Zorque
@Zorque@lemmy.world
- Comment on In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen 2 days ago:
That’s… what satire is.
- Comment on GOG.com gives away free horny games to protest credit card company censorship 3 days ago:
As I understand it, those were ones that were already free (to an extent, you could still pay if you wanted to before this).
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 3 days ago:
From an article posted yesterday
“Mastercard did not communicate with Valve directly, despite our request to do so,” Valve’s statement sent over email to Kotaku reads. “Mastercard communicated with payment processors and their acquiring banks. Payment processors communicated this with Valve, and we replied by outlining Steam’s policy since 2018 of attempting to distribute games that are legal for distribution. Payment processors rejected this, and specifically cited Mastercard’s Rule 5.12.7 and risk to the Mastercard brand.”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
… tweeting?
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 week ago:
Nyeh-heh-heh
- Comment on Life Expectancy is the age at which 50% of the of the population is expected to die before. 1 week ago:
The median is an average. There’s generally three types of average, Mean (what you’re talking about), Median (the one they’re talking about), and Mode (the one rarely talked about).
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 week ago:
Some people just love watching the crashes more than the race…
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 week ago:
“JakeSully”
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 week ago:
Or Fern Gully, or Dances With Wolves… it’s not exactly an uncommon story.
- Comment on Come on Ezri, let's go party 1 week ago:
Not nearly enough devotion to the state on Garak’s part…
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 week ago:
I doubt it was phonebanking that did it, that was just the ground level cover. Guarantee they made a direct financial threat against shareholders.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 1 week ago:
Nah, pretty sure the policy got implemented in the first place because the deep pockets of the ideological lobbyist group.
- Comment on The Epochalypse: It’s Y2K, But 38 Years Later 2 weeks ago:
There was also a worldwide effort to fix any potential problems before they happened.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 weeks ago:
Any workplace with halfway decent IT will disable it by default.
Which may be about 50% of workplaces, but still.
- Comment on Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC 2 weeks ago:
For an update or two, at least. Windows features tend to get turned back on after updates quite frequently.
- Comment on Human-level AI is not inevitable. We have the power to change course 2 weeks ago:
But scary robots will take over the world! That’s what all the movies are about! If it’s in a movie, it has to be real.
- Comment on We all sleep alone soundly; Maybe the key to a happy marriage is separate beds 2 weeks ago:
The Thin man did have the perfect marriage…
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 weeks ago:
There are now sixteen competing standards.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks ago:
But they said they wouldn’t!
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Wii fit trainer?
- Comment on I think better when I'm calm. So it follows that getting calmer will make me smarter. 4 weeks 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. 4 weeks 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' 4 weeks 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] 4 weeks ago:
Billionaires are the symptom, not the cancer itself.
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Who did you?
- Comment on ‘You can’t pause the internet’: social media creators hit by burnout 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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.