Notices by Alyx Hinata 🇹🇩🚫:unverified:💀 (alyx@gameliberty.club), page 2

@ProfessionalPetFoodTaster @p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @gentoobro @mangeurdenuage
I don't know what fireworks have to do with anything, and I have no idea what you're actually trying to ask.

@ProfessionalPetFoodTaster @p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @gentoobro @mangeurdenuage
Covid was Chinese, yes. Not a scam, as in the virus is real. Not entirely sure how deliberate it was.
It was potentially an attempt at a bio-weapon that they accidentally released on themselves, which they then allowed to spread to the world, because it was the only remaining way they could make use of what they created. There is circumstantial evidence that it started up months before we became aware of it. So they used censorship to keep it hidden from the world as long as possible, to ensure the virus spread outside of China.

@ProfessionalPetFoodTaster @p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @gentoobro @mangeurdenuage
>The superior Chinese respect its people
lol no. There's no respect for the Chinese for one another. They're just not savvy enough to do big financial scams like the westerners do, because they don't have the same deep understanding of capitalism. It's literally the Badman meme "you were merely raised in darkness, I was born in it, molded by it". It's the same shit. Western sociopaths were born in capitalism and learn the system more deeply, and are able to pull of far greater shit.

@ProfessionalPetFoodTaster @p @lanodan @hj @Hoss @gentoobro @mangeurdenuage
And you're wrong. China already has the same kind of mass violence that America has, and it's actually worse, attacks are more often, larger scales. They have school attacks, they have truck attacks, they have unpaid workers torching factories. You don't hear about it, because China censors everything.
I recommend both of you go check The China Show, on YouTube. The hosts report on all kinds of things that happen in China. You'll find plenty of these cases in older episodes.

@teto @LukeAlmighty
No, I think he implies the game or game engine is badly made. Which has become a true fact of a lot of games recently.

@teto @LukeAlmighty
At this point it's starting to sound like you're coping. You okay? He's bothered by something, you're not. Ok. Why keep the convo going? Why do you feel the need to keep shouting insults? Just leave the "autists" alone and play your game. Why do you care?

I feel like I should start a religion around Half-Life. Consider this: Eli Vance died for our sins in 2007 and 13 years later he resurrected. That's pretty much exactly like Jesus, right? Clearly there should be a religion around this.

@teto @LukeAlmighty
>where is there blur here?
me:looks at blurry textures..
Ermm... Everywhere. Not our fault some of us can notice shitty temporal antialiasing.

@LukeAlmighty Sounds like your brain is telling you it's time to come out of the closet.

@LukeAlmighty I haven't played it, but I'm guessing it's a survivor game in the same sense that Minecraft is.

@LukeAlmighty To be completely honest, I don't think there's even a good word for "blur" in my native language, so I'm less than clueless how I would explain it to someone.

@mischievoustomato
>white pill
Is it a cyanide pill? I think cyanide is white, right?

@kaia How about we meet in the middle: half-yaoi, half-yuri. You take half a yaoi couple, half a yuri couple, and stick them together.

Any more news on that Avocado guy? Did he actually trick people regarding his weight loss after all, or was it legit?

@LukeAlmighty I mean, the guy did go to university in his 40s and got a philosophy degree, so you know he ain't stupid. Haven't seen this video yet, but now you got me extra curious.

@mischievoustomato
Depends on how you define happiness. I'd say money doesn't buy happiness, but it buys getting rid of a lot of daily stress and anxiety. After that, achieving happiness is a lot easier.

@icedquinn @coolboymew
Weirdly enough, there is a small segment of people that do some kind of small work on the go, for whom something like this works great, because they basically need a tablet sized thing every once in a while to view/edit a document. Not complicated work, just slight edits while on the field. Like adding a row in a spreadsheet. Menial stuff. So why carry 2 devices around, when you can have 1.

@icedquinn @coolboymew
>are we just doing this because we can?
A bit because of this, for sure.

I've watched a few teardown videos every now and then, and it seems they've improved a bit over the years. First models had terrible hinges, that got dirt trapped in them and broke them. Now apparently that's a solved issue.
They've even managed to make it hard to fold them the wrong way around.

There's definitely a lot of complexity involved, including some kind of weird ultra-thin glass that is flexible enough to fold, but also protects the screen from scratches from dust in your pockets (cause if you try to actually scratch the folding screen with something serious... yeah... zero protection).

But considering everything, it is an interesting achievement. And while the need is niche, as long as someone finds use out of it, and the companies are making their money back, who am I to complain.

@coolboymew
I've never seen one that got actual use out of it. I've seen a few in store displays, and they don't have any real noticeable crease to speak of. Maybe slight bumps or lumps, because the screen isn't hard glass, so it's not a perfectly flat surface. They look perfectly usable imo.
But those phones don't get real use, so I've got no clue how they end up IRL.

@coolboymew I'd guess: 90% of the time use it as phone, 10% use it as a tablet. When they need to read some pdf or something, flip it open. Maybe even watch a movie while on a plane, or something. Just random small things from time to time.