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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • Watch_Dogs was my first platinum on PS3. Everyone was shitting all over the game due to the PC port controversy, but I really enjoyed it. Huge city, different environment, actually good on-foot movement unlike in GTA games, and toooooooons of side stuff to do.

    And oh dear, all the hacking stuff was such fun. Yes it was all just one button, but everything was well implemented. The amount of personal details you could pull from phones was amazing. I kept doing it all the time and it wasn’t until near the end of the game that they started repeating.

    And the trademark unique Ubisoft multiplayer. Shame it didn’t have full-blown online mode, I can see myself getting lost in it.

    Yea great game. Didn’t deserve all the hate unrelated to its actual accomplishments.

    The DLC… Bad Blood I think? Was even better.

    I can’t emphasize enough how cool some of those VR side-missions were. Some would qualify as fun standalone indie games on their own.




  • There was the original idea of microtransactions, where you could buy some credit, say $10, and every time you read an article, the author would get fraction of a cent. Or you’d need to manually approve it, such as with a like.

    Of course companies saw a good idea and ran it into the ground, so now microtransactions mean something very different, and in their stead there are subscriptions for everything.


  • The first big problem was malware in ads (and web in general). This has caused people to install adblocks on their parents’ and friends’ devices.

    Then there were the annoying ads: autoplaying videos, popups and other shit. This has caused a lot of normies to install adblockers themselves.

    Then the privacy concerns, where even basic users notice that they look at a product on one store and now the recommendations follow them everywhere.

    But the marketing companies keep pushing, and the OS providers like Google, MS and Apple keep restricting what you can install on your machine, this is a full-on war between users and the big tech.

    Nobody was complaining about small banner ads. But they just have to keep pushing and break things. It’s like with banks, or mythological creatures - insatiable.





  • I can’t take care of myself, how would I care of an animal?

    But I have babysit… Sitted? Babysat? Babyshat? A kitten, and dang he grew on me. So I kinda want one, but… It’s just not for me.

    As for dogs, family had two dogs and while Iiked them, neither liked me back as much as everyone says dogs do. I’ve been lied to. And I’m not one for walking. So if anything, more of a cat person then.