amio
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- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 5 months ago:
So they're ripping off the game that ripped them off. The industry is in an absolute state.
- Comment on Favourite controllers 6 months ago:
N64 is my favorite console of all time, but yeah, the controller is truly batshit insane. I even had a game that intended you to hold the left and right... prongs instead of center right. In a shocking twist, it was... still pretty awkward.
I do like PS5 controllers - mostly play N64 games on them, never even owned a PS. Used a PS4 controller before that.
- Comment on How do you handle family requests that you disagree with? 6 months ago:
So don't?
- Comment on Capitalists hate competition, especially when it comes to wages 6 months ago:
Oh, no no, capitalism welcomes competition, don't'y'know.
Just as long as it doesn't mess with the profit margins. - Comment on Ugh 6 months ago:
Absolutely essential. SponsorBlock is very nearly as important, and BlockTube also does a lot of annoyance damage control.
- Comment on Starfield Next Update Arriving This Week, Shattered Space DLC Sails Out This Fall 6 months ago:
See, this is exactly what people mean by disregarding any criticism.
- Comment on Starfield Next Update Arriving This Week, Shattered Space DLC Sails Out This Fall 6 months ago:
disregarded any criticism
Some people still do this. It is still pretty damn funny.
- Comment on Starfield Next Update Arriving This Week, Shattered Space DLC Sails Out This Fall 6 months ago:
Horse Armor 2.0
- Comment on WTF Happened In 1971? 6 months ago:
This doesn't explain shit. It tosses a bunch of graphs at you with the feeling of someone suggestively waggling their eyebrows. Some of the graphs have completely valid points. Some are of unclear relevance. Most of all, the page busily works to correlate all these in your mind while carefully not actually arguing anything. That should basically always make you thoroughly fucking suspicious - no matter what the message is.
Maybe the site is completely right about whatever its carefully-only-implied point is: that's the beauty of not really taking a clear stance at all, but just throwing information at people that is likely to allow them to extrapolate whatever you want them to. You also don't have to do pesky things like providing citations, justifying your reasoning, or even explaining what that reasoning is.
I would absolutely recommend against using this as a teaching tool. It could (generously...) be used as a reference for yourself, sure, if you can otherwise back up the implied connections in a way this site did not even try. The fact that its implied point, "wealth hoarding bad" (I assume) is a fairly good one, does not mean this is a good way of communicating it.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Yeah, bad faith participation is awesome if you have an excuse.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Have you considered maybe your "participation" is just insufferable even if it weren't blatantly bad faith?
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 6 months ago:
Ha! Get rekt, Meta.
- Comment on Is this a 16th-century smartphone? 7 months ago:
I think the term "PDA" dates back to about then.
- Comment on Emissary is Whatever You Want It To Be 7 months ago:
... OK, but seriously, what the fuck is it? Marketingspeke is cool (apparently), I get it, but what does it literally do?
- Comment on Really enjoying my first playthrough of Dwarf Fortress 7 months ago:
Cyclops are Finnish??
- Comment on Games that still need more patience: what games released a year ago (or older) are you waiting for a sale on? Or that need another patch? 7 months ago:
I've been mildly curious about RDR2. It's been on sale a couple times, but I still feel... icky about the idea of giving Take2 any money.
- Comment on Don't mess with me, I'm really very cool 7 months ago:
nothin personnel, kid
- Comment on Social Software Hacker Theory #1 – Conflict-Encouraging- vs. Discussion-Encouraging-UI-Design on the Fediverse 7 months ago:
I'm seeing a lot of uncited claims. If these are just conjecture or opinion you could be clearer on it. If they're not, citing sources is probably a good idea.
- Comment on yes you 7 months ago:
This is an outrage.
- Comment on /c/OptimistsUnite - dispelling inaccurate doomer myths and showing how we are living in the best time in recorded history 7 months ago:
Which inaccurate doomer myths? Because every time I hear this, it's "well, I'm sure that'll be ni-aaaaaaand it's climate denialism"
- Comment on The 6502 CPU Powered a Whole Generation! | The 8bit Guy 7 months ago:
I like this guy. If you're into retro computing, Ben Eater, who was mentioned in this video, has an awesome channel too: one of his video series involves making a computer from scratch on a breadboard using one of these bad boys (65c02, I think)
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Good point, wasn't thinking. Whatever leftism they claim is important over there, licking Russia's highly far-right taint is apparently much more of a priority.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
Rekt
... but no, no, I'm sure the ban was due to the relationship advice. 8)
- Comment on Sometimes when I say danke (thanks or thank you) some of my friends will say (and the spelling is wrong but it's as close as I can get) they will say danata or maybe it's dinata. 8 months ago:
That makes sense. For some reason, I thought it was something like "no reason to do what I did". So basically "Sure, totally no ulterior motives here, by the way!", which seemed kinda weird to me.
- Comment on How might a public flogging of an authoritarian ruler in 2024 impact the world? 8 months ago:
"Ah, {countryName} switched out their authoritarian ruler for someone who thought FNV's Caesar's Legion were a pretty cool bunch."
- Comment on Sometimes when I say danke (thanks or thank you) some of my friends will say (and the spelling is wrong but it's as close as I can get) they will say danata or maybe it's dinata. 8 months ago:
Do you happen to know why it's "keine Ursache"? That is a thing in Danish and Norwegian too ("ingen årsak") and I always thought it was a weird phrase.
- Comment on Sometimes when I say danke (thanks or thank you) some of my friends will say (and the spelling is wrong but it's as close as I can get) they will say danata or maybe it's dinata. 8 months ago:
"De nada"? Which is really confusing as that is Spanish and "Danke" is from German.
- Comment on A post may receive a hundred replies and host a fat and exciting conversation tree, but if one moderator doesn't like it then it may be locked or deleted. Is that immoral? 8 months ago:
Ok.
Still no, though.
- Comment on A post may receive a hundred replies and host a fat and exciting conversation tree, but if one moderator doesn't like it then it may be locked or deleted. Is that immoral? 8 months ago:
no
- Comment on Why are mental hospitals run like prisons? 8 months ago:
Because if you don't keep a close eye on mental patients, some of them might hurt or kill themselves or other people - sometimes in extraordinarily resourceful and unexpected ways. It's rare and overhyped, but the fact that it does happen means the system needs to account for it. Then add the usual amount of greed, incompetence, stigma etc., and suddenly the only way of accounting for that is, well, prison style.