My cat was confused at first, then realised this was a really fun game where he can finally reach the flies. But he just kind of bats them around for fun like they’re an elaborate cat toy. I didn’t even realise it was possible to deal nonlethal 0dmg to a fly. I still do it sometimes, but he’s so useless at killing things 😂 literally wouldn’t hurt a fly

Worst of all, these fuckers are the reason why when I try to type “unless” on my swipe keyboard, half the time it types United instead.

Yeah true. But I could also just buy the not-used pillowcase instead of going on a biohazard side-quest

Gamer girl stained yellow pillow. You can really smell the “going to bed before your hair is fully dry after showering”

I have several disabilities, and they deliver stuff I need to my house; no questions asked, no fuss, no new accounts, no sign up form, no mailing lists I didn’t ask for, no additional data leak attack surface, no delivery fee, no weird obscure delivery service that takes 4 weeks, no difficult return process (though I wouldn’t personally return an opened pillowcase).

My next best option near me would be something like BigW. However, I just checked, and they don’t even have any pillowcases in cotton unless I go through their “marketplace” third party system. At which point it’s basically just an Amazon seller but worse.

If anything else was as convenient or good, I’d use it; believe me. But it’s just not a thing for me, in my area. Also of course I’d go shopping in person, but I can’t, for various reasons.

Easier said than done

I remember my first data cable. I plugged two computers directly into each other, and it was like magic; didn’t even need a floppy disk to transfer data! Then the LAN games…

Nowadays most games on Steam will actually shit themselves if you try to connect to a local IP address. No, I don’t want to use the online cloud server; let me peer to peer or local host, please.

I think most games seem to handle it pretty well, actually. It’s a tough balance to strike, though. Having to carefully manage and schedule essentially two releases seems difficult. v0.5 and v1.0, where the first release is often to secure additional funding to make it the whole way; especially for indie games

I sleep soundly knowing that the staff have purged them of sin using their industrial hellfire machines

“This continuing migration, I’ll call it, of hyper-casual mobile culture, and hyper-casual gaming culture, and live service gaming culture is washing through Steam right now. Now the culture has changed and early access, essentially, has lost its meaning. People just buy an early access game like they buy a normal game and treat it like that’s the game.”

Personally, I don’t buy early access games ever. I know I’ll likely only play a game once; and I don’t want to “ruin” my experience with the unfinished version. I’m happy to wait for full release.

However, I think Buckley is off-mark here. It’s got nothing to do with “hyper casual culture”, which sounds completely made up by the way. It’s simply the media pipeline for gaming has changed.

Many people learn about games, especially indie games, through streamers or independent content creators now. Those content creators are then incentivised to jump on a game as soon as it’s available to get ahead of the hype. It’s not economical to sit back and wait for every game to leave early access before playing / reviewing it; they would just get left behind.

That has the side effect of pulling the trigger on the hype train way earlier than 10 years ago. Users see their favourite streamer playing and want to play too. 10 years ago early access was, as in the article, feedback for the developers. In 2026, your game kind of has to be presentable and “mostly done” in early access, with some polish left to go. Very different landscape and reception.

For better or worse, publishers and developers need to adapt to this market reality.

Yeah! The way her eyes immediately lit up when she realised the Subaru she knew finally came back… man it gave me goosebumps

Feels like I accidentally commit a new war crime every day on Lemmy by using something that is now considered problematic 😂

Adversity makes strange bedfellows

It is April Fools Day and it is marked as entertainment.

Most of the comments seem to think it’s just a joke? Amusing read either way.

Also what’s wrong with wojak? I think they’re funny

On some other items it was selected by default, in worse condition as well.

I don’t trust some stranger I never met before to meet any standard of clean and hygienic. In contrast, I do trust grandma, especially because if she shits on my bed we’ll be having words. Can’t have words with the previous owner of my second-hand Amazon return item. Since words cannot be had if the unspoken bedding rules are broken, therefore, I refuse to take that risk.

I think I fucked up that whole paragraph but I’m pretty tired sorry

Edit: also it was more like mildly horrified but I don’t think that community exists. Infuriated is close enough on the emotional spectrum if you squint.

Last fall, OpenAI shared research showing that about 1 million people a week have conversations with ChatGPT that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.

In the sub-linked article:

our initial analysis estimates that around 0.15% of users active in a given week have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent and 0.05% of messages contain explicit or implicit indicators of suicidal ideation or intent.

0.15% sounds rare on the surface, but percentages stop being intuitive at massive scales like that. If many people are using this thing as a suicide hotline, it needs to handle this gracefully; or at the very least not encourage them for God’s sake.

https://www.abs.gov.au/articles/sexual-violence-victimisation

Plenty of data here to browse, if anybody’s dubious. It’s a legitimately big problem.

I have fatigue condition as well, so honestly I just gave up on “cooking”. Try to aim for “arrangements” instead. Much easier and takes less focus/time/energy.

• Toast with toppings
• Greek yoghurt fruit bowl
• Smoothie
• Canned bean burritos with cheese
• Other healthy snacks
• Etc

Obviously it depends highly on your dietary needs. I’m vegetarian with very complex health so I built my diet around that, but you might have more flexibility. Try not to buy “ready to eat” stuff every day though because they’re usually pretty bad health wise. Also the freezer is your friend; it will forgive you when you forget leftovers for 3 months.

I dunno; unless it’s been cleansed in the fires of Mordor, I’m not sure I’d risk it 😂

“Like new” - no
“Very good condition” - hell no
“Fair condition” - I dunno what’s worse than hell no