Zorque
@Zorque@lemmy.world
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 11 hours ago:
I doubt it was phonebanking that did it, that was just the ground level cover. Guarantee they made a direct financial threat against shareholders.
- Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship 13 hours ago:
Nah, pretty sure the policy got implemented in the first place because the deep pockets of the ideological lobbyist group.
- Comment on Now that I've got my conclusion, it's time to go look for evidence that only supports said conclusion! 3 days ago:
You test it, yes, but you have to be willing to be wrong. Just looking for everything that proves you’re right is not scientific.
- Comment on Fail army trying to make funny posts on YouTube 4 days ago:
Is that an oddly historically accurate sequel to Age of Conan: Age of Lincoln?
- Comment on oh no 1 week ago:
So… we shouldn’t learn about things because the internet in the US sucks?
- Comment on Honorary 2 weeks ago:
Entirely probably that students put it up and faculty doesn’t give enough to keep taking it down.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 weeks ago:
But they said they wouldn’t!
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 2 weeks ago:
It was very much not an action oriented game. It was more about building resources and exploration. I can definitely see it not appealing to large swatches of the gaming population. Especially those used to the modern spate of action rpgs.
- Comment on Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off 2 weeks ago:
They’re literally selling faster than the original Switch, what the fuck are you smoking?
- Comment on Switch 2 vs Steam Deck: the Cyberpunk 2077 face-off 2 weeks ago:
Wii fit trainer?
- Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media 3 weeks ago:
Lots of things cause harm while also doing good things. It’s a balance.
The problem is when that balance skews more one way than another.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 studio begs rioting fans for benefit of the doubt after leadership axed by owner Krafton: 'The team that has been working on the game day-to-day ... remains completely unchanged' 3 weeks ago:
Sometimes people have ideas that just don’t work out. Even if the same people make another game, unless they just make a carbon copy they’re going to try and do something different. Sometimes it doesn’t work as well as the original, but at least it’s not churning out the same thing over and over and hoping people don’t notice.
Granted, Gamefreak has basically been doing that for 25 years, so what do I know?
- Comment on Wake up babe new shape just dropped 3 weeks ago:
The point of this exercise is to say “ha-ha gotcha, I’m so clever neener neener” while everyone else rolls their eyes.
- Comment on It's too hot to think of why or how 4 weeks ago:
Present!
- Comment on No criminal charges over British woman shot in US 4 weeks ago:
Forming a militia to protect from foreign invasion?
- Comment on Sweatshop 4 weeks ago:
I believe the temperatures within the chart are “feels like” temperatures rather than absolute temperatures. The X axis shows absolute values (what would likely show on the thermostat).
At OPs original temperature (91°F) the danger zone would be around 60-70% and higher. At OPs last updated temperature (94°F), the danger zone would be 55% or higher.
- Comment on Sorry, groceries. 4 weeks ago:
Just watch out for her kicks.
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 5 weeks ago:
Much as I’m sure it’s a quality entertaining game, with games as popular as Minecraft… the only thing that can kill it is collapsing under its own weight.
- Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 5 weeks ago:
But why? Just calling things dumb, or stupid, or idiotic without any explanation is just a grade school way of saying “I don’t like a thing”. Without seeking a way to understand, and thus overcome it, it’s always just going to be “I’m smart and they’re dumb”, which is often the argument of those you’d criticize of “inherent stupidity”.
- Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 5 weeks ago:
I would say the opposite. At least for the basis of this train of thought. That maliciousness makes one single-minded in their ideals and goals, which inevitably devolves into “Get mine, fuck them”. Which is inherently destructive, both for the person in question and those around them.
- Comment on Your sea crits are safe with me. 5 weeks ago:
Math.
- Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 5 weeks ago:
People keep trying to attribute maliciousness to stupidity as well. Mostly because it’s easier to dismiss stupidity than argue against it.
He’s shortsighted, narcissistic, and petty. But he doesn’t do things just to prove how much of a big idiot he is. Dismissing everything he does as “idiocy” just gives him more leash to piss on everyone from.
- Comment on Images of Handcuffed Democrats Start to Pile Up in Trump’s Crackdown 5 weeks ago:
… and conservative accusations that Democrats are carrying out publicity stunts.
Ah yes, clearly more false flag events like Sandy Hook. 🙄
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 1 month ago:
Seems a little overboard for some kind of friendly conversation, especially when it had nothing to do with my general point. I was just stating that I wasn’t comfortable with marketing in general. The implication being from large corporations.
As I’ve never taken an intro to business course, as I’m not interested in that aspect of hyper-capitalism that entails, I just go on the general context of the thread and general sentiment. Not a super-literal definition given in your community college.
The hyperbole seems to be all yours, you’ve taken a statement I used to lead into the general topic of my comment and somehow built an entire personality out of to assign to me.
I’m not comfortable with marketing. That is my personal opinion. I know lots of other people have other opinions. Some people are neutral, they don’t give a shit. Others seem to think of it as completely and utterly necessary in every degree of society. They’re allowed that, I have no power nor will to take that from them.
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 1 month ago:
I’m perfectly fine without those, yeah. Though you seem to be taking my meaning to a more extreme degree than was inferred.
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 1 month ago:
Sure, if you only take it at it’s most extreme and dont use a little bit of critical thinking. I specifically referenced companies in a thread about large corporations manipulating social issues for their own gain. I also gave wiggle room with the 99 out of a 100 reference.
I think you also cast far too wide a net with your definitions of marketing, especially in the context of the conversation happening.
I’d check your own sky to be absolutely sure it’s falling before throwing aspersions like that around. You may have a hysterical over-exaggeration of your own there.
- Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events 1 month ago:
I’m not comfortable with companies using any kind of marketing tactics. Because 99 times out of a 100 it’s speedy and underhanded.
But since they’re going to be doing it anyways, doing it with pride, or disenfranchised demographics, at least normalizes their humanity. Which, at the end of the day, is the point of pride month et al.
- Comment on Newsom Says Trump Is Destroying U.S. Democracy in Speech on L.A. Protests 1 month ago:
He’s neo-liberal at best. That doesn’t mean those on the progressive left can’t sieze on this moment to invigorate themselves, and work with him and those like him to fight against these injustices.
He’s not a sole savior who can right all the wrongs, he’s just one man. That doesn’t mean we can’t stand beside and fight with him. He’s one among the many, we need to decide on our own values, and decide if they’re worth fighting for.
- Comment on A simple solution, really 1 month ago:
This is literally mocking that take. It is saying, even if you drop those little dopamine hits you won’t be magically transported into a lavish fantasy life.
- Comment on These captchas are getting ridiculous 1 month ago:
Always has been. They just used to call it something else.