TheObviousSolution
@TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Installs 200 mods on a 20 year old game. 1 day ago:
Yet another milk drinker I see.
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 3 days ago:
This shouldn’t be an “edge case”, and it really shouldn’t be only about just minors.
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 4 days ago:
You literally can, that’s what legislating and voting is. When did society become so utterly braindead?
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 4 days ago:
The TF2 loot crates were the worst, but you could get around them for crafting except for visuals. What’s crazy to me is that people are getting mad over visuals in loot boxes and that the gambling is largely over that. I don’t think you can put all the shit leading up to that to one company, yet bureaucrats persistently try to do it to avoid acknowledging their own dismal efforts to get their feet wet in implementing some basic legislation on the matter.
Before it used to be Asian MMOs that basically targeted people with addictive personalities with paid for RNG boosts that gave actual in-game advantages (and they will still exist, because they are not loot boxes, just dice rolls), now people are getting this invested over skins and 3D models. We need to address the core of the problem, because the same people falling for this bullshit are also the ones who fall for populist reactionary political bullshit pushing scammers onto our governments. Education and our social nets are clearly failing, and going after one of the better companies that’s guilty of this is not going to do anything when the problem is literally coming from the highest tiers of government as they rush to get their friends and family invested in predatory ventures. It’s sort of like living in Nazi Germany and thinking the most important thing to complain about is whether businesses forced to be sold are really getting their money’s worth instead of being forced to sell to whomever can buy them up the soonest.
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 4 days ago:
You can tell a lot of money is being moved on the dark web to push shit onto Valve. I wonder how much pressure they are under to try to get them to go public. The change needs to be legislative, not targeted.
- Comment on Steam :: About the New York Attorney General lawsuit against Valve 4 days ago:
You’re right! We should stop that too!
Then it needs to be done through legislation, not targeted court cases.
- Comment on Paging SpaceCowboy 1 week ago:
Predators do it for the hunt, not because of hate or fanaticism.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 1 week ago:
How to tell when scientific research doesn’t have to worry about oversight.
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 1 week ago:
It’s not allowed, but then again, I’m not in the US.
- Comment on Tankie 1 month ago:
Your gaslighting is bad and you should feel bad.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 2 months ago:
“USA stuff” is affecting the whole world right now. You are coming to check out an English based social network for non-“USA stuff”. What did you expect?
- Comment on Tankie 2 months ago:
Do you actually know what happened at Tiananmen Square?
- Comment on Tankie 2 months ago:
You seem to think I’m trying to justify the Tiananmen Square when I’m just putting one particular incident in perspective to how ICE usually acts. Your gross oversimplifcations seem to want to act like whataboutism to how much worse the Tiananmen Square by portraying it into a caricature of “a massive student protest into a slurry that they pushed into the sewers”. It got pretty bad, a lot worse than any particular ICE incident up to date, but in a lot of ways it was served to the people just like ICE is being served up. People in the US should really inform themselves better with nuance, because the nuance is that it’s far closer to how ICE is acting: en.wikipedia.org/…/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests…
This is only a year into Trump’s second term and it’s already this bad. Just look at how long it took Hitler.
- Comment on Tankie 2 months ago:
AI generated slop, ICE would not have stopped, ICE would have ran her over and told you to ignore your lying eyes.
- Comment on I need to vent about plastic milk jugs 2 months ago:
Cool fact, makes sense and it is absolutely trivial but interesting. Thanks!
- Comment on We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer] 2 months ago:
They are still selling to you. 5090s “oh, they are back to MSRP again, buy buy buy!”, consoles that use them like the Nintendo Switch 2, etc. They are still selling to consumer markets, they just don’t want to sell to the markets that call them out on the monopolistic bullshit.
Now you have another reason not to buy NVIDIA: with the US being the corrupt hellhole that is now turning into an authoritarian regime and with them being willing to work with Palantir, it’s only a matter of time between the NVIDIA App software they force you to install becomes a surveillance tool. Because your private data is also much more profitable to them than you are.
- Comment on We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer] 2 months ago:
They should have boycotted them during the RTX 50xx if they cared about boycotting. As it is, people who have continued to buy into them have helped finance their own irrelevance.
- Comment on Reddit global rank is going down 3 months ago:
This was the latest from Huffman: npr.org/…/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-its-time-we-gr…
Basically, rather than focus on quality, they just shifted to the same subjective engagement bait that also happens to be easy to manipulate on the backend and almost impossible to prove that’s plaguing all major social networks. It’s easy to see too, they let major subs go to hell by letting special interests and the power hungry just go nuts, and they now only show up if you really search for them. Do things like adding a sub like r/conservative, and the whole world view it feeds you is completely different and tailored by troll factories, bots, and the like. They are crowd sourcing propaganda bubbles just so they can feed off of the scraps.
- Comment on Libraries are cool 3 months ago:
In my nearby library, you can even take music and movies out. Old as shit music and movies on CDs and DVDs, but music and movies nevertheless.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 3 months ago:
I think their view of women is pretty clear:
- Comment on Ok, boomer 4 months ago:
oskibi doomer
- Comment on Ok, boomer 4 months ago:
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 4 months ago:
The biggest problem is that your theories are not going to equate to the depth, degree, and experience of people who’ve been over a decade in Universities studying their own, who receive grants and everything to do so. It may be a revolutionary theory, but every scientist has got their own. That’s what you are competing against. Hell, there are plenty of brainiacs at each other’s throats over whose theory they believe is right.
I have a personal theory that I believe can encompass a lot of phenomenon, but I lack the graduate level experience or the extraordinary intelligence to raise eyebrows, so it has to remain largely faith based. There are much more knowledgeable people who dismiss the basic core tenets of it. And unless you map it out onto some real math and start making predictions that can raise eyebrows, it will remain that, faith-based. Society doesn’t give a shit about ideas, they give a shit about implementations of those ideas.
- Comment on Does anyone else notice an up tick in hostility on Lemmy lately? 4 months ago:
It’s growing everywhere. The problem is subjective, which is why the current model fails. I’ve tried to suggest ones in the past where users have more control about general moderation in their communities or can at least choose their curators, with communities themselves are more decentralized from their instances, but there is no interest, at least not in losing that power of control.
The people who downvote after every reply don’t really help, they either just want the last word or aren’t really interested in an honest conversation. The anonymous downvotes don’t really help either (specially when they coincide with thread upvotes coming from accounts with no comment or post history that just seem interested in nudging the conversation to an alt).
- Comment on Unified Theory of American Reality 5 months ago:
Although Hanlon’s razor says “Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”, I’d argue never misjudge malicious intent for stupidity. The first makes you just look a bit dumb, the second makes you a victim.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 5 months ago:
Not surprising, it’s your natural state of mind.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 5 months ago:
Have you even said thank you yet?
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 5 months ago:
Trust and regulations that are lacking in crypto make it what it is. If a collective of people are willing to offer something in exchange for something else, even just because it is a crowdsourced confidence scam, it doesn’t really ethically exonerate what you are supporting. Every person who participates in crypto is also holding up its underground international market. It was bad enough under normal markets, but the difference is between night and day with crypto. Crypto is far too easy to turn into a bunch of excuses and anonymous pseudonyms.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 5 months ago:
Only because the trade power of US dollars is like 10000madeupbagillionzillioninternetnumber0000 order of magnitude more.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 5 months ago:
Trust and regulations that are lacking in crypto make it what it is. If a collective of people are willing to offer something in exchange for something else, even just because it is a crowdsourced confidence scam, it doesn’t really ethically exonerate what you are supporting. Every person who participates in crypto is also holding up its underground international market. It was bad enough under normal markets, but the difference is between night and day with crypto. Crypto is far too easy to turn into a bunch of excuses and anonymous pseudonyms.
