cerebralhawks

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨While is it always the person's fault who rearended you? What about the person in front of you stopping all of a sudden in the middle of a highway?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:
This is one way insurance scammers operate. Sometimes they’ll even have a partner drive alongside you so you can’t get over. Though dash cams have largely reduced these scams. Hard to do when everybody is recording.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Australia tend to ban or censor video games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t know what fortnight concerts are (you go to a concert every two weeks?) and while I do like a couple streamers of old games from my childhood, I don’t much care about video game streamers. I also don’t give two dry shits about online multiplayer games. Doesn’t mean I’m any less a gamer. I’m speaking for myself because I’m in that age group and generation you’re generalising. I’m not saying you’re wrong about all of us, but you’re wrong about me and the people who are about my age I know.

They were cultural enough. I remember commercials for video games shown on TV. I specifically remember the one for Super Mario Bros. 3 where a whole stadium is chanting “Mario! Mario!” over and over. Hell, I remember Final Fantasy VIII (8) advertised in theaters. I mean, now, you have car commercials and other TV-type commercials in theaters, it’s obscene, but back when you only had Coca-Cola ads and movie trailers, seeing a trailer for a video game on the big screen was insane. Then there was all the hype around a possible Super Mario Bros. movie. That movie came out in 1993, so I mean in the 1980s, early 90s we were anticipating it, Nintendo Power was talking about movie ideas, then at one point (not sure if before or after) there was the cartoon series… then the movie came out and we were all disappointed. Oh, and trading NES cartridges on the school yard. It was technically against the rules to bring video games to school. It was a big grey disk and you couldn’t do anything with it at school other than admire the artwork on the sticker. But there was a rule. But on recess, we’d trade games we’d beaten for new ones we hadn’t, and we’d swap secrets we’d found.

It was a different culture (streaming and online multiplayer games didn’t exist), but then The Wizard came out. It was a movie about us, about Nintendo gamers, and this autistic kid who could master any game within seconds of playing it for the first time. So his older brother “kidnaps” him, takes him to Los Angeles (I think), and enters him into a contest where Super Mario Bros. 3 is revealed to the public for the first time, so the kid’s never seen it, and he either beats it right then and there, or he gets further than anyone and figures out a couple secrets; either way, he wins by a landslide. That was the video game culture we grew up with. Oh, and we didn’t have GameFAQs, YouTube, or Google, so what we did was, we’d call this 1-900 number, and it was like phone sex, except for games. You’d ask about a game and they’d get you talking about games and other games to keep you on the line because the charges were ridiculous. So Nintendo had these people who basically groomed kids over the phone getting them talking about the games they play to rip their parents off on the phone bill. What they wouldn’t do was just simply answer your question and then take the next caller. Nah, they milked that shit. I never called but I knew guys who did, and they paid more for one tip than they did for the entire game. Imagine you paid $50 for a game, and then you got stuck and called the help line, they help you with the problem and you chat about games for a while, and you get a $60 bill. Make it make sense. Of course, it did make sense — to Nintendo’s shareholders. But, anyway…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I have casual sex with wheelchair users?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
To look at this issue from a slightly different perspective, if you’re the kind of person who has a bicycle and primarily uses it for exercise, a wheelchair becomes immediately useful as it’s the same thing for the upper body. On one hand, they are a medical device; however, there’s no law against owning one for other reasons. The problem you run into here (aside from the social stigma of using a medical device for exercise and/or recreation, people will think you have no respect for those who need the device and may even feel you’re ethically obligated to donate the chair to a handicapped person in need) is that because it’s a medical device, it costs more than it should. When I was a kid, I had a neighbor who had a wheelchair, but did not use it. I would help her around the house (she was a multiple amputee), and I would help look after her sons. They wanted to play in the chair. She said fine, just don’t break it. It was pretty sturdy anyway. So I’d push them around in it, and sitting in the thing, I found it was a heck of an exercise device for the chest and arms. So I looked into getting one. In the 1990s, they started at $500. Meanwhile, you could get a decent mountain bike for $150. Not a great one, but one that would get you on the trail. And I wasn’t even looking at a sporty wheelchair, either, I was looking at the silver and grey kind you’d find in a hospital. I can only imagine the cool ones cost way more. But, maybe you can find one used, thrift one or something. If you got the chair, you or a partner can role play. Bonus, they’re kinda fun to use until you gotta go uphill, and if someone tries to help you and you tell them you aren’t really handicapped, you look like an arsehole.

Still, I think using a wheelchair for non-medical reasons is way, way down the arsehole ladder from fetishising people with handicaps in the eyes of society. You can make up excuses for either, but people are still gonna talk. The only way to win that argument is to not play from the start.

If it’s truly not a fetish and you really want to meet people with disabilities without running into the other social stigma (power imbalance in a relationship), I’d say one way to do that is to advocate for disabled rights in your community. So you would start with a rehabilitation place of some kind — the problem here is, those places are not going to refer you to individuals due to privacy laws — and your approach is that you want to fight for something in your community, and your cause of choice is the rights of people with disabilities. Ask these places if you can put up a flyer. You’re a rebel with a lot of free time and you want to make things better for people living with disabilities, so you want them to contact you at no cost or obligation to talk about the difficulties they face that abled people do not, and you try to effect some changes in your local community. Tell the people who contact you to come support you in town hall meetings where you call upon local leaders to implement more ramps, more handicap parking spaces, and other disabled-friendly implementations. This way, people see you as a good guy, and you don’t have any power over people with disabilities. Rather, it’s kind of the other way around, since you’re working for them. But you’re their local hometown hero.

You should not do things like that for the sole purpose of sleeping with someone, or other selfish reasons. But, that’s how you get out from under the fetishisation and power imbalance accusations. It’s not easy and it’s not fast, but what’s right seldom is.

I’ve never done anything like that, so if anyone who has experience wants to clarify, go right on ahead.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Australia tend to ban or censor video games?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

[T]he median age of politician is 50 [in Australia], so they’re not really a generation who value gaming.

Someone who just turned 50 would have been born in 1976, and thus, would have been 9 or 10 when the NES came out.

Generation X is the first generation to grow up with video games, from Pong (which was its own machine) and the Atari 2600; later the NES and Super NES.

I’m almost 50 myself, and I value gaming, as do/did most of the people I grew up with.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A $40,000-per-Year AI School With No Teachers Is Opening in Oklahoma This August⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Okay, so most working people wouldn’t be able to afford that, especially in *waves hand* pretty much the entirety of Oklahoma. Maybe a few millionaires will send their kids there, and they can support those useless adults through adulthood, and leave them their estate when they die.

Doesn’t seem like a very good long-term strategy, though.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Right, I’m saying it should be both or neither. The argument Nintendo is making is the same argument the US government should use to deny Nintendo.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’m no lawyer, but it sounds like they’re kind of right? It’s a case of “you’re right but you’re still an arsehole.”

However, I think if Nintendo isn’t going to refund consumers, they have no business seeking refunds from the government.

I never really thought the lawsuit against Nintendo had much merit. If costs go up, so too must prices, and demand goes down. People who support the price increases and continue to buy at the jacked-up prices are sending the message that price has not affected (their) demand. I do not believe they should be made whole because they are not out anything. They saw the price and they chose to pay it. Like everyone who buys a Steam Deck post-increase, or Xbox, or PlayStation. The Steam Machine was always gonna cost about $1000, that’s been expected since it announced, and it hasn’t increased in price (AFAIK).

But, again, not a lawyer.

However, I do firmly believe that if Nintendo is not going to make consumers whole, it similarly does not deserve to get made whole. For the same reason. Those tariffs were the cost of doing business. And they chose to do that business, and they did so… by raising prices. So it seems if you can’t have one increase without the other… you can’t have one refund… without the other.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this absolute bullshit from reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Okay, so if you were to get banned from Reddit because you said that paedophiles should face harsher legal consequences, you wouldn’t think that maybe the site is run by paedophiles? So maybe you appeal, maybe you caught one bad apple, but then it’s upheld by a second one. Then I think it’s absolutely fair to say the site is run by paedophiles. And I think that’s deserved.

True, you didn’t have all the facts. I’m not gonna tell the story every single time. So maybe that’s on me. Maybe you feel like I pulled a bait and switch.

It sounds like you’re just tired of hearing about the bad shit the ruling elite do. Not much for that, I’m afraid.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this absolute bullshit from reddit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, fuck Reddit, but there’s a lot of good information up there, even if it’s currently run by paedophiles. People who were on Twitter before Elon Musk bought it still enjoy their communities even though the site is owned by an AI company that generates CSAM.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which movie have you seen where an actor started as an extra prior to becoming famous?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve been meaning to see that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which movie have you seen where an actor started as an extra prior to becoming famous?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Also, does Jena Malone count? I saw her first movie, and wish I didn’t. It was on late night TV. I’m not naming it or linking it because it has some really explicit, NSFL stuff in it and trigger warnings like you wouldn’t believe. It was also briefly banned, and I happened to see it for sale on DVD with a big warning calling out what it briefly got banned for. You DON’T want to see it. (That said, she was not an extra, she was the most important character and basically the title character, it’s just obscure for other reasons, like, most people would have never seen/heard of this film.) (And I don’t want to talk about it, I like her acting but that film isn’t one I will discuss.)

Anyway, I would later see her in Donnie Darko and Contact, and while she’s never been a big star, mostly preferring indie flicks (she chose Contact because she always wanted to work with Jodie Foster, who is her role model), I’ll still watch just about anything she’s in. I think she’s talented and I enjoy seeing her work. Kind of like Jake Gyllenhaal. I don’t like a lot of actors for their acting, but when I find one I do, I tend to enjoy seeing them even if I don’t like anything else about the movie.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which movie have you seen where an actor started as an extra prior to becoming famous?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
My boy Adam Scott (main guy in Severance) in Star Trek VIII: First Contact as Worf’s helmsman.

Here’s his scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-KoydNOWGc
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨James Bond should stay white and male, says casting chief⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I’ve always said this as well. Elba himself agrees that he is too old.

He played a retired spymaster you can work for in Cyberpunk 2077, in which your character is voiced by Asuna from Sword Art Online (unless you picked the dude) and you’re sorta possessed by a rare evil Keanu Reeves, so if you’re also a sci-fi nut, it’s even better.

And when I say he played the character, I don’t mean he did the voice. He did, but the character was also modeled after him, so you will see Idris Elba in your game. Same with Keanu Reeves and his character. Of course, the player character can look like whatever you want her to. (Again, or you could choose a dude if that’s your thing.)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does death with a mechanical/artificial heart work?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I would imagine that it would. The alternative is that it would not, which would mean that it would need some sensor to determine that you were no longer alive, at which point it would stop working. There’s no real point for it to have a feature to stop working. It’s probably better for it to be seen as ‘creepy’ by continuing to work inside of a dead body than for it to constantly be checking to see if you’re alive, since the surgery to change the battery is probably pretty invasive, so they want to do it only every so many years, to maximise its efficiency. Also, false positives (negatives?) would be problematic. You’d just want it to keep working regardless.

EMTs probably have a way to shut it down, though. It’s probably impossible or really difficult to do it accidentally, but I’m sure there’s a way. Good question for an EMT if you happen to meet one. They aren’t squeamish. It’s just a matter if they feel like talking to you or not, I suppose.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Summer Games Done Quick 2026 has ended, raising US$2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t necessarily disagree, I just think if you use mods to make it go faster, where’s the line drawn? Though I suppose if certain mods are allowed and others are not, that makes sense.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox needs to make a choice, says former PlayStation leader Shawn Layden: be a publisher or a platform, but you can't be both⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Isn’t Sony both a publisher and a platform? Nintendo, too.

Also, why is the quote there twice? Read both 2-3 times looking for one to say something different. Guess you got me, but I don’t see the point.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Summer Games Done Quick 2026 has ended, raising US$2,408,701 for Doctors Without Borders⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I enjoyed the *Castlevania: Symphony of the Night Any%," but I started watching the Mass Effect 3 run and it allows mods (“Mod%”) and half these mods just allow them to skip stuff. So why call it a speed run if you can just use mods to skip stuff? It makes no sense. Why not just use a mod to warp you right to the three choices and then just run toward the… shit, why not just spawn the cutscene of one of the endings? Make it make sense. Love the game and the commentary about it though. But I put way more energy into balancing the personalities of my companions than worrying about their perks. I play on Easy and I just shoot whatever’s not me and mine. Save the krogan, romance the asari. FemShep every damn time. Paragon every damn time.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Nickleback so hated? I think they made the perfect song for America after 9/11 with Hero.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I assumed it came from South Park. So, not serious.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, but if you give Valve a pass for jacking up hardware costs, you kinda have to give everyone else a pass. Otherwise it’s just bias.

I’m biased toward Valve over Microsoft and Sony, but I try to argue in good faith. Not saying you’re not, just that I try to hold myself to a standard. RAM, GPU, and storage costs are up so all game consoles are up. I don’t give Valve a pass here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Sony and StudioCanal isn’t the first time it’s happened, though. It’s just making a lot more waves.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Nickleback so hated? I think they made the perfect song for America after 9/11 with Hero.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think it might be anti-Canadian stuff. Justin Bieber and Céline Dion got some of the same treatment, though Avril Lavigne and Alanis Morrissette did not.

Or it’s just a meme.

Nickelback have never been bad. Boring, maybe. Generic, sure. But a lot of bands are generic and boring sometimes.

I don’t much care for Hero, but I think the hits off All the Right Reasons (Photograph, Far Away, Rockstar, Animals, etc) were all pretty solid. Never Again is a classic to me, especially the spoken part (“Father’s a name you haven’t earned yet / You’re just a child with a temper / Haven’t you heard don’t hit a lady? / Kicking your ass would be a pleasure”)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Well, if the Steam Deck hasn’t gone up in price where you’re at, you might wanna buy a couple. Keep them sealed, you can sell them for a profit later. Most places, they’ve gone up quite a bit.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
In case anyone’s not clear as to why: Sony has announced that they’ll stop producing discs and that they can take your content at any time for any reason.

Historically, Steam has promised they will never do that and will offer DRM-free (clarification: they’ll remove the Steam DRM) downloads.

Also, all of them have jacked prices up. Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam have raised hardware prices around 35-40%. However, Steam runs on PCs they don’t sell, as well as Macs, and they have a Linux distribution they provide for free called Steam OS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement from OneBGS, the Bethesda Games Studios union⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
The Elder Scrolls VI has the same issue GTA VI has, getting over the hype. GTA VI likely will. I doubt The Elder Scrolls VI will. I mean, sure, it’ll sell, but will it be good? The last good Fallout game was New Vegas, and Todd Howard had nothing to do with it. They bought the IP, made one good one, licensed it out to Obsidian, then half-arsed the next one and still haven’t fixed game-breaking bugs that make the game impossible to complete (at least on Xbox).

They say Fallout 5 and The Elder Scrolls VI are coming, but with the way Fallout 76 and The Elder Scrolls Online are printing money, I have little hope for their single-player adventures. Then there’s Skyrim. They ported it to ARM64 for Switch, which is the platform all the phones use. But instead of putting Skyrim on iOS and Android (pro tip: if your phone is made after 2018, it’s most likely more powerful than a Switch; if it’s an iPhone and it came out in 2016 or later, it absolutely is), they made this free-to-play trash riddled with microtransactions. They still haven’t put Skyrim on iOS, Android, or macOS, despite having already ported it to the ARM64 platform they all use. Oh, and when they did put Skyrim on Switch, they didn’t include any of the bug fixes found and published by the community years earlier. They’re porting Fallout 4 to ARM64 for the Switch 2, so yes, your phone can probably run that, too. But they’re not going to do it (or macOS) because it wouldn’t make them enough money. This is Bethesda now. They aren’t focused on experiences, they’re focused on monetisation and microtransactions. And they’ve been this way for 10-15 years, before the Xbox acquisition. Bethesda is trash now, and has been for a long time.

Starfield was kind of their chance to prove that they still had it. The game shipped without a map function and a lot of things were broken. They patched exploits that made the purely single-player game easier, but steadfastly refused to fix bugs, despite running an official Discord community and soliciting bug reports from the community. They then made a ship-building contest with real-world prizes, but they patched out a glitch people were using to make ships look a little cooler, but they let the people they’d already pre-selected to win use those very same glitches. Like the guy in Fallout: New Vegas told you in the beginning, the game was rigged from the start. There were quests most people couldn’t complete and they just didn’t care. They added land vehicles to the game, but they were buggy. People didn’t get out of your way, and if you hit anybody, the whole settlement turned against you. Fair, I suppose, but the NPCs not reacting to the vehicle isn’t. Fine if you deploy on a planet without people, but it was given to you on that main planet where your team is located. And speaking of your team, they would all turn against you if you took out certain enemies. We (the testing community) were able to narrow down the problem, and they still didn’t fix it. That said, despite the game being a rubbish fire, I still beat it 10 times to maximise all the powers, and I enjoyed the hell out of the Vanguard and pirate quest lines (the latter of which gives you the best gun in the game). Some parts of it were really fun. But like anything else Bethesda made, breadth of an ocean, depth of a puddle of lukewarm piss out behind the pub, left by someone who cared more about Starfield than Todd Howard’s team did. (And yet, I still wanna replay a few of those quests.)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Statement from OneBGS, the Bethesda Games Studios union⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I was worried about the future of Bethesda games long before they were acquired by Microsoft. Xbox is just an easy scapegoat here.
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I’m not sure, actually
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Not really. I’m (somewhat) apprehensive to downvoting because all votes are public. So, I’m not gonna downvote someone who disagrees with me. I will (sometimes) downvote someone who is being an arsehole. If they keep doing it, I’ll block 'em.

Also, I don’t really get into comment chains to start with. If I say something and someone has something constructive to say, we might have a conversation. That’s fine. But if it’s negative, chances are I just won’t reply to it in the first place. If I feel like maybe I’ve been misunderstood, I might clarify, but I’ll only do that once. If the conversation isn’t going anywhere, I walk. It’s that simple. If you want a punching bag, I think these days you can get ChatGPT to do that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 718 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Furniture can’t spawn in the ground. However, every day, two trees can have furniture shaken out of them. You shake the tree, a green leaf floats down. You pick it up, it’s random furniture. Be warned however. While 10-15 trees also contain one gold coin worth 100 Bells, five trees also carry wasp nests that, when they hit the ground, spawn a wasp that will attack you. It’s one of four creatures that will attack in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. The wasp will give you a swollen eye. A villager may give you medicine to cure you. (Also there are mosquitoes that don’t do real damage, they just stop you for a minute and your villager will remark on the bite. And tarantulas and scorpions, which are mutually exclusive to one another by time of year but only appear at night, which will attack you on sight if you have a net out, but will otherwise retreat from you, and those will KO you, which returns you to your house with no loss of any progress.) You can also cure a wasp bite/sting by waiting a day. And you can avoid getting shamed by villagers with lower friendship by wearing any mask or sunglasses (they won’t see the swelling).

Lyman is a cool character, but like any animal villager, it depends on your relationship level with him. You can give already-donated fossils (duplicates) to villagers to vastly increase the friendship. Fossils are worth over 1,000 Bells, so they count as an expensive gift. None of them will be displayed in their home. They are worth a lot to sell, but if you want your villagers to like you, shower them in duplicate fossils. I think once you hit max, it can’t go down (or it can’t go down very far) but I’m not 100% on that. You know you’re at 100% when they gift you a photo of them. They always gift you something when you gift them something, so when they give you their photo for a gift, you’ve hit 100% and you can stop giving them gifts.

As far as regular attendance goes, Animal Crossing is great for older gamers who are weirded out by social networks. If you think about it, it kind of functions the same way as, say, Facebook, just minus all the political BS, and the consequences with people you know IRL for saying the wrong thing. You have friends who say random things and do random things, and you interact with them and show them your appreciation, and they return it to you. I think it’s meant to give that same dopamine hit. Anyway, New Leaf (3DS) is a bit rougher with that. If you don’t talk to a villager in a few days, they’ll whine about having feelings, too. I’m honestly beginning to get a bit tired of it. These games were big during the pandemic when everyone had to stay indoors and isolated. Now that most people aren’t doing that anymore, a game designed to be needy is easier to drop than it is to meet its needs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If it were suddenly revealed that a significant number of questions posted in this comm were ai bots would that bother you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
On its face, no. Change venue to a writing forum, would a bot posting writing prompts be bad? Maybe, but I think it would be worse if it were bots answering.

For the long term, Lemmy karma doesn’t work like Reddit karma. The up and down votes are tracked, but it’s not like Reddit where you could farm karma and then sell it to a company that would use your karmic rating to boost past commoners to get their ads more prominently displayed. That system had its benefits, but it wasn’t all good. Over here, all you can really hope for is a catchy username that people mentally associate with good posts going to an advertiser, who is then banking off the goodwill established by the original owner.

At the end of the day, bots should be declared as such. I have no problem interacting with a bot as long as I know it’s a bot. But this begs the question — how do you know I’m not a bot? I use em dashes and I use the markdown formatting. I also use good grammar and the King’s English for the most part (I’m with the yanks on “maneuver,” fuck whoever made that word what it is) but I may or may not be one of the King’s own subjects. Maybe I’m a bot and I don’t know it. There are a few movies about that, maybe some games too. Then again, I accidentally cut myself shaving last week, so who knows. I’ve never heard of a bot doing that. Now if bots start acting like Millennials with their slang and their bad grammar and their wanton disregard of the English language, how fucked are we? Because right now a lot of people think I’m a bot because I have a high command of the language. I feel like in a few years, most of your bots will better integrate with how most people communicate online, not necessarily the best writers online.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony will kill PlayStation games on discs in 2028 and offer digital downloads only⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Wasn’t Sony the one that said you’ll always be able to share games and resell games on PlayStation, after Xbox tried some shady shit?

/s because I know damn well it was them at the Xbox One announcement.

Sony has pretty much always been bad for gaming. I had a PS1 and PS2 when they were new. Got a PS3 after the PS4 was out, and I like it, but it does some dumb shit. Like how you sign into the console, and then you have to sign into PSN. Or how save games still use “blocks” or whatever. It’s just stupid for stupidity’s sake. That said, I like the PS3 more than the XB1 (for reference, PS3 is contemporary to the 360; XB1 is contemporary to the PS4 — so yes, I like the PS3 more than the one-generation-newer XB1. I do like the PS3. I wanted a PS4 and never got one. I resented the XB1, but the 360 was okay. I only have an XSX because they let me get it for $35 a month for 2 years, no interest. If you’re thinking that’s more than $500, you’d be right. Only $480 went to the console — I got it for $20 off. The rest went to 2 years of GamePass Ultimate at the $15/month price. And tax on the whole thing. Xbox All Access. They really should bring it back as high as they’re jacking the price of the XSX (and PS5). It was a good deal, and locks you into their service for 2 years. Always wished Sony had something similar — I wanted a PS5, and settled for the XSX.