As long as it’s okay to criticize homophobia and transphobia JK Rowling spews, I say go for it.

Was gonna say Enya but everyone is talking paintings. Escher it is, then.

This is what lack of competition looks like.

My answer is the same as when Brewster asks me if I want pigeon milk in my coffee in Animal Crossing: “Ew, no.” (Look up pigeon milk. Or Starfield, for that matter.)

Like 4 people but like vegans and CrossFit folks, they’ll tell you all about it!

Sure they do. It’s not for them though.

They know. They don’t care

This thing in my hand that’s like 20% larger and 138% heavier than a cassette tape according to Duck AI, yet it has all my music, access to hundreds of movies (via plex, hosted on my Mac), not to mention I use it to answer stupid quotations and sometimes it changes what I type. Yeah, that.

As a computer user with ~30 years’ experience with Windows: why? Why does the browser need to open? Since Windows 98, the OS and the browser have shared common elements. Those get preloaded already whether you like it or not. This is how IE got its performance gains and this is how Edge gets them as well. Firefox once had an extension that did a similar thing, it added a system tray icon that would preload parts of the browser. The effects were not that great, but some people kept it around. I suspect Chrome has similar things in Android/ChromeOS.

So generally I say this is fine, especially since you can opt out and it probably won’t touch business/enterprise, government users, and maybe even Windows 11 Pro users who are spared a lot of the bullshit.

As a Mac guy, I don’t think macOS is loading any part of Safari without permission. Safari isn’t part of Finder (the file manager), it’s not part of the OS aside from being included with it. I run Firefox full time on both my Macs.

And of course Linux is less likely to do this. They typically bundle Firefox (some bundle Chrome or something else) and Firefox isn’t really meant to do that out the gate, so I doubt it’s happening at all on Linux.

But even if I had 11 Home to game on, I’d just opt out, but also accept that it’s probably still loading parts of Edge that other parts of the OS use (like the help system, is that still a thing? Haven’t seen it since 98 or 2000 or maybe XP).

But also, my Macs and iPhone convert the Windows company to, let me just type it so I can show you, Microslop . Yeah, I set that up. It was funny for a while. It’s still funny. Maybe if it stops being funny, I’ll disable it.

Good matches and the health and safety of all players and spectators.

Not a fan of football.

So instead we upvote the cute dog? You got me, I’ll upvote a pupper every time, especially if it’s what looks like a terrier mix. I had a dog with a face kinda like that, but greyer, leaning more toward Schnauzer. But, all dogs are the goodest boy (or girl) and this makes sense to dog people (though, I’m more of a cat person, though if I’m honest I’d take a red panda over either, but then again, who wouldn’t?).

Because while both countries use the “dollar,” it is not the same currency and cannot be compared directly.

Australians also tend to make more, and thus have a higher cost of living. If an Australian is making less than the equivalent American, someone or something failed somewhere and that person is not going to have a good time. If an American is making more than the equivalent Australian, that person is probably enjoying life.

It’s why pushes for minimum wage are so poorly thought out. Okay, you double everyone’s wage, it means the companies that pay them pay twice as much, so they will raise costs to compensate. They’re not going to take a pay cut. With everything going up, those who get paid more have roughly the same spending power (so nothing has really changed for them) but those who didn’t get paid more have it worse — and that’s the point.

These all just look like regular people to me. They may be monsters, but they’re not exceptionally attractive or unattractive. They just look like your typical professional person.

Attractive people are nice to look at, sure, but accepting that, we must also accept that they are exceptional because they are uncommon, and thus most people not being that attractive are also valid. As opposed to expecting that people be attractive. In fact, I’d say most presidents are unattractive people. Kennedy and Obama being exceptions, but, I am not attracted to men, so I’m a little skewed on saying which ones are better looking. Those two were just less ugly. And I don’t mean what they did, I just mean their physical appearance.

Don’t. Tell him to browse /all and block the ones he doesn’t like. And sub to the ones he likes.

I also came from Reddit, and I tried to use a community migration tool. Like for example, I like Animal Crossing (the Nintendo game), and there are 3-4 Animal Crossing communities, but none are active. One is posted to by a bot. There is basically no Animal Crossing community on Lemmy, even though spaces exist. Same for my favourite band, favourite singer, favourite film — all of which had active communities on Reddit.

So the point is to discover them.

That said, I’m a fan of Casual Conversation, Ask Lemmy, and this one — the ones that get people talking.

Also, tell him to ignore content mills — accounts (not sure if bot or person) that just post stuff but don’t discuss anything. A dead giveaway is when they post something that is freely available but they post blog spam. Like it would have cost you nothing to just link to the content, but you’re hiding it behind ads. So either it’s your business or you’re the tool of whomever’s business it is. And that’s not really a user you want to follow. Block a few of those and you’ll see more of the “real” Lemmy. (Also, become part of the “real” Lemmy by engaging others in discussion. Not everyone, and definitely don’t entertain rude people or people who are trying to herd you into an answer so they can gainsay you — karma isn’t a thing on Lemmy, and people who act like it is are, at best, a waste of time, and safely ignored.)

They’re laughing at you/us because they don’t pay for a car, which means either they don’t have a job or they live in a very population dense metropolitan area where the cost of living offsets the money they save by not having/needing a car. So yes in those areas you can have a car, but parking is severely limited, you pay for a parking space, parking just about anywhere else gets you towed, so most people just take the bus/train. If the bus/train is late, you might lose your job, but there are other jobs and your boss is probably late sometimes because they also can’t afford a car. They get accustomed to this life and shame people who have cars because they envy their freedom, and their lower cost of living. Misery loves company, after all.

But they are right in that they don’t have to pay for gas, or car insurance, or car maintenance. They still pay it in higher rent, utilities, and goods and services in the area. But they consider those costs sunk and therefore, do not factor them in. They think they’re winning, when really, at best, they’re no better than we are, and in some ways they are, but in many ways they’re just as bad if not worse. But they’re also shaming us for living the way we live, so that’s worse too.

Do Constellation NPCs (e.g. the four you can romance) still turn on you if you kill the leader of a crew holding a hostage or attacking your ship?

So there’s been this bug since launch, and it’s been reported to Bethesda several times through official channels, and they never cared about it for like a year (up to Shattered Space) and they just did not seem to care. You would get a misc. quest (e.g. through the Akila City bounty board, or you could happen upon it in space) and there would be a crew of pirates (or sometimes the snake guys, or spacers, or any other enemy faction) and you would have to rescue the ship’s crew. You could kill all the bad guys, but if you killed their leader — which was the trigger to complete the side quest — every member of Constellation would turn on you, saying you disappointed them and you had to go apologise to each one of them. And then if you did it a second time, they would not forgive you.

I did all 240 temples to maximise all 24 Starborn powers. I must have done Vanguard 7-8 times, pirates 5-6 times (mostly for the pirates but sometimes for the other faction), rangers 4-5 times, and the Deus Ex inspired shit show faction twice. I forget their name. They’re on Neon City, but passing by any advertisement booth will trigger the quest line to start. Best gun is obviously the one at the end of the pirate quest, but even the standard, unnamed one is nearly as good, and my first stop was always to Neon to steal it out of the shop, because why pay for it when you can go invisible and take it off the wall? Then they nerfed invisibility but still refused to fix the Constellation faction bug. That sucked.

One comment says Starfield is Todd Howard’s baby, but the impression I got was that the game existed to sell paid mods and that Bethesda really did not give two shits about the game. Meanwhile, the Mass Effect Legendary Edition came out like a decade prior, goes on sale for six bucks all the time, and is a far better story, and game. I am a sucker for the shooting in Bethesda games, and Starfield is no exception. I own Shattered Space on Xbox, but not the base game (I played it on GamePass). Still might pick it up if it goes on sale low enough. I don’t even really hate Starfield, I just wish Bethesda cared about it as much as some of the fans. And not even the crazy ones saying you’re a fool (or something else bad) if you don’t see the genius… I just mean people who enjoy Starfield. I wish they liked it that much. I wish they cared about those fans.

Book or movie? I do not remember the movie being fucked up at all.

Skimmed the summary on Wikipedia. Most of that, I remember. I don’t remember

That is kinda weird.

But by all accounts Little Miss did love the robot. It was her sister who didn’t like him.

Also, Little Miss was the Pepsi girl, if you’re old enough to remember her.

My favourite was in Orange, a Japanese series about a high school girl who gets letters from the future. It’s revealed in the first episode that the letters really are from her and her classmates in the future, who are trying to prevent the death of one of their own.

Why is spoilers, so…

I’m not sure if any other time travel story does it quite like that, I’m sure it isn’t unique to Orange. My favourite film, 君の名は。(your name.) sort of plays with this concept, but you really have to watch it a few times to figure out the timeline(s), and it’s not really meant to be taken that seriously. Some of us in the fandom do, though.

ThunderCats and Masters of the Universe (aka He-Man). I think there was a comic book once that did it, but I mean, like a movie. They’ve done a bunch of Transformers and they did Barbie, as far as modern 80s cartoon/toy adaptations. I think they’ve tried to do ThunderCats but the rights have been tied up or something. I feel like Masters of the Universe was objectively cooler, but ThunderCats was the one I watched. Looking forward to seeing the new MOTU in theaters this summer.

This would be funnier if it were set in a cinema. That’s what I thought it was at first (because popcorn and the question) but saw they’re sitting on a couch. (Still pretty funny.)