Moneo
@Moneo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Uber is locking New York drivers out of its apps and blaming a city pay rule 2 days ago:
My province (BC Canada) is in the process of implementing regulations that force a minimum wage, but only when the driver is “on the job”.
My first thought was that uber will just prioritize the fastest (aka most reckless) drivers. This kinda proves that point… I guess we’ll see where this all goes.
- Comment on How long would it take to create a Pyramid 3 days ago:
I both anticipate and fear the expansion.
- Comment on Neil deGrasse Tyson reads his peer review of Terrence Howard's mathematics theories 3 days ago:
Terrence sent his “paper” to NDT. Idk whether or not he was requesting a peer review but he spouts this stuff publicly constantly, he can’t be upset that people are refuting him publicly.
- Comment on When does investing become gambling? 1 week ago:
You can dress it up in whatever language you want but when nobody is able to consistently beat the market it looks a hell of a lot like gambling.
- Comment on Slander, extortion and doxxing - beneath the surface of TF2’s bot crisis 1 week ago:
People are being harassed and doxed by a group of people that have turned one of their most popular games into a fucking cesspool. They need to either throw in the towel and drop support for TF2 or wage war on these losers.
Hire a dedicated team, involve the police, I don’t fucking know. The current state of TF2 is an absolute disgrace, it’s fucking pathetic.
- Comment on Slander, extortion and doxxing - beneath the surface of TF2’s bot crisis 1 week ago:
The fact that they’re letting this shit happen to one of their own communities is extremely disappointing. They should take it personally that some a group of people are using their game as a tool to harass people, but they don’t give a fuck.
I have lost so much respect for Valve over their handling of TF2. I’ve gone from a fanboy to a hater.
- Comment on Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You" 1 week ago:
Plenty of developers continue to develop content for years after release without selling overpriced DLC. Y’all are coping.
- Comment on Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You" 1 week ago:
$60 CAD and sales do not justify the base price. Nothing you’ve said has remotely convinced me any of their DLC is worth what they’re charging.
You’re not going to convince me this shit isn’t predatory and vice versa. Later.
- Comment on Depending on how you count 1 week ago:
hehe thx
- Comment on Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You" 1 week ago:
Just because you’re able to spend $60 on 3 DLCs instead of whatever the 62 DLCs cost, doesn’t mean those DLC are worth what you’re spending. I can buy a single banana instead of the full bunch if I want but if they cost $10 each I’m not getting a good deal.
The fomo is because I’ve already invested in the base game. I can ignore content about games I haven’t bought yet but if I want to watch tutorial videos that have every DLC I have to filter out all the content I haven’t paid for. I can’t engage with the community on equal footing unless I spent 4-5x the price of the base game on overpriced content. That is not an enjoyable experience and has left me with a bad taste in my mouth when it comes to Paradox games. I don’t want to navigate the cesspool that is their monetization strategy so I simply don’t buy their games (I pirate them :^) ).
- Comment on Depending on how you count 1 week ago:
Why is it depending on how you count?
- Comment on Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You" 1 week ago:
All my homies hate paradox.
- Comment on Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You" 1 week ago:
Using the floor as a bar.
- Comment on Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You" 1 week ago:
They sell you 15 minor features for $10 each and then every tutorial/gameplay video you watch has 5-10 features you’ve never seen before. It fills you with fomo and when you do cave you end up spending $80 to make a $40 game slightly more interesting. It’s predatory as fuck, paradox can go fuck themselves.
Sorry, I really hate paradox.
- Comment on When does investing become gambling? 1 week ago:
If you’re talking about stock picking, hard disagree. Emotion has nothing to do with it whether or not it’s gambling.
If picking stocks was anything but a gamble portfolio managers wouldn’t have such a god awful track record.
- Comment on Why isn't jerking off more valorized as an easy dopamine hit that's also literally good for you? 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, feminism, an ideology that consists solely of extremist views. I’m not even well versed in feminism and I know that Andrea Dworkin is quite extreme and is a polarizing figure.
If you have reduced feminism to the views of a single extremist than you really need to get your shit together.
- Comment on America’s Commute to Work Is Getting Longer and Longer 3 weeks ago:
The point is that we already have tons of cities that are way too sprawly. Adding more cities is way harder than retrofitting the ones we have.
- Comment on "Select a size" when it's just standard paper towel roll. Literally the same way it's always been. 3 weeks ago:
To be fair to OP, they really should’ve stopped advertising this as a feature years ago. It’d be like if sliced bread was still advertised as “Now sliced for your convenience!” or whatever.
- Comment on Should I permanently leave Israel? 4 weeks ago:
Canada is on track to elect a populist conservative PM who is anti-trans, anti carbon tax and anti taxing the rich. Shit fucking sucks right now.
- Comment on The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel — Jenny Nicholson 5 weeks ago:
lol
- Comment on The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel — Jenny Nicholson 5 weeks ago:
I’ve read comprehensive scientific papers about years if proving hypothesis that could be finished in an hour
bahahahhaha
HEY EVERYONE, CHECK OUT HOW SMART THIS PERSON IS!!!
- Comment on The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel — Jenny Nicholson 5 weeks ago:
There’s absolutely no reason this video should be 4 hours long.
Jenny had 4 hours of stuff she wanted to say and her fans want to listen to it because they find it entertaining. Get a life nerd.
- Comment on The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel — Jenny Nicholson 5 weeks ago:
Dismissing youtubers for being youtubers reminds me of people who dismiss all animation because “kids are for cartoons” or whatever. When I think of “influencer” I think of an instagram model who pushes products on their followers. “Youtuber” includes many content creators who devote hours into researching, writing, filming, and editing high quality, entertaining, and educational content.
Jenny is on the low end of the spectrum in terms of basically all of those categories (I love her though), but channels like CaptainD, Contrapoints, Philosophy Tube and Folding Ideas create extremely high quality content that (in my opinion) surpasses education content coming out of any studio.
tl;dr: Dismissing youtube channels as “influencers” is narrow minded and may prevent you from enjoying content you would otherwise find to be of extremely high quality.
- Comment on Technology Connections - The simple, clever sensor behind automatic windshield wipers 1 month ago:
To be fair in my experience manuals have almost always been next to useless.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 1 month ago:
You realize people watch youtube on computers not just phones right?
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 1 month ago:
They definitely push it. The mobile app has popups advertising it etc.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 1 month ago:
I appreciate this point of view but I refuse to have my limited time and energy wasted as a form of “payment”. Ads degrade the user experience of everything they touch and corporations don’t limit their ad use to “continue operations”, they push it as far as possible to suck as much money out of the product as they can.
The only “TV” I watch is hockey and it’s depressing watching the product get degraded year after year as they continue to shove as much advertising down our throats as possible in order to make more money. Fuck ads.
- Comment on Garry's Mod to remove ALL Nintendo content from the Steam Workshop due to takedown 2 months ago:
13 yo me had so much trouble with SVN. Thanks for the flashbacks.
- Comment on How Greed Ruined Gaming 2 months ago:
Yo not gonna lie kinda vibe with this comment. I love gaming as an art and a social activity but it’s also the “sand I bury my head in”. I’m currently on a Factorio playthrough that I started purely as a distraction for my latest bout of depression.
And I do also agree greed has ruined a lot more “important” things than gaming.
But also, no need to shame people for wanting something they love to be free from corporate greed. Be cool friend.
- Comment on How Greed Ruined Gaming 2 months ago:
Yeah I love Gabi but it hurts that she doesn’t even seem to question whether or not she should stop buying these games. Like, I get that you love Pokemon but you acknowledge yourself that this shit isn’t going to change if people keep buying this shit.