TheFeatureCreature

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] The RTX 50 Disaster⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope you’re right. That is good news if true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft revenues decline 31.4% to €990m⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Please don’t forget that even when this company made “better” games and was more profitable, their management and executives were wilful participants in rampant sexual abuse of their workers. Ubisoft is, always has been, and always will be a pile of festering shit and bankruptcy would be too good for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good news for Lemmynites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The site is literally bought, paid for, and owned by a nazi.

  Next question.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are You Ready to Let an AI Agent Use Your Computer? AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google want to lighten your load.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Get the hell off my computer and stay off.

  Not only is my personal information on my computer, but so is client information and projects that I signed a NDA that only my eyes shall ever see them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Way ahead of you. I already use an alternative paid email service, don’t use Android, and don’t use Google search.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A haunting reminder that rainbow capitalism is 100% about profit and convenience.

  Corporations were never your friend. They were never going to defend you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would happen if USA invades Canada?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be a shit storm of unimaginable proportions. The US would be attacking another NATO nation and Canada would almost certainly invoke Article 5. Those not assisting militarily would probably sanction the shit out of the US and many of their previous treaties, pacts, and agreements would be withdrawn.

  Recent polling in the US has shown that US citizens are greatly opposed to the ongoing trade war with Canada and would be even more opposed to further conflict. The executive branch ordering an attack on a historic ally and neighbour would cause catastrophic rift in the US military chain of command and I’d imagine many would disobey orders. States along the Canada/US border would likely be fiercely opposed to having their states turned into battlegrounds and would resist legally in whatever way they could.

  Canada does not have the military for a large prolonged conflict, especially from our closest ally. An actual war would probably be quite shortlived, but it would also probably be the last thing the Trump administration ever does. The economic and civil-unrest blowback would rip apart his administration. Ordering your citizens to kill their neighbours, friends, and even family is not something you do without major consequences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Cybertruck Appears to Be More Deadly Than the Infamous Ford Pinto, According to a New Analysis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was driving out of a parking lot yesterday just as a Cybertruck started to pull in off the street from the left. The driver was white-knuckling the wheel and was frantically looking around as I assume he could barely see out of the goddamn thing as he swung so wide he nearly clipped my car. He needed almost the entire driveway to make his turn.

  I cannot imagine dropping so much money on something so useless and so hideous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age of Mythology Retold News: Immortal Pillars [Chinese expansion] and PlayStation 5 Releases are Coming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very good and an extremely faithful remaster. The only thing I don’t like is that most of the new voice actors are not as good, but there is a mod you can download (within the game’s own mod manager) to restore the original voices. Also the menu system is kinda janky, but it works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam now warns about Early Access that have not been updated in months.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is very good, but I hope devs can’t just get around it by releasing a 5kb empty update to reset the counter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could Mass Effect 5 be a live-service title?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  EA execs: “Dragon Age: The Veilguard would have sold better if it was even worse.”

  They can do whatever they want with Mass Effect, far as I’m concerned. I’m not supporting EA nor do I trust them to not butcher their own products. They are self-destructing just like Ubisoft is because they cannot make a good decision to save their life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA releases another shameless IP flip with Sims 1/2 Legacy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not sure if you are aware, but selling a product that literally doesn’t work is illegal in numerous countries. That’s fraud.

  Also charging this much for a nearly 30 year old game without doing a damn thing to make it even slightly functional on modern systems is bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I barely use any these days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I cannot tell you a way my life has genuinely gotten better since the advent of "smart" phones.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At first they were really cool and seemingly had unlimited potential with a wild and unknown future as numerous brands competed intensely with their own take on the formula.

  These days, they are ultra expensive glass rectangles that exist to serve you endless ads and harvest every piece of info about every facet of your life. You also have to pay enormous subscription fees to get half the functionality they used to have. I just got an iPhone on a deep discount from my carrier and I stopped giving a shit about phone tech. Processor speed, camera specs, “AI”, whatever. It’s all trash to me now and the technology doesn’t excite me in the slightest. Carriers and manufacturers have choked all the life and enjoyment out of smart phones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In the US, is this actually the moment past the point of no return?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I always did find it amusing that they are called the United States when it seems like it’s constantly teetering on brink of another civil war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're not going to terraform Mars, but we're doing a good job of venusforming Earth.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But think of the shareholders!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has Fast Food Gotten Worse, or Am I Just Getting Old?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the company and where you live, I feel. Some has gotten worse, some has improved.

  But they have all gotten more expensive. So goddamn expensive. These days I can order a well made, flame-grilled burger at a burger joint for the same price as fast food slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Average users do not even remotely care about federated software and/or decentralisation. That is techno-babble to them and their eyes will glaze over if you try to market that to them.

  That being said: Mastodon does a shit job at explaining how it works, how to use it, and what it’s advantages are. The Joinmastodon landing page just assumes you already know how a fair bit about instances work and what federated software is and does a very poor job explaining it. And even then, most users won’t care either way. They just want to click a Join button and be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU slaps Meta with a nearly 800 million euro fine for engaging in 'abusive' Marketplace practices⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Should’ve rounded it up to 1B. And then tripled it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of Linux users here think the conversation begins and ends with game support. A lot of us use our computers for work and there is a lot of productivity and creative software that does not play nice with Linux. I’ve probably said this a dozen times here before but I’ll say it again: Not all of us use our computers solely for gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants $30 to let you keep using Windows 10 securely for another year⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I expected them to charge more, to be honest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta is secretly building its own search engine.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh goody. Another SEO-infested, ad-riddled, AI-plagued search engine that gives me everything except what I searched for. Exactly what I wanted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stolen credit cards up for grabs on Meta’s Threads.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Meta spokesperson told us that it’s “aware of this type of behavior, and continues to take action against accounts and content that violate our policies.”

  “It doesn’t seem to be something that’s being actively moderated,” Johnson told The Register. "The accounts have been around for a month, two months

  lol. lmao, even

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flying taxis move closer to takeoff with issuing of FAA rule⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t see these being used for anything other than tourism or light general aviation use… And even then the areas they can fly/land will be so restricted because of how loud they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic’s ambitious digital asset shop is now open⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ahh, that makes sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic’s ambitious digital asset shop is now open⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still having a hard time understanding what niche this marketplace is supposed to fill and what Epic’s plans for it are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People assume that the secrets of the universe will be revealed to them in an afterlife, but you might just remain your same dumb self and have to spend eternity going to church.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is not wrong nor necessarily bad to constantly question things and to desire to look deeper into information presented to you

  But continued denial of something that is extremely well understood, studied, tested, and researched isn’t healthy skepticism - it’s wilful ignorance for the sake of soothing one’s fears.

  The human brain (the brains of most creatures, really) is now better understood than it ever has been and new technology is making studying it easier and faster than ever before. At no point, past or present, has there ever been even a tiny minuscule sliver of anything even remotely similar to a soul or afterlife being detected or observed. What we have observed, however, are the parts of a brain that are responsible for emotions, memory, personality, logic, reasoning, etc dying and ceasing to function.

  The brain is an extremely awesome and complex thing but it is not powered by magic. I am trying my best to not mean any disrespect here - like I said I believed in an afterlife well into my 20’s - but the entire premise of an afterlife is basically magic. It’s fantasy. It makes the crushing pain of our own death easier to deal with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People assume that the secrets of the universe will be revealed to them in an afterlife, but you might just remain your same dumb self and have to spend eternity going to church.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am pretty damn sure. Your brain, everything that makes you you, is a biological computer (for lack of a better word) of which we have an extremely comprehensive understanding of how it functions and the processes, both biological and psychological, that form a personality. There is no magic sauce or spirit that leaks out into the void when you die.

  I say this as someone who believed in an afterlife well into my late 20’s. It is a belief we tell ourselves to cope with the reality of our own mortality. We will die and there will be nothing, so we tell ourselves that maybe there will be something because it makes the pain easier to handle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of my favourite monitors have been from LG but these days I get by just fine never buying any of their products and I will continue to do so. Eat shit, LG.