ryathal
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- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 11 hours ago:
No it’s like praising a dealer that will buy back some drugs as well as sell them.
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 11 hours ago:
The casino is honest about what they do compared to say Genshin Impact.
- Comment on 'Valve does not get anywhere near enough criticism': DayZ creator Dean Hall says the 'gambling mechanics' of Valve's monetization strategy 'have absolutely no place' in videogames 14 hours ago:
Valve has one for the few lootbox systems that you can actually get value back out of outside the game. While they deserve all the same criticism of every lootbox game, they probably also deserve some praise for that.
- Comment on Why would a company force you to use a rental car instead of your own for a drive to the office/Christmas party? 1 day ago:
They could have deals with rental companies that make the rental cheaper to them. It could be a way to save money as people won’t bother with the rental and since it’s violating company procedure, they don’t have to pay mileage reimbursement. It could be a way to funnel money to a rental company rather than directly reimbursing employees.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
GoG doesn’t have a lot of new games for one. It’s still copyright violation to distribute the game to others as well. It’s generally easier to just buy the game from GoG than find a link to download the game. You could get the files from a friend and that could work for a few games, but paying gets more convenient if your library is bigger than your hard drive.
- Comment on Anon watches Lord of the Rings 3 weeks ago:
It’s not just Internet nerds. That’s a basic rule of literary analysis asa whole.
- Comment on Anon watches Lord of the Rings 3 weeks ago:
Jackson’s changes are generally improvements to the story or at worst understandable compromises for a different medium.
- Comment on do you remember a time when societies were so polarized and shifted so much to the right like today? How long did it last? 3 weeks ago:
There’s nothing quite like today. There’s things that are similar, but social media has really made things worse.
Populism is rising because things haven’t been great for a lot of people for a long time, and it’s too hard to ignore anymore. Globalism and free trade were massively oversold to the masses, it hurt wide swaths of people that have been ignored for decades. People that feel disenfranchised will vote for change regardless of the change proposed.
Social media has escalated everything as well. The echo chambers are enormous and essentially impossible to avoid. Many traditional institutions are also extremely weak now that would have forced more interaction between people with differing views and limited extremism. Social media also does a great job in conflating the size of various groups and beliefs, a few dozen people can make a community seem as large and impactful as a few thousand .
- Comment on Why are fruits and berries healthy, even though they are mostly just sugar? 3 weeks ago:
Healthy is relative. A handful of fruit is generally fine. Eating a few pounds of grapes in a day is probably a bad choice. There’s also a lot of people that conflate fruit with things that have fruit in them as about the same.
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 3 weeks ago:
Fable 1 was the best one in the series.
- Comment on Spokesperson 3 weeks ago:
Sweet home Alabama predates werewolves of London. I’d say it’s all based on sweet home Alabama.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 4 weeks ago:
Indie games are overrated, it’s still mostly crap. I don’t blame people for waiting for absurd popularity to bring actually good titles to the surface. It’s still the same general problem, I have a the time for maybe 5 games per year, and that has to compete with my existing backlog, favorites and new titles. I’m not risking that time on Indie or AAA titles without some good evidence it’s worth it.
- 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 4 weeks ago:
It is to a very high standard. There’s been 14k games released this year alone which would be a .01% miss rate for malware games. If you compare against all games to account for updates that add malware after submission it’s basically 0 at .000001%
- 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 4 weeks ago:
Malware creation and detection are billion dollar industries playing an eternal cat and mouse game with each other. These programs don’t just instantly try to steal every file the second they run.
- 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 4 weeks ago:
Steam does scan for malware, which is why this is news. It’s notable that a game got through that was malware. You haven’t heard about other stores because it’s not worth the effort in targeting them. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that most stores use the same vendor for malware scanning.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
There’s baggage with Nazi that doesn’t really apply and it hurts the argument. The Holocaust is the big one, there’s nothing remotely on the same level happening, lots of regimes have rounded up a particular minority, but systemic extermination is extremely rare. Maga also seems more isolationist than expansionist.
There are strong parallels that can be drawn, but at there’s also contradictions. It doesn’t help that Nazi has routinely been used as a placeholder for super evil and go to for exaggeration. By using Nazi you allow your criticism to be dismissed as hyperbole. Until Trump invades Poland with Russia, it’s probably best to use a different term.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Yes you can be a good president without being a good person. I wouldn’t call Clinton a good person, but he was a good president. LBJ would also be a good candidate for bad person l, but good president.
This one really depends on what you did and why. FDR generally gets a pass on Japanese concentration camps, Lincoln also subverted the constitution in some ways. Eisenhower using nationalized troops to integrate southern schools was an abuse of power, but the result was deemed worth it.
There were a small handful of good Nazis, but that’s not really the issue at hand. Calling modern politicians Nazis is intellectually lazy and counterproductive to achieving anything.
- 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 weeks ago:
This seems way too hostile to valve for what this really was.
- Comment on Anon buys a car 5 weeks ago:
Dealerships are a reasonable middleman to exist. They provide a legal entity within the state, which is useful for resolving conflicts. They simplify logistics for manufacturers by having set places to deliver larger amounts of cars, and handle issue that arise from shipping more reliably than singular customers.
There are downsides to them, but none of them actually get better by removing dealerships and having people deal with GM or Toyota directly where there’s even more power imbalance.
- Comment on My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card 1 month ago:
The rate depends on debit card use.
- Comment on My credit union no longer allows me to payoff pending purchases made on my credit card 1 month ago:
My debit card gives me a better interest rate on checking and savings which is way better than points or cash back. The only difference in fraud protection is the money may not be immediately available that was fraudulent, which can be a problem. Credit can be a problem until you get a mortgage though without credit cards.
- Comment on Anon asks out a friend 1 month ago:
Alternately it’s a Jenny and Forest situation.
- Comment on Massively Overthinking: Is it possible to launch a new subscription MMORPG in 2025? 1 month ago:
That’s likely what is preventing any new subscription based mmo. Why bother with a reliable and fair price when lootbox bullshit makes you 10x the money.
- Comment on Providing a checksum without telling you how it was created 1 month ago:
The grand unified file.
- Comment on Fairies 🧚♀️ 🧚♂️ 2 months ago:
it’s just a hummingbird moth Who’s acting like a bird that thinks it’s a bee
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
In the US if you’re a white woman in cuffs they aren’t coming off. This is because you likely committed multiple felonies on film to even get put in handcuffs.
- Comment on Aspergers officinalis 2 months ago:
It’s not that crazy honestly. Fruit trees take even longer.
- Comment on Aspergers officinalis 2 months ago:
It’s extremely low maintenance once it establishes though which is nice.
- Comment on Still waitin for that success step to kick in 😆 2 months ago:
Failure is the first step, success is the second step.
- Comment on One Angry Man 2 months ago:
Starship trooper is a knock off halo movie that’s more accurate to the franchise than the series.