Peruvian_Skies

@Peruvian_Skies@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When if at all will the social media business model collapse?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Outdoor advertising still works. TV ads still work. Social media advertising won't collapse. It may become less effective if legislation moves towards greater privacy protection but it'll still be effective.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do Multivitamins actually do anything?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If your diet lacks certain vitamins, a vitamin supplement may help. If not, it won't. Excess vitamins are eliminated by a healthy body.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denuvo by Irdeto now registered as authorized Nintendo Switch™ middleware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don't worry about it, you were right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denuvo by Irdeto now registered as authorized Nintendo Switch™ middleware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right, I mixed it up with something else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denuvo by Irdeto now registered as authorized Nintendo Switch™ middleware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's how Denuvo works on PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are slavery reparations fair?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Poor white people whose peasant ancestors were left jobless and homeless due to being unable to compete with free slave labor should pay reparations to the descendants of the people who were forced to work for free, while the rich descendants of the slave owners who dislodged one group while exploiting the other put their blood money in offshore accounts and laugh as the poor people squabble over crumbs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there so much hate against children here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That's just because we don't let children get drunk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is there so much hate against children here?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there's a clear subjective difference between consciously spanking a child as a form of discipline, as a rational decision and with the absolute minimum force required for it to work, and hitting a child as a form of punishment guided by negative emotions. In the first case, you're doing it to improve the child's life in the long run. In the second, you're just being violent towards someone weaker than you because you're the lowest of the low.

  It's like the difference between a tasteful nude photograph meant to highlight the beauty of the human body and porn, or between using dissonance in music to create tension and using it because you're a bad composer. There isn't a set of general, objective rules to distinguish the two, but if you see it, you immediately know which one it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every game developer company should be like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was actually agreeing with you and in no way do I think it's ok because everyone does it. Rather, I'm very dismayed that everyone does it. Yes, it seems like a good idea on paper to use paid alpha and beta releases to fund development but the system has been shot to hell by the fact that the overwhelming majority of publishers who do this abuse it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm aware of kbin, mastodon, and lemmy. Are there any other federated applications out there?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Very neat, thanks for sharing! What do the dotted lines between non-Fediverse protocols and Fediverse platforms represent? Do those platforms use multiple protocols?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm aware of kbin, mastodon, and lemmy. Are there any other federated applications out there?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It's called the Network Effect. Most people, like you, want to be on the platform that everyone else is using. Others want to be on the "best" platform (whatever that means for them) and when they find one they like, they'll start advertising it to others. Eventually, enough people will move to a new platform that it starts making sense for people like you to move there as well.

  Remember how everyone used to be on ICQ, then MSN Messenger, etc? It used to happen a lot with messaging and social media platforms until Facebook and Twitter got big enough to start buying and shutting down the competition. It's happening now with people leaving Reddit for Fediverse platforms like Kbin and Lemmy.

  There is nothing wrong with waiting for the Network Effect to push you to a new platform, if it ever does. The point of social media is being social - if you're there to interact with friends, you obviously want to be where your friends are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every game developer company should be like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I prefer a single upfront purchase, though I am not against the idea of expansion packs or meaningful DLC (extra character races, maps, campaigns, etc). For online games, I think cosmetic DLCs are a good way to bank server costs. People who don't want to buy them aren't missing out on anything really, and the people who do get some nice swag/street cred to show off.

  What I am completely against is pay-to-win crap.

  In PvP, skilled players are at a disadvantage against prepubescent kids with daddy's credit card and that really ruins the experience.

  The most ridiculous to me is when you can use real money to buy items/skills/exp for single-player games. I remember being shocked to see that there were several launch-day DLCs for Tales of Zestiria for packs of healing items or early weapons that are normally obtainable in-game, just to help you out in the beginning. There used to be cheat codes for this sort of thing, now the "cheat" is forking over cash.

  Not only is it predatory, people are actually paying for something the game already gives them access to, essentially giving the publisher money for being able to play, and then giving them more money for being able to play less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every game developer company should be like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam is riddled with Early Access games that were abandoned before ever reaching a final release. If you reach your financial goals before finishing the game, you'll get a bigger payout by moving on to another project than by keeping your promises. Users are outraged at first, but their memories are short-lived. Lather, rinse, repeat.

  There are some notable exceptions, though. Kerbal Space Program comes to mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We must all submit to the unseen orb.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We kniw because of our alarm clocks, duh!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We must all submit to the unseen orb.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I'm not. The Sun isn't real, it's just something people made up to control the sheeple.