Zorque
@Zorque@lemmy.world
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 4 days ago:
There are now sixteen competing standards.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 week ago:
But they said they wouldn’t!
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 week ago:
It was very much not an action oriented game. It was more about building resources and exploration. I can definitely see it not appealing to large swatches of the gaming population. Especially those used to the modern spate of action rpgs.
- Comment on Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off 1 week ago:
They’re literally selling faster than the original Switch, what the fuck are you smoking?
- Comment on Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off 1 week ago:
Wii fit trainer?
- Comment on I think better when I'm calm. So it follows that getting calmer will make me smarter. 1 week ago:
Depends on how you define intelligence. If intelligence is only your max possible ability to process thoughts, yeah. Clarity won’t increase intelligence, just increase utilization of intelligence. But if it’s a more dynamic measurement, then intelligence would be improved by clarity of thought.
- Comment on Q anon was a psyop. 1 week ago:
It would be nice if it were above politics. But what you’re attributing to nefarious deeds… is literally what politics is. Power players trying to leverage anything they can to accumulate as much influence as possible. Sometimes these come in the form of scheming plans, but more often than not it’s just manipulating any convenient happenstance that falls at their feet.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day ... remains completely unchanged' 1 week ago:
Sometimes people have ideas that just don’t work out. Even if the same people make another game, unless they just make a carbon copy they’re going to try and do something different. Sometimes it doesn’t work as well as the original, but at least it’s not churning out the same thing over and over and hoping people don’t notice.
Granted, Gamefreak has basically been doing that for 25 years, so what do I know?
- Comment on billionaires are a cancer on society [literally] 1 week ago:
Billionaires are the symptom, not the cancer itself.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
I just don’t understand their desire to be the center of attention
There is that aspect of it, but there’s also the aspect of writing your own destiny, about creating something you care about instead of just being a nameless cog in an industrial machine putting out consumerist crap day in and day out. Why is the latter more admirable to you than the former?
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
Who did you?
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
Also, you didn’t choose to share your profession with us. It makes me think that you’re attempting to create a social media presence of your own.
Either that or I don’t think value is only subjective to what you do for a living. That my opinion is somehow less valuable because I don’t fall into a specific field you perceive as valuable.
I’m just saying that without those who work in physical reality, creating tangibles with tangible things, make the mental edifices possible.
And often those non-tangible things help to give those who make the tangible things the willpower to go on. It’s not a one way street, where value is only created by those who create tangible goods and stolen by the intangible. That’s a very pessimistic, if not “holier-than-thou” perspective. As though anyone who doesn’t do what you respect isn’t worth as much as someone who does.
Like I said, a very boomer attitude.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
Why won’t you feel sympathy for someone who’s hurting? Why do you feel that someone needs to fall into a very narrow category to be “worth your time”?
Just because someone doesn’t fall into your narrow view of what’s worthwhile doesn’t mean they’re not worth basic human compassion.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
Socialism is about more than unions, that’s just the most obvious aspect in a heavily capitalist society. It’s about the sharing of burdens, which includes more than physical labor.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
Just keeping up with the boomer takes…
Something doesn’t need to be a physical product to hold tangible value.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
Just because you do something a certain way doesn’t mean everyone does. A huge chunk of these peoples income comes from the random people who find their videos or streams because of the “algorithm”. Not from their regular viewers. Those regular viewers allow for a certain amount of steadiness, but they’re also more likely to watch videos at a later time rather than right when they’re uploaded. Which is a significant drop in revenue for each view.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
Doesn’t help if you’re a streamer, though. I guess that was the part I left out, whoops -_-
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
The question isn’t about admiration, it’s about considering them worthy of being respected as fellow human beings who are also struggling. You’re just shitting on them because the way they make their living is more directly linkable to sources you don’t like.
Every job is going to be that way, one way or another. Even many charities will have shady ties somewhere, that most of the volunteers and employees don’t know shit about. Shitting on these people because you don’t respect the things they’re linked to, and ultimately have no control over, is petty and meaningless. It devalues them as humans, and as much as I’m sure you don’t think so, they’re still human. And deserve to be treated as such.
If they’re like the Pauls or something, I can see criticizing them for being shitty people… but that’s not what you’re doing, you’re shitting on them for being part of a system that exists whether they make use of it or not. And will continue to exist whether they use it or not.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
Facebook isn’t the only site these people use…
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
I heard someone talking about a content creator they watch, and how that creator basically can’t take a vacation without losing tons of followers and potentially a major chunk of their income.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
This is the most boomer take I’ve ever seen on this website. And that includes what few conservatives have filtered in.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 1 week ago:
None of us can. It’s just a job, just they get even more shit on because they’re more public facing figures.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Ah, so 3.0 is fine if your internet still sucks. Got it.
- Comment on The Trump Administration is Building a National Citizenship Data System; State and county election officials can now check the citizenship status of their entire voter lists. 2 weeks ago:
So it’s credit score based?
- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 2 weeks ago:
Forming a militia to protect from foreign invasion?
- Comment on "Almost out of shampoo, better add it to my shopping list." 2 weeks ago:
Then when you go to use the sink you set it aside cause you need to use the sink and it’s promptly forgotten again.
- Comment on In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say 3 weeks ago:
I mean they usually only do about 30 damage anyways.
- Comment on Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026. 3 weeks ago:
You have to spend 1000 points to get the updates.
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 3 weeks ago:
Much as I’m sure it’s a quality entertaining game, with games as popular as Minecraft… the only thing that can kill it is collapsing under its own weight.
- Comment on Your TV Is Spying On You 3 weeks ago:
Is it adding to discussions or just posturing? Much like heavy’s comment was about their issues, Lost_My_Mind’s was also about their own situation. Why is the latter acceptable and the former not?
My assumption is not because it promotes discussion, but because it’s something that’s more people emotionally agree with.