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- Comment on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent 5 days ago:
This statement doesn’t contradict yours, they only said they avoid Alienware branded monitors now.
That does not mean the inverse statement is also true, they didn’t say they recommended the whole brand of monitors before.
- Comment on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent 5 days ago:
Oh dear :(
Glad I use Linux then 🫠
- Comment on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent 6 days ago:
Even better!
- Comment on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent 1 week ago:
tbf LG monitors are quite good hardware, but I’ve been buying Dell the last 10 years and never had issues.
- Comment on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent 1 week ago:
Another reason to use Linux 😅
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 1 week ago:
Don’t be sad, I shorted it but didn’t put waaaay enough money into that endeavour to make me rich.
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 1 week ago:
I made 29% shorting SpaceX already, should I hodl or sell my position at some point? Do we think it’ll ever recover?
- Comment on Americans Have Turned Against AI in Incredible Numbers 5 weeks ago:
Try to jailbreak it into giving you more time off.
- Comment on Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers 5 weeks ago:
And it’s very expensive.
- Comment on Leak Exposes Members of Peter Thiel’s Secretive ‘Dialog’ Society 5 weeks ago:
Like how tone def are recruiters
They just ate the illusions capitalism threw at them. You’d be surprised about the number of people who simply don’t care that their lives are run by shadow elites who destroy the world as long as they can watch TV and go on holidays.
Panem et circenses, 2000 years later, still works. You just need to make people believe they’re the winners of capitalism and they’ll support every ugly bit of it.
- Comment on The blue light from your phone isn't ruining your sleep 3 months ago:
Nice
- Comment on Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends 3 months ago:
Many men.
- Comment on Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1 - Iran says it will target Apple, Google, and Microsoft, among others 3 months ago:
Weird, I kind of support Iran now. These companies dying would be good for the world.
- Comment on OnlyFans owner Leonid Radvinsky dies of cancer at 43 3 months ago:
What’s that? Is it bad?
- Comment on Imagine Losing Your Job to the Mere Possibility of AI 4 months ago:
Good argument! You’re clearly making a point here 🙃
- Comment on Signal Messenger now allows Video & Coice Calls with 75 Participants 5 months ago:
What’s a coice?
- Comment on Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes 6 months ago:
On a sidenote: I fucking LOVE !degenerate@lemmynsfw.com 🤩
- Comment on Woman felt 'dehumanised' after Musk's Grok AI used to digitally remove her clothes 6 months ago:
Asking for a friend?
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- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 6 months ago:
Yeah, I mostly agree with that. What about friendjank?
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 6 months ago:
Any time I see someone say this, they always fail to actually provide any examples of games that fit this description
Lethal Company is actually pretty fun if you’re playing it alone. That’s a positive example.
Another one is Don’t Starve Together. Great together, but Don’t Starve itself is also fun.
Among us on the other hand has no bots and you won’t have any fun without other players. However, you’d also not have fun without other players in Uno, Chess or Checkers.
Were these enough examples or did I misunderstand your point?
I don’t agree that you have to make games be good beyond the multiplayer experience. I’d love it to get my money’s worth, if I can play the game alone AND share the fun with friends I’ll gladly pay extra.
As it stands, many friendjank games only cost a few euros so I can live with them not being fun after a while or without friends. After all I used to buy cinema cards for my friends and I and didn’t have more than a few hours of fun, and cinema cards are often way more expensive than friendslop.
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 6 months ago:
Yeah, elsewhere I suggested we could call it friendjank. I love janky games.
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 6 months ago:
Quite on point. I’d add that it’s not only games but also other media like movies you can enjoy better with friends, even if they’re not particularly cinematographic masterpieces.
Hell, it technically started even earlier than that, with physical card games and board games and such. Just play them with friends and it’s fun.
Here I was, thinking people liked Uno for the deep game mechanics and story 🙃
People in this thread try to pull compliments for friendslop out of thin air because they can’t admit they like simple or bad games. If it’s fun, it must be genius, because obviously I won’t ever play a game which is bad, would I now? 🙃😅
I’d say people should enjoy what they enjoy. We should stop judging other people’s fun. And I think this is kind of also the point of the article: if people have fun in AAA games with micro transactions and battle passes, I let them and I’m happy they can have fun. I won’t touch that shit myself though, rather play a “friendslop” title 😅
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 6 months ago:
I very much disagree, it’s like judging that samba is not good cos it’s not blues. They’re two different genres with different goals.
Funny, that was actually my point I tried to make. I repeat myself:
That’s not to say friendslop don’t have a right to exist. There’s a time and a place for friendslop, it’s not when you want to play a good game.
I often compare it to mediocre or bad movies which only work on cinema screens or home theater. If you watch “popcorn movies” without popcorn, you won’t enjoy the movie.
But that’s where I’d disagree:
If it’s fun then it is well designed.
You can have fun with badly designed or badly polished games. It needs an engaging game loop, sure, it can’t be complete crap. But I’d argue that you don’t need to create a good game to create a fun(ny) game.
Example: EYE Divine Cybermancy. One of my favourite games but I often laugh at the jank and incoherent story, and the bugs, and I’m still having fun.
Maybe we shouldn’t call it friendslop, but friendjank?
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 6 months ago:
I didn’t compare CS2 to Peak specifically. I compared good games to friendslop.
Can you tell me why you’re upset that I call “friendslop” bad games? I didn’t say you can’t enjoy bad games, I’d say in many instances I had more fun in objectively bad games and movies with friends than I had in good games. Sometimes the good games are boring and the jank makes “bad” games great or funny.
I also didn’t say I dislike friendslop. I enjoyed Lethal Company and Among Us with friends, for example. I also really like watching “bad” movies with friends, we even watched The Room once 😅
I even watch objectively bad films by myself. One of my favourites is Fortress (1992). This has an 38% rotten and a 40% popcorn meter rating on Rottentomatoes. Which is basically my point – media doesn’t have to be good to be enjoyable or funny.
I’m not always after a laugh though. There’s a place and a time for friendslop, and it’s specifically called friendslop because of that. Don’t see it as an insult.
- Comment on 'Friendslop' dominated 2025 by proving time and time again that graphics are overrated 6 months ago:
Well it’s basically gaming fastfood: they’re bad games in themselves, and you can only enjoy them with friends. You wouldn’t enjoy them with people you don’t have chemistry with. Whereas there’s some competitive games like CS2 you can enjoy with random strangers because it’s a mechanically well made game.
That’s not to say friendslop don’t have a right to exist. There’s a time and a place for friendslop, it’s not when you want to play a good game.
I often compare it to mediocre or bad movies which only work on cinema screens or home theater. If you watch “popcorn movies” without popcorn, you won’t enjoy the movie.
- Comment on What the actual science says about “brain rot” 6 months ago:
Attention span is ability, this was lack of desire to even try.
Why comment then, instead of downvoting and moving on? You’re wasting your precious time.
- Comment on What the actual science says about “brain rot” 6 months ago:
The irony that you didn’t even have the attention span to find out that the video is specifically about short form content…
- Submitted 6 months ago to videos@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on After getting Silent Hill 'back on track,' Konami wants to make it an annual franchise 6 months ago:
Nah didn’t you see Marvel? They have some schedule and a multiverse and make all the money. They wouldn’t make money if they delivered ugly CGI slop would they now? 🙃