BrutallyHonestPOS

joined 4 weeks ago
[–] BrutallyHonestPOS@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

Bill Gates will come and say "no!" and microsoft will make a sad face and say "okay." and then bill gates will call my uncle at steam and ban microsoft from playing rocket league.

[–] BrutallyHonestPOS@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago

exclusively. i never use the left shift for anything other than running in games.

[–] BrutallyHonestPOS@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Disclaimer: have not played in a few years. So this answer is only true for a state of game from before the mistlands update (November/December 2022)

You will have a lot of chests with a lot of stuff. Inventory management is part of the game. You can not carry metal (heavy and important) through portals and are forced to transport them yourself. You will have limited inventory space. You will basically move through tiers of materials (woods, metals etc), but low tier materials will never be obsolete, so you need to store a lot.

That being said: it is all worth it. Your stuff can be destroyed you drop your stuff on death and it makes moving through dangerous parts of the map a lot more exciting and challenging.

[–] BrutallyHonestPOS@lemm.ee 23 points 2 weeks ago

"i am no threat to you, so please lower all your defenses. ignore the past 20 times i abused this to attack you again. this time will be different, pinkypromise"

[–] BrutallyHonestPOS@lemm.ee 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

i got a pixel 8a used for cheap. installing grapheneOS was a breeze and took less than 10 minutes following their guide (i watched a youtube video in advance as well, but did not factor in the time.)

installed f-droid and aurora and have access to all apps i need, avoiding what i need to avoid :)

i still have my one plus with google services and apps like whatsapp that i will slowly transition away from. my biggest problem is that i can easily switch to communication apps like threema and signal (and have years ago) - but the sad truth is that many of my contacts are still on whatsapp

[–] BrutallyHonestPOS@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I believe so. Especially after reddit killing third party apps, were many tools created or advertised, like

https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

https://shreddit.com/

https://redact.dev/

(all were taken from i reddit comment that i don't want to link to. you will find it yourself, but screw reddit!)

[–] BrutallyHonestPOS@lemm.ee 3 points 2 weeks ago

back when reddit was not just a meme shithole, karma was used to motivate people to post quality content. 90% of the stuff posted on reddit nowadays would get downvoted into oblivion back then. typo in the title or image caption? downvoted. repost? downvoted. low effort? downvoted.

but with growing popularity the flat number of (usually young) users grew that hat other quality standards grew and these kind of faults were ignored. meme became bigger, and there was a general shift in reddits userbase. they changed the algorith to calculate your score and suddenly you could get just so.much.karma from cheap posts.

some communities became very strict in their content to avoid shitposts. some used karma to prevent trolls participating in their subs. nowadays high karma accounts are being sold as they can be used to participate in subreddits with a high reputation (due to participation limitations) and upvoting/downvoting and commenting on certain post can very heavily skew its visibility and impression of the discussed topic on "neutral" users.

so yea, karma used to be a good thing (good content motivation), became a bad thing (karmawhoring), which was still utilized for good things (participation limitation), which led to even worse things (karmafarming bots).

lemmy will have to deal with this sooner or later. there will be bots brigading communities on certain topics and there need to be some kind of indicators to distinguish honest users and trolls.

[–] BrutallyHonestPOS@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

ok sorry :(

i am just worried that the idea of karma on lemmy starts to gain traction :D

[–] BrutallyHonestPOS@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

i dont know, i dont think so (without a user asking them to?). i think it would be less trouble for them to just create new accounts on their own. same result, but nobody can claim that their deleted account was restored. i think restoring deleted accounts could lead to legal trouble?

[–] BrutallyHonestPOS@lemm.ee 25 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

thats another thing. no internet points, so no bots to farm them. upvotes really only indicate the quality of the post or comment that receives the upvotes. no way to use the total number of points to claim validity of your posts or to brag with them.

that being said, at one point we will need to figure out a way to identify and prevent bots that just post propaganda. while we wont have the problem of karmawhoring bots, they dont have the need to karmawhore and can try to spread their propaganda immediately.

[–] BrutallyHonestPOS@lemm.ee 23 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

PSA: delete your account!

being banned is funny and stuff, but reddit can, has and will unban accounts to inflate their user count for their investors.

delete every account, post and comment if you can.

[–] BrutallyHonestPOS@lemm.ee 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

dont get banned, just delete your account. reddit is notorious in unbanning people to inflate their user count to investors.

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