pory

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[–] pory@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Just use an ouya controller

[–] pory@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There's also just the naming problem. Social media works best when its name sounds like a place and its verbs sound like normal actions. Mastodon is a three syllable elephant (or a metal band), versus a sky or a book (note: this isn't a hard and fast rule, since Twitter and Instagram pulled it off). And they call their posts toots. Officially, too, unlike the user-made meme of "Skeets". Toots are farts. No politician or business professional is going to say "retoot" with a straight face.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

If you block somebody that quote posts you on Bluesky, their quote post no longer has your post in it or anything pointing to you. You also can straight up delete people's replies to your posts there. Hopefully Masto's iteration on QRTs works similarly, though people always have the option to "screenshot dunk" instead.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Genie's out of the bottle now though. The casual-attracting features needed to be in place before twitter exploded. They weren't. Bluesky's were. Casuals don't care about what-ifs or principles, it's a miracle Musk let Twitter get so terrible that the casuals even noticed. It'll take a monumental event now to get the casuals to switch again from the blueskys they just made and got invested in.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Tell that to the Gamecube and Wii U eras. Funny that those are also all-time peaks for game quality, Nintendo is better at making video games when they're struggling.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

There's also just grammatical stuff that looks better in text. "In the future, it's player driven" would conversationally flow perfectly well, but as written text the tense of "it's" doesn't line up with the statement being about the future. Hence the present tense being corrected to future tense.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Krafton seems to be attempting to diversify with this purchase and also the purchase of Unknown Worlds. We'll see how many enshittification mandates they force on their studios when Subnautica 2 hits early access this year (it's already confirmed to have online multiplayer so eyebrows are raised)

[–] pory@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the game is a slot machine. It's a purely aesthetic slot machine (zero ads, zero MTX, zero premium currency, zero paid DLC), but it turns out "does it look like casino gambling" is the concern, not "is it actually something that you can ruin your life over because it preys on gambling addiction"

It looks like the dev is just gonna sigh and accept the garbage "age rating" system, and let LBAL stay on the store as a "mature 18+ audiences only" app.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Reddit was like that for ages before they implemented i.redd.it and v.redd.it. it's the whole reason Imgur even exists, Reddit wouldn't let you "upload an image" and would only aggregate comments and upvotes for links to external content.

That said, this Plebbit project raises more red flags than a Danish standing army.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Almost anyone who works with pathfinder/paizo could have instead worked with D&D/Wizards. Owlcat etc made their choice specifically to not work with Wizards.

[–] pory@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Obsidian's last open world game, The Outer Worlds, was best described as "whelming"

[–] pory@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

The equivalents for Android, precompiled ReVanced APKs, are commonly used to spread malware. Following the instructions to patch the app yourself isn't hard. Google taking down precompiled modded versions of YouTube but leaving patches and the the tools anybody can use to apply them is a neutral thing at worst.

Also I don't see anyone in this thread glad that Google did this, aside from the first half of the joke / fakeout / pun post about IPA beer.

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