brucethemoose
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- Comment on Wife changing money 2 weeks ago:
Also, I was thinking of various wallet drainers: www.kaspersky.com/blog/…/50490/
Etherium isn’t just a currency, but a contract system. You basically have to be a digital lawyer+developer to understand it, and not accidentally click on the wrong thing to drain your account, and that is a LOT to ask of the average person.
We’re on Lemmy, which must put us in the first percentile of tech nerds, and I don’t have the bandwidth to learn enough of that to feel secure. How could the average person?
- Comment on Wife changing money 2 weeks ago:
Anarchist types are concerned about government backed crypto coins since you lose the fungibility/anonymity of physical dollars but don’t get any of the freedom and separation from centralization that crypto supposedly represents.
Plus all the potential for oligarch corruption, like current crypto has. Yeah, it’s like the worst of everything, by design.
- Comment on Wife changing money 2 weeks ago:
But Etherium isn’t protected from that, either.
I like the idea of decentralized digital currency, I just feel the Etherium-style blockchain approach is just impractical on so many levels.
- Comment on Wife changing money 2 weeks ago:
Were they robbed?
I bet they were.
Say what you will about cash, but some hacker isn’t taking it from across the planet via some technical exploit way over my head. With Etherium, the only thing protecting your money from the entire internet is you, and your understanding of complicated intricacies.
They might get my credit card, yeah. But that’s either my own dumb fault, or the bank’s problem.
…It’s great for scammers, though. It’s like a wet dream for them.
- Comment on Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow' 2 weeks ago:
I mean this politely but… read the article?
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 3 weeks ago:
Regardless, they still draw absolutely massive amounts of players.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 3 weeks ago:
Or effectively F2P/MTX based ones.
- Comment on AAA Dominance Is Eroding: 56% of PC Gaming Revenue Now Goes to Games Outside the Top 20 3 weeks ago:
All the games I see are PC. A few happen to be on mobile too, but that shouldn’t exclude them from the list.
- Comment on Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable" 3 weeks ago:
I mean, TES VI could be a rickroll mp4 and still sell millions of copies. There’s a megaton of nostalgia, and gamers are demonstrably… not the smartest shoppers, in aggregate.
Starfield and FO76 are commercial failures, either. Well, not particularly catastrophic ones like others, anyway.
Point being, BGS is not short on time. I posit they have at least one “freebie” no matter what, or maybe a few more mediocre releases that will still sell big.
- Comment on Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable" 3 weeks ago:
Actually this makes perfect sense.
Starfield… is a bad cinematic RPG. It’s trying to be part Mass Effect with big-budget cutscenes, and it’s truly awful at it.
I’d argue it’s a bad “Bethesda RPG,” without the quirky, charming side areas Oblivion or even Fallout 76 have.
But it’s an alright No Man’s Sky-like. You want some crafting? A vast amount of chill exploration area? Reasonable “I’m in space” fidelity and some tasks to follow? Starfield’s got it in droves. BGS games scratched this “sandbox” itch for some, when there was no good alternative back then, and I think Starfield leans into it more.
Hence my experience is that gamers who love No Man’s Sky like Starfield, those who are looking more for “Mass Effect 2” loathe Starfield. And you seem to be another datapoint supporting that.
The problem is Starfield’s expectation for most us internet dwellers was “Skyrim in space.” And it’s… not great at that. And it’s kind of Bethesda’/ fault for setting that expectation instead of leaning into Starfield’s real niche.
- Comment on Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable" 3 weeks ago:
Yep.
Have you tried KCDII? Stuff to hoard/sell is everywhere, albeit a bit more realistically.
- Comment on Starfield PS5 players demand refunds, reporting widespread bugs and glitches that leave the game "unplayable" 3 weeks ago:
Thing is, they aren’t really being punished for it because tons of people are still buying it and might have no idea games like KCDII or even a fixed-up CP2077 exist.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Nope.
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 4 weeks ago:
It’s not just corporations. It’s influencer-grifters like Pirat_Nation.
…And, to be blunt, reposters who further spread the ragebait like OP.
The platforms are what facilitate marketing bait.
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 4 weeks ago:
I mean, yeah. It’s a blue checkmark account.
At this point, if you’re paying for extra engagement on Twitter, that is beyond “benefit of the doubt.”
- Comment on Good luck figuring it out since it also doesn’t come with man pages 4 weeks ago:
At risk of being abrasive…
I see blue checkmarks, I downvote. Nothing personal. But I don’t want to support that even indirectly.
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 4 weeks ago:
YMMV, I guess? I think it runs incredibly well, especially with Lumen enabled, given the sheer amount of stuff in-game.
- Comment on Winning life 101 4 weeks ago:
TBH, 4chan is healthier than major social media these days.
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 4 weeks ago:
There some some very efficient games using UE5, like Satisfactory.
On the contrary, I’m afraid of custom engine games. Even if they ultimately turn out okay, the dev hell required to get them there often sinks the game. See: ME: Andromeda, Cyberpunk 2077. And Distant Worlds 2 (even though it wasn’t technically fully custom).
- Comment on Does the engine a game uses factor into your decision to buy it or not? 4 weeks ago:
No.
But it certainly has some strong indirect effects on my buying decisions.
- Comment on Strange are afoot at the Walter Reed 5 weeks ago:
What would happen if a tanker was destroyed and spilled out there?
- Comment on Strange are afoot at the Walter Reed 5 weeks ago:
Imagine if you showed this to someone in ~2009.
- Comment on Fake News 5 weeks ago:
So sick of seeing confidently incorrect people opining, using historical examples, when they have never before cracked open a history book and have no idea of the context.
This has always been the case.
The issue is Twitter boosts them. The problem is the medium.
- Comment on The SKG Discord has updated their name to *Start Killing Games Community* 5 weeks ago:
It would honestly be a boon to gaming.
Think how much attention and funding they suck up from smaller studios/publishers making great games.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that’s going too far, but I understand the reaction to fanning over Valve.
There are a bazillion examples of why you should use, not trust, big businesses over centuries. They are transactions, not people. And if people look at the world in 2026 and somehow don’t see that, I honestly don’t know what to tell them.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Be prepared.
Don’t hate, but don’t trust Valve. Treat your Steam library like you don’t own it, and it could be enshittified at any time, because you don’t, and it could.
In practice, prioritize DRM-free stores when convenient. Or better yet, 1st party game dev stores. Archive any games or saves you actually want to go back to, just in case.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
These comments…
Some day, Steam is going to enshittify fast, eat game devs for breakfast, and people will ask how they could have possibly seen this coming.
Kind of like a certain online bookstore named after a river.
- Comment on Anon listens to British music 1 month ago:
See also: Killing in the Name Of
Music is the perfect genre for tvtropes.org/pmwiki/…/GettingCrapPastTheRadar
- Comment on How do left-leaning—or not even left-leaning, but pro-choice, pro-life people who don’t care about fornication—who are also Catholics and Christians justify their religion? 1 month ago:
not stereotypical religious people at all
Tons of religious folks are compassionate and generous.
It’s the fundamentalists, “traditionalists” and such that give them a bad name. The hate is deserved, but it’s not fair to everyone else TBH.
- Comment on Is it "weird" for kids to co-sleep with parents through their teenage years? 1 month ago:
Maybe occasionally when they visit, sometimes?