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- Comment on Sony is reportedly planning a Nintendo Switch-style PlayStation 6 portable | VGC 2 weeks ago:
There really aren’t that many premium experiences on mobile that are worth a damn imo. They’re usually just ports of games from other platforms that control terribly on a touch screen. For me to be willing to pay for a mobile game it has to be a good game and a good fit for the platform. Apart from Balatro not much comes to mind.
- Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 2 weeks ago:
That’s kind of my point. Some people buy 10000€ world tour level bikes, but you can get a road bike with hydraulic disc brakes new for under 2000€ which will still be a very good bike and be future proof for years to come. And you can get much lower than that if you are willing to go used and ride something a bit older eg. with rim brakes and that will also be an excellent bike.
Cycling is an expensive hobby (just like gaming), but it only gets ridiculously expensive when people buy into the marketing and want the newest, highest end stuff. Which is fine and of course you can get some marginal gains out of it. It’s like buying a 5090: your games will run a bit better, but you can get just as much enjoyment out of an older card for a fraction of the cost.
- Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 2 weeks ago:
Technically you can “play” other things too (there are competitors that offer the similar experiences), including GTA. But nobody is Zwifting for the gameplay anyway. It’s not really a game and just something to make indoor cycling in the off season a little bit less dull. Personally I don’t think it’s worth the subscription and would rather just watch a movie.
- Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 2 weeks ago:
Road cycling is a rich persons sport, gaming is circuses for us poors.
I can’t fully deny that, but I’d say you can get into road cycling for about the same cost as AAA PC gaming.
- Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 2 weeks ago:
I mean you could say the same about any current AAA game. A Zwift setup including the bike, trainer and device to run it on can easily be cheaper than a modern gaming rig.
- Comment on Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know, bikes are incredibly diverse vehicles too. A tricycle is nothing like a cargo bike, a full suspension mountain bike, a road bike, a time trial bike, a BMX, a fixed gear etc. and they all feel very different to ride.
And while there might not be as many moving parts as on a car, a lot of engineering goes into the design of high end bicycles. If you’re into bikes, it’s very easy to appreciate the beauty and functional design of a well designed bicycle.
The fact that they are at their core simple machines which basic function hasn’t changed since the invention of the safety bicycle in the 1880s, yet have been innovated on ever since to arrive at the bikes we have today is what makes them fascinating imo.
Some people enjoy cars and some people enjoy bikes, but there isn’t really anything that makes one more inherently interesting.
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 4 weeks ago:
“It is about the question of whether at all and in what quality online journalism can be offered and used in the future – it is about freedom of information without paywalls. This is fundamental to democracy,” the company writes.
Fucking rich coming from Axel Springer of all places. If there’s one media company in Germany working to undermine democracy and support fascists, it’s fucking Axel Springer. They are the lowest of the low in Germany’s media landscape and if they stopped existing tomorrow the Germany would be much better off for it.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You’re an adult and it’s your body, if you want a vasectomy, get a vasectomy.
That being said, I was 100% I didn’t want kids when I was your age. Now I’m 37 and trying to have kids. Obviously that doesn’t mean you’ll change your mind, but it can happen.
- Comment on Rumor: Star Wars Outlaws Sequel Canceled By Ubisoft 1 month ago:
I played it and completed the story. In my opinion it’s not awful, but it’s not exactly good either. The gameplay is bland, repetitive and unoriginal. Nothing about it is special in any way and unless you care about the Star Wars license, there is literally zero reason to play it. If you do care about the license the gameplay is serviceable enough to keep you busy while it tells its story, but that’s about it. Which makes it pretty ironic that Ubisoft blames Star Wars for the games lack of success.
- Comment on What are the privacy risks of exposing IP adresses? 2 months ago:
In my experience the city information is not particularly reliable. If you geolocate my IP the city is always wrong.
- Comment on i broke 4 months ago:
You clearly find it easy to stop doing things that are bad for you (drinking, drugs, eating meat), but you struggle to start doing things that are good for you (exercise, cooking, eating enough/well).
She was right. I still don’t do the bad stuff and started doing the good stuff and now my life is so much better. Ironically it was quitting the last bad thing (weed) which allowed me to start taking care of myself. It’s not enough to not hurt yourself, you have to be good to yourself too.
- Comment on Imagine It. 5 months ago:
If that’s how you feel, fair enough, but I honestly don’t see much value in letting AI generate suicide emojis.
- Comment on Imagine It. 5 months ago:
It has constraints.
- Comment on Imagine It. 5 months ago:
It’s an AI text to emoji feature. You describe what you want and it generates a custom emoji from the prompt. Not super necessary of course, but it’s actually one of the more fun “Apple Intelligence” features.
- Comment on Germany right now 6 months ago:
The shit AfD voters come from the Oklahoma and Mississippi of Germany, Thuringia and Saxony.
That’s only kinda true. The east has way more Nazis, but just because the AfD is stronger there with 32% of the votes, doesn’t change the fact that 18% of West German voters voted for them too.
- Comment on What's your "this is totally fine and I'm going to have a great time" FPS? 6 months ago:
For shooters, especially competitive ones, as high as possible up to my monitor’s refresh rate (165Hz). Everything else 60 FPS is fine. Even 30 FPS can be fine, especially if I’m playing something on Switch.
- Comment on How German Police Do Police Brutality 8 months ago:
When German cops do police brutality they burn you to death in your cell
- Comment on Not enough people buying Premium, eh? 8 months ago:
You can change the home button behaviour in the settings to take you to the app view.
- Comment on Every show with a suicide now has a disclaimer with a suicide hotline at the beginning. Is there any evidence that these warnings make a positive difference? 11 months ago:
How do you tell someone suicidal that opens up to you, that you can’t handle the topic without making them feel worse?
- Comment on Anon rides a bike 1 year ago:
There are videos on youtube that can help. Tom Scott did one where he learns to ride a bike as an adult. He seemed to get the hang of it pretty quickly.
- Comment on Anon rides a bike 1 year ago:
Do it. I took up cycling last year (although I learned as a kid) and now it’s literally my favourite thing to do ever. I’m also the fittest I’ve ever been.
- Comment on Anon is anti drugs 1 year ago:
Drugs are honestly pretty meh. I’m not saying they can’t be fun and or that they are evil or anything, but I feel like you are seriously overhyping them.
I used to a lot of drugs and lots of different kinds too. Sure I had fun and I don’t massively regret it. But since I quit all drugs (including alcohol) several years ago I really have to say there are plenty of other things in life that are just as fun as drugs, if not much more so. There’s only so much you can experience with drugs and it gets old fast.