Fyrnyx
@Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 1 day ago:
Because these are naturally grown sources of sugar that is untainted by the joke of the food industry's idea of processing sugar?
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 1 day ago:
Are you going to lump Shigeru Miyamoto in that same bold claim?
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 days ago:
You can't blatantly assume all games are like what AAA is. Indie development is the beacon that says that games can still be made simple, without all of the corporate fluff and shit jammed into it.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 2 days ago:
Okay, okay.
I am going to have to whip out this criticism for anybody that has made these kind of rants.
STOP. FOCUSING. ON. AAA. GAMES!
I'm not kidding, that's your problem and that's anyone else's problem who get sick of gaming as a whole. You keep kicking that can down the street for AAA game development to pander to you, but end up disappointed over and over and over. But you still kept your hand out, you still bought their games at Day 1, you still bought their DLC, you still waited for all and any patchwork. You were still there!
Meanwhile I and several dozen others by now, have been in the pirating game for years before you and anyone else had the guts to finally join in after having your face slapped hundreds of times by this point.
And people have been also telling you for years as to what the better alternatives that was out there were, but nooope! Still stuck to AAA development.
Took you long enough.
- Comment on Why doesn't Hamas or Israel just meet at a predetrmined place and time and just have out or kill the crap out of each other? Instead of involving civs who don't have anything to do with war? 2 days ago:
Hamas was what Afghanistan/Osama Bin Laden was to the United States but Palestinians ended up being the Iraq end of the matter for Israel.
Do the math.
- Comment on Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come 2 days ago:
Now I'll even have more trust issues.
Would I rather trust;
A share-holder controlled corporation who has to follow their own rules and standards to make sure said data doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
or
Member-owned data storages that could be broken into far easier than the share-holder controlled one.
- Comment on Hulu officially launching on Disney Plus across the globe — here's when it's coming 2 days ago:
Big fucking deal. I hate it when companies still think they're being "RISKAY" by doing shit like this. Walmart changing their color to just another shade of blue. Hulu just integrating into another service.
- Comment on YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else. 3 days ago:
Very generic.
Here's a better piece of advise: Be a better version of yourself. How you want to really be. Just saying "be yourself" is very vague and spoken of from people who don't know you - you. Only you know you so you should strive for a better version of yourself to project out there than this whole "be yourself" repetitive vague shit.
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 3 days ago:
Crunchyroll doesn't even have all of the anime, they neglect a few classic ones. Pricks.
- Comment on YSK you can cancel subscriptions by removing them from your credit card/payment processor, or call the bank and ask someone to remove them. 4 days ago:
This is not advisable to do for any membership.
You don't foresee that some companies could actually take you to court for not fulfilling your obligations to pay. And you won't just have to pay for what you owe, but the legal fees too. Gee, who's that calling you all the time? Must be the debt collectors because now you've been tossed to debt collection agencies who'll hound you until they also decide to take you to court.
Here's the thing you should actually know: decide what the hell which subscription is worth getting into. Don't try being cute by doing this stupid method.
- Comment on New Steam study alleges that Valve's store is home to extreme right-wing "wars" 4 days ago:
The forums are to be avoided. You can't even have an honest non-political discussion in them because it is filled with immature asshole trolls with somehow too much time on their hands. I'm permabanned from Steams official forums because of just suggesting we get rid of the jester award. Cue in legions of fuckheads storming in 16 pages worth of my reviews and flagging nearly all of them with jester awards. Fuck that shithole.
It's even astounding how one of the trolls, was married and has a kid. What a life that guy has to find so much time to be an asshole online while having a family. "Uh sorry honey, I'm too busy owning someone online because they had an opinion I don't like, I'm not going to have dinner with you tonight."
- Comment on For when arguments go off the bottom of The Debate Pyramid 4 days ago:
I feel that online arguments always start at the Contradiction layer and always sharply go down short of the violence part.
- Comment on Are the character names in most Anime real Japanese names or just made up? 4 days ago:
Copied from Google; Many anime character names are real Japanese names with traditional meanings, such as
Sakura (cherry blossom), Naruto (maelstrom), Sora (sky), Akari (light), and Haruki (spring tree). Other anime names, like Goku, Yagami, Sasuke, and Kakashi, also have real Japanese origins and meanings, though some may be less common or more metaphorical. - Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 4 days ago:
A lot of them are assholes, yeah. You can safely assume some of those people are also lawbreakers if they're already breaking a few dozen laws by doing stupid street racing. Probably drug dealers too. Doing something like illegal street racing, is like a criminal's side-hobby. You won't know what else they've done until they've gotten arrested.
- Comment on Ubisoft's new Tencent-backed company is called Vantage Studios, a 'creative house' that will take over development of Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six - PC Gamer 5 days ago:
More like continuing to drag these zombie series on as long as possible.
- Comment on Does being a ‘hero’ mean you are a perfect person? 5 days ago:
No. Who you described at the end is what is called an Anti-Hero, who is someone who can do good things but they do them their own way which might not always be the right or correct way to solve a problem. Even if the problem was solved.
- Comment on Microsoft launches ‘vibe working’ in Excel and Word 6 days ago:
Oh it's going to do it for Word too?
Prompt: Termination letter telling my boss and bosses to kindly go fuck themselves and make it professional
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 6 days ago:
As far as I know, they use things called Evercookies and it's been a thing now too. If you have an Evercookie, then it won't really matter what browser you use or even if you clean the cache and history. You have to deep scrub your system and practically all traces of your browser to even get rid of those.
And even so, basic networking is a no brainer when they can just flag your IP and it won't even matter how many times you've done that process.
VPN and Incognito browsing is the way.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 6 days ago:
Because whether you like it or not, social media is the easy-track to connect with people of all varying degrees and connect through common interests and even ideals. It's a lot easier than in the 2000s and 1990s when all you've had was an e-mail and probably chat room hopping. You just had to know someone else's e-mail like you would have to know someone's number to call them, that's how it worked.
With social media, you can just breeze through friend lists and comb over searches to find friends and everything far easier. It's easier to connect with people that way than ever before. And losing out on that, can sting.
I sometimes wished it wasn't that way, but the people have largely decided we needed something more than just writing e-mails to eachother.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 6 days ago:
Deleting your posts was a waste of time. Chances are likely that it is archived on their end.
Reddit has been paying close attention to behavior patterns of banned users and users they wouldn't want on their platform. It's likely they've gotten your posting imprint and just give you the comfort of thinking you've deleted your posts.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 6 days ago:
Um, I have done so successfully?
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 6 days ago:
Don't assume I'm one of those people. I only threw down a dollar just to get three months of SiriusXM and I only listen to comedy on it. I have an IPod Touch with music and car manufacturer's suck dick on complicating the idea of plugging in IPod devices and letting them work as normal. No, we're suddenly required to have ApplePlay or Android Auto.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 6 days ago:
Good job, Spez, you fuck!
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 6 days ago:
But will something be done about it?
NOooOoOoOoOoo. As long as it is still the new shiny toy for techbros and executive-bros to tinker with, it'll continue.
- Comment on Why are podcasters/vloggers suddenly holding tiny mics? 1 week ago:
I think you're on to something here. I have had noticed that in some channels I've watched where it seems like their room is way too perfect? Probably not the right word, but it's off-setting to see how their environment is orchestrated. Like it's the in-thing to do, so that is their way, a way of conformity. Then when that in-thing is no longer that thing, out with that environment into something else that's trendy.
I would hate myself a lot if I was making videos and had to orbit my life around what a manufacturer, marketer, advertiser .etc wants to see me project.
- Comment on With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent 1 week ago:
With AOL's exit from dial-up, we are now down to three dial-up ISPs; NetZero, Juno and DSLExtreme.
- Comment on With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent 1 week ago:
AOL will be remembered more fondly for things like this. But, nobody ever has a fond memory of the software AOL shoved out. It was clampware, unreliable and frequently crashed.
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- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 1 week ago:
I think sales have lost their luster when they're almost the same prices we've seen all year around. The golden age of sales was from 2010 - 2018 I would say and it was THE time to wheel and deal on getting games you sought for the most for crazy prices.
Nowadays, things remain stagnant. You'll find games released 5 years ago get an eh -15% off. You'll find games even 10 years ago get an eh -30% off. Most of the games you see go 65 - 90% off are either games you already had gotten long ago with better prices or games you couldn't give a shit about.
I understand that it'd be dumb to expect one or even two year games to be more than -50% at least. But the older the game gets, come on, you can do better.
- Comment on Steam Autumn Sale 2025 Has Begun 1 week ago:
Rimworld almost never goes below $26 in sales if I recall. And it pisses me off too because it's an 8 year old game, but the devs remain so stingy on giving a good deal. It's like they act like they've made their own sacred Super Mario Bros game that can never have a good sale, like Nintendo practices.