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  • Pet Peeves with Games?

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    • I don't give the slightest fuck who provided the middleware for the cloth physics, stop impeding me from playing the game to show me this shit every fucking time I launch it.
    • Continue and New Game are often the wrong way around in the main menu. Why would you have New Game at the top/default selection position? How often would someone be clicking that as opposed to Continue?
    • Unskippable dialogue and cut-scenes. I've read devs describe cut-scenes as a reward for the player achieving a certain milestone. I see them as punishment. Especially so if I want to replay the game. It's a game, not a movie. Leave me the fuck alone already.
    • It should be forbidden to sell a game on Steam that requires an account and launcher from Ubisoft or whoever. If you sell it on Steam, you use Steam, and if you wanna use your own shit then you don't get to use the Steam storefront and must forgo all the advertising and exposure you enjoy there.
    • Walk-and-talks, especially when my normal walk speed is like a sprint compared to that of the NPC in question.
    • Narratively, my character is a saviour to a group of people who provide me with weapons and ammo to help me save them, but the cunts charge me for it?? "Hey thanks for single-handedly saving us and fighting the tyrannical evil empire, while you're out there risking life and limb for us please use our cool weapons and bullets! That'll be 500 credits, cheers!" Motherfucker? What are you even spending it on? WHERE are you even spending it?
    • Fake endings. I was playing RDR2, and thought I was coming to the end of the game, all signs pointed to an imminent ending. So I was mentally in a place where I was ready to pack up and uninstall it, just had to finish the last few quests, already wondering what I'd play next. Then there's an entire 500-hour chapter that comes after. So I keep going, and am constantly thinking "surely it's just another quest or two..." but it just never fucking ends. Had I known or expected all this extra shit, it would be different. But I was already halfway out they door before you called me back in for another week's worth of the same malarkey.
    • Time-wasting as a core mechanic. I love No Man's Sky, but so many of the quests in that game involve literally waiting 24 real-world hours for the next phase of the quest. Which, when completed, leads to another 24-hour wait. Who exactly does this serve?

  • ICE shooter has an IMMIGRANT wife... as father comes to his defense

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  • You would never find a nicer, kinder person...

    Hey have you heard of this woman called Renee Good?

  • Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference

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  • I so dearly wish I had these kinds of skills!

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription

  • Humans May Be Able to Grow New Teeth Within Just 4 Years

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  • Rich humans*

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Egg tooth (temporary structure on the bills and snouts of oviparous animals to help them break through their eggshells at hatching)

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egg_tooth

  • GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You

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  • What it means for you

    What does it mean for Red Candle Games?

  • you're doing ReSeArCh rong!!

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  • The "do your own research" people need to have it explained to them that even experts in their respective fields aren't automatically capable of parsing scientific literature. A family doctor with 50 years experience who prescribes antidepressants every day will have no deep understanding of what any particular scientific peer reviewed study on SSRIs is telling them. They need a grounding in statistics more than anything else, which most people just don't have. So the idea that a non-educated, non-scientist can read peer reviewed studies and come away from them with some sort of understanding of the issue is the thing that needs to be highlighted, preferably in high school science class (earlier, frankly). A willingness to slog through scientific papers in pursuit of deeper knowledge is admirable, but is dangerously misguided without proper training. I don't even mean training in the specific science, but just in how to speak the language of peer reviewed studies more generally. It's very much its own discipline.

    I want someone to ask Joe Rogan what 'regression to the mean' means. I want someone to ask him what a 'standard deviation' is and how to apply the concept. I don't want to know what papers he's read, because you could read 50 true scientific papers a day on one topic and still have no idea what the current scientific consensus is on said topic, absent the requisite training. You'll almost certainly come away from it with a very wrong but very confident belief. Dunning-Kruger on steroids.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What movies or TV shows do a good job of representing your particular identity or life experiences?

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  • Tate looked so bad that I think I'd have a 60% chance of beating him in a boxing match, and I'm a fat sedentary 40-something who hasn't thrown a punch since high school.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why do some website logins have the username and password entry on different pages?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    "Flushable wipes"; "dishwasher-safe"; "odourless" - What are some other blatant lies that companies get away with?

  • Dunning–Kruger Effect

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  • TL;DR: Joe Rogan

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    I used to be one. Took me two years to find out it's nothing but grifters exploiting the mentally ill

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  • I used to be a 9/11 Truther 😭 Turned out that I, too, was mentally unwell and socially isolated even worse than that hairy fella on the island with a face painted on a football. It's crazy (if I can use that word in this context) how your brain can look at something and be 100% convinced of it, and the exact same information can look ludicrously and obviously bullshit a year later when your psychological well-being is in a better place.

    Advice: don't bother debating conspiracists on their 'evidence', but when they hopefully emerge from their pit of psychosis, welcome them back with open arms. And, perhaps most importantly, ensure they know that that non-judgemental welcome is there for them whenever they want it. The less social friction/cringe/embarrassment they feel is awaiting them, the easier and quicker they can transition into some sort of normality again. Debating the details of whatever conspiracist horseshit it happens to be is like trying to cure schizophrenia by proving the person's hallucinated demons wrong with FACTS and LOGIC. You'll just make it worse.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal?

  • rule

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  • Juxtaposing cattle trains with the Holocaust was all I needed to dismiss this organisation as chronically unserious. They're the equivalent of those antiabortion activists who think showing disturbing gory photos of medical procedures is a moral argument against said procedures.

    The thing that made me question my meat-eating was not images of slaughterhouses, battery farms or being harangued by tone deaf social media posts that scold me as immoral. It was watching animals playing and showing affection for each other and for other species. Gifs of cows playing with a ball, a lamb begging for pets from a human, chickens recognising their human friend and running up to them for a hug, a cat and a crow being pals; that's the kinda shit that changes hearts and minds. PETA's tone and behaviour makes animal rights activism look like an emotional outlet for narcissists who don't actually have any expectation that they'll achieve anything, but just enjoy the recreational self-righteous hectoring.

  • Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox

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  • Is there like a petition or something we can all sign to show that literally no cunt wants this?

  • Skeletons with huge artificial breasts. Graveyards are full of them. Bones and silicone don't rot.

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  • Heady times for the patient necrophile.

  • Is audiophile bullshit cheating?

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  • The sommeliers of the technology world. The perfect storm of electric hypochondria and placebo-gooning.

    As with most things, there's a kernel of truth in amongst the dross. You will have a nicer time with a set of £70 headphones than with a £3.99 set. You will have a nicer time with a FLAC file than a 64kbps MP3 of the same song. But there's a very low ceiling of improvement that both physics and physiology will prevent you from surpassing. Maybe in the future with brain implants and shit like that we can start ramping up the fidelity of our listening abilities, but until then, you're just trickling an ocean through a literal bottleneck and insisting you're drowning in it.

    Just listen to the damn music.

  • TIL 95% of Americans don't get the minimum recommended amount of fiber

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  • We need a fibre pill. A little capsule that contains an extremely-compressed/folded length of fibre. Once the capsule melts in your gut juices, the fibre inside springs to full size like a cumming cattail, providing 6-8 weeks' worth of fibre. Then we'd never again have to miserably work through a brick of carpenter's floor sweepings, or whatever the fuck muesli is, just to have a half-normal fuckin' turd. Fuck-ass fuckin' ass.

  • Ontos - Official Announcement Trailer | The Game Awards 2025

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  • Fuck, and I can't stress this enough, YES!

  • Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Mungyeong crucifixion case - In 2011, a South Korean pastor crucified himself with the aid of power tools and lumber, after months of extensive planning

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mungyeong_crucifixion_case

  • TIL that actor Tim Curry is on a wheelchair since 2012

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  • This post is how I found out. That's heartbreaking. The frailty of the human form is a cosmic crime.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that the very distinctive vocal style employed by the lead singers of bands like Pearl Jam and Creed (among many others) is called "yarling"

  • Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead

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  • AI, along with crypto, is getting to the point where even oil executives are like "dudes, the planet..."

  • Bread mold

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  • Food is so weird. Bread becomes toxic waste after 8 minutes of being opened, but there's probably some cheese species that gets fermented up the asshole of a mountain llama for 6 months, being stuffed back in after every bowel movement, and is still edible (if you're into that sort of thing) after 400 years of being left in a dank cave amongst the frothing remains of a rotting gerbil cemetery.

  • FACTS

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  • This is the most closeted person I've ever seen, and I once held the world record for longest hide 'n' seek session in an IKEA warehouse.

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?

  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    The titles of celebrity subreddit photo posts be like:

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why do video game leaks (such as the huge GTA VI videos leak) cause "low morale" for the staff working on it?

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    1988–1994 British broadcasting voice restrictions

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1988%E2%80%931994_British_broadcasting_voice_restrictions
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Has a stranger's reply to you on social media ever changed your strongly-held belief(s)?

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
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    I think remakes and reboots are awesome, if done without overt cynicism

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    How did it come to be that only two companies supply all of the world's PC graphics chips?

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
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    Jeffrey Epstein killed himself

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    If I invented a shirt that caused cameras to be damaged when filmed/photographed, would I be committing a crime by wearing the shirt at events with cameras?

  • Starfield @lemmy.zip
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    C'mon lads, we've all done it, right?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that underfloor heating was invented by Neolithic peoples

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Underfloor_heating