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Only the most depressing world will do for our future generations *chefs kiss* in c/shitposting@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

So they are, statement withdrawn. I wasn't paying that much attention to the signs in the background and sure enough, the rightmost sign's M and R look a bit off and the "Investing in" part is completely scrambled.

Only the most depressing world will do for our future generations *chefs kiss* in c/shitposting@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Is it AI generated, though? AI generated images usually mangle letters pretty badly and everything seems to be legible here.

Meta fined $101 million by Ireland for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Seriously. Didn't they make billions last year? That number should be much, much higher for Zuck & Co. to actually start giving a fuck.

Mozilla Thunderbird for Android Is Finally Here in c/firefox@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago

I'm sure it's a very capable email client, but the UI just didn't mesh well with me.

Does money corrupt, or is money attractive to questionable people? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 days ago

Not really sure. Somebody wire me an obscene amount of money and I'll report back. Probably.

FluxTube | Flutter/Dart YouTube Client! | This could be the new Newpipe in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

What's wrong with Newpipe?

Real mood booster tbh in c/comics@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

When life seems hard

and you're stuck in a rut

there's no better help

than a face full of butt.

seriously.... there aren't that many of them in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

Exactly. There's no moral dillema here. I'm keeping the switch in the "left" position and welding it in place, just in case.

Is there any proprietary Android app for which you wish there would be an open-source alternative? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

And mine. And probably everyone else's since the only banking app I can find on F-Droid is something called Varengold.

Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” in c/technology@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

To be clear, XMPP is the name of the protocol, not the app. If an XMPP app with a Discord-like UI is what you're after, then Converse.js is probably your best bet. Here's what it looks like.

AI bros in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 month ago (13 children)

"It has a gradient so you know it's AI." <- Uh, what does this mean?

Gen Z is actually taking sick days, unlike their older coworkers. It’s redefining the workplace in c/antiwork@lemmy.ml
[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Good for them. That's what sick days are for.

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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 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by onlooker@lemmy.ml to c/techsupport@lemmy.world
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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