st3ph3n
@st3ph3n@midwest.social
Fleddit in June 2023. Was on kbin for a while but it’s been broken and janky lately, so I’m giving midwest.social a try now.
- Comment on Sign me up 1 week ago:
Remember, anyone to the left of Hitler is a card-carrying communist now.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 1 month ago:
Glad I ditched them a couple of months ago.
- Comment on As Gamers Express Concern About Borderlands 4 Potentially Costing $80, Gearbox Chief Randy Pitchford Says: ‘If You’re a Real Fan, You’ll Find a Way to Make It Happen’ 1 month ago:
Careful what you wish for, Randy. 🏴☠️
- Comment on Max Is Changing Its Name to (Get This!) HBO Max 1 month ago:
It was. Then it became just ‘Max’ a couple of years ago.
- Comment on Max Is Changing Its Name to (Get This!) HBO Max 1 month ago:
lol. That garbage was why I canceled Max in the first place.
- Comment on Pearson complaining about using Linux to access my course material 2 months ago:
I’d assume it is not supported as in if you ask them for tech support and they realize you’re not running Windows they’ll happily tell you to pound sand.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 2 months ago:
Oh fuck right off, you ghoul.
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 months ago:
Wild. I bought a car from Carvana in 2022 and the interest rate back then was 6% on a 3-year loan, which was on the high side of normal for the time period.
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News 4 months ago:
Great post! I appreciate your work.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 4 months ago:
Burn Stellantis to the fucking ground.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Like a Dragon / Yakuza 5 months ago:
They get to reuse so many of their existing assets for each release, I think that really helps them streamline their development cycle. Like, they’re gonna be reusing the Hawaii setting from Infinite Wealth for Pirate Yakuza, which will be out in a few weeks, pretty much exactly one year after Infinite Wealth.
I’m OK with this approach. Not every game needs to take 8 years and 100 million dollars to make.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Like a Dragon / Yakuza 5 months ago:
I have played all of the mainline games in the series in the last year, plus Ishin. It’s hard to pick a favorite, and the way they handled the transition to an RPG with the Ichiban games was very impressive. I think my favorite might actually be Ishin. I really enjoyed the feudal Japan setting, and it was a refreshing change from the usual Yakuza setting.
I will also add that the best thing I ever did to enhance my enjoyment of these games was to play them on easy. It allowed me to progress at my own pace and just enjoy the story and the side stuff without getting frustrated by massive boss difficulty spikes, although there were still a few boss fights that took a lot to beat even on easy difficulty.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Sounds like him living 1,000 miles away is a good outcome.
- Comment on Selling as is. 6 months ago:
$3k seems to be the minimum for anything that can actually run and drive nowadays
- Comment on Red Dead Redemption and Undead Nightmare Coming to PC October 29 - Rockstar Games 8 months ago:
I replayed it last year on an Xbox 360 emulator, which gave me 1440p and 60 fps. It worked quite well!
- Comment on How the hell do I sign up for facebook? 9 months ago:
Marketplace was fantastic for buying and selling all sorts of stuff for years, but it is now plagued with fake listings and scams and all kinds of undesirable shit now. The scammers seem to have no problem whatsoever cranking out new accounts on the regular, and Facebook doesn’t seem to give a shit. Any time I report any of the scam listings I get a response from FB about 3 weeks later saying they did nothing wrong, so they took no action. Fuck Facebook.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Domestic Terrorists.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 1st 10 months ago:
I’m 40 hours into Persona 3 Reload. This is my first Persona game, and I’m enjoying it a lot. It was recommended to me after I got deeply into the two most recent Like a Dragon games, which I enjoyed immensely.
I’m having a good time with Persona 3 too. I’m playing it on easy and just enjoying the experience. I think I would have burned out on it about 20 hours ago if I was playing on a higher difficulty level and getting my ass beat in every boss fight. I wasn’t sure I would be into it with the high school setting, but that turned out to not be an issue.
I fully intend on playing it as far as rolling credits.
- Comment on Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)? 10 months ago:
They don’t want any outside voices in their echo chamber
- Comment on Not the worst 10 months ago:
Let’s all go to the Pube and have a nice cold pint and wait for this all to blow over.
- Comment on What is the secret to making LED light bulbs last as long as the package says? 11 months ago:
Make sure the LED bulbs you’re using are rated for use in enclosed fixtures. Heat is the #1 killer for them. My basement is equipped with a bunch of enclosed fixtures that had 3 bulbs each in them, and they kept killing LED bulbs because the trapped heat had nowhere to go. They were designed for incandescent bulbs that didn’t care about being hot.
- Comment on Polygon - Was Bioshock good? 11 months ago:
I enjoyed Bioshock Infinite a lot back on the Xbox 360. The whole city in the clouds but also it’s the early 20th century setting was really attractive to me, and I enjoyed it pretty much throughout. Elizabeth being an actually useful NPC sidekick that you don’t have to do endless shitty escort missions for was a great move. I don’t understand the hate it gets after a few years have passed.
- Comment on A Weary Trump Appears to Doze Off in Courtroom Ahead of Criminal Trial 1 year ago:
8 In his own words: Low energy, weak.
- Comment on A Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Up 1 year ago:
They can pry my 2.6% mortgage rate out of my cold, dead hands.
- Comment on 60 Percent Of Playtime In 2023 Went To 6-Year-Old Or Older Games, New Data Shows 1 year ago:
Currently playing: Yakuza Kiwami, released 2016. Yep.
- Comment on Trump Spurned by 30 Companies as He Seeks Bond in $454 Million Judgment 1 year ago:
Guess you’d better sell some stuff then, my guy.
- Comment on You know how bad it needs to be to be ignored for over 2 decades! 1 year ago:
Unlikely: irishtimes.com/…/swissco-to-close-cork-plant-with… (2008)
- Comment on None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway 1 year ago:
Yes, and in fairness to them that’s how it has been. The ads are only for stuff sold on the kindle store too, so not like you’re seeing ads for hot singles in your area or some shit on your kindle. It’s only now that the store is flooded with this AI garbage that the ads have become annoying.
- Comment on None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway 1 year ago:
I do almost all of my reading on a kindle - one of the ones with ads on the lock screen, and for months now all of the ads have been for this type of no-effort, low-quality, AI-generated garbage. Amazon clearly doesn’t give a fuck as long as they make money.
- Comment on The four houses dads belong to. 1 year ago:
SnapOn tool chests: for the guy who takes on a mortgage just to flex on his coworkers at the shop.