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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a name for the thing where you’ll make an argument with like 3 distinct points supporting it, and the other person will attack only one, and claim the whole thing is in their favor?

  Like, “You can’t cast two leveled spells in a turn, and you’re silenced, and you’re out of spell slots, so you can’t cast another fireball”

  “No, I have another spell slot from my ring. Fireball time!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a couple games on epic when they were cheaper. I don’t think I’d do so again.

  • the client isn’t as good. It’s slower, the way it paginates your games (I got a lot of free ones) is annoying. It really wants to show you store stuff
  • less (zero?) Linux support
  • don’t think it does the game recording steam does
  • I don’t think it has the remote play together steam does

  There’s probably other stuff I’m not thinking of. It’s just not as good a service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw that one too and thought similarly!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta argues enshittification isn’t real in bid to toss FTC monopoly trial⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Zuckerberg is garbage and shouldn’t be allowed to keep living with his tremendous, ill-gotten, wealth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you read and understand this passage?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t recognize the source and thought to myself this is either archaic or amateur. It feels purple by modern standards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People have private conversations on speaker phone but if I participate then I'm the crazy one⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only case I can think of is like you had to call 911 for an emergency and you want the people around you to also hear the dispatcher.

  For day to day stuff, not really.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA employees "upset and confused" at return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Folks should unionize. The people mandating these “return to office” schemes can’t do shit unless labor cooperates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, if you want to have a conversation go ahead and read the rest of the post. Otherwise you’re just kind of jerking yourself off

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At the very least form unions. That will help with stuff like wage theft, some people getting underpaid, BS firings, etc.

  More aggressively, maybe some sort of collective ownership. Not this “options” bullshit where they never even vest for most people. The whole thing where management pays you $100 and sells what you made for $3000 needs to go. That $3000 needs to be more fairly shared among the people that made it happen.

  But I don’t really know. I’m just some guy with entry level knowledge and a sense that the current system is wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They could live more modest lives in more rural areas

  Living in a rural area for many people is literal hell, on top of having an array of less obvious costs. The big one is going from not needing a car to needing one. Your rent might drop $500 but you need to spend a lot on gas, insurance, maintenance, etc.

  Also the social options might fall off a cliff. Humans are social creatures. I live in a city and I can walk to dozens of social activities, many of them free. Board game meetups, free music in the park, free museums with tours, free sport leagues, etc. Out in the countryside there just aren’t as many options.

  If you’re queer or another minority, you might also have a worse time in the countryside. Maybe even fatally. A city is going to have a queer scene.

  Also, there are likely more jobs in the city. Remote work and economic upheaval have changed things, but even so, most of those offices in Manhattan are full of jobs. There’s just more stuff where there’s more people.

  Now, to your point, some people are certainly living in a $5900/mo apartment with a doorman and in-building gym that they can’t afford. They could move to a less “nice” place in south Brooklyn or Queens for less than half that, likely at the cost of a longer commute, and losing easy access to a neighborhood they feel a part of. There is a housing crisis though, and people are getting priced further away. That’s probably not going to be solved any time soon because capitalism doesn’t care and will happily eat itself.

  Anyway. Long tangent but I’m extremely pro city so I spoke up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep hoping this will spark some sort of anti-capitalist zeitgeist. But labor might be too scattered and individualistic.

  Like, why are we all scrambling for a handful of jobs when the rich have so many resources?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a time of political crisis. The US government is upending decades of alliances and economics. The right wing is globally on the rise, and that means people’s lives are in danger. The environment is becoming more unpredictable and less supportive for humanity.

  There’s a lot of important political shit to talk about. If we were living in a boring utopia, there’d be less, probably.

  Also, what do you even consider “political”? Some people will tell you that a story about a man and a woman getting married isn’t political, but a story about two men getting married is. That’s a really low quality analysis there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US popularity collapses worldwide in wake of Trump’s return⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I forget where I read it originally, but I think a lot about “You hate every piece of capitalism but don’t connect the dots to see the big picture”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand, yes. But also, it’s mostly capitalism.

  I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with “I’m starting a frisbee club for fun. We’re going to meet saturdays in the park. I’m going to put up some flyers and tell my friends about it”.

  But at some point that can mutate into “i put a 30 second unskippable ad for FrisbeeFranchise on youtube, and a giant billboard over the subway stop that implies if you don’t play frisbee you’ll never be happy”. That’s bad.

  I think targeted ads should be illegal as a first step. I don’t think anyone except the worst sort of advertisers would go to bat for those. Old fashioned static ads where they put an ad for bike stuff by the bike lane in town is annoying, but somehow we’ve invented things so much worse than that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Enshitification of Youtube’s Full Album Playlists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Another reason I feel good about buying albums.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a small subset of people who legitimately just don’t understand game development fundamentals though, and they actually believe that things would just be fully interchangeable. As in, you buy a skin in Fortnite, and you can then open up Roblox and set it as your player model.

  Those ones are especially not the brightest.

  The people who are like “you can just take your skin from Skyrim and put it in gta5 and it’ll just work!!” people really are baffling. The hubris and ignorance is so much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘How come I can’t breathe?': Musk’s data company draws a backlash in Memphis⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I really want people to roll up on the factory, shoot the management, and then shut it down.

  This shit is a crime against the environment and humanity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. seeks breakup of Google's ad-tech products after judge finds illegal monopoly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  On the one hand: Good. Google is a monopoly and they suck, too.

  On the other, I don’t trust the trump administration to do anything correctly. They’ll probably try to give google to Musk or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From the top of my head

  • crawl stone soup. Classic traditional rogue like. Less fiddly than net hack, but very good.
  • untitled story (an older game by the main person behind Celeste. Looks like Ms paint but is utterly charming)
  • everything supergiant did. Hades, bastion, pyre
  • binding of Isaac is a classic.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite indie game?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to like Into the Breach but it’s too stressful. Like, when I fuck up in FTL and the crew dies it sucks, but when I fuck up in Into the Breach and all those civilians die? Oof. They were counting on me!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure if it’s possible to build a healthy social network.

  Smaller communities can work, if they’re well moderated. The small size also helps norms become established.

  Once the network gets really big, you have eternal September problems. You have too many bad actors in absolute numbers to deal with.

  So yeah, the problem is us but we suck.

  Maybe federation would work, since that can keep the moderation workload smaller and distributed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook Allegedly Detected When Teen Girls Deleted Selfies So It Could Serve Them Beauty Ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Saint Luigi deliver us from villains like Facebook

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When society completely transitions to cash-less, what happens when the power goes down? End of the world?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess riots break out all around the world?

  I feel like this idea that people are just going to riot and do mass violence is some right wing fear.

  Most people, most of the time, are pretty social cooperative creatures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I’ve ever bought a microtransaction or cosmetic. I’m doing my part!

  *Ok, i think I paid like $5 into warframe after 200 hours, and I used some fake money from google surveys on pokemon go, so I’m not entirely without sin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it still spooked Wall Street, as parent company Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.’s shares plummeted as much as 10% following the news.

  I think our economy might be predicated entirely on stupid.

  Also, $80 is a lot when typical people’s buying power is decreasing. I think like half of americans can’t tank a $500 surprise bill, and they want people to blow nearly 20% of that on a video game? Fuck off, capitalists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Parents often take time off from work to grieve. Classes are often disrupted when a student dies abruptly. This isn’t Skyrim where someone dies and forty seconds later it’s “Must be hearing things”. Plus, as I said, letting the kid die means the resources spend raising and educating them are wasted.

  My point is that “oh if he dies it only affects the family” is stupid.

  If I’m on my land I’m gonna do whatever I want. I’ll get drunk and do donuts on my lawn. Maybe I’ll set off 10 pounds of tannerite in my backyard because that’s what people do in the middle of nowhere.

  If you’re as anti social libertarian as you seem, I hope you meet a fatal end, investment in your education be damned. The world needs fewer people like that.

  Should my mom not have allowed me to practice my drums in the barn because the audio was escaping the property and the neighbors could hear faint drumming in the middle of the day sometimes?

  Non sequitur.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s on private property who gives a shit. If your idiot son wants to build a structurally questionable tree house and the parents don’t do anything about it and he dies that’s on them.

  it’s on all of us, because all the money and effort that went into educating and raising that kid is wasted. Plus the rippling effects outward from everyone who knew the kid grieving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also the more exceptions you have to rules, the more confusing it is and the more likely people are going to fuck it up.

  “Always wear a hardhat on site” - easy. simple. minimal room for interpretation.

  “Always wear a hardhat on site when any of the following conditions are true: [a, b, c, d] unless [e, f]” is going to lead to errors, and then people will get hurt.

  People aren’t that smart. Especially when they’re not motivated, or distracted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Renting games and music seems like a bad idea to me, but I am in the minority. Buy a new album once a month for $8, after a year I have 12 albums. Pay that to spotify and I have nothing.

  Gamepass is priced more aggressively at $12/mo, but I assume it’s a loss so they can eventually raise prices. Even so, if I buy a new somewhat discounted game for $36 every three months, after a year I have four games. With gamepass, I’m pretty sure I end up with nothing.

  But I don’t think humans are known for long term thinking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for "girly" games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Magical Diary is a fun little game about being a teenage girl that goes to wizard school. There’s 2 but I only played one: …steampowered.com/…/Magical_Diary_Horse_Hall/

  My time at Portia and my time at Sand Rock are pretty chill. They’re kind of like Stardew but 3d, and I liked them more. It has some fighting but it’s very PG cartoon-ish. It has a major mechanic where you just hang out with the NPCs, or go on dates with them. The second game, sand rock, is better but they’re both good: store.steampowered.com/…/My_Time_at_Sandrock/