CoderKat

Saints Row is such a fun series because they know exactly what kind of game they are. They're not GTA. They have no business being serious, grounded, or realistic. They embrace the utter bonkers ridiculousness and it works great. I had so much fun in Saints Row 4 with the super powers. And it works great with how the game is written. Utterly hilarious game that I enjoyed every minute of.

Also, killing enemies with a dildo bat never grows old.

I'm okay with those kinda things if they're not limited. Eg, if they're a skill and you can get many skills. But if it's like FFXVI, where you have only 3 accessory slots and most accessories are borderline useless, then I agree that they're just disappointing. I want to feel like equipment (or whatever) is impactful. I want it to be able to wildly change up my strategy.

I love when games have stuff like wildly different weapon types or the likes, such that you can make so many different kinds of builds. Far more fun and replayable than the games where there's basically only one way to play and nothing will significantly change it.

I mean, if you have 3 arms, I'm sure it's amazing.

Zelda games straight up have a very mediocre story. And often nothing about their world building makes much sense either. They're definitely a series built only for fun gameplay. Everything else is just glue to hold the gameplay together.

Personally, I love the gameplay and exploration, but you're definitely right about the story and voice acting.

PS: dodging should be the same as jump (x). Lock on with ZL and point the movement stick to the side you wanna dodge to, the jump. If you pull the stick back, you'll do a backflip. Whether you want to jump back or to the side depends on the enemy attack (eg, do they swing horizonal or vertical?). If you dodge juuuust before the enemy attacks, you'll get a slow motion during which you're prompted to spam y to rapidly attack. Especially useful for tough foes like lynels.

That valuable and incredibly useful NFT tech ain't gonna develop itself! /s

I've never seen her before, but it was a solid and relatable video. Does anyone have any others that they'd particularly recommend?

Oof, I have quite a lot. One of my favourites is, "the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

I find it immensely relatable, as I think a huge number of problems in the world today stem from simply apathy. People who say they dislike the state of the world and even that they want to change it, but refuse to do absolutely anything at all, being perfectly content to just let bad things happen.

A tricky part is that some apps detect an unlocked bootloader and brick themselves, which effectively makes it impossible to use those apps on such devices. And while I don't think rooting is a strict requirement for installing LineageOS based off a quick search, rooting also has this problem (and at least last time I installed a custom OS many years ago, I recall either having to root or thinking I had to root).

Agreed. It seems an entirely valid amount of time. Plus that's only when they must do this. I'm sure many companies are gonna be rushing to switch over ASAP, because they don't want to risk waiting till last minute and will want to be able to still sell left over older models.

Also, people are mistakenly thinking only of phones. The article makes it clear this is applies to everything. Most electronics don't come out annually like phones do. There are tons of electronics that would never have been redesigned and now probably need to be if they want to keep selling them.

But quantity drives quality. Many big names join platforms specifically for the outreach they provide. That's by far the biggest reason that there's still so many big names on Twitter and co that haven't migrated.

Especially for the many people who need to make a living and thus need that outreach. The vast, vast majority of viewers will never pay for a picture they see on the internet or a streamer who makes them laugh. For a platform to be financially viable for creative types to make a living, they need a ton of viewers.

That number obviously doesn't include those, because Instagram has over 2 BILLION users. It's also easy to see how Threads can quickly get to 100M when that means you just have to convince 5% of your users to try your new platform that they don't even have to sign up for.

Again, that's billion with a B. Instagram is unfathomably huge. They only needed 0.1% of their users to rival all of Mastodon.

Am I reading this correctly that this was malicious activity by Meta rather than the companies actively sharing data with Meta?

I'd think no because the companies had to explicitly install Meta's Pixel on their websites and specifically chose what data to send. Skimming, it sounds like Pixel is clearly documented as being to improve the accuracy of ads that Meta delivers.

So the companies knew exactly how this data was going to be used and still voluntarily sent it to Meta.

That said, Meta absolutely should have recognized that this data was too sensitive and banned the companies. Ok, let's be honest, they'd never do that on their own free will, since the data is obviously extremely valuable to them. More like there needs to be a law preventing Meta from using such data, because companies can't be trusted to do the right thing on their own.