GoodEye8

@GoodEye8@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m simply explaining the grievances people have that is stopping them from donating and what I personally would do in your situation to alleviate those grievances. That grievance is the nature of lemmy.ml which you’ve either voluntarily or involuntarily let slip into promoting a very specific political agenda that most lemmy users don’t agree with. If you’re genuine in your desire to have lemmy.ml as something that helps development then it should be apparent to you how the current state of lemmy.ml contradicts that desire. If you can’t acknowledge that I can only assume you’re using the development of lemmy as an excuse to keep lemmy.ml as it is.

  Which segues to the end of my previous comment. If you think that’s unfair to the users of the instance then the only thing that you can do is step away. You can always start a new instance or you can work something out with the existing instance owners to get the data and feedback you need to develop Lemmy. And to be clear those instances can’t be Lemmygrad or Hexbear because those two instances are also not acceptable for most Lemmy users and wouldn’t solve the grievances people have.

  At the end of the day it is not my concern if you get funded or not. I have no issue funding the development despite your obviously transphobic stance and Dessalines stance on Uighurs because I am capable of separating your work from who you are. I don’t have to like you to support your work so I’m willing to compromise here. But me tolerating both of you doesn’t mean I’m going to compromise supporting a platform that is actively promoting an agenda I cannot accept. I’ve already compromised on tolerating your, how about you compromise a bit to meet half way? If you’re unwilling to compromise this is my final alternative to supporting lemmy. Remove yourselves from the project, let someone more reasonable than you to take over and I’ll donate to them.

  You have to understand that at this point Lemmy is bigger than you and its popularity is growing in spite of you and lemmy.ml. The fact that Lemmy is growing but your donations are shrinking should make that point evident. It’s up to you if you’re going to adjust to the new reality or stick your old ways and run into monetary issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Interestingly that’s the exact thing I loved about Hollow Knight. I got so immersed in the exploration specifically because I got lost. On my first playthrough I ended up sequence breaking the game and cleared out deepnest, ancient basin, hive and kingdoms end before the city of tears. I was way out of my depth and I loved every moment of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve given it some more thought. There’s no guarantee that money going to the developers won’t be used to for the instance they are financing. If I give you money and the lemmy.ml funds are empty, are you going to let lemmy.ml die? Considering you said it is used to test new versions of lemmy and measure performance and test how effective the mod tools are I don’t think you would let lemmy.ml die. You’d finance it yourself, most likely from the money that is donated for the development of lemmy. So separating lemmy development and lemmy.ml instance costs wouldn’t really change the situation.

  But I also no longer think it’s inherently necessary to step away from lemmy.ml. I get the value a real instance would give to development, so what I think needs to happen is a shift in what lemmy.ml is supposed to be. If the purpose of lemmy.ml is to support the development of lemmy then the primary goal of the instance should be that. Clearly the biggest issue people have is politics and how lemmy.ml is used as a vessel to push a certain kind of political agenda, which means if the primary goal is to support development then the instance right now contradicts its primary goal. It’s dissuading people from donating to the development and it’s making the main developers (you in this case) focus on the drama (for the lack of a better word) instead of spending time developing. I think the solution is pretty simple, lemmy.ml should take a hard anti-politics stance. Do a purge and kick all politics off the instance, including instance users who discuss politics on other instances. Have it be memes, technology, privacy and FOSS and gaming and everything else that doesn’t necessarily lead to politics. Users who want to take part in political discourse can find instances that allow political discourse, and that includes you and Dessalines. If you want to be political create an alt account on a different instance. Communities that want to be political can find other instances to be in political. You don’t need politics to run lemmy.ml. And for the sake of clarity also add to the instance about section that the instance exists to support lemmy development because currently that is not written anywhere.

  If you think that’s unfair to the current users of lemmy.ml I honestly don’t see how you could resolve this situation without stepping away from lemmy.ml.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please consider supporting Lemmy development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine the biggest point are the censorship, disinformation and tankie allegations. These are all documented in this post. Another point worth bringing up is that they are the admins of lemmy.ml, where most of the allegations happen. Lemmy.ml also has something of a tankie problem and one of the devs has said that the donations will also cover the cost of running the instance. So by donating to the devs you’re also donating to an instance that possibly has no problem with censorship, disinformation and harboring tankies.

  I would be willing to turn a blind eye if I could trust the devs to step away from lemmy.ml and focus solely on the development of Lemmy. But I don’t trust the devs enough to actually do that so I personally won’t be supporting Lemmy development until someone else becomes the maintainer of Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would imagine they’d be stupid if they did use AI. I’ve seen people use AI to “write” technical documentation that I have had to review. That shit goes straight into the bin because the time I spend fixing all the AI nonsense is about the same amount of time it would take for me to write the document myself. It’s gotten to a point where I straight up reject all AI generated documentation because I know fixing them is a waste of time.

  I imagine legal documents have to be at least as precise as technical documents, so if they’re checking the output I seriously doubt they’re saving any time or money by using AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Silksong is playable in a museum this September, but that probably doesn't help narrow down its release date⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering Xbox already announced Silksong releasing within a year a few years back I’m not even going to believe the release announcement unless I can put the game in my shopping cart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine thinking you’re so important that others should care about your opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He still has the 10th most subscribed channel on Youtube, him endorsing Linux is huge due to the reach he has. His video has 3.2 million views, other content creators are making their reaction videos to his video. You don’t have to like him to see how big this is for Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know the original game was remade. I assume you meant layers of fear 2 because the original layers of fear wasn’t even on Unreal Engine and Layers of fear 2 is on UE4. Nothing I said was wrong. It was wrong only because you weren’t precise with what you’re saying.

  And how nice of you to pick out the one thing I was wrong on while completely ignoring all the other examples. For instance how the fuck can you put Subnautica 2 on that list when it’s not even in early access?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s a pretty shit list. You have there games that aren’t using UE5 (Layers of Fear 2), that are known to have poor performance (STALKER 2), that just released into early access (Inzoi) and that haven’t even released into early access (Subnautica 2).

  I’d throw half the list out the window, actually probably more because the other half of the list are mostly games I don’t know enough to evaluate their performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no way Google would voluntarily sell Chrome. Unfortunately for them, they might be forced to sell Chrome.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda Gifts Everybody in the Skyblivion Team a Copy of Oblivion Remastered⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you give one example where Bethesda has actually attacked the modding community?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They don’t want to buy the browser. They want to buy the brand and the users. Chrome makes up over half the browser market. Think of all the data they could extract from Chrome. It would cost significantly more to fork chromium and grow the user base to a point where they could extract anything valuable from them, and that’s assuming they’d be successful enough to make it happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered - Official Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t see how the level scaling works, but I’m assuming it works exactly like OG Oblivion for two reasons. First is that the underlying game logic is OG Oblivion and second, whether you liked it not, the level scaling was very much in the DNA of Oblivion so it kinda has to be there to feel like Oblivion.

  And so far from what I watched others play, the world is still as barren and boring as OG Oblivion. Personally I’m going wait for Skyblivion because the barren world was the main reason I didn’t enjoy Oblivion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Oblivion remaster is real: Doubters in shambles as developer Virtuos accidentally leaves the door open to trailer screenshots and assets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is all I’ll address because it sums up everything I think about what you’ve said so far.

  My opinion is that the store page should say “This title is not eligible for a refund due to a reasonable person knowing better than to buy this new”

  If that’s a controversial opinion, please feel free to join the dumpster fire below and defend the billion dollar company.

  You think it’s okay to take away consumer rights to, I suppose, stick it to a billion dollar company. And anyone disagreeing with you (as in anyone thinking consumer rights shouldn’t be taken away) are defending a billion dollar company. There’s only one (technically two) thing to say about your statement and that’s: “It’s stupid and it’s wrong”. There’s no reason to give and no arguments to make because it’s just that fucking stupid. It’s just wrong.

  And that’s my opinion of pretty much everything you’ve said.

  And just a final addendum. I haven’t downvoted you once (nor have I upvoted anyone else) because I don’t really give a fuck about upvotes and downvotes. But I’m not at all surprised you feel the need to bring up something that fucking petty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Oblivion remaster is real: Doubters in shambles as developer Virtuos accidentally leaves the door open to trailer screenshots and assets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just out of curiosity, do you also shit on New Vegas? Because it’s technically a Bethesda game that was made after Oblivion, which according to you makes it dog shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Oblivion remaster is real: Doubters in shambles as developer Virtuos accidentally leaves the door open to trailer screenshots and assets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While you’re entitled to your opinion, don’t forget that it just your opinion and it’s subject to your own biases. And that’s your comment, an opinionated take based on the belief that anything Bethesda touches is shit. I know better to try to change your mind. You being blinded by your vitriol towards Bethesda is not my concern.

  My message is very simple and I’ll preface it with the obvious. Don’t buy anything until you’ve read the reviews. The actual people working on the remaster/remake are not Bethesda. That means that just because Bethesda is shit doesn’t mean the game will be shit. It might be good. But we don’t know what it will be until it releases and reviews are out, so don’t instantly dismiss it simply because there’s a Bethesda logo somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Oblivion remaster is real: Doubters in shambles as developer Virtuos accidentally leaves the door open to trailer screenshots and assets⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s also worth remembering that this remaster isn’t being made by Bethesda. Virtuos are the ones remastering/remaking the game and their portfolio is pretty much exclusively ports, remasters and remakes. I don’t know the details of how much they’re using Unreal Engine (the leaks state that the game will be running on UE), but I think that pretty much rules out Bethesda’s involvement beyond IP consultancy because they don’t have UE experience.

  I’m all for being critical of the shit Bethesda puts out, but I’m not going to dismiss someone’ work simply because the name Bethesda is attached to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Almost 19% of Japanese people in their 20s have spent so much money on gacha they struggled with covering living expenses, survey reveals - AUTOMATON WEST⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And if we were all smart people we would have far less laws. Sometimes laws protect us from ourselves. Anyone who has experience with addiction knows how hard it is to just stop. Instead of blaming people for their inability to stop we should emphatize and understand that this needs an intervention. If these predatory practices were illegal those people wouldn’t need to stop themselves because they wouldn’t be put in that situation in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dolores Umbridge was a JK Rowling Self Insert all this time.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How about you separate the author from the works? You can think her books were great, but it doesn’t change that she’s extremely bigoted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  From what I’ve read it’s not actually made by Bethesda, it isn’t using the creation engine and there are gameplay changes.

  That information turned me from not caring to checking out what people will say when it releases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s even necessarily that the GPU pricing has ballooned. I think the main reason is that that every new game has to compete with pretty much every other game ever made. For example I enjoyed Death Stranding and I am interested in Death Stranding 2, but I’m probably not getting in on launch because there’s a big chance I’ll probably start playing Stardew Valley for the n’th time, because I feel like that’s what I want to play. I’ll probably play DS2 when I get the Kojima itch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post promoting lemm.ee hits 67,000 views and 1000 upvotes in 3 hours.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s most likely a cloudflare proxy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Taking $900 a month from your friend just so the friend could have a roof over their head sounds harmless? And your defense of that action is “at least he’s not taking $1400-$1500”?

  How about you Venmo me $900 every month and in return if someone comes asking to Venmo them $1500 you can tell them you already got a better deal? Does that sound fair or do I need to own property to make it seem fair?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No. Here’s what he could’ve done to not be a leech.

  • sell the property

  He no longer uses it so selling it to someone who would use it would be the best option. But maybe he’s sentimental about the place or has some other reason to keep it. Then it’s better if he “rents” it out.

  • Get tenants but have them only pay for the utilities they use,no rent is paid.

  He chose to keep the house, the mortgage on it is his responsibility not the tenants. Even if he just asked the tenants to cover the mortgage that is already leeching because you’re not using your money to pay it off, you’re using someone else’s. Once the mortgage is paid off he has a property he didn’t pay for while the people who paid got nothing. But let’s say he can’t afford to pay the mortgage but he still wants to keep the house?

  • have the tenants pay thy mortgage as well, but nothing more.

  Again, it’s his property whatever patch work it requires it’s his to cover. He’s already offloaded his mortgage to the tenants, why demand even more from them? But let’s say the tenants are scum of the earth and every day they tear the property apart, having the also pay to cover the repairs would reign them in.

  • give back the money he took for repairs but he didn’t use for repairs.

  He’s offloaded the mortgage on the tenants. He’s offloaded the maintenance cost to the tenants. The least he could do is give back the maintenance money he didn’t use. But he doesn’t even do that.

  And yet, according to you, we’re supposed to think of it as him doing the tenants a favor because he’s not ripping them off more? Do you think a wife beater not beating his wife every chance he gets is doing the wife a favor? Do you think the slave owner not whipping their slaves is doing them a favor? Absolutely asinine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He could’ve given the rest money back to his friend after all the repairs were done. He chose to keep that money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hundred years ago it was normal to beat women of they were out of line. Millenia ago it was normal to own slaves. It’s also “normal” for the US Healthcare to screw over people who need Healthcare. Just because something is “normal” doesn’t mean it’s somehow right. Slavery was normal but then different societies over time understood that slavery is not right and it stopped being normal. Beating women used to be normal but over time we learned that’s also not right and it stopped being normal. I don’t know about you but I don’t think ripping people off is right. However ripping people off has been normalized for capital owners (including land lords).

  Nobody should be wishing for his demise (compared to Blackrock and its kin, who I do think should cease to exist), but at the same time he shouldn’t be padded on the back for not ripping off his friend as much as he could’ve. What he did shouldn’t be normal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jeff Bezos is scared to have an open debate on economics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course they don’t. Free market (how theory imagines it) is not pro capitalism. Competition is counterproductive to the profit motive, which is why large corporations look to kill the competition whenever they can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eurogamer: we can't recommend the PC version of Monster Hunter Wilds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rise isn’t a good for comparison because Rise was designed for the switch. Or course it’s going to run exceptionally well on the Deck. It probably runs better than World, because World was designed for X1/PS4.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hope you weren’t planning to play PhysX games on Nvidia’s new 50-series GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You never know when old games just don’t work. For example I recently tried to play deus ex mankind divided. I have new hardware but I had to play on medium settings because anything higher would start killing performance despite the game being 5 years older than my hardware.

  I wouldn’t be surprised if some older games ran like shit on the 50 series cards whenever physx is concerned.