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- Comment on "People were just not ready for" Starfield, says game's composer as he talks "visionary" Todd Howard 6 days ago:
I honestly don’t remember, a cursory search told me $70 but regardless of which it wasn’t worth it then and it’s barely worth $15 now, from what I know of the game. Tons of different games (No Man’s Sky, Outer Worlds 1 & 2, Elite: Dangerous to name a few) do different parts of Starfield 100x better than Starfield does it, often for less money. I can have a far more enjoyable time playing a mixture of those games than by playing a half-baked Bethesda attempt that does all of it – from the roleplaying to the space exploration to the combat – badly.
- Comment on "People were just not ready for" Starfield, says game's composer as he talks "visionary" Todd Howard 6 days ago:
if by that you mean people were not ready to pay $70 for a giant steaming pile of shit, then yes, they were not ready for it.
- Comment on public service 1 week ago:
Dealing with that level of performative bullshit is genuinely agonizing to me. LinkedIn is like my idea of personal hell – everyone, everywhere, up their own ass and completely full of shit, all the time – and I have resolved to never have a net worth or job title that would necessitate using it.
- Comment on Sometimes I wonder if the subtext of religion is; if you join one youre telling on yourself that you can easily be manipulated. 1 week ago:
“GOD made that butthole.”
- Comment on Jason Is Well-Done 1 week ago:
What about the mass of the ass, beauty of the cutie, direction of the erection, dimension of the extension, the motion of the ocean and the size of the rise? All factors must be accounted for and kept in perfect balance in relation to one another, you can’t just give half the formula and then ask the rest of us to extrapolate.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 1 week ago:
Wait, YouTube’s idea of punishing ad-block is removing the most toxic, worthless part of the site?
Nobody tell them. Not one fucking word. We might even get them to remove Shorts, too, if we pretend this is a bad thing.
- Comment on Reports suggest that Windows 2 weeks ago:
Could they suggest something else instead?
- Comment on I wonder when someone is gonna make a parody porn called "The Gooners" based on the 1980s movie "The Goonies"? 2 weeks ago:
You know, it costs nothing to not put that idea into words. It also would’ve been entirely free to not put that idea on the internet where it can fester.
And yet, regrettably, here we are.
- Comment on If someone tells you that communism has led to famines in the USSR and China, that it doesn't have any incentives and that anyone who supports it use products of capitalism, how do you counter this? 3 weeks ago:
the world could genuinely really use a “better than both” system right now, before capitalism kills the planet and then the planet kills us.
having said that, I am not certain how one would even begin to build a system that assholes can not exploit. Assholes will always exist, and frequently team up to be bigger, more effective assholes to everyone else. Communism fails for this simple reason, humans are corruptible. Capitalism is a “winning” system (until it isn’t) for assholes and few others. How do you even begin to formulate a system that works for everybody (or most everybody), that does not just disincentivize or punish but make it entirely infeasible for bad actors to undermine it or game it? One that doesn’t allow starving children and billionaires to exist at once?
Anarchism is all well and good in a world where there are no other governments, but I doubt we get from here, where we are now, to universal mutual aid open bordered bliss, without a lot of kicking and screaming from the die-hard capitalists (read: very successful assholes) of the world. So there must be formulated some system that can compete and exist, not just survive but thrive; in a world filled with manipulative bad actors, entire foreign governments comprised of them and those home-grown; while not being susceptible to the same hollowing out of government function/principles or being conquered militarily.
it’s a discussion worth having, certainly, but I doubt it’s one that would bear fruit in our lifetimes. Sure, I know the divine right of kings ended, and hell, I might even be sitting in a front row seat for watching the end of American democracy – who knows what’ll implode next – but hoping for the end of assholes in power, being able to amass incredible power, something seemingly older than the wheel and recorded history? seems like a reach.
- Comment on No, really, I will! 3 weeks ago:
I, too, remember candleja
- Comment on Every so often, it's important for our community to pause, heal, and reflect together on what's truly important and why we're all here. 4 weeks ago:
IT’S NOT DIFFERENT AT ALL, IS IT STEVE?
- Comment on Developer claims to have built an autonomous AI system that can earn money, pay for its own computing, improve its tools, and even copy itself without human approval 4 weeks ago:
“the birth of superintelligent life”
Whoever wrote this couldn’t huff their own farts harder if they tried.
- Comment on thank you Boris 4 weeks ago:
Boris sounds like a cool guy, I wish I had a Boris.
- Comment on Discord Users Threaten Exodus Over Age Verification Face Scan Controversy 5 weeks ago:
I would unironically sooner become an actual hermit and never socialize again than give these cretins my ID or even trust that they’ll delete an age verification photo. Knowing Discord? yeah, no, absolutely fucking not
- Comment on grass 😾 5 weeks ago:
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Comment on I detect no errors of logic here 5 weeks ago:
Not to mention, fully consenting Latinas! I know “not being a rapist” is a really low bar to clear, but for a wealthy, male, politically-connected American in 2026? Fantastic. Wonderful. Groundbreaking.
- Comment on US | Trump Says He’ll Only Accept 2026 Midterms If He Deems Them “Honest” 1 month ago:
“Today, Donald Trump began laying the groundwork to call the midterm elections fraudulent.”
Just drop the bullshit, c’mon.
- Comment on 'Scowling Void of Pure Nothingness': Critics Destroy $75 Million Melania Trump Documentary | Common Dreams 1 month ago:
the same way the Trump family obtains most things they want, fraud.
- Comment on Poor Jeremy 1 month ago:
Careful, if the Republicans get wind of this they’ll start calling snails a woke, radical trans plot.
- Comment on YSK Tips for a Winter Storm 1 month ago:
I’ve found having a cotton t-shirt as a base to actually help when wearing layers, as the cotton wicks away any sweat from my skin and keeps me feeling generally drier and therefor warmer. Also helps if you find wool or other outer layers itchy. You’re right to not wear additional layers of cotton fabric, though.
- Comment on Opera GX Gaming Browser Confirms Native Linux Version 1 month ago:
Now for the million dollar question: is anyone who’s smart enough to be daily driving Linux, simultaneously dumb enough to daily drive a “gaming browser”?
- Comment on Rules for a gun fight 1 month ago:
it’s just the usual “hurr durr anything smaller than .45 is for girls” bullshit. Usually espoused by the sort of ancient old farts who remember carrying one in WWII, Korea or Vietnam and who dislike the general shift to smaller bullets going faster because they don’t understand terminal ballistics.
- Comment on MK Ultra 2: Electric Boogaloo 1 month ago:
Precisely what I mean. If it were a high enough dose to notice, we’d all be tripping balls. If it weren’t, I would assume everyone to just be mildly more pleasant. And uh… that is absolutely not what is happening. Nobody is pleasant right now. At all.
- Comment on MK Ultra 2: Electric Boogaloo 1 month ago:
I’m like 50% certain (as someone who has not partaken in the substances which I’m about to talk out my ass regarding) that OOP must’ve simply meant something less… kosher, shall we say – PCP? Bath salts? Cocaine? Some other drug that would actually account for the insanity? As far as I know LSD is a vastly more pleasant experience than whatever the fuck is going on in the world right now, unless you’re taking really massive doses, in which case… I think things would be arguably less coherent, though you’ve absolutely got me stumped as to how the current news cycle could be more insane than it already is.
- Comment on MK Ultra 2: Electric Boogaloo 1 month ago:
I’d like to think I’d notice if the world suddenly went all kaleidoscope on me, actually.
- Comment on Amazon's once-hailed fantasy MMO New World will vanish from servers in a year's time 2 months ago:
I had a friend gift this to me, according to steam I played it for 14 hours, and all I can say is that it is thoroughly meh. I barely remember it.
- Comment on Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted' 2 months ago:
I’ll never get over how some people whiteknight for soulless corporations that not only don’t give a fuck about them but actively hold them with contempt, yes, the internet is a silly place.
- Comment on Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted' 2 months ago:
no, you don’t understand, as Take Two and R* quite happily also take down free mods.
- Comment on Bully Online, the ambitious mod that brought multiplayer and more to Rockstar's classic school sim, shuts down a month after launch: 'This was not something we wanted' 2 months ago:
for the umpteenth time, quit making mods for games that are developed by asshats. Take Two/R* very clearly don’t want a healthy community surrounding and supporting their games as evidenced by virtually every decision they make regarding community modding efforts, stop trying to give them one; spend your time making mods for better games.
- Comment on Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First 2 months ago:
No no, you’ll need one-ounce slugs if you want to hole-punch any kevlar.