Moneo
@Moneo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. 4 days ago:
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE
Municipal, provincial, federal. I don’t fucking know how your country works just fucking vote. Pretty pleaaaaaase.
- Comment on Study: Congress literally doesn’t care what you think. The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy. 4 days ago:
Ok, so now what? You’re going to shit on people for being depressed about the state of the world and feeling powerless because of how powerless they are?
If you want people to engage in solutions I’d recommend not belittling them for succumbing to apathy in the face of overwhelming opposition.
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 5 days ago:
You’re fired.
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 5 days ago:
Beauty.
- Comment on How long would it take to create a Pyramid today? 6 days ago:
I both anticipate and fear the expansion.
- Comment on Why do men call their father their "old man", but their "old lady" is their wife? 1 month ago:
Damn this was super informative and really well written.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 month ago:
Spending all that time and money setting up my homeserver is looking better and better every day…
- Comment on Apple introduces M4 chip 1 month ago:
It’s all
ones and zeroesfactorio once you get to the bottom. - Comment on Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such? 1 month ago:
Is bar soap really considered old fashioned now?
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 1 month ago:
You realize people watch youtube on computers not just phones right?
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 1 month ago:
They definitely push it. The mobile app has popups advertising it etc.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 1 month ago:
I appreciate this point of view but I refuse to have my limited time and energy wasted as a form of “payment”. Ads degrade the user experience of everything they touch and corporations don’t limit their ad use to “continue operations”, they push it as far as possible to suck as much money out of the product as they can.
The only “TV” I watch is hockey and it’s depressing watching the product get degraded year after year as they continue to shove as much advertising down our throats as possible in order to make more money. Fuck ads.
- Comment on Garry's Mod to remove ALL Nintendo content from the Steam Workshop due to takedown 2 months ago:
13 yo me had so much trouble with SVN. Thanks for the flashbacks.
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 2 months ago:
I agree with both your comments, but there’s something so satisfying about reading vitriol about a type of person you fucking hate. I kinda liked that he doesn’t hide his bias or disdain for these people.
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 2 months ago:
This is why I stopped buying Paradox games and just pirate them if I’m curious. No way I’m getting trapped in a fomo cycle everytime they release a minor feature for $5.
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 2 months ago:
I’ve hated Paradox ever since I bought CK2 and then realized how many minor features were locked behind $5 DLCs. I later pirated the game to play all the DLC and there is absolutely no fucking way that shit was worth what they are charging. Decided then never to buy a Paradox game again.
Compare that to the Factorio devs Wube. They released their game as a beta and then just kept updating it and adding features until it was done. Then they spent years fixing basically every bug in the game. As far as I know they never decreased the price or put the game on sale, and at one point they increased the price of their game because of inflation. Which honestly is fine, they made a great game and they are continuing to support the game, why decrease the price?
I know I’m coming off as a Wube shill but in my eyes they are ideal devs. Paradox in theory make really interesting games but in practice they poison them with shitty monetization strategies. If they just made games and added free updates for a while afterwards if they wanted to I probably would have spent a shit load on their games.
I’m ranting but as a side note, Paradox definitely abuses fomo. They make games that basically require you to watch videos of how to play and those videos inevitably mention DLCs which you then start wondering what you’re missing out on.
Fuck paradox
- Comment on The Way Forward, an update from the team behind Cities: Skylines 2 months ago:
idk if this is a stupid opinion but I feel like us, the consumers are to blame. If everyone just waited a week and read reviews before buying games then publishers wouldn’t be able to get away with this shit.
- Comment on Canada to stop sending arms to Israel, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly says 3 months ago:
Damn bro, you are so badass.
- Comment on Someone call the PETA folk 3 months ago:
MannCo
- Comment on After watching batman throw around explosives left and right I no longer believe batman doesn't use guns because of some sort of moral quandary but rather he just prefers the challenge. 3 months ago:
I think people are questioning the ethics of Batman more these days given how discussions around poverty and crime has changed. Given how crime is more often than not a result of poverty and a lack of social safety net than greed or lack of morals, the ethics of Batman bypassing the justice system^1^ and beating the shit out of henchman comes into question.
My exposure to this line of thinking was FD Signifier’s video on edge lords, but I haven’t seen other people talk about it until now.
1. the justice system also fails these people but we’ll ignore that for the sake of argument
- Comment on The later books are really something 3 months ago:
Pretty sure Denis has said he has no interest in going past the second book because of how weird it gets.
- Comment on The later books are really something 3 months ago:
Spoiler!!! >: |
- Comment on The later books are really something 3 months ago:
If I knew then my plan would be spoiled.
- Comment on The later books are really something 3 months ago:
As others said, not Paul. It’s weird as fuck, completely surreal. But it’s the most amazing book I’ve ever read. The transformation is considered weird as fuck by the characters in the book too, but it allows Frank to explore some truly unique and interesting ideas.
I don’t think I will ever again have a literary experience as satisfying as reading that book.
- Comment on The later books are really something 3 months ago:
My interpretation agrees with you. I suppose it’s possible he only saw the thousands of years of being a tyrant and was rejecting that. But I still think he saw the worm transformation.
- Comment on I don't like what I've seen, man 3 months ago:
Weird Al doesn’t have the best music.
<3
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 3 months ago:
Fuck Google but they don’t not sell your data with your name attached to it.
- Comment on Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 3 months ago:
‘Cars = Freedom Crew’, where ya at?
- Comment on Tidal’s subscription is getting simpler and cheaper — yes, you read that right 3 months ago:
I worry because like every streaming service they’ve slowly been reducing the amount they pay artists. How can they halve customer fees and not pay artists less?
- Comment on Biden Administration Is Said to Slow Early Stage of Shift to Electric Cars 4 months ago:
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