[-] resketreke@kbin.social 12 points 9 months ago

More recently, Ozzy and his wife Sharon dressed up as West and his wife Bianca Censori for Halloween last year.

LMAO

[-] resketreke@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

Every GTA player sweating bullets right now.

[-] resketreke@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

incube8games has a few, you might want to check it out.

[-] resketreke@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

better revenue shares for developers?
Money bonuses for exclusivity is great for developers?

It actually goes to publishers, so the only way devs see that extra cut is by self-publishing. So I guess for smaller indie devs it can be a good deal.

[-] resketreke@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

I use EndeavourOS and it works without issues.

[-] resketreke@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

I watched all three, and they were all terrible. I've watched the LOTR trilogy a few times, I've only watched The Hobbit trilogy once and I don't think I'm ever watching them again.

[-] resketreke@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

They swap a few pages, change some text here and there for the sake if it, and your old book isn't valid anymore.

[-] resketreke@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

At least it's stated in the game's Steam page. Dead Space Remake has Denuvo since day 1 and there was no warning in their Steam page at all for a long time. Last time I checked they had added the warning, though.

[-] resketreke@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

They should have used UwUntu, missed opportunity.

[-] resketreke@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Social media is having its quarter-life crisis, if a quarter-life crisis is a thing, if we can even put a lifespan on social media, which might in fact play a role in our society from now until the end of time. After 25 years of status updates, news feeds, clever tweets, performative photos, and endless scrolls, the US social media companies that have commandeered our attention and monetized it so successfully have run out of fresh ideas and are looking to reinvent themselves.

Lucky us?

Some 18 months ago, 3D immersion via face computers was going to reinvigorate our online social experience. Facebook believed in this vision so firmly that it changed its name to Meta to reflect it. Having determined more recently that something a little simpler might jack up engagement, Meta launched Threads—basically, Twitter for Instagram.

Now the video app TikTok is introducing a way to compose text-based posts—its own version of the Create feature found in Instagram Stories. Accessed through the app’s camera, where users typically go to post videos or photos, the new text option is billed by TikTok as “the latest addition to options for content creation, allowing creators to share their stories, poems, recipes, and other written content on TikTok.” Text: It’s the future. This comes right on the heels of Twitter rebranding itself as X, part of the company’s broader strategy for becoming an everything-app, like China’s WeChat.

TikTok’s new text feature, which feels mostly additive, and Twitter’s brand pivot, which feels mostly superfluous, are not by themselves causes for existential angst. But they’re part of an evolution in the social media landscape, where the polite “borrowing” of features has turned into a full-fledged land grab for our frayed attention spans. Whether through subscriptions, shopping, payments, or AI-infused products, social media companies are throwing everything at the wall to counter both an unpredictable ad market and people’s limited capacity for using a dozen different social apps.

“If we evaluate these apps from the legacy technology-innovation lens, then yes—they’re copying each other and there are no new ideas,” says Chris Messina, a software product designer who is credited with introducing the hashtag to Twitter. “But the better way to understand it is that social media is now a fashion industry, so as a product manager, you’re evaluating success based on engagement and retention, not innovation.”

Messina also adds that he believes X (née Twitter) is now “incredibly vulnerable, and the most competitive teams, like Meta and TikTok, aren’t going to sit idly by if they can carve up Twitter’s former advertising base.”

Meta’s early success with Instagram Threads—over 100 million sign-ups in under a week—has largely been credited to its platform advantage; over a billion people already use Instagram, and porting one’s Instagram identity over to Threads is frictionless. But that’s success in metrics only—quantitative, not qualitative. (In any case, daily active users on Threads have reportedly fallen off.) Threads still doesn’t have a web or desktop app, hasn’t yet rolled out its promised chronological feed, and doesn’t yet support a more open-source protocol that the company has said it will support.

[-] resketreke@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago

while being bound by the feature set of ActivityPub.

So this is when they'll start adding features exclusive to their instance. Does it sound familiar?

[-] resketreke@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

Or, the random person saying the mods got reinstated is a plant and just wants people to have faith and come back.

Sounds likely, no mods appear in the subreddit's mod list at the moment.

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