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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The shrinkflation⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the big mac was never the size of a whopper. I don’t think it has changed much at all. Look it up.

  What did change was when McDonalds was well worth it: 5 cheeseburgers for a buck. But that was the 50’s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After getting Silent Hill 'back on track,' Konami wants to make it an annual franchise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doki Doki Panic

  They thought Mario 2 was too hard so they took a completely different game and named it Mario for the Western audience. It was definitely not a Mario game. They just shoved Mario on it and went, here it is!

  I guess if the future is any thing is “Silent Hill” as long as it is scary and spooky, well ok then. I still think it is a completely different system of game play, but obviously if it can stand on its own then so be it.

  Having a game by Ryukishi07 is a good thing. Maybe they could have done it with their own universe instead. They intentionally pulled the western out in favor of Japanese themes. Which is cool, but Silent Hill was heavily inspired by Twin Peaks, and that Japenese/Lynchian stuff was so awesome, its hard to see it pulled off and still called Silent Hill.

  Either way, I do think they could have refined the gameplay a bit more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After getting Silent Hill 'back on track,' Konami wants to make it an annual franchise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes they basically made a game called f. Really nothing to with Silent Hill. Not the game play, not the story, not the presentation. No inner narrative horror, no lynchian underpinnings. It switched from internal to external pressures for the character.

  In a way, I suppose that’s fine. Its a story in a different lens, not really a Silent Hill lens, but ok lets go with it.

  Then they changed the gameplay. This is not a silent hill style at all. Forced repetition and combat loops. Stamina. Arena style game play. Well there goes the psychological and horror aspect AND they didnt even do it very well.

  If you want to compare old video games, it is like Doki Doki Panic. Mario 2 in name only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After getting Silent Hill 'back on track,' Konami wants to make it an annual franchise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What parts of Silent Hill did you reflect on? What parts made you think, this is a really good Silent HIll game?

  Or as other people have put it: If it had a different name, would it have mattered?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After getting Silent Hill 'back on track,' Konami wants to make it an annual franchise⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Back on track? It sucked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welcome to the FPS vibe shift: At the end of 2025, it's clear that casual shooters are back in a big way.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  FPS same as always.

  Multiplayer FPS is what they are talking about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently, all YouTube Rewinds have been unlisted as of today.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even know what that is.

  People let google track them on youtube?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What is with the blocking these days? Everyone is so quick to just “block and move on”.

  Have people lost the ability to just skip what they dont want to read, or ignore things?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they should go full old english. It isnt that hard:

  Hwi swa micel hatung? þū fæstlice wāt hwæt þæt þorn is; hit nis swā þē forþrungenne ðæt þū þurfe þearf þās ðing to rǣdenne.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨apparently, the T button dosent exist for some people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh fuck off. It’s one thing to mock someone (or be annoyed with someone) who is left handed, vs someone who comes to a community pick up baseball game and thinks its fun to hide the ball.

  Being left handed, red headed, etc is one thing.

  Being a pain in the ass in a public forum is a whole different thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just opened a new jar of jam, only to find mold in it.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What brand?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never buying milk from Walmart again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because their business plan is reduce the price, create cheaper knock-offs and eliminate the original competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never buying milk from Walmart again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t know, I think I have been in walmart maybe 3 times in my life (they never have anything worth buying I noticed).

  But I have followed their business plan pretty closely, and choosing the cheapest lowest quality everything makes me think food is the last possible thing I would buy from them. I am shocked they even carry food frankly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never buying milk from Walmart again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I expect them to have customers, but food? Really?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never buying milk from Walmart again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Again? People buy food from Walmart?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a lot of types though. Walmart may not have them, but my little 4 meter by 3 meter patch has several varieties and produces enough bananas for about 4 families.

  So someone will still have bananas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but they were microsoft. So they sucked. That’s how it works. Maybe in the hands of someone else it wouldn’t have been Microsoft crap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$96.5 million for Nadella | Microsoft's CEO receives record pay in a year that saw 15,000+ layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows needed to die a long time ago… so whatever. Same with XBOX and their phone, just a waste of time. Microsoft never made a product worth owning.

  But the days of Gates saying to every department “how does this sell more windows” are long gone.

  Many years ago a Microsoft team told me that the only thing important was data. The more the better. Windows wasn’t important, products were not important. Harvesting data and creating services was the future and nothing else mattered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just answer the question you fuckin' nerd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see no coffee here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit's AI Suggests Users Try Heroin⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit has an AI? That’s news to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well from every person I asked who uses discord, the last thing they want is to have to deal with game devs on discord. Making a website and chat is so stupid simple, I question g a dev can make a good game if they can’t do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I guess. Hiding their game in a proprietary black hole is their business I guess. In a few years their game will be forgotten all discussion lost and no-one will care.

  Again, they could have all the same thing on their own site and include live discussions.

  But people want shit apparently so here we are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But you could have all of this on your own page. You could run a chat there. You could have forums there.

  Discord is friction. You have to join. You have to put up with the shttiest interface. You can’t search and find anything in it if you are not on it.

  A game maker that says cone to my discord is going to piss me off and make me not interested in their game.

  I am not going to want to join things to find out about them.

  And by the way, I really don’t want to talk to anyone about a game, I want to search for issues or report them and move on.

  Its a game not an online live discussion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sites that I use IRC with collect and index the logs and have them searchable on their website.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But it’s all hidden. It’s not searchable or discoverable. I have zero desire to join or be part of discord. It’s like a hidden part of the internet.

  If you want to talk about your game put it out in public. You can have a web page a forum and a chat without that stupid shit that is discord.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are you talking about? / There are hundreds if not thousands of american made game companies, many of which are card games.

  I passed a shop just the other day that has a store front for advertising but is a working print and design house. 90 percent of the store is basically a assembly house with a writer and design area up front. They do it in the open to inspire others (and to get noticed) even though none of the sales happen there, it’s all mail and online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨photopea.com now locks out users blocking ads⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody wants random crap, trackers, spyware, and other garbage.

  If photpea wanted to curate their ads, it might be different. Maybe they could even have an artists gallery or subscription to advertise for their heavy users.

  But nobody in their right mind is going to stop blocking the major ad domians. Because that would just be stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Charlie Kirk in his own words.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok add the context: He was responding to the article that United was going to add more women and people of color to their… TRAINING program. Is there anything wrong with adding DEI to a training program as an opportunity? Both groups are drastically underrepresented, like in the under 10 percent range or so.

  The qualifications are the same, they can’t be a pilot without the qualifying. So either Charlie is lying, stupid, or just plain racist. He does not get a pass on that. He was definitely saying they cant do the job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for Joe Biden over his cancer diagnosis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you blame them?

  Religion is running right though politics and global affairs in a very negative way. Not a good look to be on that team. People just saw a man dragging a cross at the huge event for Charlie Kirk trying to show the suffering and burden he carried. These worlds are tied, and you are saying you align with that in their eyes.

  But why you would mention your religious affiliation, is there a good reason?

  Either you personally live by an ideal you can explain (such as feeling empathy for Biden in this thread) or you don’t. There is no need to say you believe in a fictitious being. Your acts and deeds matter more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Trump suggested people shouldn’t feel sorry for Joe Biden over his cancer diagnosis⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or they disagree with you. I think they see the bullshit that is religion in general, as the comment I replied to was about religion in general.

  But Americans are certainly busy making the Christian religion a very divisive subject. I mean two books by pastors who are pushing the idea that Empathy is a Sin? Or the notion that wealth is an indication of God rewarding the right people? It is a mess.

  But like I said, this is how religion works, people invent it and wield it for personal gain and control. Always has been.