rockSlayer
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- Comment on Microsoft PC Manager App 'Repairs' Your System by Making Bing the Search Default 16 hours ago:
Obligatory “I use arch btw” post
- Comment on Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone Can’t Let Go Of Stardew Valley 18 hours ago:
Because 4 years ago he said he was working on another game based on stardew?
- Comment on Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone Can’t Let Go Of Stardew Valley 18 hours ago:
At this point they should just hold on to all the updates they want to add, and make it a sequel. I love all the things that they’ve added and it’s clearly a piece of passion, but at some point they’re going to need to publish something else
- Comment on Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” 1 day ago:
about damn time a company was targeted in a lawsuit over dark patterns.
- Comment on Me too 1 day ago:
The examiner is trying their best ok, it would be rude to hold it in
- Comment on Mothers of Miss USA and Miss Teen USA allege 'abuse' 3 days ago:
They need to get in touch with lawyers. NDAs can’t cover illegal behavior.
- Comment on Funny, those guys don't usually agree on that much 3 days ago:
Lmao check out all the salty libs seeing themselves get called out in these comments.
- sincerely, an anarcho-syndicalist
- Comment on Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news 3 days ago:
Block Fox and the other right wing news stations, but also a couple liberal news stations like NBC. When they call you for tech support, tell them it’s a weird issue happening with cable lately
- Comment on [Open to workshopping] PSA for reporting best practices 4 days ago:
the ‘O’ in REPORT feels like a directive to block, rather than do what you feel you need to avoid being brought into the issue. I’m sure if I put a few minutes into it I could come up with something, but I’m emotionally exhausted today.
- Comment on American Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life 4 days ago:
Netanyahu is going to “accidentally” kill a US soldier transporting aid in the strip. I like to imagine the full brunt of the carrier group is deployed, but it’s going to be more finger wagging. The 3 killed in Jordan is proof, I think.
- Comment on How Airbnb accidentally screwed the US housing market and made $100 billion 5 days ago:
I’m an activist writing a housing bill to get introduced to my state legislature. Part of it specifically addresses these platforms, but I don’t know what’s been tried against them yet. Any tips?
- Comment on Nemo's Eurovision win fires up Swiss advocates for non-binary rights 5 days ago:
That’s great. Still not going to break the Eurovision boycott.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 5 days ago:
Alpha testing is, by definition, testing on unreleased code. Even though they are offering the testing to some select group of people, it’s still considered un-released.
I go out of my way to explain how alphas are typically done as a games industry professional, and you’re still out here spewing the same nonsense? get outta here. This is not a defensible by a corporation. When a game reaches alpha, the whole of the game is unready but the part used in the public playtests are extensively reviewed by QA and gets as polished as possible. When a game is at alpha stage, it’s by definition gone through multiple release candidates.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 5 days ago:
I’m on publisher QA side. Every so often, around this time of year, my company does closed internal playtests for games that are on the pre-alpha release candidate (usually it’s the ones they expect to be blockbusters). Generally when a pre-alpha RC is selected for this, a very small subsection of the game is highly polished to give Users an honest preview of what the devs expect the launch game to be. Obviously since it’s in alpha a lot of things will be changed and there are a lot of game breaking bugs to be found still, but the general experience should still be up for discussion if it was bad. I know it’s possible to imagine a game in alpha as released, because part of my job is to give professional feedback to the producers without ever mentioning unfinished or bugged aspects of the game.
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 5 days ago:
Nah, this is a pathetic attempt to get free ads from games journalists without any downsides
- Comment on Marvels Rivals requires creators to sign a contract that removes your right to give a negative review to access the playtest 5 days ago:
I work for a video game company, and I promise you’re being far too generous about their motives. This NDA prevents press from doing press. If the alpha is bad, they’re not allowed to say how or why it’s bad, at all.
- Comment on Israelis rally to demand ceasefire and Netanyahu's resignation 1 week ago:
Fingers crossed for the Mussolini treatment
- Comment on It's a trap! 1 week ago:
Finally. Do you know how hard it is to find this stuff?
- Comment on Turkey halts trade with Israel over 'humanitarian tragedy' in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
Your comment is a starting point for more info. It’s not the end-all-be-all, and therefore it’s worth looking at other factors before determining Turkey’s actions are truly about religion. The genocide itself is not about religion though. It never has been.
- Comment on Turkey halts trade with Israel over 'humanitarian tragedy' in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
I only claimed Israel’s genocide was secular, I didn’t claim Turkey’s actions were as well. If Turkey has a religious motivation for taking action against a secular atrocity, then that’s certainly worth analyzing more. But Israel’s genocide has nothing to do with religion.
If you don’t understand how a fascist government could ever commit a fascist genocide over a landgrab for capital interests, then I don’t know what to say.
- Comment on Turkey halts trade with Israel over 'humanitarian tragedy' in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
All signs point to this being a fascist genocide rooted in settler-colonial ideology. But please, explain to me how this is about religion.
- Comment on Turkey halts trade with Israel over 'humanitarian tragedy' in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
Because Israel’s genocide isn’t about religion, literally at all, and because Turkey has done some similarly abhorrent things to Kurds.
- Comment on Turkey halts trade with Israel over 'humanitarian tragedy' in Gaza 2 weeks ago:
If fucking Erdogan is against this, then you know it’s bad.
- Comment on IRS says its number of audits is about to surge. Here's who the agency is targeting. 2 weeks ago:
Reminder for folks that the dystopia is often in the details. It’s not who or how much they’re going to audit in this instance, it’s how frequently the wealthy were being audited before and how it’s still significantly lower than it should be for the wealthy.
- Comment on Not happening, dude 2 weeks ago:
The best solution right now is to build out public and alternative transit. Busses, streetcars, lrt, greenways, woonerfs, etc are far superior and cheaper than anything we could figure out for cars.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Exposing Corruption: EK's Prison Threats, Lawsuits, Dangerous Workplace, & Leaked Documents 2 weeks ago:
Damn, EK is fucked. All CEOs Are Bastards
- Comment on Mandelbrot 2 weeks ago:
Nonsense. Good gardeners trim to the subatomic level
- Comment on Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not 3 weeks ago:
They’re trying to shove it down our throats to normalize the idea of automating creativity.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
When you’re forced to participate in capitalism, your only option is to play the game. I agree, this is mostly just a bluff.
- Comment on Or we could do metric time 4 weeks ago:
It’s accounted for just like any other leap year, add it to the end of a month. Most calendar models make it July 29. It’s also worth noting that this is actually 360 days, and there are 5 days at the end of each year that’s basically a universal holiday