Draegur
@Draegur@lemmy.zip
Poly-Panro-Ace It/They
friendly neighborhood wholesome degenerate abomination from beyond the stars (mostly harmless™).
Atomic energy enthusiast. Architecture enjoyer. Mecha appreciator. Sci-Fi reader.
Winged caniform cybernetic biped techno-lich in its dreams.
- Comment on Why is GOG not as succesful as a Gaming Alternative? 9 hours ago:
i figure it’s a momentum thing.
Valve benefited from being First To Market with this model. They were already well established before anyone else tried to make their own.
epic games store, ubisoft connect, and also whatever used to be origin, all these launchers were HEAVILY marketed and users were shoehorned into them as a mandatory condition of playing a game, and they are all floundering.
GOG, though? No marketing. No coercion. Mostly it’s word of mouth and good will. And they are doing pretty alright. I’d say that, for NOT being first to market, and for NOT wasting loads and loads of cash trying to push themselves onto people–hell, you buy a game from GOG and you don’t even NEED to install their launcher! All their game installers function perfectly STAND-ALONE!
I’d say, with all that in mind, GOG is literally doing better than anyone that isn’t Steam.
And in my view, they are ever improving, even now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
i dunno if it’s the same one, but the feelings OP described are how I felt about bronies.
there was a time before the infestation of predators took hold when almost every person you’d meet among them was unflinchingly, unashamedly, relentlessly wholesome, sincere, and genuine. people who really took honesty, loyalty, kindness, and generosity to heart. but that kind of environment was not hostile enough to defend itself from exploitation. an object lesson in the paradox of tolerance: there are some things that no society will survive tolerating, and there truly are some behaviors that cannot be rehabilitated. there is hardly anyone around anymore from the height of the subculture around 2014…
- Comment on Tips 2 weeks ago:
Blankets are great because you only have to pay for them once, and now that you have them, they can keep you warm basically forever.
Now, when it’s HOT weather, fuck it I’m using electricity for air conditioning; it’s getting legitimately dangerously hot lately and THAT SHIT is what will kill me if I don’t pay up x.x
- Comment on Tips 2 weeks ago:
I’d say it’s because consumerism is a kind of brain rot all its own. The media landscape we’ve been living in for generations has sold us this ridiculous fantasy that happiness means owning (or at least temporarily renting) luxury goods.
The plurality, if not majority, of the population here has never had to adjust their expectations or really sit down and think hard about what’s actually worth acquiring. We treat desires for convenience and novelty as though they are necessities. But they aren’t.
What’s actually a necessity is having something fulfilling to occupy your time, as a counterbalance to keep you sane, and that activity does not HAVE to be of the sort that costs a lot of money. Take up art using cheap supplies–just sketch with standard number two pencils on white lined notebook paper or perhaps play music on improvised instruments made of household objects. It doesn’t have to be good in order to become meaningful and if you do it enough it’ll BECOME good. Walk outside when the weather happens to be nice. Learn to ride a bicycle again. Visit a library. Pretend to sword fight with a friend using a fallen tree branch. You don’t have to drop several grand on a resort vacation. You don’t have to go into debt for a fancy car. You don’t need to buy the latest edition of “triple a” micro transaction slop from so-called “studios” that don’t give one single solitary wet shart about actual creativity and fire all their devs immediately every time a project wraps.
Money can’t buy whimsy.
All it can do is, at best, remove obstacles from between you and being able to enjoy something. If it’s not being used to simplify your life, then it’s COMPLICATING your life: Giving you only empty distraction that does not provide your experience with any fertile ground for meaning. This is but one of the many ways we are socially “poisoned” and then told that conspicuous consumption is the antidote. It’s not. it’s just even more poison.
You know what the most enjoyable experience I had was in the past several months? Just sitting in the living room at a gathering of friends where everyone brought a little home made food and listening to their happy voices. It cost me next to nothing but turned out to be worth more than anything.
My computer is more than ten whole years old now but it handles old games i could find on sale just dandy and doesn’t need some suped-up rtx gpu to let me pirate some shows XD
I stopped mindlessly gorging myself on junk food, and now basically only eat either efficient daily maintenance nutrition OR choose to visit a small locally owned restaurant no more than once per week. I’m never spending upwards of fifteen fucking dollars on a fast food burger “meal” ever again.
Divest of tacky opulence. Defy Wall Street and its siren song of ruin disguised as prosperity. Embrace the elegance of simplicity and spontaneity. If this sprawling parasitic infestation we’ve mistaken for an *economy" can’t survive without sucking the life out of us all then maybe it deserves to collapse.
- Comment on Tips 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been losing weight, which has been good for me. But someday … I’m going to run out of stored calories. For the very first time in my life, it has crossed my mind to wonder if I might starve someday ._.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 3 weeks ago:
You are based for stanning gog and thus are absolved <3
I love their zero tolerance for DRM so much
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 3 weeks ago:
…
oooooookayyyyyyyy.
billionaires, man: they not like us ._.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 5 weeks ago:
huh wow. i was going to presume it was a storage volume quantity calibration of some kind. neat.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
There is no kind of person who obsessively fixates upon the subject of penises with a frequency or intensity greater than that of a transphobe.
- Comment on Lemmy and PieFed users in 50 years 1 month ago:
🧅
(the style)
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 1 month ago:
Fact: 90% of all leftist infighters MUST quit as a prerequisite before the movement can be capable of revolution, irrespective of “purity”.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
All these fucking chuds complaining about censorship. I wish they fucking WOULD get censored so i could stop hearing them BITCHING about it.
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 1 month ago:
I really wish someone would cure our civilization’s cancer. I’m tired of Altman, Thiel, Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg.
- Comment on Palestine | Hamas proposes long-term ceasefire if Israel fully withdraws from Gaza 1 month ago:
Making a colonizer “just leave”? If only that ever worked…
- Comment on Good advice 1 month ago:
Stop fantasizing about falling in love with literally any person who is nice to you and breaking your own heart.
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 2 months ago:
They are literally those.
- Comment on I fall for it every year. Every. Year. 2 months ago:
If i want McRib, i skip the middle man and just buy q bulk family-size tray/tub of frozen microwaveable riblets and go to fucking TOWN
- Comment on Change my mind 2 months ago:
Not shown: the lower lines that list “Arguing in the Shower” and “Arguing in Your Imagination”, and the bottom line of “Not Arguing At All”
- Comment on The floor is lava 2 months ago:
I utterly adore her even in the cursed ones ^^
- Comment on Is it normal to see this static when you close your eyes? 2 months ago:
Ohhh yeahhhh the lava lamp like ones are cool. Sometimes vague impressions of cyan and red, sometimes propagating in waves. I’m so glad other people are describing it!
- Comment on Windows 11 to add an AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders, warns of security risk 2 months ago:
Never. Ever. EVER. INSTALLING. ELEVEN.
- Comment on Peter Thiel dumps entire Nvidia stake, slashes Tesla holdings amid bubble fears 2 months ago:
when you see the rats running from the end of the ship that’s settling a little lower in the water… that water ain’t outside the hull anymore.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 months ago:
I for one like this fella’s takes.
He services these appliances. Which is to say, he is specifically doing business with people who want to repair and keep theirs, and he has hands on in depth experience not only restoring them to working order but specific direct observation of what their faults and failure modalities are. He bases his positions on how robust a machine is such that people actually bother to get it fixed instead of just replacing it with a “new” one as if whole ass several hundred dollar appliances are single use appliances.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms Windows 11 is about to change massively, gets enormous backlash - Neowin 2 months ago:
See, now that they’ve strongarmed everyone into using their new shitty OS and no longer using the old kind of okay one, they can change it however they want and all their users are stuck with it!
(Excuse me while i cackle madly in linux)
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 months ago:
Heh. That’s how i “delete” my credit card info from a service that i don’t want to do business with anymore.
- Generate a virtual card through my financial institution
- Assign that card to handle payment of that subscription via the merchant
- Shut off the card.
Eat shit Disney. I’m never paying you a dime ever again.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 months ago:
If you and your friends agree that you want to be part of a commune… Well, there you go! Go and found one!
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 months ago:
I’m actively looking for people who would be interested in building a Gay Furry Commune in Massachusetts.
With pooled assets, we can actually AFFORD to buy some land AND build on it.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 months ago:
You joke but Samsung fridge compressors ARE notorious for catastrophic mechanical failure.
A fridge on fire is, like, literally the opposite of what a fridge should do >.>;;;
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 months ago:
You are far from alone. ACTUAL knobs, buttons, dials, switches, and levers are things I’m hearing more and more people saying they miss.
- Comment on JD, you dog. 2 months ago:
Sleep with dogs, get fleas.
Any person who denies, betrays, and defiles common sense to hitch their wagon to a fascist pervert (redundant!) deserves what they get.