Vespair
@Vespair@lemm.ee
- Comment on Patient gamers, what are your favorite OSTs? 4 weeks ago:
A lot of great choices already: Persona 5, Hades, Katamari Damacy.
A kind of odd left-field one I’d like to add specifically for great music in-game, is Guacamelee 2. I don’t know that it’s the kind of music I’m likely to put on just to listen to randomly, but as far as in-game atmospheric music goes I think it’s both tremendous and refreshingly unique amongst the landscape of video game music.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 4 weeks ago:
Sure, whatever. The point is I think the key to Lemmy, at least during this community-building stage, is narrowing in on the right level of specificity of niches which can be supported here. Maybe “NFL” is too niche, so we try “sports.” But then maybe “sports” is too broad so “US sports” is the solution. The point is negotiating the level of specificity to find the more zeroed-in on option that can still receive enough engagement to be viable.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 4 weeks ago:
Like another user said, if Lemmy doesn’t have the numbers to support the niche communities you want, maybe you need to move one level up the niche.
Like maybe there isn’t enough NFL activity on Lemmy yet to keep the NFL community active… But could there be enough sports fans to keep a sports community active? Could you perhaps settle for sharing a space with NHL, MBL, and/or soccer fans in a community that sacrifices a little bit of specificity for broadness to encourage activity?
- Comment on 🧿👄🧿 y'all need to step up ur game 5 weeks ago:
Gotcha, thanks for clarifying.
- Comment on 🧿👄🧿 y'all need to step up ur game 5 weeks ago:
Vivaldi browser, desktop, 4k screen maximized, lemm.ee interface here, and they look the same to me.
- Comment on Can I not be an adorable junkie 5 weeks ago:
Honestly at this point it’s just engagement bait. Yes, the trend is awful and terrible and stupid, but also people cannot resist the temptation of calling that out as well, so now it serves double-duty of being easy comment farming (note: this applies more to places like reddit than here on Lemmy, but I’m speaking in generalities here).
It’s a kind of damned if you do, damned if you don’t thing in terms of responding to this stupid self-censorship.
- Comment on [Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday 2 months ago:
Why buy a console when for roughly the same price you could buy a PC that does everything the console does and more? Yeah $700 is an insane price for what is effectively a toy.
- Comment on Meta fined $102 million for storing passwords in plain text 2 months ago:
100%. We need more personal liability for the evils of big business, not less
- Comment on Lord, I was born a scramblin' maaaaan 2 months ago:
I didn’t assume so, but I do appreciate you saying so regardless. Cheers ✌️
- Comment on Lord, I was born a scramblin' maaaaan 2 months ago:
Hey man, I’m allowed to make a Beatles reference if coo coo ca-choose to.
Also All-man Brothers? That doesn’t sound very inclusive; get back to me when you allow women brothers too.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 2 months ago:
Name one war which was ever fought on a single battlefield.
Yes, we should be pushing for both regulatory changes and changes on platforms like Steam, but we should also being doing our part.
If there is anything I’ve learned over time it is that nobody is coming to save you. Ever. If you are holding out for somehow to swoop in and make things better, you will be waiting forever. Either we do it ourselves, or it doesn’t get done.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 2 months ago:
and demand refunds on any game that adds it after purchase.
This, which is in my original fucking message, applies here. If you think the effort is futile, fine, whatever, don’t try. But my statement was made with full understanding of the timeline, and I stand by it. Feel free to read the rest of the comments in the thread for further discussion of the time time, or feel free to fuck off, I guess; I’m not in the mood to indulge a pedant clearly just looking for an argument.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 2 months ago:
Where did I even remotely imply otherwise?
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 2 months ago:
There are plenty of anti-cheat measure that doesn’t require invasive access to your system or performance hits. The objection is not to fighting cheating, it is with the specific overreaching methodology chosen to do so.
- Comment on 💸💸💸 2 months ago:
Also like, food and water you acquire is food and water you don’t have to purchase or otherwise gain, meaning you can use the resources you would have used on food on military operations instead.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 2 months ago:
Sadly, a lot of their customers will be pissed about this but will be first in line buying other Rockstar games.
Then they aren’t pissed enough. But yes, talking the talk is completely meaningless if you don’t also walk the walk, I agree.
Companies like Rockstar certainly would meet any requests for refunds outside of very recently purchased with “Go kick rocks.”
If you let them, sure. The reason we use phrases like “fight for a refund” is because these things are hard and they take effort. Like yes it sucks to have to do that and yes I understand our time is valuable, but as I see it there is value in both having your voice heard and punitively costing an offending company manhours in having to deal with you - even if you ultimately do not win the fight.
Again, the point isn’t about winning or getting your money back, it’s about not being passive and just accepting the things that happen to you as if you do not have autonomy.
- Comment on Witchfire is now available on Steam 2 months ago:
No thanks. Games that choose to sign with the anti-consumer storefront don’t deserve my attention as the consumer.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 2 months ago:
and demand refunds on any game that adds it after purchase.
The way I see it, adding it, even this late, is changing the terms of the agreement and thus justification for a refund. Steam will often see it that way too if you word it as such. And if not, hell, you can still badger the publisher for a refund incessantly so at least it still costs them the equivalent in man hours even if you don’t get the refund. The point is not to be passive, even if we don’t get to win every single battle.
- Comment on Rockstar Games DDoSed Heavily By Players Protesting New AntiCheat Code 2 months ago:
Don’t buy games with invasive user-side anti-cheats that hamper performance, and demand refunds on any game that adds it after purchase.
I don’t understand why this is so hard for people. If everyone gave a shit, we could end this. But instead, people would rather just complain while still forking over the money to these companies.
There are so many good indie games without this kind of bullshit. We have better choices.
- Comment on That explains it. 2 months ago:
I believe I specifically asked you to articulate how the people I mentioned aren’t sex workers but Instagram and non-nude OF models somehow are.
- Comment on That explains it. 2 months ago:
Are Hallie Berry, Drew Barrymore, Alexandria Daddario, Madonna, the singer Pink, or countless other people who have posed for commercial available photoshoots or video scenes “sex workers”?
If no, I’m going to need you to articulate how they aren’t but Instagram and non-nude OF models somehow are.
- Comment on That explains it. 2 months ago:
Well, I do apologize for asking of you the Herculean effort of reading three whole paragraphs.
- Comment on That explains it. 2 months ago:
I appreciate you, my drunk friend.
- Comment on That explains it. 2 months ago:
Yellz0 and Kaitlyn Krems are not “sex workers,” unless you expand the term so broadly so as to include anyone offering titillating, at which point every model and most actors would fall under it as well.
So no, I am specifically not assuming they follow sex workers, I am assuming they follow people who offer titillating content, as expressed.
- Comment on That explains it. 2 months ago:
Okay, I’ll try to make it more appropriate for you. Ahem:
Why woman sell sex on pornhub okay, but women sell sex on instagram bad?
Also human think young adult sexy. Always, but also now.
- Comment on That explains it. 2 months ago:
How old do you think the women on pornhub are? What makes them more acceptable to look at over the women on instagram? I mean if we’re talking about dudes perving on private social media accounts of 15 year olds, yeah of course that’s fucked up. But that isn’t at all the implication I got here, rather I assumed he’s talking about OnlyFans models and other young women (not girls) who are offering their looks as a product, like Yellz0 or Kaitlyn Krems. In that case, this is extremely normal, and not really any different than the nearly 100 years of Hollywood; or did you assume the beautiful young starlets were only meant to appeal to their age peers (despite being cast and promoted by primarily older men)?
Hollywood, magazines, art, sales catalogues, and pornography; they are all selling the sexual appeal of young adulthood. And so long as the men and women being gazed at are willingly and consensually offering the display of their body, and they’re of legal and intellectual ability to consent, then nobody is being wronged here, and nobody is behaving abnormally. These women deserve respect (as do the women on pornhub, to be clear; I’m still trying to understand what separates the two entities to you), and stepping over established boundaries, personal or social, is not okay obviously, but assuming the caveats I’ve outlined, I see nothing disrespectful about buying what somebody is willfully selling.
As for the age gap… look, we can pretend to be this perfectly evolved species of always equitable and simple moral choices while ignoring literally the whole of human history which heavily implies an attraction in humans to young adulthood that doesn’t seem to wean with age, or we can accept reality for what it is, warts and all. Personally for me, I just don’t see how infantilizing young adults as if they are helpless children in need of constant coddling and viewing every relationship as an inherent competition of power and experience where any imbalance implies irreconcilable differences benefits us as a society.
- Comment on Regain Control in my ass 2 months ago:
SOULSUCKER in my ass.
Ummm.
- Comment on Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford says his hopes on Epic Store were 'overly optimistic or misplaced' 2 months ago:
I’ve said it before, but until Epic adds some way to provide feedback to others, I won’t spend any money on it. Being able to read if a game is buggy, runs on my hardware, etc, is too essential to the experience to not have.
Epic wants to be the pro-developer storefront, but since that seems to involve being anti-consumer, I as the consumer have no interest.
- Comment on Toilet specific plungers get the job done faster and with way less effort and mess. 2 months ago:
I love this so fucking much. Eccentric people are the best.
Also somebody please invite this old dude to play D&D
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 3 months ago:
Oh god, imagine midroll ads on Pornhub… “Oh yeah baby, lick that wet- [Overly loud and obnoxious Adam & Eve ad starts playing]”
