HalfSalesman
@HalfSalesman@lemmy.world
I don’t have access to this account during weekends.
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 1 day ago:
Yo, I’m on my brother’s premium. I told myself if my brother stopped wanting to pay for it I’d pay for it myself because I hate ads that much.
On the other hand, if Youtube itself takes it away from me I’m going to just stop watching Youtube.
- Comment on Sad to hear it 1 week ago:
Pooh would be just as sad to have caused such a problem.
But yeah we need a new 3D Rayman but Ubisoft would ruin it anyway.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 week ago:
Yeah we’re going into flu season soon. And covid vaccines actually should be updated even more often than flu.
- Comment on LPT: Go get a shot, now. 1 week ago:
Just got my second HPV vax and my understanding is I have to wait at least a month before I can have a different vaccine.
That said, I intend to get the Covid and Flu vax once its been a full month. They’ve never told me I can’t do both of those at the same time.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 1 week ago:
And while none of those things are wrong per se, the general vibe of asking about all of those things was very weird and pervy.
Unshackle your mind. Reject the puritanism bonk and embrace the horniness tentacles.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 week ago:
I know that this is all just theater to just destroy any semblance of free speech and privacy on the internet but if I’m completely honest I also don’t even understand people who freak out about kids looking at porn. Like, I get protecting children obviously from predators (fucking Roblox), but also I saw hardcore porn on the internet super early when I was like 8 and the only trauma I ever felt was the fear of being caught looking at it by my parents, who were otherwise pretty chill about me seeing really violent media.
And before me and the internet, kids were looking at their grampa’s/dad’s porn magazines or finding it in the woods or getting some 18 year old to buy it for them. It was harder but I’m telling you they found it.
I feel like a bigger concern for kids right now is microplastics, lead poisoning, and climate change and you don’t see nearly the same hysteria about that shit in mainstream politics.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 3 weeks ago:
I did not look that deep. Its not been important enough since again I mostly have been using my Deck more than my Desktop anyway.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 3 weeks ago:
Performance is still noticeably worse. Based on some cursory research, the 4070 Super gets like ~20% less FPS on Bazzite compared to Windows on a 4070 Super and I tend to play high fidelity shooters on my desktop so frames per second matters.
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 3 weeks ago:
Them insisting on having match making for the main modes was my red line. While not a deal breaker for me, I almost always tryhard a single multiplayer game at a time anyway if I’m playing multiplayer at all. This sounds like I’m dodging another future headache whenever the next game insists on kernel level anti-cheat though.
- Comment on Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10 3 weeks ago:
IDK I liked 7 pretty much as much as I like XP. For me it was 10 that was just alright.
My brother convinced me to switch to 11 when I built my most recent gaming desktop and I somewhat regret listening to him but I know dual booting is a waste of time for me and I’m not quite ready to make the full jump to Linux because my desktop has a 4070 Super. It’ll ahve to wait until my next PC. Fortunately, I don’t have the version of 11 with Recall pre-installed at least.
I use my Steam Deck more than my gaming desktop these days anyway.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
No, you shouldn’t be embarrassed.
I mean, it probably wont work out unless your dad has a good eye for matchmaking but it is worth a shot. Plus its like he is suggesting a chance to grow as a person.
Part of me wishes my dad had done this but I know he’d be a terrible matchmaker for me. Though again, at least I probably would have learned from it.
- Comment on Alpha males 3 weeks ago:
I guess. I was able to engage in real conversation on Reddit and still do here, sounds like you’ve not really trying.
- Comment on Damm WaterCatholics 4 weeks ago:
That first one a real thing? Its hard to know what is real anymore.
Are they catholic converts? I bet they are.
- Comment on One Angry Man 4 weeks ago:
The Bird Monster, Inc. The Goonie Car Man in Black District 1 1 Day Later
Inverse (not as fun but still I love these movies): Fight Clubs The Signals (2007) The Matrices
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 4 weeks ago:
As a male bi who tends to sleep with women more than men and tend to favor fem guys (I’m picky), I wish I was gayer.
That said, bi and poly women are fantastic.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 4 weeks ago:
More people should watch this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHHnPLllUk
The CC companies have religious morons contained within their executives but they’re mainly being puppeted by outside religious evangelical organizations with a long history of wanting to destroy all sex work or erotica art.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 weeks ago:
If you elaborated and actually explained the specifics of your point instead of being vague you run the risk of having to make an argument in favor of it instead of just feeling safely morally or intellectually superior to a stranger on the internet.
I don’t want to waste my time on ego. I know I can be ignorant, I’m looking to learn. I also know some people think they have it all figured out, I hope I can provide a meaningful counter for them to chew on. Maybe I didn’t understand you: then fucking explain your point or stop wasting people’s time with smug vague posts. This isn’t bluesky.
Otherwise, it sounds like you were actively hoping I did not understand your point so you could enjoy the aroma of your own flatulence.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know who the bad guy is here because closing the source a while back makes me distrust this dev yet also I 100% believe Linux users (or at least the power users) are almost certainly insufferable in ways that would drive a reasonable dev out of development for Linux.
- Comment on Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means. 5 weeks ago:
The thing is, he is referencing specifically a model that recently demonstrated (to its developers at least) the ability to self improve without direct human input. But obviously there are caveats to what that actually means.
That he is referencing something specific and recent though makes me think he’s being genuine here, he believes what he is saying.
Obviously, hes almost certainly jumping the gun. Hes demonstrated a lack of critical thinking when it comes to new technological developments. See: all the money he dumped into VR and the Metaverse.
I see some commenters here pointing out that he is a coder, but he’s probably not coded anything for more than a decade at this point. He is fully immersed in the Silicon Valley koolaid, only he seems to use more public facing optimism about AI compared to other CEOs.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 weeks ago:
Fiction is definitionally not true or is made up.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 5 weeks ago:
Convert churches into museums for art and displaying the horrors of religion
Not all of them have pretty art. Just turn the boring looking ones into secular club houses or even just regular housing.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 5 weeks ago:
Do you support incest and rape video games being globally banned from sale? I mean, I can kind get it, its fucked up porn.
But I don’t like the idea of fictional smut, even if of particularly morally type of porn, gets globally banned (as long as its just fictional obviously).
What people jork their peanits to as long as no one was actually harmed in its production is none of my or your business.
Obviously, there is also the chilling effect of letting this slide and the anti-democratic nature of payment processors being the ones enforcing this. But I suspect those are unconvincing to you and you are happy this stuff is harder to get now. Am I wrong?
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 5 weeks ago:
IDK, maybe. I’m no expert. I would imagine it depends on how globalized the market was during Boomer’s 20’s and 30’s.
- Comment on I feel like it was on purpose 1 month ago:
Most millennials graduated shortly after the housing crisis of 2008. Its a major reason so many of us are unusually much much poorer than the average Gen Xer (who are only somewhat poorer compared to Boomers).
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 1 month ago:
The conversation continuing is fun. If I say something that makes them uncomfortable that tends to end the conversation. Depending on how extreme/strange the belief might even open some hostility.
That said, I agree with your sentiment anyway. Its probably worth the risk just to avoid the more “sad but safe” questions like work, weather, etc.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’m the opposite. The handful of times I’ve asked when desperate for a conversation, the results were at best mixed for the conversation and most times I feel worse.
If they’re ‘above’ me that just results in me feeling small. If they’re below me it makes me feel uncomfortable or even rude, even if it was just a question. The only time it works out is if they’re roughly “on par” with me and that’s only like a third of the time the case. Not great odds.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 1 month ago:
Say something shocking, open up about an out-of-left field belief you hold.
I’ve done that before and even in “oddball” places and its a bit of a dice roll on how positive of an effect it’ll have on the conversation. But then I have a lot of… extreme views.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 1 month ago:
Its a flawed yet broadly applicable conversation starter that is statistically less depressing than talking about the weather (climate change) or politics these days.
There are better options, but its not typically about cynical “How useful are you?” probing unless its like a business coded social event.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 1 month ago:
I feel like that’d be a reason to not ask. But I suppose it depends on the person.
- Comment on Admit it. WE all do this 1 month ago:
On one hand, I get it. I don’t really want to talk about work either. But on the other hand I can’t entirely blame some people if they work a lot that might be something that’s been floating around in their head or they’re just curious.