It’s probably not the reason for everyone but where I live, tap water has a slightly rancid taste and bottled water used to taste like it was mixed with bleach. I used to not drink water because I thought that all water tasted like that but then we got a cheap water cooler about four or five years ago and the water from it tastes much better. So, I’ve been drinking water from a water cooler ever since.

One thing I’ve noticed is that I’m not met with slurs or death threats every time I post to an android related community. I always hated posting to android related subreddits because of this, especially considering the fact that the mods would punish me instead of the ones being vulgar/aggressive towards me.

So far the only thing the only “bad” thing that I can recall happening to me in an android community here on Lemmy was that a post I made was removed for “not being specific enough to android”. I personally think that Lemmy isn’t popular enough yet to justify doing that but I do understand their decision.

I’m gonna be honest, I don’t like the amount of power big corporations have. Nintendo is currently abusing their power to stifle their competition and potentially harm the future of gaming. Google recently proved that they have pretty much full control over the internet. Microsoft is ruining the entire PC market. I could name more but these are the first few that came to mind.

I haven’t been paying to much attention to the news but I’ve heard that other, non-NATO, countries have threatened some of the countries that are just simply giving aid to Ukraine. So, I’d assume that those other countries would get involved in some way and just make things worse for everyone.

There are currently two main reasons I don’t use PeerTube:

1. Videos have inconsistent playback performance.
2. It’s pretty confusing and difficult to use if you are just looking for an experience similar to YouTube.

If they can find a way to make playback performance consistent and make the entire experience better, then I’d consider using it. But, I already use YouTube alternatives like Odysee and Rumble, so I don’t know how much I’d end up actually using PeerTube.

Yeah there’s one that I’ve wondered for a while now. Awhile back, I found out that women don’t have prostates but they can still feel pleasure from that hole. How can they feel pleasure from that hole if they don’t have a prostate?

If you’re using Windows, DXWnd has some options for improving the graphics in games. It may not work for every game but it’s probably worth checking out.

I think the most notable change is that the main hospital in my hometown was moved to the outskirts of the city. It used to be closer to the center but they moved it, possibly because it’s bigger now and they needed more space to work with.

They also tore down the old courthouse and replaced it with one that, at least from the outside, looks smaller. Some of the supermarkets have also move locations and there are some new stores that have taken the old locations.

Probably none, most people will probably not care and just deal with loosing some of there browsers extensions (it’s not just ad blockers that will be affected) or if they care about loosing ad blockers, they’ll switch to Brave without considering Firefox or any other non-Chromium browsers.

I know that they’re not really “programming languages” but I’ve used a little bit of Batch, HTML and CSS in the past and I also use a little bit of Bash occasionally.

I use/used Bash and Batch mostly for creating desktop shortcuts or for running games/apps with specific parameters.

For HTML and CSS I used to maintain my own website a few years ago through Neocities but I deleted it after about 9 months because I never got any positive feedback from the people who viewed it and I lost interest. I do occasionally think about creating another website under a different name but I have no idea what I’d do with it.

I know it’s not really that fancy but I like turkey club sandwiches. If you don’t know what it is it’s basically a BLT but with the addition of turkey. I usually put mayonnaise and either provolone or colby jack on them as well.

The problem with most of the games you mentioned, it’s just different objectives or play styles and not entirely different genres. I wanted something more extreme, like for example imagine playing Monster Hunter but you chose a professional racer as your character, so the gameplay would be similar to the Need for Speed games and probably have little to no combat. With the player having the option to either go for a high acceleration build, a higher top speed with better boosts build or some other build designed around a specific vehicle they like.

Or a better example I just thought about, was that you chose a theme park owner. So the gameplay becomes that of Roller Coaster Tycoon and you use the money you earn from your parks to hire hunters, upgrade their equipment and send them out to hunt the monsters for you.

Also, I was mostly talking about single player games, that’s why I said “character” and not “player”.

I’ve had an idea for a while but I’m not exactly sure how to make it work the way I want it to. The basic idea is that I want a game where not only are there multiple playable characters but each character would have there own game genre. The idea started off as a combination of a personal joke about both Armored Core and Ace Combat sharing acronyms and the fact that I don’t think I’ve every really seen a game where, if it has multiple playable characters, that the gameplay is really that different. Then it snowballed when I started thinking about how that would work and I thought about adding other games like Kingdom Hearts, Resident Evil 4, Besieged and Fallout/Elder Scrolls.

I know for sure that I’d want the game to be kind of complex for every character because I also like it when games give you the option to build the character you want to play as and allow character builds to be vastly different. As part of this, the game would also have magic, modern firearms and possibly futuristic technologies while keeping everything balanced so that more “primitive” weapons are still worth considering.

I think that in order for a game like this to work it would have to either be determined by the character as well or possibly just mission based like how the “AC” games are (or at least were, I’ve only ever played the PS1 and PSP games for both of them).

Talking to the support team for most services. They have a tendency to act like your issue isn’t real or that there is absolutely no way that the issue could be on their end and it just wastes both your time and theirs. You have to constantly repeat everything pertaining to your issue or else they forget everything about your issue and start asking questions or giving advice that is irrelevant to not just the issue you’re having but also how you use the service.

For those who don’t mind reading my rants, there are two times I think I had the worse experiences with.

The first was with Google, I had an issue on the Google play store where I couldn’t review an app that I had downloaded because it would give a generic error message saying something like “an error has occurred”. I tried writing the review both in a web browser on my computer and in the app on my phone but no matter what I did it wouldn’t post the review. I thought the issue would be a simple fix for them but when I contacted them, they constantly forgot what my issue was and the fact that this issue happened regardless of what app or OS I was using. There was also an issue where at some point in the conversation where I thought they redirected me to a bot that then ghosted me after a few days, because up to that point all of the emails mentioned the name of who I was talking to and a survey that I would get after the conversation was over.

After that I was checked out and I just wanted the conversation to end. So when they did eventually start emailing me again, I told them that even if they don’t fix the issue, I wanted the conversation to be over. I was checking about once a month to see if they fixed the issue and they did about 6 months after the conversation ended.

The second time was with HideoutTV (a youtube alternative that, at least used to, double as a “beer money site”). I had an issue where I can’t watch any video on their website in any browser I use on my tablet. I thought this would also be a simple fix because YouTube works fine on my tablet. I mentioned what my tablet was and every browser I tried, even showing screenshots so they know what this issue is, that the browsers were fully updated and that I didn’t have any extensions installed (for the few that had them). I did everything they told me to do and even provided further screenshots in case they would help. But the thing that aggravated me the most, was that the CEO of Hideout came into the conversation, ignored everything that I said and all the screenshots I posted and proceeded to insinuate that I wasn’t being cooperative and made some excuse about how one of my browsers looked outdated (despite being the newest version available) and that if I just updated that browser, my issue would magically disappear.

This obviously upset me greatly because I thought I was doing more on my end then most of the users they normally work with. I don’t remember exactly what I responded with but I remember saying that I thought their platform would be similar to YouTube and that this would be a simple problem for them to fix but the conversation proved to me that they’re incompetent. I then asked how my browser could look outdated when I’ve already proven multiple times that every browser I used was reinstalled multiple times and fully updated every time I tried them. They never responded after that but about 9 months later, they had the audacity to mark the issue as “solved” even though it definitely wasn’t and I decided to stop using their platform. Although, I don’t think I’d be using their platform anyways because apparently they stopped paying their users.

I know this might sound stupid but for several years, I was using a regular kitchen chair with a towel to sit on and a cloth blanket to make the back more comfortable to lean against. Even though I have a different, much more expensive gaming chair, I am still using a towel because the leather sticks to my skin.

I haven’t done much with it yet but I have Termux installed on my phone. Termux is a free and open source app that, while it’s very limited, allows you to run Linux applications on an android phone/tablet. So far the only things I’ve done with it was that I ran neofetch and I used ciso to compress some iso files into cso files, both of which were just to test it out and get used to using it. I do plan on enabling and trying out X11 at some point but android prevents Termux from having hardware acceleration and the amount of software available for non-android Linux distros is very minimal, so I have no idea how useful it would be.

I haven’t played all of the Phantasy Star games but Phantasy Star 4 was really good.

I know I’m a bit late to this post but no one else has mentioned pixeldrain, if you are still looking for suggestions.

I wouldn’t say that anything ruined Christmas for me this year but there was some unfortunate circumstances with some of my gifts.

For example, I asked for an original Xbox controller with a USB adapter. I got them and they work perfectly fine in Linux but they don’t work at all in Windows, which potentially limits how much usage I can get out of them. Apparently, Windows 10 blocks the drivers required to use it, which if I had known I probably would’ve just asked for a generic USB one instead (if they exist).

I don’t remember how we had it but when I was growing up, we had a pc game called Adventures with Chickens. I might have to track down a copy and play it again because I’m confused as to why MobyGames says the game has “shoot 'em up elements” when I’m pretty sure it doesn’t.