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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like it, and sounds like a great way to deprecate the old site slowly while limiting the blast radius if pissed users.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Diablo 4 Seasons Will Continue After Diablo 5 Arrives⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefox / Librewolf have a reader mode that does that for you too.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Burger King breakfast sandwich- no scrambled egg?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t click on links without knowing what they are first, what is this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Disney+ and Hulu raise prices by up to 13 percent after doubling profits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you think suddenly they’re trying to crack down on piracy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Good luck today, Halo friends": After years of rivalry, Call of Duty's creators have taken charge of Xbox's defining FPS series amid yet more layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the big CoD vs Halo “wars” back in the day, and this is exactly what I didn’t want. I liked Halo’s slower combat, more strategy combining shields, grenades, melee, and weapons. Now (5 and Infinite confirmed) it’s just another twitch shooter, with pistols/rifles that act like snipers and everyone trying to one shot. The few Infinite MP games I did play I was always alone in the warthog while others just went on solo. It’s not the same experience it used to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Reportedly Plots Second Layoff Wave This Week, with Blizzard and Halo Studios both in the Firing Line⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They want Xbox to make a resounding comeback while also removing all of the talent from the studios. Cat’s out of the bag, we already know it’s not “14 layers of management” being fired, it’s everyone. They aren’t making the latest awesome Halo for the next Xbox, they want some sloppy sad corporate approved vibe coded cheap thing that they can ship with the limited number of new consoles.

  and people will still go buy it in droves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cate Blanchett asks theatre audience to stop filming during show⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Good. We’re way too okay with filming everything and everything for the hope of a few more followers. This is someone’s art that they charge for, filming it either spoils it for the next person (reducing the artists due income), or convinces them not to go. It’s not “viral marketing”, they can do their own marketing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I interviewed there last year. I was penalized for not using enough AI in my interview. I used it, just not enough of it.

  They told me it was a company wide mandate. That I should be ready to not write any code but to use AI for everything.

  So, whose fault is it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Good luck today, Halo friends": After years of rivalry, Call of Duty's creators have taken charge of Xbox's defining FPS series amid yet more layoffs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I think I’m just calling it. Halo 5 was bad, Infinite had good gameplay but the story was meandering and boring.

  Campaign Evolved was the second remake of the original, which again is just graphic flashiness with none of the understanding of what made the game special to begin with.

  Multiplayer has been moving from the magic that was 2 and 3 to more CoD style because they don’t understand that you can have a shooter that isn’t a twitch shooter. So I don’t have any hope for their multiplayer either.

  I’m very sad, but I’m just kind of done with it.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox planning to lay off hundreds of employees this week | via Wario64⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Game fails? Layoff Game succeeds? Layoff

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Types of Game Developers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No way man my games have always been only made by strong alpha bro men guys! They didn’t have HR or women or anything man, and they were only white too!

  Seriously with the sexist AI slop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And why are they so mad at us for things we don’t do?

  “We just make and manufacture weapons, we don’t use them, that’s other people, why are they mad at us?”.

  And we just want people to be safe.

  “Please bend over for your safety inspection, we want you to be safe, this is all for your own protection. How dare you be upset at us”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Did Nearly Every American City End Up Like This?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe both have failed public transit in this country. That’s the key difference. Nothing in the last message is wrong - except that both have actively destroyed transit here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Did Nearly Every American City End Up Like This?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re arguing something else now, or I’m misunderstanding your argument. I’m not arguing that if the government had subsidized rail that it would have been better, that’s no question it would have been better. It absolutely should have been prioritized at minimum same level as the interstate and air budgets.

  What I am disagreeing with is that capitalism did a great job on it’s own. It didn’t. The companies were going bankrupt, and in rail’s case they were torpedoing it on purpose so they could get out of the passenger rail business. It’s not a “Oh woe is us if only capitalism had saved us”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Did Nearly Every American City End Up Like This?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the private sectors failed at public transit. The reason we have Amtrak is quite literally because private rail failed, and it failed because the private companies realized they made more on freight than passengers, so they quite literally enshittified their own rail service so they wouldn’t need to continue it. In NYC the IRT and the BMT were both on the verge of bankruptcy so the state bailed them out and bought them. In the cases of rail, including Amtrak and the MTA, the government bailed them out, and then politicians continued to cut funding over and over, which is why rail in America is so terrible. Because idiots think rail = socialism now.

  You are right with the interstates though. Those were purely the government, funded by the taxpayers, but lobbied for by oil and car companies, who also helped governments buy streetcars so they could then rip out the tracks in favor of roads. So now we have taxpayir subsidized roadsthat help private carriers and businesses.

  Ain’t no history like a train nerd history knowledge.

  You are so incredibly wrong that I need to take an advil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Did Nearly Every American City End Up Like This?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s finally been rooted out as one of the major causes for a lot of North American’s frustrations. All the talk about gas prices are root caused by not having walkable cities. Big corporations and their enshittification is made worse by main streets closing up with smaller shops being pushed out for big box stores. The lonliness epidemics have in no small part been tied to the loss of third spaces and the isolating design of suburban sprawl.

  I’m all for it, let’s get at these problems. The auto & oil industries have been profiting off of the slow decline of our cities, it’s time we push back.

  (Note I know all of those issues are complicated and nuanced, but the thing I can guarantee is that they are all exacerbated by dominant car culture)

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