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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

most unusual, so peculiar

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Bold of you to use the word bold

I need to start doing that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is there any other browser that does a right-side vertical tab bar with compact tabs?

There's an extension for Firefox to do it, but it's a bit clunkier than Vivaldi's - definitely something I'd only switch to if I really had to... but every other browser I've seen only offers left-side vertical tabs at best, which is terrible if you want 3 monitors in a left-to-right layout with your browser on the left.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know if I was blind the other day or if it wasn't there, but the headphone icon is definitely there now. Cheers!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wasn't the entire point of not using "Windows 9" branding and instead going straight to "Windows 10" from 8 that they didn't want the last version of Windows to be 9, that they preferred a nice round number.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Isn't there a Black Mirror episode of this

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not a DRG superfan and didn't expect to enjoy this, but the progression feels very solid and it's a lot of fun. Surprisingly addictive.

While it's not DRG, it feels extremely faithful to the original game and doesn't have that "too-vampire-survivorsish" feel that some of these games suffer from.

I can't really pin down what makes it so playable - my best guess is the pacing of the upgrades and the mix of the 4 classes feels like it's just right. Tunnelling through walls (and the mining speed upgrades) is also a particularly interesting mechanic.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's an example of an upgrade in another similar game that enables a "weird" build?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is an old message I only just noticed, but maybe that's better anyway....

...because my ChatGPT app is up to date and doesn't have a headphone icon to the right of the text box. There's a soundwave icon that lets me use speech to text, but that's not what this is.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can I play devil's advocate a little bit here, because I was really unaware that this ever worked for anything except indie artists on Bandcamp. So Bandcamp works for them or for discovering new music obviously.

I didn't know artists ever sold digital music on their websites, but that does make sense, so I checked - if I google Taylor Swift and go to her website, there it is, digital music purchase. Great.

I went to U2's website, and the only music I can buy there is vinyl. I don't want vinyl, I want digital. You can buy merch, but I'm after music, not merch. Looking further, there's all sorts of galleries and information about each album and song, but you still can't buy the music.

Other mainstream artists I googled didn't even go that far. Googling them brought up a wikipedia link, social media links, tours. All stuff I don't want. Now your list has "contact artist via social media" - setting aside the fact that it's unlikely a popular mainstream artist will even reply to anyone at all about anything, this is a real point of friction. I don't want to have to contact an artist to find out some alternative way to get their music. If I'm buying something online, there needs to be some way to buy it online and ready to go. If we have to wait a couple of days or weeks for a reply that may or may not come - the process failed.

If I had to guess, they would probably say something like "it's on spotify".

So yes it probably is a supplier problem, but it seems to me that this is happening for the majority of popular artists if a majority of music people like is mainstream. I assume if you like the majority of indie music then that's probably not the case.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
 

Kukoro is a bunch of minigames that viewers can play with the streamer, or if the streamer prefers, the streamer can leave in "afk mode" where viewers can vote for a best choice against a countdown timer. Any viewer can play, but viewers that buy the game get a few advantages. It's a cheap and very fun game that many players do end up buying.

Dungeon Raid - Participating viewers are assigned two random abilities against a specific type of monster. Monsters come out one at a time and the streamer picks their best choice to go against each monster in 1v1 duels. Players can !jump to tell the streamer they want to fight or !hide if they don't (the streamer can override any decision, sometimes with hilarious results). Winners can go up in level, eventually unlocking classes.

Colours - 5 rounds where a single colour is shown and players need to walk over to one column of a "board" showing potential matching colours. A laser swipes left to right and anyone who is wrong is eliminated. As a caveat, all players can potentially be wrong, but whoever is lasered first is eliminated, so whoever is to the right-most side will win.

**Garden **- The viewers are the garden and try to box in the streamer. While viewers "walk" using !w !a !s !d they are vulnerable, but when they stop moving, they are safe. The streamer has to kill all the viewers until they run out of lives.

Quarantine - There are 12 rooms that can carry 3-4 viewers each. Anyone caught outside when the round ends will almost certainly become infected. Anyone who bunks with an infected viewer will likely become infected, but healthy viewers that bunk with infected viewers may become cured. Play continues until round 15, until everyone is cured, or until everyone is dead.

And there's a bunch more minigames that I can't go into here (a total of 18 minigames). There are skins to unlock and many are adorable and well-crafted by HeyNau, the developer.

There is a relatively quiet unofficial discord server here: https://discord.gg/tZJjwFjPHq

And the twitch category is: https://www.twitch.tv/directory/category/kukoro-stream-chat-games

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