ArghZombies @ ArghZombies @lemmy.world

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Ah interesting option, thanks! I've occasionally watched a few speedruns of it but I didn't realise there's whole first time playthroughs.

That's not really a problem with the game, but with your expectations. If I watch the film Alien expecting a comedy but it's actually a horror I wouldn't complain the film is overrated and not funny.

A shame, but that's cool. Not every game works for everyone. I can't stand the Dark Souls games and it seems I'm in a minority on that one.

Outer Wilds is so good. A perfect game for Switch. And the DLC included too, which was also superb.

Pity they can't release a way to erase the game from my memory so I can play it afresh. Half the point of the game (and DLC) is just figuring out what the game is. Because I already know what to do I'd just complete it in about 10 minutes so it's sadly not worth me picking it up again.

But anyone who hasn't played it, please give it a go. It's just wonderful.

An hour of grinding - that they will also sell you powerups to help you skip that grind.

Snowrunner. A great combination of both chilled-out & stressful, driving massive diesel trucks at 5mph through woods and rivers delivering logs or girders.

The fact there's no big story and almost zero dialog, just assignments and map markers mean it's a superb 'podcast' game - something you can put it on while you listen to some podcasts / audiobooks.

Not that the game is boring or just a distraction. It's incredibly satisfying finding the best way to navigate through a horrendous woodland or swamp and get all your cargo through safely.

Plus, it has some of the best landscape physics out there. Rushing water really feels accurate. Mud paths get distorted so that it's harder to get through on your way back than before you churned it all up.

A great game. 100s of hours I've sunk into that thing.

Jonathan Blow can fit an awful lot of antivax, conspiracy theories and transphobic ranting into a 15hr commentary.

After reading the Jon Ronson book "So you've been publicly shamed" where he interviewed a load of people that were outed for both bigger and smaller 'crimes', no, I don't agree with it. Doxxing and other public shaming can have consequences you could not expect.

Plus, what if you get the ID wrong and dox someone innocent? That happens all the time too.

The last election was in 2006. 17 years ago. The median age of people there is only 20. Most of those people didn't vote for anyone, let alone Hamas. And even those that did vote, Hamas got less than 50% of the vote.

Also, nice use of ableist slurs there. Is that really appropriate?

But that's the wrong way around. They don't want you to pay, they make their money through advertising. They make far more money from advertiser's paying to put up ads than they ever make from people paying for premium.

Same as with Facebook now bringing in an ad-free version (in the EU anyway) - they charge higher than is reasonable so that people will opt for the ad-supported free version instead.

It's not that you are blackmailed into paying premium, it's that you're encouraged not to as a way of explicitly consenting to ads.

Basically, you're damned if you do, damned if you don't.

But people advertise with Google precisely because they know the ads will be targeted at relevent people. If Google just sell loads of ad slots that just show to random users then that's just a waste of money. If I'm selling motorbike helmets I don't want to waste my money having Google show those ads to 60 year old men who only travel by bus or golfers or people who use wheelchairs.

Google won't just sell loads of ads here, they'll totally change their business model to something closer to the targetting approach.

Lens has been one of the most impressive bits of Google tech for years, but it still flies under the radar. I guess they're just going to label it 'AI' now to get people to pay attention to it.

Yeah, this means OP can use their phone constantly for 10 full hours. That doesn't seem too bad really.

Rocky. Because it's a Roborock and we're unimaginative.

I thought PS5 / XBOX versions were delayed to 2024, no?

Thanks, but I can't install into a Roku, which is the main TV I'd be using.

Weirdly, and annoyingly, I get this same thing when watching YouTube on my TV (the quantity thing, not the war propaganda stuff. Just regular ads). Whether via Roku stick, Chromecast or anything. It's sometimes an ad every 2 minutes. However watching the same thing on a laptop or my phone even without any adblock and the video will play far better. Maybe 1 ad at the halfway point and nothing else.

I don't know why the TV version of YouTube is such an arse for ads. They're not even in clean places - I get an ad mid-sentence.

Honestly, for a 20 minute video I'd be perfectly ok with a 30 second ad or so. It helps the creators and isn't that much of a pain for me. But getting adverts every 2 minutes, even if they're skippable is just a horrific experience.

A fair few, but as it's still being developed there's not many stable uses. You can check some of them out here:

https://atproto.com/community/projects

The protocol (AT Protocol) is what's decentralised, which is separate(ish) to BlueSky the social network.