Hopefully everyone involved will spontaneously combust or something

As we get more and more people who were banned from Reddit and think they can come here to contonue being assholes, yeah. I’m here because I hate the Reddit UI and official app, so when they killed off 3rd party apps I refused to play along. The people who jumped ship by choice are usually fine, but yeah overall you’re not wrong.

The lack of content a couple of years ago and behaviour of a lot of the userbase now has consistently helped cut down on the doomscrolling though, can’t complain there.

I have links set to open in a private firefox tab, then reader mode or whatever it’s called generally avoids all of the popups, paywalls & spaces where ads would be without ad blockers while letting you read the whole thing.

Agreed, there have been some comics that I just don’t enjoy, but the user also posts other stuff that I do like so I don’t want to block them. I don’t see any downside to making filtering & searching easier. I’m not weighing in on the deplatforming specific artists discussion, but for purely functional purposes tags make a lot of sense.

I’m guessing they’re saying if you have a TV that can access yt, then you can plug in a device that can run yt with ads blocked.

Personally I gave my first smart TV the wifi password and almost immediately factory reset it when it tried to install 19 different streaming apps I didn’t ask for and mostly hadn’t heard of, fuck that.

I’m sitting at work, staring at the clock. 40 minutes left until I can go home, then it’s probably Satisfactory time again. I played it about a year and a half ago for 45 days, with an average playtime of 9 hours per day (between working a full time job with 13h shifts 4 days a week). Yeah. I probably shouldn’t have started again.

It took me like 7 years to get the crowns in World, Rise was much quicker. Sadly I burned out after a couple hundred hours of Wilds, the Gold and Miniature crowns are the only achievements I have left. I jump in once a month or so for a few hunts and don’t enjoy myself all that much, hopefully once the expansion drops I can get back into it properly. I love the games so much, I just get to a point where I’d rather do anything than actually go on a hunt.

(Have to sign in to read the whole article, but you can see the first couple paragraphs.)

I just entered a fake email and it let me read the whole thing. If [email protected] actually goes anywhere then I apologise to them for the extra spam.

Looks legit to me, I got one too. My client (Thunderbird) only shows email adresses if you tap it to expand the sent/received stuff.

I just read the article about McAfee vs McMahon at WM on Wrestlecrap, wowee. That’s pretty clearly not his fault, but those are the only two things I know about him so I hope their boost to ticket sales is good 🤷 Either way I was past the point of ever considering watching WWE again a long time ago, so whatever. I’ll read about it if it’s enough of a trainwreck that anyone bothers to mention it ever again.

Was he the one they stuck in his own DLC pack in one of the games with a bunch of his podcasting non-wrestler friends nobody had ever heard of and nobody would ever use?

I used to use that but I’ve switched to Grayjay which lets you also connect a bunch of other platforms.

I don’t use any of those other things (hell I barely use the ones I did connect) so I have no idea how they work, but this might be useful to someone.

The train stuff was so much fun when I first played. I started with a little two-way single train ferrying oil back and forth between the starting area & beach, and ended with a massive network branching out into every part of the map, with dozens of trains and stations all meticulously tracked with spreadsheets.

I’ve started over a couple of times since that file, and I always want to rush to trains so that I can see them all zipping around again, but it’s such a headache going back to square one. In my most recent attempt I started with one of the train network megablueprints so that the infrastructure was there from the get-go, but that meant I was only really building the factories which was kind of the opposite of what I wanted. Next time I might look for prebuilt factories so I can just do the trains (or I could play Transport Fever or something I guess).

*checks your profile for more Satisfactory stuff*

It’s so obvious. I’ve never had a job that was possible to do from home, but everyone being home and off the roads helps so much. I had a driving job when covid hit. Everything about it was easier, faster and less stressful when most people were staying home, and oh would you look at that, driving when you’re less stressed is another way to save fuel because you’re less likely to thrash your car. Whether you’re able to personally do it or not, WFH benefits everybody. Well, all of the actual workers anyway, but we know how the Liberals feel about us already.

Edit: Ok maybe not everybody, I imagine cafes and whatnot that rely on people heading into the office likely struggle a bit. But you get my point.

In all my years…

Years of what, you’re a clown. And I’m not saying that as an insult, he’s an entertainer. A stand-up comedian & reality show host who gets a podcast and turns it into a hugely successful propaganda spout isn’t a fuckin political expert. He hasn’t been studying global politics for the last decade, all his years don’t mean any more than anyone else’s. Hell even my experience is probably more meaningful, at least I live in the real world.

I know I already commented on this post in another comm but I saw this one and I’m still salty.

Man if I were Joe I’d be so pissed off at the most popular podcaster in the world for having one of the richest men in the world who bought one of the most widely-used social media sites in the world on his podcast the day before the election to help endorse Trump. If only half the planet had seen this coming and said something!

I work 2-3 nights in a row with 2-3 off in between, so I’ve been limiting myself to only jumping into Pokopia once between each batch of shifts so that I won’t overdo it. Once I start though, that’s it for the day - it’s bedtime the next time I’m aware of my surroundings.

I mainly just chill out in Palette Town (or Paulette Town because my Ditto is named Paul), building habitats and trying to make it into a nice little village. Despite spending at least a good 20 hours there I’ve barely made it 30 seconds’ jog away from the entry road. I’m basically only doing the story so that I’ll have more options for building and more friends to bring in, like I think I’ll need to get into the next (4th) main map to find cable cars to unlock the item for one of Eevee’s mates. I just like making my own little slice of paradise in post-apocalyptia.

Since I’m working this weekend and only have my Switch, I’m bouncing between Pokémon Violet, Scarlet (for exclusives), Arceus and Sword just doing a few little tasks each day in my endless quest for a shiny living dex.

I’ve also been playing a bit of Gale of Darkness now that it’s been rereleased. I played a lot of Colosseum as a kid, but never managed to get a copy of this one. It’s pretty rough, but about what you’d expect. Some of these models and animations are insane.

Looking forward to getting back to Monster Hunter Stories 3 and Resident Evil Requiem next week.

He didn’t “go” that way, he was always like that.

That’s basically what happened in Australia’s last election. The Liberals were trying to play up culture war shit & wanted to emulate DOGE, and it backfired hard. I was waiting to lock up a polling place for the night in Western Australia which is a couple of hours behind the eastern states, by the time they’d finished packing up the votes to be counted it was already so lopsided that even if every remaining vote was Liberal it wouldn’t have mattered.