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- Comment on Just Me saying hello 22 hours ago:
What? It’s totally normal to put your index and pinky finger on the outside of a mug handle. It’s not uncomfortable at all!
- Comment on Why are people preferring Blue Sky over Mastodon? 3 days ago:
I’ve got an idea as to why.
I went to mastodon.social and see a Linux meme, some heavy political commentary, and a bunch of posts about mastodon being better than Twitter.
I then went to bluesky.app and see some political riffing, cute animals, a comic, some jokes, a company, and even Don Lemon.
The average person checking them both out for the first time, mastodon is nerd shit and Bluesky is normal shit.
- Comment on PRESIDENCY, SENATE, HOUSE, AND POPULAR VOTE!!!!! 1 week ago:
It’s so funny how the left’s position is “hey, stop treating people like shit” and the right’s is “here is the group of people causing all of our problems, get them!” but you still get people on the right saying the left is full of hate
Remind me who the left hates again?
- Comment on PRESIDENCY, SENATE, HOUSE, AND POPULAR VOTE!!!!! 1 week ago:
Is this a joke lol
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ok?
These RSS reposting bots make Lemmy so much worse
- Comment on PRESIDENCY, SENATE, HOUSE, AND POPULAR VOTE!!!!! 1 week ago:
Dude I am so fuckin pumped to pay more for everything when these tariffs go into effect! I’m really hoping he follows through and puts RFK and Musk in his cabinet, too. I’ve been saying for YEARS we should have an anti-vaccine grifter in charge of health policy and an unhinged nepo baby making decision about our economy.
Never in a million years did I think we’d also get a vice president who thinks women only have societal value if they’re popping out kids but hell yeah, we did it!
Man…it would be a dream come true if he brought charter school billionaire Betsy Devos back to destroy public education, too. Let’s erode the shit out of public institutions - I don’t want a smart country, I want a LOYAL country! And what do I care? I may not be a billionaire today but some day I will benefit from second Trump presidency once my hard work pays off
- Comment on Plans to ban smoking outside hospitals and schools in England 1 week ago:
I get the sarcasm now but for some reason, I first interpreted the second sentence as a smoker too angry to proofread after fumbling their words.
- Comment on Apple To Revive The Design Of Its Iconic iMac G5 From More Than 20 Years Ago With Its Rumored Smart Home Display, Featuring A Small Square Display 2 weeks ago:
Hey to each their own! Apple’s hardware design in that era always makes me think of crappy protective cases. I really didn’t like how the opaque parts were behind thick clear shells. Or like…have you ever seen wooden furniture in a public place that has like 5mm of protective clear coat on it to the point that it looks plastic?
Sorry for the essay, I had not thought about what I specifically disliked until now lol
- Comment on Apple To Revive The Design Of Its Iconic iMac G5 From More Than 20 Years Ago With Its Rumored Smart Home Display, Featuring A Small Square Display 2 weeks ago:
I found that design hideous at the time and I guess things haven’t changed in that regard
- Comment on Is china as bad as america makes it out to be? 3 weeks ago:
c/allstupidquestions
Or rather, c/mostlymisplacedquestions - I don’t fault most posters for asking stuff. It’s really up to the moderators to set some guidelines to separate this community from asklemmy. There is no theme here but if there was, it should be the same as it’s namesake: Questions you feel stupid asking because you feel like it’s common knowledge.
One of the best posts I ever saw was “How often do I need to wash a hoodie?” because it made ME feel stupid for not immediately having a concrete answer
- Comment on Is china as bad as america makes it out to be? 3 weeks ago:
This community needs moderation
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 3 weeks ago:
Did you maybe consider that they did…both? Gold in the cash shop comes with a very minor downside to players and a big upside.
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 3 weeks ago:
There is, the Interact With Target and Soft Target settings
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 3 weeks ago:
Even if that didn’t come with a bunch of annoying downsides, how would that solve the problem better than dismount auras?
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 3 weeks ago:
Important NPCs have a dismount aura but if they have that to any NPC with dialogue, you’d get dismounted a hundred times a day
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 3 weeks ago:
You are correct. Token value is decided by players on the auction house, not Blizzard, though I’m sure someone will argue that they are capable of manipulating the AH and therefore they are driving it up
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 3 weeks ago:
A lot of people have been playing this game for over a decade and have hundreds of millions of gold. This thing is currently 2 million gold
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 3 weeks ago:
People are just looking for a reason to be mad
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 3 weeks ago:
That is so untrue lol
End game content - the stuff that “makes” wow - is tuned for active players, not casuals. They are catering to casual players in a way that doesn’t significantly affect hardcore players…unless you think there should be huge barriers of entry to the most basic things?
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 3 weeks ago:
Ok so I cackled when I saw the price on this thing but the more I thought about it, the less shitty it is. FWIW I am not a WoW lifer or Blizzard apologist. I got talked into Classic for a year then played a month or two of each expansion since before quitting but I know the background of the story. It looks way worse from an outsider perspective.
You could buy the original auction house mount for 5 million gold back in the day. It stopped being available regularly and now it’s available occasionally in the “black market auction house” and it always sells for the maximum bid.
To combat Chinese gold farmers, Blizzard started selling gold in a bit of a roundabout way. For $20, you can buy a WoW token to sell on the auction house. This token can be purchased by a player and traded for 1 month of game time. Some players dont pay a dime to play - gold is not hard to acquire.
When this new mount came out, WoW tokens were worth about 200k gold. You’d need to exchange them for 5 tokens to get this mount. 1/5 of the original price.
Now tokens are worth 330k. 1.65m golf. STILL significantly cheaper than it was originally.
Tokens will need to rise to triple in price to match the original cost which will still be a tiny fraction of what it cost a month ago.
By far the shittiest thing about this - and I think the only real reason to complain - is that the rising value of the token hurts players who pay for the subscription purely with gold as it adds a few hours to their “working” time in game. For context, watching TV and semi-afk farming will get you like 50k/hour. You can earn way, way more if you’ve leveled up a profession.
The other (not so bad) thing I don’t like about it is that…I hate those mounts. They’re HUGE and people just AFK on them blocking NPCs I want to talk to.
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 3 weeks ago:
It’s one of the most overhyped things in the game. I can more than afford it (both through $$ and in-game currency) but I just do not care. There’s easy to get mailboxes and the auction house is in every main city now.
Not to mention the amount of people who have the original auction house mount and the influx of people with this one - it is barely a convenience.
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 3 weeks ago:
It is literally earnable in game lol
You can sell gold straight to Blizzard. Even at 360k per token, this is WAY CHEAPER than it was when it was originally introduced for 5 million gold
- Comment on Why hasn't Kamala Harris's record of keeping nonviolent offenders in prison, despite SCOTUS ruling, while California AG been brought up much this election? 3 weeks ago:
I think there’s a few separate efforts to catalog the communities but I unfortunately don’t have the links.
The difficulty in finding the right community is a big part of why I think posting guidelines are so important. The lack of it leads to homogeny which means communities don’t really have a community.
- Comment on New Kindle e-readers no longer appear on computers 3 weeks ago:
I love love love the DIY electronics scene but for a device that’s meant to be held…I dunno. Ergonomics are usually an afterthought if considered at all. I can’t imagine a DIY e-reader being comfortable to use
- Comment on Why hasn't Kamala Harris's record of keeping nonviolent offenders in prison, despite SCOTUS ruling, while California AG been brought up much this election? 3 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong but that’s kind of been my pet peeve with the reddit exodus. Hundreds of communities borrowing subreddit names but not including the actual themes that made the sub unique - this community is so generic without posting guidelines that might as well be asklemmy2.
The original intent of the subreddit was to be a space for asking “common knowledge” questions that you feel you should know but don’t like how often you should wash a hoodie. Politics were explicitly banned for being too complex and too open to bait.
- Comment on Why hasn't Kamala Harris's record of keeping nonviolent offenders in prison, despite SCOTUS ruling, while California AG been brought up much this election? 3 weeks ago:
This is not the right community for a question like that.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 3 weeks ago:
Hadn’t heard of this before but it looks pretty good
- Comment on Final Fantasy VII fan translation restores every lost instance of Cloud saying "let's mosey" 3 weeks ago:
Uh…thanks, modders…?
- Comment on Britons left 'disgusted' as building society scraps Robin Hood from logo over 'inclusivity': 'We should fly the flag for Nottingham' 5 weeks ago:
Wow. I would have thought conservatives would be fighting against Robin Hood imagery considering his stance on helping the poor. If he steals all the boots from the rich, what does the right wing have left to lick?
- Comment on Sweden to ban cousin marriages to combat honor oppression and health risks 5 weeks ago:
Honour-based oppression aims to control relatives, to prevent them from behaving in a manner that risks violating the honour of a man, the family, relatives or the collective.
You’ve probably heard of someone “honor killing” their daughter for “bringing shame” or some bullshit. That is a type of honor oppression