OldQWERTYbastard
@OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world
- Comment on Age verification for R-rated games and websites raises privacy concerns 9 hours ago:
When did it become the responsibility of technology to parent a child?
- Comment on Roblox says it paid out $1.5B to game creators in 2025 and the top 1,000 earned $1.3M on average; 50%+ of creators list high school as their highest education 15 hours ago:
I’ll just leave this here and let you folks make up your own mind about child exploitation.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 3 days ago:
Ugh God. I remember that “Magic Gate” bullshit when the PSP launched. They started a trend with the Walkman and they’re trying to get lightning to strike twice. Never could do it though. Good.
Those greedy assholes need to engineer and innovate in other areas.
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 3 days ago:
It’s almost as though Valve provides a valuable service and respects their customers. Rare traits in the corporate world. Answering to a board of directors is a hell of a lot easier than answering to shareholders.
Enshitification hasn’t struck there…yet.
- Comment on Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs 3 days ago:
Heh… It will be a very very long time before any of these companies see a thin dime of that tariff money back…if ever.
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience 3 days ago:
I just commented the same thing. I disabled what I didn’t want at startup and have had zero intrusive prompts from unnecessary Windows bloat.
I’m still holding out hope that Linux finally becomes a mainstream OS one day.
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience 3 days ago:
I installed Windows 11 with a local account, disabled trash like OneDrive and Copilot and haven’t had any problems with them coming back.
Any market share that Linux can claw away from Microslop is always a good thing.
- Comment on Meta's AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators 5 days ago:
Reading this headline all I can think is “Are y’all really surprised?”
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 1 week ago:
God. I can’t believe it. I’ve lived long enough to see the return of the dumb terminal. FFS.
- Comment on Why some cities are ditching their Flock license plate readers 2 weeks ago:
Fuck Flock and fuck Garrett Langley with a wooden tent stake; Trump style.
I’ve got a lens over my plate that looks blurry unless you look at it straight on at eye level. We’ll be like China soon.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 2 weeks ago:
This isn’t new. I remember fifteen years ago some Silicon Valley app engineers forbade their children from playing the games that were being developed.
It’s because they’re engineered to use your psychology against you. This is by design.
- Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version? 2 weeks ago:
I loaded my late 90s save from the big box PC release on Steam and the achievements came rolling in.
- Comment on Did anyone really think the Final Fantasy 7 remake was better than the original PS1 version? 2 weeks ago:
FFVII has been my all time favorite video game since the late 90s. The remake is so chock full of unnecessary fluff and gives me zero reason to care about it.
I couldn’t finish Rebirth. It’s too much of a slog and makes me miss the tight pacing and storytelling of the original game.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got my ROMS permanently so I’m saving my money.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 2 weeks ago:
I’m playing through Pokemon Unbound on my Steam Deck and it’s scratching a decades old itch. I mostly outgrew the games after Gen 1, but that little red Gameboy Pocket got me through many a 9th grade study hall.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 2 weeks ago:
The ROM hack Pokemon Unbound is what you’re looking for.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 2 weeks ago:
Here’s the news.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 3 weeks ago:
Meh. My ad blocking strategy on my phone and desktop still works fine. I use Morphe (formerly Revanced), uBlock Origin on Firefox and AdGuard on my android phone.
No ads. No problem.
- Comment on Retrograde - A Halo Tribute 3 weeks ago:
Considering I grew up with PC shooters in the 90s, Halo was waaay overrated. The best thing Bungie did was introduce online multiplayer to consoles.
Sure I had fun zooming around with the warthog in college LAN games, but the overall pacing of the game was glacially slow coming from twitchy shooters like Doom, Quake, Unreal Tournament and Starsiege: Tribes.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 4 weeks ago:
I never had a need for discord and never will. Good riddance.
- Comment on Privacy vs. Profit: The Impact of Google's Manifest Version 3 (MV3) Update on Ad Blocker Effectiveness 4 weeks ago:
Meh. I’m back on Firefox. Chrome can fuck right off.
- Comment on Was there censorship on TikTok after the U.S. takeover? 4 weeks ago:
You can speak ill of Xi “Winnie the Pooh” Jinping, but not about Mango Mussolini now.
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Responds to Stock Price Drop Following Google Genie Announcement: 'I Think People Are Confusing Tools With Hits' - IGN 4 weeks ago:
My VPN provider doesn’t keep logs so…
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Responds to Stock Price Drop Following Google Genie Announcement: 'I Think People Are Confusing Tools With Hits' - IGN 4 weeks ago:
Correct. Lets hope Valve remains a consumer-friendly monopoly for the long term.
Legions of lesser companies have long since enshittified themselves while screwing consumers until they are blue in the face.
God bless Gabe.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 4 weeks ago:
Rock on, dude. I do almost all of my gaming from the couch so 1080p looks fine to me and my GPU doesn’t have to crank out 4K worth of pixels to drag down my FPS.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 4 weeks ago:
I used to. Then I moved to Kansas. No hills here!
- Comment on Take-Two CEO Responds to Stock Price Drop Following Google Genie Announcement: 'I Think People Are Confusing Tools With Hits' - IGN 4 weeks ago:
Meh. I’m over it. Shovelware is abundant on all platforms and it’ll lead to another industry crash similar to 1983 as soon as the economy chokes.
My Steam backlog will last years.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 4 weeks ago:
I bought my 1080p LED backlit 60" Vizio panel back in early 2015 and it’s still going strong!
- Comment on Defeating a 40-year-old copy protection dongle – Dmitry Brant 5 weeks ago:
I’ve seen USB variants for modern software that served the same purpose.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 1 month ago:
Um… If you’re still using Chrome, that’s on you.
