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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices while making Battle Passes and Crew way worse in value⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not forget they literally build and license unreal engine, which most AAA games use. If they’re low on money that sounds like horrible business. They should be able to take even a meager amount and be wildly profitable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This shit is why americans are paying higher electricity prices⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can really tell the creativity level of the person who made this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks Rewards enshittifies into 3 shitty tiers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel you, a lot of people will shit on you saying how could you, but I get it. I worked in an area where the only “decent” coffee was Starbucks for years, and sometimes you just want something a bit nicer than drip. In rural areas especially Starbucks is sometimes the only option. Then you are in an office, you’re going a couple of times a week, back in the day you’d probably get a free drink every few weeks or so, it honestly was pretty nice.

  Now, it’s full corporate, that soul is gone, and it’s shameless nickle and diming. I think that’s why I made this. It’s the ultimate non-rewards program I’ve seen. None of it feels like it is rewarding you for being loyal. It feels more like a sad dog begging for whatever scraps are left after dinner was finished. You have to give so much to get so so little in return, and for such a large company you would think they’d be thankful to the people who frequent them. Instead they view their most loyal customers as a source to squeeze, and it’s disgusting to me. For me, they are officially downgraded to “travel” status, meaning I’ll only be going there in airports and places I can’t find local coffee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout Game in Development at Xbox-Owned Studio Might Have Been Canceled; Bethesda Would Rather Staff Up Than Give It (or Elder Scrolls) to Others⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, still a bit butthurt that their best installment was made by Obsidian it seems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks Rewards enshittifies into 3 shitty tiers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure sure, but what about 2,500?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks Rewards enshittifies into 3 shitty tiers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Check out !espresso@infosec.pub if you want to really go deep into brewing your own

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks Rewards enshittifies into 3 shitty tiers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Completely feel you, their mochas, while not “good” in a good coffee sense, have a particular flavor that I do really enjoy that no one else gets right. That being said, they’re horrible and I try not to go whenever I can, and go to local coffee shops. Ironically I now treat them like McDonalds. I only eat it when I travel. A good chunk of places do not have anything except a starbucks, and most airports only have starbucks. So, that’s when I get it. They are relegated down to McDonald’s status.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starbucks Rewards enshittifies into 3 shitty tiers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Its all marketing bullshit to make people think they’re earning something, or their gaming the system. In reality it’s all carefully planned to extract the most value out of their most loyal customers.

• Starbucks Rewards enshittifies into 3 shitty tiers
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FAA launches flying taxi pilot program spanning 26 states⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Having traveled there myself, I’m so freaking jealous. It’s absolute insanity that us American’s have the gall to say we’re the “best country on earth” but can’t even move our citizens around efficiently. I’ve heard all of the excuses. It’s too expensive, we’re not close together, we’re too big, americans don’t like taking the train. All horseshit. Other larger countries have done it, others have changed their culture, it’s absolutely stupid that we haven’t done it.

  It all boils down to one singular fact in my years of advocacy. Car/oil companies do not want Americans discovering that they are wasting their lives and money behind the wheel of cars, because they have never been as profitable as they are now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FAA launches flying taxi pilot program spanning 26 states⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Anything to avoid building reliable clean and functional public transit.

  Seriously we already have a futuristic form of transportation that can move you from one end of the city to the other in a reliable way, that does not involve traffic or anything on the surface. It’s called the Subway. You build it once and it’s pretty much good forever.

  I have seen so many techbros try to “solve transportation”, and every idea always fails in comparison to building a train line.

  Go ahead, you can go use the “futuristic” hyperloop in Vegas right now. You wait 20 minutes to get into a car which takes 20 minutes to get about 6 blocks ahead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard the same. If you’re in the games industry and you finish shipping usually you’re laid off and then you move on to the next project. When a new battlefield comes along they’ll just start hiring everyone again whether they worked on the last one or not. It’s not really a long-term strategy but they don’t care. It’s about short-term gains.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  'Chievos are a very personal thing, they were never important unless you personally thought they were. If you don’t think they’re important anymore, then great. If you want to chievo hunt, also great. Gaming is what you make of it.

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  Thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Neat, didn’t know about theirs!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The City of Encinitas, California is removing a protected bike lane to replace it with a painted bike lane. Cost? More than $3 million.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Its always some boomer isn’t it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Speedtest hasn’t been trustworthy for a while. Okla bought them and immediately started selling to ISPs nodes that they could install (probably just a container or something) that would sit as a “local” speedtest node, so you were testing your connection to the ISP, not testing your actual internet connection. (i.e. giving you the best possible results and what your ISP wanted you to believe).

  Fast.com is slightly better in that Netflix spun it up to test your connection to their servers. So it’s independent of ISPs - but then they built high speed optic lines to most ISPs so it’s more like the second-best possible speed.

  Accenture will be the same or worse. I don’t trust it for speedtests anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Corporate suits love ignoring player feedback and telling people they’re wrong.

  No, we’re goddamn sick of enshittification and would rather PlayStation failed than give into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah this stuff was never impossible before, it’s just easy to digest now.

• Laura Fryer talks about Phil Spencer, and tells her story of why she left Xboxwww.youtube.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block ditches 4,000 staff, because AI can do their jobs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They always claim it’s AI. In my experience they want to sell, and their operations budget just got halved so they look extremely profitable.

  Because fuck those people’s livelihood, there’s money to be made!

  Also why you should never trust private equity. Because they’ll buy this company, come in, realize what just happened, and their solution will be to… cut more people and pawn the company off on yet another firm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They keep forgetting this, Xbox thought it too. We are with our digital libraries, I’m not going to go buy a PS5 because of one game. The hardware is only the portal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah so they found a way to treat their employees even worse! Great

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Louis is going after the DMCA lawyer trying to take down YT-DL (and needs your help)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some choice comments from the YT thread:

  Louis, even just one person submitting a complaint to the Grievance Committee of the NYC Bar with even paltry evidence, not the cavalcade you detailed, will end up having a proctological experience. As well it should. I’m speaking from experience (not me, someone I worked with, and she was simply of counsel, and did about 15 hours of work on a multi year case). The lead attorney crushed the lies in the bullshit grievance, but still took dozens of hours of work to defend. If the fact pattern you cite is accurate (as seems evident), and all of this is in writing, this sack of excrement attorney is going to be in a world of well deserved hurt.

  It’s genuinely surreal to see a real life person being to cartoonishly evil and so openly as well. He’s like every stereotype about lawyers rolled into one person. Bury this guy’s career under the courthouse!

  I’m usually on the fence about Louis, but he’s doing good work here.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy needs real deletion, not just soft‑delete/hiding⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good on you for realizing you were wrong, I’ll upvote that.

  However, as for the behavior it’s standard forum functionality. People may respond to your comment, and then you delete it. You individually have the right to remove all discussion underneath, and future users need to understand there was something there.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anyone who thinks Xbox is still going to be worth anything is a fool. They overspent on gaming studios, didn’t produce anything of value, gamepass value went down, and now everyone hates them for the constant enshittification. Even stepping back from “This is lemmy and we all hate microsoft” they have done some horrible business moves with Xbox. I don’t know anyone who is positive about the brand. They have ran it firmly into the ground.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if this is a huge demotion for the AI guy. AI teams in Microsoft are “good” right now, I wonder if he fucked up in some way and they put him on xbox.