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- Comment on I know. Somehow, I've always known. 1 day ago:
Wasn’t it implied (also in the obi wan series) that they needed to separate them literally as much as possible? So not just planetary, but also by the very walk of life, and by all reason, they shouldn’t have ever crossed paths, even accidentally. If they were both paupers on different planets and physically passed by each other, they might talk, but by separating them by class, even if they walked by each other, one is literal royalty and the boundary would be immense.
So that they eventually crossed paths by fate, shows the power and will of the force to bring good people together or some bullshit.
- Comment on Honey, I Shrunk The Vids - a Windows transcoding frontend for FFMPEG 1 day ago:
Ngl, it all reads as ffmpreg now. I had to look at it like four times before it didn’t look like ffmpreg
- Comment on https://www.androidauthority.com/desktop-mode-march-pixel-drop-3646069/ 2 days ago:
Google, a decade late to the party.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 2 days ago:
The infernal machine devours itself.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 2 days ago:
Jesus Christ.
The Microslop train doesn’t stop. It doesn’t falter. It doesn’t slow.
Microslop gon give it to ya.
- Comment on bold words 4 days ago:
Barium Pupitar Kupfer
- Comment on American Foreign Policy 1 week ago:
Asking for a friend
- Comment on Giant 'spiderwebs' on Mars contain tiny egg-like structures that scientists 'can't quite explain,' new photos reveal 1 week ago:
Read headline: :C
Look at image: :shrug
- Comment on What brings you peace in your life? 1 week ago:
Oh fuck I didn’t see what comm this was. Brb editing
- Comment on What brings you peace in your life? 1 week ago:
Orgasms, novelty, socializing with people I love, focusing really hard on something I deem productive or valuable to me
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 1 week ago:
The implications and nuances of this lawsuit are so incredibly deep and ripple so far, that anybody on here or anywhere else that says they strongly feel one way or the other is either completely full of shit, has an ulterior motive, or has a personal stake somehow.
This lawsuit, when deeply thought about, is the opposite of simple. The more you know, the messier it gets.
- Comment on Talking to new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty — "This team has brought it back before, and I'm here to help us do it again." 1 week ago:
You, too. What an absolutely toxic and unhelpful thing to say to somebody.
- Comment on Talking to new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty — "This team has brought it back before, and I'm here to help us do it again." 1 week ago:
Chill. This isn’t Reddit. People are allowed to express themselves or go on tangents here. No need to be an asshole.
- Comment on Talking to new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty — "This team has brought it back before, and I'm here to help us do it again." 1 week ago:
Black pilled. But probably based. What if she is AI?
- Comment on Talking to new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma and CCO Matt Booty — "This team has brought it back before, and I'm here to help us do it again." 1 week ago:
I’m convinced it won’t happen.
We’ve seen it age and age again, the young people and new people are too ignorant and weak. The only way is through learned family values, which take far too long to impart. Maybe, once the gaming community settles and all parents who vote with their wallet tell their kids to vote with their wallet…
The rate at which young people appear and give leeway to companies catering to inexperienced kids enforces a no-consequences for zero innovation and continuously evolving dark patterns.
We have to solve the company bad behavior problem a different way.
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 1 week ago:
This is a mess. I’ve rewritten this a bit of this and added sections and removed sections. The gist of what I think is just that I have a lot of mixed feelings about all of this, and it’s a very VERY complex topic that I just want to be done with…
In addition to asking Valve to modify or eliminate its loot box system, the New York suit asks for Valve to make “full restitution to consumers” for the disgorgement of “all monies” received from its gambling system, and for fines of “three times the amount of its gain.” Ars Technica has reached out to Valve for comment.
Lol.
Okay, so,
- Loot boxes, like other forms of gambling, can lead to addiction and result in real harm. But Valve’s loot boxes are particularly pernicious because they are popular among children and adolescents, who are lured into opening loot boxes by the prospect of winning expensive virtual items that convey status in the gaming world. Research has shown that children who are introduced to gambling are at a significantly higher risk of developing gambling addictions later in life.
I read the “nature of the lawsuit” part of the lawsuit, as I think it’s enough to understand the gist of what’s going on. The lawsuit is like 50 pages long and I’m not a lawyer, I’m just laying in bed with my eyelids getting heavy.
Basically, 1-11, and 13 are entirely THIS IS GAMBLING with sprinkles of GAMBLING IS BAD. Like, yeah, no fucking duh. 14 states:
- As described further below, Valve’s actions violate Article I, Section 9 of the New York Constitution, and Sections 220.05 and 220.10 of New York’s Penal Law.
Looks like article I section 9 is ‘gambling is illegal in ny’. It doesn’t immediately say what 220.05/10 are, but going off the really big focus on THIS IS GAMBLING AND GAMBLING IS ILLEGAL trend, I can guess what it says.
So, why the fuck is ny going after valve NOW? Why not… I dunno, a decade ago? This is so weird! And why not sue ALL the companies that have been doing it for many decades now? Niantic, Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, the hoards of gacha games and trading card games? It can’t really be that the valve definition really just hit some specific conditions, like being otherwise useless skins, most crate opens are worth basically nothing, etc. can it?
And then mixed in is a pretty heavy amount of protect the children. Which… Yes, virtue signal, but yes. Valve shouldn’t allow children to be gambling. But also, I think this is a case of a mean-well situation that developed in the wrong way. Valve needs to check themselves and fix this, 100%.
If you don’t know, the skins thing developed over probably more than a decade. It was a way for modders and skinners to legitimately make money, rather than be barred by copyright. Valve would share in the profit, everybody would see your custom skins rather than just you, it would give everyone a sense of uniqueness, and wouldn’t unbalance the game because it was just cosmetics. Then rarity and logistics, and then it spiraled out of control. It was never meant to be “hey let’s give kids gambling addiction and steal their money”, Valve is one of the very few companies that that ISN’T their goal, as is very evidenced by anybody who knows anything about them. They aren’t EA. It’s unfortunate that it ended up this way, with other companies only seeing the dollar signs, with valve landing on it where they have, with the building hate for them.
I had a bunch of other stuff written out, mostly thoughts as I went. I have many thoughts on this. I think Valve should stop lootboxes and set an example as a leader of the industry.
I’m sad to see Valve get kicked so much, and would be devastated to see Steam and Valve fall (muh library!). They generally do try to serve consumers well, it’s very clear. They single handedly saved pc gaming by offering a quality service better than piracy. Always on DRM was the trade. I hope they can innovate and do better without further dark patterns. Maybe this lawsuit is just what they need to get their shit together. Maybe it’ll destroy them and a bunch of actually shitty companies will continue to be the shittiest companies to ever grace the earth in Valve’s place. I have a very bad feeling about this.
Valve, for all our sakes, do better, plz fix. Before this gets worse.
- Comment on me btw 1 week ago:
More like ffmpreg amirite?
- Comment on Discord concede they mucked up their age verification system rollout, delays it, will still make some of you do it 1 week ago:
Discord has bad judgement and are bad people.
Like Trumpers, they only express regret when punished, then turn around and IMMEDIATELY triple-down.
Discord is 100% AI reading everything you do through their app, profiling you and collecting data, and they want MORE.
Bad bad bad bad bad
- Comment on i unapologetically love male pits 1 week ago:
Bidets traditionally do to my knowledge. Mine doesn’t, but I don’t have the space to get one of those nice, porcelain standalone ones with the dedicated soap and dedicated towel that I’ve seen in videos online.
Someday… 🥺
- Comment on i unapologetically love male pits 1 week ago:
I think for those people that’s like a fine developed umami
- Comment on i unapologetically love male pits 1 week ago:
Pits strong and vulnerable and powerful and flexing bicep and posing and ribs and waist and little hairs and smelly warmth gahhh i need to sink my teeth in
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 1 week ago:
AI music has entered the chat
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Oooo, I didn’t know that. That’s fancy
- Comment on Day 588 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
In Sync, I only see the first picture of the post until I see the full contents of the post…
I looked at the picture and thought “what the fuck are they playing?” Lmao
- Comment on Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers 2 weeks ago:
Ah. I miss that good ui. Such a good ui. There’s a reason it’s still around on all the utility backend and admin stuffs.
- Comment on Microsoft is withdrawing support for older printers' drivers 2 weeks ago:
Microslop gonna Microslop
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 2 weeks ago:
Steal the RAM from the rich and give to the poor
- Comment on I'm glad i grabbed this wii fit balance board from the trash a decade ago, wow! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Every so often, it's important for our community to pause, heal, and reflect together on what's truly important and why we're all here. 2 weeks ago:
Too much usa-centric politics -> corn as a protest
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 2 weeks ago:
Jesus fuck.