• BudgetBandit
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    So do the new posts and everything. But Reddit is a shithole and Omegle got sued to death, online gaming is either a full time job or a money sink, streaming services start to cancel out each other and most of the regular games and their performance suck ass.

    Guess I’ll just be productive then.

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        I will be posting 1 upvote (mine) and 0 comment posts until I die instead of choosing to be productive.

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      Indie games are the only thing keeping gaming alive for me, for the most part. All the AAA games I play are older titles. Doing the GTAV story with a trainer has been a pretty fun time lately for me.

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          Haha i recently got $ 120 worth of converters to get HDMI to SCART to play those old games the way they’re meant to be played.

          Extra bought a 16:9 Sony Triniton CRT TV for that.

          Output to input: MacBook Air M1 - USB-C - HDMI - YPbPr - RGB (or RCA, the three cables) - SCART - TV

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            I bought a $75 handheld emulator lol. Plays up to some PS2 and fits in my pocket. Micro HDMI out turns it to a console too.

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            Wait, I just want to make sure I’m getting this. You’re going through five converters before plugging into the tv? Counting the computer->USBc as a converter…

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              Technically yes. In reality it’s just 2 “real” converters who both need their own power supply. Once from digital to HD analogue, and then from that to SD. For input lag, it’s a lot less than the 20 ms of input lag the HDMI 2 input of my Sony Bravia TV.

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      I hate to admit this, but I’ve started using Reddit again. It pains me, but there is stuff I just can’t get here.

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        Same here. I like the idea of Lemmy but the decentralization makes it really difficult to find the content I want. Reddits centralization, while causing some problems, definitely made it easy to find communities. That lack of ease is what makes Lemmy not as easy to use for new people.

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          there should be a “find the community” or something, where u can post ur niche and ppl will link where they discuss that

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            There’s also the problem where I totally want to start a community (for example: Marble Racing), but I don’t know where a good home would be for it and I don’t think my home instance would be a good home.

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              does it really matter that much? If people search it up, it will pop up. Even better if they discover it via a link.

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                I think it does a bit. The obvious one would be for porn on general purpose instances. Alternatively, my primary instance for example is a bit of a niche one related to reading, so a sports or politics community could feel disjointed especially for the admins/mods who manage the community.

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            Have you checked out [email protected]? For some reason I don’t see it mentioned or linked to much, but it’s basically that, which I think would feel much more approachable to new people than pointing them to tools like Lemmyverse (as much as I do really appreciate it).

            Another good one for sharing communities you’ve stumbled across would be [email protected].

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        Same here. I lurk more on Lemmy but if I want to discuss some niche topic then Reddit is so easy to I don’t use that fucking app though, website or 3rd party.

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      Posting is half of the fun. Especially contents who bring others to comment and share opinion and new info.

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      Try Deep Rock Galactic! It is neither a full time job or a money sink. Any purchases are purely cosmetic, seasons are entirely free and there are regular updates.

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      Try podcasts. Especially factual ones.

      You get to lie to yourself that you’re learning something and that you’re not just filling time.