JakobFel
@JakobFel@retrolemmy.com
Christian gamer forced back into the realm of nostalgia because of our absurd, post-modern world. “Architect” of the Cyberspace Lounge multimedia project.
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 3 hours ago:
Eh, if the information already exists on the web somewhere, why reiterate it? Seems excessive to insist on asking on the Fediverse unless that information can’t be found on a search engine or through AI.
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 2 days ago:
No. It’s an advertisement of political beliefs veiled as a retro games post.
“Look at me, I’m a leftist! Oh, and it’s relevant because a retro game made me one, see???”
Give me a break. It’s nothing more than an advertisement.
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 3 days ago:
Yet again, the analogy fails. This is a community themed after retro games. As is on point for the Fediverse, folks can’t resist shoving their political views into everything, then they act as if it’s unreasonable for people to say they don’t appreciate the attention-seeking, echo chamber nonsense in a totally irrelevant community.
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 3 days ago:
You don’t get to force politics in a non-political community, then tell people who disagree that they need to go somewhere else. Nope, that’s not how it works.
- Comment on Shitty Fiction 3 days ago:
The lack of “kink shaming” is one of our biggest problems in society. Just saying.
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 3 days ago:
That analogy might work if not for the fact that I’ve attempted to block political discussions from my Lemmy feed through instance blocks, community blocks and word blocks, yet I still see people obnoxiously shoving their political views into everything.
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 4 days ago:
Yes, because there’s literally no reason to make it about political views. And yes, those titles would be just as ridiculous in my book.
Again, discussing themes in a game isn’t the issue. The issue is that the title was very specifically written that way to catch clicks. Clicks from similar culture warriors and from those who disagree. It’s disingenuous and completely unnecessary.
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 4 days ago:
That’s laughable. It was nothing BUT a cult back then.
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 4 days ago:
You can bet your life that they would, had they won in November.
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 4 days ago:
Discussing a game’s themes isn’t the problem. The problem is the context. “How this game made me a leftist”. Instead of “let’s discuss the themes of this game”, it’s pushing identity politics. That’s the part I take issue with.
- Comment on How Pajama Sam Made Me A Leftist | Political Breakdown Of A 90s Videogame 4 days ago:
Above all things, the way leftists feel the need to inject and advertise their political views into everything angers me the most. “EvErYtHiNg iS PoLitiCaL” > no, it isn’t. Why can’t we just play video games to get away from real world stupidity? I just don’t get it. I don’t need to know your political views. Let’s just chat about video games and escapism.
- Comment on Are people blind on PeerTube? 5 days ago:
I personally see Peertube as something that’d be better as a small-scale, reasonably private way of storing and sharing videos if you’re not interested in monetization or views. For example, documentation for a passion project.
For everything else, a different form of decentralization makes more sense, such as Odysee (though we’ll see how the Arweave migration goes).
- Comment on Kansas wants to use AI to spot guns in schools. One major company won’t say how often the system fails 1 week ago:
Anything but promoting homeschooling or arming teachers, amirite?
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 weeks ago:
I respect your choice to do that (kinda sick of arguments in general) but honestly, that’s part of the problem. Seems not too many people are willing to have civil discussions these days, it’s all so polarized. Have a good one.
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but Odysee is an American platform. And ultimately, the only reason your viewers would blame you for others on a platform is because we’ve infantalized the internet over the past decade or so. Used to be that netizens knew that trolls and bullies exist online and wouldn’t blame individual platforms for it.
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 weeks ago:
Yep, this is pretty much what I was expecting to hear. You know you can block channels/accounts you don’t like, no? I don’t believe in censorship of legal speech. As long as no violence is being threatened, as long as drugs aren’t being sold and as long as children are not being harmed, it falls under the first amendment. If I don’t like what someone says, I just block them because that’s what the internet was always about: free expression, even of ideals we don’t like or agree with.
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 weeks ago:
I agree with you on Peertube. I’d love to see it grow but I just don’t see it doing so until things change significantly.
Also, I don’t believe in censorship of legal speech protected under the US constitution so the moderation issue doesn’t bother me. I just block channels and accounts I don’t like.
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 weeks ago:
I do, but the desktop version is still barebones compared to FreeTube or the Odysee webpage. It’s great on mobile, though!
And as for Peertube, I guess part of the problem is that it doesn’t feel as connected as other Fediverse services seem to feel. Not sure why, it just feels really disjointed to me.
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if I need to ask, but what’s wrong with Odysee?
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 2 weeks ago:
I just can’t get into using Peertube. I love the idea, but in my experience, it just doesn’t work the way it should. Slow, low video quality, hard to get the federation working properly, and most importantly, a general lack of content creators I care to follow.
I stick with Odysee for this, and several other reasons.
- Comment on Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which? 3 weeks ago:
Mastodon and Pixelfed. Mastodon is my main (Retro Gaiden) but I’m experimenting with the Fediverse to see what works for me and what doesn’t.
- Comment on Does the 2 hour refund limit on Steam affect game design? 3 weeks ago:
Oh yeah, don’t get me wrong, I know it can be worse. I just think it could also be better.
- Comment on Does the 2 hour refund limit on Steam affect game design? 3 weeks ago:
I love Steam but I’ve always felt like the refund policy was a bit of a joke. I feel like the time limit should be flexible, being a bit longer for games that have long tutorials or a bunch of intro cutscenes.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 3 weeks ago:
That’s because they’re classy and understand that the two are totally different projects. Skyblivion is impressive but that doesn’t even remotely mean that an official remaster/remake isn’t worth having.
- Comment on Bluesky Blocked in Turkey - Here's Why 3 weeks ago:
Yeah? Good. Bluesky’s community is atrocious. Nostr and the Fediverse are better and far more resistant to censorship anyway.
- Comment on What's a cancelled game you really miss? 3 weeks ago:
EverQuest Next. That game would have been the best MMO ever, if they would’ve stuck with it. Unfortunately, SOE got bought out and the new owners were whackos who didn’t care. It’s sad because nothing has come close since then. Only GW2 and ESO have even a fraction of the concepts of EQN.
- Comment on HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war 3 weeks ago:
Try Stellaris. It’s similar gameplay, but it’s realtime and the space battles you can get yourself into can be truly epic.
- Comment on Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification 3 weeks ago:
I already don’t use Discord too much, and if they push this, I’m done with it completely.
- Comment on Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
I cannot be paid enough to use or support TikTok or anything like it. A major source of all the issues society is facing today.
- Comment on Suggestions for mouse only games? 4 weeks ago:
With the exception of chat, try Old School RuneScape. Good game for passive gameplay as well as more intensive/focused gameplay.