Even if it isn't that... that's not how you change your position on something.
The normal way would be:
- Admit that you are changing your stance on something (Zelensky is not a dictator, even though I previously said he is)
- Refer to something that changed your position on the matter ("When I said he is a dictator, I did not know that...")
- Explain how it changes your view ("This new information has convinced me that....")
But saying "Oh, I said that?" is just... dumb and pathetic. Not that it's surprising, coming from him.
I had the most fun with Vampire Survivors - addictive, relatively short bursts, but suitable for longer sessions. Dirt cheap.
I also liked MultiVersus.... before it became a micro-transaction filled abomination. The core gameplay loop is still great tho.
General recommendation: Pick single player games from 3-4 years ago and back. The ones you were really interested in when they came out, but did not yet get around to playing them. Due to their age, they are almost guaranteed to run well on Deck, and they provide hours upon hours of fun. That's my strategy at least :)
Yes, for you and me, this is useful information. But here is where I think, for less savvy users, even a blanket error would be really helpful, focusing on next steps the user can try.
Thanks for the tip, and yes, I can do that, I can check logs, but the point of my post is to have some information that a less experienced user can access and get a clue on what to try next.
BTW in the case of RE2remake, the solution was to switch the game to the beta branch, redownload it, then launch it again - it worked, but I only know this, because of a post on the Steam board of the game. Here is where a blanket error would come in handy ("try this, this, and this, then switch to beta and try that, etc."), if there is absolutely no information about the nature of the error.
Games that won't launch and won't give you any errormessage
This happened to me a few times lately.
Half Life 2 VR Mod - Played it for ~4 hours, before all of a sudden it won't launch. I click on play in Steam, and after 3-4 seconds, nothing happens, then the play button is active again. No errormessage, nothing.
Resident Evil 2 Remake - I have almost 15 hours in it, almost finished the Claire campaign, when from one day to the next it won't launch. Just a black window pops up for one second, then it just stops, the play button is active again, so this game also leaves the user hanging without any errormessage.
Look, I have been gaming on PC since 2000, and with 25 years of experience, these situations are infuriating for me. I have my goto steps (check file integrity in Steam, update nVidia drivers, ec.) and if those don't work, I look on the Steam forums, google, etc for solutions, so eventually I'm gonna figure it out.
But dear gamedevs, please, please, please for the sake of less savvy players, include at least some clue of what the user should do. A blanket statement to the effect of "game failed to launch, please try the following: verify game files, uninstall then reinstall game, make sure you are on the latest drivers for your GPU, etc etc. If game still won't launch, visit our FAQ page here, where we listed all possible solutions..." could suffice for people who just want to play. At least they would not be totally stumped, and would have some options before they also google the problem, but man... Also, maintaining a FAQ about launch issues, bugs, crashes, etc. would be expected for a paid customer to have support for their product...
I somewhat understand that in 2025, game devs can expect everyone to eventually google what they don't know, but an errormessage would still go a long way in establishing a communication with the user in the time of crisis - "Hey, we failed now, but we have some general ide about the problem, here are some general options, and here is where you could seek further help" is an essential part of customers support - even in 2025, and it's so basic, I don't even understand why I am still talking about this.
TL;DR - User loses it over games that don't show errormessages after failing to launch.
Space bar not pausing / unpausing a video and skipping half way down the comments
Yes! That's the other one I forgot to mention! 😆
Indeed, this is on desktop. Curiously, on mobile, I don't really have a problem with YouTube, apart from the infuriating length and abundance of ads.
Good points... But it's even more bizarre, if you think about it: apparently the only person to never have used the YouTube player, is... the guy who designed it? What the...? 🫤
Never have I ever pressed right arrow on a YouTube video, expecting the volume to go slightly up
Seriously, the amount of times this happened to me is astounding.
Pull up a YouTube video. Adjust the volume at the start. After playing for a while, I want to skip forward 5 seconds, so I press the right arrow. The video does not skip forward, so I press it again. I press it again, and in 4 seconds, I reach maxiumum volume.
Only at this point do I realize that, ah, this is part where YouTube interprets my right arrow as volume adjustment again, and I have to click on the play button or on the video itself to pause and play again, and only then will the right (and left) arrows mean what I think they mean.
I have never, ever - EVER wanted to use right arrow as volume up and left arrow as volume down for a YouTube video. not a single time in (almost) 20 years! And it does not even make sense from a usability standpoint, since the up and down arrows are already adjusting the volume up and down at all times, regardless of which part of the player is "active" (it should always be the play button. Fucking always).
The solution would be so simple, it hurts. Have the left and right arrows always mean 5 seconds backwards and forwards, as the up and down arrows already mean volume up and down. There is absolutely no need to switch the action of the left and right arrow, depending on if you clicked on the volume adjustment first. Oh well, chalk it up to "things I will never understand".
Moviechat.org exists as the perfect substitute for the IMDb boards, it even has the old IMDb threads for all movies, series, etc. Check it out!
The boards were killed in 2017, so nowhere near 10 years ago, but it indeed feels longer.
I see now, thanks! Note: If that's the case, we need an updated FAQ later down the line, when Ruud says Lemmy.world will have been properly stress-tested :-)
I did not realize that lemmy.world is but a single instance - it's all starting to come together in my head :-)
The FAQ linked earlier in the thread suggested making an account on lemmy.world, that same thing was what I meant in my post as well. And I see the comments about it being beneficial to "stress test" the Lemmy backend, so... should I edit my original post?
Sure thank you, I'd gladly check it out!
Small question - is Tildes not part of the "Fediverse"? If it is, why can't I use it with my lemmy.world account? Are there multiple Fediverses? :-)
The OP thumbnail is brilliant, but missing at leaset one reaction layer. Of coures I've seen videos were the "youtuber" was reacting to someone's reaction to something, so...
... and this wouldn't be that bad, were it not for the fact that people gaming the algorithm with stupid low effort content works.
This part is especially helpful:
"You should always stay on lemmy.world. To join the "music" community from lemmy.ml, you click the search icon in the top right corner on lemmy.world (not the "Communities" link) and search for !music@lemmy.ml including the exclamation mark (!) at the start. You should see the community pop up in the list after clicking Search. In general, the search term is "![community-name]@[instance-name]"."
A few times I was looking for communities using the search bar, and got confused that I found more than one community for the same thing (e. g. music) and they seemed to be on different Lemmy instances. I did not know if I can even subscribe to them or not, if they are even visible for me with my lemmy.world account or not, etc. Now I understand that part a bit better. Thanks again! :-)
Thanks! This seems to be exactly what I was looking for :-)
Disappointed ex-Reddit user after the APIcalypse - starter pack
I used to browse Reddit 90+% of the time from my phone through the RiF app, so after June 30th, here is what I did and what I recommend as a starter pack for others in the same situation:
- Create account on lemmy.world, so the browser part is covered
- Search for the information on which app provides the closest to the RiF (Apollo, etc.) experience
- Instal Liftoff and be happy - it is just like RiF :-) (for Apollo and others, it could be different - find your own favorite!)
- Dial back dramatically on using Reddit at all. I only load 4 subs in my phone's browser, because I did not find the Lemmy / Fediverse alternatives yet
- Constantly look for the communities to replace the subreddits you are still visiting
- OPTIONAL - once or twice a week, look at /r/pics and /r/videos and laugh at the creativity of the still ongoing protest :-)
So that is where I am right now, posting this via the web browser on the lemmy.world site, by pressing "create a post". Seems easy enough for now, but I find it a bit confusing that other people can post from Mastodon and other Lemmy instances... Do they see the same communities I do? Do I see all Lemmy communities if I use lemmy.world....? So many questions, but it's exciting to explore this brand new structure.
Even after reading the Fediverse and ActivityPub articles on Wikipedia my head is spinning, and I don't really understand how everything fits / works together, but here I am! An ex(-ish) Redditor after the APIcalypse, looking for cool new communities, and excited about the future that the Fediverse can bring!
(I'm willing to learn! Someone please link me a FAQ where I can find the answers to my questions :-) )
Former(-ish) active Reddit user here. Your comment hit home, because it pointed to "social technology", capitalism, conversations and value of interactions.
Capitalism's approach sees value in Reddit, Twitter, etc. as being advertising platforms and means of data collection. So anything from which they can't make money is just there.
The real value is the interactions and conversations these platforms are fostering. The IMDb Message Boards were a really fun place to discuss movies, but the suits in the IMDb boardroom came to the conclusion that having the boards hurt the engagement with the site, providing "negative experience" to the users. Which was just good old corporate bull for "it is too expensive to keep them up". So they axed the boards (did not even keep them as a read-only archive!), deleting all posts, deleting all that tremendous cultural value that accumulated over the decades the Message Boards were operating.
Sad. But these stories (and now Reddit's story, sadly) are the wake up calls we need to advance in our "social technology". All we need is to realize thatour conversations and interactions with other people is the value in itself. Right now, the capitalist approach to everything is deeply rooted in the minds. We need to change that, and clearly separate societal values from capitalist values on the internet. I don't know if this "Fediverse" is the way to do that. But I'm happy to join. I'm happy to try.
And Void_Reader - I'm really glad you posted this. This is my first comment on Lemmy, and I'm happy to be reacting to your thoughts here.