EncryptKeeper
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- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 17 hours ago:
Sure, but powerful systems don’t run it too well either. Especially given how mediocre the game looks visually.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 3 days ago:
Right but how do you know that didn’t impact the score? For all we know they knocked it down a point for that.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 3 days ago:
How do you know that?
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 3 days ago:
Depends on the game. In a looter shooter like Borderlands, it’s the looting and shooting
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 3 days ago:
They noted the perforemance issues in their review
- Comment on Atlassian goes cloud-only, customers face integration issues 4 days ago:
Creative business accounting.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Yearly? Thats frankly nuts lol
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
It’s only subjective in that it’s not entirely impossible for at least one person out there to enjoy the mechanic. However at the same time there has been a general consensus made that it’s not a good mechanic. Your opinion may be the equal of any one other persons opinion, but what I think you’re not understanding is that is that it’s not the equal of the many opinions of the majority of people. If you expect your one opinion to hold the same value as the collective opinions of everyone else, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment.
as a sort of olive branch of understanding that opinions are opinions.
That’s not a great example to your point because the weapon degradation mechanic of BOTW is also widely regarded as a bad mechanic. It’s the most disliked mechanic in that game.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 1 week ago:
I think he’s being upvoted and you’re being downvoted because boss runbacks have been around for a long time and both the industry and community have since come to a consensus that they’re just objectively bad game design. They don’t add anything of value to a game and their existence is a detriment to the experience. I don’t think you’ll find a single person who holds the opinion that they’re fun. People like yourself may tolerate them, but a tolerable inconvenience is not the same thing as fun. You’ve actually gone exceptionally out of your way to avoid calling them fun.
Like with anything, not all personal opinions are going to be held in equal regard. And your take here is going to be an outlier so I wouldn’t be surprised if you continue to get this reception.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 1 week ago:
Server costs? I mean for a media serving website at this scale you need the servers, storage, people to run the servers, people to development the website, fix bugs, keep on top of security. If you had a very talented team that was very lean, and each member of which can wear multiple hats to reduce headcount, you’re talking $400-$600,000 a year just in salaries. Thats before you consider taxes, benefits, etc.
Do you think bandcamp is run by like one guy renting bargain bin shared cpu servers from AWS?
- Comment on Campfire (the self-hosted group chat) just became free and open source! 1 week ago:
Revolt can’t be considered viable in my mind until the mobile app stops hardcoding the official instance and lets users connect it to selfhosted instances.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Well they removed the ability to play as “A civilization” in the game called “Civilization” so yeah everyone I know has swore off it.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 1 week ago:
I thought it was pretty clear that I meant more people tended to read than listen to audio books in the 90s.
More people tend to read than listen to audio books today. Despite that audiobooks are very popular today. They were also very popular in the 90s and 00s. So I guess I’m still wondering what exactly your point is? Having books read to you is popular today, it was popular in the 00s, it was popular in the 90s, it was popular 200 years ago, it was popular 2,000 years ago, etc.
There was no point during your lifetime nor OPs lifetime that reading books was some kind of weird or not normal thing like OPs original comment implied.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
You’re downloading videos every time you watch a video on YouTube.
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 1 week ago:
Since Nextcloud stores your actually data on the disk, it doesn’t actually matter all that much tbh
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 1 week ago:
More people don’t listen to audiobooks than reading today. But there was never “A time where books were for reading [as opposed to listening to]”
People have been listening to books for millennia. And before books they were listening to the things we now put in books. If you go back far enough more people did listen to books more than read them. And if we reach that point again, it won’t be some “newfangled idea” it would just be something we’ve done for thousands of years becoming very popular again.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 1 week ago:
It existed in the 90s and early 00s
I was around in the 90s and early 00s and I can assure you it very much did not. The popularity of audiobooks grew significantly in the 90s. Books on tape had been a thing for awhile already and the popularity of audiobooks on CD exploded in the early to mid 90s. You could buy or even rent them from music stores, libraries, video stores, even supermarkets. They even had little listening stations where you could hear the first chapter of popular books before buying them.
In 1995 Audible was founded and brought about the advent of digital audiobooks downloaded from the internet which only accelerated their popularity. By the time the 00s started audiobooks were a multi billion dollar industry.
doesn’t mean that they don’t remember a time when it wasn’t more popular than just reading.
Well that’s also a misunderstanding of the history of Audiobooks because I believe even now I don’t believe audiobooks are more popular than reading physical books.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 1 week ago:
Well yeah, because the original commenter wasn’t referring to their memories of any period of time, because the period of time they’re referring to doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 1 week ago:
Not true, even highly educated Roman and Greek elites would attend book readings. It was considered a leisure activity and appreciated it as the performance it was, same as today.
In fact today we have more reasons than ever to listen to audiobooks, the most significant of which is that it’s not legal nor advisable to read a physical book while driving a motor vehicle.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
In-video sponsors are not even remotely the same thing as the ads YouTube puts on videos, but that being said no I’m not using SponsorBlock. YouTube premium has a button to skip in-video sponsors so I don’t need sponsor block.
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 1 week ago:
Him being an “old man” would be predicated on his incorrect assumption that the act of having a book read to you is somehow new and is not as old as books themselves.
He’s just a moron lmao
- Comment on Cory Doctorow New Book: Enshitification 1 week ago:
What? Oral book readings predate regular book reading as a hobby by hundreds of years.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
It’s not pirating if you’re obtaining a video that they’re making available to you for free lmao.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
I don’t have an android
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
Yt-dlp doesn’t pirate YouTube videos… it downloads them directly from YouTube.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
How does one pirate free videos? Is there somebody uploading torrents of YouTube videos?
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
Pirate… what?
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
That’s fair
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
I don’t think that has anything to do with net neutrality
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 week ago:
I pay for it. No ads. Background playing on mobile, and YouTube music included.