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- Comment on GTA V was released on this day, 12 years ago 14 hours ago:
No… no that’s impossible… fuck. 14 years, huh? I remember it was 11/11/11 and there were ads for it on city buses, and I thought “wow i guess video games are mainstream now”
- Comment on Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is 21 hours ago:
Thiel is a dangerous piece of trash and I’m disappointed he hasn’t… let’s say… been beamed up like kirk.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 1 day ago:
When I was making money, I’d buy albums from bands I liked. Built up a nice library.
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 1 day ago:
Some people buy albums
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 1 day ago:
Maybe? Conservatives are mostly about feelings. The “fuck your feelings” thing was a confession and projection, as most conservative accusations are.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford Snaps Back at Borderlands 4 Criticism: 'Code Your Own Engine' 2 days ago:
I feel like they’d make more money if they started lower end machines. My friend has a potato laptop and would enjoy borderlands, so they’re out of luck. They’re not going to spend any money on a new gaming toy because it’s not that big a hobby for them. I imagine there are many such people.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 2 days ago:
I liked that one but weirdly there’s no NG+ and the DLC kind of sucked. I finished it with a friend and we were like, “that’s it?”. It’s not very long, and it ends shortly after your end of skill tree powers become available.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 3 days ago:
Stuff I use the phone for in rough order of importance:
- maps and GPS
- messaging (signal)
- emulators and other quality games (none of that candy crush slop)
- ebook reading
- Wikipedia / quick research
- Lemmy
I could drop lemmy from mobile because it’s just a time waster and news source.
Wikipedia is important because too often people are interminably arguing something that can be settled with a 30 second search. Like, you don’t need to spend 5 minutes arguing about the population of NJ just look it up.
Games are nice. I don’t want to go back to carrying around a second device for games like it’s 2001. I could bring a steam deck everywhere but that doesn’t fit in my pocket.
I don’t have any notifications turned on except like direct messages, so I don’t find it much of a distraction.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 5 days ago:
I forgot they were even making this game. BL3 was kind of bad, the pre sequel was painful. The tiny Tina one was okay but weirdly had no ng+ and shitty dlc. Meh.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 5 days ago:
Switched to PopOS on my desktop and Mint on the ancient laptop my gf had laying around. No real complaints. Games run fine. Browser runs fine. I had some trouble getting mint installed on the old laptop, but the internet had a solution.
I think the install process is kind of daunting for many users, but once it’s going I think the average user won’t have any problems. Windows, by contrast, is kind of aggressive with its “GOING TO UPDATE NOW” and “don’t you want to use one drive???”
- Comment on Massively Overthinking: Is it possible to launch a new subscription MMORPG in 2025? 1 week ago:
You’re probably more correct than not. I’d be curious to see like those people’s budgets. How many are carrying credit card debt or neglecting other parts of their life to spend on digital gambling?
- Comment on what boss in any video game has an insanely cool intro to them before fighting? 1 week ago:
There was an interesting video I saw online that was saying the final boss’s theme is interesting because it’s a piano piece for two players. The boss’s theme in it is very static, and the other, presumably yours, is more dynamic. Fits with the hollowing static world
- Comment on Massively Overthinking: Is it possible to launch a new subscription MMORPG in 2025? 1 week ago:
Who has money to spend on a subscription?
Also even when I had money, I don’t want to keep buying the game every month. It’s stressful, and sometimes I like playing other things.
- Comment on The “Shrekking” Dating Trend Is All Kinds of Toxic 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t the point of Shrek that people have layers and their obvious traits aren’t the most obvious nor most important?
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 2 weeks ago:
A crowd of hundreds blocking a bridge is. People blocking entrances to government buildings is. People surrounding bases is. People flooding the capitol or disrupting the discourse of policy is. The reason they use the military and ICE is because they are terrified that people will remember that even 1% of the US doing this far outnumbers them.
The absolute whining from people when they are moderately inconvenienced is depressing. “Sure, death camps are bad but did they have to block the bridge? I’m going to be late for my brunch!” Well, the person in a camp is going to be late for stuff, too.
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 2 weeks ago:
True. I just had a long discussion with a former coworker about that yesterday. I don’t buy the whole “people who go to college aren’t smart. the salt of the earth really know how the world works” that comes up sometimes.
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 2 weeks ago:
Most people aren’t that bright. Even people who are experts in one field or another.
But more than that, most people don’t care about things. They don’t know how platforms work, and they don’t care. Just picture a boundless void where things fall in- that’s the typical user apathy.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 weeks ago:
You are breaking the internet with this non sense.
I think that’s their goal. Conservative types benefit when people have limited access to information
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 3 weeks ago:
It’s because you opened with “Accepting an onsite job […] places the responsibility on you to be able to commute there”, as if people are choosing this when there are other options. This “responsibility” is foisted onto people by management that demands it, and a society that demands most people labor or die. Saying “you accepted this under duress, now accept the consequences” is crap.
The rest of your point about reliable transportation and fair wages is fine.
- Comment on The time and expense of commuting is theft, if that job can be done from home. 3 weeks ago:
The rich and poor alike are prohibited from sleeping under bridges. Just choose a better job! Easy! Why didn’t everyone else think of that?
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 3 weeks ago:
Switched to linux. No regrets so far.
Of the installs I’ve done in the past year, none were absolutely flawless. One had an error that I just hit “retry” and it worked. One required some serious googling but I found the fix on reddit (rip). One didn’t work at all, and I switched to a different distro that did work.
I’m not going to lie and sugarcoat it, but once I got past the install everything has been fine. Hopefully things will continue to improve
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on The entire Social Security database was uploaded on a random cloud server, Whistle-Blower Says 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, more protests that aren’t just like once a month. But I don’t know how to organize that, and most of the platforms that people communicate on are owned by the worst people.
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 3 weeks ago:
Why does everything have to constantly increase profits?
I think that’s the nature of publicly traded for profit companies. The shareholders don’t care about the product. They just want their portfolio’s value to go up.
The leadership doesn’t care much about the product. Not in the long term. They get paid a big salary, and the higher-ups have equity they want to go up in value. So long as they cash out before the product dies, they’re golden.
The actual labor building the product might care. Some are just working for a paycheck. (I knew a guy who worked at spotify, actually. He didn’t personally care much about music. He was just a database guy). But the ones who do care don’t have any power.
So most of the forces that would push the company towards being long term good don’t have power. The forces that want more profits, now, do.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t believe you. Sorry.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
Please go read en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_privilege and the related articles, such as en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t trust spotify not to fill those playlists with AI slop, now. I also personally prefer to go deeper on a band, rather than thoughtlessly drift through a bunch of stuff I’ll never hear again.
I do like bandcamp’s “people who bought this also bought this” recommendations, though.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
For example, white men will generally have an easier time in public spaces. Police and shops are less likely to bother them.
privilege doesn’t mean “you have a yacht” or “you’re rich”
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been telling people for years to buy 1-2 albums a month, and then after a couple years you have a sizable library. Spotify is renting.
But spotify is easy and fast, and some people think they listen to way more music than they do. I wonder how many people are paying spotify $10/month to listen to the same 4 albums for years.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
I kind of assume it’s the juxtaposition of “I as a white man have immense social privilege” with “I can’t get anyone to play with me”. Like, other people are worried about being abducted on the street and you’re sad you can’t play basketball with your bros?
The sadness of loneliness can be real but in contrast to other things it can feel like it needs to be triaged into a lower priority. And then some men lose their shit over that, which makes people take them less seriously.