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GeekFTW

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Geek. Gamer. Data hoarder. Eldritch Horror hidden in a geeky t-shirt. Canadian. Polite, but says the ‘c word’ like an Australian. Avid pirate, worships unfathomable space gods that may drive you crazy.

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GeekFTW ,

Paradox’s Sim game was the least I was looking forward to of the upcoming Sims spiritual successors, ya know, cause it’s Paradox…

…but still, fuck.

GeekFTW ,

Been a bit but I think the one I was more hyped for was Paralives (which you’d expect to be the one from paradox given the name lmao)

GeekFTW ,

Only one I’d give Paradox any money for at this point! lmao

GeekFTW ,

As someone who gets comics from TG up and including last night: Shit.

Edit: https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/2812a89b-1734-4277-b422-60a27f0722b2.webp

This was posted to their telegram channel according to reddit’s piracy sub, so everything is fine.

GeekFTW ,

What people need to learn is that “indie game” it’s not a synonym for good, or worthwhile. I’ve pirated tons of indie games which wereamazing and I ended up buying.

I’ve also pirated tons of indie games that I wouldn’t have spent a damn dollar on because they absolutely sucked.

Pirate indie games all damn day. Pay for the ones that aren’t flame-broiled ass. Don’t reward people who asset flip or put 5 mins of effort into something just because the game is listed under a category called ‘indie’ lmao

GeekFTW ,

I hope they also improve the ability to see your damned hashtags cause when I used Pixelfed I followed a few dozen hashtags of interest and I only ever found one spot on your account which let you see ‘the list’ of hashtags you followed and it only ever showed me a random selection of 3-4 of the dozens I followed. Closed my account a few days later lol.

GeekFTW ,

I used to in the past (back when it was much more common to peruse /b/ and have kiddie porn slapped right in your eyeballs at a moment’s notice…not that its probably changed much over the years lol). Now-a-days I just use it for the torrent board since I’m a data hoarder and they throw up the occasional interesting collection of stuff.

GeekFTW ,

Anything 3

New Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances (apnews.com)

Critics of a new Louisiana law, which makes it a crime to approach within 25 feet (7.6 meters) of a police officer under certain circumstances, fear that the measure could hinder the public’s ability to film officers — a tool that has increasingly been used to hold police accountable....

GeekFTW ,

<eagle screech>

GeekFTW ,

At half time at the fucking Super Bowl.

GeekFTW ,

Partially off-topic but I rarely get the chance to tell this story:

My old man was a porn hound. Talking wall of VHS tapes. You know what I’m picturing, that was his living room. Had 4 VCR’s hooked up at once with several switches, a few switchboards for colour and audio correction, whole 9 yards. Lost an eye when I was a kid so always wanted to make his viewing ‘optimal’ for him.

What he’d end up doing was go down to the local Variety Video, rent 5-6 tapes, come home, and dub em over the weekend. Then once dubbed, remove the label with some heat, open the cassettes (the og and the copy he made) and swap the reels so he’d have the original one (which would be ever-so-slightly better quality than the copy he made, again, cause of his sight). Then seal em up, return the copy and no one was the wiser. Did this for close to 15 years before the place closed down (for unrelated reasons) and had his huge wall of big titty wank material for years to come lmao.

GeekFTW ,

Loved him some tiddy.

GeekFTW ,

Annas Archive, DC++ hubs, pdfmagazines.club (site is nsfw as playboy and similar will be on the front page guaranteed), and beyond that just via dumps on torrent trackers like 1337x.

GeekFTW ,

Hell I still remember my Nintendo Power membership number.

GeekFTW ,

But do you as that person need to know that fact every time you launch the game or is finding out about it before you buy it from it’s technical information sufficient?

You can care about surround sound options, but a non skippable splash screen on every launch gives you zero information or use.

GeekFTW ,

Lmao

GeekFTW ,

The tl;dr seems to be:

After such and such date (end of the month I think? Sometime soon either way) you will be required to sign in with a PSN account in order to play. Some say this was not advertised when the game launched, some say it was (I believe people found wayback machine captures that say it was but I may be wrong. Some people don’t want this, some countries aren’t allowed to sign up for PSN accounts outright (and if they have Helldivers 2 they would then be losing access technically).

Sony offered up the usual explanation of security and whatnot, which most aren’t accepting that as Valve/VAC do the job of security, leading most to assume it’s a way for Sony to gather more info and data from customers which they can then sell or otherwise market somehow.

Overall souring people on the whole situation of a bit of a bait-and-switch.

GeekFTW ,

Sony: The reason I stopped at the PS4 lol.

Is There a Way to Officially Disable a Lemmy Account?

I would like to know if there is an “official” way to set an account as disabled. For now, I am plan on posting this on Asklemmy, changing my password to some random string that I won’t remember, and then logging out. If I’d like to come back later, there’s a chance of my account being revived through the “forgot...

GeekFTW ,

Of course, a lot of people will disagree with this approach

There is not a single person here who is going to talk you out of leaving lmao, whether you stay or go affects no one but you. That being said, you’re a teen and you’re choosing to leave a social media platform due to mental health reasons. That’s quite far from being a bad thing. You’re doing what’s best for you and that’s good shit. You’ve matured further than you think.

Every Lemmy account will have a Delete Account option located at the bottom of the main page of your settings, not sure if it’s automated or if an admin has to go in to clear em out manually, but trigger it, log out and you’re set!

GeekFTW ,

thetvapp dot to, along with most other sports and a bunch of tv channels.

GeekFTW ,

Working on waking up the Old Ones over here, will speed up.

GeekFTW ,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/3967dcb0-4fec-446b-b83a-c83977a185c9.webp

o7

GeekFTW ,

Oh no Verizon is making you do the fucking shit you signed up and agreed to do oh no the horror!

GeekFTW , (edited )

Oh my heart is fantastic, Suzanne, but thanks for your concern.

I just don’t go online and complain about the terms of legal contracts that I signed while blaming the company for being the bad guys for setting forth the terms that you, again, agreed to.

🤦

Edit: And your downvotes mean nothing either rofl.

GeekFTW ,

Because I don’t pirate games to get a DRM free copy, I pirate games to try them out. GOG offering DRM free games doesn’t change any aspect of my piracy what-so-ever.

Game comes out on GOG that I want? Cool, time to pirate it, play it, and make sure it A) runs correctly on my PC, and B) make sure the game isn’t flame-broiled arse. If it’s good and I enjoy it, then I will buy a copy and not a minute before.

DRM free =/= good. DRM free = DRM free.

GeekFTW , (edited )

I’m sure they do, amazingly my answer somehow doesn’t change. Fancy that.

Edit: Downvotes mean nothing, I’ve seen what makes you cheer and this is a piracy community. Take that anti-pirate shite back to Reddit to the old community that does nothing but shit on things and post memes. We’ve never had a need to justify piracy and trying to shame people for it is some little-dick-bootlicker energy.

GeekFTW ,

All lanes closed both directions for incident on I-695 Key Bridge

All lanes no longer in existence on I-695 Key Bridge.

GeekFTW ,

Fuck Chi-Chan.

GeekFTW ,

DCSS has been one of my automatic installs on any PC I have for years now.

GeekFTW ,

Need more details. What are you watching when it happens? Or are you saying if you watch CSI, Sesame Street and a David Attenborough documentary about ants back to back you’d get light-headed 3 times, once during each?

As ValiantDust said it could just be motion sickness depending what it is you’re watching.

GeekFTW ,

I had not heard of that, and am not sure I want to…

GeekFTW ,

/reads the first few lines of an article.

yeaaah figuring that out quick :(

GeekFTW ,

I see eldritch themes, I’m down!

GeekFTW ,

https://lemmy.zip/pictrs/image/b5256822-a639-4751-b7ff-24c5d0793f8a.webp

GeekFTW ,

Rooster Teeth was a shell of itself for a long time, but those first few seasons of Red vs Blue were a fundamental part of my damn teenage years.

GeekFTW ,

She’s an actual “self made” billionaire.

🤦‍♂️

Geoff Keighley: I do agree that the music was played too fast for award winners this year [...] it’s something to address going forward. (nitter.net)

By the way - I do agree that the music was played too fast for award winners this year, and I asked our team to relax that rule as the show went on. While no one was actually cut off, it’s something to address going forward....

GeekFTW ,

Geoff, thank you for realizing the issue and addressing it. This is also the 10th year The Game Awards have been going on my man, come on lol.

GeekFTW ,

Yup. Had em 3-4x in this very apartment. First day we discovered them I was hauling my box spring the fuck outside and dumping it by the trash downstairs at 3am while my wife was panicking.

Thankfully been several years since I’ve seen em and I aim to keep it that way.

GeekFTW ,

Yep. I’ve had Plex set up for over a decade now, I just add in random fast stuff like Pluto/Tubi/ShoutFactory to supplement when I want something ‘else’. Last time I had cable was November 2009, haven’t had Netflix since 2013/2014 or so.

GeekFTW ,

Been using Plex for 13+ years, have yet to pay a dime.

GeekFTW ,

Have never needed it, almost all my media is just x264 so it’s working on every potato around. Not the same answer for everyone obviously, but useless for me.

GeekFTW ,

I saw this coming a mile away a decade ago.

Ditto. I’m Canadian so our media libraries typically have sucked compared to the US. Back 10-12 years or so ago I remember Netflix making comments online about looking into blocking Canadians from using vpn’s, DNS services and the like to access American Netflix.

Like…motherfuckers I’ve been pirating since June 1, 1999 when Napster came out, and several years earlier if we wanna count a wall of VHS recordings as piracy. I cancelled that day, and set up Plex. Now a decade+ and 30TB later I haven’t had to worry about it for a second, and neither have over a dozen of my close friends lol.

GeekFTW ,

Perfect!

GeekFTW ,

That’s what I did over on kbin. I’m responsible for posting 95+% of pro wrestling news on Lemmy/kbin, and another person sets up most of the discussions. The community wasn’t picking up speed back during the early redditpocalypse. Now we’re getting tons of activity.

GeekFTW ,

A non-existent magazine suits my looks so that works out perfectly!

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