BlameTheAntifa

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What games are just objective master pieces?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Disco Elysium Alpha Centauri Super Marios Bros 3 Bloodborne Ori 1 & 2 Fallout 1 & 2 Planescape: Torment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mostly this. I’m not paying for something that comes with malware. Not for $80, $20, or $1. Nobody should pay for malware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS finally released by Valve⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like Fedora simply because you don’t have to take extra steps to remove Snaps. I’ve gone from being fan of Ubuntu to avoiding it because of the way Canonical has behaved in recent years and the negative impacts that behavior has had on the distro (and community). It feels immoral preferring a Red Hat/IBM distro over Ubuntu, but unfortunately it’s the better product.

  I recommend Kubuntu to new users simply because the documentation, website, and learning material is better. Bazzite is also not without it’s quirks, especially if you want to start learning more about Linux in general and branching out beyond gaming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steamdeck or....⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right. Unless the world starts to enshrine digital ownership laws very, very soon, things will get bad. They already are bad, but they could be, and will be, far worse in the not-to-distant future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS finally released by Valve⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bazzite is the most “SteamOS” flavor of Linux you can get right now.

  If you want an OS that has a little more control, go with Kubuntu, which is very friendly. When you’re comfortable with that and familiar enough with Linux to unhappy with Snaps and Canonical, switch to Fedora or OpenSUSE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamOS finally released by Valve⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bazzite, Kubuntu, or Fedora are all great options for you. Bazzite can boot into a SteamOS-like dedicated gaming mode. If you want more flexibility over your system, Kubuntu or Fedora are both great choices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steamdeck or....⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo is a terrible, anti-consumer company. Unless you simply can’t control yourself when it comes to their first party franchises, the Steam Deck is far and away the better choice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Marathon Delay Likely as Sony Cancels All Paid Marketing Plans⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It would be wonderful if they also cancelled all live service plans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pitchford gives off some strong “do you guys not have phones” energy. He’s so out of touch it’s astounding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen Loses 'Integral Staff' Responsible for Server Meshing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Squadron 42 is the single-player counterpart to Star Citizen. It’s supposed to release next year. Star Citizen, however, is far too complex to self-host. The server technology they’ve shown off is incredible, but it’s not a “single server” thing.

  I’m hoping that many of these departures are simply because the underlying technology is finally mature and those people want to move on to new challenges, but I don’t really believe that’s true. It’s clear that Chris Roberts own shortcomings as a boss are poisoning the company and it’s once-passionate workers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Affinity is an excellent replacement for Photoshop, Illustrator, and Publisher. Gimp is a dumpster fire, both as software and a FOSS project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$80 for Borderlands 4 too costly? Randy Pitchford says, "If you're a real fan, you'll find a way to make it happen"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  When $40 is half price, I will generally pass as if it were $80. There is a glut of amazing content out there for $40 or less, and much of it is truly inspired indie work. When your half-price game is competing with great full-price indie titles, I will continue to ignore your overpriced corporate muck.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're unstoppable⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Charles Schulz: “I don’t think of it as not having hair, I think of it as being hair that is so blond that it’s not seen very clearly, that’s all.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony blocks Stellar Blade on more than 100 countries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Worse. Denuvo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  First, the EGS software is really bad. It’s slow, clunky, a pain to navigate, and is missing loads of basic features that Steam has had for decades.

  Second, rather than improving their offering to make it more competitive and appealing to consumers, they’ve utilized coercive tactics like exclusivity to force adoption rather than earning it on merits.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple blocks Fortnite's return to iPhone in US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Both are scummy, but in this specific circumstance Epic is in the right. Apple’s anti-competitive, monopolistic trust needs to be broken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iceland approved the 4-day workweek in 2019: nearly 6 years later, all the predictions made have come true.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Authoritarian culture begets authoritarian policy, in both the public and private sectors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I get where people’s angst comes from. It’s been in development forever, it’s made mind-boggling amounts of money, and the way promises have been routinely made and then broken erodes a huge amount of trust. I can’t blame anyone for thinking of it as “Scam Citizen.”

  But despite all that, Chris Roberts has created something that nobody has ever seen before. Even in its current incomplete state, there has never been anything else remotely like it. Maybe it’s the buddhist in me, but I have had so much fun with the game over the years as-is, rather than being upset with what it’s not or what it’s supposed to be.

  Comparing it to other “normal” games, the optics of buying stuff can definitely seem pay-to-win, but for anyone that had played it, it’s clear that’s not how things work. And since the game is early access and wipes have been so frequent until now, buying components at this stage is really just a bit of a time saver. You can save a day or two of playing to fund and source the components in-game. I don’t see the problem with that, especially if it keeps development progress moving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Years ago they had certain components for sale, but removed them due to backlash. Given how unique the game is, I don’t mind this so long as everything is also available in-game. Being familiar with the game and how it works, this doesn’t seem “pay to win” to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My point is that companies that use it are anti-consumer scum and should be actively boycotted.

  Companies like Sega and Ubisoft never remove it, and in the case of Ghostwire Tokyo, Bethesda added it nearly a year after release, pulling a bait-and-switch on PC gamers that would never have it bought it otherwise.

  These companies demonstrate that will steal your purchase from you whenever they feel like it. They do not deserve anyone’s money, not even 6-12 months later at 90% off. If a company uses Denuvo, they don’t deserve anyone’s money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Baldur's Gate 3 cast got a new set of pre-painted minis and—oh, oh no, oh no no no⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen worse.

  But I don’t mean that as a compliment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Doom: The Dark Ages’ DRM Is Locking Out Linux Users Who Bought the Game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If the game comes with Denuvo, never, ever buy it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Home Depot tax at work!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly, there are no winners. I don’t want to encourage people to use it, or make them think it’s okay to use it. There is no “taking it back” in this case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Home Depot tax at work!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am autistic and do not appreciate it at all. On whose behalf am I offended?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Neville Page Says ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Season 1 Klingons Were “A Salty Broth”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I kept waiting for a eugenics storyline where the Federation tries to make Klingons more human and turns them into TOS Klingons, thereby completing the narrative justification circle.

  Instead…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i broke⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This sounds a lot like the Second Noble Truth in Buddhism. “Suffering is caused by desire”, meaning that there is a disconnect between what you wish were so, and what is actually so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Anti-Piracy Policy Device Lock Update Warns of Console Bricks for Unauthorized Use⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Japanese IP laws are no more strict than other major blocs due to trade agreements. Nintendo has never “lost out on licensing” due to IP laws. Beginning in tbe 1980s, they have been extremely and aggressively litigious as a matter of company policy. They literally see everything they produce as theirs… you don’t own the things you buy from them. You pay them for the enjoyment of using their things. They’re about as hardcore neoliberal as it gets. In other words, they seem evil because they are evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it ableist to “support equal rights and those with disabilities” but think someone is terrible and doesn’t deserve rights for showing signs of a disability?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You can believe that people stuck in wheelchairs deserve equal access to public spaces via accommodations like ramps or elevators, and still hate Ted, who happens to be paraplegic, because he is a hateful, racist, fascist MAGA jerk. In this case, your shunning of Ted is not ableist because the reason you treat Ted differently is unrelated to his disability and you are well aware of the fact. He doesn’t get a pass for things unrelated to his disability.

  However, if you are aware of someones disability and treat them prejudiciously because of it (or it’s symptoms) then you are the ableist jerk. If you are the one with a disability and people treat you in a prejudicious manner because your disabilities or their symptoms, then they are jerks and not friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, you thought you owned that thing you bought? No. This is 2025. You own nothing. It doesn’t matter how much money you gave them. Yeah, gave them. Because you didn’t buy that stuff. You’re just borrowing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I definitely blame the patent office.

  But also, patents should not exist. They need to be completely abolished. Copyrights are one thing, copyrights make sense, patents are another entirely, existing solely to facilitate intellectual theft from both individual entities and the broader public.