A_Random_Idiot
@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
- Comment on cleansing 1 week ago:
Damn, posting images like pixels cost 2.50 a piece to post.
- Comment on "Pro-life" and "pro-choice" aren't actually opposite positions 1 week ago:
I honestly cant tell if satire/sarcastic reply mocking the anti-abortionists, or genuine lunatic.
- Comment on 9 months after its 1.0 launch flopped, an indie dev just learned that Steam never emailed the 130,000 people who wishlisted its game 1 week ago:
yeah yeah, and if any other company had done this same thing everyone would be screaming about them just covering their ass and it doesnt change how they fucked over the dev and blah blah blah.
but Valve always gets the free pass, and people always conveniently forget that all the pro-consumer things we have like refunds are the results of lawsuits brought on by states, or the threat of regulator intervention.
Tired of this fanboy cultist shit that always gets formed around everything and anything.
Valve doesnt care about you. its not gonna take you to prom. if it thought it could get away with it, it’d fuck you 10 ways from sunday.
This isnt valve been the consumer champion , or the “goat”. its valve getting a head of a problem to control the narrative.
- Comment on Bethesda planning a Starfield space gameplay revamp to make it more rewarding 2 weeks ago:
cause they’ll fill them in with the same 11 prefabs that just spawn over and over and over again.
the worlds should have been hand crafted, and the “dungeons” been a tile based random generation.
- Comment on Starfield fans are pretty sure Bethesda just dropped the first teaser for the game's second expansion: 'We look forward to the adventures yet to come' 2 weeks ago:
Fallout 4 has over 4x the players than Starfield does at this moment, and 3x more players over the past 24 hours. a 10 year old game from the same company, beating it consistently for player count, by magnitudes is probably a good indicator that Starfield isnt popular.
Starfield steamdb.info/app/1716740/charts/
Fallout 4 steamdb.info/app/377160/charts/
A game called Amarillo’s Butt Slaper, has over double Starfields player count currently. Thats definitely bad knews for Starfields supposed popularity.
- Comment on Starfield fans are pretty sure Bethesda just dropped the first teaser for the game's second expansion: 'We look forward to the adventures yet to come' 2 weeks ago:
those powers are just so completely out of left field that when i first discovered them it immediately killed the single, already dying ember of interest I had in the game.
cause the game felt like this rather hard science ( according to its own internal setting ), going on a vast interstellar adventure to understand the weirdness that an alien precursor race that was vastly more advanced than humanity left behind… Like an medieval knight trying to understand cellphones and electricity…
but nope. Its all just boring space magic. Why does thing float? SPACE MAGIC! Why does this do that? SPACE MAGIC! Everything just ends up being SPACE MAGIC.
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 3 weeks ago:
i find it interesting that some of the most debased, vile, disgusting perverts to ever live are passing laws to force people to dox themselves just so they can see a tig ol gilf bitty.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 3 weeks ago:
The only reason adblock is even a thing is because all these adserving companies do NOTHING to police the ads that they show on their networks.
If you want to wring hands and cry, then do it about the advertisers total lack of regulation. Not about end users trying to protect themselves from porn, malware, obnoxious bullshit, and 2 hour long pragerU videos that talk about how slavery was great for black people and that they shouldnt be so bitter about the horrors thrust upon their ancestors.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 3 weeks ago:
Hes an emotionally stunted 13 year old, that thinks its funny to keep dropping/breaking things that most normal people could never afford to even touch, who is quick to criticize the wrongs of everyone else, but acts like a goddamn martyr as soon as you criticize him and his behavior.
his response to GamersNexus “being mean” by reporting facts backed up by receipts and evidence is only the tip of the iceberg.
- Comment on It's been downhill since 2020 4 weeks ago:
sept 11 was the first time the republicans seize the opportunity to put america on track for its fascist fourth reichdom fantasy.
- Comment on ‘Escape From Tarkov’ Coming To Steam In the Coming Weeks 4 weeks ago:
I cant wait to have Tarkov on steam and play a game thats flooded with hackers, thats developed buy a guy who uses his admin powers to punish people that kill him.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 5 weeks ago:
Companies are never gonna stop making and selling what idiots buy and use.
- Comment on The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software 5 weeks ago:
Honestly, smart phones being less useful in daily life is probably a good thing.
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 5 weeks ago:
Wow.
You must be a fan, to be so light and kind about it.
- Comment on Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down. 5 weeks ago:
4 days and that was the best you could come up with, a “no, u” ?
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 5 weeks ago:
Its the classic negative feedback loop.
All you hear about is bad people, doing bad things, because normal, sane, respectful, law abiding people don’t make news because who is going to make headlines like “NORMAL PERSON RESPECTS OPINION AND DOESNT HAVE A TANTRUM OVER BEING DISAGREED WITH”
So people with low critical thinking skills and an aversion to regular thinking just leap to “ALL X ARE BAD, NO EXCEPTIONS”
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 5 weeks ago:
“MEN IN THE PAST DID BAD, SO ALL MEN FOREVER GUILTY”
What a well reasoned argument.
- Comment on Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down. 1 month ago:
You sound like a jilted LTT fan that holds a grudge over Steve’s coverage.
- Comment on Gamers Nexus big story about GPU smuggling got taken down. 1 month ago:
You are the only one whining about it.
And you are whining for the stupidiest reason… That a news story focused on X, didnt deeply cover what you want of subject Y.
This is like ordering steak at a restaurant and having fucking toddler meltdown because you didnt get pancakes.
- Comment on 7 years later, Valve's Proton has been an incredible game-changer for Linux 1 month ago:
Same here.
Windows EOL is why I switched to linux.
proton is why I’ve stayed on linux.
I only have windows on my laptop atm, and thats only because of sheer laziness and the fact i dont use it much anymore… will be putting linux on it eventually, though.
- Comment on YSK There's a campaign to replace the distorted Mercator world map with the fairer Equal-Earth projection 1 month ago:
“The woke liberal left wants to changes maps to make America smaller! Cause they hate America! We will stand against this liberal assault on American sovereinty with the new Trump Map, which shows the true size of America compared to every other country! Order your new Trump Map today for 399.98!”
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 month ago:
You don’t consider reviews influencers because you are a sane person with two functioning neurons to rub together.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 month ago:
You DO realize the entire point of a review is to influence others, right?
No, the entire point of a review is to inform others.
But keep trying. I’m sure you’ll get it one day.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 month ago:
Cant even rely on reviews anymore… I forget what game it was, but there was a game had a massive pay to win scheme in the game… that was only added on launch day, so the reviewers copies didnt have it… So they gave glowing reviews on the gameplay, without the game having the pay to win store and all the gameplay nerfs that encourage using it.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 1 month ago:
subscribing to humble monthly is also a good way to amass games on the cheap. not as cheap as free, of course, but still better than most sales.
- Comment on Gen Z Is Cutting Back On Video Game Purchases 1 month ago:
Everyone is.
I don’t buy new releases anymore.
Why?
Cause the prices are getting stupid. Cause its all digital downloads with no physical product. Cause my “ownership” can be revoked at any time by the platforms whims or the platforms shutdown.
What happened to digital downloads being cheaper, anyway? Thats the promise we were sold 10+ years ago. That by sacrificing physical products, Publishers/Devs wouldnt have to pay for printing, manufacturing, shipping, storage, etc, so they’d be able to sell AAA new releases for 30 dollars, and Pub/Dev would still make more money.
And now we’re supposed to be paying 60, 70, 80 dollars or more, for these digital download games… that we don’t even own?
Fuck that. Amazing how the only promise fulfilled on moving to digital download was that pubs/devs would get more money… and they get that by skyrocketing the costs, not because of the sacrifices we made to give up boxes, disks, manuals, and ownership/
- Comment on YSK about Changing your Profile Picture to Clippy 1 month ago:
I’m sure this will work just as well as changing out avatars to green helped overthrow the iranian theocracy.
- Comment on Tucson City Council votes 7-0, unanimously to kill AI Data Center 1 month ago:
Trump will have them arrested on terrorism charges in a month…after a totally coincidental delivery of a golden idol to trump, from bezos
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 1 month ago:
yep, add me to the wooshcrew
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 1 month ago:
I think portal was supposed to be in the HL2 universe, at least at some point… obviously l4d and tf2 are not.