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Why use apple music over spotify?
  • I'm not sure this is still the case, but I enjoyed Apple Music way more than I did Spotify. I discovered more related artists I liked and thought the UI was better, used more of the features etc. I only use Spotify now because I can share a family account and pay less because of that and I also don't have a Mac or iPhone anymore so the apps are kinda bad (at least were bad when I last tried them, several years ago).

  • What is an experience you had when traveling/vacationing that you didn't expect?
  • Got a few of these but I'll share the one I thought was right as I read the title. Not sure it really fits, but it's a fun story:

    Was in Lanzarote with my grandma, mom, and her then fiancé about 15 years ago, when I was around 20 years old. My grandma is pretty fun and likes to have a drink so we kept sneaking away to the closest bar to wherever we were.
    One day we find this tiny bar with no other people and go in, sit down and each order a Margarita. After a few minutes we hear whispering and snickering from the bar and see that the two female bartenders are looking at us and sneakily gesturing towards us as they are whispering. They take a really long time to get the drinks made, to the point where we almost got up to ask about it but we're Swedish so it'll take a lot to make us actually do that.

    When we finally got the drinks the girl that brought them winked at me and I had no idea how to interpret that at first. Then my grandma mentions how strong the drink is after a few small sips, I reply by saying that mine is basically virgin (without alcohol) and that's when we realize what's happening; The bartenders thought my grandma had found some "fresh meat" and was trying to get me drunk enough to have her way with me. I was visibly nerdy and inexperienced with alcohol back then so they tried to save me from the jaws of a Cougar.

    We immediately came up with the plan to visibly switch drinks and for me to chug mine and then overplay how drunk I became. It worked better than we had hoped, the girl's eyes widened and their jaws dropped as I chugged and they kept looking over with wide eyes and their hand covering their mouths as I played more and more drunk and flirty.

    After a while we couldn't stop our laughter anymore so we let it out and told the girls that she's my grandma. They made sighs of relief and started laughing too. When we ordered more drinks they told us they'd make them extra strong as an apology and for a well-executed show. I didn't have to play drunk after that, had my first really bad tequila hangover the day after.

  • It's an epidemic
  • Sync for Lemmy decided to absolutely destroy the quality of your image so I thought being unable to read it was the joke, but I still decided to spend what ended up being WAY too much time to figure it out from the few pixels available... and then I accidentally tapped on it and the normal readable version opened. This multilayered brain fart and subsequent realization humbled me in an odd way, feels weirdly good.

    Here's what it looks like:

  • The issue of bugs/glitches and people not caring or accepting they're a thing.

    This is a widespread problem that applies to almost any game, something I've noticed for years but never as much as I have with Warframe. Players have bugs, glitches or other issues and they make posts, comments etc. about it but all they get as answers is "nah, that never happened for me so there is no chance it's a thing" or "you just suck, git gud."

    I've never felt so dismissed before, or seen so many others get dismissed in this way. People just decide that it's because they're new players, they're doing something wrong or whatever else, anything but the chance that there's an actual issue. I've now spent 3 days trying to do bounties on orb vallis and cambion drift with very few finished ones. I understand what to do and have no issues with difficulty, they just fail for no valid reason. Examples:

    On orb vallis with the tax the taxmen bounty, when you need to capture and defend containers it just fails to register that you're close to a container so nothing happens and enemies endlessly spawn until you fail. I've spend over 10 minutes standing right by a container with no effect.

    On cambion drift with the last stage of the brute force bounty, the Grineer just instantly win while having like 25% while you're at 60%.

    Both of these issues and everything else I've has issues with have been posted about by many others through the years yet not once have I seen an actual answer that helps them or takes their problems seriously.

    As with anyone else, there have been things I or others have simply not understood for a bit, but absolutely everything is being treated like that. I've seen posts from people that just stopped playing warframe or other games because they never got any help or even a clear answer other than that it's their own fault.

    I've noticed this trend and thought about it for years and have been wanting to write an actual article about it, it's a real issue and often even the devs themselves go along with the denial and dismissal. This is especially prevalent with hard games like the souls-like genre. Any issue or feedback about actual bad balancing is dismissed because it's so easy to just decide it's someone who's not good enough or is failing to understand something.

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    What games do you play on your phone?

    Hey! I looked around a bit and the last thread like this I found was several months ago, so I thought I'd make a new one. As per the title, what game do you play on your phone? I'm both looking for new ones myself by also hope others might find some of interest to them.

    For my own part of this I mostly like puzzle games, especially these:

    Hook, Klocki, NABOKI etc. from Rainbow Trains games

    Monument Valley games from ustwo games

    The Room series from Fireproof games

    I Love Hue duology from Zut!

    And all the games from Legenbeary games (very addicted to Wordathlon, currently at level 3253)

    (all playstore links)

    Would love recommendations of any lesser-known similar ones! But post anything you like of course. :)

    Hope anyone finds something they like from my list above or recommend by others in comments (if there are any, heh).

    Cheers!

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