Deebster

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[–] Deebster 2 points 1 year ago

It's been mentioned in every episode so far, but mostly the contestants are ignoring it.

[–] Deebster 6 points 1 year ago

I'm another Kagi fan - after customising it a little it's just so good, and I haven't even played with features like lenses.

I really like the custom bang searches (e.g. I could make !ks gravity search on simple Wikipedia), especially on mobile since Firefox Android doesn't support the normal browser quicksearches (where you set a keyword for each search).

[–] Deebster 2 points 1 year ago

I love that people are still making games for the Amiga, I'll have to add doing one myself on to my nerd–bucket-list.

[–] Deebster 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's interesting. The flaw with that logic seems to that there'll always be new users, and they'll be playing on hard mode since those vital clues have been removed.

[–] Deebster 7 points 1 year ago

Online it's even more annoying (to me, anyway), because we have the time element specifically for this kind of thing and no-one bothers to use it.

[–] Deebster 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

After a glance at others' answers, it's the same thing: the trend away from skeuomorphism.

I always think about the time I discovered an Android area was horizontally scrollable - with no scrollbars to clue me in, it was only the fact that the icon I wanted wasn't there that prompted me to discover the secret. I'm a software dev, if it's unintuitive even to me, how do non-technical people stand a chance?

[–] Deebster 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is a neat little idea, although I'm surprised you found the motivation to finish what seems like a niche need. Was this something that you wanted for yourself?

[–] Deebster 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

My understanding wasn't that they weren't gambling, just that they claimed they weren't (gambling is illegal in China). The Chinese have a reputation for loving gambling, despite its illegality.

Chinese officials have been censured in the past for receiving bribes through the playing of card games

How would this happen if they weren't gambling?

[–] Deebster 1 points 1 year ago

The niche interest groups are what I miss from reddit - I'm out of the loop for several things now I don't lurk in the respective subs any more. I think I'll start using their RSS feeds so I don't miss out too much.

Memes are just easy to consume and upvote, so I understand them becoming popular. I've got multiple duplicate accounts with different communities added/blocked so can get the memes only when I choose.

[–] Deebster 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It allows selecting multiple languages, but it's not clear and setting multiple is fiddly - most sites use multiple checkboxes instead for this reason. Anyway, if you select Undetermined, English and whatever else you're happy to see, you'll see a lot more comments (and posts, probably).

Edit: to select multiple, hold control while clicking/spacebarring to add another.

It should have two language settings - those you might post in (for the dropdown on making a comment/post) and for those you're happy to read (I'd just set it to all, since I can always translate anything that looks interesting).

[–] Deebster 5 points 1 year ago

First games in ages for me! Three of us, we started with Kingsburg, stopped for curry and rugby, then continued with Suburbia.

I love the stories that end up happening in Suburbia - my town was an industrial hellhole that no-one wanted to live in, until I built a recycling plant which I then doubled and everyone loved me.

My neighbour's capitalist mecca was similarly unpopular but his approach was to spend a fortune buying a PR firm, but he left it too late and his reputation never got high enough to escape last place.

[–] Deebster 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd rather see the second option - having a JavaScript-free solution is definitely more resilient than trying to detect and whitelist every archive service. As long as it works for wget/curl then it works for almost everyone.

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