Who you gonna root for?
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    Only if it was silent chainsaws and then making Molusk and The Suckerberg do the noises like Homer in The Simpsons Movie

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  • Best news aggregator? Where do you get your news?
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    Just learned about it last week here on Kbin, because of the Reddit blackout.
    I've been feeding a lot of sources to my RSS programs, and just found out a lot of sites either hide or don't have RSS, so that project was enticing.

    So I contributed with 4 sources to help it grow ahahah

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  • Best news aggregator? Where do you get your news?
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    And when, for some reason, there isn't an RSS feed given by the website, check RSS-Bridge and see if it has the site you want ;)

    (and if it doesn't, if you know PHP, consider contributing with your own bridge)

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  • Who you gonna root for?
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    Is it gonna be a knife fight?

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  • DeArrow - A Browser Extension that removes clickbait titles and thumbnails
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    I love LTT. It's entertaining, and he shows cool stuff. And you can even learn a thing or two.

    And I am gonna be even more unpopular than you.
    I find Steve from GN to be boring as fuck to watch regularly (though I watch him when I want to see a specific review, like I do with other channels, his content is very good in terms of information), and he resorts to clickbait regularly, even if a different kind of clickbait (that waste of sand thumbnail, if it was LTT, would be criticized forever).

    And more, even if you want to buy something instead of watching for entertainment, you shouldn't rely on 1 single review anyway, so pretending GN is the be-all-end-all for tech reviews is ridiculous.

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  • DeArrow - A Browser Extension that removes clickbait titles and thumbnails
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    A few weeks ago they did a video about mech keyboards, without the face or clickbait title, and it was performing much worse after 3 days than even the daily video. The difference was in the hundreds of thousands of views.

    Even now, it is one of the worst in terms of views from the past month (excluding the last 3 days, which will probably increase in views still) with 1.1M views, against the 2nd lowest which has 1.2M views, but it is a video about Mac gaming, and that isn't a particularly performing topic.

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  • So, who do we all support then?
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    Because life hates me, I support CD Feirense, and FC Porto, both from Portugal, both in a sorry state due to the boards being greedy cunts.

    At least the Portuguese NT got rid of Fernando Santos, I guess

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  • What options you would like to have in certain Nintendo games?
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    I think it would be great if all games had full language options, changeable at any time during gameplay, without having to create a user in a different language or start a new save.

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  • Website Owners Say Traffic Is Plunging After Facebook Algorithm Change
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    Basically, they want their cake and to eat it too.
    I remember a few years they were crying because Facebook was stealing their traffic, people didn't go to the websites to read the news, so they didn't click ads. Facebook was basically stealing their money!!!

    The problem is that this view is shortsighted, because with these new laws you talk about, people still don't go to news websites, and in fact get their news from alternative sources (and most of them, not good).
    So now they are crying, again, but for the opposite reason.

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearGA
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    The sleeper hits of Summer Game Fest 2023
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    Thank you for your service! (I was too lazy, sorry ahaha)

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  • https://www.reuters.com/technology/intel-build-25-bln-factory-largest-foreign-investment-israel-netanyahu-2023-06-18/

    U.S. chipmaker Intel Corp will spend $25 billion on a new factory in Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, calling it the largest-ever international investment in the country.

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    "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearGA
    Gaming rcoelho14 1y ago 100%
    The sleeper hits of Summer Game Fest 2023
    https://arstechnica.com/?p=1948256

    Games about time travel, foam spraying guns, and... space hospitals?

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    Activision will operate separately on a post-merger basis, Microsoft says
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    I mean, it is hard for it to get worse than with 343 ahahah
    Have they even been able to release a good Halo game since Bungie left?

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  • https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-30th-Birthday

    This month the FreeBSD project is celebrating its 30th anniversary since this open-source BSD operating system project was established.

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    https://gizmodo.com/facebook-traffic-down-algorithm-change-1850549012

    With no communication from the company, publishers relying on Facebook traffic are at the mercy of the inscrutable algorithm. Data shows an apparent change at Facebook in May caused website traffic to tank at some news sites.

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    https://www.tweaktown.com/news/91942/activision-will-operate-separately-on-post-merger-basis-microsoft-says/index.html

    Activision Blizzard King's creative operations 'will remain separate and continue to operate' undisturbed on a post-merger basis, MSFT lawyers say.

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    https://www.eurogamer.net/this-new-mod-brings-full-vr-to-classic-zombie-survival-game-7-days-to-die

    You've got to love flatscreen to VR modders. They continue to keep PC VR alive and kicking by working tirelessly to produce epic VR conversions of some of gaming's greats, and it's all seemingly done in their own time for little to no financial reward. Aside from maybe the occasional Patreon subscription that is.

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    www.vg247.com

    Halo Infinite was noticeably missing from the recent Xbox showcase, so Xbox head Phil Spencer clarified why that was.

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    https://www.marca.com/futbol/liga-francesa/2023/06/18/648f006d268e3e6a0e8b4589.html

    According to **L'Equipe,** Luis Enrique will be the next PSG coach. The French media says that the agreement will be made official within the next week. After failed negotiations with Nagelsmann, the Spanish coach has reportedly chosen the Parisian club to replace Christophe Galtier. The French capital club believe they are not too far away from reaching an agreement with Luis Enrique and there are only a few details to be settled. Luis Enrique's personality could be key to adjusting a divided dressing room that does not seem to have a choral union as a team.

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    What is your least favorite PC game in your favorite franchise?
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    Football Manager 2009

    It's the first 3D game and it shows.
    After FM2008, my favourite, it was a bit of a disapointment.
    Then FM2010 was good, improved on FM11, and FM12 is considered by some people to be the peak of the series.

    Coincidentally or not, the last Championship Manager was in 2009/2010, and FIFA Manager's last was 2013/2014, and now Football Manager has been stagnating a bit (or getting worse in some places) because it has no competition in the market anymore.

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  • PC Games to play in local co-op?
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    Nice!

    You also have Cat Quest 2, which is cute and fun game.

    Portal 2 also has a co-op mode and is pretty cheap on sale.

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  • PC Games to play in local co-op?
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    Btw, Lego Harry Potter is divided in 2 games, but you can get them pretty cheap in a Steam sale (the summer sale stars on the 29th)

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  • PC Games to play in local co-op?
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    I can recommend Lego Lord of the Rings. Me and my gf had a lot of fun, and it is the only Lego game I played with her that didn't bore me to death.

    We tried Lego Harry Potter, and while she loves it (she loves the Lego games), I just found it boring as hell, so it depends on the person

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  • What was your first PC game ever, and how did you react to it?
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    The first I remember was in my cousin's computer in 99 or 2000, and it was Motocross Madness or Motocross Madness 2.
    I remember just going out of bounds for hours just to be thrown into the air ahahah

    When I got my personal PC in 2005, my first game was, Need for Speed Underground 2, followed by Pro Evolution Soccer 4, CS 1.6, GTA: San Andreas, and Football Manager 2005

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  • Microsoft may abandon Activision merger if federal judge grants FTC request
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    Exactly, I don't see how Microsoft taking Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Starfield, and other games away from Sony and Nintendo increases competition.

    It just forces people to buy into their ecosystem (Xbox or Windows) if they want to play the games they could play in their prefered platform before

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  • Microsoft and OpenAI are testing ChatGPT technology in Mercedes-Benz cars
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    Yeah, probably looks good to investors

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  • Open Source Emulators
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    That list is a bit outdated at points.

    It's missing Ares for various emulators, RMX for N64, CEMU for Wii U, Duckstation for PS1 (best emulator for the system), for example.

    I usually check Emulation Wiki because they have a lot of info.
    They usually have the full list of emulators for each system, and them they tell you if it's recommended to use or not.

    It's usually also shown if it's open source and in active development.

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  • Microsoft may abandon Activision merger if federal judge grants FTC request
  • rcoelho14 rcoelho14 1y ago 100%

    Right now?
    No, I don't think so.

    But Windows is getting worse, and GamePass won't be cheap forever.
    Same with them putting the games on Steam, it can change on a whim.
    I mean, even on PC, nothing stops them from walking back and just making everything Xbox exclusive in the future again.

    They can make changes that make it impossible (or extremely hard) for their games to work on Linux using Proton.

    There are many ways they can use these company mergers to fuck the consumer in the future.

    Consolidation is always a bad thing, in my opinion, because it takes away choice from the consumer and puts it in the hands of trillion-dollar companies whose sole objective is to make ALL the money all the time, forever.

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  • https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/pais/alunos-melhoram-assiduidade-e-desempenho-escolar-com-ajuda-de-caes_v1493860

    Um grupo de alunos está a conseguir melhorar a assiduidade e o desempenho escolar através da ajuda de cães de assistência. O projeto "Confia" arrancou em dezembro e desde então, escola e pais reconhecem mudanças notórias.

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    www.techspot.com

    TrendForce reports that most major LCD monitor sellers saw declining shipments in the first quarter of 2023. However, positive numbers from some companies could signal an overall...

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    www.techspot.com

    Apple claimed the M2 Ultra could double the performance of its previous flagship, the M2 Max. It achieves this feat by combining two M2 Max chips using...

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    https://gamerant.com/alan-wake-2-devs-october-competition-comments/

    The developers of Alan Wake 2 have recently stated that they aren't concerned about the content-packed month in which the game will release. Remedy Entertainment's developers also spoke about the game's length, Saga Anderson and her partner, and other interesting factoids.

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    https://gamerant.com/alan-wake-2-devs-october-competition-comments/

    The developers of Alan Wake 2 have recently stated that they aren't concerned about the content-packed month in which the game will release. Remedy Entertainment's developers also spoke about the game's length, Saga Anderson and her partner, and other interesting factoids.

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    https://gamerant.com/pokemon-go-pokestop-showcases-feature/

    Niantic has announced multiple new features that will affect the way PokeStops work in Pokemon GO. The features are already being tested out in one region of the world and will potentially have a full launch across Pokemon GO soon.

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    www.videogamer.com

    The Diablo 4 developers are working on a hardcore disconnect protection mechanic that will reduce the amount of server-related deaths.

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    www.tweaktown.com

    Microsoft and Activision have indicated that they may abandon their proposed $68.7 billion merger if federal courts grant FTC a preliminary injunction.

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