My lithsmus test for a good checklist is how they rate the Brave browser, Telegram, and popular VPNs. All three have marketed themselves as privacy friendly and secure, but all three are absolutely terrible if you do your homework on them. I’ve seen Brave or Telegram in the top tier on so many lists it isn’t even funny
I find them really boring, especially in RPG contexts. The difference is night and day when you walk into a handcrafted dungeon that has situational storytelling, creative direction, and ambiance that conveys a specific feeling. Bethesda games do this exceptionally well, for example.
Handcrafting a world also gives meaning to exploration; when I explore a procedurally generated world I feel like I’m just walking around aimlessly, looking for just another treasure chest or enemy to fight. But in a hand-crafted world, there are specific things to look for, situational stories to be told, or even secrets to find that the creator hid. That’s a lot more fun to explore than walking around in a glorified geometric algorithm
I hate that they tried to blame the developers here. I feel like they are just as exploited as the consumers. Many times have I tried to be passionate about my own work only to have it crushed and expunged by greedy upper management. I’d hate to be them working years on a passion project only to have it degraded by corporate grifters sending it into microtransaction hell
While some definitely are not traditional, my “secret” ingredients for bolognese are: leeks, hot italian sausage, and merlot wine. This works with any other regular bolognese recipe, just half the amount of onions in the original recipe and add the same amount of leek. Use a ratio of 1:2 ground beef chuck to hot italian sausage, and add wine mid-way through cooking the meats to deglaze the fond with the wine and cook out the alcohol
Microsoft is quickly becoming the worst company in gaming, which is saying something when you have the likes of Nintendo and EA. They bought up a bunch of quality companies making good games just to fire everyone and shut them down so their crappy flagship titles have no competition. Companies want to kill and destroy all games old, new, and even hypothetical so that their glorified slot machines get the spotlight. This is the beginning of the end for mainstream gaming. (Indie gaming is going strong though).
Found the type of lemming I was referencing. Here I was simply posting an ambiguous critical commment and they go defensive mode for no reason. Hypercritical, overpolitical, and wrote paragraphs about a game to prove a point rather than to express passion for said games.
This. In recent months I’ve seen more and more hostile interactions and political strawmans than I can count. Been on Lemmy for over 2 years, and it hasn’t changed for the worse until recently.
The comments of this thread give off major Reddit energy. Sure the post is a little fedora-lordish but why not add meaningful input by discussing the value of games and their stories like the post suggests, rather than bashing a stranger for no reason other than hypercriticalism?
It’s not a crime to enjoy something. Just because someone has a differing view does not make it a wrong view. And honestly if I get downvoted, it kinda proves that lemmings just critisize others and hate when someone is critical of them. Hypocrisy at its finest.
I too have chosen to spend a good chunk of my money on games, and came to, you know the “games” lemmy instance, to talk about them. That’s not hyper-consumerism, its me finding happiness in a world where there’s not much to be happy about. Like op said, it’s a way to escape, explore, and lose yourself.
I love how you wrote this like a counter-ad. Hard agree, jamocha shakes are the best cheap shake and Arby’s gets a totally bad rap. Just add Arbys or Horsey sauce to whatever you get to make it 10x better
Andrew Rea from Babish Culinary Universe on YouTube is my favorite. He has such a soothing personality but at the same time brings energy and excitement to the kitchen.
I also really enjoy Arnie Tex for BBQ and Mexican food, Pailin’s Kitchen for Thai food, and Sheldo’s kitchen for everything else, all on YouTube
Bro really wanted his chicken well done at 400°F
Those PC-88 pics look really cool. Just goes to show that you don’t need a cutting edge PC for good graphics (or even a GPU at all in this case).
Also speaking of Michael Jackson, his Sega Genesis game Moonwalker is definitely a hidden gem worth checking out. Smooth gameplay and criminally underrated
Yes, linux also has an administrator-like system called root, but it actually protects important system files unlike Windows administrator access which is frequrntly bypassed. Many important linux packages also respect and don’t even ask for root access unless explicitly needed. This is by design. You can also use programs called flatpaks from Flathub which come sandboxed from the start, and also a program called Flatseal to fine-tune permissions from every flatpak
I’m no Windows expert, but basically yes, especially if the program has administrator access. There’s no file security on Windows, and basically anything you install can grab files, unless they are in a “protected” folder like System32 or Program Files. Then the program needs to be elevated to Administrator to access those files.
My solution to this would be a program called Simplewall which blocks internet access to applications of your choosing. This isn’t a comprehensive security solution, but it does protect against basic data harvesting by apps & programs.
Microsoft is a harder problem though. They are constantly bypassing measures I have tried to combat telemetry, and as the makers of the OS itself it’s gonna be pretty hard to be 100% protected from them, especially seeing that Windows is proprietary. They can theoretically do whatever they want if they hide it well enough. If this is a problem might as well use Linux because Windows is only getting worse with privacy concerns every day
Quite litterally an ad hominem fallacy. Regardless of the founder’s questionable moral character, SimpleX is still one of the most private and useful messengers out there. You can’t deny the quality, especially when all the code is open source and auditable by anyone who wants to put real effort into discrediting it.
There’s a lot of passages about getting rid of corrupt authority; my favorite of which is definitely a story about Ehud in Judges. It has interesting specific details and is kinda comical in a dark way.
Basically, a corrupt leader gains rule over Israel, and a left-handed assassin takes up to killing him. He sneaks a dagger into the corrupt king’s chamber, stabs him in the bathroom, and the king is so fat that the dagger basically gets stuck in the king. No one finds the body immediately because the servants are like “Oh he must be taking a deuce.”
The verses are Judges 3:12-30 for anyone curious
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It’s a reference to this post. A lot of people found it funny but a lot of lemmings also thought it was insulting and spam
I actually do endorse SimpleX. While it does lack a lot of user features you might enjoy in other messengers, it does do the security/privacy part right. While not having as many auditors as signal, there have been enough to form an opinion. The fact that it is foss in the first place gives an advocate for their transparency. It’s also double ratchet E2E enrypted, comletely anonymous, practices perfect forward secrecy, and even offers Tor proxies; which is more to be said than most messengers.
The only good argument I’ve seen against it is that it isn’t federated or P2P, which is a discussion on the centralization of power rather than a security/privacy issue outright