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  • Elden Ring is probabaly the easiest game that From Software (FS) has made.

    I however don’t like the default multi-player design of FS games and waited for the Seamless Co-op mod to be released and then picked it up to play with friends as a tough open world MP adventure.

    RE: Default MP Design -

    I think it’s poor design to offer incentives for players to be anonymous assholes to other players. Game Studios have spent millions of dollars investing in research and technologies to reduce game community toxicity. And if you attempt to play a FS game outside the first month of release in MP mode, prepare to have your fun ruined.


    1. OP mentioned this also happened outside in the parking lot and was implying active blocking.

    2. There’s ways for stores to work with telecoms to get service broadcast inside the warehouse/building as well to get around the natural passive blocking from the building materials.

    I was well aware of the difference between active and passive blocking.



  • odelik@lemmy.todaytoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldFrack you, Walmart
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    4 months ago

    This is more likely a coverage issue than Walmart illegally blocking wireless signals (per to FCC regulations).

    Report the coverage issue to Verizon and your local Walmart. Both of which will want to increase coverage of where people are gathering. This is because if bad coverage areas are in places where people gather this will cause affected people to switch services or stop going to those gathering areas if there’s alternatives.



  • I had been pirating MP3s since the 90s and was acquiring them from usenet & irc before Napster became a thing. Usenet & IRC never had a fake song in my experience. Napster/Kazaa/Etc were easier to use but had the mislabeled tracks all-over.

    I haven’t pirated music in years though, so I’m not sure what thearket is like these days.


  • You can watch it happen in real time.

    Select your library and click the play random then go to your now playing Playlist and it has a list of upcoming tracks. Each time a song ends the last song is updated.

    The current Playlist block may have context, but anything outside the currently playing seems to just randomly select songs from your overall library.

    And I’ve read this article about a dozen times over the years. I honestly don’t think Spotify knows what people want in random which is why you can see people complain about their randomness from their inception til today.

    IIRC this video goes over the chunking at some point https://youtu.be/OdLyKETk5o0


  • odelik@lemmy.todaytosimpsonsshitposting@sh.itjust.worksA simpler time
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    5 months ago

    Winamp, from a time when random meant random.

    I’ve been on a road trip for the last week, and have well over 3000 songs on my “library” in Spotify. I was hearing repeats of songs within 3 hours (before my first fuel stop). When I hit random I expect each song in my Playlist to be put in a random order then navigated through. Spotify however creates a Playlist of a a subset of songs (this size has changed, at one point in time it was 20 tracks, but IIRC it’s up to 50 now). As each plays, the last track in the Playlist is “randomly” chosen for that last spot with no context of recent listening history. And I seriously wouldn’t doubt that there’s a weighting due to popularity, your listening frequency, and several other factors due to some bean counters.

    I miss using Winamp.



  • odelik@lemmy.todaytoMemes@sopuli.xyzIf it's not broken...
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    Yes, I had a TV in the 80s that had vhf/uhf tuning dials and coax as well since it was “cable ready”. It was also oddly setup with the coax input directly below the uhf/vhf standoffs. So anything you connected to it got in the way of interacting with the coax in. And if the coax you used had a wide nut for threading on it could wind up touching the prongs on the uhf/vhf inputs feet causing fun interference.

    Transitional era technology is fun like that.


  • HDMI/Composite to coax convertor if that TV was recent enough to be “cable ready”, otherwise you’ll then need a coax uhf/vhf/fm adapter in the chain.

    IIRC, back in the day, there were even composite-to-vhf adapters, but I can’t seem to find any currently sold so either my memory is lying to me or they’re no longer produced.