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[-] alokir@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

These are not necessarily unpopular in terms of subscribers, but nieche in terms of topics:

  • acollierastro: theoretical physicist with a unique style. What got me hooked are her videos debunking or responding to popular scientific misconceptions.
  • Ben Eater: teaches computer related subjects like electronics, networking, low level programming, architecture etc. in a fun way. He has a series where he builds a computer from scratch with cables and circuit boards.
  • Living Ironically in Europe: if 2balkans4you was a youtube channel, although he has some serious content as well
  • Masaman: mostly talks about genetics, he hasn't made any new videos in a while.
  • Max Derrat: he seems to have deep knowledge about occult stuff and its history which he uses to analyse video games and other media.
  • Ostura Official TV: progressive metal band from Lebanon.
[-] alokir@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Is this really world news, tho?

[-] alokir@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Yes, at this point the choice is who gets to spy on you.

[-] alokir@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

I saw some memes with Good Omens templates and decided to give the show a watch.

Season 1 was pretty good, the kind of comedy that made me smile occasionally, which is fine.

On the other hand season 2 was mostly boring, 2 episode's worth of story was stretched out to 6, and the ending ruined the friendship between the main characters, which was the cornerstone of the whole concept.

[-] alokir@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Also C# (or should I say the .net framework) is now cross platform, which wasn't really the case when I first saw this meme.

This joke made sense when instead of .net you could only use Mono with C# on other platforms, which wasn't very good at the time.

[-] alokir@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Yes and no. They serve roughly the same purpose.

I actually hated Powershell until I was forced to work on some automation scripts with it and realized that it's actually pretty cool.

Bash is good for quickly doing something in the terminal but for longer script files I prefer PS now. It feels much more modern and has a less janky syntax.

Funnily enough the reason I had to use it was to make my scripts cross platform between osx, linux and windows.

[-] alokir@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

"It never happened but they deserved it". It's a classic rhetoric of people who deny or white wash genocides.

[-] alokir@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

I do when I'm in a hurry. It's not as good as the real one but gets the job done when I really need it.

[-] alokir@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Ads are indeed getting smarter every day

[-] alokir@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago

I like to "annoy" people whith small "things" that are insignificant "alone" but add up over "time". Kind of like "overusing" quotation marks in "posts" and comments.

[-] alokir@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

that's not even a joke, I'm using intellij community as a merge and diff tool exclusively. it doesn't support the language I want but even without it it's better then anything else.

[-] alokir@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

A ban usually means that the account is closed forever, while a suspension is temporary.

But even if it's not, brands like to distinguish themselves by using different lingo to their competitors. For example, even though Lemmy ~~is a Reddit clone~~ is heavily inspired by Reddit, they use different words like community instead of sublemmy.

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I recently dusted off my old Guild Wars 2 account after YouTube recommend some videos of it.

I was a huge fan of Guild Wars 1, I especially loved its skill system. You had hundreds of skills available but you could only equip 8 at a time. This forced you to think carefully and craft builds, which was half the fun. There were some skills that were only available once you defeated some hard elite enemies, which was also a fun challenge.

When GW2 released I bought the game on the first week, but the skill system was very underwhelming for me. A huge part of why I loved GW1 was not there in the sequel, so I quickly stopped playing.

Around 10 years later I logged in again and created a new character. I'm aware that there were tons of changes made to the game but the very early game stayed pretty much the same (as far as I remember). However, the way I experienced it was very different.

It no longer bothered me that you only have a fraction of the skills available. I'm 10 years older than I was when I first played it and I have much less time. This means that I appreciate not having to spend days to craft a character, I can just go out and enjoy the game.

The story is also pretty good, I've heard that GW2 is one of the few MMOs where the early game is also as much fun as the late game, and it seems to be true. I don't feel like I have to rush to max level to have fun.

Have you ever had a similar experience?

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