swordgeek
@swordgeek@lemmy.ca
- Comment on The real reason OS/2 flopped shaped modern software 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure if the article had a point, or if it was just scattered fragments of thoughts.
Regardless, I always felt that the death of OS/2 came later, and was due to IBM’s inability or unwillingness to market their products. “We’re IBM! People will flock to us and wait for our release schedule!” But it didn’t happen, and they lost all of their momentum.
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 2 weeks ago:
If you want to learn drums well, skip the gimmicks and toys, and get a solid practice pad (Remo, Vic Firth, etc.). You can learn a lot - and can practice fundamentals endlessly with that.
- Comment on Should I get a drum kit, or a pressure washer? 2 weeks ago:
Drums are more fun. Music is more fun, and will last you a lifetime.
But absolutely make sure you factor in the cost of lessons.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 2 weeks ago:
Yes.
Really and truly, yes.
- Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 2 weeks ago:
Welcome!
You’ll find that the volume here is much (much much MUCH!!!) lower than reddit. As frustrating as this can be, the only solution is to stand and create more content. More worthwhile posts, more comments, more interaction. At its height, that was exactly what made reddit successful.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 2 weeks ago:
System Shock, the remake by Nightdive.
I’m old enough that I bought and played the original SS back in the day, and it was transformative.
- Comment on Is there any way to search through all the games on Steam for titles that don't use the word "dystopian" anywhere in the description? 2 weeks ago:
Just search for Slime Rancher.
- Comment on Meta says it’s mistakenly moderating too much 1 month ago:
They already have no problem promoting violence and white supremacy. How much worse is it going to get?
- Comment on Pokémon Go Players Have Unwittingly Trained AI to Navigate the World 1 month ago:
So slavery, then. No surprise.
- Comment on If media corporations worked together to convince you that a half decent politician is evil incarnate but the politician that helps corporations extort the people is good, what would it look like? 1 month ago:
This is questioning in bad faith, and is asked to push a narrative.
Even if I agree with the narrative, it doesn’t belong here.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 1 month ago:
Two short answers: Tradition and simplicity.
If you have different names, which one do the kids get? Also, it’s sometimes challenging to fill in school forms when your kid has a different last name than you.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
That is probably true up to a point - but there is also a point where some ‘honest opinions’ shouldn’t be tolerated or debated. The Nazis marching through Columbus two days ago don’t need to be respectfully convinced, they need to be put down however possible.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s not something you do, it’s something that society is. Japan has a long cultural history of a few things that are absolutely foreign to Western culture (not just the USA, but Canada, Great Britain, Australia, most of western Europe, etc.)
Even in a high-stakes game of consumer-capitalism, Japan has a sense of ethics that just isn’t present elsewhere. A CEO might pull the same shady shit in Japan as they would in the US, but if they’re caught, they still mostly take responsibility - resigning in disgrace, rather than “resigning” to another company with a fat bonus, which is what we see elsewhere. I mean, three years ago McDonalds actually made news for clawing back a $105M severance package from their disgraced ex-CEO, who was having an affair with several of his employees. The fact of the matter is that he initially got the package, no matter what he did.
Likewise, there is an expectation of acceptable behaviour in Japan. There are all sorts of circumstances where a blind eye is turned, but they’re oddly strict - and sketchy behaviour outside of that is considered reprehensible.
So can we? Maybe in theory, but we’d have to revamp our culture - and in a direction opposite to the trajectory it’s currently on.
- Comment on U.S. Copyright Office rejects DMCA exemption to support game preservation 2 months ago:
Interesting points, but you’re missing an important point: This isn’t necessarily about the definition of what SHOULD be or MUST be preserved, but whether studios should be allowed to PREVENT it from being preserved by those who want to.
- Comment on What does this emoji mean? Is this a British thumbs up? 2 months ago:
Hang Loose (both gesture and phrase) goes back to at LEAST the early '70s.
- Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child? 2 months ago:
First cousin, once removed.
For the record, ‘once removed’ refers to the generation. Your cousin’s grandkid would be your first cousin twice removed.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 3 months ago:
I get what you’re saying, but it never works like that.
You said it yourself: “I hope reddit exists to…be a breeding ground…” And it will. The worst of humanity will collect and fester and grow in numbers. And what’s going to happen then? Some will spill over to here, and other ‘safe’ communities.
There’s no way we can thrive and simultaneously isolate ourselves from assholery; and by encouraging it to thrive elsewhere, we’re only expanding its power and reach; and at the same time, enriching and empowering asshole billionaires like spez, Zuck, Musk, etc.
No, we need to fight them. We need to wade hip-deep in the shit to shovel it down the drain, rather than hoping it’ll just go away on its own.
Look at it another way: If you have a garden, what happens if you designate one corner as “the weed corner?” It grows, spreads, and takes over the rest of the garden.
- Comment on Meta won't say whether it trains AI on smart glasses photos 3 months ago:
Let’s be honest. The company won’t admit to it, but of COURSE they are.
Remember, Facebool was founded on the premise of invading your privacy, and have gotten worse ever since. They’re not suddenly going to stop fir any reason.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 3 months ago:
Yep, agreed. The biggest problem there is that Meta is generally not making life worse for its users than they’re used to. Facebook and Instagram are giving you almost the same shitty experience you got a decade ago.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 3 months ago:
Nope.
If you encourage it, it will continue to fester and rot, and the entire internet will lower their expectations.
We need to destroy these companies. We need to smash them to pieces, and hey guess what - it’s going to hurt a bit! We need to be prepared to stand up against evil, corrupt, racist, bigoted robber barons. We need to make some sacrifices to fix the internet.
Burn the fuckers to the ground, and let spez rot in a hole.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 3 months ago:
It’s true that Qobuz pays more per stream, although I’ve heard that they pay an amalgamated sum to the label instead of direct payment by artist.
Furthermore, while MQA was a bit of a bait-and-switch (basically lossy versions of much higher quality), Tidal always offered pure lossless as well.
Qobuz apparently has a better classical catalog, but worse customer support.
Basically, I’ve found Tidal to be - at this point - a bit ahead of Qobuz. Not a real complaint, just a “if I had to choose…” opinion.
- Comment on The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. 3 months ago:
Short summary: Tidal is the best overall.
Balancing the content, quality, and amount paid to artists, I put it on top.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 3 months ago:
There’s still one protest possible.
LEAVE REDDIT!!! GET THE FUCK OFF OF IT! LET IT DIE. MAKE IT DIE!
Same with twitter.
- Comment on Why isn't apple a popular ice cream flavor? 3 months ago:
Little boutique place near us has an “Apple Cheddar Pie” ice cream in the fall. It’s never quite as good as you expect. Gotta try it again this year, to see how they’ve changed it.
(On the other hand, their Lemon Curd Blueberry is one of the greatest things ever served in a cone in the history of humankind.)
- Comment on I make games and this literally happened to me this morning 3 months ago:
I guess I shouldn’t be expected to pay for games until my total is over a hundred bucks then?
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- Comment on What's going on at Mozilla these days? 3 months ago:
Capitalism, fucking everything up, same as everywhere.
- Comment on Does the GOP Stick Together so tightly to hide the fact that a large majority of them are involved in Pedophilia? 3 months ago:
You’re not here to ask a good-faith question, you’re here to state an opinion or theory.
- Comment on Are we ever going to see a remake of any Bethesda game? 4 months ago:
Have you played Morrowind? Best Elder Scrolls game by far, in my opinion.
And so hard to play, so yeah.
Not gonna happen. It’s a lot of work, and they’d rather spend it making new games (for legitimate reasons).
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 4 months ago:
She is female.
She is black.
She is strong.
She is not a puppet.She is EVERYTHING that the power structure fears, because she will be hard to control, and likely cost them a lot of money and power.