Don_alForno
@Don_alForno@feddit.org
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 8 hours ago:
If you know that you explicitly disagree with somebody on certain aspects, their opinion will be just as useful to you as if you liked exactly what they like.
- Comment on We tested a transport app that cost the public £4m against Google Maps 6 days ago:
Oh no! Somebody else might benefit from something you would’ve made anyway, at no additional cost to you! The horror!
- Comment on Blizzard reportedly partnering with Arc Raiders owner Nexon to revive StarCraft as a shooter 1 week ago:
Weird idea but bear with me: They could, and this will shock some of you, I hope you’re sitting in a safe position … They could revive Starcraft as fucking Starcraft!
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 1 week ago:
The newer Anno installments. I’m not buying another Ubisoft game unless they get rid of their stupid Launcher, and I’m also not buying anything with Denuvo and similar BS.
- Comment on XCOM: Enemy Unknown – Review and Retrospective- Is It Worth It In 2025? 2 weeks ago:
I’m still longing for a new terror from the deep.
- Comment on Noooooo 2 weeks ago:
For me the times are usually the other way around. I have coworkers who’d need two sentences for the actual question but wrap it in 15 minutes of useless small talk when they are on the phone.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 2 weeks ago:
There’s plenty of “actual” economists like that, and unfortunately some of them are among the generally most listened to, they lead prominent institutes and advise my home country’s government.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 3 weeks ago:
The main problem is that the math they do is often based on assumptions that have repeatedly been disproven but are still treated like gospel.
If you assume 2+2=5 you can follow up with as much correct math as you like, your results will always be shit.
- Comment on ICE Supreme Commander spotted in Minneapolis 3 weeks ago:
They looked more competent when they did it.
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 4 weeks ago:
That’s just because it’s pronounced “Bose” instead of “Bose”.
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 4 weeks ago:
His name is Jose!
Jose-Einstein-Condensate!
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 5 weeks ago:
Everybody who has to work for a living is part of the working class. Further division is just “divide et impera” by the owners.
- Comment on Adtech is not tech 1 month ago:
it means that those with the most money in the world will effectively be in power of the world, which is exactly what we see.
Wealth is power, which is why wealth, like power, must be limited.
- Comment on Adtech is not tech 1 month ago:
Everybody who works in advertisement should be reeducated to do some productive work for society instead. Like caring for old people, cleaning parks, repairing roads …
- Comment on Mom with the real questions 1 month ago:
Chairs are fucking expensive though. It’s always like “oh, this table is only 300” “yeah, but the matching chairs are 120 each”
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 1 month ago:
If you make a profit on your house, are you a scalper?
If I had never intended to live in it and just speculated on appreciation? Yes. Take your fair share and leave some for others. Your entire reasoning is why the world is such a shithole.
- Comment on Internet picture of a monkey 1 month ago:
It’s not ok to be a scalper just because it’s kid’s toys instead of geforce cards.
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 1 month ago:
In Germany, where I’m from, FDP (“die Liberalen”) is a prime example. They are notorious for campaigning on civil liberties issues and then, once in government, dropping most or all of them in favor of radical deregulation and tax gifts for rich people.
- Comment on What is the difference between an American liberal and a liberal outside the USA? 1 month ago:
Enacting progressive taxation, punishing white collar crime, establishing strong environmental protections, establishing a strong social safety net, ensuring high quality universal healthcare, enforcing anti-trust legislation, and enacting electoral finance reforms are all things that liberals support
Those are all things that the liberals of old supported. But the parties that call themselves “liberal” today are usually strictly neoliberal. So that’s what people have come to associate with the term.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 month ago:
Never pre-order.
I do early access only in very specific cases where it’s an indie studio and the game already offers a lot of value. E.g. Satisfactory was in early access for a long time when it was basically a finished game you could sink hundreds of hours into. But I read and watch a lot of reviews before I buy into one of those. Can’t do that with a pre-order.
- Comment on Nvidia GeForce Now’s Time Limit Will Stop Gamers After 100 Hours Each Month 1 month ago:
You’re literally the boiled frog right now and it would be funny to watch if it wasn’t so sad.
- Comment on Hytale can now be pre-ordered 2 months ago:
Never pre-order.
- Comment on Actual theft 2 months ago:
If it’s Spotify, why? YT premium costs just about as much.
Because it’s not google.
- Comment on Total War: Warhammer 40k 2 months ago:
I have questions.
Are there gonna be 3 levels now? (Real time battle, planetary overworld, space over-over world)?
Are the space marines gonna march in a phalanx formation?
Which space marine is gonna be the princess?
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 2 months ago:
in the event of like complete societal collapse or hyperinflation, they could use it for purchasing.
They are going to learn that you can’t eat gold. It has no purpose other than looking pretty, and that’s not going to matter much anymore in one of these events. It’s value is as speculative as any other.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 months ago:
It’s supposed to guarantee you can always catch up with them.
- Comment on Gaming Pet Peeves 2 months ago:
Anything that needlessly makes me repeat content I already beat or similarly wastes my time. Some examples are:
Fixed save points in general.
Unskippable cutscenes between the last fixed save point and the boss fight.
No autosave or fixed save point after a boss fight.
Preventing me from backtracking after I stumbled into a cut scene and/or boss fight because it wasn’t obvious which path led to a point of no return.
- Comment on ‘Clair Obscur’ Leads The Game Awards 2025 Nominees With 12 Nods; ‘Silent Hill f’ Has Four Nominations 2 months ago:
Clair Obscur was all anybody gaming related talked about for weeks.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 2 months ago:
Why would they sell any hardware at a loss at all? Console manufacturers do it to lock people into their ecosystem and sell them games at a premium, Valve doesn’t need that, people are already overwhelmingly favoring their store.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 2 months ago:
Games used to be sold as a physical object containing the game files.
I can do that today too. I can buy from gog, download the installer an burn it to a DVD. I now own a physical object with the game files that gog or the game publisher can not easily take away from me. I’d still just own a license, not the game, and the license can be revoked. They just couldn’t really keep me from playing the game even after it was.
You need to understand the difference between having something in your possession and having the rights to it. You never owned any video game, even in the days of cartridges, they were always licenses.