Binturong
@Binturong@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 1 week ago:
Well put all around, and in response to your final point, I’m really not sure. I want to say this is the value of public education, but I don’t recall a terribly strong effort to educate people in common sense and media literacy so as to not be manipulated so easily, and end up voting against our own best interests back when I was in the system. Still, I had access to better education than most young people do today.
I think that lackluster regulation of media really is failing us too, since any billionaire can just buy up a large organization and dictate what it will and will not report on, and how it aims to persuade people in out society. All of this requires rooting out apathy and corruption in our governing public servants, and strengthening regulation, and every day I see more of the exact opposite of that. It’s hard to tell what the endpoint is that’s going to force a turn-around, if such a thing even exists beyond a systemic collapse that strips the power to manipulate the systems of governance from the ultra-rich.
Generally that means terrible suffering for all, and I’d much rather see a better path, like, oh I don’t know, massive taxation of enormous and excessive private wealth. Until I see politicians willing to take meaningful actions to resist and confront oligarchy, and a general public developing more self-awareness, I’ll continue to believe that outcome seems like a pipe dream.
- Comment on Why do your own farts smell so bad in the shower? 1 week ago:
One could theorize that the poop particles expelled with the fart are better trapped in the moisture in the air, so as you breathe in the very humid air, and consequently your own poop particles, the sensory elements in your nose and sinus have an easier time detecting them. This is partly owing to how the moisture also makes them more likely to stick to surfaces inside your body as they travel your airways on the journey to your lungs, where your poop particles may end up. Hope this helps.
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 1 week ago:
If the Canadian government were real it would exact punishing fines on the company’s Canadian held assets in response to this. And I don’t mean cost of business fees, I mean hurtful costs, because these giant fucking companies seriously damage Canadian lives when they just rugpull the labour after making massive profits of Canadian operations. There is no justifiable reason to side with Ubisoft or their scumsucking management here.
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 week ago:
Boy, that company should probably fire the CEO, what with him forcing it to commit suicide.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Optimus will 'eliminate poverty' in speech after his $1 trillion pay package was approved 2 months ago:
He’s talking about a system to eliminate, not support and elevate the poor here, mark my words. Do not give this brain-damaged, broke-dick, eternally divorced Lex Luthor anything but sentencing for crimes against humanity.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 2 months ago:
Crazy how much money is flooding into something so absurd on its face. You nailed the gambling part especially, looks like they’re not even waiting for the AIs to develop to flood that junk on every available platform and visible surface. There should be laws against it honestly, gambling addiction is absolutely ruinous.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 2 months ago:
Not in years, I avoid that shit like cancer, I feel physical pain when I’m sitting through ads. Can’t say I’m at all surprised.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 2 months ago:
Question: What does AI advertise to you if you want nothing and have no money?
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 3 months ago:
Gearbox, fire your CEO.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 3 months ago:
everybody knows shiny = real.
- Comment on Everyone thinks the Deus Ex remaster looks awful and they're right: 'They really turned those 1999 graphics into 2003 graphics' 3 months ago:
I bet there’s modpacks out there that make the game look 100 times better than this remaster.
- Comment on YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users 3 months ago:
Goddamn, this is unfathomably based, thank you for sharing.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 4 months ago:
I swear, Microsoft YEARNS to fail. Dunno who is running the show over there but they’re doing a great job of being terrible for their brand.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 months ago:
Absolutely, it’s important to know what you like and want. Hell, lots of people work off vibes and go through phases where certain game types stimulate them, then fall off of those. Like MMOs and online FPS used to be my main thing, now I stick to single player story driven games. I’m not about to go loudly pout about how Stellaris doesn’t work for me and should be changed to appeal specifically to my wants, too busy with other games (and life).
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 months ago:
If you’re not able to commit to learning new strategies and using game mechanics to adapt to a game’s difficulty, and experience it as the developers intended, maybe it’s not for you. You can always watch a lore video or let’s play by other gamers to get the story if that’s the goal. This is Dark Souls 2 all over again, and I will personally say as someone who initially hated it, then gave it another chance; When you persist and triumph through grit, the game leaves a lasting impression and sense of accomplishment that you cheat yourself out of with a difficulty slider. That’s my favorite game in the series now, which is a deeply unpopular opinion, unsurprisingly.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 4 months ago:
Don’t coddle whiners, make them git gud or get out.
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 4 months ago:
But whatabout YOUR thoughts on bladder control???!
- Comment on We hate AI because it's everything we hate 4 months ago:
The reason we hate AI is cause it’s not for us. It’s developed and controlled by people who want to control us better. It is a tool to benefit capital, and capital always extracts from labour, AI only increases the efficiency of exploitation because that’s what it’s for. If we had open sourced public AI development geared toward better delivering social services and managing programs to help people as a whole, we would like it more. Also none of this LLM shit is actually AI, that’s all branding and marketing manipulation, just a reminder.
- Comment on Butter made from carbon tastes like the real thing, gets backing from Bill Gates 5 months ago:
Good ol’ Gates, always around to make a quick buck of the bloodied backs of humanity. Never an advancement meant to aid us all he can’t swoop in to parasitize. That’s right Billy boy, I didn’t forget the COVID vaccine patents. Billionaires must be condemned to the rubbish bin of history.
- Comment on Why democrats under Biden administration didn't release Epstein files? 5 months ago:
This is the actual answer, cutting right through the smoke and mirrors and bullshit. Anyone who had the displeasure of reading through the flight logs that were available in their entirety online almost a year ago and probably still are: saw just what names pop up, often multiple times. This is the most bipartisan issue there ever was, so NOBODY in power wants to touch it.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 5 months ago:
So this confirms that people have a negative reaction to ads, which every actual internet user knows in their bones already. This means they ALSO are not even doing their one job of persuading people to buy shit. Of course this won’t lead to companies reducing investment for ad carrying or finding ways to make them more appealing, that costs money, instead they will use AI generators to produce WORSE ads and leverage their capital to have governments capitulate and force users to watch by banning blockers, probably VPNs too. Bill Hicks was the most correct about advertising, and remains undefeated.
- Comment on Krafton Delays ‘Subnautica 2’ Game Ahead of $250 Million Payout 6 months ago:
Odds that Ted Gill, Charlie Cleveland, and Max McGuire, previous leadership at Krafton saw that well earned bonus and just thought, “yoink”?
- Comment on R.I.P Bob 6 months ago:
Fuck you and the trend you crawled in on.
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 6 months ago:
Yaccity Yacc, don’t come back…
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 6 months ago:
Surely overreacting to my correct observation that did not reflect on you directly will make you seem more reasonable.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 6 months ago:
No, Google is using their influence and our reliance to steer society. Please don’t forget how passive language enables the worst abusers.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds game reviews hit "Overwhelmingly Negative" on Steam — can Capcom turn it around? 6 months ago:
They think it literally does not matter, and sales kinda reinforce this. The game was an enormous hit on release, but I think it gradually eats away at the faith of the customers as their experience falls to shit in the endgame were the rushed development is glaringly obvious. That’s gotta add up and will eventually have an impact cause they sure as shit aren’t learning the right lessons. Always remember the best outcome for the top deciders is the quickest biggest buck, and they will throw ANYTHING under the bus that challenges that. Especially thoughtful and rich game design which takes time and love to produce right.
- Comment on A reboot of the X-Files but this time Scully is always right. Everything has a totally rational explanation and Mulder slowly looses his believe in the supernatural. 6 months ago:
NO. Do NOT meddle with my X-Files just because you want to satisfy some selfish bullshit. Good DAY, sir.
- Comment on Top D&D designers join Critical Role after quitting Wizards of the Coast 6 months ago:
I pick crit role every time, those goddamn Wizards lost the plot. They got Rincewind at the damn helm.
- Comment on YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content. Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk" 7 months ago:
Introducing: Pay More, Say More Surely this can’t become deeply problematic for the social fabric.