…The picture says 'Start Now. Download."

I posted some similar ads above.

I mean, I’m using Firefox now? Cromite blocks them by default too. I tested with and without a VPN as well.

If you’re gonna get all pointy, what I was trying to politely imply is your original statement is incorrect.

I wouldn’t call fake download links on a download page ‘restrained’

Firefox blocks them by default. You have to turn off enhanced tracking protection.

Yep. For Windows and Mac, but not the source tar download, interestingly:

All my ads (on FF or Cromite) seem to be for addons:

It’s… interesting those ads one absolutely should never click on now exist in the Chrome/FF extension store.

I mean…

You are looking at this the wrong way. If you post stuff on the open web, it’s out there. It’s been scraped for years, and will get scraped. The Fediverse is as low profile a place as any, but its no different.

If you don’t like that, keep it in private chats, like Signal or text chains or whatever.

This is like mod makers who release Apache/MIT licensed stuff, but get frustrated over what others do with their mods. That’s what releasing content into public means: others may do stuff with it you don’t like, and you have to live with it, unfortunately. And honestly, I think it’d be tragic if they didn’t publish mods over that fear.

It might have UX problems at this point? Maybe that’s why they’re hesitant.

I know “who is this for?” and “what would Steve Jobs say?” are tired memes, but… still. An even thinner body? Really?

Yeah…

Oh that’s it. There’s the veneer of Southern Hospitality (and a lot of it is legitimate) but folks keep the nastiness behind the curtain. Like, I have family that looks back on some relatives and had no idea they were racist until they thought a lot about some incidents, or caught something weird.

It went both ways, 100%…. Reconstruction failed. There’s a lot of resentment.

Btw idk if u r confusing south asia with southeast asia but trust me when I say its not pleasant here lmao

Fair. I’m a bit ignorant of how it is there, heh.

honestly its much better than any other form of such platform rn tbh

Yeah… Outside of a few more niche focused places, anyway.

The ‘brainpower’ here on Lemmy is higher too. Like, when I lurk in my old niche Reddit subs (which I can’t post in since I’m inexplicably shadowbanned?) I see no academic discussion, mostly memes. No decent help on question posts, but hostile responses or probable bots, even when I know the exact answer OP needs and can’t give it.

conservative southasian society

Friend, you ain’t seen nothing. I’ve seen stuff in the US South that you wouldn’t even see in Reddit. Stuff you wouldn’t believe, and I’m afraid to type out, stuff way worse than “If that n***** steps foot here again he’s getting lead in his belly.”

Personal beliefs (and drama) can be pretty extreme.

…That being said…

Lemmy’s extreme too?

I see dead serious “we should bludgeon X and his family to death” posts that make me very uncomfortable. Mods don’t care. When .world admins step in, the community cries censorship and ‘extremist right wing.’ I’ve almost left Lemmy over it.

Maybe sh.itjust.works is better about that, though.

Yes. 74% is the “average” point of diminishing returns to preserve the battery, according to Accubattery’s data. It tracks charging cycles and battery wear across many thousands of smartphones.

In fact, the reason many phones/gadgets don’t offer this feature (and that Apple sometimes charges to 100% in spite of the toggle) is likely planned obsolescence.

…To add to this, the actual charging threshold of the battery is a bit arbitrary and set by the manufacturer, as a tradeoff of capacity vs life. Fast charging is the same; charging quickly is hard on the battery, and the limits at different charge levels are configured as a “balance” between convenience and life.

…And sometimes they get those thresholds wrong.

Like Samsung rather infamously did for the exploding Galaxy Notes. Google did for the Nexus 6P. They pushed the batteries too hard and borked the phones.

Except maybe for the cinematic part.

I mean… The rendered cutscenes? The emotive facial expressions synced to dialogue and music? Just to start?

because I don’t know what makes a game cinematic.

…Look. I’ve played text-only RPGs and 2000s top down explorers that would fit in the cache of my CPU now, and they’re great! But you can’t tell me the visual gulf between BG1 and BG3 isn’t blindingly obvious. It’s almost a different medium!

or why you’d want a CRPG to be cinematic.

…Because I like seeing the emotions of my party and my character? And the visuals details of exploration?

Again, interpoliating all that in one’s head like a novel is fine, but I like an interactive movie, too!

That’s what sold me. I’m not a fan of the pen-and-paper mechanics so directly translated, TBH, but the sheer depth of presentation and the party characters are what kept me hooked.

Oblivion’s side quests (and into) had charm though. Especially the Shivering Isles, that was great.

The real problem is social media, and how feeds are structured now.

The ‘few trustworthy institutions’ model has been utterly obliterated because a few tech companies figured out a sea of influencers is more profitable/exploitable. Not to minimize some of the great creators out there, but one’s daily news shouldn’t come from Joe Rogan + your Facebook uncle’s reshares.

our consciousness should be in a state of non-existence

Sounds like you’re speaking of the Fermi Paradox, and some related things.

But just because the existence of our consciousness is improbable doesn’t mean you can conclude that it’s literally impossible.

You also seem to be connecting a lot of ideas under the assumption that a human ‘point of view’ is necessarily unique… I think this article touches on a lot of your ideas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

And, indeed, the bias of a human-centric viewpoint is a huge issue in science and an ongoing point of debate, as seen above. That part of what you’re getting at, I really like.

The video makes no sense. It starts with an interesting idea (our observations are limited, which is true) and jumps to “therefore, we can’t assume death is eternal” out of nowhere.

And all the clips are kinda AI sloppy. I mean, the video might not be autospam, but that + the clarity/consistency of the speaker + account age is very sus.

Honestly I don’t even like fantasy CRPGs (hence I don’t have the reference of 1/2), but BG3 kinda blew me away.

It’s incredibly cinematic. The world design is tight and reasonably interconnected, voice acting great, and I thought the script was fine.

UI and build choice was… alright? I can see room for improvement there. A lot of mods seem to be going for that.

That’s kind of the game’s theme, ironically. Meditative peace.

To be fair, the gameplay loop isn’t the most fun for me either, but I got really hooked by the ambience and characters.