BlameTheAntifa
@BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 20 hours ago:
For me, much of the fun is making progress. i never finished the first game because I kept getting lost and stuck and unable to progress for extended periods. In a From Software game I can spend weeks on a single boss and masochistically enjoy every moment because I know what I have to do. The problem I had with Hollow Knight was I kept finding myself completely at a loss about where to go or what to do. I would spend days retreading the same empty caverns looking for a clue and not finding any. When I knew what I had to do, I enjoyed it immensely, but progression was often too obscure and my interest slowly evaporated.
- Comment on What is the first electronic device kids get these days? (Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Phone, Game consoles?) 3 days ago:
I’d put my money on a hand-me-down smartphone or tablet.
- Comment on UK Cops 'Ashamed and Sick' of Enforcing Ban on Anti-Genocide Group Palestine Action 4 days ago:
“Just following orders” you say? You could choose not to do it. You could choose to not participate in injustice. What you are doing is bad and you should feel bad for doing it.
- Comment on Civilization 7 developers Firaxis have laid off an unspecified number of workers, 2K confirm 4 days ago:
It shipped with Denuvo and I don’t pay for malware. It’s the first Civ game I haven’t bought at launch. I’m including the original.
- Comment on No brainer 5 days ago:
This free gravel, can I summon it whenever and wherever I want, or do I have to wait for it to be delivered? If it’s the latter, I will take Khitan. Resurrecting a dead language sounds fun.
- Comment on Typical orange cat 5 days ago:
Meowti — colloquially known as Common Cat — is a tonal language. It is the insufficiency of your limited Roman alphabet at fault here, not the cat.
- Comment on Lush temporarily closes all UK stores in 'solidarity with Gaza' 5 days ago:
Lust is taking some Palestine Action.
Good for them.
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 6 days ago:
You aren’t allowed to stop there. It is mandatory to share the distro she is using, the desktop environment, and what she loves most about it so far.
- Comment on Who could have predicted this? 6 days ago:
It is driving the world into the loving arms of Linux, our Lord and Savior, so I think it’s marvelous that Windows has gotten so bad.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 1 week ago:
Microsoft is already starting to lay the groundwork with their CPU and TPM 2.0 requirements.
Apple has been doing this for a long time, though there are ways to get around it on MacOS, for now.
On PC, the answer is Linux. For mobile devices, things are looking more bleak.
- Comment on Steam UK users will now need a credit card to access mature content due to the Online Safety Act 1 week ago:
It’s a good thing this was never actually about children.
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 1 week ago:
The person you are replying to is a well known openly fascist MAGA apologist. There is little point in attempting any kind of good faith discussion with them.
- Comment on Bring out the trumpets and pour out the beer 1 week ago:
That’s freedumb, pal.
- Comment on New article says #StarCitizen will release in 2027-2028, we contacted the author to ask for clarification on the source and he quoted Chris Roberts himself as saying "1 or 2 Y probably after S42" 2 weeks ago:
You can download it and play it. “Released” is something of a misnomer when it comes to software.
- Comment on If copyright on a work expired immediately after death, would be that a bad or good idea? 2 weeks ago:
Limit copyright to 5 years.
Abolish patents entirely.
Greed and selfishness are unacceptable foundations for any society.
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices 2 weeks ago:
No matter how you measure it, global sexually repressive puritanism always traces back to the US.
- Comment on Enlightenment 4 weeks ago:
It makes perfect sense. Centrists are the only people who don’t realize that centrists are enablers of authoritarianism. The Golden Mean Fallacy is a logical fallacy for a reason.
- Comment on Great Advertise 5 weeks ago:
There is a mathematic perfection that our brains easily recognize even if we can’t articulate it. The human brain is unmatched at the task of visual pattern recognition.
- Comment on heaven 5 weeks ago:
The torture for the true sinners probably happens, but at the hands of the normal people who didnt make it to heaven.
- Comment on Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills 5 weeks ago:
The problem is that COBRA is often unimaginably expensive, and since it’s something you’re faced with while out of work, it’s an impossible option for regular people. The better choice is to get private insurance as soon as you can, but coverage is usually tied to the start of calendar months, meaning you could be uncovered for a time if you don’t take COBRA. To make it even more wonderful, you often lose access to your health care immediately when you lose your job, so COBRA is only helpful retroactively after the fact in the event of a major emergency.
Health care in the US is barbaric.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 5 weeks ago:
So Valve says the processors - such as Stripe and PayPal - pressed the issue based on pressure from MasterCard (and possibly Visa). MasterCard says they had nothing to do with it. Itch says that Stripe was directly responsible in their case with a blanket ban on anything generally sexy, but that Stripe blamed their banking partners.
So Stripe, at least, is directly responsible but insists they are under pressure from banking partners. This means the pressure is coming from one or more actual banks. Since we don’t have names, we have to do some research to find out who Stripe works with. The possibilities I was able to dig up on a quick search include:
- Citigroup
- Wells Fargo
- Barclays
- Goldman Sachs
- Evolve Bank & Trust
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 1 month ago:
It wasn’t Itch.io’s fault, but the fact that payment processing has been globally monopolized and can force it’s own arbitrary will on anyone without recourse.
Blame Visa and MasterCard and the christofascist scum from Collective Shout.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 month ago:
Steam has no power. They are beholden to a very particular monopoly that can get away with anything it wants and is currently being manipulated by unethical evangelical fascists.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 month ago:
Moral judgement or suppression of fiction/artistic expression is deeply and profoundly unethical. How you or I or anyone else feels about something that isn’t “real” is inconsequential. If you allow any line to be crossed in this, then every line can and will be crossed.
- Comment on For anyone else who has shed a tear today after hearing about Ozzy's passing... 1 month ago:
Julian LeFay, creator of The Elder Scrolls, died of cancer yesterday. He also deserves to be remembered.
- Comment on Everything is just an ESP32 away 1 month ago:
I’ve lived through that entire journey. I still don’t trust the printer, though.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s been evolving quite a bit, though it has stalled out the last few months. The developer recently wrote a blog that the next update will be enormous as it reworks almost everything in the game, hence the lack of incremental updates lately.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
There are alternatives like Manor Lords that can scratch that itch. Ones that aren’t by a predatory, anti-consumer company and aren’t infected with Denuvo malware.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 1 month ago:
Waning interest in Ubisoft. Everything they touch is painfully generic and uninteresting. But sure, blame the consumers for your lack of vision, passion, and technical acumen. See how that pays off, Yves.
