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- Comment on A driver in New York City covered his license plate with tape 16 hours ago:
Hate when people think that there can be no nuance to things. That “yet you participate in society” meme.
- Comment on Save Mass Effect 16 hours ago:
Oh sweetie, they don’t care one bit about a petition
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 2 days ago:
But unfortunately without the IP
- Comment on Meta ordered to pay $25 billion to New Mexico after jury finds company misled consumers about data privacy 3 days ago:
Ho now that’s a fine! Let’s give our more fines that start with B!
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 3 days ago:
I think good stories and corporations are at opposite ends. Corporations and the opposite of human, and thus can’t write good human relatable stories. They can’t make art. The more people in the room the more bland the outcome will be. Too much overhead - marking, advertisers, lawyers, HR, everyone. I think Bioware proves they can’t do it. I think smaller studios are the only ones really capable of it. The only outliers appear to be rockstar and CDPR, for the time being at least.
- Comment on EA is shutting down BioWare and the next Mass Effect has been canceled 3 days ago:
They’ve had 3 flops in a row, and the worst part is that they did absolutely no learning from any of them. Each failed for the same reason. Bland boring story, no risks, souless worlds from the studio that was known for epic deep lore based worlds. As sad as I am, EA and Bioware did it to themselves.
- Submitted 3 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 126 comments
- Comment on Dexcom is holding health access hostage for diabetic users 1 week ago:
This entire comment thread is weird, so you more or less agree with me, and agree that it’s something they have, but are upset because she’s doing it for clicks. We’re arguing semantics of the implementation, when the main jist is correct, they’re selling client data and many users probably are unaware, which then the problem is that the users probably should be bluntly aware of it. Which leads me to why is she doing it for clicks? I think a bigger question is if this was a man who was trying to raise awareness, would the assumption have been the same, that they were doing it for clicks, or awareness? I don’t know man, I’m getting some weird vibes from this thread.
- Comment on Dexcom is holding health access hostage for diabetic users 1 week ago:
No man, you’re the illiterate one here. The phone is irrelevant. I worked in the ad industry, this profile shit is real. Phones metadata simply means a device I’d so they can knowingly tie you to what the other massive personality graphs have on you rather than guessing. They don’t need your browsing history, they already have it. If not from a device then through the apps, if not the apps then the sites themselves.
These companies already have a profile on all of us built. This is simply another company offering their data so huge data aggregators can directly connect it with everything else you do. Not only browsing, but gaming, social media, when you use your computer, travel sites, they even have presence detection in stores to track if their ad worked. This is already the reality we live in.
- Comment on Samuel L. Jackson roasts a reporter for trying to do an impression of him 1 week ago:
I’ve heard this has been happening more and more. Clips like this do well on TikTok, and Gen Z eats it up. The influencers (“reporter” in this clip) do something “outrageous” to get a reaction out of the celebrity and then call it “news”, and then put it on TikTok. Either it’s cringe and it does well, or it gets a reaction out of the celebrity and it does well.
It’s win win. All you have to do is have no shame yourself, and be willing to put another human on the spot thinking about how their entire career trajectory could be lost because they reacted poorly to some moron who wanted a few likes on the internet.
I really fucking hate “influencers”.
- Comment on I have to give a presentation in 15 minutes 1 week ago:
Putting aside that windows will simply forget updates when it decides to, users should not have to beg their own pc to not do something they didn’t choose to do.
- Comment on Why Do People Bounce Off Old Games? 1 week ago:
We used to call this just playing the game.
- Comment on Six Flags has installed one of the largest solar carports in the US - 12.37-megawatt - the annual power use of both the amusement park and neighboring Hurricane Harbor Los Angeles 1 week ago:
And while it was an investment to do, they essentially just zeroed one of their largest bills. Why isn’t everyone with a large parking lot doing this again?
- Comment on Man discovers his parents’ coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days 2 weeks ago:
For those wondering why this is on my network, this belongs to my parents. I don’t police what they buy. I just help with their network, but this is a learning experience for them.
- Comment on America's First *Real* Transcontinental Railroad might Happen 2 weeks ago:
This is about freight carriers
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 7 comments
- Comment on To win over locals, data centers pump $340M into rural Texas projects 2 weeks ago:
Just enough to convince locals they are good before getting what they want and ruining the area for decades.
- Comment on Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like it, and sounds like a great way to deprecate the old site slowly while limiting the blast radius if pissed users.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on Diablo 4 Seasons Will Continue After Diablo 5 Arrives 3 weeks ago:
Okay whoever made this bit, it’s annoying af. I’d go look at the home page of pc gamer if I wanted to. Nots can be good. A blind repost bothis annoying.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I remember being told this 30 years ago, then swearing any day it would happen. Absolute hubris.
Go home, troll.
- Comment on What even is my eXpEriEnCe here? 3 weeks ago:
Firefox / Librewolf have a reader mode that does that for you too.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world | 30 comments
- Comment on Burger King breakfast sandwich- no scrambled egg? 3 weeks ago:
First, McDonalds isn’t scrambled, it’s a frozen folded piece of egg that they reheat. They do scramble d for their breakfast platters but that’s it.
Second, really doesn’t sound like you know how fast food works, and really all of it is just clever reuses of the same basic ingredients reheated in other ways. If you haven’t, some good life experience is to work fast food for a short time. You get to learn how horrible people are (and how asinine complaints like this are), while also learning what it’s like to work under a massive corporation.
- Comment on Burger King breakfast sandwich- no scrambled egg? 3 weeks ago:
I worked for them in the US for 10 years. They used to do cracked eggs, but I was there when they converted. Now they’re just frozen eggs in that shape that are steamed.
- Comment on Americans have no one else to blame but themselves 4 weeks ago:
This is why all the hate at one man to me is meaningless. He’s a symptom, the issue is the rot of the general populace, the fact that he could get more than 5% of the vite at all shows how far we have fallen. It’s not one mans fault, it’s a society who is so selfish and ignorant that they vote in the most selfish ignorant leaders, and the most idiotic thing is that they truly believe someone just as selfish and ignorant as them will end up helping them, that they’ll be on the inside somehow. Instead we continue to spiral downward.
- Comment on This woman has nothing better to do 4 weeks ago:
Just imagine, that ultra Karen had the option to say nothing, to go on with their day and it would never affect them again.
Instead they went out of their way to be a huge asshole. They chose to be an asshole that day.
- Comment on Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits 4 weeks ago:
As I said, a bill to ban VPNs from accessing piracy sites. Not forcing piracy sites to do anything, forcing providers to block access.
- Comment on Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits 4 weeks ago:
They just introduced a bill to ban vpns from accessing piracy sites, I don’t have the link on me but you can look it up. About 3 days ago
- [2:48] Professional Fiber installer calls out city council for lying about datacenterwww.youtube.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to videos@lemmy.world | 2 comments
