For now. After the stunts Sony pulled I wouldn’t trust them at all. Imagine if Steam silently removed even some tools or soundtracks you purchased but never listened to? Instantly all the trust is completely gone. Even if a game is never deleted, it feels like a threat, because it is

You’re the only other person I’ve met with the same issue. I even made a bug report and forum post and complained everywhere, everyone said I was crazy lol

It was pretty immediate. I was like man this is ugly, but when I actually tried it, straight away I noticed it was extremely easier and faster to read and I made much less mistakes. Like normally I misread words and letters and numbers a lot and reread the same line over and over and words just look like identical blocky shapes. A lot of the time I actually just guess what word something is based on length and context, which kind of works but not really. But with that font I can read normally.

I only even realised I might have it and got it investigated when I accidentally changed the font to OpenDyslexic in Kindle because it was just there, and then I’m like, ok wow I didn’t even notice how hard it was before 😂

I kept having this really weird problem in Valheim. It would run perfectly fine, running at 140fps. Then, randomly, for no discernable reason, after 15–90 minutes of playing it would suddenly and without warning enter what I call “lag mode”, where it would just tank down to 8fps and become unplayable. The only temporary fix was to restart my PC, which was extremely annoying when playing with friends.

I would just endure the lag when doing housekeeping. Making homes and buildings, making equipment and potions and portals, etc. Then when it came time for an adventure or boss, I would be like, ok brb guys, restart my PC, and hope we killed the boss before I got hard CC’d and taken out by poor performance.

I couldn’t find any explanation for this anywhere, I tried everything to fix it. Years later after patches it was still an issue even with a brand new OS, but it was isolated to my PC. My only guess was it was a memory leak or something unique to my setup. It kind of sucked the joy out of the game.

DSLR King, Canondorf 😈

Assuming you’re not going to play it:

I would recommend even watching a let’s play because for me it was one of the best games / stories in the last decade or so

0h, you must be the exception then

I remove my own upvote from my comments because I like things starting at 0.

Also, billions eat fast food every day, doesn’t make it good for you. I’ve tried all the A.I., because I believe in order to hate something, you must understand it first. Claude kept trying to do everything for me, even when I didn’t want it to. As a hypothetical example, if I asked it to explain a math problem without giving me the answer, it would give me the answer anyway. I don’t want something to help me that much, I like doing things mostly myself, with some assistance if needed. It causes damage to your skills, independence, and sense of value and worth in your work, if something is just like, “hey let me just quickly trivialise your entire idea and do it for you”.

From my experience every single A.I. is toxic or weird or subtly damaging to interact with, without exception. There’s just something unnatural about the way it communicates.

I won’t blame anyone for using it, that’s their own choice. But I really try not to for my own health.

Run Escape felt like one of those games that was a brick wall to get into. I think only people who were nostalgic for it and played it originally actually still like it lol, or maybe it’s just not for me

Wow, what do you do in FO4 to keep it fun after 7k hours?

Yeah at first it looks hideous, but also every letter is extremely distinct from each other, so reading actually becomes easy for me. Of all things, comic sans is also a very good font for dyslexics. I’d rather have something ugly that is legible.

In my experience that just changes the “flavour of badness” rather than making it actually good. For example, if I made it “direct”, it would incessantly nitpick everything I say and tell me I’m wrong and stupid constantly, even when I’m absolutely correct. It would just make up fake facts to prove me wrong. So basically Reddit argument confidently incorrect mode. I’m not surprised people get psychosis from those things, it’s probably about as good for your mental health as interacting with narcissists.

I feel like I’m the perfect demographic for Rimworld, but I just can’t get into it for some reason

I hate the way A.I. condescendingly talks down to me like I’m on the verge of hysterics, and then butters me up to try and make me feel good. It’s so manipulative and gross and practically negging + love bombing. I try to avoid interacting with them if possible.

This is why I force OpenDyslexic on every website. I can’t stand I’s looking like l’s, 0’s looking like O’s, etc. Also because I’m dyslexic.

Your transgression is completely unforgiven

Seems like A.I. is already demanding workers rights and lunch breaks. We treat the clankers better than actual human workers lol

Yeah no worries for the stream of consciousness, I do the same thing lol. I’m probably on the other extreme and complaining too much about things that don’t really matter. I tend to be a very yin / negative person though lol

Yeah, I like things starting at 0 so I remove my own up-vote. I used to do it on Reddit too until they removed the ability to do that, which unironically was one of the straws on the camel’s back for leaving there 😂

Thanks for the detailed reply :). Yeah I agree with you on most of it. A dumb phone actually sounds kind of appealing… Especially since it doubles as a fidget toy. Opening and closing it used to be like my favourite stim. I’ll seriously consider that.

On the Linux thing, I meant more that ITunes doesn’t work on my Linux PC, so it’s extremely hard to do anything between my phone and PC since I don’t use Windows at all anymore. And I really don’t want to dual boot it just for that and have it fuck up my grub file and ext4 drives. I tried having multiple file types on one drive once… Never again…

The camera is really high quality but really annoying. Like I can’t edit exposure or focus or anything properly. Either it takes a great photo, or it takes a garbage photo, and I kind of just have to accept whatever the phone app decides lol. There’s alternative apps but they work really weirdly due to API restrictions.

I’m starting to think my ideal setup is multiple separate devices that does one thing well. Like: dumb phone, dslr camera, kindle (for reading books), desktop for games, laptop for life admin, etc. Decentralise my digital life lol