CorrodedCranium

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Just a silly shower thought I had after hearing about Nintendo's copyright claim against Russ from Retro Game Corps.

[โ€“] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

As in the continuous United States ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿฆ…

[โ€“] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What a great word in today's dating scene. Is it an older word that has been modified to be more modern?

You know that episode of Seinfeld where someone eats a candy bar with a knife and fork and it just spreads into the wild because people don't really question it?

That's what I'm hoping happens with overmorrow

That list is going to send me down a rabbit hole looking for the etymology of words

[โ€“] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Not commonly but every so often YouTubers I watch will start using it and it sticks for a prolonged period of time.

It was just the first thing that came to mind. I imagine there are other equally silly internet words out there.

[โ€“] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 16 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I actually dislike that term a lot.

It's like spunkgargleweewee. It seems immature and makes me feel more dismissive towards the argument. Maybe that also has to do with it being a catch all term and people seem less willing to give specific examples of how things are declining in quality.

 

Overmorrow refers to the day after tomorrow and I feel like it comes in quite handy for example.

[โ€“] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 56 points 1 week ago (8 children)

I get the same reaction from my fellow Americans when i tell them I walk my groceries home so I'm not surprised

 

With a lot of open source projects being worked on largely out of passion rather than financial gain I feel like there must have been several times where a release caught people off guard and "came out of nowhere" with its impressive scale.

To give some examples of how this might happen maybe it was an initial release dropped to the public in a complete state that had been worked on for a while privately or a project that was dormant for an extended period of time and picked back up.

Can anyone here think of an example? It doesn't necessarily need to be something groundbreaking maybe it got people excited in a very specific niche.

If you do have an answer I'd appreciate it if you could elaborate on it.

I think they're aware of your stash of full Family Guy episodes on Youtube featuring random zooms.

Also doesn't the RIAA only cover the music industry?

I don't think that supports desktop games beyond source ports like Quake and Diablo though

The reason of pirating things because you would be offline has mostly disappeared. Partially because mobile data has become more affordable but also because more subscription based apps give you some way to consume content offline.

Where I see this the most is with music. Outside of those who want FLAC quality I don't know of a lot of people who pirate music anymore.

Piracy used to be about providing the best possible quality. With popularity the quality got watered down.

Do you think that has to do with popularity though or a shifting attitude towards piracy?

I feel like there's a lot of people who treat it like they would with streaming. Downloading the newest episode or season of a show and deleting it almost immediately. They don't feel the need to store it for later.

People do keep stuff might be limited by their storage. A 1TB portable HDD can be great but if you are downloading entire shows it can devour it pretty quickly.

Either way I feel like a lot of people aren't concerned about quality. They care about having immediate access to it.

[โ€“] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 64 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

I feel like there's been a trend of people switching from alcohol to cannabis as its become more widely accepted but I know a lot of people who have ended up taking it to excess as well. The idea of being addicted to it still really doesn't come up often and looking back that might be viewed as problematic.

I'm not against people using it or anything but I do feel bad for the people who have gotten to the point where they need to smoke to feel like themselves.

 

I have spent some time recently browsing through the various streaming options listed in the piracy and FMHY megathreads and I am curious which one people prefer.


movie-web for example works great but when you click on a title it goes right to playing where as Braflix pulls up a summary, trailer, and list of actors. Braflix also categories based on the streaming service like Apple+ and Amazon which can be good for content discovery.

Unfortunately you can't click on the streaming service categories to view more and it doesn't list a lot of other somewhat popular streaming services like Shudder. Braflix also doesn't say what whether or not something is a cam rip unlike some sites like himovies.

Some websites also handle sorting better than others or have server problems.


I don't know if people really care or if they just click on the first link they see/use what they've already been using for years.

Content discovery for me is probably the most important factor. I like being able to sort by the IMDb rating and having a section that says "If you like X you might like Y" is also nice.

 

It seems more like a job requirement but I feel like it's quite important to me that whoever I date knows first aid.

I imagine someone who hasn't taken a first aid course is still aware of things frequently depicted in movies and TV like how to assist a choking adult or CPR but I feel like it still leaves out a lot.

I can't really recall a lot of media depicting how to treat burns or how to perform first aid on children, cats, and dogs for example so I'm not sure if that would be absorbed to the same degree by cultural osmosis.


Edit: What I meant by my question was if you found out someone you were interested in didn't know first aid and didn't express an interest in it if you'd view it as a negative.

It doesn't necessarily mean you won't date them.

I'm more curious about how important of a factor it would be to people.

I'm not sure why this is being down voted. Do people not care for these kind of questions and want me to delete it?

 

The picture I linked is of a buckwheat pillow. Had no idea they were a thing before today.

What about silk or bamboo pillow cases?

I've only ever really used cotton pillow cases and cotton stuffed pillows. I recently upgraded to a foam pillow that I'm enjoying.

 

cross-posted from: https://leminal.space/post/7416619

I've been trying to mimics the functionality of Steam with open source projects. For example using Playnite as my game library manager. One thing I'm having a bit of a hard time with is finding a substitute for achievement tracking. I know achievements aren't for everyone but I find it helps motivate me to power through lulls in longer games and try out side quests.


The closest alternative I have come across is xan105's Achievement Watcher. It started in 2019, got a fair amount of attention 2020 after being posted on /r/CrackWatch by the creator, was added to various piracy megathreads, and stopped development in 2022.

It was a bit of a challenge to setup.

Some steps were:

  • Grab my own Steam API so it could fetch data for the achievements.

  • Alter Windows 11's notification settings so I could get the achievement unlocked notification.

  • Go through the steam_emu.ini files so I could find the correct directories (ex. \Users\Public\Documents\CODEX)

  • Using Achievement Watcher to generate the achievements.json and image files and placing them in the steam_settings folder of each game.

Even then I haven't been able to get it working smoothly. For Cities: Skylines for example I can unlock achievements but I don't receive a notification and they only appear after I refresh Achievement Watcher (Control + R). Most modern guides suggest using a Steam Auto Cracker but doing so appears to stop the game from working. I don't know if this is because I am utilizing repacks or if there are multiple forms of DRM at work. I could easily be missing something.

I've read there are compatibility issues with Achievement Watcher and cracks from groups/people like TENOKE.

Considering I own the games I want to play without DRM I may just try to use Goldberg myself.


Some games like Fallout New Vegas allow you to view completed challenges in-game and I imagine there are mods out there that add some form of achievement/trophy/challenge system.

There's also RetroAchievements for older games.

 

Fake Dentist perhaps? Something about getting cavities filled.

Fake McDonalds? Not sure.

 

I feel like I do this a lot with podcasts. I started watching the Gus and Eddy podcast and finished it about a month before the last episode was released for example.

It could be anything though. An online game, an OS, a console, TV show, a forum, or anything else. I'm just curious what people have to say.

It also doesn't need to be "dead". It could just be a significant change where a chunk of the community left.

 

Here are links to the website, GitHub, and Wikipedia pages.


The article I linked is a couple years old but I did a quick search of the community and it doesn't seem to have been mentioned here. Hopefully you find it as neat as I did.

There's also a couple YouTube videos covering it if you have some time to kill.

 

Mine was our CRT TV. I would rapidly push the power button on and off because I thought the picture coming and going looked cool but eventually it fell inside of the TV. I think I later stuck a magnet on the TV.


Not looking for Reddit answers like "My parent's marriage"

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