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- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 16 hours ago:
I stand by my assessment that overwatch is essentially team fortress 2 with a limit of one player per class and fewer game modes.
I don’t know the name of the trope, but it’s like when a cover gets more popular than the original. Except the person doing the cover (blizzard) is a huge scumbag.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 23 hours ago:
Isn’t an overwatch style hero shooter just team fortress 2? Now get off my lawn, I have clouds to tell at.
- Comment on Fallout inspired RPG game in EXCEL 4 days ago:
It was ublock origin on Windows desktop Firefox. Though it didn’t play the ad when I clicked it on my Android Firefox just now.
- Comment on Fallout inspired RPG game in EXCEL 4 days ago:
Battles use a simplified version of DnD mechanics lol y tho
Don’t have excel to test it and youtube seems to have defeated my adblocker, so I didn’t actually watch it. Neat idea for a toy, though.
- Comment on Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency 4 days ago:
I’s probably because they’re adhering to their in-group’s beliefs. The in-group (conservatives) doesn’t like renewables, so they don’t. When pressed for why, they don’t really have a good answer, so they’ll desperately grasp for anything that’s remotely plausible.
We’re all susceptible to this, and it probably had advantages for ancient humans.
- Comment on As someone who is aging. Late thirties. How can I keep my finger on the pulse of current trends, particularly in music? 5 days ago:
As someone else said, bandcamp is pretty good. Their articles are, so far as I can tell, written by actual people and thus have more soul to them. I’m sure some asshole is plotting to replace them with LLM, but until then!
Also, go to shows. Go see live music. Usually folks have opening acts. Sometimes you can even make friends.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 week ago:
I already commented somewhere else in this thread, but I’ve been just buying music via bandcamp and I feel pretty good about it. If I buy about one new album a month for $8, it’s cheaper than spotify and after a couple years I have a large library of music I own outright.
This works with my listening habits, which are something like “I have like one new (-to me) album on heavy rotation every couple of weeks”. Someone who’s more of a “i never listen to the same song twice” extreme wouldn’t have as good a time.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 week ago:
I like bandcamp a lot more than spotify for finding new music. A lot of it feels less soulless because it is (presumably) written by real people.
…bandcamp.com/…/essential-releases-may-10-2024 - timely daily.bandcamp.com/lists/japanese-acid-folk-list - genre deep dive
Plus on a given album page, like castleratband.bandcamp.com/…/into-the-realm-2 , it has links to “Other people liked this”, and the genre tags. It’s pretty good for discoverability, though maybe not as smooth as the soulless algorithms of spotify.
Bandcamp sold to epic and then got sold to some other vultures so they might turn to shit, but until that happens it’s a good, profitable, seemingly equitable platform. Artists got a big cut, you got drm-free music. The idea seems solid, if you can avoid the “infinite growth at all costs” and “i’m gonna sell out, fuck you” traps.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 week ago:
I think people who care about music make some false assumptions about people that kind of don’t. It’s like the xkcd about quartz: xkcd.com/2501/
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
“Making a better choice” doesn’t “make you a better person”, necessarily.
And also like I said in my post, just accept that you’re not always going to be a perfect person. None of us are. You don’t have to get mad at anyone else for that.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
No, people don’t dislike vegans or vegetarians because of their choices, they dislike them because they lord their, what they think “better” choice over others.
I’m not sure we agree on what “lording over” is. Like if someone says “Sorry, I can’t eat that, I’m vegan” is that lording it over you? Pretty much every vegan I’ve encountered has been polite, and at about the level of someone with a food allergy. Sometimes they check the ingredients label.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 week ago:
Yeah pretty much. There are behaviors that are profitable but not good for the community.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 week ago:
This sounds neat until it’s run for profit.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 week ago:
If you accept that there are moral/ethical problems with eating meat (contribution to climate change, health concerns, animals being killed and eaten, whatever), and choose to eat meat anyway, and encounter a vegan, what has to happen?
You can accept that they are making a better choice, but then you have to accept that you’re making a worse choice. Most people are cowards and protect the ego at any cost. Rather than shrugging and saying “yeah, i should eat less meat. Good for you taking the high road”, which requires accepting that you’re not being the best, you can instead grab onto any reasons why no it’s really them that sucks. That’s easier, more comfortable, and doesn’t require any painful introspection or changes.
It’s the same mechanism when people get mad at cyclists, pedestrians, people who go to the gym, people who don’t shop at Walmart, whatever. They’re doing something that makes you feel bad in comparison. Most people are terrible at that and will lash out instead of doing anything productive.
Alternatively, or maybe additionally, people are really tribal, and once they adopt the idea that vegans (or cyclists, or people driving small cars, or people wearing sandals, whatever) are in the outgroup, then they enjoy being hostile to them.
People are ego driven emotional morons. All of us. Me, too. It’s terrible.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
I’m still holding onto Bandcamp and hoping they don’t enshittify. It’s even Bandcamp Friday today where they give their share to the musicians.
I like it because I build a library of music I keep, so some months I don’t pay anything at all. But depending on what you listen to it might not be the best. I still like it more than renting music.
- Comment on After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream 2 weeks ago:
I think I played maple story in like 2007 and it was garbage then. My excuse at the time was I was broke, and there weren’t many good free games out. Path of Exile wasn’t until 2013. Same with Warframe. Huh I never realized those came out the same year.
- Comment on Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return 3 weeks ago:
I know it’s apples to oranges and what not, but there’s a lot of life changing things you could do for a lot of people with that kind of money.
As a society the way we allocate resources is stupid.
- Comment on Am I going fucking crazy? (Regarding explicit songs being censored on various music streaming services.) 4 weeks ago:
I mostly listen to music on Bandcamp, where so far as I know nothing has been censored. Except maybe la femme’s last album cover.
I prefer buying music over renting it, but I understand it’s not for everyone.
- Comment on whatever 5 weeks ago:
Is this store brand far side?
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 1 month ago:
I’m going to guess he values himself more than his friends, and he’d find justifications, but maybe he’d surprise me.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 1 month ago:
I knew a guy who went to work for palantir. I asked "what if you end up working on like domestic spying or other sketchy stuff?’
He was like, shrug, iunno. Guy did not give a shit about anyone outside his immediate friend and family group.
- Comment on Taylor Swift among 141 new billionaires in ‘amazing year for rich people’ 1 month ago:
I don’t remember if this is one of the pearl clutching boot licking communities that removes comments about violence targeted at people who harm all of us, so this might get removed, but:
A lot of billionaires are just people that can fall down a flight of stairs like anyone else. I’m honestly surprised during the Twitter shakeup no one just shot Musk in the gut.
There’s probably rules against porn too so I won’t describe him bleeding out.
- Comment on FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules, reversing Trump 1 month ago:
Republicans make everything worse and should be removed from all positions of power.
- Comment on Dragon’s Dogma 2 modders are finding ways around the otherwise acclaimed RPG's controversial microtransactions 1 month ago:
So someone who paid money for stuff got very poor value for their money? Why even have it at all?
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 1 month ago:
Untitled Story was by the person who made Celeste. It’s old and looks like it was made in mspaint, but it was such a good metroidvania.
- Comment on CFCs 1 month ago:
Except for leap seconds. Time is the worst to work with :(
- Comment on CFCs 1 month ago:
Doesn’t seem to be a big problem for much of the thread nor many other threads.
- Comment on CFCs 1 month ago:
You’re probably getting down voted because you asked here instead of a search engine, and many people think it’s common knowledge, and it was already answered in this thread.
Sometimes an innocent question looks like someone JAQing off.
- Comment on Asking a girl out for comic book store date? 1 month ago:
Your reply is not fully applicable because the context here is he already wants to date this woman.
You can and should have friends that aren’t your own gender. This post specifically isn’t about that. The guy wants to date her. Hanging out and pretending otherwise can quickly tip over into something unfortunate. You can find out awkwardly late that they already are seeing someone, they don’t date men, they have incompatible relationship goals, or whatever, and make less good decisions because you’re acting with incomplete information.
Many of my friends have been women. Many of them I didn’t especially want to date or fuck.
I had many years in my youth of awkwardly hanging around women hoping something would align.
Turns out “Do you want to go on a date? There’s a bar by me that has arcade machines” and “do you want to make out?” are a potent combination.
- Comment on Asking a girl out for comic book store date? 2 months ago:
As I said in a reply to someone else, I highly recommend you are clear in your intentions. If she thinks it’s just a hangout, lots of things can get wrong. She might get mad when you bring up date stuff. She might invite other friends.
Don’t take your cues from romcoms.
Also, how old are you, approximately? Is this urban, suburban?
Have some ideas for what to do next if she accepts your date, because you don’t want to be bored in the shop after an hour and fizzle. Know some public places nearby for food or drinks.