MithranArkanere

@MithranArkanere@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There are only 3 developers I will preorder from whenever I find the game they are releasing interesting. Erin “Concerned Ape” (Stardew Valley); Bob the Bot (Survivalist); and Terry Cavanagh, the creator of VVVVVV.
  They keep their games updated, they are pretty chill people, and they keep players informed during development.
  For now, they are the only ones who have earned my trust.

  For everything else, it’s full patientgamer mode for me. Wait until the whole game is released with a single price tag, 90% discount, no online requirements outside of multiplayer, and community fixes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking that another exception would be those who open their eyes and leave it behind, but then they are no longer fascists. So you could say their old fascist self is essentially dead too.

  So while I do prefer this method as some ex-fascists may turn into anti-fascist advocates, and we can always use more help against fascism, it still doesn’t really counter the adage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unified Theory of American Reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think 12 may be too high. Most kids I’ve knew who acted like that were like 6.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Infinite growth is impossible, so they switched to squeezing something until it breaks, then identifying the next thing to squeeze. Eventually, they run out of things to squeeze, and switch to squeezing the people directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Corporations can’t stand it a logarithmic graph. They need freaking geometric progressions, and then they do stuff that gets them an anti-logarithmic graph.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s not something new or anything like that. There are lots of cultures through history in which people choose their own names or alternate names throughout their life for a variety of reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm gonna die on this hill or die trying⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I got started using — because the golems in Guild Wars 2 speak in all caps and with em dashes between the words.
  I had to copy-paste after doing Alt+0151 somewhere else when doing the joke when using a golem transformation tonic and SPEAKING—LIKE—THIS since Guild Wars 2 does not respond to numpad input, but Mac users have it easy, they can just press Option+Shift+dash.

  On Windows, you would need a tool like PowerToys’ keyboard manager or a keyboard macro for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep reading people complaining about how people are taking these quotes out of context.
  So went to the source, and I see them in context.

  They are actually worse in context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefox does run better when you disable all “ml.chat” settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Collective Shout is a conservative, forced-birth anti-trans sex-nagative women-patronizing christian organization masquerading as feminist.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Tankard_Reist

  They call themselves “feminist” but they are as “feminist” as the guys who finally allowed women to drive in Saudia Arabia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s say it like it is: after the world of hundreds of developers is undermined, and the property of thousands of customers is compromised.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't Look Up⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The way to handle it is to find the “The Architects of Fear”, getting rid of them, and making sure no new ones take their place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy Shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You have not eaten beans the right way until you have eaten FABADA.

  What makes FABADA so great is that it’s also a hex code for a very sexy pink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can get the pokéball, but mounts in games are older than pokémon. That one makes no sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They need to make mining drones mandatory, too. Humans have no business being in holes. They are not their holes, they do not belong in them.
  I’m looking at you, spelunkers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The pipeline⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a dichotomy. Capitalism inevitably leads to oligarchy, and oligarchies are just authoritarianism rich people being the ones opressing the people. Both China and Russia ended up as oligarchies too, even though they started claiming to be ‘communist’.

  A way to prevent authoritarianism is the division of powers, but that only works until the enemies of the people work together to take over all divided powers.

  The only system that has proven to work in the public’s best interest so far is social democracy. But even that is hanging by a thread, as it requires higher levels of public education and better control over corruption to maintain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OG Guild Wars sees an all-new Steam concurrency high during its anniversary celebration | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. All GW1 pretty much needs at this point is just the Beyond chapter of Elona and 2 professions unique to Prophecies, one heavy armor, one medium armor. And having Prophecies and Factions weapon drops updated to the new system used in Nightfall and EotN, with inscriptions and more upgrades, and making the upgrades have fixed stats like armor upgrades, so they can get their own trader NPC.
  And then rig the trader NPCs to always have supllies at a premium cost so GW1’s economy does not depend on bots to stay supplied.

  There’s no way we’ll ever see new professions , and I doubt they’ll ever update the weapon drops. But they have already done some new quests. So there’s still a bit of hope for “Rise of Joko”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The pipeline⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Tankies always forget you can’t have socialism without democracy, and either no government or a government that is strictly from the bottom up, and fascists gladly play along with that facade as it works in their interests.

  “Authoritarian communism” is an oxymoron.

  And not an “emphasis” kind of oxymoron like “bittersweet” or “impossible solution”, or a “poetic” kind like “living dead”.
  An “absolutely impossible” kind of oxymoron. like “married bachelor” or “squared circle”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The pipeline⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently, deboning your meat before eating it is not “manly”. You have to chew the bones, like an “alpha wolf” or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The pipeline⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the other way around.

  X is a “if you build it, they will come” situation. They were already around, they were just too cowardly to come out of the woodwork into the open.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bobby won’t live long.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They sure love their fantasy way more than reality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a fun new game⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are banks that will generate a pin for every transaction that is not using the physical credit card or associated phone, or that is over a certain amount, requiring you to carry the phone at all times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A funny thing about Americans and calendar dates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah. Someone would make up some convoluted and confusing template, pass it to Trump as “freedom dates”, and he’s sign it without reading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That idiot CEO is doing idiot CEO things.

  Everyone knows that if he keeps bowing down to Musk’s pressure and enshitificating the platform, people will leave for greener pastures as soon as there’s an enticing alternative like they did with X.

  CEOs surround themselves with the most conceited and naive of all echo chambers.
  They live in an imaginary world in which their backward opinions work better than what has been proven to work time and time again by every research ever done on any subject. They will one day wake up to a blue sky, claim it’s actually pink with green polka dots, and blame “the woke agenda” or some such nonsense when they are obviously proven wrong.

  The closest analogy I’ve ever heard for what modern CEOs have become is “Like a bunch of Naked Emperors jerking each other off while shitting all over everyone below them”. As accurate as disgusting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why buybacks need to be illegal again, and dividends need to be regulated and taxed better baed on factors like how much the company benefits the community.
  And employees need to be guaranteed a proportional cut too, ensuring that better performance and higher company earnings always means they earn more, and not that they get fired and the one who gets a bonus is some random CEO who only kept trying to push bad ideas the employees kept fighting all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it would destroy the economy if everyone did it, then it should not be doable in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t let the grabbing hands grab all they can.