

The Steam launcher does a whole bunch of other useful things, like managing saves, setting up Proton, tracking play time and achievements, connecting to friends, integrating the store. It’s not hard to see why people like the convenience.

It is annoying when it goes too far… like individual games that insist on having their own launcher.

Heroic is a nice middle ground. GoG gives you simple downloads, that you can then choose to access through Heroic.

“Make sure to like, follow, and subscribe.”

Oof, this still isn’t up on F-Droid or either main app store. That’s a shame, I thought this moment would be a great time for Loops to get some user base, but it seems like it’s still not ready for wider adoption.

That said, it does look a lot better now than it did a few months ago when I last tried it. Here’s hoping it picks up some momentum. I finally tried TikTok last year, and was really impressed by the breadth of videos and how quickly it was able to start showing me things I enjoyed. With the recent change in ownership, I don’t know that I’ll revisit it much if at all. Would take quite a lot to replicate even a little bit of the zeitgeist TikTok had going. But like with Lemmy and Mastodon/Bsky, I’m hoping I can do my little part by choosing where to put my attention. Just don’t know that I’m going to find much there I care to see, for now.

I disagree. In theory, the crowd-sourced curation and moderation is a great concept. Comments still accomplish that to some degree, but I like the votes.

There are a lot of problems. Bandwagoning like you mentioned - people are more likely to up/downvote if they see it’s already going one way. And the almost opposite problem, where low-effort votes only look at a headline or title without clicking through or actually reading the content.

But to me it’s almost a moot point on Lemmy anyway. Sorting by Hot or Scaled surfaces new content heavily regardless. Even when it’s spam and getting downvoted to oblivion, seems like the posts still show up on my feed just by virtue of being recent.

I think in this case they just mean the total count and score, not who voted what. For that, I think most clients readily display it. I see it on both the desktop website and in Voyager.

Took me a sec to find it on first scan of the article, so highlighting this bit for those curious about the other games:

. . . Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake has been cancelled, as well as four unannounced titles, including three new IPs and a mobile title. The identity of the sixth game has not been clarified.

and the delayed games have not been clarified yet either. From the related article:

In addition, Ubisoft said it’s delayed seven games to ensure they meet quality expectations. It did not say which games had slipped, but confirmed that the seven titles include one title that was planned for release before April 2026, which will now be released before April 2027.

It’s weird, IRL and in some online venues, it seems like people are usually friendly and ready to helps newbies learn.

But then plenty of other online spaces seem to just invite elitism and negativity. The culture of ‘rtm’, ‘lmgtfy’ and ‘marked as duplicate’ doesn’t encourage people to respect others.

That’s not Pokemon is it? Looks more like a Mega Man Battle Network or Star Force game.

Lol, in the first part of 2008, I was obsessed with the new Smash Bros game that was about to come out. The marketing was drip feeding info day by day, and it was all working perfectly on me. Throughout those early months, I could tell you how many days until it released in the US.

I turned out not to like that game so much.

Super cliche yes, cringe no.

It’s not entirely a bad metaphor or whatever, but it’s certainly tired. It’s also a bit misleading. Being good at chess isn’t a really a sign of high intelligence generally, it just means you’re good at chess.

Don’t know that I have a particular favorite, but one that comes to mind to recommend is Don Norman’s Design of Everyday Things.

I definitely second this!

Another classic in the game history space - Game Over - is one of my favorites too. MoD is probably better written, but then GO’s subject matter draws me in a little more.