Dyskolos
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- Comment on The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Has Quests Exclusively Locked Behind Deluxe Edition 6 days ago:
Despite it seemingly being an actual remaster, not the usual 3-6 upscaled textures and 5 fresh new bugs, but a full price-tag plus paywalled quests? And no mods for a foreseeable future?
Pass. Maybe as warez, but…nah.
- Comment on German experiment gave people a basic monthly income – the effect on their work ethic was surprising 2 weeks ago:
Didn’t know Macau had one, and it sounds pretty nice, despite it being “too low and infrequent”. But I don’t know enough to form an opinion. At least good to know, thanks.
Iran…i meant at least half-assedly civilized countries, not those running sharia-law, death-sentence, no press-freedom, systematic discrimination of minorities etc. Can’t judge the effectiveness or the UBI there, and also don’t really care.
- Comment on German experiment gave people a basic monthly income – the effect on their work ethic was surprising 2 weeks ago:
Noone likes doing nothing. Some may very well like doing something that is not directly or instantly netting a financial gain. Which is great, as every civilized culture needs artists and such. People who’d wither in some silly office-jobs but burst of creativity. Those who may currently be forced to a useless life just to have one.
But the opposition is clear, although not honest. A happy worker is a worker I can’t oppress. If noone is always endangered of starving, who would do the jobs noone wants and are paid like shit or even dangerous?
No country will ever see a UBI. Sadly so.
- Comment on Former SIEA President Says Players Will Pay $80 For Switch 2 Games 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t it obvious that people will pay that (or anything else)? If not, why should anyone get the console to begin with?
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
Aye. But even if “most people” (I kinda doubt it) would just buy indie then, it’s fine.
Same with the current *-flations. If 10 people buy my shit for 5 bucks. Or 5 people for 10 bucks. Or just one rich idiot pays 50…nothing much changed for the seller. Except he may save time, material, shipping, operating costs and…
Even Desasters like “forspoken” haven’t seen a notable discount despite its abysmal ratings. And it’s still sold. The garbage happening with gta5 now? It’s just ridiculous what happens in the gaming-industry and they still get away with everything all the time.
If maybe 70% of people stopped buying AAA it might trigger change. But 1 idiot that buys tons of ingame-shit replaces 20 critical customers.
Actually sad. I’m a gamer since pacman and pong. And I paid 70 bucks for the cartridges back then. No regrets. Then I went pirate for fun, then went legit and now pirate again (except for indie). That’s sad. Same with streaming like Netflix.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
Lol, didn’t know the series. But I was thinking of no substance. Just a flipped bird,maybe along with some subtitles like “we hate you, you filthy stinking customer” and it would sell.
- Comment on Nintendo is Bringing Us Kicking and Screaming Into the $80 Game Era with the Switch 2 3 weeks ago:
You’re right, but it’s also annoying that many people just totally don’t care for anything, And those are what bring markets down. AAA has become such a lackluster shitfactory in the last decade it’s baffling. But they still sell their shit, prices don’t even matter. Amount of stupid DLCs don’t matter…nothing really does. They could release a game that just literally flips you the bird and IGN (and the likes) would still say 7/10. Shit gets hyped and sold. The handful of critical customers converge to zero I assume. Neglectable.
I’m lucky to have a stupidly large budget for gaming, and most often just pirate stuff or buy indie games (And donate or just buy a 10 bucks indie 8 times or gift them or whatever)
- Comment on How the Nintendo Switch 2 stacks up to the Steam Deck 3 weeks ago:
I’m totally no consolero, but why would anyone choose a switch with the limited amount of disgustingly expensive games over a steam-deck? The controllers? The color? Why?
- Comment on Take-Two DMCAs Video Of GTA5 Mod To For GTA6 Map Content 3 weeks ago:
It’s easy: Stop buying their shit. You (not OP, generally asking) still do? Then why complain?
Guess we all know that gta6 will be nice at best but riddled with microtransactions, even for single-player. It will also be the highest AAA-price amongst some special-edition with 3 days early access and one ugly cosmetic (if they’re generous). And the focus will be online. As there is the most money.
- Comment on Roblox players are going to start getting paid to watch ads 3 weeks ago:
And we will not really wonder when we’ll see how tremendously far that will be…
- Comment on SkyShowtime NL has confirmed, via a comment on their Official Facebook page, that Season 3 will arrive on August 1st. No Date for Paramount+ has been shared yet. 3 weeks ago:
Getting sonarr ready, can’t await the new season… Surprisingly good show.
- Comment on Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out 4 weeks ago:
Numbers are great, but you forgot that the vast majority just don’t care or even worse.
- Comment on Trump says U.S. will 'get Greenland,' military force may not be needed but not ruled out 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely right. These tiny “buy european”-protest are great, but won’t change anything. We’re too few. The EU needs to step up against these imperialist yokels. Should he get Greenland by force, nothing would happen. He could just do it and he knows.
- Comment on Chat, is this true? 1 month ago:
Well played sir, well played.
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
Ah come on. At first you gonna rob the house-animal of it’s basic functions. Like procreating. Then the dog goes on a leash, the cat (unless you just let it roam freely) is confined to your house. Then you’re the ultimate master of its fate. Not enough money for the extremely expensive operation needed? Euthanasia it is then. Do you feed it like it would feed itself? Or simply put, would you treat your kid the same like your dog? Does it receive the mystery-horror that is canned food? Oh and the food itself is (partly) a horribly murdered non-house-pet-animal. Doesn’t this one deserve your love and care too?
And btw I had pets once. Dogs and a cat actually. And I did everything for those lil shits up to the very last minute. But they were kinda “forced” onto me, I would never ever willingly get a pet. And however you might see this, to me it is no kind of “friendship”. It’s ownership. Literally and even legally speaking. I don’t like this concept.
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
That is literally was i was lectured on here about. History of the domestication of house-cats :) And no, i can’t imagine people actually doing that. That was my whole point.
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
I don’t understand that either, I dislike slavery, i even pay our maid double because i feel bad she works for us. But it’s not like I’d force her to, like I’d force a pet to do so.
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
How dare I, even in science-memes. Blasphemy.
- Comment on Why aren't all rooms holodecks? 1 month ago:
A) waste of energy B) horrible source of possible complications, problems and Desasters. Guess that’s already enough reasons. Good idea though.
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
Yes. Cheap labor. That’s about it. In tendency of course, not generally.
- Comment on If COBOL is so problematic, why does the US government still use it? 1 month ago:
Oh yes, and this too. “Modern” coders mostly forgot the art (necessity) of optimizing. Just because we have it plenty.
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
I’m sorry you’re so anthropomorphizing. Just because a cat purrs when it recognizes you, doesn’t mean there’s something beyond the obvious. Also, unless you’re a vegan animals rights cacti cost, what does any of your special bonds mean while opposing doomsday onto all other species. Oh right, we’re just talking of “pets”. Animals deemed worthy of our affection 😊
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
You must’ve totally misinterpreted. Of course I’d care for those close to me. Even without having any benefit for me. But those people I selected. They didn’t just wander into my house like a stray and decided my decisions. I actually work for free in my spare-time with abused people. Just because it’s a thing a civilized species should do, but sadly doesn’t.
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
They actually do. Not that this is either anything of your concern nor the point. And guess what, friends are people i care about that I CHOSE TO. They didn’t get bought in a pet-shop and were forced to be in my vicinity, nor suddenly appeared in my house as strays. You maybe see the point somewhere there.
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
I do love to interact with all kinds of species, learn from them and whatnot. I totally do. But the words “emotional connection” or “companionship” are very loaded. Most usual pets don’t care for my existence at all. Even cats would eat my dead body if they weren’t fed. A dog does form a bond, yes. But still. Why would I want that? I even despise the concept of “having a pet”. Who am I to enslave some animal to live under my reign? Spell it as romantically as you’d like, in the end, the animal does have to endure whatever you throw at it. I would not want such a “kinship”. My kind of “kinship” would end at a racoon (or whatever) coming to my house, gets fed, interacts with me, and then goes on to live the life it usually does.
I’m aware of the history of housecats, but it surely isn’t the majority of people who would just “suddenly now have a cat” because a stray wanders in. Sure there are, yet I would still wonder about the motivation of those. Which was the initial point of my reply. Would YOU do that? Having a sudden responsibility of at least like 200 bucks a month because a stray comes in?
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
From a pure biological standpoint: No, absolutely. From an intelligent being’s standpoint: Yes. Sure, the gov fails the average Joe left and right. Nothing new here, but the last thing I could think of to do anything against this, would be to add another slave-worker dreading its life to this world. Especially not mainly so it could care for my old ass when I can’t do so anymore. It’s just the epitome of egocentrism. To me at least.
Sure i can speak easy because I don’t have to worry about being cared for, but if I could not, I’d prefer a bullet to the head at the right point in time over burdening my offspring with my care. And they doing the same later, and so on and so on.
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
I have the time to do it, as I’m not force to comb my cat’s shitter for precious remnants :)
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
At least i have one, arguments including.
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
You monster! According to the replies here the correlation between liking XYZ and wanting to have and care for XYZ is a must. But yeah, we too.
- Comment on Meow 1 month ago:
I actually dunno what I would do, but I probably wouldn’t kick it out. I’d feed it and stuff, but ultimately won’t keep it.