Velonie

@Velonie@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨#notaseagull⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bonjour, allô, salut!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  People buying gold for real life money has literally always been happening behind the scenes (yes in 2007 as well), so again I have no issues with this. With membership bonds it even removes gold from an inflated economy. It seems to me though that you want a version of the game exactly how it was in 2007, in which case you’re SoL

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand your last paragraph unless there’s some weird regional pricing going on. It’s $13.99 USD for a month of Runescape membership vs $14.99 USD for a month of WoW membership

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The only microtransaction in OSRS is the ability to buy membership with in game gold. As someone who is normally staunchly against all MTX it’s a very reasonable tradeoff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporate greed is killing RuneScape. What do people play instead?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In addition to what the other commenter said, it’s more likely as someone newer and thus engaging in lower level activities to encounter bots since it takes less time to set them up and get going than mid to late game content. I find it rare to encounter an obvious bot as someone doing high level pvm/skilling

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2932: Driving PSA⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Happens all the time as a cyclist at 2 way stop signs. No I don’t want to go through when you’ve stopped and are waving my on but the other direction hasn’t. I usually just shrug and point at my stop sign

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung’s $1,300 phone might someday have fees for AI usage⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because Google doesn’t have root access to your phone. You can install the pixel camera but give it no network permissions. It’s just another camera app at that point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung’s $1,300 phone might someday have fees for AI usage⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can install the pixel camera on graphene and it functions exactly the same as the stock OS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best of Steam 2023: The Year's Top Games measured by Gross Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are the majority though. Every time stats on free to play products are released it’s revealed that 90% of people spend no money and the vast majority of revenue is from whales that spend absurd amounts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scientists show how ‘doing your own research’ leads to believing conspiracies — This effect arises because of the quality of information churned out by Google’s search engine⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I used Google back then and started using Kagi recently. The results I get remind me of how Google used to be.

  The only downside is it’s a paid service, but it’s worth it for me personally