GhostMatter

@GhostMatter@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo 4's new mount costs more than the actual game⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree with this. Overwatch 2 is FOMO galore. With Overwatch 1, most content came back later, with exceptions for the charity skin and a few small things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The law can be broad with allowances to define specifics by decree, executive order or the equivalent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing was off-limits for retro game ads⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recommend this Mastodon account for more retro ads l: botsin.space/@gamemagprintads

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minister quit ‘because he could not afford rising mortgage costs’ on £120,000 salary⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He has left his post of minister. He still is a Member of Parliament (MP). So now that he has less responsibilities, he can find another job to get more money, subject to approval.

  I’m not sure why being MP of the ruling party isn’t considered being part of the government, it might be a UK thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  KHTML was the basis of WebKit and then Blink/Chromium, so the community did make something. It was just overtaken by the corporate projects, for those same reasons you mention.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Recording my next fart would be a better use of energy than Bitcoin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google updates Chrome's Incognito Mode disclaimer to admit it is tracking users⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Private Mode is on Firefox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mint Mobile discloses new data breach exposing customer data⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The screenshot in the article said the reach was a few months old, last July.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Night In The Woods Devs Cancel Highly Anticipated Follow-Up⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve also been sick for nearly a year following a viral infection, though nothing wrong was found with my heart, so far. I’ll buy the game in solidarity, it was already on my wishlist anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek Online and Neverwinter MMO devs Cryptic are the next Embracer-owned studio to suffer layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s unsurprising, particularly the lateral move to DECA Games. It was an easy target for Embraced to cut costs, plus their last game was cancelled before release (Magic: Legends). It seems like the Cryptic engine would require a large investment to be used for new games, but I might be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft may lose $120 million due to the Overwatch League shutdown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There were just so, so many mistakes. Avoidable ones too. The pandemic was unavoidable, but the structure of the League made is more difficult to get through.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft may lose $120 million due to the Overwatch League shutdown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is, it’s pretty much Activision Blizzard’s fault here. They destroyed the grassroots competitive scene to make way for the Overwatch League, but that took a bit more than a year. They could’ve found a way to integrate the existing scene instead. And that was just the start of the League. The game itself was mismanaged with the sequel taking way too long and being misunderstood (with good reason).

  There were some many mistakes with the Overwatch League, that I don’t think we can use it to generalize that much. ESports was a bubble though, no doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge could use a win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  For me, Firefox has better privacy and more powerful extensions, particularly variations of tree-style tabs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I downgraded to an iPhone 11 Pro Max – and I'm not missing much⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was extremely worried about downgrading to a phone from four years ago, but it turns out I’m totally fine using it as my main phone.

  Man, I don’t feel like I’m living in the same world as the author of the article. All my smartphones have lasted me years and years, but they were flagships like the 11 Max. If they had been iOS, they’d surely have lasted longer too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside ShadowDragon, The Tool That Lets ICE Monitor Pregnancy Tracking Sites and Fortnite Players⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Went on this website for the first time today. The giant newsletter subscribe pop-up with 404 written in big letters made me think the link I got was not working. Went back and finally understood that it was an annoying pop-up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This should be illegal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s take back the means of waifus!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Lower Decks | 4x03 "In the Cradle of Vexilon”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The fake story with the hazing was predictable too, to be honest. But I did not mind the predictability on that.