A_Random_Idiot
@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
- Comment on How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) 55 minutes ago:
Paladins Quest for the SNES.
sorry for the delayed reply
- Comment on How gamers were nickel and dimed in 80s and 90s (besides arcades) 1 day ago:
I wouldnt call this nickle and diming.
I would call this a desperate life line in a world before the internet.
I spent a week smashing my head against a problem in a SNES game before giving up and calling the Nintendo Hotline. Which gave me the the solution to my problem, and did it relatively quickly and without much wasted time… Which I found amazing, and always wondered how they had that information in the era before Gamefaqs.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
I know, its just SO HARD to not buy your latest shiny. You just cant resist, so it must be someone elses fault.
Its always someone elses fault.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Only person that thinks reading the packaging is a mountain of effort, is the kind of lazy person who buys stupid home automation devices to avoid walking five feet to turn off a lightbulb.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Very simple.
Does the product say requires an internet connection? Does it say on the packaging that it requires an app to use? Do you get home and find out it needs those things despite the packaging not saying it?
Then don’t buy it/Return it.
Its not that hard to avoid falling into this pit. But I guess if you are too lazy to walk the five feet to turn your living room lights off, maybe you’re too lazy to actually read anything… and if you’re that lazy, then I dont give a fuck about how you get screwed.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
Only people that dont want to blame the consumers for buying the shit… are the idiots that buy the shit, which is why they get so incensed when you argue that landfill shovel shit wont stop being sold until they stop buying it.
Stop buying shit, and companies will stop dumping billions into its R&D and advertising. They’re not doing that shit to waste money, They’re doing that to sell products… and if you stop buying it, they’ll stop making it.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
if consumers acted in their best interest, none of this shit would exist.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
if idiots stop buying this shit, they wont keep making it.
the problem is the idiots keep buying
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 2 weeks ago:
real sad that she’d throw away all her family and love, for the expense of crazy online conspiracy theories and obsession.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
how many times does logitech specifically, and these companies in general, have to do this before idiots stop buying this shit?
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 2 weeks ago:
I’m convinced AI content generation was created with the sole intent of manufacturing outrage material for gullible idiots.
because the rate at which these technophobic illiterates have adopted AI, and expertly use it to generate bullshit, is too high to be otherwise plausible.
- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 2 weeks ago:
Its okay to have a different name as long as your conservative.
Just ask Rafael Edward Cruz, famous Texas Magician who disappears everytime things go bad for his constituents.
- Comment on cleansing 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 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' 5 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' 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month 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"? 1 month 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"? 1 month 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.