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- Comment on Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election 4 months ago:
Unfortunately that’s a very subjective and naive point of view
- Comment on Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries. 6 months ago:
Definitely. They’ve gone for the stick instead of the carrot if they’re looking to juice PSN numbers, and gamers are a notoriously outspoken bunch.
How they thought this would just fly without an uproar after such a great launch is way beyond me.
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 6 months ago:
Hell you can even just change desktop environments to shake things up as well.
- Comment on Increase your Linux Server Internet Speed with TCP BBR Congestion-Control 6 months ago:
If this is black magic, will I be subject to some sort of witch trial in the near future?
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 7 months ago:
And it’s a million times better for people trying to troubleshoot.
1 forum post can solve many problems, rather than having to have each person ask in a support chat that’s not searchable.
- Comment on Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears 7 months ago:
Which is one of the only good reasons to still go to the site
- Comment on The majority of traffic from Elon Musk's X may have been fake during the Super Bowl, report suggests 8 months ago:
“Bots!” Musk yelled, as of conjuring them up.
A war against them he declared, but really, he was just building his own army it seems.
- Comment on Meet generation stay-at-home: ‘You don’t need to pay to go clubbing: you can sit at home and watch it on your phone’ 9 months ago:
The best part was not feeling like I should be doing something else.
I felt like sitting my lazy ass on the couch watching movies and eating popcorn was exactly where I was supposed to be for once.
- Comment on LockBit remorseless in latest children's hospital attack 9 months ago:
There’s no way they’re this stupid, right?
You can piss off the rich folks, but most regular people won’t care most of the time, especially since people don’t give a flying fuck about their data privacy anyway, but this is the point where you really put a target on your back.
Stick to casinos, finance and market makers, the general public won’t bat an eye. Go after kids at a non profit? Well good luck, no one is even pretending to be on your side anymore.
- Comment on Winlator v5.0 Released 9 months ago:
No shit! Wasn’t aware of this project.
I have a little android emulator handheld, I’m going to mess around with this to see what I can get to run.
- Comment on California tech company films bizarre video pushing return-to-office plan — Internet Brands, an El Segundo-based tech company with subsidiaries like WebMD and CarsDirect 10 months ago:
I really hope all these commercial real estate entities sink into a deep hole.
They’ll try to blame people for not wanting to come into the office, but they need to die, the parasitic clowns they are.
- Comment on California tech company films bizarre video pushing return-to-office plan — Internet Brands, an El Segundo-based tech company with subsidiaries like WebMD and CarsDirect 10 months ago:
He looks like someone started dating Bill Nye, then changed to Bill Nighy but messed up and crumpled it up and threw it away.
- Comment on As Disney pushes towards streaming profitability, Pixar to undergo layoffs in 2024 10 months ago:
“Disney had more or less trained audiences to expect big, hot Pixar content at home,” explained Brandon Katz, an entertainment industry strategist at Parrot Analytics.
I agree with the point but not necessarily the reason why.
Pixar movies used to be “can’t miss”. They were a cut above everything else, and incredibly unique. Now they’re just… Disney Pixar. They’ve watered down so much of what made them great before.
And of course Disney is cutting staff due to lack of box office success without taking an inward look that their imprinting on the company might have something to do with its downfall.
- Comment on Control - the first game to get me to turn on cheats in decades 10 months ago:
I had a lot of fun with Control but the narrative fell flat for me. It got to the point where I didn’t really care why I was running around and killing things anymore, I was just having fun doing it. Same for Alan Wake 1 for that matter. Was definitely invested in Max Payne 1-3 however.
For a game that made me break my own rules? I have been getting into more difficult games for a while, and Elden Ring was the one that started that a few years back. The deaths less frustrating as I learned not to just swing wildly as actually learn enemy moves and use dodge and parry effectively. After beating Elden Ring, making my way through most of Returnal, Bloodborne, beating a handful of other difficult games and rising to the challenge I was starting to “get it”.
Until Dead Cells. No matter how hard I tried I couldn’t translate that same strategy to 2D. I got far but found myself really spinning my tires after a while, then had to use assist after I got stuck, and my prior strategy of “leave it, come back later when you’re less frustrated” didn’t work several times in a row, but I really enjoyed the gameplay. I too had to use the assist mode for this one. It was just too difficult and I couldn’t get my head around it in 2D.
I think I blame my lack of experience with Metroidvanias. I never took to them, and though I played a lot of side scrollers, it’s a different, but similar, set of skills.
- Comment on Kagi Reacts to Backlash 10 months ago:
And yet that’s barely an accomplishment.
Just because stepping in a pile of shit is worse than stepping in a puddle doesn’t mean I should aim for every puddle I come across.
- Comment on Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as most valuable company 10 months ago:
They’ve learned forgotten more lessons than they’ll ever remember.
In the last 10 years we still see these behaviours by way of:
- changing over to a subscription model for office then dropping support for older versions to basically force people to move to their new model, locking many prior VLSC or on-premises exchange features behind very high subscriptions
- after releasing the new version of the edge browser are now using their integration in their software suite to disregard the user’s default browser choice and open in edge anyway. Having to now go through an extra menu set to tell their software to respect the default browser set in the OS
- lying about Win 10 being the final version of windows only to turn around and add a TPM requirement which automatically disqualifies a significant amount of hardware from being able to upgrade
This is just three examples off the top of my head, respectively. We could talk about ads in a paid OS, constant nags to please pretty please use their browser, breaking prior software to integrate “new” versions that don’t add any user improvements but do add significant upgrades to telemetry and usage data, and so on.
- Comment on Kagi Reacts to Backlash 10 months ago:
Brave pushed affiliate links to users without consent. They’ve even more recently been installing VPN software without user permission.
For a “user, privacy-focused browser” they’re really missing the point.
- Comment on Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as most valuable company 10 months ago:
Microsoft is a wonderful success story that being one of the first, and being parasitic, anti-competitive and anti-consumer, all while failing upwards by having some of the buggiest production releases out there on increasingly bloated software, is all that really counts to Wall Street.
And most of the world is too afraid to split off from it because it’s what they know.
- Comment on Alaska Airlines Grounds Fleet of Boeing 737 Max 9 Jets After Midair ‘Incident’ 10 months ago:
I just watched Fight Club again, and this was literally Ed Norton’s character’s job.
a x b x c
If the number for the recall or redesign is higher than the lawsuits, they don’t do it. They let people die.
The only way to fight it is to have an automatic adjustment to all unit and wrongful death payouts times 10, hell 1000. There should be no cost on a human life.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states' ID requirement would put users' privacy at risk 10 months ago:
Iphones can run vpns
- Comment on ...So I Finally Quit Spotify 10 months ago:
That sounds an awful lot like them quietly liking it
- Comment on God of War Creator Is Unhappy With New Games and Kratos' Story 10 months ago:
The original Kratos was basically one big long revenge story. Almost all of it justified and satisfying, but basically wiping out the Greek Pantheon was his ultimate goal.
His actions were reckless and fury driven, but often went over the top, both in violence and in actions.
My favourite example is from GoW: Ragnarok, when certain characters are reflecting on Kratos’ past, and how the one story of him killing the Sisters of Fate must truly be myth, then he corrects them saying it was true and how they deserved it. The third character then shines a present light on the fact that he did that in the past and says, “that’s the most dangerous and irresponsible thing I’ve ever heard.”
I think that sums up Greek Kratos in a nutshell.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
He also mentions in the article that also due to this and their nature they’re very flighty, and have not become return customers, while scaring away regulars.
It’s about the post not about the enjoyment.
- Comment on Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ 11 months ago:
I think the phone link app in windows does integrate iphone messages now too
- Comment on Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’ 11 months ago:
It’s the same problem with so much of the issues we’re facing in society people don’t know it so it becomes the “other” and therefore bad.