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stopthatgirl7 , 10 months ago to gaming in Starfield review controversy traces game journalism's orbital decay

This article made a damn good point about how much gaming websites depend on guides now. It hasn’t really clicked until now with me. I follow a bot on Mastodon that posts new articles from a bunch of different gaming sites, and it seems like half of them are for guides and walkthroughs. That’s where they get their ad bucks from, so that and SEO are the big focus.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago to worldnews in Is conservative Islam gaining ground in secular Kosovo?

Sorry I wasn’t born with a penis, I guess. 🙄

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago to gaming in I Simply Do Not Have Room On My PC For Starfield

They’re also playing the games on their laptop for some reason, which is certainly an interesting choice for two of the biggest games of the year.

They might not actually have a choice about playing on a laptop if they normally play on a PS5. Baldur’s Gate isn’t out on PS5 yet and Starfield is Xbox/PC exclusive.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago to news in White man faces trial in US for shooting Black teen who went to wrong house

He had the wrong street name when he was going to pick up his little brother.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago to news in Driverless Cars Are Worse at Spotting Kids and Dark-Skinned People, Study Says

No company has a duty to provide a product to you.

A company making driverless cars damn well does have a duty to make sure their program doesn’t run over children.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago to technology in Anonymous Sudan hacks X to put pressure on Elon Musk over Starlink

Many of the news-related communities I’m in have rules saying the title must much the headline. I’m not about to go memorizing which community has which rules so I can edit headlines on some posts in some communities because the wording might trigger the occasional pedant.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago to technology in Anonymous Sudan hacks X to put pressure on Elon Musk over Starlink

A lot of communities even have rules specifically saying you have to use the same title as the article, too.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago to news in White man faces trial in US for shooting Black teen who went to wrong house

Ffs, leave us out of this.

stopthatgirl7 , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to technology in It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore

I almost never use Facebook anymore because whenever I’m on it, all I see are posts from groups I’m not even in, ads, videos, and interspersed in all that algorithmically chosen content, the occasional post from people I actually follow and know. Social media isn’t social any more.

Even fricking tumblr now has videos on it, and you can only shut “tumblr live” off for a week at most before they come back.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago to news in California elementary school evacuated over bomb threat after rightwing harassment

It’s “racism” in the same way that all-women’s spaces are “sexist” against men.

Regardless, this is a discussion that does not belong here because it takes away from the actual issue at hand.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago to news in California elementary school evacuated over bomb threat after rightwing harassment

If you’re more angry at that than bomb threats against a school, you really need to work on your priorities, because that’s not what you should be focusing on.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago to technology in Anonymous Sudan hacks X to put pressure on Elon Musk over Starlink

Yell at the BBC, my dude.

stopthatgirl7 , 10 months ago to technology in Apple is cutting off social media support!

I used Twitter to contact Apple for tech support several times, and it was a good experience both times. This makes me sad, just because it feels like it’s Musk’s fault. I don’t blame Apple for separating from Twitter, but it feels like a good resource is gone.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago to gaming in I Simply Do Not Have Room On My PC For Starfield

It’s a touch trickier to upgrade a laptop, which the writer is talking about.

stopthatgirl7 OP , 10 months ago to news in San Francisco bakery sparks debate by refusing to serve armed police

SF has an extremely lot violent crime rate, so what exactly do folks need guns like that for? The “high crime rate” is property crime, like theft. Unless folks want to be out here shooting people for smash and grabs.

San Francisco is an unusual city when it comes to crime