It's sad that the young people here all forgot Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five. 😢

There were games from my wishlist on sale that I haven't bought because my current system isn't ready. So I'm in the market for a new PC. (And because Windows 10 support runs out in October 2026.)

One of the games is a PC port of a PS5 game. If the trend continues, I probably want to run a PC port of a PS6 game in 2032. Preferably on a PC I bought in 2026.

Yes, it’s only slightly weaker than PS5

This would make it a good enough system, but not one for the next 10 years.

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Some gamers have graphics cards that cost probably two or three times as much as the whole Steam Machine.

Will studios focus on the RTX 6090 or give slower machines a chance?

Are the Steam Machine's components good enough to run PS5 ports?

I unsubscribed. But he gained new subscribers. Nobody else cared.

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Make a new account on Reddit, and you soon learn that votes (and therefore karma points) do matter. Even the karma in one subreddit can be relevant, so older accounts joining subreddits need to be careful not to annoy the local establishment.

They matter in the original intention of votes: visibility.

Votes get used to sort content.

On my very first day on Lemmy, I couldn't see the comments to most posts. Luckily I found an answer to this problem that was posted over 2 years ago: I forgot to select additional languages to just “Undetermined.”

I just skimmed over the texts on the settings page and assumed “undetermined” works like with other social media sites: if I don't select anything, it shows me every language. And as communities are usually formed around a single language, it didn't seem important. This isn't the case with Lemmy. Undetermined is its own language, not a wildcard for all languages.

When users don't know how multiselect works on desktop web, they probably end up with just one language selected and miss every post that has no language set.

It's very strange.

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On the web I can select the language of a post and comment. The two mobile apps I've tried so far don’t have any language-related features.

So I end up posting and commenting with a mix of languages.

Should I just not set any when using the web UI?

Isn't this rather a revival instead of a reboot?

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I know what I don't want. It's probably biased, and I won't mention anything to avoid a flame war.

All the theme sites I've seen so far only let you specify what you want. But I have a longer list of things that I don't like. And filtering any output by it would shrink any results significantly.

All you people who were hating on racists on Twitter, you were hating on foreigners!! 🙃

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Superman IMDb ratings (discuss.tchncs.de)
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Superman (1978): 7.4
Superman II (1980): 6.8
Superman III (1983): 5.0
Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987): 3.8
Superman Returns (2006): 6.1

Man of Steel (2013): 7.1
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016): 6.4
Justice League (2017): 6.0

Superman (2025): 7.1
Man of Tomorrow (2027): --

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Choice paralysis can hit you even if it's only about two things. In this case it's about two games that you will play for hundreds of hours.

I had “Horizon Zero Dawn” in my library for 3 years before I finally started a serious game and finished it this year. Currently replaying it again.

The successor is now on sale on Steam: €36.

I put “God of War” on my Steam wishlist after finishing “Horizon Zero Dawn” for the first time. I was looking for more open-world games of this kind, and it got recommended by fans.

It's now on sale on Steam: €20.

I can't play them both at the same time. And after playing one of them for 100 to 200 hours, the other will be on sale again.

What would you do? GoW, so that you don't stick in the same world for too long and have some variety in your escapism? Or HFW to see how the story continues without wasting any more time?

Would HFW disappoint me on my GTX 1070? Compared to HZD?

They announced that they are investigating Democrats regarding Epstein.

An investigation can prevent the release of the Epstein files, regardless of whether the president signed the bill or not.

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I need to create an Apple account since yesterday. At first I got the error message "Your account cannot be created at this time." right away. So I waited until the Cloudflare outage was over.

After that, I could submit the request, received codes via email and text message. But when I enter the code from the text message, the error message "Your account cannot be created at this time." appears again.

The service "Apple Account" is marked green on Apple's status page. The email address and phone number are working, as they both received the codes.

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IMDb:

Update: The IMDb has the wrong birthday at the time of this posting. I submitted the correct date, July 18.

In Germany they want to lower the taxes for restaurants. One of the big winners will be McDonald's. 🙁

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So many people are affected by suspensions (even permanent) for reporting posts. The admins are gaslighting users who bring this to their attention.

I gathered a short list of examples of people talking about this topic.

In case you are still a Reddit user and logged in: DON'T COMMENT AND VOTE ON THESE REDDIT POSTS!

r/modhelp

r/ModSupport

r/NewToReddit

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I just had to vent. I'm serious, don't react to these posts on Reddit. No, this isn't one of these "I tell you not to do something in the hope you are doing something" cases.

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I'm too late for Halloween, but I need to mention the show I finished watching for the first time last week: The Strain

By Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.

Plot summary directly from the IMDb:

A mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism ravages the city of New York.

When I first heard about the show a few years ago, I dismissed it. I already watched too many similar shows, and it didn't sound worth it. But it was worth it.

And what's always a plus: It's now a finished show. Not canceled. It has a real ending with an 8.2 rating on IMDb. You know how the last episodes of shows catch all the hate if they weren't satisfying enough for the fans.

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