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- Comment on Anon notices a problem 1 week ago:
The deep sea is way more important for us to understand than space. Well in some regards.
It would be more immediately beneficial.
- Comment on European Union set to approve Saudi PIF acquisition of Electronic Arts, according to report 1 week ago:
If someone says we you can assume its probably an american. We tend to assume we are the world.
- Comment on European Union set to approve Saudi PIF acquisition of Electronic Arts, according to report 1 week ago:
I just stopped being able to enjoy them. Sbmm is just dark patterns to try to manipulate you into buying money in their store fronts. Which are now designed before the actual game.
Games as a service is just straight up a gift shop that you hang out in and sometimes play a few rounds of games.
All the fun is sucked out of it when I have to do my dailies, and click out on more pop ups that I ever remembered existing in the late 90’s trying to find porn on a free aol disks worth of internet.
Its not like they even can stop cheaters anyways.
- Comment on European Union set to approve Saudi PIF acquisition of Electronic Arts, according to report 1 week ago:
I think its weird that games are essentially weapons now. Weird how we are suddenly against Chinese game companies like tencent due to security issues.
Game companies legit are abusing their power to crash “hackers” in their games when they are using cheating hardware. And the companies can do that because the malware slotmachine games as a service, have ring 0 kernal access to your PC.
Yet its weird we are okay with Saudi Arabia owning malware and potentially abusing that.
- Comment on Day 731 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
From the thumbnail it looked like morrowind on openmw, or with the graphics overhaul mod.
Also thought the flag was the imperial flag.
- Comment on Anon's jobs 2 weeks ago:
Before or after the tiny home van conversion fad? Also what is your population density like. Are you within the first or second ring of a major city in your state?
Are you in the united States or the east coast. Do your parking lots for most shopping malls and outlets have those little blue light cameras on a little trailer? Is there third party security vehicles doing patrols through the parking lots every hour?
- Comment on Anon's jobs 2 weeks ago:
I have a friend who went voluntarily homeless. You can’t really even do that anymore. You have to go some where shitty where theres lots of blm land, and then you lose out on resources you’d get from pan handling.
Hes charismatic and doesnt do drugs. Hes more a drinker and spends a lot of time at bars getting free drinks and food. He’s train jumped and went to a few communes and it sounds like constant work just to do basic shit like take a shit.
Like all this mall cop security shit gets fed into palantir and local law enforcement you can’t even sleep in a parking lot in your car anymore without getting a knock on your window. Its just hard to be homeless, and he tells me he tried one of those homeless assistant camps and he said it felt like a prison or a interment camp. They had barbwire to keep them IN lol. It doesnt sound too far off from that deep space nine episode about the bell riots. I think we are in the same year the Bell riots take place too ironically.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 4 weeks ago:
As someone who recently started hoarding old tools I wish that was true for all things.
We just recently got a singer 500a and its still impressive the engineering that went into that thing. The machine work is beautiful, and if you told me it was made in a CNC machine today I would of believed you.
Today modern and new, just means slave labor and plastic molded parts. Besides computers a lot of things haven’t really changed. And often when they have changed it’s for the worst. If I get a sewing machine today it would come with some app and internet connection for no reason, and would have plastic parts that struggle to get through 3 layers of cloth. While the singer 500a was meant to run 24/7 and is essentially the same exact thing.
For the most part the world has kind of been solved sense shortly after the industrial revolution. All the general commodities we interact with where mostly at their peak form back then. Dish washers, fridges, washing machines, driers. They’re all almost exactly the same as they where when they where invented. There have been minor improvements that have been added over the years but for the most part things are in general just shittier.
You can blame so many things, you can say that mass production, trickle down economics, exporting labor etc all causes this. You can say that everyones access to mass produced garbage is an indicator of wealth and poverty dropping. What I don’t think you can say anymore is that things “products” are better than they where in the old days.
I agree with your statement about cultural aspects though. Other than that when I hear some new innovative product the first thing that comes to my mind is its going to be another internet of things device that constantly bugs me and asks for more data, while providing 0 utility over the old version of the product, if anything its going to add more friction to my task, or attempt to insert a paywall into my life where one never existed before.
- Comment on Anon is a nostalgic gamer 4 weeks ago:
Thats not really fair. Morrowind was so buggy someone decided they needed to remake the entire game engine to play it. I wouldn’t say most games where like that.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO says it’s ‘really irresponsible’ of Steam to make studios disclose AI use | VGC 4 weeks ago:
Tim Sweeny is the biggest loser out there next to elon musk.