Red_October
@Red_October@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hello I think you'll love this house. 7 hours ago:
For a second there I was so sure this was gonna be Loss.
- Comment on Tribes 3: Rivals already in trouble as developers shift focus elsewhere 3 days ago:
With dev plans like these, who can be surprised that their games weren’t immediately runaway successes? This sort of shit is why nobody trusts new Tribes games. It’s barely even into Early Access and they’ve all but abandoned it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Our Math teachers tried to warn us, and we didn’t listen.
- Comment on A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well. 1 month ago:
The harder you push the pedal the more you want your speed to decrease, obviously. But if you push it hard enough then the decrease from your current speed to Zero is no longer enough. So now the engineers need to decide if you’ll speed up first, so the decrease from the new speed to zero is larger, or if it’ll slam you into reverse instead.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 month ago:
Okay so THAT makes sense, people for whom a PSN account is simply impossible will not be able to play, THAT is worth being mad about. But we are absolutely not just seeing outrage from players in countries where they CAN’T have a PSN account, we’re seeing outrage from people who could and just don’t want to.
What I’m trying to understand is why. I get that it’s a greedy data-grab from Sony that is fully not necessary, but also… it’s just not a big ask. They’re not asking for your credit card, they don’t want your social security number, I don’t even think there’s anything keeping you from telling them that your name is “Bofa Deeznutz.” I get wanting to control your data, and I would absolutely suggest a randomly generated super-strong password, but it just seems to me like everyone so angry that they’re quitting just… has a pretty easy fix for that.
So for MOST of us, it really, really is just having yet another account. The few who genuinely don’t have that option are right to be angry, but for most of us it really just seems like an overreaction.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 month ago:
Okay so I must be missing something. Could someone explain to me why exactly this, of all things, is getting the nuclear backlash? It’s not like they’re adding a subscription charge or new microtransactions, you just need to have an account.
- Comment on Mesopotamia is coming to Total War: Pharaoh alongside over 80 new units 1 month ago:
I’m sure both players will be really excited about that.
- Comment on Your memory will live forever in textbooks. 1 month ago:
This is your chance to codify Ligma as a serious disease. Don’t mess it up.
- Comment on Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles 1 month ago:
Yes Elmo, I’m sure that will solve your problems. Well done.
- Comment on Steam will stop issuing refunds if you play two hours of a game before launch day 2 months ago:
This isn’t about early access. This is explicitly about Advanced Access, where a special edition grants access to the complete game a few days early.
This is a closed loophole, not an injustice.
- Comment on Feels like Apple is more about fashion then tech IMO 2 months ago:
It’s because they are. Apple wants to position itself as a “Luxury Brand” first and foremost, that happens to sell mostly tech stuff. Look at the absurd accessory prices, like this thousand dollar monitor stand. There is no reality in which that piece of shit is actually worth that much, but by offering their stupid shit at those prices, people can be associated with such opulence whenever they buy other Apple products. They just want to be the Gucci of computers, and it shows in how they have only been innovating on ways to extract money for low quality products, and not in the actual technology itself.
- Comment on Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors 2 months ago:
So… they can identify when someone in a conversation is a minor. And they can identify when nudes are being sent. But when these two are combined, they figure just blurring the image is the appropriate solution?
- Comment on Star Wars Outlaws Requires The Internet To Install It 2 months ago:
Even on consoles is this even news anymore? It may not be every game that requires it but there’s no way this is now so unusual as to be worth pointing out in an article of it’s own. The time to get pissy about that was, what, 10 years ago?
- Comment on This Woman Will Decide Which Babies Are Born 2 months ago:
In essence, when the growth rate slows to a certain point, people are dying faster than they’re being replaced, and the trend can only continue unless everyone starts having 10 kids.
Growth is growth. It’s not tracking only births, it’s tracking births against deaths. Population decline is people dying faster than they’re being replaced, but even “very slow growth” would still mean the population is increasing.
- Comment on Intrusive thoughts 2 months ago:
Just give in, do it to one spool, and you can move on with your life. Resistance only makes it hurt more.
- Comment on Steam is a ticking time bomb 2 months ago:
When I block OP and his trash articles from my feed, it’ll be his fault for not going out of his way to deliver content to me anyway. And when I block his next attempt too, it just means he’s being anti-consumer in not catering to me anyway.
- Comment on acceptable screws 2 months ago:
IIRC that was a design feature of Phillips screws, not a flaw. Deliberately designed to limit torque to avoid over-tightening.
- Comment on is this the moment spez became Heisenberg? Reddit CEO warns users: "We know your dark secrets' 3 months ago:
Big talk from a small man. The internet hasn’t forgotten the buried sub you were moderator of, Spez.
- Comment on Ex-Activision CEO Bobby Kotick looks to buy TikTok amid shutdown fears - Dexerto 3 months ago:
Good, he can ruin that and actually do some good for once in his life.
- Comment on Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing? 4 months ago:
Except it doesn’t just apply to men.
- Comment on Why is living with your parents considered a bad thing? 4 months ago:
Traditionally, being self sufficient enough to move out of your parents house and live on your own was considered a major, basic, and early benchmark of growing up, adulthood, and success. Sort of like taking your first steps, it was just considered a “bare minimum” benchmark.
That impression, the idea of moving out on your own being the bare minimum start to being a successful adult, has not kept up with the modern age and the economy we’ve grown up in. The idea that anyone should be able to move out on their own came about in an age when a single adult working a basic job full time could afford a house and support a family on their income alone. That just is not even close to the case now, but some societal memes take longer to change than others.
- Comment on US Senate passes Ukraine aid, but House Speaker refuses to hold vote 4 months ago:
Republican ideas of Democracy in action. When in doubt, just block the vote you’re afraid of losing.
- Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims 4 months ago:
I honestly don’t think he was TRYING to do anything but shitpost. It didn’t look like a well thought out plan, it looked like an idiot talking out of his ass and realizing that his memes were also crimes.
- Comment on Elon Musk Bought Twitter to Settle His Jet-Tracking Beef, New Book Claims 4 months ago:
Yeah, no. Musk bought Twitter because he HAD to. He very publicly made comments about buying Twitter at absolute meme-stock prices, but didn’t disclose that he already owned a LOT of Twitter stock. So, when his comments predictably increased the price of Twitter stock, he had two choices: Either it was just talk, and he was BLATANTLY guilty of stock manipulation and the Feds put a target on his back, or he acts like he totally meant it.
So he went with option two, acted like he was serious and wanted to buy twitter. Then he tried everything he could think of to kill the deal, accusing Twitter of all sorts of wrongdoing and lies, but Twitter was more careful than that. They got their shit right, and Musk couldn’t back out. So he bought Twitter, rather than go to prison.
The fact that he could also kill the tracking twitter account was completely incidental. Musk is an idiot, but even he isn’t that stupid. Musk initially offered $5,000 to the account holder to stop, and then balked at the return offer for $50,000. Now, I may not be a billionaire tech-bro, but I’m pretty sure that spending $50,000 to achieve a goal is preferable to spending $44,000,000,000. He’s dumb, but he’s not that dumb.
- Comment on how did "step" porn become so popular when we did such a good job keeping scat and insest porn out of the mainstream for so long 4 months ago:
Part of what drives Porn, what makes one setting or situation more popular than another, is taboo. Having just enough of a sense of “naughtiness” in a situation that it makes it more exciting, without going so far as to be offensive to the senses and take the viewer out of it. A generally successful way to do that is to take a normal situation that people are familiar with, something that wasn’t sexy, and make it sexy and pornify it.
As an example, imagine you’ve… ordered a pizza, or had some sort of workman come to repair something at your home. Pretty normal, right? But have you ever paid for that service with sex? Normal, relatable situation, made sexy. Now this is a cloche these days because it’s been done to death, but at it’s advent the “Pay for thing/get paid for thing with sex” trope wasn’t just new, it was Thrilling. It also stops short of presenting the impression of full on prostitution, the goods or services were not presented with the intent to buy sex, which makes it feel less… dirty, to the average viewer. It’s taboo, relatable, but not entirely repulsive.
Now, the “Step” concept is the new hotness. Lots of us, maybe most of us, have step-family, so it’s widely relatable. Also we generally don’t seriously consider sex with step-family, making it taboo. Finally it always stops at STEP family, not blood relatives, so it’s arguably not really incest, meaning it’s not so broadly repulsive. It makes a condition that we can see ourselves in, it’s even more naughty than just sex, but it just manages to dodge the most objectionable subject that it’s so close to.
- Comment on Musk says Tesla will hold shareholder vote ‘immediately’ to move company’s incorporation to Texas 4 months ago:
He bought it at 44 billion. It hasn’t technically hit zero yet, last valuation I saw was around 20 billion.
- Comment on Musk says Tesla will hold shareholder vote ‘immediately’ to move company’s incorporation to Texas 4 months ago:
He’s a fucking loser, and he’ll never love you no matter how much you hope he notices you.
Musk isn’t an Engineer. He hasn’t designed anything, the extent of his responsibility for anything of value is telling other people, smarter people, to invent something. He doesn’t create, he buys existing companies then parades around like he’s the one that started them.
You want a shit take? Take a look at how far out of your way you went to defend him and you’ll see that shit take. He hasn’t used his money to improve shit. He used it to burn 20+ billion dollars on a global communications platform and turn it into a cesspit of lies and nazis.
So yeah, we’ll dismiss him. Elon Musk is a fucking idiot that doesn’t know when to shut the fuck up and throws a tantrum every time he’s handed a loss.
- Comment on It’s Surprisingly Easy to Live Without an Amazon Prime Subscription 4 months ago:
You’re kidding right? Are there actually people thinking they just can’t live without Amazon Prime? Seriously? Fuck even if you HAVE to order something off of Amazon, which you absolutely don’t HAVE to do, you don’t fuckin need prime just for… what… slightly faster shipping?
- Comment on The giga crystal 5 months ago:
Your dabbling in esoteric drum geometry will only end badly. Turn back before your aura is forever stained.
- Comment on ‘The View’ Host Joy Behar Scoffs at Young People Feeling ‘Left Behind by the Economy’: ‘Oh Please, Get a Job!’ 5 months ago:
Now that’s just not accurate. Either way she’s a giant piece of shit, it’s only a question of how ignorant she is and whether or not she’s choosing to be that way.