SpiceDealer

@SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to wash up!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Now, what does this remind me of?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sales =/= quality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Mathcore: Am I a joke to you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is actually good advice… in isolation. Encouraging people to spend their money more wisely can bring awareness to an issue but it ultimately does little to implement change. Sure, you and I (and the Fediverse as a whole) might be hyper-vigilant about these kind of things but the average consumer isn’t. Continuing with your Nintendo example, Nintendo has decades of brand recognition and a zealous fanbase to satisfy the demand. An eager gaming press will gladly take free hardware from Nintendo for positive coverage.

  Real change won’t happen until the tap is turned off, so to speak. These companies are taking advantages of gaps in the law that permit them to get away with this. Antitrust law in the US dates back to a time when steam-powered trains were still common and the last breakup involved a telephone company. When AT&T was broken up, the home computer (desktop in modern parlance) was just starting to take off.

  So, yes, we should spend our money elsewhere when we see this kinds of corporate abuses but until you starve the beast, keep expecting these kinds of behaviors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In American-style neo-liberalism, everything must have a price tag. If it doesn’t generate a profit, it can’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Along with his Saudi oil tycoon buddies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just getting into a little bit of Troubles⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  …depending on the type of IRA chosen.

  Are there two options, by any chance? Provisional? Official?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨misleading cover⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fantasy smut sells! This dude could make fucking millions off this. I would rewrite the whole thing if I were him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duval holding cue card for Brando who can't remember his lines.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember reading some Godfather tidbit that said that the cat in The Godfather was a stray found around the set and that Coppola decided to include in the movie. People actually thought that cat was supposed to be some kind of symbolism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 576 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I misread game as grave. I was worried there for a second.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. Had to read that headline twice just to be sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that radishes are fucking amazing. They improve heart health and are full of Sulforaphene, a powerful anti-cancer substance. They contain almost no calories⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the tip. Might incorporate them into some homemade fajitas or Chinese-style stir-fry.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The decentralized model gives it a good head start against financial interest and populist mass adoption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...is this retro?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is where it started for me. Skyrim, F:NV, GTA 4, Midnight Club: LA, Project Gotham, Halo 3, and not to mention the countless classic re-releases on XBLA. To think I would actually get into verbal arguments with my classmates over the 360 v.s PS3 console war.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech is racing to own Africa’s internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thomas Sankara would like to know your location

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Surprising considers that it’s parent company Epic (yes, of Fortnite Unreal Tournament and GoW fame) has a pro-AI stance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t get me wrong, I love my Steam Deck but it’s an extension of Desktop build not a direct Switch competitor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This can also be said of the Cuban diaspora. So many people that I know (including those in my family) will shit talk “communism” and praise Trump as if he was their own personal savior. This don’t even have a rudimentary understanding of Marxism let alone leftist political thought as a whole. Yes, Soviet-style Marxism-Leninism led to authoritarianism and the Castro regime wasn’t great. But do you really someone like Flugencio or (for a modern reference) Bukele serving US capitalist interests?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First ever photo of the curvature of the Earth : December 30, 1930⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure the inclusion of any equation should’ve been a dead giveaway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, comrades, you know what this means:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why, yes I would like to get literally cockblocked by Google and Apple. Thanks UK! /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Child sick, buy some medicine

  Your sick, buy some medicine

  How about providing free health insurance at no cost to the employee and access to child care services also at no cost? Or would be socialism?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Knockoff Rugby League.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reject bottom feeder, Embrace Rigid vacuum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨eat the rich and go to libraries⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember folks, not everything has to generate a profit. Things can exist simply to just exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Refrigerator ads are finally here!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Long Live The White Box!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The wonder of the sea⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Story idea: Lovecraftian horror but from a fish’s perspective and instead of “cosmic horror”, it’s “terrarian horror.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A strange charger⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Intelligence is a lost skill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What went wrong with Pizza Hut?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, fuck. You live and you learn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What went wrong with Pizza Hut?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Marco’s Pizza became a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FACTS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Finally, someone that understands my… “interests”