overview for amio

Most people are only half-listening by amio in c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

[-] amio@kbin.social 94 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

She probably agreed because that is at least a seamless way of "acknowledging" some totally incomprehensible bullshit that a stranger just told her.

Not that I see how the sertraline dosage even came up, to be fair.

Has community engagement dropped off suddenly? by amio in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

[-] amio@kbin.social 75 points 6 months ago

Wouldn't surprise me. If you're not into ragebait, tankieism, linux smugness, the painful minutiae of corporations fucking everyone, US bullshit, or all of the above... this place is really pretty slow.

I only really browse "all" on this site and it does seem like fresh content trickles in at a fairly slow rate. At least part of that is that it needs to squeeze by what is now pages and pages of blocked communities just trying to avoid the doomposting.

How does FromSoftware release AAA games so frequently? Elden Ring boss says "we are just blessed with a great staff" that the studio empowers and retains by amio in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[-] amio@kbin.social 179 points 8 months ago

For starters they keep making mostly the same game over and over. They're essentially doing the Bethesda shtick except their end results are better. Sticking to stuff that can mostly be made in the same engine as the thing you finished 15 minutes ago is going to shave off a lot of time compared to making a new game.

Of course that's not to shit on incremental improvements or engine reuse or anything. That is just sound thinking as long as the games are good.

Do you have to be Japanese to be a Kaiju? by amio in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[-] amio@kbin.social 109 points 8 months ago

Unless it's from the Kaijuu region of Japan, it's only sparkling beast.

[Mr Lovenstein] Only logical by amio in c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

[-] amio@kbin.social 93 points 9 months ago

Embrace the protective power of the AAHASHFSHFSHFASFHAFAHSFHSFAHAFFH

What happens if flat Earthers go to space? by amio in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

[-] amio@kbin.social 76 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Many of them will find some way to rationalize it. There was a documentary about an infamous series of experiments some of these geniuses set up - they were obviously consistent with a round Earth, so they dismissed it and started mumbling about mistakes in the experimental design and so on.

You can lead a horse to water, but horses can be intensely moronic animals.

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

submitted 11 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"])

Wikipedia Admin Unmasks As Alt Account Of Admin Who Was Extremely Banned In 2015 To The Great Bewilderment Of Everyone by amio in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] amio@kbin.social 76 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What was the point of spending years as a productive administrator, making tens of thousands of edits and logging thousands of actions, to implode the whole thing over a pointless argument on an RfA talk page?

People do weird things. Mood disorders, (develop-/)mental disorders, personality disorders, extreme cases of having a shitty day, or just being a twat.

What is really fucked up isn't just the meltdown, but the insinuation they did this to fuck with someone else, this Beeblebrox guy. That's not very hoopy.

Ubisoft delays pirate game Skull and Bones once again, development on this one began in 2013 by amio in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

[-] amio@kbin.social 75 points 1 year ago

That's fair, I don't know how I'd make ships climb the radio towers either.

Very clever... by amio in c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

[-] amio@kbin.social 426 points 1 year ago

Funny, but unironically a pretty good idea.

Anon is disillusioned about Starfield by amio in c/greentext@lemmy.ml

[-] amio@kbin.social 119 points 1 year ago

This entire thread is hilarious. I've been paying for therapy like a sucker, I didn't know you could get infinite amounts of free psychoanalysis just by suggesting that Starfield is somewhat underwhelming.

It's a mass extinction event by amio in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

[-] amio@kbin.social 121 points 1 year ago

You think C# is a Unity thing?

How the fuck can I kill 20 hours? by amio in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

[-] amio@kbin.social 133 points 1 year ago

Not trying to be a contrarian (it just happens!) but boredom will not kill you. In fact, I challenge you to sit and be bored for a good few minutes. It's good for you. I'm terrible at it myself, but that's what being a dopamine crack addict will do, I guess.

If you're out of ideas for things to do, try mindfulness meditation (Waking Up is an app with a bunch of free lessons to get you started) - very little woowoo, just pay cursory attention to something, then when your mind inevitably wanders off, just "notice" and be, well, mindful. It's like an antidote for boredom, in a weird way, and studies have shown that for whatever reason, it's good for you.

Myself, I read books for any "random short term downtime".