Usually 10-15 minutes, not unusual for it to go to around 20 sometimes. I haven’t seen past 25 I don’t think, that would be both teams wiping each other every fight. The objectives just push the game to a conclusion pretty quickly, since they are very low risk to start and kill towers/buildings either directly or indirectly. It’s sort of like if dragons were weaker, spawned every 3 minutes, and made a rift herald if you kill one.

I don’t think that’s true, go try heroes of the storm and it’s 10x less toxic. In hots half the time I would type something I’m pulled back into playing because there’s something always happening. In league you could sit behind your tower typing 90% of the time and it would make 0 difference to the game. Plus in league, if someone else is bad and dies, not only are you down a player but the enemy is actively stronger, and you can have 0 impact on it for the first 50% of the game.

That they managed to create an actual real feeling of excitement around books and followed through with exciting fun books is actually really impressive.

I used to watch Destiny, and while I still like that he does tons of research and shows people why maga talking points are wrong, I started noticing more and more I hate being around people who really care about their ego. He would be having a discussion with someone and instead of saying hm that’s partially true but here’s what I think could be missing, he says NO that is WRONG! It’s such a massive waste of time to care about “winning” a debate, both people learn less and get more angry. I’ve noticed this with basically everyone who gets successful streaming, they kinda lock in at the age they were when they got successful.

The article is really confusing, it says they posted you win we resign but also that the head mod kicked everyone. Maybe the first part was the mods bring facetious?

c/196 had a mod who did something like defederate from an instance without asking the users (I’ll see if I can find it) and everyone said adios

e: https://sh.itjust.works/post/31368210

Basically users disagreed with the mods about moving the comm to lemmy.world and made a new community even on the same instance, c/onehundredninetysix

A lot resigned because people were mad over the ban. The analogy would be more like a politician resigns after everyone complains about their policy.

Crazy how a mod tried this on lemmy and everyone just went to a new instance.

Lol

I actually had to realize this because I kept making “good enough” solutions that I told myself I would change later and then never did, until I got so frustrated that it made me stop working on it. Good enough is a big problem if it’s good enough that you never really need to change it.

On lemmy as well as reddit it is by far majority men, idk why you’d think I was talking about irl. A lot of people talk way more online than irl.

I do agree having just a men’s space is important, I think the reason for things like boy scouts being mixed is so you can have people of both genders interacting while building and doing things together, which is really important learning and doesn’t happen much in schools. Is this more or less important than having a purely boys space, i really don’t know. That said I’m not opposed to pure male spaces once people aren’t in school anymore, and it likely is important, but I can maybe try to explain the double standard.

I think we would both agree men are generally more aggressive and competitive, due to higher testosterone. That means they will generally take up more of the space and conversation, and be more boisterous. This means a few men in a woman’s space will impact it much more than a few women in a men’s space. Women being generally less aggressive stern competitive etc their voices are often just lost or very quiet in normal life. People want to talk to others with similar experiences and commiserate, and that’s hard to do for women if they’re not hearing other women. I think irl even if you didn’t identify as a woman but had very similar experiences to women, most good groups would say ya you’re also welcome. It’s sort of just a bad categorization for shared experiences, but the best one we have for now.

Idk I don’t look at people venting against any demographic and think I need to speak up (as long as it’s not just hateful or wrong). It’s like if I said “I have to lock my car in majority black neighborhoods,” most non radical leftists would say “ya true but they’re not more dangerous because they’re black its because they’re poor” to which I would say “ya. I still have to lock my car here though.” Same thing in that thread, men wouldn’t do that if they had more support from men AND women, but the statement was totally fair and not really that negative, it felt more like “it’s sad this is the way things are right now.” Though, testosterone DOES sorta push men to think being nice = in love, so it’s not a totally fair comparison.

The reason it’s public is to make it as easy as possible for women to stumble into it and post and comment, and hoping everyone else will be understanding. Making it private or sign-up only or whatever basically loses the whole point of being able to hear other women.

I wouldn’t doubt vista had a saved games folder but Vista was a big outlier. File extensions are hidden by default on windows, so most people see logs as text files. It’s easier to see “what’s this random text file?” vs digging through your pc to try and find something you don’t even know what you’re looking for. Again programdata would be fine but it is extremely not obvious to the user because there is no hyperlink to it and it is HIDDEN by default. As a developer if I want the most incompetent users to still be able to find the game files, documents is the only place I have for that. A lot of people don’t even know how to open the C drive.

So first of all the notification for onedrive makes no indication it is backing up all your data, or that it’s installed, or that you should really really look at it. At least in windows 8/10, all it said was “all your files in one place!” And as windows has been known to advertise to the user, most people will think this is just an advertisement, not a warning.

What you are suggesting instead is that the city council builds another lane just in case someone starts driving on the wrong side of the road.

Well in this analogy it’s more like the car has a built in thing that locks me into going straight so I nick the other car trying to turn out of the way, and the only indication I got of this feature from the manufacturer was “your driving can be made much easier!”

To the VAST majority of users? Yes, they are. I can’t remember the last time I had to fiddle with a config file… 2008? Maybe 2010? As for mods - if you’re modding a game, you can spend all of 30 seconds extra to learn where Program Data lives.

Sure it’s pretty rare, but here are some examples I’ve done pretty recently.

Editing starcraft 2 configs to get different shadow and lighting settings for better performance

Editing openmw configs to change some settings that weren’t in the launcher

Changing some settings in sims 3 to prevent a crash

Changing settings back in a game because the game wouldn’t launch after I changed it in game

What are you trying to argue here now? “Microsoft bad” or something more specific? My entire point is why is a program I never installed or wanted causing issues, which is MUCH worse than something I installed causing the problem. You don’t know what you don’t know, so how would I have any idea what’s causing it’s? Look through every single program I have installed? If I never opened it surely it’s not doing something I never asked for. I don’t care what the things I actually installed do, if I think it’s stupid a game writes to documents, I can just not install that game. If I think it’s stupid onedrive is breaking my games, first I even need to know it’s installed and exists, then I need to know what it’s doing, then I need to know that oh this might be causing the issue, then I need to know how to remove it.

Even that comment you linked said removing onedrive reduced the issue heavily. As another example my friend just this week had a text file he was reading for a python script and onedrive put a random tag on it that made it break his script (which sounds strikingly similar to that sims 3 thread and similar issues I’ve heard and experienced over the years). It’s fine you and people you know never had issues (though maybe you did and your hardware was just good enough to not notice), but just look up onedrive issues with games, it DOES mess with many users files. You can write 100% of these off to user error or a broken install if you want, but WHY do they have to care about this in the first place for a program they never installed or wanted??? Why is it touching their files at all??

The other reply is kinda accurate but I just wanted to give lived experience that the way I get treated is as if I’m more dangerous and more aggressive by default (where obviously a woman will get taken less seriously and be more in danger by default), but it still feels pretty bad to have people feel less safe around me when I have done literally nothing to cause it. I’m not blaming someone for saying they feel less safe around men, I would even agree, but that means the reality is many men who have done literally nothing feel the distrust and unease. The outright hatred I think is an online only thing, I’ve never heard anyone say anything similar irl.

Also I might say if you really want to help them to not discount their experiences, that’s how we ended up with people like Andrew tate. The hatred does exist but almost always by a very loud very small minority online. And I’m sure the hatred does exist irl, from people who had really bad experiences with men, or they’re just jerks. That can be reality, and when you get blamed by those women it’s painful. Women are just people, and there are good and bad women because there are good and bad (or maybe just hurt) people.

I understand what you mean but “not used to communicating with people irl” being a red flag is kinda sad. Some people are just not good at socializing or don’t have many friends while also not being a bad person.

True let’s look at some of those super toxic posts that are very man hating, all taken from the front page

Do you want to have kids?

I hate being pregnant

essay on menopause

tweet about is a woman being rude, or are people conditioned to think a woman being assertive is rude

I actually did not find a single post about a man in about 30 posts. Curious.

I would agree with you but this is like being surrounded by men for 99% of the time all the time forever and then having a community that is not 99% men.

That said I don’t fully agree with them, half the time it really is weirdos downplaying women’s experiences, but the other half is a woman giving a story and ending it with something like “men are disgusting,” and someone (not very nicely) replying “what do you mean men are disgusting??”

I wouldn’t say that’s a reasonable response, but definitely understandable, and I’ve seen it downplayed as an incel response pretty often

I have never even heard of the my saves filder and can’t find anything about it from searching, do you mean Documents/My Games? And yes we are not talking about saves, we’re also talking about config files and potential mods and potential screenshots. Some devs also put logs next to saves in case a game crashed or misbehaved, especially in the case of moddable games. Even non-technical people can read a log and see file not found. I did this when I was 7 years old and had no clue about hidden files or appdata or even how to GET to the C drive, because games just wrote to documents or I would never find anything.

Microsoft has NOTHING to do with where a developer decides his application will shit its data.

Yes and I also have nothing to do with someone turning their car into my lane, but I’m not going to smash into them and say well I was in the right. Microsoft may be fully justified in thinking nothing is in there besides documents that someone actually wants backed up, and they can be fully justified as every user has their games break. Do you know why people blame onedrive and not the game? Because they actually wanted the game.

Because none of that is important for the user, unless they’re troubleshooting. And if they’re troubleshooting, they either know where to look already, or they’re googling to find out anyway.

Config files and mod files are unimportant to the user…? And again troubleshooting as a non-poweruser is still possible if the log says “file not found.”

Yes I disabled it when it was hard coded and I sure wish it was job done. It kept running the service even though I had disabled it and then on a later update fully re enabled itself, so my choices are be really confused and have games be broken until I figure out onedrive is back or fully delete it and have a broken file manager.

Yeah, that’s not how computers work. Really so if I go on my pc right now and type for i in 0…10000 sleep 1 echo test >> ~/Documents/terriblespot.txt will this cause massive lag spikes in games? What about if I write to /boot just for fun, surely it won’t work just fine because it’s my computer not Microsoft’s.

What you said about opening onedrive is just not accurate, when you first install windows you get a tiny pop-up that says something along the lines of “keep all your files synced in one place!” And I as well as most people click the x. So I was actually just supposed to know that meant “we are actually syncing your folders unless you specifically say not to.”

I’m sure onedrive is perfectly fine for work applications, but for anyone that plays any games ever I have told them always uninstall or disable onedrive ASAP. I had actually forgotten that it can lock your documents folder and break games (and I believe other programs too) https://www.reddit.com/r/Sims3/comments/y1mhf8/psa_if_you_arent_able_to_save_on_windows_11_22h2/

My documents has been the standard location for game saves for probably 20 years. You can say it shouldn’t be and you might even be right, but that’s the reality and Microsoft KNOWS that’s the reality. If appdata is really supposed to be for things like game logs, configuration and saves, can you explain to me why it’s hidden by default? How is the average person supposed to copy saves? Back them up? Edit their configuration settings? This is exactly why my documents became the default.

I personally have un-installed onedrive and had it break my file browser such that the onedrive button was still there and any time I accidentally clicked it the file browser froze. I don’t think you can chalk up every instance of onedrive slowing down a pc to user error, maybe some other software doing something unexpected + some user error. But again, many people are having issues caused by a software they never wanted. I should be able to be the worst dev ever and do whatever “incorrect” things I want, regardless of what a software I never installed and can’t get rid of thinks.

It’s also just unexpected behavior, you’re telling me just writing to my documents will lag my pc? What if I’m transferring files to my documents while doing something else, now I get massive lag spikes for the crime of putting files somewhere on my computer…? And what if it’s pictures I absolutely do not want on Microsoft servers, like medical photos? Am I just required to know Microsoft put software that uploads it without me ever consenting?

Sure razer programs are super sketchy, but a convenience program I never installed should not touch ANYTHING unless I tell it to. The issue isn’t “oh razer is bad so it was probably onedrive doing something correctly and then it broke” it’s “why did I have to waste time figuring out some random program I never installed and don’t want was causing this problem?”

They are writing constantly to documents because it makes it obvious to the user where the logs are, why do you get to decide they don’t get to write there? For example openmw a huge project puts logs there. Again it’s the fact it’s a program I never installed and don’t want that I had to spend hours researching to maybe find out what was causing it.

An example of it being really buggy to get rid of

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/3998214/one-drive-keeps-recreating-itself

Reinstalling itself

https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/brai09/onedrive_keeps_reinstalling_itself/

About performance idk what to tell you this seems very common

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/5i46aj/onedrive_is_always_checking_for_changes_and/

https://www.reddit.com/r/onedrive/comments/oiix8t/high_cpu_and_ram_without_syncing_file_what_happen/

Tons of videos on YouTube about it too.

I shouldn’t have to say, for a software I never installed or wanted, “well okay I’m not allowed to append to logs to documents, or use documents for any game files that might change often, and if I’m unlucky to have onedrive be in a bugged state or they break it with an update then I will have 30% cpu usage forever unless I fix it. And also I will have to uninstall it every 6 months which might leave my file explorer in a broken state.” If this happened with a software I WANTED and installed myself, I would still complain but probably say the convenience is worth it. But it is being forced on me and the literal only reason I know about it is from it giving me 50% cpu usage and other friends having similar problems, for something they don’t want and never wanted.

Also, using any Razer software as an argument against other software is… brave.

My mistake ill go tell my friend he’s just not allowed to use his mouse because a commentor on lemmy said it’s not his computer so he can’t run what he wants on it, especially not the OEM software that his mouse requires.

Onedrive seems to sync documents by default, which means any games that write log files there will be constantly syncing any time they append a little to the end of the file.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stadia/comments/m8luww/pause_one_drive_sync_while_you_play_it_completely/

True sorry I meant malware, it tries to reinstall itself and tries to make uninstalling more difficult, while also being a massive cpu hog while the user is unaware (and hasn’t opened it once).

https://windowsreport.com/onedrive-high-cpu/

Ah even better it breaks itself because of telemetry logs and then takes up massive amounts of cpu in order to do nothing because it’s in a broken state. Search onedrive high cpu usage to see how common this is, happened to me too (never opened it one time). Great software that I have had to remove from 5 different people’s computers because it was either in a broken state or they played a game that was massively slowed down by a program they had not installed, didn’t even know was installed, and they had not opened or used ever. Lucky them they got to experience it twice after onedrive reinstalled itself after an update!