flamiera

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox’s CEO calls moderation problems ‘an opportunity’ and platform gambling a ‘brilliant idea’ in unhinged interview⁩ ⁨⁨29⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Roblox's problem is that it is lead by the wrong people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game is a guilty pleasure of yours?⁩ ⁨⁨31⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  I noticed a fair bit of anime adaptations borrow that mechanic, that being one of them.

  Berserk: Band of the Hawk is another.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So now that it's that time of year again in the US, what are some tips and tricks for dealing with that one relative who goes on about the same bullshit for hours and won't shut the fuck up?⁩ ⁨⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  I am thankful I do not have such relative.

  And if I did, to the discard bin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  How about Chromebooks in general just die?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Except people are going to still buy those games, still complain for something to be done and when the potential resolution is there, they'll go "I DON'T WANT IT!" and just cycle through.

  Fuck sakes, some people...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, that's fine but I'm good until 2032 with my Windows 10.

  Also, we aren't for sure certain how many of those people are uniquely downloaded from Windows and specifically the purpose or reason.

  Some could've downloaded Zorin for experimental purposes. Some could've downloaded it from a Windows VM. Some could've downloaded it from Windows when they're in a dual-boot system.

  Hate to burst that bubble, but you need to consider these things before big numbers are boasted. There's a lot of variables involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I have two.

  1. The Culture

  I do not claim to be a 'gamer'. I prefer to be best described as someone who plays games, but not nearly as often as one branded a 'gamer' would play games by. But I've been partly turned off from video games because of the culture surrounding them. The streamers who play games, the RGB droolers, the tech-junkies, the whales, the hype-train types, the multi-hour essay level of delivering an opinion on a game .etc

  Not to mention, all of the gamer-branded merchandise from chairs to even drinks. It just turns me off and I do not ever associate with that crowd and it's a damn shame there is so much gullibility with the culture that it is difficult to avoid.

  2. Game-Padding

  Side-quest after side-quest does a game not make. That kind of thing is what you'd find in an MMO that needs to find things for you to do. Not in a more constrained container of a game that has a fixed story, a fixed completion rate and everything. All it tells me is that the developers did not think of or have had any faith in what they were making.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanted to love Monster Hunter World, but jesus, I could not skip anything on it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry Valve, but you are delusional here. This is going to bite you in the ass like Artifact did.

  I don't see the angle of the argument where people are saying that Valve is just going to eat the loss per sale of this machine. My question is - why bother? Because they're going to just bank on the goodwill built up with the Steam userbase and rely on them to buy games to make up the losses, which by the way the prices on even Steam's holiday sales have been quite underwhelming these past few years. So I don't get why they would bank on that when it is again underwhelming.

  The freaking device is 40% fan, lol.