NewNewAugustEast
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- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 4 days ago:
Whats the point of this? Yes things were cheaper in the past.
- Comment on What are some cool/decent PC games that are not on Steam? 4 days ago:
I think most people know, but Luanti is more of a minecraft type voxel engine with a game launcher at this point.
From there you can play several variations of voxel type games and manage them.
I say that because if people think its just Minetest with a new name, that isn’t quite accurate.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony's move to digital-only sales: 'You won't have any choice at all' 6 days ago:
This is stupid. The choice would be don’t buy sony.
- Comment on Supermassive Games announces layoffs, up to 75 positions to be affected 1 week ago:
Who?
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 week ago:
I love a good beer. Budweiser is not a good beer, and the thought of a zero version sounds even worse.
But there are great beers and even very good non alchoholic ones.
My issue is that beer is a lot of calories, particularly the good ones. Even the zero alcoholic ones.
Don’t drink your calories is a good rule of thumb.
- Comment on The size decrease of fast-food over the last 5 years. 1 week ago:
Its weird to have a look back at shit food and say, it was a bigger shit food back then.
Fast food is always the worst choice, given that its mostly salt, sugar, and fat, plus preservatives, they are doing you a favor.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 2 weeks ago:
I miss the old days, when they made all sorts of innovative software.
Ad for electronic arts, 1984.
- Comment on Local Walmart just installed cameras in the aisles… 2 weeks ago:
Never really got the appeal of walmart, they have only had some I wanted maybe twice over the last 20 years.
Oh well, yet another reason to never go somehwere.
- Comment on 10.99 for a beer with..... ai pictures on it. 2 weeks ago:
Hyphens are for, you know hyphenating.
Such as in well-known.
Emdashes add emphasis and provide visual breaks.
Its weird that AI glommed onto then so much though.
- 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:
Slop has a long history as word used about art. Joeseph Cambell mentions it, people criticsed hollywood of it, publishers complained about it.
I remember those days using the term slop for lazy, uninspired, thowing anything that stuck on the wall, etc. AI is just a logical progression of the same term.
- 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:
I mean yes… kind of. You can go to your library in gog and download (slowly and limited and broken into 4 gb chunks for some damn reason) which means no client needed.
But steam does have games that are DRM free after that first install. Ones that you can copy directly out of the folder it put them anywhere and run.
There is a list here pcgamingwiki.com/…/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games… although it suggests its about 600 games more that arent on the list yet.
- Comment on New clean energy comes out. *look inside* It’s just boiling water again… 2 weeks ago:
Both explore how characters must mask their true identities to survive a corrupt patriarchal system managed by a villainous uncle?
- Comment on the Home Alone house then and now 3 weeks ago:
Clean? As in sterile like a hospital?
I think your example is the other extreme, but a little bit of color and a few personal items is a huge improvement over the sanitarium look.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think steam will ever have those things. But streaming devices are dirt cheap. The issue is codecs.
On the other hand I do have Plex and jellyfin on my steam deck to watch my shows when I am flying.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 weeks ago:
Oh well. They dont want to sell my the game, then I don’t need the game.
PC is the only chance at you controlling the hardware, so it’s the only choice.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 weeks ago:
When I saw them bait and switch Linux again with the ps3 I was done.
Ps2 the last sony.
- Comment on PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation) 3 weeks ago:
Why bother.
Leave Sony. Dont threaten. I walked away after the ps2.
The hardware is the problem and everyone seems to act like the physical media is the issue.
Open hardware or gtfo.
- Comment on When and why did online surveys remove the back button?! 3 weeks ago:
I refuse to do them. They punish workers if it isn’t a 5 star review anyways.
- Comment on I hate Android! 3 weeks ago:
Your phone. Not my phone, so it doesn’t seem like an android problem.
- Comment on Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For" 4 weeks ago:
If they tried to change the terms, the companies would definitely simply leave.
Personally, I don’t care. I find it weird people want to somehow have an account after death. I just treat it like a library that is there for me and the money saved vs any other way plus the convenience, its not any different than paying for a round of golf or 10 frames of bowling. Except I can play as many rounds as I want for the same price.
I watch all the other stores requiring some kind of payment for what valve provides for free. Even less than what valve provides for free.
I save so much money compared to anywhere else that as long as I die before valve (maybe thats the bigger issue), it is money well spent. My kids dont want my account they have their own.
- Comment on Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For" 4 weeks ago:
Gamers apparently love loot boxes, lol.
They have zero effect on the gameplay though. Ignore them if you want to, it really makes no difference.
- Comment on Nintendo Responds To Tariff Refunds Lawsuit, Tells Customers They "Got What They Bargained For" 4 weeks ago:
That have zero choice on the licensing at least for games they dont publish.
On the other hand they have kept installers for me long after the publisher has pulled their product.
- Comment on Former Valve writer says PlayStation killing physical discs is no conspiracy: "You, the consumer, have made your choice, and the choice is for digital" 4 weeks ago:
Playstation was dead to me once they released the PS3 and did the bait and switch linux thing (again).
Why do you care what Sony does, just avoid them all together.
- Comment on Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas remasters are officially in the works 4 weeks ago:
What a waste of time. They are good games, revisit them anytime you want.
There is nothing that needs to be done.
- Comment on Chat, is this accurate? 4 weeks ago:
Thanks so much. A solution was far more then expected, thats really nice of you.
- Comment on Chat, is this accurate? 4 weeks ago:
I appreciate what you are trying to share, so this is just me venting.
I hate you tube!
Having to sign in is annoying. Having the absolute LIE that it has anything to do with protecting the community is infuriating.
- Comment on The way my partner eats avocado. 5 weeks ago:
he fucking refrigerated them
That isn’t that odd. We go out and gather a bunch of them from the tree and if they are really ripe they go in the fridge. They will last longer.
Putting ones that aren’t ripe in the fridge can ruin them though.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
Why would I want more plastic crap? I have zero issue with this.
My account is my entertainment, I see no reason to have it after I die. My kids don’t want it, they have their own.
The savings and convenience far outweighs any second hand retail. I am glad I don’t have to burden my kids and family with even more physical crap they would have to toss out.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
One could argue, with video games specifically, that they lose part of the market without the retailer.
A lot of games are played by kids, and parents, friends, and other family members still go into a store and buy a game to give as a gift.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 5 weeks ago:
That’s funny because you describe the play station even when you have the physical disks.
