A_Random_Idiot
@A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 6 hours ago:
Same.
And this spurs me to bring up the lie of digital purchases… Which was sold to us on the promise of cheap games. We were promised that if we gave up on physical games, then the devs/publishers wouldnt have to pay for printing manuals/boxes, packaging of games, warehouses to store them, and the cost of shipping to get them to the stores/consumers… Which meant they could sell games for lower costs, that game prices would plumet to 25-30 dollars for brand new day 1 releases… and devs/publishers would still get a bigger chunk of revenue/more money from that, than from the old 50 dollar physical big box games with all the feelies, delicious manuals, disks that meant you can install the game however you want, whenever you want, etc etc.
Instead, what digital purchases have gotten us is… a total lack of ownership, that our games can be taken away from us at any time, for any reason, because buried in all the legalese we don’t “own” anything, we just have a “lease”…and for that, we’ve been given the right to pay 10-20 dollars more for games than what they cost during the physical game era, and the risk of the platform disappearing and taking our or games with it (which I’ve already ran afoul of and drastically altered how i buy games)
- Comment on hygiene 17 hours ago:
Yeeup… That kind of shit (in both the literal and figurative meaning of the word) is why I hate any public/shared/not my at home shower.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 17 hours ago:
I miss box games.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 20 hours ago:
Steam is still slow and buggy.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Steam used to be slick and fast before it changed over to chromium and started trying to become a social media platform
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 20 hours ago:
No, Counterstrike 2 came out a couple years ago.
before that was global offensive.
the counter strike that came with HL2 was Counterstrike Source.
CS:S was such a phenominal game… So many years of nights spent staying up till 2am playing on the same server, with the same guys… and all of them gone now, like tears in the rain…
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 20 hours ago:
I still have my original box/CDs too… i have no idea where they are, but I know i have them…somewhere.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 20 hours ago:
That bridge level still, to this day, fires every one of my acrophobic neurons.
- Comment on hygiene 20 hours ago:
I am glad to have, now, a permanant place of residence within the warehouse of your trauma. 💩
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 23 hours ago:
I’m old enough that I got HL2 in a retail box, when it was new.
and the fucking disks installed the game encrypted, and I could not use my computer until the next day, due to it thrashing my HDD and CPU so hard to decrypt the files that my computer was functionally useless that evening, and overnight.
- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 23 hours ago:
surprised there hasnt been a linux distro called SiskOS yet.
- Comment on hygiene 1 day ago:
5 bucks says he doesnt wipe his ass after shitting, or wash his ass in the shower, so has a perpetual skidmark, possibly even full blown melted toblerone.
- Comment on hygiene 1 day ago:
yep, if showers smell like shit, its cause theres shit somewhere.
- Comment on hygiene 1 day ago:
There are an awful lot of men that are so insecure and terrified that they think touching their own ass to wipe/wash it makes them gay… So they don’t wipe/wash their ass at all.
And thats why they, the things they touch, and the areas they congregate, always smell like shit.
It smells like shit, because it IS shit.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 2 days ago:
Now this is the kind of movement I can get behind.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 4 days ago:
Sounds like hes just tired of dealing with idiots.
Which I can sympathise with.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 4 days ago:
No, Maintainer comes off as pissed off for dealing with a lot of headaches created by others creating a version he doesnt support, and doesnt want, yet is dealing with all the backlash and headache of.
and to try to stem the tied, he created a package just for those people… and they refuse to use it, continuing to use the broken version, and bombarding him with headaches over something that he, again, does not control.
Only liars would say they wouldnt be pissed off dealing with such a situation.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 4 days ago:
its some serious cyberpunk 2077 shit.
I can see someone slinging a cyberdeck pinging a drink machine to infiltrate the LAN.
- Comment on Slurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp 4 days ago:
And it still should be.
Cause its stupid. This is even dumber than walgreens replacing freezer doors with LCD screens that don’t let you see whats inside.
- Comment on Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster 6 days ago:
very often, the storebrand is usually the namebrand product with a different wrapper.
- Comment on Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there 1 week ago:
Are we wagering this absurdity is built on projection?
cause I’m wagering this absurdity is built on them projecting.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 1 week ago:
Believing women dosnt mean just acting blindly on a womans word and nothing more.
Believing women means intiating proper procedures, starting investigations, and gathering the facts and evidence, impartially and without prejudice.
So yes, We need the epstein files, even if we believe women, because they are evidence that, in all likelyhood, supports their claims.
Convicting based upon words sworn under oath and with no facts to back it up but feelings and outage has lead to a lot of overturned verdicts and innocent lives ruined.
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 2 weeks ago:
be a racist piece of shit with the emotional maturity of a 12 year old with fetal alcohol syndrome?
- Comment on Scientists make game-changing breakthrough that could slash costs of solar panels: 'Has the potential to contribute to the energy transition' 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, Don’t put the solar farms in meadows, or on mountains. put them on warehouse roofs, over highways, over parking lots, on government buildings, etc etc.
- Comment on People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people 3 weeks ago:
Cause Americans are obsessed with Rugged Individualism.
If you are in trouble, you don’t accept help, much less ask for it. You pull yourself up by your bootstraps and turn your fortunes around with grit and determination using nothing more than the loose change in your pocket.
Thats how anyone that needs help became nothing more than social parasites leeching off the rugged individualistic success of their betters.
Thats why Americans, on the whole, have all but erased empathy and good will towards others.
Its why 1/3rd of the country actively votes for weak, pathetic fascists who poorly playact as strong man. Its why 1/3rd of the country didnt bother voting, because they have no problem with fasciatic strongmen punishing the weak and the other.
The New Religion of the American Orthodoxy is basically “Fuck you, Got Mine”.
- Comment on YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process 3 weeks ago:
When it comes to tankies/rightwing/etc/etc I always assume a Reverse Hanlons Razor. Never attribute to stupidity what can be adequately explained by malice.
- Comment on The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us 3 weeks ago:
other companies arent engineering serial numbers and other identity information into every component, even shit as small as halleffect sensors, so it cant be taken from a damaged device to repair a differnt device of the same make and model.
To act like what apple does is an industry standard is nothing but blatant apple fanboy propaganda.
- Comment on The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us 3 weeks ago:
You and I both know that Apple doesnt do this shit for cost efficiency.
They do it to make make shit worse for consumers and “unauthorized” repair services.
- Comment on Grok AI to be available in Tesla vehicles next week, Elon Musk says 3 weeks ago:
Will Tesla autodrive have a sudden surge of crashing into Synagogues and jewish pedestrians?
- Comment on The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us 3 weeks ago:
it never ceases to amaze me the amount of time, energy and money apple spends engineering things to be worse for customers.
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 3 weeks ago:
That sounds super useful for simulator games.