Boiglenoight
@Boiglenoight@lemmy.world
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 2 weeks ago:
Just saying people don’t complain about ads in podcasts because they’re skippable.
- Comment on The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook 3 weeks ago:
🎵This how we do-it🎵
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 3 weeks ago:
I feel like that’s where it’s headed. Doesn’t matter what we’re talking about. A shining exception is private company Valve, which has proven time and again that it’s a model for how to treat customers.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 3 weeks ago:
I can skip through podcast ads with ease.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 3 weeks ago:
It’s also a way to pay for providing a service. We hate it, but short of everyone paying for YouTube, it’s how they make their money.
Now double dipping is where things get questionable. If you pay for a video service AND they run ads. /Ripley flaming eggsacs
- Comment on Favorite Sega Saturn games and accessories? 5 weeks ago:
I played a lot of Guardian Heroes, Sega Rally, and X-Men: Children of the Atom.
- Comment on These mods on their power-trips really need to stop 5 weeks ago:
Just say they. Not he/she. They. End of argument.
- Comment on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites 5 weeks ago:
Everybody knows movie pirates eat babies—
- Comment on Cory Doctorow on Search Engine Enshittification 1 month ago:
I disagree. My parents, big Roku users, wondering why Roku was becoming hostile to its customers with policy updates that require a remote to agree to, ads coming through cables (HDMI patent), were able to understand the nature of the company at the moment through the explanation of enshittification.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 1 month ago:
I’ve used GoG. It’s good. Never used Itch.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 1 month ago:
Valve can be attributed with saving PC gaming. When people were terrified of buying “digital only” games on this fugly client called Steam—which only had Valve games and a few no name indies—the PC gaming shelves in places like Walmart and EB Games looked like a clearance section. Just a hodgepodge of games in no particular order, worn out looking boxes of new games picked up and put back down, meanwhile the PlayStation and Xbox walls flourished and even GameCube got more love from a merchandising standpoint.
Now we trust Valve with our digital libraries the way we’d trust a bank with our money. They’ve earned that trust, and I can’t say the same for Sony or Nintendo which are happy to charge you repeatedly for the same game. Microsoft actually does a pretty good job of making your old games still playable in some form, so Kudos to them.
So will we be surprised when Epic Games Store goes tits up? No. Will we care when we lose all our games? No, they were all free. Should we support Valve as long as they continue to be the champions of PC gaming? You better if you care about where it goes.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 1 month ago:
Finishing doesn’t matter. I’ll play something for maybe a few hours and drive on. It fills fulfilling to me. Better than never playing it. 👍
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 2 months ago:
Sounds good. Going to buy.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 2 months ago:
I started playing each game in my library for about 10 min and then moving on. Some games catch me playing longer but otherwise I check them off as played. With recent Steam sales I’d buy 5-6 games, immediately install them all, and play each right away. Feels good man.
- Comment on What are y'all buying on the steam sale? 2 months ago:
Is it worth playing on PC today? Or should one start with two.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 boss apologizes for 'horrible' dev comments, says Arrowhead has 'taken action internally to educate our developers' 2 months ago:
I’ve been playing since launch. I played a lot last night. I do not see the problems. I play on hard difficulty. I have a good time whether winning or losing.
There are players that take the game far more seriously than I and honestly they make the game more tense than it needs to be. They make it feel competitive, in that if I’m not doing what they think a “good” player should then I’m unwelcome.
I think the vast majority of complaints stem from these players. I lament that another Call of Duty is not coming out sooner so that the community can diminish into relative obscurity, hopefully populated with like minds that view this as a game and not an e-Sport.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 gets its first rebalance patch 2 months ago:
I love the flame thrower.
- Comment on The Retro Web 3 months ago:
Very cool
- Comment on Google Search is losing its 'cached' web page feature 3 months ago:
Never used it/realized its use. Lament for others who did.
- Comment on Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024 3 months ago:
I need this miniflux in my life. I’ve been just putting up with Feedly. I understand they have to make money, but I don’t want to pay for RSS. Especially if I can DIY.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 3 months ago:
No doubt :). Please see updated message.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 3 months ago:
I considering piracy after Netflix came out. Does it have ads yet.
- Comment on Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term 3 months ago:
Capitalism is the economic equivalent of a previous age of technology. It’s time is over and people are struggling to adjust to a new era where leisure is a result of progress.
- Comment on Google DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman warns AI is a ‘fundamentally labor replacing’ tool over the long term 3 months ago:
WE NEED TO REPLACE THE PEOPLE WHO BUY OUR @&$! WITH ROBOTS -a cigar chomping executive somewhere
- Comment on SAND LAND – Release Date Trailer 4 months ago:
I dig it.
- Comment on Games that force you to make hard choices 4 months ago:
Mani bet this plays fine on Steam Deck. I am going to fire this up today.
- Comment on The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement 4 months ago:
Using a tool to copy someone else’s work and then profiting off that work without compensating or even attributing the source is stealing.
- Comment on The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement 4 months ago:
Taking someone else’s work and using it without crediting them or compensating them is theft. If Open AI made a deal with The NY Times to train its product using the papers content, which it would turn around and sell to its own customer base, that would be ethical. What Open AI and other companies like it are doing are stealing ahead of actual law that defines what they’re doing as such.
- Comment on The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement 4 months ago:
AI training is piracy by another name.
- Comment on How do I stop hating children? 4 months ago:
THIS. Good parents are rare. I have one friend that has somehow raised 3 amazing kids. Don’t get me wrong, they occasionally act up, but on the whole I spend more time admiring how smart and thoughtful they are for 9, 13 and 15 year olds.
I used to hate kids. I gradually got over it in the course of 40 odd years. I still hate parents and can’t control their kids, but I don’t blame the children.