barrbaric
@barrbaric@hexbear.net
- Comment on Star Citizen is free for the next few days, please don't accidentally buy a $300 spaceship 4 months ago:
I think they have one solar system “done” (not really) out of 100.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 has received 100,000 negative reviews since announcing players must link Steam to a PSN account 6 months ago:
They claim it’s so that Sony can handle banning players. In reality it’s a split between data farming and an attempt to get people into the playstation ecosystem.
It’s really too bad Arrowhead went with Sony as a publisher.
- Comment on Instance admin updates + Blahaj 10 months ago:
No idea lol. As far as I know it’s a default part of lemmy and the default defed is by blacklist.
- Comment on Instance admin updates + Blahaj 10 months ago:
Hexbear uses a whitelist so they have to be on the allowed instances list.
- Comment on Instance admin updates + Blahaj 10 months ago:
Nah they defeded us. IIRC it was over drama with chasers and vaushites in /c/196.
- Comment on I remember getting a PS3 just to avoid this back then 11 months ago:
It was never going to be free forever, because that would be leaving free money on the table, which is unacceptable to any evil megacorp (which is to say, all of the big three). I imagine PSN initially being free was mostly a result of trying to bridge the gap between PS3 and 360 sales, given the multi-year delay and huge price difference.
- Comment on abandonware empires 1 year ago:
The US (and all of their allies) are in favor of wealth redistribution to the ultra-wealthy, so predatory practices like this will never be stopped unless there is a sufficiently organized and pissed off mass movement calling for it. Researchers are a tiny group, so it won’t happen.
- Comment on bro pls 1 year ago:
I agree, this is a shame.
We should build an even bigger one.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Ayyy it me :)
- Comment on Is there a way to block hexbear 1 year ago:
It’s largely the active sort imo. It’s night and day since before we reverted from our custom algorithm.
- Comment on Lockdowns and face masks ‘unequivocally’ cut spread of Covid, report finds 1 year ago:
It’s the explanation given by even liberal news outlets. Image
I’ll concede that they didn’t know the specific mechanisms of the virus (hence hand sanitizer despite it mostly doing nothing), but it was pretty clearly respiratory (given its close relatives SARS and MERS) and, well, masks work against that. Also to clarify my position so you don’t get the wrong idea, I’m radically pro-mask and think that repealing the mandates was and is social murder.
- Comment on Lockdowns and face masks ‘unequivocally’ cut spread of Covid, report finds 1 year ago:
Yep, they lied to people in an attempt to save the supply of masks for people in health care because there weren’t enough stockpiled. And they wonder why people don’t trust them anymore.
- Comment on Lockdowns and face masks ‘unequivocally’ cut spread of Covid, report finds 1 year ago:
So we’re bringing them back, right? anakin-padme-4
- Comment on Hexbear federation megathread 1 year ago:
Before I begin, let me just say that this comment is in good faith.
All communists want to achieve a stateless, classless, moneyless society, but the key question is: how is a stateless, classless, moneyless society to be achieved? As history has shown, the instant a communist/socialist/anarchist/whathaveyou takes power, they are immediately put under brutal sanctions by the capitalist powers if not replaced in a coup or outright invaded. This would suggest that capitalist and communist societies cannot coexist, thus the achievement of a stateless, classless, moneyless society requires first the defeat or collapse of all the world’s capitalist powers. In the meantime until capitalism collapses, what are the communists to do if they seize power? The answer is what has happened historically: a transitional socialist state is formed, whereby the communist party is in charge of society as a proxy for the working class, replacing the bourgeoisie. When world socialism has been achieved (or possibly when the premier world power is socialist), then a transition to communism can begin.
There is much room for criticism of these socialist states, such as whether the party bureaucrats would ever actually follow through on the transition to communism when they have gained personal power, but the paths they have laid out are, if taken in good faith, at least plausible.
- Comment on Hexbear federation megathread 1 year ago:
Communism killed 100 million in Europe alone and 300-400 million in China. Count other parts of the world and the number easily reaches a billion.
What’s your source for this? Where did the other 500 million people die due to communism outside of the USSR and China? Did Fidel Castro kill every person in Cuba 50 times?
- Comment on Not so private room: Zoom’s AI privacy fiasco exposes how vulnerable we are to Big Tech's whims 1 year ago:
