Blackmist
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- Comment on Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter 4 hours ago:
Is that because it costs money now?
I lose track of all the Elon madness.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 10 hours ago:
I wish they had something between “top songs” and “completely random” when listening to a band.
Like, sure, Sweet Child of Mine, Welcome to the Jungle, and Paradise City are great and all, but there’s only so often you can listen to them, and the only alternative is to be reminded that Chinese Democracy exists.
- Comment on What is the point of Xbox? 14 hours ago:
I don’t think anybody wants a monopoly, because it means the leader can stagnate, and honestly that’s already happened. Sony are getting complacent, the big releases are few and far between. We’re all getting less for our money, no matter what team you’re on.
I often buy multiple consoles in a generation, but I didn’t get the Xbox One or Xbox Series consoles, because there’s no reason to, and it’s not because I’ve got an expensive PC either, still being on a 1060. Being late to the game is fine, PS3 did that and ended up selling pretty much as many as the Xbox 360 in the end, but where is that spark from MS? They’ve gambled it all on Game Pass and I’m not sure you can run an entire gaming division on that, same as Netflix couldn’t compete with Hollywood without the box office money. The cloud growth just hasn’t happened for them. It doesn’t feel as good as local play, and I suspect it never will. A PS5 has hit pricing that isn’t really that expensive for fairly casual gamers, although the most casual went mobile ages ago and I doubt they’re coming back.
Xbox hardware is fine, there just isn’t any reason to own it. If it ran Windows and I could install my Steam library on it, I’d have got it on day one, but how does that make MS money? There’s even been noises about the next Xbox allowing Steam, although I don’t know how true that it is. I would guess the only way that can happen is if MS get a chunk of Valve’s money every time somebody buys a game through Steam for Xbox. It’s the only real feature that would get me to buy one right now.
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- Comment on iFixit hails replaceable LPCAMM2 laptop memory as a 'big deal' 22 hours ago:
Apple only do consumer friendly when forced by the EU.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 day ago:
It is weird how theyb collect so much data yet know so little about what I want to watch.
I think Disney+ is actually somehow worse in that regard, since they have so much old content that I would doubtless watch when bored, but all they want to push is the latest reality TV shit that I have never once shown any interest in.
- Comment on Neuralink Co-Founder Suggests He Left Elon Musk's Company Over Safety Concerns 1 day ago:
If you saw the build quality of Teslas, and his handling of Twitter, and him calling a diver a paedo, and you still thought “I should let that man perform medical experiments on me”, then you probably fucking deserve it tbh.
Just got for it. What’s the worst that can happen? You get double brain damage?
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 day ago:
There’s an easy solution for that.
Cancel it. Stop buying things from Amazon. Stop giving that awful company your money.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 day ago:
I think that’s dependent on a lot of factors. Most of the highest quality webrips are from Amazon. Pretty sure there was less audio compression on their streams as well.
But watching, you’d often see it lose all quality for seemingly no reason at all, and revert to something that wouldn’t have looked out of place on RealPlayer on a 56K modem.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 day ago:
The sad thing is, it’s much better than it was.
You’d see a movie, read the truncated blurb, click into it to see the full details, only to get the exact same text in a bigger font, so you’d actually see less of it.
I cancelled it the day they announced more ads.
- Comment on They say your body is the only instrument that doesn't require any lessons 2 days ago:
Well, that’s enough internet for today.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 2 days ago:
Have you seen how old they are? Doesn’t matter for them.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 2 days ago:
If you ever wonder why gamers buy Playstation and not Xbox, here is your reason.
MS have no idea what they’re doing with gaming. There will be no The Last of Us or God of War coming from them. They don’t want to sell you games. They want to sell you GamePass. They don’t want you to have a great time. They want you to have a time that is just about acceptable enough to keep paying for it.
The only one of their games I’ve heard people get excited about is Hi-Fi Rush, and you can see here what they think of that. Clearly it didn’t maintain enough Monthly Active Users, or have a short enough Time To Purchase or whatever other bullshit mobile-era metric determines whether a studio lives or dies.
- Comment on rollin' coal 3 days ago:
I doubt it’s any worse than the other mountains of waste we produce. I’d wager it’d barely even register.
- Comment on Royal Mail waives £5 penalty charge for fake stamps 3 days ago:
Especially since even the sender has no way to confirm they’re genuine.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 3 days ago:
I think that hinges on them actually being morally superior, and for the rest of us it’s simply not a moral issue.
It’s not like all meat eaters are wandering about wring our hands like we know it’s wrong but it’s just so delicious. It’s just food. There’s no more to it than that.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 3 days ago:
I think there’d have been a lot less pushback if the gamers had got something in return, like Steam/PSN cross-buy on Sony published titles.
It’s not even like they could claim it being needed for cross-play, because it demonstrably works without it.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 3 days ago:
It’s not veganism we hate, it’s the stereotypical preachy vegans, acting like farming is the equivalent of the holocaust.
You don’t tell me what to eat, I won’t tell you what to eat, everyone’s a winner.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 3 days ago:
“A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you’re talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who’s gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all fuckin’ night.”
- Comment on Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link 3 days ago:
Sony took some headlines for doing it, but there’s loads of stuff disappeared from the Google Play store and I never saw anybody complaining about them.
Rayman Jungle Run and Fiesta Run are two (single player) games I paid for and they’ve vanished. I mean, it’s only a couple of quid, but that doesn’t make it OK.
At least Steam continue to host stuff, even if they’re not allowed to sell it.
- Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows 3 days ago:
I’m ten years you’ll have people identifying as an AI, and grafting on extra fingers.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link 4 days ago:
It’s OK. I do miss the Steam sales actually being worthwhile. They used to be really good, where now I mostly use Steam for games bought elsewhere.
I miss ownership. At least I own my Playstation discs. I can trade them with others when I’m done with them. I can still buy games that have been delisted from digital stores.
Can you say the same about your PC games?
- Comment on Google Kneecaps Loads Of Very Big Websites After SEO Change 4 days ago:
That big list of sites looks suspiciously like the big list of shit I have to scroll past in order to find actually relevant results.
I welcome this change.
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 4 days ago:
With the way Modi is running India right now, that’s not exactly a glowing recommendation.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link 4 days ago:
It’s not on the physical box, so yes.
The only bit that said you needed it, appears to be the card included in the box.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 community manager says internal discussions are ongoing regarding mandatory PSN account link 4 days ago:
I remember not wanting to make an account to play Half Life 2 back in the day, yet here we fucking well are…
- Comment on Count Binface Celebrates beating Britain First 4 days ago:
A sad story involving a young food waste bin and Operation Yewtree.
- Comment on Comedy has peaked ladies and gentlemen 6 days ago:
Complete with a full chain of CC headers so you can harvest the emails of about 400 old men they used to work with and everyone at the golf club.
- Comment on Iraqi refugee's 7-year old daughter who died in the Channel was born in Belgium and lived in Sweden, but has never been in Iraq 6 days ago:
The guy is appealing to the sympathy of the British government
Well he’s not done his research there, has he?
- Comment on Rabbit R1 AI box revealed to just be an Android app 6 days ago:
Because money, both from tech hungry but not very savvy consumers, and the inevitable advertisers that will pay for the opportunity for their names to be ejected from these boxes as part of a perfectly natural conversation.