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- Comment on 1 week ago:
In Assassins Creed Black Flag, I ran into an optional encounter with a unique hostile ship that I was completely unprepared for, as I hadn’t spent any money on upgrades for my own ship. So I tried to quit and reload. Well, the game autosaves at the start of the encounter. So I turned around to leave - and I get desynchronized. Great. I love being locked into optional unbalanced content!
So I had no other choice than to try to play the encounter. Except even with good positioning it was unbeatable as they had mortars, and a single broadside would melt my ship. But… there’s one special cannon attack aimed straight ahead. It does almost no damage, but stuns the enemy ship for as long as it takes to reload. There’s no way to turn fast enough to use any other weapon though. So I just plonked behind him too close for the mortars, and kept stunning this huge ship with the same attack for about 15 minutes, so it was never able to hit me with anything. We just sat there, neither ship moving or using any significant attack, until the 890th small cannonball upon which it suddenly burst into flames and sank.
- Comment on Fact Check 1 week ago:
Right, but costing them money while having it on the record that they lied is something. If you have the time and money
- Comment on When they didn't read the manual 1 week ago:
I’m not sure how you’re controlling a ship’s Y-axis, but for planes and helicopters that’s absolutely standard and how it works in the real world. Hence the term “Pull up!”
The one or two pilots in this thread just read this in the GPWS voice and feel their heart beat a little faster now.
- Comment on Sony doubles down. Only responds to their investors, not the consumers. I've never bought a digital console title. That will continue. 2 weeks ago:
Not to forget obligatory subscriptions.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 weeks ago:
Agreed on the last part. But a less cynical take: Companies like Sony obsessively track their sales metrics. If a campaign like this does go viral, and only a few percent of people actually follow through, it does create a noticeable dip in the metrics and an explanation will be demanded internally. There’s a small chance this makes certain managers a bit more careful about such decisions. In rare cases companies have taken back or at least delayed similar calls, and they don’t do so without an indication that it will affect their bottom line.
Though I don’t think this campaign will have much effect, since asking for a full week is not something a lot of people will follow through with. Also Sony is clearly banking on the fact that customers will stay due to lock-in to their ecosystem.
- Comment on Anon joins a shitposting group 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Anon joins a shitposting group 5 weeks ago:
Same for r/MURICA. Sad case, it used to be really funny.
- Comment on If someone was shrunk down to the size of an ant would they be able to make a little ant sized campfire with the same principles? Does it scale like that? 5 weeks ago:
This makes total sense due to the square-cube law (and cell sizes I suppose).
Have you considered relatively thicker sticks, like a log on a slower-burning fire? That should mitigate it a bit.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 5 weeks ago:
We just all set it to yellow the entire time so people don’t think they can call out of the blue.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 1 month ago:
Colonialism only took on modern forms. It’s always been might makes right.
Now with some countries slowly rising from its shadows, a lot of people in the west are pissing their pants that the tables might turn. Even if we’re a very long stretch away from that, and climate change is ironically affecting us less than the so-called global south.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 1 month ago:
lmao
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 1 month ago:
No one implied they shouldn’t be allowed to. People just have opinions on what works.
- Comment on Belgium national team's officialsocial media post after beating theUSA national team in the World Cup:"Overturn this" 1 month ago:
A national self-perception steeped in exceptionalism has them thinking it must be envy.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 1 month ago:
The entire political spectrum has moved considerably right, with “Fortress Europe” talk and blatant admissions that human rights aren’t something we should care about.
There is no hard divide between conservatives and the far right.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 1 month ago:
Also moving the overton window.
It only took a few years for our “alt right” to replace the suits talking conservative economics with demagogues spewing racial purity on national television. Self-radicalization is built into the far right mindset.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 1 month ago:
The US economy is directly tied to imperialism and massive exploitation of other nations. And we both know that’s not gonna change under any Democratic leadership.
You can’t just go back to the way things were because it worked for you.
- Comment on Happy Birthday guys, gals, and other pals! 1 month ago:
It’s cope, at least in part, to point out that the open advance of fascism in the US is several years ahead of the rest of the Western world, and that this was possible under an absolute dumbfuck embarrassment like Trump. And I get why people need to cope right now.
It’s also not wrong to point out that this was enabled by the US exceptionalist mindset and particular flavor of nationalism that we’ve all been exposed to.
This reads as a diss against all people in the US, but it’s not. I strongly empathize with and am in solidarity with those suffering under it.
- Comment on Good for him. 1 month ago:
That used to be broadly my view, until I watched Dan Olson’s In Search of A Flat Earth, in which he explores the worldview in which this “opinion” persists and why.
- Comment on Game suggestions: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 month ago:
After reading a good review I tested it with my horror-loving gf, but we found it kind of mid.
- Comment on Yay, sponsored emojis! 1 month ago:
I did the same. Took a while but the whole family was on board.
Now on to convince multiple circles of friends and every new person I meet…
- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 1 month ago:
Yeah. There was a statistic about Steam a while ago showing that the percentage of recent releases by playtime was steadily declining. People have their classics, they outgrow competitive games, they don’t want to upgrade their PCs as much with current prices. This was masked for a time by overall steady growth in the gaming sector, but this is slowing down.
- Comment on I still can't get over Skyrim. Are there any games that can replace it? 2 months ago:
Bethesda just lost their spark. It’s all live-service pseudo shooters now in an outdated engine that bothered no one when they made good RPGs, but is woefully behind for shooter action as primary gameplay loop.
- Comment on Valve has raised Steam Deck prices in the US 2 months ago:
Yup. I built my rig when it was just barely affordable and plan to maintain it for many years. It works just fine for the titles I play.
I mainly feel for the enthusiasts and the community and economy they built. Most people aren’t interested in tech they can never hope to reasonably afford. Gone are the times of a new rig every 3-4 years. Gone is the excitement.
- Comment on 😅😅😅 3 months ago:
That’s just not true. He was calling out whites who merely pay lip service to civil rights while putting all their political capital into maintaining a discriminatory status quo.
That is unfortunately the majority, and the frustration at this fact does come through in many of his quotes, and it is well-placed.
- Comment on 😅😅😅 3 months ago:
Yeah basically the term Liberal in this context is the conservative propaganda team that describes everyone they loathe. What it doesn’t describe is any specific agenda or worldview because they utterly lack political education and are highly suspicious of anyone that does.
There are of course white progressives with good politics who truly care for civil rights, in particular those of minorities when their rights are being threatened. This is not the kind of person Malcolm X is talking about. Unfortunately there’s no real political representation for that. The only effort put forward by the Democratic party is saying: “At least we’re not as bad as the Republicans, so shut up and vote for us or we’ll reconsider that position.” Those are the liberals he’s rightfully calling out in that quote.
- Comment on Who's in the wrong here? 3 months ago:
Studying and fixing something at home I can see, those you typically move around as needed. The other are prior commitments that you don’t.
- Comment on Who's in the wrong here? 3 months ago:
Although rude, I appreciate when people tell me outright I’m not a priority for them. So I can adjust my own.
- Comment on Who's in the wrong here? 3 months ago:
If you’re German, use nuudel.digitalcourage.de instead.
- Comment on Who's in the wrong here? 3 months ago:
Yeah I mean that makes sense, your friends respect prior commitments.
- Comment on My new and improved privacy stack 3 months ago:
Also they’re spending just wayyyyy too much on advertising for my taste.