Buttflapper
@Buttflapper@lemmy.world
- Comment on Witch hunting is going to quickly destroy Lemmy, and prevent it from flourishing 5 weeks ago:
So it’s completely ok and intentionally designed that people can just go grab 10-15 posts you’ve made and go on a long rant with no basis in reality that you’re using AI, and try to get people to hate you? How does that make any sense? It contributed nothing to the discussion whatsoever. If that’s the case, this might not be the place for me, and you can certainly expect others won’t want to be here either. That’s just as bad as reddit.
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to support@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive 5 weeks ago:
Thanks for contributing in unneccessary witch hunting. You’ve shown that Lemmy can be just as petulant and inhospitable as reddit. Nothing I have ever written is AI generated, such a weird criticism and hilarious to lob that at someone considering that even million dollar tech companies who have made “ai detectors” have failed spectacularly with false positives. But you dislike what I say so you’re 100% correct, right? yea that makes sense dude sure.
- Comment on World of Warcraft's monetization seems to be getting way more aggressive 5 weeks ago:
Idk what point you’re trying to get across. Back in TBC everything was in game. Every mount and cosmetic. There was no shop. Collectors edition obviously existed, sure. How is cosmetics and mounts not content? It’s part of the game lol
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 28 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yup I admitted that I use Facebook and people are angry about it up above. Oh well
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yeah lmao how else do you keep up with friends? You can unironically still use Facebook for friends only using Feeds > Friends
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Where are they going though…? We don’t have many more users here on Lemmy so…
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Why are you on reddit in the first place?
People share it on Facebook and it pops up in my feed, so I go to reddit to see what people are saying and… censorship. Locked comments because they’re afraid of words
- Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state" 1 month ago:
Wow, that is metal as fuck dude… what a terrifying image that provides…🫣
- Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state" 1 month ago:
I updated my comment, initially I had the wrong figure. I went back to the US Census website, and looked again. Then, I took the number who are over 18 years of age only, and subtracted that out.
- Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state" 1 month ago:
People can share tweets virtually anywhere by screenshotting it and reposting it on Facebook, reddit, etc. I saw it on Facebook and clicked it.
- Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state" 1 month ago:
I commented this elsewhere, but I’ll say it here too :)
57% of the people who voted, voted in favor. Florida has approximately 22 million people as of the last census, with about 17.732 million over the age of 18. Here are the vote counts:
No: 4,547,767 (42.8%) Yes: 6,068,933 (57.2%) This means about 7.115 million people in Florida did not vote, so approximately 40.1% of the adult population voted. Truly wild to see.
- Comment on "Florida is a conservative Christian state" 1 month ago:
57% If Floridians voted in favor of abortion rights.
One small correction: 57% of the people who voted, voted in favor. Florida has approximately 22 million people as of the last census. No: 4,547,767 (42.8%) Yes: 6,068,933 (57.2%)
So, approximately 15.93 million people in Florida did not vote, meaning about 27.6% of people in Florida voted… Truly insane to see
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
If you can’t afford subscriptions like those, then you should probably have other priorities to really worry about.
If you did a simple search for poverty and How much people struggled back in 2004 when World of Warcraft released versus now, you would see that families are having a lot harder time than ever before. It has not improved at all for most people. Wealth inequality has grown massively in the past 20 years that World of Warcraft has been around. So yeah a lot of people do have different priorities, And now, the price of playing a live service game that required a subscription can definitely impact you. The same thing can be said though with other subscriptions like Netflix and Hulu. It really fucking destroys your monthly income. Alone they don’t, but added up they definitely do
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I don’t know how anyone has time for two live service games at once
Think of an MMO as a theme park. Used to have to wait in a really long ass line to get to each of the rides. Now, you have fast passes to get through all of the attractions as quickly as possible. This explains the MMO market nowadays. If you subscribe for 12 consecutive months to World of Warcraft, you won’t have enough stuff to play. The gameplay loop when you get to end game is essentially brainless and monotonous, it requires no time investment really at all. You just log in daily to do some repeatable tasks, Then you spam the exact same brain dead content over and over again currently it’s raids or dungeons. They added a scaling system about halfway through World of warcraft’s lifespan. So you either go normal heroic mythic raids or you do normal heroic mythic dungeons and then mythic dungeons scale all the way up to like the 30s so you just repeatedly run the same exact stuff over and over. Lots of people don’t have the fortitude to do this, so there is a lot less time invested nowadays in a single MMO and a lot more interspersion across other MMOs.
Elder scrolls online has some pretty good story content, but it’s not enough to keep you busy for an entire month either. Some people swear that it’s worth paying for and subscribing to the game for. If you don’t subscribe to the game, you don’t have any crafting bag, and by extension, you don’t have any inventory space to hold any materials, so it’s almost required to subscribe to Elder scrolls online. You can buy all the expansions with money, but that won’t give you a crafting bag and a bunch of other goodies. Game becomes virtually unplayable at that point and it’s frustrating
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Like what? Can you give examples? Free RuneScape or something?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s really weird to include ~500% additional monthly contributions into the math.
Thanks for pointing that out. My math was horribly off here. That’s what I get for using Google sheets to try and work this out myself :( I corrected it. I was accidentally multiplying by something without realizing it.
- Submitted 1 month ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 57 comments
- Comment on On a lighter note: Why do people still buy fast food? 1 month ago:
Do they have options?
Returned to Atlanta after a vacation out west in a small town where there were tons of small biz cafes and restaurants… My entire street is lined with nothing but fast food bullshit. In a quarter mile radius we have McDonald’s, Arby’s, Freddy’s, Wendy’s, Chick-fil-A, Zaxby’s, Domino’s, Buffalo wild wings. Fast food has basically conquered medium to large size towns and forced out any sort of small business that’s healthy or has real food. You won’t find them anywhere, so you get exhausted and tired of driving and what is left for you? Fast food. No one wants to drive 25 minutes every time they need to get something to eat
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 month ago:
Joe Biden will be fine. He could care less.
- Comment on Fields of Mistria review: A boring, soulless Stardew reskin 1 month ago:
See Coral Island is so cute and unique that I personally felt it was just perfect. It wasn’t so closely resembling SDV that I felt like I was playing a bootleg version haha
- Comment on Fields of Mistria review: A boring, soulless Stardew reskin 1 month ago:
it can just be a casual game to relax.
Fair point. I didn’t find it relaxing, it just felt like a gutted version of Stardew that treats me like I’m not smart enough to figure anything out. Everything has an unskivable tutorial like blacksmithing and cooking. You can’t buy any of your own basic recipes. It just sends them to you automatically in the mail, which is extremely annoying because it undermines player choice. That’s what was kinda annoying to me. Maybe if it was more like old-school RuneScape it would be more relaxing ? That game has no recipes, you just level up and know the recipe by default.
- Comment on Fields of Mistria review: A boring, soulless Stardew reskin 1 month ago:
how you’re saying it is what is rubbing people the wrong way.
Can you help me understand so I can avoid this in the future? Being completely honest, I don’t mean to sound toxic or petulant at all
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
They just sent an alert to me that they added 100% tip, not that it’s fraud. So I called them, and restaurant can’t even give me any receipt and never did.
- Comment on Fields of Mistria review: A boring, soulless Stardew reskin 1 month ago:
People just don’t like what they hear. I wanted to like the game, I really did. But I just can’t
- Comment on Fields of Mistria review: A boring, soulless Stardew reskin 1 month ago:
First of all this is a lot of text and I appreciate all the effort you have taken to express your opinion.
Apologies, still new to the posting style here on Lemmy. It cut off the TLDR which I have added back in
There are some points I would like to comment on even if I have not played the game myself
I don’t get it. How can you provide your commentary on something you have never experienced? Like, I get what you’re saying and respect to your opinions but like… You kind of have to try it and live through it for a little while to really get it.
Secondly I don’t blame devs for not beeing active on social media with the community. Especially when your game is rather small
If you look at their actual team website, they have a huge team. I think there’s no excuse for them to have no community presence, considering that concerned ape is just one person, he’s just one dude developing the entire thing himself and he has been very vocal and very active. Their website shows that they have at least 10 members on their team, and they barely interact with the community. It just feels like a cash grab when you take that into account. Sorry if that sounds harsh but it is what it is
- Submitted 1 month ago to games@lemmy.world | 15 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 11 comments
- Comment on Houses in my area increases 82% in just 4 years 1 month ago:
Awww, that’s adorable.
People still talk like this? Wow. Anyway, it’s not a contest. Both scenarios can be very unfortunate and disappointing
