CommanderCloon

@CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  The commission is famously bad for this, but the EU also has the Parliament whivh is much less of a problem

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t the Commission a famlusly corrupt place? Nearly all popular measures from the EU came from the Parliament, iirc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Honk honk*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is squarely to blame on capitalism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Honk honk*⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Those 15000 years were violent; death, disease and persecution were constant and everywhere. Oh and that return would reduce the population by at least ~80%. Anyone suggesting it would be good necessarily implicitly supports a global genocide.

  Who do you think would suffer as a result, besides minorities and disabled people?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*Honk honk*⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are people supporting this inane view is so strange to me. The results of no industrial revolution would be a lack of medicine and widespread famine, on a scale no place on earth has ever seen.

  If you care about the health of disabled people, if you care about minorities, if you care about workers, then this view is untenable. Its one step shy of full on fascism, “final solution” style.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve read about that, afaik we don’t know how much of a policy it is vs. some random employee going rogue. Hopefully it all comes to light with these lawsuits

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dutch gamers file €220 million claim against Valve, operator of game platform Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing is that this is in Steam’s TOS when it comes to steam keys. You can sell steam keys but not at a lower price than on Steam. Which is extremely fair – selling a steam key still means you’re using Steam’s infrastructure, you don’t have to manage the downloads & updates. It does not apply in a situation where you manage your own store with its own infrastructure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I do like going shopping but that’s because then I get stuff, and having new stuff is cool. But you don’t need a capitalist hierarchy to make any of this happen

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email came out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure there are some fash doing this, but a lot of comments here seem extremely naive and forgiving. And they come from lib instances, which I have grievances with, just not regarding dogwhistling & normalizing fascism (unless it comes out of UA…)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email came out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Because there is no way ϟϟ was sent by mistake. This is a character combination that has one use. And is irrelevant to slavic history. And they accompanied it with a kolovrat. This is the guy who invented the kolovrat as a pseudo slavic neopagan symbol. If it was just one ϟ it would be iffy at best, but you know, benefit of the doubt, maybe they copy-pasted a random selection from some random neopagan website. This is the specific combination that has one (1) known use.

  The kolovrat alone reeks of neonazism, the ϟϟ is exclusively a nazi symbol, there is no wiggle room

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email came out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you happen to have your GOG account in Germany or in German language?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email came out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  European.

  And you should tell those guys they stole their symbol from 21st century feminists: Image Image Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email came out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  People defending this as “those are lighning bolts, not everyone knows it’s nazi imagery” are american, right?

  Like, everyone in Europe knows this is strictly and unmistakably nazi imagery, especially in Poland. There is no wiggle room for not knowing; that’s not even an excuse GOG themselves are trying to make, because if they tried to use that excuse then literally no one with the ability to read it in Europe would be uneducated enough to fall for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email came out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good Old Gaming Goebbels

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email came out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The two SS bolts are ostensibly nazi imagery, there is no way anyone who went to school in Europe in the apst century doesn’t know that. Also they skipped sending sending the email to users with German as their GOG language; they knew exactly what they were doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email came out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Their excuse is that it’s a rendering issue. The OG message they intended to send wasn’t better in any measure, and they skipped sending the mail to people with german as their GOG language, so imo they did intend to send nazi shit and judt hoped nobody would make a fuss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email came out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is no one gets fired over this, then it’s not a marketing fuckup. It just means they don’t mind nazis there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Email came out of nowhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The SS symbol is not a dogwhistle. Dogwhistles are meant to be covert and unassuming to anyone except those within the neofascist subculture, like 1488 and triple parenthesis.

  Unlike those dogwhistles, meant only to be understood by an ingoup, the SS lighning bolts are as explicit as a swastika. I would go even as far as to say that they are more egregious than a swastika, as swastikas have cultural signification in some countries that might muddy the waters when interpreting the symbol alone. The SS bolts have no such excuse.

  Also it wasn’t an automatic filter on german emails, it was a filter on german speakers. German emails configured with english as their language did receive the email, according to comments here.

  There is no benefit of the doubt to be allowed here. If they don’t have an extremely solid explanation (and LLMs aren’t that, they know how to recognize actual dogwhistles, they wouldn’t output actual 1940s nazis imagery so famous & standard, unless instructed to), then either someone needs to be fired, or we as the public need to understand that there is complacency for actual nazism within this company.

  Again, this isn’t some little dogwhistle people might be confused about. This is standard 1940s nazi imagery, on the same level of significance as the swastika. I knew this as a child in the 2000s, as a kid who never paid attention in class and found history to be the most boring topic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shutting down a piracy site⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, I’m not really impacted because whenever I want to access something my gvt wouldn’t want me to, I just use yandex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve raises Steam Deck prices by more than $200⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Their prices have already been hiked up by way more than the SD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to sexualize males for a female audience?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like feminine/twink guys, so everyone recommending bug buff guys 💀💀

  But I’m a gay guy so not the target of OP’s question 😅 I just barged in because it’s a dry desert in terms of my preferences out there 💀

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Sun behind it all⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol her wikipedia article lists a history of corruption from oil companies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This fuckass ad keeps popping up while I'm trying to study Norwegian⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate it, and tbh I get you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My issue with UE5 is that it runs like shit, which DF tends to agree with, but it also looks like trash. Temporal effect are all over the place and make the image look like a muddy, ghosting mess. It only ever looks good on static screenshots

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This fuckass ad keeps popping up while I'm trying to study Norwegian⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bruh I toggled off literally all existing and future AI features with a single toggle on FF, they still need to be opted out one by one on Brave 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This fuckass ad keeps popping up while I'm trying to study Norwegian⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Brave browser is poor man’s attempt at firefox, motivated by homophobia (literally)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This fuckass ad keeps popping up while I'm trying to study Norwegian⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Privacy badger, it’s basically the good ghostery made by the EFF, it just doesn’t have any marketing budget lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  DF always glazes the industry. UE, DLSS…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d rather they blanket ban all lootboxes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Furthermore, this only theoretically protects kid, but fuck people with grambling addictions i guess…