Eric_Pollock
@Eric_Pollock@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Star Citizen devs report drying funds, micromanagement, overspending, and episodic release for Squadron 42 4 weeks ago:
The episodic rollout of SQ42 is presumed to be a way to inject new cash into the studio alongside reported plans to release higher priced ships and the rumored third game.
What?.. Higher priced ships? You’ve got to be joking…
One of my favorite ships in the game, the Drake Corsair, is already $250. It’s a great all-rounder, but it’s not even a large ship comparitively! And they’re going to start charging more for the newer ships?!
They just released a new ship as well, the RSI Zeus MKII, which is yet another $175. And that doesn’t even mention some of the larger ships like the Anvil Carrack, sitting at an insane $600, and the Origin 890 Jump at $950…
And if that’s not bad enough, they’ve had concept ships for years available for purchase in the $1,500-$2,000 range. How can these ships get more expensive?
- Comment on Raise Wages? No Need — McDonald’s Is Hiring Inmates Instead 1 month ago:
So if working at McDonald’s is now a form of punishment… What’s that saying about the job itself even if you are being paid?
At what point can you be paid a low enough wage to where you’re essentially working at McDonald’s as a punishment for existing? Very weird standard their setting with this decision…
- Comment on "Concord servers are now offline. Thank you to all the freegunners who have joined us in the Concord galaxy" 2 months ago:
Did this post receive more engagement than the game itself?..
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 2 months ago:
Server to host media. Super easy to set up and can run on a Windows client. Don’t even need an independent server to run it on. jellyfin.org
kodi.tv (or libreelec.tv for an OS that boots to just Kodi)
Application to watch through Kodi github.com/jellyfin/jellycon
Client to run Kodi on: MeLE PCG02 Mini PC Stick a.co/d/1EGnekO
If you didn’t want to install LibreELEC to the PC and just want to keep Windows, you could run Kodi in Kiosk mode and it would boot directly to is just like LibreELEC.
I have not watched normal TV in years, let alone an ad on my TV. I spoke to my neighbors one day and figured out they were paying ~$60 a month for all their streaming services, and they’re STILL getting ads…
Stuff like this is unacceptable, and I refuse to partake in the lunacy and delusion that is modern television.
- Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” 4 months ago:
Observers on social media compared the platform’s name “We” to the highly influential 1921 dystopian novel of the same name by Russian author Yevgeny Zamyatin.
They actually couldn’t choose a different name than the novel that was written specifically about this very dystopian subject? Did they use it as inspiration? Because that seems less than coincidence…
- Comment on The ErgO Ring Makes Computer Interactions Comfortable 4 months ago:
- Comment on 7 months ago:
Lol I’m so sorry you had to go through all those steps just for “They’ve increased the budget and this is what they’re doing.”
- Comment on Watch a 13-year-old become the first person to ever beat Classic Tetris 10 months ago:
Thanks @ttsci
