WholeEnchilada
@WholeEnchilada@lemmy.today
So I joined an instance that federates with everything to see what the “all” and “new” look like on the home page. It’s mostly porn. That would be fine if men were showing themselves off on the Lemmyverse. It’s all women. Next time I get bored, I’m uploading my big gay penis to the Lemmyverse.
- Comment on Every time I'm trying to decide what new show I should check out 10 months ago:
This is totally me! I’m in the rewatch zone!
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 10 months ago:
It would be less annoying if you could easily tell it that you don’t want garbage. Instead, when you select your preferences you have to go through a whole list of options. By the time you’re finished customizing your cookie preferences you’ve forgotten why the hell you went to the page and what the hell the page is. It’s ridiculous. It should be as simple as having two buttons: one for accepting the site’s default garbage and another for for rejecting the site’s default garbage.
- Comment on Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale 11 months ago:
Yes, that’s a possibility! This is why I don’t buy games there. I just grab the free ones.
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 11 months ago:
Their parents or grandparents might, like I’m talking about. I’m middle aged and I don’t have cable. I wouldn’t have cable if I lived back home in the USA. I’m not talking about young people who are old enough and employed enough to live on their own. You totally overlooked the point I’m making (which, ummm, also connects with Netflix having reality shows, too?).
- Comment on And this is why I no longer have cable. 11 months ago:
I’m an expat American who has lived outside of the US for 17 years. Last time I went back there was 8 years ago. 2 years ago I got a pen pal from the US who just LOVES talking about these trashy cable shows. I’m also kinda 48 years old. So, I remember when cable became a new thingy. People said cable programming was trash since cable programming came into existence. Sure, the programming wasn’t all realities. MTV had music on it. You know what the adults said about MTV (including my parents?) They said, “All that sex in the music videos. So perverted.” Just imagine the scandal of playing Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” every hour on the hour on MTV in its heyday. I remember telling my mother, “It’s a great song! I like it!” before being shuffled off to Sunday catechism, which I escaped from to smoke cigs in the woods behind the church/convent. I’d ride home from catechism in the car reciting the words to “Like a Prayer” and any other Madonna song that came to mind. Plus I’d recite some Prince at my parents, another nice rebel on the MTV cable tube played constantly back then. Maybe following reality TV is a new form of subversion. Maybe it exposes the meta of celebrity. People are hip to this, especially very young people. Very young people are so aware of the meta everything and know how to use it for subversion.
- Comment on Epic is giving away 17 games as part of its holiday sale 11 months ago:
However, it’s not a bad idea to use Epic like I do: Check the app every Thursday and see what’s free, grab whatever is free aimlessly and probably never play it until 20 years from now. I’ve been accumulating free games I’ve never downloaded since about a year now. I have quite the library! Maybe 20 years from now Destiny 2 will be obsolete and the microtransaction features will be obliterated and I just waste my time doing the single player mode. Maybe. I got it in my library for free just in case. LOL. I’ve never actually paid money for a game on the Epic Games Launcher. I just grab the free stuff and wait and see. So far, after acquiring 20 plus games this way, I’ve noticed that most of the “freebies” will require, if you get deep into the game, some extra purchase. Usually, the base game is free but the base game comes with DLC. Destiny 2 is special as a case, isn’t it? It has DLC given out for free up front, hoping to snag players that will become new whales. Your doomsday warnings about this whole thing has a positive spin: Game publishers are desperate for microtransactions and are probably realizing that we, the game players, are on to them with their microtransactions. I’m going to use my crystal ball to predict the following: Game publishers will find other ways to make money because people are becoming better educated about their personal financial health with regard to microtransactions (because microtransactions are ruining lives at the individual consumer level) and therefore Epic Games will stop offering free games every Thursday and do some other thing before it goes out of business.