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Striking New York Times tech workers ask people not to play Wordle or other NYT games in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Shouldn't be too hard. There are loads of alternatives out there on various platforms.

A modest proposal in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

True, but where's the fun in that?

Oh Nintendo in c/[email protected]
Am I insane? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

It sounds like an interesting project, actually. So, no, I don't think you are.

If you could go back in time and talk to your younger self, what would you say? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I would probably tell myself not to bother with college and suggest I go to a technical school instead. Apparently degrees aren't worth jack shit around here.

dear introverts, what can I answer to a needy and clingy coworker who believes not talking means something's wrong (with me), so he leaves me alone? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago (3 children)

"Please stop asking me if everything's OK. Everything is fine and your concern is appreciated, but I prefer to work in silence and I'm not getting any right now."

People in their 40s and 50s with no children, how does it feel? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not good around kids, so I made a decision to be without children pretty early on. So, to answer your question, I guess it feels... normal? It's hard to describe in more detail, because I don't have a reference to compare it to.

That said, I've seen what kind of struggles - emotional, financial or otherwise - my kid-having friends and family have been going through and I would be a liar if I said I never thought "I'm glad I don't have to go through this shit" more than on one occasion.

How often do you update your apps? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Android: no clue, F-Droid started updating my apps automatically after an OS update, which is nice. My phone isn't rooted either. Linux: About once a week.

Alternative email? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

In addition to the above, they also use green energy, if you care about that sort of thing.

Humble Bundle is showing ProtonDB ratings for one of their latest bundles in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Tell me about it. Now they're just Steam Key Reseller #46498.

Corporate needs you to spot the difference between these two photos in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

An astute observation for a dumbass.

We are in a decisive moment in history in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Agreed. First-past-the-post voting system has to go.

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Are there any voxel-rendered (if that's the term) game like Voxatron? (lemmy.ml)
 

Lately I've been thinking about Voxatron, an incomplete yet fun little top-down-ish shooter game from 2011. I love the way it looks and plays, so I've been wondering if there are any other games with the same aesthetic?

It's a bit hard to explain, but what I liked specifically about Voxatron was how the characters and the environment were animated. Everything seemed to snap to an invisible three-dimensional grid, or in other words, voxels didn't rotate. Here's an example.

What I'm not looking for is a game that is made of voxels, but is animated like polygons, if that makes sense. Like this. I'm not really sure what term to use, because searching for "voxel games" was not very fruitful for me. Search results encompassed everything from Minecraft to Severed Steel.

I imagine animating a game in such a way would be super time consuming, but I still have to ask: are there any games that fit this criteria?

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US sues Adobe for “deceiving” subscriptions that are too hard to cancel (www.theverge.com)
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Nintendo, Xbox, And PlayStation Have All Now Abandoned Twitter/X Integration (archive.is)
 

So, really, a win for everybody.

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Microsoft's payment to Bobby Kotick would cover the salaries of Tango Gameworks and Arkane Austin employees for over 17 years. (lemmy.ml)
 

FYI, the article is in Spanish: https://www.hobbyconsolas.com/noticias/desarrollador-summerfall-studios-carga-bobby-kotick-1385082

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List of every game trailer from The Triple-i Initiative (lemmy.ml)
 

For those unaware, The Triple-i Initiative is a group of indie studios whose purpose is to highlight fan-favorite games and hype up established indie classics as well as new IPs.

So, without further ado, here are the trailers. Names in bold are new releases, the rest are updates to existing games:

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I hate the term "Boomer Shooter" (lemmy.ml)
 

Not to say I hate the genre, I actually love me some Dusk or Turbo Overkill, but why, oh why are they called Boomer Shooters?

These games clearly took inspiration from 90s FPS games, which 👌, but they were played mostly by Gen Xers and Millenials, not Boomers. When games like Duke Nukem 3D or Quake were out, Boomers were what? 30 to 50 years old? I'm sure some of them played FPS games, but there is no way they were the majority.

Whenever I see the term Boomer Shooter, my mind goes to games like Shootout! for Magnavox Odyssey. Can't we call them something else, like Retro FPSes or something?

Anyway, rant over. Thank you for your time.

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Akira Toriyama has passed away (en.dragon-ball-official.com)
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[RMA] What is this lump on my friend's CPU? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
48 comments fedilink
 

EDIT: We decided not to pursue further diagnosis, because we wouldn’t know what the hell we’re doing anyway, and decided to start the RMA process instead. It might not even be the reason why the PC won’t turn on, but I’m not comfortable with putting that CPU back into his PC again. Once we get a replacement, we’ll see what happens. If it’s still busted, we’ll just take it to a local shop. Thank you everyone for your for your suggestions and insight, they are very much appreciated.

My friend called me to take a look at his PC that wouldn’t turn on. Upon inspecting his CPU, I noticed a silver bump at the bottom. I’ve never seen this. Can anyone tell me what it is?

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Unity bosses sold stock days before controversial repricing announcement (www.eurogamer.net)
 

Archive.org mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20230914133443/https://www.eurogamer.net/unity-bosses-sold-stock-days-before-development-fees-announcement-raising-eyebrows

This shit can't be legal. Do we have any lawyers on here?

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Where did this HAARP nonsense I keep hearing about come from? (lemmy.ml)
 

So, I heard several people now mention HAARP as the cause for all the natural disasters that have been happening lately. And here I thought the cause was rampant pollution and global warming!

But seriously, I'm looking at the HAARP page on wikipedia and it seems to be an array for studying the ionosphere? How in the hell do you go from "we're using this to see what's happening way up there in the sky" to "this causes tornadoes"? Who even started this garbage?

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I had no idea employers could be this delusional (lemmy.ml)
 
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Optimal stress levels. (lemmy.ml)
 

This is an email I came across at work. I seriously can't believe they're trying to justify being stressed. It may not be as caustic as other posts you see on here, but it still kinda pissed me off.

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