NewNewAugustEast
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- Comment on New clean energy comes out. *look inside* It’s just boiling water again… 41 minutes 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 22 hours 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) 2 days 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) 2 days 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) 2 days 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) 2 days 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?! 4 days ago:
I refuse to do them. They punish workers if it isn’t a 5 star review anyways.
- Comment on I hate Android! 5 days 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" 1 week 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" 1 week 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" 1 week 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" 1 week 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 1 week 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? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks so much. A solution was far more then expected, thats really nice of you.
- Comment on Chat, is this accurate? 2 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. 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 weeks ago:
That’s funny because you describe the play station even when you have the physical disks.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 2 weeks ago:
No.
As a person who resisted hars 20 years ago, they earned it. I didn’t get used to it, I found value. In cloud saves, in steam sales, in no pushy advertising, and so on.
- Comment on Microsoft’s Xbox to Shift Obsidian Studio to New ‘Fallout’ Video Game 3 weeks ago:
One and two are totally different games.
3 is probably my favorite, new Vegas is ok.
4 is where mediocre shows up and 76 is where it just doesn’t matter anymore.
The tv show is fun though.
- Comment on Scan to Verify You're Human 3 weeks ago:
Yes somewhat related, but the algorithm is not trying to help you find related or interesting things. It is trying to find ways to keep you engaged. That is a very different thing.
It will slowly try to direct you to outrage, polarization, addiction loops, sensationalism and clickbaity videos. It amplifys misinformation because either people fall into believing it OR are so outraged by it they want to comment or rage at it.
Youtube has an incentive to do these things: more watch time = more ads served = more revenue.
So people will tell you: just curate what you watch! That fixes it!
If you are going to curate what you watch, you don’t need an algorithm!
- Comment on Correlation implies causation 3 weeks ago:
Has it been proven? I see articles that suggest pathways or mechanisms.
But when I looked for a double blind study with controls, they do not find any effects at all. Arguably the majority of studies are around 8 hour periods or sleep period, not 24 hour exposure. But you would think they would find something. They did hearing tests, blood test, brain activity tests, and emotional response “feeling” scores. It just isnt there conclusively.
People started doing a lot of this research because of the wind turbines, which also are very loud, run as long as their is wind, and produce infrasound.
Don’t get me wrong: I am not defending putting loud constant noise machines near people, this should be part of a zoning regulation. That seems bad enough, infrasound or not.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 3 weeks ago:
Lol what? I’m “grasping”?
I do not want physical media. It’s wasteful and gives me no benefit, takes up space and has a limited lifetime.
How is that grasping?
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 3 weeks ago:
Will the physical media get scratched, have bit rot, or no longer have a device it will work in?
At least with a file I can simply back it up, buy a new drive, put it into my server, leave a copy at a friends house and all the other ways we back up our data.
I dobt really care about lending a game, but they can come over and play it if they want.
Selling it seems like more hassle than its worth, and frankly even now we (collective we as in all of us) are simply throwing away DVDs, cds, and until recently older games.
I would rather just know that I have a game I can play anytime forever and that’s that.
- Comment on Killing ownership is the method, killing the secondary market is the objective. 3 weeks ago:
I don’t want to resell anything, I don’t care.
Valve has been very good to me. I can plan by my library on any machine I want anywhere I want. They have kept titles available for me to download that the publisher took down.
They keep my save files, they provide overlays in game, they provide a game recording and chat system.
Everything I buy from them is so deeply narked down that reselling isn’t even worthwhile anyways.
On top of all of that they contribute to a free os, including giving back upstream.
That’s not dumping, those are just facts. Basically so far it’s the best gaming service yet.
I do worry it will go away, but all the games are also backed up locally so it really doesn’t matter that much.
- Comment on The same adult daughter who has trouble loading a dishwasher efficientlyly... 3 weeks ago:
I am not sure what bad taste in pizza has to do with dishwashers, but if my kids bought dominoes I would be upset too.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think it matters for this discussion. As long as I can download the files once, that’s fine. Just like if I bought a disc: once I take possession of it, I need to manage it.
I don’t expect that I can walk into a store 5 years later and just get another physical disc, so why would I expect that with a file? I need to take care of them myself.
That said even though they are not publishers, GOG, Steam, and humble bundle have been pretty good about keeping things available long after i bought them. I can still pull my whole humble bundle catalog (and soundtracks) down with a script.
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 3 weeks ago:
Gog already makes books and collectibles like I mentioned?
- Comment on GOG seemingly shares that they are considering physical PC 'big box' games. Maybe? 3 weeks ago:
I really don’t want more packaging. Just give me a download to the file.
I see zero reason to want more plastic like a disc, but I could understand why someone might want a box with a book, a manual, maybe some items from the game.
My kids order stuff like this all the time from the independent game makers they like to support. Their book shelves have their favorite books and box sets of games, and they like it.
I guess my point is: for indy game makers, this is already a thing.
