zalgotext
@zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The four horsemen of the apocalypse 2 weeks ago:
Please do yourself a favor and look further back than 7 years into their discography, I’m begging you
- Comment on Kids nowadays don't have many (if any) videogame heroes... 3 weeks ago:
They know who plays their games and more importantly who buys their games.
Is this not a bit of a “chicken and egg” argument though? Adults have pretty much always been the ones buying games, but they haven’t always been making them for adults. Even if kids are less than a quarter of all gamers, they’re still a sizeable chunk of the audience. Doesn’t really make sense to just ignore them.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 4 weeks ago:
Crazy thought - instead of just putting trees near curbs, have dedicated green spaces in cities where there aren’t sidewalks or other important infrastructure near the trees.
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 4 weeks ago:
Public fountain? I think you mean community bidet
- Comment on Generational differences 4 weeks ago:
Some of the new Krogers have full service bars inside them, so you can sip on a pint in Kroger
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 1 month ago:
Well, and also Mario Kart isn’t worth $90
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 1 month ago:
Maybe I’ll get physical copies of Switch 2 games heavily discounted later on.
Later on, as in, in like 30 years? Assuming physical Switch 2 games don’t become prized collector’s items like every other Nintendo consoles’ physical games
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 2 months ago:
What if most of the people that want to pay a GOG membership are Linux gamers that would be willing to pay for official Linux support?
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 2 months ago:
No, he literally said he’d be a dictator on day one. He was very up front about it, and his base cheered him on
- Comment on They said the packaging would be discreet! 2 months ago:
It’s an attempt at a joke, jokes are supposed to be funny
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 2 months ago:
I don’t think anyone is saying that the story of Hades isn’t portrayed well with the rougelike style, but it’s totally ok to say “I don’t have time to play a game that’s designed such that you fail dozens of times before you win”
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 2 months ago:
The numbers I’m “throwing around” say that you’re literally and objectively wrong
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 2 months ago:
Because over half the people voted for him
No they didn’t. Only like 60% of eligible voters actually voted in this past election. Which means only about 30% of eligible voters voted for Trump. About 80% of the country’s population are eligible voters, and since only 30% voted for Trump, 80% x 30% = 24% of the population voted for him. Roughly a quarter of people voted for him, not half.
And for anyone who’s wondering, “why did only 60% of eligible voters vote?” The answer is mostly voter suppression in various forms.
- Comment on Harry and Ron were always bored in class because Rowling's magic system is boring as hell 2 months ago:
Knew enough to understand slavery is bad
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 2 months ago:
Look through the manual to see if there’s a way to adjust the angle of your lights, or take it into a service center to see if they can adjust it. I’ve never owned a Tesla so I can’t speak on that with any certainty, but all the other cars I’ve driven have had relatively easy ways to adjust the headlight angle.
- Comment on FuckYourHeadlights - A community for people to organise and vent about ridiculously bright lights 2 months ago:
Our problem is not that we drive small cars (I drive a Focus). It’s that newer vehicles are enormous, usually for no reason.
Nearly every time I get on the highway, I’m tailgated by someone in some newer massive SUV where the headlights are at the same height as my rear view mirror. I don’t understand why those vehicles are allowed to operate on the same roads as me. They aren’t safe. By default, stock, out of the factory, they blind the other drivers in reasonable cars. I can’t imagine what getting into a wreck with one would do to my car (and me in it).
- Comment on 1987 2 months ago:
Right? And let’s be honest, I bet that hotdish is fire
- Comment on Common Ground 3 months ago:
We have to agree where we ARE before we stand a chance to agree about what we do from here.
We don’t do that with self-delusion and deflecting blame though.
The blame doesn’t rest solely on conservatives for this current situation, sure. Some of it falls on the huge number of people who “protest voted”. Some of it rests on the Democratic party for pretending to be the party of the people, but really just being a milquetoast center-right corporatist party that serves the same masters as the Republican party.
For any of us to “come together” and “agree about what we are to do from here,” for any one group to trust the other, we all have to come to terms with and accept our share of the blame. Deflecting blame or deluding ourselves with rhetoric like “we didn’t do anything wrong, we were just lied to” is unproductive. No side will trust the other as long as anyone is still making excuses for themselves.
Be adults, look inward instead of projecting blame, accept responsibility for your actions, and then maybe we can come together to fight against fascism.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 3 months ago:
Nah I don’t really want you to keep talking to me
- Comment on People never understand the sacrifices I make for them. 3 months ago:
I am trying to focus on longer-term strategy and removing barriers for my team
This is literally the pragmatic, by-the-book definition of a scrum master lol
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 3 months ago:
The only one ignoring things is you. You’re ignoring my whole point. Which is that your personal bar for enshittification is lower than any of the definitions we’ve given in this thread, because it’s basically “anything I think is bad is enshittification”
- Comment on I love the future. 3 months ago:
You get all these meatheads with delusions of being some sort of Spartan badass because they took 300 as a documentary.
And are either too stupid or too ashamed to recognize all the thinly veiled homoerotic themes
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 3 months ago:
It was a feature that they added a long time ago, and it doesn’t interfere with or worsen the experience of buying, organizing, or playing my video games… Plenty of other products and services out there have features that some don’t like or don’t use, but that isn’t the same thing as enshittification.
I have explained it though
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 3 months ago:
I’m not ignoring anything, I just don’t agree that the steam marketplace, and all the stuff you’re talking about related to the steam marketplace, fits either of our definitions of enshittification.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 3 months ago:
Eh, maybe I’m being pedantic, but I still don’t really see how the addition of the steam marketplace is an example of the steam platform declining in quality. It was a feature that they added a long time ago, and it doesn’t interfere with or worsen the experience of buying, organizing, or playing my video games. Sure it’s a needless addition (in our opinions), but one that I can easily ignore because it’s so isolated from the main product. Plenty of other products and services out there have features that some don’t like or don’t use, but that isn’t the same thing as enshittification. And I feel like the spam would happen regardless of if the marketplace was there or not. That feels more like a moderation problem, not an enshittification problem.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 3 months ago:
Some of these are minor inconveniences, but that’s how enshittification happens. It’s little, creeping annoyances that get worse and worse until it starts to make people look for alternatives.
Ok, maybe my definition of enshittification is off then. I thought it was when some company offers some product/service for a certain price (or free), then gradually removes features from that product/service while increasing the price. Am I off?
If that definition is right, I don’t understand how the steam marketplace, a completely optional (borderline tangential) part of the steam platform, qualifies as enshittification.
And I’m not trying to defend the steam marketplace, I think it’s stupid and terrible and at minimum needs age restrictions. But like, you can absolutely just not use it and your experience using the steam platform is totally unaffected.
- Comment on Valve adds "all the Team Fortress 2 client and server game code" to its Source mod tools, letting modders "build completely new games based on TF2" and publish them on Steam 3 months ago:
Maybe I’m misunderstanding you, or what enshittification is, but how is the steam marketplace an example of it?
- Comment on Current chain of command 3 months ago:
Eh, Vance being invisible so far is just usually how it is for VPs. I think people forget that the role of the VP is basically just two things:
- Break ties in the Senate
- Remain alive so they can take over if the president dies
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 3 months ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on China renewables capacity additions soared in 2023, growing more than four times faster than the G7 3 months ago:
a space-based solar collection array
I’d like a source on that, not because I don’t believe you, but because that genuinely sounds like a cool and interesting thing to read about