Most people here are (or were) still engaged on other social networks. The engagement seeking mindset is just so widespread, that people bring it with them to the fediverse where it makes no sense.

At least that’s my answer. Not saying it is the cause, but it sounds about right to me.

Reporting and blocking is the only way and have always been, I don’t know what changed that people decided tolerating/engaging with them was being the better person.

I think it’s the general focus on driving engagement and feeding the algorithm.

That will just make them stay on X.

I thought something broke when I opened the link because I have exactly that picture as my desktop background.

That only happens when they accidentally miss the window.

If you can play Alyx on a decent headset, you’ll probably want to play Half Life 2 in VR too. The port is amazing.

Hey, yeah, about that cat…

Less is more

I really doubt an iOS update will affect people using android phones as servers.

bill!

He is unruly and therefore cannot be ruled. To steer him would be to court death.

Ad is an ad. Fuck them.

Adam and/or Eve

This is certainly a hurdle to overcome. Google helped by changing the Chrome UI for the worse in some ways I care about, but migrating to a new browser and getting used to different UI is enough of a hassle that I’m still holding out until adblock actually stops working before I make the switch.

There was something disturbingly familiar about the note on the desk. The handwriting was all pretty curves.

You are in a meme, Max.

The truth was like a green crack through my brain. Giant pixelated text on white background, glimpsed out of the corner of my eye. Time frozen in a single badly-cropped shot showing off my moves. Image hosting site watermark in the corner. I was in a meme. Funny as Hell, it was the most horrible thing I could think of.

Brutalist, not brutalist nicht.

As an AI language model, yeeeessss…

This comic came to mind when I was watching that video the other day. But it’s not full 4 hours, it’s about Mario 64 not Mario Kart and it’s only tangentially related to speedrunning, so in your face, last place comics!

Is this the new Voight-Kampff?

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