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Oh shit, should have checked the majority opinion before posting!

Whats your opinion on apples?



Lemmy can be like this. Share an opinion people don’t like and it’s like you personally attacked someone. Lol.



Path of Exile 2 got me hooked bad. The combat is actually fun and you have to use a few different abilities at the right time to be successful, at least as a monk. It feels very, very satisfying to fight both mobs and bosses in that game.

And the yellow rare items are actually rare, so using blue items is very necessary. Not like in the first game where you had yellow items drop constantly so blue was just useless and not even picked up.


Path of Exile and Counterstrike both are over 1000 hours for me.


Thank God for steam reviews, so people can read the actual truth about a game.

This game is not brilliant as far as I understand it from people’s actual reviews. It’s OK, with dumb Ai.


No, almost all people working for Google are good people. They believe it’s fine to spy on people to make money. Doesn’t make all the people who work there evil. But the core idea is to offer free services in exchange for people’s private data. The company slowly but surely removes any privacy online we have as human beings.

It’s usually like this. People who work in companies do what they are told. They may even enjoy it. In Googles case, they have a reputation for having great engineers. It’s very good for the career to work there.

Please expand on your own ideas.


They mix in some good with the bad, and I think they always have done that. It’s part of why they are successful. Someone who is obviously bad all the time won’t succeed.

So this is just a strategy and I’m not going to applaud their marketing strategy. But you can, if you want. :)


It’s so funny to read how Android is adding protection from stalkers - when it comes from fucking Google! :)


It’s linked to social media. I guess they can’t criticize that.


Yeah I’m playing poe 2 now. Too early to say something but it hasn’t been too difficult for me yet. But I got a legendary coat from the first boss which is still good even at level 6. Probably why. :)


I always felt this game was unrewarding… There is a lot of bad loot and hardly ever any good loot. Talking about poe 1 now.

Sometimes the character felt powerful but very quickly it’s back to dying in one or two hits. I guess it’s hard to balance the game so it’s always at a decent difficulty level considering all variations in gear and skill.

It also felt like they wanted players to craft gear by dice rolls, wasting a lot of time and effort on random number generator.

I would put this game into the category “play if you don’t have a job and/or family”.


Path of Exile is much more flexible and advanced than Diablo - you have almost unlimited flexibility in what your character can do. Everything stacks too, so your jewel slots, ring slots, armor slots… Everything works together.

So this is not just hack and slash, you won’t actually be able to complete the game even unless you understand some of that complexity.

If you stick with it, you will have many aha moments where your character suddenly doubles his damage because you figured out a good way to build it and combine it’s items to maximize its potential.

I played a lot before but I have grown tired of it. But it probably gave me several hundreds of hours of semi-fun gameplay.



Sounds like you should reconsider how you spend your life on earth.


The word consumer is so demeaning… But yes.

Humans are actually the only real producers in the world if you think about it. Everything around you is built by other humans.

We rarely think about that.


It’s great how people are gathering and having discussions under heavily censored platforms owned by billionaries, just amazing.


It’s more like they don’t make fun games.

It’s a failure of leadership, as usual.


Every time I hear about eve, I remember how much I wished it was a slightly different game. There is no way to play eve without investing many hours each time. Everything takes a very long time.

On the plus side, just the feeling that someone may come up and kill you and take your stuff makes the game feel quite scary. I was doing wormholes for a while and pretty much was constantly nervous about getting killed. Never happened though.


My girlfriend tried to use Vivaldi 7, it crashes when importing bookmarks from Chrome (on desktop) . Did it for me too, so I don’t know…

Otherwise I like it’s nice user interface. And I think it still had support for adblock v2.


Those websites will simply register alternate domains… It’s really not a big deal.



Thanks Google. No I will not use your Google drive. Fuck off.


The definition of compact has changed now I think. It’s not what it used to be. I had the neo in my hand and yeah, it’s quite thin and small. So it’s relatively compact compared to other modern phones.


A female bond that drinks healthy drinks, good for the environment, while killing their opponents with gender arguments. Lols.



I don’t know if it’s contradicting anything. Bad guys with power get together and plan things all the time.

It really isn’t very hard to keep things under cover either. A lot of coverups goes unnoticed for many years until some whistleblower steps forward and gets punished severely. Specially the US strikes down on whistleblowers very, very hard.

How many are ongoing right now? I’m guessing a lot. Because people are no longer even looking for it. That worries me. I think people are fooling themselves that there are no big plans carried out, and events are just random. Nobody intends to do anything, and things just happen. Makes no sense to me at all.


I did the same. Covid was the year where the official flu disappeared as a reason for deaths, and everything became covid deaths.

Also if you died for any reason and was found to have covid inside, it was classified as a covid death anyway.

So I saw them drive up the statistics enormously to ridiculous levels. People here on Lemmy don’t agree though and gets upset about this point of view.

To them covid was a global killer, very dangerous, just like the media and the government said. But when I look at statistics, I hardly see any deaths in people younger than 50. This is official statistics for my country at least.

But yeah, the US has/had so many incredibly unhealthy people so of course they got hit hard. Italy also for the same reasons.


This sounds weird to me. What is easier than just trusting the official information? This is exactly what conspiracy theorists are complaining about actually. That ordinary people just trust the information they are given by credible sources.

If anything, people who believe the standard information are the laziest, no?

So the “easy answers” part sounds a bit weird. The easy answers are right there on TV and the internet on the first search hit.

It’s more that those answers don’t make sense to conspiracy theorists. I guess you can tell them to get a degree in science and then it will make sense to them, but that won’t happen.

But it’s interesting how others can appearently explain how things work to conspiracy theorists in a way so they feel they understand and don’t doubt the information. Because it makes intuitive sense to them.

Maybe too much of science is hidden behind complicated layers that normal people just don’t understand and can’t understand.



For devops, it’s amazing. We use many tools that we are not experts in, and it’s incredible to get ready to use code examples how to configure them for various scenarios.

I save many hours every week using open Ai latest models.


I think this is pretty natural. After a while, only people who are ok with the complaints will buy it, and they will rate it as an ok game. Hence the scores go up.

Also i guess the developers try to make it better with time. Sounds like they focused on that for a full year.



I have no idea. I don’t read about games very much and don’t follow what’s happening. I guess games are like movies, we like to identify with the characters to feel the game is good. Sometimes it’s hard if they are very different from us, and then the movie / game is very boring or even annoying.


Yeah andor was amazing. Took me a while to get into it but once I did, I wanted to finish. :)


In what way? I don’t even know what “telling on himself” means. I’m just expression my opinion about this. Why is that so upsetting?


I think I’m on the other side - I think it’s way too much woke agenda in a lot of popular TV shows we watch. Disney competely wrecked a lot of shows because they kept pushing in gender/race related things that felt competely out of place.

I couldn’t even watch the acolyte. They wrecked it competely. Many web pages have described what’s wrong with it so won’t repeat that here, but hopefully you already know what I mean.


It’s part of an effort to normalize seeing it. I think it’s probably good, but it’s just a bit unrealistic sometimes and feels very forced. ':)


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What have they done to the game? > As my city slowly filled up with buildings and residents, it also began to feel a bit empty—especially when compared to the original game which has been fed with dozens of DLC packs over the past seven years. With a mere 20,000 citizens and the designation of "Small City," the milestones had already run out of new features to unlock. There are only three different tourist attractions to build, and while there are several sports parks they're all small, the sort you might find in an average-sized town. Skylines 2 has nothing like the huge gleaming sports stadium from the first game that feels suited for a major city. > Zooming in close to spy on my city revealed a few other disappointing changes. In the original game it was fun to watch city services at work: firemen would race to a fire, get out of their trucks, and hose down the burning buildings with wee little hoses. Adorable and live-saving! For those less fortunate citizens, coroners would drive up to a house and then wheel out a sad little body bag to their hearse before heading for the cemetery. I was disappointed to see that in Skylines 2, fire engines and hearses pull up to the buildings they're servicing but there's none of those wonderful little animations. A moment later the fire simply goes out or the deceased citizen is teleported to the hearse, and the vehicle departs. Bummer. Really seems like they made a worse game than the first one....
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BOFH: We don’t need no stinkin’ upgrade • The Register
This is over 10 years old but more relevant than ever. :)
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Kagi Small Web
How awesome is this! Reminds me of all the beautiful personal web sites we used to have and visit just for fun.
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> Topics essentially works like this: rather than using cookies to track people around the web and figure out their interests from the sites they visit and the apps they use, websites can ask Chrome directly, via its Topics JavaScript API, what sort of things the user is interested in, and then display ads based on that. Chrome picks these topics of interest from studying the user's browser history. Isn't this completely immoral? They are literally stealing the users private browsing history and uses it to boost their own profits.
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So Telegram took features from Instagram nobody really wants, and TikTok is going into messaging...
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Chat Gpt now has ads in some responses
The Enshittification may have begun of this service too. I'm actually a paying customer myself of Chat Gpt, and I havent personally seen any ads. But it's bad enough if this is something that will start to appear in people's answers. Anyone else experienced this? Update: The reason for this was found and it wasn't the service itself that started doing this.
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> Every image and video result in Brave Search is now served by Brave. Users no longer need to choose between Bing and Google for image and video search. This is pretty cool, no matter if you like Brave or not. Slowly and surely, many companies are helping to chip away at the monopoly of Google.
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