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  • have positive reviews destroyed games?

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  • The only negative opinions I care about for gaming usually come from Stephanie Sterling, because she's pretty much right every time.

  • Lithium-ion battery waste fires are increasing, and vapes are a big part of it

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  • I'm pretty sure they technically are but no one cares enough to stop their sale. Obama banned "vape flavorings targeting children" which all of them seem to be. I've only seen them for sale in vape/tobacco shops. Places that get regulated, like gas stations, aren't carrying them. At least around where I am in the USA.

    Edit. Doing further research... I guess they didn't?

  • Christie's First-Ever AI Art Auction Earns $728,000, Plus Controversy

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  • When there is so much AI slop out in the world that it makes you question whether something is AI or not. That's definitely erasing human creativity.

  • CA Gov Gavin Newsom "Completely Aligns" With Charlie Kirk On Trans Issues In Podcast

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  • Yikes.

  • What is love?

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  • Baby don't hurt me. Don't hurt me. No more.

  • I love my smart TV (From Mastodon) - Repost

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  • We have an older 2012 1080p Sony 55" TV. Super thin, still works great. It had a few "smart" things it could do, like local tv guide, weather. Very simple stuff, nothing like streaming apps. Those basic smart things haven't functioned in a while. Support ended for them a long time ago. I've had a negative opinion for smart TVs since then. Having those functions sitting there broken drives me nuts.

    We always used some type of streaming box. Started out with some Roku's for a long time that worked okay until they updated them enough to run like shit. Ads were never egregious but you could tell where the trend was going. A friend let me have an older Nvidia Shield TV. It was FILLED with ads for shit we didn't care about. Google Play store shit, Nvidia shit, advertisement shit, AHHHHHHH. It too eventually was updated enough to where everything runs like shit. I looked into a lot of self contained media systems from no names on Amazon, but I just didn't trust them. I could set up a PC to do it all and I'd be fine with it but my wife wants something easy to use.

    Sooo I ended up going with an Apple TV. So far it's been really nice. Zero ads on the home screen. It lists the previous content we were watching and then our streaming apps below it, that's it. When you move the cursor over the Netflix or other apps it lists what you previously watched and some recommendations for other shows but it's not in your face or moving anything around to do it. There are some apps you can't remove, but I just made a folder and threw them all in there. It's nice but it's costly at around $140. So far for me, I'd say it's worth it. We only use Netflix, Hulu and Plex on it, but all of them work great. It also supports the Steam Link app. I use it some, but I've started to use Moonlight that is installed on my Steam Link device instead, since the picture and stream quality is a lot better.

  • Looking for coop RPGs

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  • Secret of Mana and its remake are both co-op once you unlock the second character.

  • What does your Spotify Wrapped look like?

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  • I went back to purchasing my music as well. So I don't have Spotify but here's my top 20 albums of 2024 via PlexAmp!

  • Handheld consoles are the industry's next battleground | Opinion

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  • MS and Sony can push their handhelds, but I'm not looking for a locked down device to play games on. The reason the Steam Deck was such a sell for me was that it is a full PC. That I can do what I want with. I don't want "mobile" or console gaming, because they have turned them into predatory micro-transaction mess.

  • Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell

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  • I frequent Steam discussions on and off to see what morons say. BG3, Veilguard, anything they accuse of DEI or whatever. In all of my scrolling I've never encountered a swastika or someone just straight up being a white supremacist. I'm sure it's there somewhere, but it's not rampant. I also see a lot of moderation in those discussions. Goobers getting banned all the time. So if it is, I do think it's getting moderated to some extent. That probably also falls on the game dev I guess. Not sure who controls the discussion forums.

  • GenAI killed music discovery for me. How are folks discovering HUMAN music in the modern era?

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  • They were bought and sold by Epic Games. I've been buying albums off there since I left Spotify after Joe Rogan joined it. I haven't noticed a difference in that aspect since all of their fuckery.

  • Let's discuss: Platformers

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  • I'm sad Little Big Planet doesn't get this love anymore. The first two games were fantastic platformers.

  • Which unplayed game in your library are you most looking forward to playing eventually?

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  • You can mod the first three to get it close to par with the Legendary edition. The improvements they made in LE on all 3 make it worth playing, but if a user account is your limit I guess not. There are a ton of mods for LE now as well.

  • WinampDesktop/winamp - Licence violates github TOS · Issue #6

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  • Obligatory Weekend at Winamp's.

  • LINKIN PARK Announces New Lineup, Music And Tour

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  • She's a Scientologist and a Danny Masterson rape apologist.

  • Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now, Thanks to AI Deal

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  • Does this mean the Internet Archive will no longer be archiving reddit posts? That's how I've tried viewing most since I deleted my accounts.

  • Removed

    Blockchain and web 3.0

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  • Carbon credits are a bunch of bullshit so this probably is too.

  • King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Le Risque (Official Video)

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  • Nice! Going to see them in August. So stoked!

  • Will anything dethrone the Steam Deck? Probably not -GamingonLinux

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  • Ah thanks. That's what I thought. MicroSD cards are cheap enough and I boot to Windows once in a blue moon. Rather do that than adjust my partitions to give Windows a home on my device. It remains banished to the MicroSD. But yeah I could see how someone that uses Windows more frequently would want to go that route.