overview for amio

Super Mario Maker 64 exists, thanks to a new ROM hack in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] amio@kbin.social 23 points 4 months ago (1 children)

[looks vaguely in the direction of Japan]

Five... four... three...

Oh, good, I almost had an independent thought in c/noncredibledefense@sh.itjust.works

[–] amio@kbin.social 0 points 4 months ago

lmao

Microsoft Rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] amio@kbin.social 64 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Well at least this surely will be easily disabled and then not keep re-enabling itself when Windows forgets its own settings every couple weeks(!)

rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] amio@kbin.social 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't be too comfy with b) either, as it sounds like a complete unicorn. At best, it's hard to know the "quality" of that backing and even then there are ethical and legal liabilities.

Rule in c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

[–] amio@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago

rekt

UK government responds to Stop Killing Games campaign, There is "no requirement in UK law" preventing publishers from rendering older games unplayable in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] amio@kbin.social 45 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah, well, no fucking shit, what'd they think was the point of the campaign?

These guys...

What it's like to be a developer in 2024 in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[–] amio@kbin.social 1 points 4 months ago

"site" does work still, I think, just plus a lot of irrelevant drivel - standard Google fare, you see it on Youtube too.

I'd consider the most basic case to be, specifically, the "quotes for verbatim results", which definitely do not work anymore. Neither does + for a positively (hue hue) required term, a close second.

What it's like to be a developer in 2024 in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[–] amio@kbin.social 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

To be fair, back in the day you could get better results by relying on Google with site:foobar and the Boolean/"power user" stuff. A lot of built-in search boxes on sites were a bit dodgy, or at least less flexible than AND/OR/NOT and other "power user tricks".

Of course, these days those seem to be ignored wholesale and even "verbatim quotes" are an utter crapshoot, this was back when Google didn't fucking blow.

Dpad vs analog stick in c/gaming@beehaw.org

[–] amio@kbin.social 3 points 4 months ago

Dpad for games that were intended for dpad, analog if the game was intended for analog.

Analog for dpad games feels awkward in my experience, and dpad for analog games is not even an option.

Windows 7 with Aero Glass, in my opinion, was the last version of windows that actually felt warm and comfortable to use. 8, 10 and 11 all feel so cold, sterile and boring. in c/nostalgia@lemmy.ca

[–] amio@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

CRTs, all the radiation /j

“The Idea of You”: Deconstructing the Modern Romance Through a Cinematic Lens in c/RedditMigration@kbin.social

[–] amio@kbin.social 1 points 5 months ago

Great, even getting this spam on like page 3 now.

Todd Howard says Bethesda's trying to 'increase our output' with Elder Scrolls and Fallout 'because we don't want to wait that long either' in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

[–] amio@kbin.social 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

handwaved it away as perfectly normal and expected

"Yes, but space is boring and therefore it's realistic" is still one of my favorite excuses for a game.

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Can't block Hexbear communities - with workaround (kbin.social)

submitted 10 months ago by amio@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

6 comments fedilink

So to my immense joy, Hexbear has started appearing on the front page again. Instance blocking is not available, and even the regular block feature sometimes fails (on certain communities?) for no clear reason. I've already tried blocking their "DuNk tAnK" and politics sub, it errors in a way that doesn't seem to happen otherwise. No idea why - more info on error pages would be nice - and I'm curious if that's reproducible for anyone else. (I'll hold off on being overly conspiracy-minded, but isn't it quite interesting that it doesn't seem to happen to other instances...)

As a stopgap measure I've hacked together these uBlock Origin compatible filters. Fairly easy to change if you want to block other/additional instances - or narrow it to specific Hexbear communities, though I can't imagine why you'd want to.

! https://kbin.social block any post to hexbear communities
kbin.social##article.entry:has(aside.meta > a.magazine-inline[href$="@hexbear.net"])

! https://kbin.social block any post from hexbear users
kbin.social##article.entry:has(aside.meta a.user-inline[href$="@hexbear.net"])

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World news vs US politics (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by amio@kbin.social to c/worldnews@lemmy.world

66 comments fedilink

Please. All of this is mostly US politics. Please do not hijack "world news" to mean whatever new shit Desantis or someone else said this week. Every other magazine/community/whatever is already full of that shit. Please.

Please. Please. Please.

US politics already swamp out most of the content on the entire fediverse. It may seem like the world to you but there's almost 200 countries on this planet that are not the US.

PLEASE DO NOT.

Thank you.