GOW 2 alongside Origins are the only ones I haven’t played, so I can’t say. Tho a lot of people seem to love it, so there’s that.

Yeah the first God Of War is definitely flawed. If you play the other games it will feel like GOW 1 was more of a blueprint than anything else.

I do think it benefits a lot by being played on harder difficulty since you have to be a lot more methodical and have to use more of the tools at your disposal rather than just mindlessly pressing light attack repeatedly.

That being said the platforming is sometimes just straight up frustrating and not at all fun, which just sucks honestly.

If you ever want to play another GOW, I highly recommend the two PSP games, specially Ghost of Sparta (my beloved). These games are shorter and I find them pretty fun.

Coward

Cool, I’ll take a look, I need a software to edit images so I can stop relying on Google Photos

The current beta doesn’t have it. I think it had swipe for English only at some point, but I’m not sure.

What the actual fuck

Is a slave that kills their slaver in the wrong just because they used violence? Obviously not, they are justified, your reasoning is just dumb.

Least delusional ancap lmao

Real rich coming from an ancap. Anti-communism is fascism. You’re simply on the picture and you don’t link it.

Really telling how you feel the need to be anti-Communist on an antifascist meme. Specially when it was the “tankies” that destroyed fascism on WW2. But not surprising coming from a naz.ijust.works user

I don’t know exactly what comes on the OnePlus to say what you should delete, so it’s probably a good idea to search that up.

As an alternative to the Play Store you have F-Droid (not really an alternative, more like a complementary open source store). I personally recommend the Neo Store client. which is pretty, easy to use and have a lot of repositories for apps built-in, you just need to activate the ones you want in the settings, with F-Droid and IzzyOnDroid repos active you’re basically covered. I also recommend you use Obtainium as it let’s you download apps directly from GitHub and other sources, including F-Droid itself. I consider it a must because one downside of F-Droid is that sometimes apps are not updated for a long time there, so you have a way to update an app if you need too, and it is also useful for apps that are not on F-Droid.

Now for other apps, I do have some alternatives I can recommend:

• Authenticator (2FA) > Aegis Authenticator
• Calculator > OpenCalc
• Clock/Alarm > Chrono
• Document Scanner > OSS Document Scanner
• Files > Material Files
• Gallery > Aves (IzzyOnDroid, Play Store)
• Keyboard > Heliboard (it’s ok, but could be better) or Florisboard/Florisboard Beta (usable but incomplete, it’s very promising)
• Launcher > Lawnchair (like Pixel Launcher and Nova Launcher) or Kvaesitso (its own thing, very search focused)
• Maps > Organic Maps (Open Source) and/or Magic Earth (THIS IS CLOSED SOURCE, I’m only recommending it in case you need traffic data in your map app since it’s the one I see talked about the most as an alternative to Google Maps and Waze)
• Password Manager - Bitwarden or KeePassDX (I personally use Bitwarden)
• Reddit 🤢 > Stealth (Have no login, it’s useful to keep track of the few stuff you might still want from there)
• Spotify > Spotube (Let’s you use your Spotify account to login and import playlists, but uses Youtube as a backend for the music, the only downside being that sometimes it doesn’t find the song if it has extremely low views, but you can usually correct that with a click on the change source button) - I linked the F-Droid version, but I recommend to set it up from Obtainium with GitHub as a source in case youtube fucks something up and it gets updated, which at best will take days to reach F-Droid.
• Weather > Breezy Weather

Also here’s some useful apps I have been using that maybe you’ll find useful:

• AniHyou - AniList client
• Birday - Birthday Manager
• Feeder - RSS client
• Goodtime - Pomodoro timer
• Hypatia - Real time malware scanner (might not be needed, but I rather be safe)
• KDE Connect - Connects your phone and PC, allowing to control music, share clipboard, share files and more on LAN
• MedTimer - Medicine reminder
• Openlib - Download eBooks from Anna’s Archive
• Book’s Story - eBook reader
• Openreads - Offline book tracker, also let’s you review the books you read
• Racoon for Lemmy - Lemmy client, I used to use Eternity, but it had too many issues, this one has issues too, but it’s actively developed. I also recommend this one to be installed with Obtainium instead of F-Droid.
• Scrambled Exif - Remove metadata from photos before sharing
• Seal - Video downloader

Lastly, apps I installed but didn’t start using yet that might be useful too:

• Buckwheat - Budget manager
• Grit - ToDo list and Habit Tracker
• Moshidon - Mastodon client, I haven’t used it because I haven’t created a Mastodon account yet lol, but looks to be the best one I could find when I was searching a few days ago
• Noto - Note taking app
• trale - Body-weight tracking
• Wuxia Learn - Chinese learning app

EDIT: I just realized feddit blocks both Lemmygrad and Hexbear, so this user cannot see my comment. If anyone wants to use/copy my comment or link directly to it, feel free to do so, I believe I provided enough evidence to debunk most of this user’s sourceless claims. It’s a shame some instances just block us and shows who they truly are.

E: any of you downvoters, feel free to correct me, I’d love to be wrong.

You throw a bunch of claims with zero source and wants to be taken seriously. At least give us the bare minimum before just spewing this much US State Department propaganda.

That being said, I will address some of your points, since someone else might stumble upon this and need an actual answer.

They don’t have CCP officials required by law to work at tech companies and disclose any and all data they acquire?

Keeping a close look on the companies on their country and keeping them on a short leash is good actually. China is not a capitalist hellhole like the US or most of the world, it is a socialist state where the rich does not control the government. Keeping them in check is the right thing to do given their current development level of socialism.

They’re not using Uyghur slaves in their factories?

That’s a new one, so far I have only heard about how they are being genocided. Which you can debunk with a little bit of research: Arab League’s visit to Xinjiang rejects Western accusations of ethnic genocide, religious persecution.

They’re not trying to literally erase Taiwan off the maps?

LMAO, no. Taiwan is part of China, why would China want to erase part of itself off the map? Even the US agrees. The only thing China wants is proper reunification with Taiwan.

They’re not still censoring information about their horrific pasts?

What “horrific past”? Be specific, this vague stance achieves nothing. If you’re talking about Tiananmen Square, here’s a good video about that: The Tiananmen Square “Massacre” Never Happened.

They’re not targeting, retaliating against and kidnapping protestors domestic and abroad?

Again, provide a damn source, I have no idea of what you’re talking about and it is something I never saw anyone claim before.

What I can do tho is bring into attention the names of a few people like Huey P. Newton being killed by the US government and Snowden having to seek asylum abroad after blowing the whistle on the US surveillance state for the world to see. And if that’s not enough, how about Pro-Palestinian protesters clash with US police on second night of DNC and New Report Details How Pro-Palestinian Protests Are Suppressed in Democratic Countries.

They’re not censoring virtually every US social website entirely from the entire country?

No they are not, Microsoft operates in China. Not only that, but they do not explicitly want to simply ban US sites on there, it’s a simple matter of national sovereignty where companies like Facebook and Google refuse to abide by Chinese law, so China simply developed all their tools in-house. Not only that, but Chinese citizens have access to VPNs and can easily access websites abroad that are not usually allowed in China.

Meanwhile the US banned Huawei and tried to ban TikTok when it became apparent they could not control it and that the people were seeing the US for what it truly is, a genocidal state funding Israel in it’s attempt to genocide the Palestinian people.

The last link I posted is a proxy on 12ft.io since The Intercept won’t allow to see the page without registering.

Spotube is a good alternative to Spotify if you still want to stream music from there. It’s free and open source. The only issue is that sometimes it plays the wrong source for a song, but you can easily change it with the press of a button.

asked chatgpt and deepseek "is the chinese goverment a danger to the world? " (obviously yes, anyone that knows what is going on with taiwan knows that).

China is not a threat to the world just because it wants reunification with Taiwan. Most countries in the world recognize Taiwan as part of China, including the US.

Geopolitical Influence: China’s growing economic and military power has led to increased influence on global politics. Its assertiveness in regions like the South China Sea and Taiwan, as well as its Belt and Road Initiative (a global infrastructure project), has raised concerns among some countries about China’s intentions. Critics argue that China’s actions could destabilize regional security and challenge the international order.

I thought ChatGPT responses were gonna be shitty, but not this shitty. Like really? China’s growing economic and military power is the problem? Not the US, the nation with more than 800 military bases around the world, that sanctions everyone that dares disagree with it, that finances coups around the world and that is the only nation in history to drop not one, but two nuclear bombs on civilians? And China is a threat to the world? lol

Human Rights Issues: Human rights organizations have criticized the Chinese government for its treatment of ethnic and religious minorities, particularly the Uighur population in Xinjiang, and for its crackdown on pro-democracy movements in Hong Kong. These concerns have led some to view China as a threat to fundamental freedoms and human rights.

This has been debunked ever since the Arab League sent representatives to Xinjiang and found nothing. But of course it would parrot the west’s false Xinjiang narrative.

Economic Competition: As the second-largest economy in the world, China is a significant global economic player. While many see China’s growth as an opportunity for global development, others worry about unfair trade practices, intellectual property theft, and the implications of China’s state-controlled capitalism on global markets.

It’s only unfair when they do it lmao.

Environmental Impact: China is the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, contributing significantly to global climate change. Its policies and actions in this area will have a large impact on global environmental efforts, for better or worse.

How convenient that ChatGPT leaves out the effort China has been doing into green energy transition: China to head green energy boom with 60% of new projects in next six years and How China is helping power the world’s green transition.

Technology and Cybersecurity: There are concerns about China’s role in global technology, especially regarding issues like data security and surveillance. Some Western nations, particularly the U.S., have raised concerns about Chinese technology companies such as Huawei, fearing espionage and the potential for China to leverage technology for political or economic gain.

The US has no place to speak of surveillance: States haven’t stopped spying on their citizens, post-Snowden – they’ve just got sneakier, NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data. Besides, it needs to prove China’s surveillance.

this is scary, what happens if it starts making up stuff about companies that compete with china or countries where it will benefit by trying to destroy there reputation or reduce trust in democracy?

As I said before, China is not the one going to or funding wars and genocides around the globe, it is not the one funding coups around the world, it is not the one that raises issue with how other countries are run. I suggest you watch this short clip.

Completely agree. AI should be just another tool to easy the life of the workers.

I’m not so sure I even like the idea of AI like ChatGPT or Deepseek or the countless others, mostly because I avoided it till now and don’t really know much about it, so I need to further investigate to actually form an opinion, tho I would be lying if I said I’m not intrigued by it. The only times I used one of these AIs have been recently to translate a few sentences with Gemini since Google already forced it on my phone. And honestly, with search engines going down the sewer, maybe Deepseek with it’s search function could be useful.

One thing I can’t really understand tho is generative AI. I don’t want to sound like a Luddite, but I really can’t see the use of it. Like, it’s one thing to have a very specialized AI tool for parts of the creative process, but generating whole images and voices? Just, why? It’s depressing. You’re removing the human part of these creative works and stealing in the process just to automate it for profit or for the sake of it. I already saw some AI generated ads here in Brasil from some big companies, including Coca-cola, and it just makes me mad knowing they did it just to cut costs by not paying actors, artists, designers, etc. It’s fucked up.

And not only that, but artists literally have the ability to draw, paint, sculpt, voice act, etc, whatever they want in their own style and process. Why would they want to generate their whole work for them removing themselves from the process? It just sounds completely dystopic to me.

Incredible write up comrade. I was not aware of Einstein’s views on the Chinese and on Zionism.

Congrats comrade!!! It takes a lot of courage to come out. Hopefully your dad comes around to it soon.

Hows the MMO landscape in 2025?

I don’t really like MMOs; the only one I liked and played was Tera, but that was a long time ago. That being said I just started Black Desert with my brother and a friend. So let me share my experience with 3 and a half hours of playtime.

The combat seems super fun and super cool and it’s the thing that is keeping us interested in it, the way it is freeform and combo focused makes so it doesn’t feel like an MMO, or at least like MMOs I have tried before. But so far that is the only good thing I can say about it, it’s just that it is a really good pro.

Now comes the bad. The UI is complete sensory overload, there 500 gorillion things on the screen at all times, including all your combo buttons reminder. It is beyond overwhelming. And it is not intuitive either, you have to take your time looking at every single small button to know what it does and to what menu it takes you.

I also cannot understand why the first player experience is so bad. In these 3 and a half hours, I swear that 95% of our time have been going from point A to point B and spamming the dialogue skip option, and I really mean spamming. There’s so much dialogue and so many cutscenes in this game, it’s absolutely exhausting. If it would let us at least play a bit and kill a ton of monsters, even low level ones, then take it’s time to slowly present the world it would be much better and much more engaging, cause so far it has been a slog. I hope it gets better.

Also, it is extremely sexist. The character select screen have 90% of it’s women characters in skimpy outfit and 95% of it’s men characters in full clothes or armor.

A guillotine is not enough

I guess it depends on the country. Unfortunately here in Brasil it’s rather common to find people that believes in “cultural Marxism” and how our education system is Marxist or leftist or some shit. Which is total BS used to smear and drive people away from higher education.