vateso5074
@vateso5074@lemmy.world
- Comment on These are your only alternatives. 2 days ago:
And I feel like those pointy edges are just going to cut your mouth eventually.
- Comment on English moment 2 days ago:
Maybe it was a typo and they meant to write ‘wound’?
- Comment on English moment 2 days ago:
Wait how else would you pronounce ‘bound’?
- Comment on I'm not paying $8 for a pack of Skittles 2 days ago:
And theaters are still closing left and right because there is no price point that can draw the crowds they once had. Tickets are too expensive, and concessions are too expensive on top of that. The business is just not sustainable any longer.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
This was my experience as well.
Fresh out of high school, I started working at a store that was union, but everyone in my generation was on a different contract from the people who had been there for 20+ years. A lot of the benefits paperwork that went out to everyone had to clarify different terms depending on whether you were hired before or after a certain date, with the terms for the “after” group usually being worse.
Unions in general are great and necessary, but bad unions are still out there.
- Comment on Beware!!! 1 week ago:
I assume it’s referencing the controversy of Colin Kaepernick kneeling instead of standing for the US national anthem.
- Comment on Punch Time 1 week ago:
O.G. San is such a good name.
- Comment on OLAY! 1 week ago:
Ah so he’s just s dude playing a dude disguised as another dude.
- Comment on OLAY! 1 week ago:
Ah yes, the movie where they cast a French person as Scottish, a Scottish person as Spanish, and an American as a Russian.
- Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy 1 week ago:
Hey, some of us are 35-year-old edgelords
- Comment on VTuber Graduation 1 week ago:
I don’t know the full ins and outs myself, but most of these VTubers are managed by agencies who own the rights to the characters they portray. The people behind the character get paid for their work, and they can choose to take better jobs elsewhere, but they don’t get to bring the characters with them. Basically like how Tom Kenny (voice actor for SpongeBob) can’t just decide to be SpongeBob somewhere else, he doesn’t own the character.
When a VTuber decides to retire or if they take a better job with a different agency, the character “graduates,” which I think is just used because it’s a softer word than “retire.” The fans just get to imagine the character is off doing bigger and better things, not that they’re euthanized or locked in a storage unit somewhere gathering dust. In theory I guess the agency could continue using the character for merch and promo material, or even recast, though I have no idea how well that would go in an industry with fans as obsessive as theirs.
- Comment on And I won't delete them either for nostalgia reasons 1 week ago:
Shit. I was about to quip “Your intern is only 8?” before I remembered what year it was.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Do serial killers normally break out the tape measure before cutting into a victim?
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 2 weeks ago:
I will say I don’t like the direction imgur went, but to play devil’s advocate, I don’t think there was any way around it.
The problem is that being an image host used by millions of users is incredibly expensive, and between needing to pay for the infrastructure, content moderators, and (in this case) regulatory compliance, it all adds up.
The only income model they have is ads, which is why they needed to re-tool the UI to hinder users’ ability to direct share images, and converting it to a more social media type of format keeps users on the site so they can cycle in more ads for more revenue.
An ideal internet would not need to rely on ad money to work, but I’m struggling to think of what else could be done at the scale imgur operates, as donation models can barely even keep Lemmy instances above water. If ad money wasn’t a thing, would sites like imgur be able to exist? Maybe they shouldn’t, I don’t know.
- Comment on Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, a great looking game but with pacing issues 2 weeks ago:
I’ve played a lot of JRPGs in my time, and I can also say I don’t enjoy Ni no Kuni. It’s definitely more style than substance.
- Comment on Ohio never sleeps 2 weeks ago:
New England? There’s an entire Pennsylvania and New York between Ohio and New England.
- Comment on Ohio never sleeps 2 weeks ago:
Gozaimasu
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 2 weeks ago:
Don’t forget that Crunchyroll is also owned by Sony, who have basically picked up a monopoly on anime streaming services by buying out all of the competition. Aniplex, Funimation, Crunchyroll, Kadokawa, all under the Sony umbrella.
- Comment on you spin me right round baby right round... 2 weeks ago:
For this one, I think it’s nothing quite as exciting, basically just what you’d expect.
S30.852A - Superficial foreign body of penis, initial encounter
- Comment on you spin me right round baby right round... 2 weeks ago:
Guessing that column is truncated “Allergies,” though I’m not sure if the exclamation point means that they have a major allergy or maybe their allergy information wasn’t recorded yet.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 2 weeks ago:
Nintendo raised the price of the Switch 1 and most of their accessory products in the US and Canada in May for Canada and August for the US.
This was following price increases for Nintendo Switch Online in Latin American countries which started in January. Nintendo has not raised prices of the subscription globally, but in their press releases about increased costs of hardware, they state that “price adjustments may be necessary in the future” for NSO, presumably after evaluating trends when the free trial period of GameChat ends for Switch 2 early adopters in March 2026.
And I know you said you don’t care about Sony, but just to share sources, Sony has already increased the price of their hardware in Japan in August 2024; Europe, Australia, and New Zealand in March; and the US in August of this year.
This was following earlier price increases in 2022 for Canada, Japan, Europe, Australia, and Mexico.
Sony also increased the cost of PS+ in North America, Europe, and Japan back in 2023, more recently for Southeast Asia back in April, and there are rumors of another upcoming price increase to be announced for the new fiscal year.
So all of this is just to illustrate that what Microsoft is doing isn’t really anything new—it’s just the latest development in a continuing industry-wide trend.
- Comment on Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody" 2 weeks ago:
Raising the price of hardware twice since May and now raising the price of game pass by 50% is not something a company does if they’re interested in competing against Sony or Nintendo.
But when Sony and Nintendo are doing the same thing…?
- Comment on Rock Band 4 to be delisted on tenth anniversary following the expiration of its licenses 2 weeks ago:
Don’t worry, the games industry has you covered on that now. They just release games that are broken or half-finished without the day 1 patch, but then allowing it to update removes all of the licensed content.
- Comment on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unified 2 weeks ago:
That’s how I read the intent of the author, at least. Getting scientists out of their isolated bubbles and allowing them to actually experience the world drives innovation.
That, or the one physicist who figured it out was so traumatized by merely being outside that she figured it out as quickly as possible to make it all stop, haha.
- Comment on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unified 2 weeks ago:
Fair, I guess I’m just letting the world get to me!
- Comment on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Unified 2 weeks ago:
I almost kinda dislike the messaging on this one because it implies authoritarianism is the key to discovery. Scientists are implied to be passive and unindustrious when left alone, so the government (FBI-type characters) declare a truth they want proven, force development of it through the threat of violence, and it eventually yields an answer they’re happy with.
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 2 weeks ago:
I barely even buy 5 games a year, and often not at full price. And usually the games I want aren’t even on GamePass anyways.
$360/year is crazy. Only a good deal if you’re buying more than 6 full price games a year and plan to 100% beat them and never play again before they disappear from the catalog.
- Comment on New EA Owners Hoping AI Will Cut Costs And Boost Profits, It's Claimed 2 weeks ago:
Better AI than humans. Humans have the potential to be gay and will end up shoving their corrupt ideology into the minds of our children.
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 3 weeks ago:
Can’t find a link to the referenced comic
Got you covered, fam.
There’s other versions around as well and I have no idea which is the original. Just replace “Bioware” with any studio that EA has purchased and chances are there is a version of this comic that followed that news.
- Comment on Day 438 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
Not strange at all, it’s not as though it’s a particularly action-y game.
If someone wanted to play FF7 Remake/Rebirth on M&K, I might have a few more questions, but speaking as someone who still plays a lot of FPS games with controller, you’ll never hear me tell someone that their preferred style is wrong.
