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- Comment on Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer 5 days ago:
That’s like arguing that people wouldn’t smoke or do drugs if they knew the effects it has.
- Comment on Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater) 1 week ago:
So the headline is just hyperbole? What a weird editorial choice
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
I agree with you but then I see people calling themselves gacha gamers and hopping into every new gacha regardless of genre or gameplay so I just assumed I just didn’t get it.
- Comment on Lastest Riot Vanguard Update Can Brick Your Hardware (If You're a Cheater) 1 week ago:
I’m having a hard time understanding this piece. How is updating the system’s firmware causing bricked hardware? Is the new firmware purposefully useless?
- Comment on Destiny 2: Every End is a New Beginning 1 week ago:
The only reason I didn’t buy Marathon was because of the AC not working on linux. What a waste but at least I saved some money.
- Comment on Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer 1 week ago:
Auto-play mobile games not only already exist but are super popular.
- Comment on Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer 1 week ago:
Gambling has nothing to do with understanding probability or not.
- Comment on Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer 1 week ago:
They don’t spend that money in one go, and a new player shouldn’t either. Learning the game is already pretty daunting, adding dozens of DLC mechanics will only make it harder.
- Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ? 1 week ago:
Any gacha.
“Oh I got so lucky! It only took 20 pulls to get Boobina!”
Yeah man, bet that felt a lot better than just unlocking her by doing her story quests like any normal game. Maybe you need to be a gambling addict or something.
- Comment on Is chess the most frustrating game to lose in? 1 week ago:
Until you reach the point where you realise dying loses you nothing. Then you don’t get tilted anymore.
- Comment on Is chess the most frustrating game to lose in? 1 week ago:
For a lot of people being able to blame luck or teammates makes losing less frustrating.
- Comment on Need for Speed: Most Wanted – The game that got me into racing 1 week ago:
Most blacklist racers were just doing a few poses and aura farming to be fair
- Comment on 60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I wanted to upgrade this year or the next, but unfortunately, well.
- Comment on What gaming console you owned disappointed you the most and why ? 2 weeks ago:
Xbox One S. The library was crappy and the games are more expensive than on steam for some reason I can’t fathom.
- Comment on Game franchises you like, but wish were anothet genre of video game? 1 month ago:
Well most new “soulslike” games, specially by smaller or indie studios, are just action games in disguise anyway.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Remember when steam introduced the 2h refund policy out of their own volition rather than being forced by multiple governments? Yeah me neither.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 2 months ago:
Isn’t The Finals struggling to keep its players?
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 2 months ago:
Interest rates are higher so companies have a higher pressure to turn big profits instead of other metrics of success.
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 2 months ago:
I only care about achievements in games I enjoy. Also while I agree it’s useful telemetry, let’s not kid ourselves: game companies track a lot more than what achievements could ever do by themselves.
- Comment on Truth hurts! 3 months ago:
The problem is that the current definition makes no sense and is, frankly, bad.
400 people, for a huge scientific community like astronomy, is bad. Heck even if they were literally all the astronomers in the world, the fact that it was proposed and voted on basically the same day should be noteworthy at the very least.
And no one here is angry. I was just pointing out that name calling for no reason doesn’t really add to the discussion, even a low stakes one like this.
- Comment on Truth hurts! 3 months ago:
It’s because the definition includes things that aren’t really about the object itself and more about where it is. And also how inconsistent it is, as Mercury isn’t in hydrostatic equilibrium and yet is explicitly included as a planet by the IAU. Nevermind the fact that the new definition was speed voted and approved by less than 400 astronomers in a convention where 2500+ people attended, let alone not even being discussed with the larger scientific community.
But hey, if you’d rather dismiss my points because of an url, you do you. Not like this changes our everyday live anyway.
- Comment on Truth hurts! 3 months ago:
It’s about keeping the solar system small and simple. There would be tens of planets, in the old definition.
- Comment on Truth hurts! 3 months ago:
Except when you actually read about the change in Pluto’s status and how unscientific it actually is.
- Comment on for a better future for ur children 5 months ago:
Oh cool ecofascism
- Comment on 5 months ago:
I hope they release the price soon, the discourse on this has become incredibly tiring.
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 8 months ago:
Did you know this isn’t a discussion at all in most of the world? People do whatever and no one is bothered by it. I only ever see this in American media.
- Comment on Accessibility is important 8 months ago:
Yes, please show me those 4d curves
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 9 months ago:
Your anti-cheat doesn’t work anyway so let me play in linux you cowards.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 9 months ago:
A lot of hacking in valorant is about this tbf (and to more efficiently sell boosts)
- Comment on 9 months ago:
A rogue red dwarf could eject Earth from the solar system.