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3 sats \ 5 replies \ @adlai 20h \ on: Sats Invaders gaming lightning

has anyone got strong enough opinions for commenting their opinion using text, rather than screenshots/casts ?

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17 sats \ 4 replies \ @Scoresby OP 20h

do you prefer text?

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207 sats \ 3 replies \ @adlai 20h

I have tolerably obnoxious preferences for such things:

  1. you shared a link to a site I've never visited before; should I care about WHOIS etc?
  2. I'm navigating onwards from SN, where the amount of coin I might lose if my credentials are hosed is currently not significant.
  3. I'll probably contribute insignificantly to multiple deanonymisation efforts if I spend from the node that I use for zapping.
  4. while I keep on wondering whether to even visit the link, might I link my itch.io profile? I've not monetized anything yet, most of what I do is complain silently to myself and then close the tab without even rating or reviewing.

tl;dr there is a reasonable chance that I end up using a physically different computer, that isn't even powered on right now; and that's without worrying any further about privacy!!! so, high time spent reading good text is the main reason I click through SN notifications rather than closing them unread...

real tl;dr

do you prefer text?

yes for the reviews; however, text-only "terminal" videogames are unfortunately often quite boring.

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3 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby OP 19h

Thanks for the response. You make good points too. I generally include screenshots to give people a visual of the site, because sometimes it's easier to make up your mind about whether you'd like to visit a link (particularly to a game or lighthearted thing like this) if you have a preview.

But in agree with you that text is mostly better.

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105 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 19h

screenshots are critical when your competition is other videogames; e.g. scrolling through Itch is a complete lottery without mouseover annotations, and even those are usually just gifs.

unfortunately, reputation wins against aesthetics.

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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @adlai 20h

fucking wrong link[1]

@k00b @sox et al, have you considered that only GPTs are good at editing under the completely ludicrous ten minutes timer?

mother of all chilling effects

and no, spending fifteen minutes polishing your text in a separate app, five minutes driving clipboard, pasting into SN, and then four minutes proofreading is not "editing under ... ten minutes", that's almost half an hour of computer

  1. for some weird fucked up reason, Itch's "/profile/" routes give you the chitchat from their forum, while what any reasonable person might consider the "profile" is actually the subdomain ↩

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