abfarid

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Game is game. Play whatever brings you joy. Except FIFA, of course.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

Lemmy often assumes the worst about comments. I think people interpreted* your comment as "can you imagine this woman I know enjoys this kiddy game?!". While you really meant, I think, "some adults like to play Fortnite, too, actually".

Correct me if I'm wrong.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Ah, as in it provides respect? And sounds like cash? I know, I know, dissecting jokes is a lot of fun.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I didn't find any references to "cache". That's the part I want to understand, what the significance of that part of the joke. Why "cache"?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Could you please explain? Now I'm curious.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Oh, it had like an inventory functionality? I love Oblivion, but I obviously didn't get the armor and don't remember the details. I suspect it also provided defense for the horse? In that case it's almost approaching Assassin's Creed's "buy xp to skip grind" level of egregiousness, but still just a DLC.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 9 points 3 months ago (11 children)

It didn't start with horse armor. And even then, while clearly stupid, it wasn't egregious in the way modern mtx is. It was just a poorly priced optional cosmetic DLC. Modern mtx is a whole other beast, where companies use every psychological trick in the book to get people addicted to gambling.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

What truly blows my mind is the amount of requests the 1st party Reddit app sends home. Back when I was using Sync I still had the app installed, but then I set up AdguardHome and saw that my phone was spamming requests. Checked the logs and found out that the 1st party app, which I wasn't even using for months, was "phoning home" literally every 10 seconds! Besides privacy concerns, that can't be good for battery life. Nuked the app then and there. I'll take the nagging, thank you.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Yes. And I think better make it obvious that votes aren't private, instead of people wrongly assuming that they are.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

I still think it's just unfair. You can lookup votes and harass people only IF you know enough about computers. Anybody persistent enough to harass other people will put a little bit of work into being able to look up votes.

In addition, as we can see, this "semi-privacy" confuses a lot of people. Better that all users KNOW that their votes are visible, instead of them thinking they are private.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I was one of those people. But statistically, even the people who migrated from Reddit to here are not "normies". My "normie" friends (which is all of them 🥲) just kept on using Reddit and didn't notice anything. They weren't even using 3rd party apps.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Kinda same. I also have an Ubuntu homelab server, but I feel like I use my Steam Deck more often than I spend an occasional 3-day all-nighter to get something working on the server over SSH.

But my joke premise was obviously flawed anyway. We are supposed to be, but we clearly aren't.

And to address your point regarding votes being viewable only by admins, it's sort of pointless cause anybody can become an admin, just make your own instance. This just makes your statement to be "let only the more technically advanced people see the votes", which just makes it unfair.

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