Flamekebab
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- Comment on The UK must make big changes to its diets, farming and land use to hit net zero – official climate advisers 4 days ago:
This is something that irks me about how we have things setup at the moment. Farming produces food. Put money in, get food out. The notion that it also needs to make money is putting the cart before the horse. Yay capitalism.
- Comment on PS5 Pro sales ‘have fallen behind PS4 Pro in the US 1 week ago:
I wouldn't really call it a "trap". If you're buying a console when it's new at full price, sure, you're being taken for a ride, but give it a couple of years for stuff to be cheaper and it can work out reasonably well.
I used to be a major PC gamer but eventually the cost/benefit calculation went completely off the rails.
- Comment on PS5 Pro sales ‘have fallen behind PS4 Pro in the US 1 week ago:
What would I even play on it?
- Comment on Xbox Sales Hit Rock Bottom After Historic 2024 Decline 2 weeks ago:
I'm still waiting for enough titles to come out on either platform to make the jump from my Xbox One X.
- Comment on Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption 2 weeks ago:
Mass adoption did not end well for Earth.
- Comment on YSK there are other Pixelfed mobile clients than the flagship app (that include dark mode!) 2 weeks ago:
That's the thing that irks me when people are elitist about dark mode. Sorry I can't use your edgy dark app with my feeble scrub eyes.
- Comment on YSK there are other Pixelfed mobile clients than the flagship app (that include dark mode!) 2 weeks ago:
I've noticed that. My instance doesn't provide unlimited storage and I'd much rather crop and resize my pictures before upload. Not having tools for that is a bit of a deal breaker for me.
Of course, I could edit the images separately but it rather limits what I can be bothered to post as a result.
- Comment on YSK there are other Pixelfed mobile clients than the flagship app (that include dark mode!) 2 weeks ago:
It doesn't seem to have any image editing functionality..?
- Comment on someone tell Luigi about this 3 weeks ago:
Got the attachment for shooting down police helicopters?
- Comment on WH Smith in secret talks to sell historic high street arm 4 weeks ago:
I'm pushing 40 and I don't remember when I last bought anything from WH Smiths. I used to go in all the time as a teenager but these days they seem to not have a niche. They're a zombie chain.
I don't know what I'd want them to do, but they should have done it fifteen years ago.
- Comment on Can you see yourself cutting off by a generation of gaming? 1 month ago:
Lots of those aren't out yet, so the list is even shorter.
- Comment on Samsung, Google take on Dolby Atmos with new 'Eclipsa Audio' 1 month ago:
Samsung and Google? Two companies well known for maintaining tech long term rather than getting bored within a few months.
- Comment on What procedures do you take to save and archive your games? 1 month ago:
I don't, because if that happens either others will have done a more thorough job (because it's something they care about - I have my own obsessive areas that I'm the one doing that stuff for), or if they haven't then I have much bigger problems to deal with (e.g. war in Europe).
- Comment on GTA 6 will have a 'significant online mode' to generate revenue for years into the future 2 months ago:
Oh joy. What an important cultural contribution that will be.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 2 months ago:
I've finally been playing through Mad Professor Mariarti on the Amiga. I saw it played many times as a child but now I'm finally playing it myself - and beating it!
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 2 months ago:
This is why I cannot abide the Halo series. I came to them having been raised on Quake, Unreal Tournament, and Half-Life. Halo was like moving through molasses.
- Comment on New measures unveiled to crack down on subscription traps 3 months ago:
I've spent much of my adult life with nothing positive to say about our governments. I'm not really emotionally prepared for being pleased about something a UK government is doing!
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 3 months ago:
I absolutely loved the modern day story. I was so very invested and it still smarts a bit that they lost interest in doing it justice.
- Comment on 'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers' 3 months ago:
Manchester United: 3
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 3 months ago:
Ye gods, 18 years, 4 months for mine. You'd hope that they'd just automatically stop asking if I'm old enough to view store pages, right?
- Comment on Clippy's coming for you 3 months ago:
I'm often not waiting for ideal conditions, just less bad conditions. This evening I made some progress on something I've not been working on because I've just been too exhausted, mentally and physically. Conditions don't have to be ideal, but they're often more than sub-optimal.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? 3 months ago:
Same. I want to play it but until it's available in some sort of convenient package at a price point I can justify, I'll play something else.
- Comment on Deleted my Reddit! I am now entirely federated online except for Pixelfed! 3 months ago:
In general I've found Lemmy to be closer to the feel of old forums in interactions. Arguments and petty squabbles are still entirely possible, but it doesn't feel like every interaction is about to become one. It's what pushed me to stop using Reddit - everything seems to end up as a fight for the slightest reason. Whilst I'm plenty abrasive as a person, it felt like Reddit got worse over the last 5 - 10 years.
They might have a bigger userbase now than when I joined but it's not ended up being worth it, I feel.
- Comment on Conversations like this are why I want more people, especially "normies", in the Fediverse 3 months ago:
Perhaps it's just me having different priorities, but I have no interest in making small talk with lots of people. There's plenty of spaces for that already whilst the spaces for enthusiasts have been sacrificed to the general public.
I'm not arguing this specifically about Lemmy, or trying to suggest policy, I'm just chipping in that there's at least something to be said for not trying to make all social spaces for all people.
- Comment on ChartDB - open-source database diagram visualization tool 3 months ago:
Amazing, I needed something like that a few months ago (and will need again in future).
- Comment on New mobile features are sh*t these days 4 months ago:
You're posting in Lemmy Shitpost. You're allowed to say "shit".
- Comment on I won’t be reading the replies 4 months ago:
But can they affect me?
- Comment on Random Screenshots of my Games #30 - Sir, You Are Being Hunted 4 months ago:
The scarecrow is awful. In a good way.
- Comment on Day 95 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 4 months ago:
Alan Wake
- Comment on Fallout 4 is a great game with big flaws 4 months ago:
Something I've not seen anyone else comment on Fallout 4 is that the voiced protagonist could have been used to fill in the world.
As in, when I visited the remains of Boston airport, it'd be great if my character could talk to herself (or voice effect to imply thoughts) about how s/he had memories there. Give me a feeling for their life before they were frozen.