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[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Oh my god, I never made that connection. Thank you.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Who are these "lemmy libs"? What are these opinions that seem to incense them? I haven't seen any posts that would fit this meme's description and it feels like I'm losing my mind.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I can't stand it. Consumerism whipped up to a frenzy, certain people preaching about giving to the needy, then not hearing a peep from the same people after January 1st, same Xmas songs over and over and over again... It all just feels fake and I want it to be over.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 weeks ago
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Can't comment on either, but I do hate that piano-falling-down-the-stairs background music.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

Are desktop shortcuts still a no-no with this distro?

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

100% agree. I don't like the smell to begin with, but what's worse is that the aroma is so powerful, it completely eclipses the taste of whatever food items it's mixed with.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Ugh, so tired of this old argument. Nothing to hide doesn't mean everything to show. There, now let's get on with our lives.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I have a few experiences working with acedemics, and it always seems to be abbreviation first, long form later. I kinda hated this practice. Not everything needs a catchy and marketable name. Often times it wasn't even an abbreviation, but instead it was like:

STUBBLES: Study of Faulty Abbreviations and Failure to Understand Words

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'll have to take your word for it. Truth be told, I don't read much of their articles. And it looks like it's going to stay that way.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago

What do you mean? He even wears red!

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not really, no. I think it would be inappropriate to do so and besides that, I was not in a good headspace at the time.

 

Doesn't this run counter to EU's rule that all small electronic devices - which the Switch 2 falls under - need to have USB-C chargers? In the sense that even though the plug is USB-C shaped, it's not compliant to the standard?

 

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?

 

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.

 

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.

 

I mean specifically, what criteria does a webpage have to fulfill for it to be considered web3 compliant?

Because all I see around the web are people waxing poetic about freedom, ownership and whatnot without really saying anything. There's no consensus, there's no whitepaper, just... vague, nondescript ideas.

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