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 Fediverse for teens 1 day ago:
Not a weird argument, that’s the same logic you used. Just because some kids might not agree with your decisions as a parent, that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t make that decision. Caring what others think about your parenting style is exactly why we have so many messed up kids in the first place.
- Comment on Holy shit I got Retro Achievements working on my Pi Gameboy! Lmao this is so cool. I get to achievement hunt in my favorite game, earthbound after 30 years. Amazing 3 days ago:
It’s wild to me how, when I was a kid, I thought the Gameboy line was the utopian future and we’d never advance because there wasn’t anything that could be cooler.
Then, here we are in 2025, able to create and tweak awesome projects like this!
- Comment on Fediverse for teens 3 days ago:
Right? How dare a parent actually care about their child’s upbringing? It’s 2025, we’re supposed to give our kids an iPad at 3 years old and let Cocomelon raise them.
- Comment on Fediverse for teens 3 days ago:
“Ha your parents don’t even let you do underage drinking, drugs and other shady activities?”
Same argument. You don’t relinquish your authority and protection as a parent because a few losers want to make fun of your kid for being raised with a mom and dad who actually give a crap about their upbringing.
- Comment on Fediverse for teens 3 days ago:
I’ve come to find that people with their hearts in the right place (such as yourself) are often attacked or ostracized on the Fediverse, especially Lemmy.
How DARE a person express traditional values??? How DARE a parent not want to be an iPad parent and let their kids do whatever they want???
It’s mind blowing and it drives me further and further away from Lemmy on the regular. Keep up the good parenting and if I could offer my advice? Find a better place to ask for things like this, because all you’ll get are moronic replies like half the replies here.
- Comment on Texas governor signs online safety law in blow to Apple and Google 5 days ago:
I’m very conservative and support legislation to keep kids far away from porn and other dangers, but I don’t care for the idea of forcing people to turn over their ID just to download general use apps and services.
- Comment on Thoughts on the recent Swiss law that might require ProtonVPN to start blocking certain domains? 1 week ago:
I’m not saying I support this legislation but I’m really sick of the “parents should be parenting” excuse. Parents can be doing a great job with their kids and those kids will still see porn because of the way platforms push things (not to mention the ease of access of porn, which just needs to be outright banned).
The only solution, barring well-written legislation, is to not allow your kid to have a smartphone until they’re late teenagers, and ensure their access to computers is restricted to a public room, with appropriate monitoring.
That’s my plan whenever I have kids. However, something tells me a lot of people on Lemmy will take issue with that approach.
- Comment on Finally finished dumping my entire library of GameCube and Wii discs for Dolphin! 2 weeks ago:
Genuinely have no idea how to dump my games. I have quite a few GameCube and Wii games myself, just wouldn’t know where to start trying the process of dumping.
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Anything but promoting homeschooling or arming teachers, amirite?
- Comment on The YouTube Alternative Nobody's Talking About ! Peertube 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
Oh yeah, don’t get me wrong, I know it can be worse. I just think it could also be better.