sartalon
@sartalon@lemmy.world
- Comment on Happy Easter Lemmy. 17 hours ago:
Motherlover or Dick in a Box could both work here.
- Comment on I have a plan 17 hours ago:
I mean isn’t this post kind of asking for consent?
- Comment on I have a plan 17 hours ago:
I’m afraid if I offer suggestions I’ll start getting knocks on my door at 2am.
- Comment on 1 day ago:
So my experience accounts for nothing?
So even though I’ve lost access to multiple titles because other software companies can’t get their shit together and were a terrible experience, I’m not allowed to use that as an example of why Valve has become the standard?
But any argument against your opinion is “simping”.
Do you even hear yourself?
What you are doing is a form of manipulation and gaslighting.
Those things Valve was sued over were also industry standard practices.
Your argument is awash with emotional outbursts which tells the real story here.
You’ve picked a side for one reason or another and just make bad arguments, trying to support it.
Show me a single game company, of that size, that HASN’T been sued. Since that seems to be your metric of what makes a company so evil.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
This is a very narrow viewpoint that is borderline disingenuous.
You blame OP for being a simp, BECAUSE OF A MEME, then argue the plaintiff’s narrative without any critical breakdown or context.
You are not any better.
There is a lot of nuance here that you just ignore.
Valve is not using their resources to prevent/undermine competition.
Valve’s percentage is absolutely worthy of debate, but does not make them a monopoly.
I will state that I support Valve when it comes to the big releases, but definitely wish they tiered their fees to support smaller developers.
I get why they do it, but I wish they were a bit friendlier to the smaller developers
If the other companies used a platform that was even remotely close to the ease of use as Steam, I might feel differently, but they don’t
I have lost access to several titles because of these companies’ “competing” platforms.
Valve provides a service that is critical and beneficial. And in a way that these other companies seem incapable or unwilling to provide.
They are not preventing them from doing it in any way.
They just don’t want to get undercut on products that use their service. That is a valid argument.
Maybe if other companies didn’t create such bloated, underperforming crapware, they wouldn’t feel forced to use Steam.
And smaller developers aside, these companies already suck so much money out of the user/buyer as they can and are not passing that revenue to the actual software developer, while Valve does share its revenue with its employees, despite your claim that Gabe is buying his “27th yacht”.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
You had me at Cavill.
- Comment on Red, White and Blue 1 week ago:
Damn, this is Valmond’s second post I’ve seen today that he just completely talks out of his ass.
His other post got a bunch of upvotes, so I guess it is working for him. :/
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
This made me wonder what it would actually look like.
It would be so big, would it curve around with the Lagrange point?
Would it be significant enough to see with the naked eye?
Would we see ripples or waves cause by other gravitational forces. Could it be used to detect gravitational waves?
That would be cool. Except the whole, “not seeing the moon anymore” thing.
Can you imagine the energy you would need to keep something like that from drifting off and or bunching up under its own mass?
- Comment on I was told it would be a cultural experience 4 weeks ago:
Exactly.
It’s always an unknown factor at other places. Some of them you feel like you are taking your life in your own hands.
But Buc-ees is always a guaranteed a clean experience.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
You mean just Terry Pratchett, right? 😢
- Comment on 1 month ago:
My anecdotal experience.
I was in SERE school, in the US Navy.
We were in the field portion of the training, the low mountains of SoCal.
I would periodically get this weird, almost bitter smell. Fast forward a day and I realized the smell was when there was an ant on me.
I don’t know if it was a combo of the environment, the type of ant, the lack of food or showering for a few days, but it was pretty reliable.
After SERE was over, I have never experienced it again.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Are you done yet?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
“You need…”
Is not a command…
You keep placing false intent and meaning. That is a form of manipulation and gas lighting.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
You need to let it go, or get over whatever this weird outrage this is that you are having.
I can feel however I want, you don’t get to gatekeep that.
I didn’t tell George RR Martin to do anything. I said a line on a social media forum.
You are choosing to take my words in the way you are describing and not in the way I intended. That is a form of manipulation and gas lighting. Especially after I clarified.
Who called me entitled? I guess I missed that. That’s a weird take, whoever said it.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
You could at least come up with a response that already hasn’t been said several times.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Man the Sanderson hate in this post is real.
I only suggested him because he helped finish the Wheel of Time series.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Look at it this way.
He was clearly starting to stall in his later books, taking so long to get them out, and instead of starting to wrap up the storyline, he started introducing new elements.
I understand why he hasn’t moved forward, but I’ve lost all interest in ever picking up another book of his. The terrible writing by D&D certainly didn’t help.
My feelings of frustration are valid and my criticism is not unfounded.
I do appreciate your thoughtful response, thank you
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I didn’t say anything remotely close to saying artists owed me anything. Dude bit off more than he can chew.
I have a right to be frustrated when I’m invested in a story and it just stops.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
IIRC correctly, they were so checked out, working on potential future projects (that were also fucking terrible), that they had most of the work passed off to others?
Honestly though, I blame the author. GOT was great until they ran out of source material. Then you saw how terrible D&D really are at this. MF still hasn’t finished the series. If you can’t finish it, then don’t fucking start it.
Maybe Sanderson can pick up the mantle for this one too.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 months ago:
I sometimes did the same, but I grew up on a dairy farm and had milk that wasn’t homogenized.
We used these old one gal apple juice bottles that had a narrow neck, so the cream would float to the top and collect in the narrow opening.
When I got older, I actually liked getting that first dollop of cream on my cereal.
Now though, anything over 2% just tastes too heavy. Growing up on unpasteurized milk, I am amazed at what I got away with.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 months ago:
It causes the fat to separate. Maybe she got skim milk?
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 months ago:
Milk is ruined if it is frozen.
- Comment on Makes sense 3 months ago:
My company has one every year. Heck, it is even just our regional department, so each department has its own.
It was 80’s themed this year. They had live music and even a Back to the Future mocked up Delorian outside of the venue. A couple of free drink tickets, free buffet style food all around, a bunch of 80’s arcade machines, and a pretty awesome raffle.
The company is also employee owned and not beholden to stockholder parasites.
It’s amazing what a company can do when your profits aren’t maximized and sucked out.
Wall Street should be burned to the ground and billionaires crucified over its ashes.
- Comment on It's not me, it's you. 3 months ago:
My wife and I were enjoying sexy time and she was on top. My mouth was hideously dry because of a new medication I was on.
I REALLY want a drink, but I don’t want to kill the moment. She and I are both fully in. So I get the idea, “Baby, spit in my mouth.” Not only did it relieve my dry mouth but it threw me over the edge like Thelma and Louise. I did not expect to react that way.
- Comment on Bread mold 3 months ago:
I eat moldy cheese all the time!
But I imagine bleu cheese mold doesn’t have the toxins these other types do.
- Comment on Naturally 4 months ago:
My favorite thing about Laplace and Fourier transforms was making a fabulous looking F and L.
Their functions are so fucking spectacularly useful, but I just loved writing it out.
- Comment on reaction 5 months ago:
Eh, fine.
- Comment on reaction 5 months ago:
I would say, “That’s not a burger.”
- Comment on Amazon, Google, Microsoft reportedly warn H-1B employees to stay in the US 6 months ago:
This isn’t about deporting people.
This is about new H1-B’s coating $100k.
Companies want their H1-Bs back on the U.S. so they can avoid paying the additional cost as long as they can.
I do think companies abuse these visa’s, but this is a really fucking stupid approach.
MAGA really has gone full retard. There is not two brain cells among them.
They are absolutely incapable of affecting any change without causing consequences that are worse than the perceived initial problem.
I guess it doesn’t matter when your base, all the way up to the VP, are a bunch of bootlicking morons.
- Comment on The man show was a left wing attack on incels. 6 months ago:
He’s still on. He is just not getting his contract renewed.