It’s impressive to make your new app so obviously worse than the last. It’s even more so when your last app was Origin.

I’ve never had a Windows machine that can stay on longer than ~3 days before developing weird behaviour so it’s off right now until I get home.

Not against this feature, but this quote made me laugh:

… once this is in place, people won’t have to scour the internet for sourcing subtitles to their favorite movies, shows, or even anime.

As if MTL will get anywhere near the nuance of a properly made human translation.

Or Thunder

Does “all” remove every type of segment? Because that seems excessive for most people, there is a lot of filler/etc sections that are over-zealously tagged.

Apex should take notes. Sadly, they won’t.

These sort of comments make me wonder who is reading usernames. I barely ever look because it doesn’t matter except in reply threads.

The random office PC with an older i7, no GPU, and two hard drives I was using idled at around 70W. So… it goes either way.

Edit: This was a “standard” ATX tower PC and reading your other comments it sounds like that isn’t what you’re referring to.

Relies on people knowing about it, sadly.

Occasionally good games get nominated for the correct categories (Terraria for Labor of Love) but it’s very rare. I haven’t even played any 2024 games but wanted the badge so I just nominated some off brand games that will never win.

I’m an absolute Borderlands slut so I am pumped for this. I really hope the monetisation scheme is fine and that they added some QoL features I’ve been wanting since 2012 (multi quest trackers?!) but either way I’ll probably play this.

Depending on what you mean by casual, Terraria fits the bill. I love sitting down with a journey mode character and taking the game at my own pace. For the first playthrough I would probably point people to softcore normal mode as it’s the “proper” way to play, but once you’ve grinded out goals once then journey is a really nice way to take control of the game’s difficulty on the fly.

This really depends on the type of person you are. I find with the time pressure each in-game day that every time I launch it I get caught up in a mess of wiki pages and spreadsheets figuring out the ideal crops to plant and when, what gifts people like and when to gift them, etcetera etcetera. It became stressful and I stopped playing it after finishing most of the main objectives.

They do have achievements, yeah. Not much else though.

Couldn’t say, but it did cause me to unfollow the cat community I was following because my feed was unbrowseable outside of void cats.

IMO, yes. HDDs are always going to be a bit noisy, but the consumer grades keep it fairly classy. The couple of HGST drives I got from ServerPartDeals are noisy in the “grating” way. The volume is similar but the noise is not in the normal pleasant range. I am only fine with it because my server is in another room.

We should keep the “Opinion:” prefix on titles. Without it, these statements sound like evidence-based fact.

I knew this was happening today when I got emails from every institution known to man about a “disruption” in the force Canada Post service.

Supernault is actively considering having the flagship loops.video server function as the centralised service for the For You algorithm.

That sounds… potentially counter to the goals of the Fediverse. If it’s its own open-source and hostable project with an easy switch for admins to provide a different algorithm then I can see how it would be a big leg up for better discovery, but if it just locks you into phoning home to loops.video then that is terrible.

I have thought for a while though that search / indexing should be a separate Fediverse service to allow even tiny instances to make use of large-scale search, but only as long as it remains open for anyone to host an indexer.

I would happily bet money that federation keeps getting kicked down the road. “Oh, we have to do X first. Also Y just came up, and you know it was a waning moon last night so…” They have no reason to enable it as long as things go their way.