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- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 19 hours ago:
give one the right to pirate
What if Margaret Mead, at her age, smoked grass
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 20 hours ago:
I use bandcamp to throw some cash at them, it’s a fair offer and ok price.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 20 hours ago:
Some more things I’m sure of include that Spotify exists for the artists and won’t sneakily replace them with Suno-generated shit at first opportunity or fuck with people’s legacy of holy playlists or make the interface more cumbersome to alter users’ habits, or increase the price until the frogs start jumping out. It’s allowed to exists through the graces of biggest publishing conglomerates whose C-suite and shareholders get the lion’s share. Fuck fucking Spotify.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 21 hours ago:
Buy their merch rather than feeding the beast
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 2 days ago:
The big problem is how to make it fun for those who are not spave nerds. They are making a game for hundreds of thousands of players with a budget of a game for tens of millions. They are getting funded for a feline-shaped bag, once it’s out chances are it’ll be so aggressive, mangy and moody no one will want to play with it. Aiming at a reticle projecting where the enemy will be when the shots land for 30 hours with occassional explanations by hollywood b-listers is not everyone’s cup of space tea.
- Comment on Dying Light continues celebrating its 10th anniversary with a big graphical facelift, but don't you dare call it a remaster 1 week ago:
Let’s just throw higher res textures at every 3D game that works good on Steam Deck until it’s unplayable. Days Gone used to be locked 48FPS for me and it’s pretty fucked these days and it looks a tiny bit better to a tiny bit worse depending on how dark you tolerate your night.
Please note Techland, I’ll just change my review to negative and uninstall your game forever if it works any worse or sparks any less joy than the version you haven’t fucked.
- Comment on Massive Gaming Crossover: Among Us Teams Up with Popular RPG 1 week ago:
> PoPUlAr RPG
> Hope it’s not some gacha shit.
> It’s fucking Genshin Impact
- Comment on Xbox fans are compiling lists of all the Activision, Bethesda, and Microsoft games still missing from Xbox Game Pass — and it's pretty huge 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t give Microsoft any money if they were selling last drops of oxygen on Earth, not fucking video games
- Comment on We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it 1 week ago:
2025 has clankers resmearching.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Unemployee in a local second-hand shop
You should have asked an employee instead.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 3 weeks ago:
Gnome Easytag worked perfectly circa 2005.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 4 weeks ago:
By all means, every increase in price is welcome, it’ll be that much less of a temptation. How are Concord and Fairgames doing?
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
This ia worthless, even if it was an official promise I’d never trust EA. Also, I fully expect a kernel-level anticheat. We’ll see after it’s out for a few years, I’m not dumb enough to buy a game that’s not 75% off.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 5 weeks ago:
It’s a) well enshittified to be cumbersome to use without apple’s shitty cloud, b) quality control is really bad last few releases and c) just a different class of a same phylum of fucking corporate roaches
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 5 weeks ago:
Even if he does win, it’s still Windows, still under their control. It’d be maliciously and quite supraliminaly enshittified until it’s unusable. Just slap on a CachyOS or anything else open source
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 1 month ago:
Loved Horizon, so I clicked on an open world gameplay trailer and it’s just survivalslop, fiddling with some shit-producing hovels to get them upgraded to shit+1-producing hovels and hitting trees until they’re planks.
- Comment on Microsoft concedes that 'The Outer Worlds 2' retail price was too high — Xbox says it "will keep our full priced holiday releases at $69.99," with refunds incoming 1 month ago:
Just consider what you’re up against - the first one was 7.49€ and I haven’t bought it yet simply because I have too many games to play for years now. I certainly won’t pay more than 10€ for the original or the sequel and I’d never pay MS for their shitty subscription.
- Comment on Mass Effect 5 is "still in pre-production" says director as BioWare shifts full focus to the sci-fi RPG amid dev reshuffles and reported layoffs 1 month ago:
The only good is Mass Effect 1, the second one was consolized safe cookie-cutter third person gameplay with the stupidest game finale of all time.
- Comment on Mass Effect 5 is "still in pre-production" says director as BioWare shifts full focus to the sci-fi RPG amid dev reshuffles and reported layoffs 1 month ago:
the bulk of the negative reaction to it had to do with bugs and/or missing content on launch
I played it after it was nominally fixed, but the story is complete shit and the gameplay is cookie-cutter third person sfslop
- Comment on Mass Effect 5 is "still in pre-production" says director as BioWare shifts full focus to the sci-fi RPG amid dev reshuffles and reported layoffs 1 month ago:
Andromeda was a good game after they fixed all the bugs.
Wish for your lack of discernment, I’d have so many good-to-me games to play.
- Comment on Mass Effect 5 is "still in pre-production" says director as BioWare shifts full focus to the sci-fi RPG amid dev reshuffles and reported layoffs 1 month ago:
The franchise is fucked, Andromeda didn’t interest many people anymore after ME3 was so shit, but it was dead to me after they ruined the story with a giant space skeleton bossfight at the end of ME2.
- Comment on A CEO explains the viral 'Gen Z stare'—and why it's going to backfire on them 1 month ago:
You do what my generation (genx) never dared to, or, worse, never aspired to even think about
As a genXer, I was an unaspiring lazy worker doing bare minimum before they had a fancy name for it
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 1 month ago:
The reason might be a slippery slope or whatever, but there’s mountains of disgusting visual novel incest fantasy shit, so much that I had to filter out all sexual content from Steam even though I might enjoy occasional Sex With the Devil or some Genital Jousting.
- Comment on Statement on Stop Killing Games - VIDEOGAMES EUROPE 2 months ago:
Private servers are not always a viable alternative option for players as the protections we put in place to secure players’ data, remove illegal content, and combat unsafe community content would not exist and would leave rights holders liable.
Just make people sign one of those “I understand there’s no guarantees this’ll work or won’t rape me” when they download the private server software, you fucking corporate snakes.
- Comment on Google faces EU antitrust complaint over AI Overviews 2 months ago:
Just came here to say you can block them with ublock origin, tho the CSS selector might change in the future, now just filter this in UBO:
www.google.com##.hdzaWe
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I agree he’s a hack, but his games are always fun for me.
- Comment on On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. 2 months ago:
I was fully expecting that, but since enshittification recently intensified (Android 15’s bluetooth settings are a giant step back in usability), neither google play nor system in general nor anything from motorola has internet access on my phone, I send everything through RethinkVPN (from f-droid) and block all internet access except for apps that I explicitly allow. I’m just not updating anything except periodically Signal, IronFox and PipePipe.
- Comment on On July 7, Gemini AI will access your WhatsApp and more. Learn how to disable it on Android. 2 months ago:
They’d have to install it first.
- Comment on New Nuclear Throne beta build adds 60/120FPS support and quality of life features 2 months ago:
Nice. For anyone wondering, it’s openbeta x64 and the new options like refresh and aspect ratio are under controls for some reasom
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Will Take Cues From Mass Effect, Souls Games and More 2 months ago:
I’m interested but will wait up to two years after release for it to be 15€ to get excited