AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor
@AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social
- Comment on Billionaires used to build libraries and hospital wings, now they just buy politicians. 6 hours ago:
Turn off the internet, go outside and if it doesn’t work, seek help. You are hating the wrong people here.
- Comment on Billionaires used to build libraries and hospital wings, now they just buy politicians. 7 hours ago:
Are you ok? Because you don’t seem to be ok.
- Comment on Billionaires used to build libraries and hospital wings, now they just buy politicians. 17 hours ago:
You say this as if that weren’t the desirable option…
- Comment on What's going on with Tesseract and why are people upset? 3 days ago:
Long story short:
A snowflake created a frontend for lemmy in which they added a hidden blacklist of communities, people and even words that were shadowbanned for everyone using it without informing first, so if you used it, you’d be seeing a censored version of the fediverse based solely on one person’s opinion about what you should be seeing there.
Some smart people discovered this and the community didn’t take it too well for how it was made (in particular, how it was not optional but forced on the user).
The dev of the frontend wasn’t happy about it and ragequitted with a letter in which they basically say that we are all mad here (except them) and that the fediverse can’t be saved because we are all pissed about this (as if they were our one and only saviour or some crap).
- Comment on Deja Vu 6 days ago:
Hey, who said I hate it? It’s a great list of users worth following and knowing.
- Comment on Teserract may be opensource, but adding myself would feel disingenuous 6 days ago:
I got regex-ed. The idiot is making sure I am not seen on their shitty app even if I jump instance, I guess I have pissed them enough. Checking the list of banned words I probably called the orange turd a bunch of them and said the rest a frequently.
- Comment on Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For" 1 week ago:
Nintendo is not your friend. It has no interest in passing any of its potential savings onto you, and the only reason it’s ever interested in your bank account is when it’s thinking about how much money it can get out of it.
Some (too many) people fail to understand this extremely basic concept.
- Comment on Don't worry guys, it's just cosmetic 1 week ago:
No, no. The now now would be a barebones game with half features cut and bugs galore, a roadmap of dlc’s announced (with a couple or 10 season pass programmed) that will be scrapped a month after the launch because the game is not profitable enough.
- Comment on It's the spelling for me 2 weeks ago:
W’erh’e
- Comment on The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games. 2 weeks ago:
Keys you buy on amazon for ps5 are created by sony so they dictate the price. Devs on steam can create their own keys to sell outside steam. That’s why you see keys in bundle on humble or fanatical for steam and you don’t see them for ps5.
Unless you have an extreme FOMO, you can get many games for pennies when they bundle them or when they go on deep sale (something that, btw, is not dictated by steam but by the dev/pubblisher).
Just see this month’s humble monthly or last month’s and tell me you can find that many games for so little money on physical.
On top of that, as I said, GoG, itch and epic exist, and they are not Steam so you don’t need Steam to play.
- Comment on The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games. 2 weeks ago:
Although pc is only digital, there is athuge difference between it and consoles: you don’t have to buy from steam to get your games cheap, There is a huge amount of stores that sell steam keys at a fraction of their cost. There’s bundles and if you don’t want steam, there’s also gog, itch…
If sony goes all digital, you’ll only have sony to buy games.
- Comment on Urine Luck 2 weeks ago:
Uh… I learned that when I was a kid thanks to a cartoon series that explained how the body works in a friendly manner for children. Did you really need to get to the college to learn that kidneys filter your blood to produce the urine?
- Comment on Why does dried pasta have an expiration date 2 weeks ago:
At least in Europe (but I suppose it’s the same in other places), what you have in packaging is either expiry date or best before date.
There is a fundamental difference between the two that everyone should know to understand how those dates work:
On expiry date, it means that after said date, there is microbiological contamination risk of the good. So you shouldn’t eat/use it after the date. It applies to fresh goods, cosmetics and others.
On best before date, it means that the product, after said date will be most probably safe to eat but it’s organoleptic properties might be altered (e.g. change in colour, funny taste…). After a best before date, you should check for the item to see if visually there’s something wrong on it (especially if packaging is open), but if it’s been kept in it’s packaging unopened, it’s almost certainly safe to eat. Pasta and other dried foods generally fall into this category and, if you look at the packaging, you’ll see that unless is fresh pasta, it includes a best before not an expiry date.
- Comment on The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games. 2 weeks ago:
What if they run out of bytes because everyone is downloading at the same time? Preordering allows you to have your bytes to download already assigned., right?
I like to imagine that this is the answer they give if you ask the reason to preorder a digital game several months ahead its launch.
- Comment on The End of Ownership. Sony’s announcement has fans worried they might never truly own their beloved games. 2 weeks ago:
This kind of news should be paired with the pre-order numbers of GTA6. To better understand how many of the Sony users actually care about this.
Hint: it’s not a lot.
- Comment on Sword Art Online being a primarily single player series 2 weeks ago:
I’d love to see a 2D MMORPG of Aincrad, one with proper scale.
Ragnarok. I still miss that game in the state it was in the early 2000. Those years were the golden era of the MMORPGs
- Comment on Sword Art Online being a primarily single player series 2 weeks ago:
Not literally, but it’s kind of a joke that the anime paints an MMORPG world and, in the best cases, you can only play with a few friends. It would be nice if we actually had a non-lethal Aincrad MMORPG instead of the sorry excuses of a cash-grab they are making every time
- Comment on Valid point 3 weeks ago:
They don’t, until they do. Or until you drop them and fall in a bad way and break, or until you forget them somewhere or lose them. I mean, I don’t really care, you do you; but you seem really hostile to the idea of carrying a small wallet with your cards while trusting everything to an electronic device that might fail for no apparent reason.
I already got once in a situation where my phone died and having my cards with me made the whole ordeal way easier than if they had to figure out who I were without any kind of id. I really hope you don’t ever get in one.
- Comment on Valid point 3 weeks ago:
Where do you live that you think you have the same odds of getting hit by a meteorite than of getting hit by a car while crossing the street?
Again, if your phone fails, how do you pay? How do you get identified? Without physical cards?
- Comment on Valid point 3 weeks ago:
Yes. But you said that you can leave your wallet at home, hence leaving all your documents on it and carrying just your phone. You can get involved in a car crash without driving by being a passanger or simply someone walking on the street or biking.
- Comment on Valid point 3 weeks ago:
You can’t make a phone smaller than it is. You are putting all your eggs on the same basket. You lose one, you lose everything. And, as I said, losing is not just forgetting it somewhere. You can drop it without noticing, you could get pickpocketed, you could damage it accidentally… You do you, but you are not minimizing the risk by having everything important on the same place and trusting your everything to one single item.
- Comment on Valid point 3 weeks ago:
Ever heard of the saying “never put all the eggs in the same basket”? It’s harder to lose two different things at the same time than to lose one. You might lose your wallet but keep your phone or viceversa, but it’s way more difficult to lose both at the same time if they are in separate pockets. Also, paper documents work even if they get damaged, a phone might not.
- Comment on Valid point 3 weeks ago:
If you leave the wallet at home and lose the phone or it fails, then you’re still with no documents or cards. Just because it never happened to you doesn’t mean it can’t happen. I got in a car crash when I was returning home from my job and the phone got destroyed. I was able to be identified and my family located because I was carrying my wallet with ID, national security card and driver’s license. It’s an extreme case, but it can happen. It could also fall in a bad way and get damaged… I’ve seen too many phones (fortunately not mine) decide to fail their user in the worst moment to trust them exclusively.
- Comment on Valid point 3 weeks ago:
Which rs why having everything on the same place is a bigger risk than having the phone and the wallet.
- Comment on Valid point 3 weeks ago:
Bold of you to assume your phone will never fail you.
- Comment on Valid point 3 weeks ago:
If you lose your phone, you lose everything tho.
- Comment on Palworld Hits 40M Players Ahead of Friday's 1.0 Launch - FullCleared 3 weeks ago:
I’m gonna start anew a private server. My group of friends played the hell out of this for months until there was nothing else to do. I kept playing just building new bases, it was my jam. We decided to give it a pause and retake the game after 1.0. Now’s the time, we’re starting from scratch and I already have an idea for a new base on top of the massive stone pillars in the central part of the island. Can’t wait for tomorrow!!
- Comment on Valid point 3 weeks ago:
Yes, and if your phone runs out of battery, gets stolen or simply dies in any way, you won’t have access to them.
- Comment on The year is 2036 and I’ve been brought in for questioning because my PlayStation Plus subscription lapsed well over 3 months ago. 3 weeks ago:
You still haven’t answered the question. Do you understand the difference between paying and not paying for something?
- Comment on Valid point 3 weeks ago:
If you need to use a car that’s not yours, what would you do if the license is in the car?
And why wouldn’t you carry your id with you? Not just police might want to stop and ask for it, but what if you get involved in an accident and have to get taken to the hospital while unconscious? How are they going to id you to know who to call? Just to say an example.
Also, your medical card should always be with you in case of an emergency. You never know when will you need to be taken to the hospital and having it with you makes everything much easier.
There’s no advantage that I can think of in not carrying your documents (or even copies of them) with you.