MentalEdge
@MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
Eskating cyclist, gamer and enjoyer of anime. Probably an artist. Also I code sometimes, pretty much just to mod titanfall 2 tho.
Introverted, yet I enjoy discussion to a fault.
- Comment on Seedless Catholics Against Watermelons? 16 hours ago:
Should someone tell them why watermelons are so big a delicious in the first place?
- Comment on Homeworld 3 Reviews [opencritic - 80% average, 79% recommended] 1 day ago:
Fuck yeah
- Comment on ASUS breaks your ROG Ally if you don't pay $200 for warranty repairs: SCAMMING COMPANY! 1 day ago:
I had a nightmare situation a few years back with a ZenFone 6.
It bricked itself within a week, and after I sent it in I got months of radio silence, until I started calling them about it. They had no clue what the status of my repair was, there were a ton of orders for part after part, and it just kept going.
Eventually I just started pressuring anyone I could with “I need a new phone, this old one is falling apart, I can’t just keep using it for months on end as you figure your shit out” and they eventually relented, instead just giving me an entire new unit.
Last year I bought an Asus monitor with clearly advertised “on-site-warranty” (which means a courier comes to your house and just drops off a replacement in exchange for picking up the old one), it was DOA.
I thought great, “on-site-swap” should have this sorted by tomorrow. I started the RMA and the first thing they want me to do is ship my monitor to Germany at my expense. I said “fuck no”, and instead returned it to the retailer as I was still within the return window, and then just walked into another retailer with more in stock, to pick up another, which then worked.
Then, months later, some dude calls me and asks when I’ll be home for my on-site warranty swap, straight up dropping my jaw to the floor. I know I cancelled my RMA.
Lo and behold, the RMA case-number wasn’t even the same, so for some reason Asus decided, on their own, to open another RMA, WITHOUT TALKING TO ME for a monitor I TOLD THEM I WOULD BE RETURNING. Maybe someone tried to fix the fuck-up of not honouring the on-site warranty, but holy fuck if that took two months, thank god I took it into my own hands and got it fixed within 24 hours.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 12th 3 days ago:
I’ve kinda ruined scary games for myself.
I’ve been leaving my guns in the stash because so far, kiting around enemies is just more efficient, and it frees up inventory space.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of May 12th 3 days ago:
Signalis.
It’s good. Very good.
- Comment on Just knowing Lemmy is here makes me feel better 4 days ago:
I’m sure it already is for some of us :D
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 4 days ago:
Valid, I’ve mostly been pouring soda into glasses, and at least with my face, that doesn’t happen.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 4 days ago:
No it doesn’t? I buy a bottle of something every day, these have never been trouble. Not once.
The first time I noticed it I thought, “neat” and that’s it.
- Comment on Euro bottles are so much better now 4 days ago:
Why?
It stays open, you can drink from it, you can pour from it, you can pour into it.
What action does the cap staying attached prevent, warranting its detachment?
- Comment on How Bad Are Ultraprocessed Foods, Really? 1 week ago:
That people become more informed?
It’s better than nothing if people are thinking about whether something they buy is “ultraprocessed”.
But even better than that is if when people know how to identify food that has been prepared in a way that is sane, or if it has been produced specifically to exploit bad consumer habits.
It’s not a fight. My main goal is literally just to put information where people might read it.
- Comment on ohhh 1 week ago:
- Comment on Microsoft closes Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and others 1 week ago:
Fuck this. I would have been STOKED to see another game by Tango.
- Comment on How Bad Are Ultraprocessed Foods, Really? 1 week ago:
That makes no sense.
My taking issue with oversimplification, doesn’t mean I’m advocating for less thought to be put into the matter.
It means the opposite.
We can do better than simply “how much has this been processed” which is just another word for “preparation”.
“Ultraprocessed” makes it seem like the act of preparing the food somehow ruins it, when the real problem is all the other differences between industrially prepared food vs how you’d turn individual “unprocessed” ingredients into a meal, cookies, or whatever else at home.
A bowl of noodles consumed in a restaurant would be classified exactly the same as a bowl of sodium-overloaded instant ones, because the classification has literally nothing to do with what the food actually contains, merely how far removed it is from a raw ingredient.
- Comment on How Bad Is A.I. for the Climate? Tech giants are building power-hungry data centers to run their artificial intelligence tools. The costs of that demand surge are becoming clearer. 1 week ago:
Your account has the bot flag enabled. Did you set that intentionally?
- Comment on How Bad Are Ultraprocessed Foods, Really? 1 week ago:
“Ultaprocessed” is a stupid classification.
Finnish rye bread is classified as “ultraprocessed” due to its more complex production process but it better for you than white bread.
Lots of soy products count as “ultraprocessed” too.
What people actually mean when discussing “ultraprocessed” foods, are foods designed to taste good without making you feel satisfied. Causing you to eat/buy more of it than you should, more than you would otherwise even desire to.
Yes, when you create a product like that, it often ends up classifying as “ultraprocessed”. But not all ultraprocessed food products are a problem, and not all non-processed foods lack the “I wanna eat more” factor that these products go for.
- Comment on Life progression 1 week ago:
Every time I understand another horrible aspect of human society, I desperately wish for the “fuck go back” button to be real.
Ignorance is a lot more comfortable in the face of seeing all the problems for what they are, and being so near powerless to do anything about them, you may as well be.
- Comment on Checkmate, science 1 week ago:
thatsthejoke.jpg
- Comment on Checkmate, science 1 week ago:
This is actually kind of how electric motors work and you can’t tell me otherwise.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 1 week ago:
Well if you link it, you will “gain the right to appeal a ban”.
(This is not a joke it’s in the actual announcement from sony)
- Comment on Half Life 3 2 weeks ago:
Valve doesn’t need to make games anymore. Their corporate structure allows for it, but relies on people at the company wanting to work on it.
But if they don’t, it’s not really a problem. The company is doing fine.
I think they just lost interest. They got back to it with Alyx because VR was exciting and new territory to explore.
- Comment on A personal argument for a benefit of gaming 2 weeks ago:
I agree so much. Compared to the highs and lows of a good game, TV series and movies feel like background noise at times.
- Comment on MRIs 2 weeks ago:
!trippinthroughtime@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Can an online library of classic video games ever be legal? 2 weeks ago:
Because if good games from a decade ago are freely available, they can’t shove a new overexploiting live service game down our throats when it pales in comparison tp the entertainment that’s available for free.
They can only sell less for more, by taking the previous option off the table.
- Comment on doggos 3 weeks ago:
Studies like this have me confused.
How do we know they use the magnetic field, and don’t just like… Look at the sun, or the shadows it casts.
- Comment on European mind cannot comprehend this 4 weeks ago:
That face when your healthcare system is so fucked it creates an exploitable niche market for a country you don’t even share a border with.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Journey 4 weeks ago:
You’re right, I recalled the pattern being more complex and showing the progress towards the white robe, but I’m misremembering. The patter simply show how many times someone has completed the game, up to three times.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Journey 4 weeks ago:
I am so fucking jealous you’ve heard the ost live.
An orchestral performance cannot be captured by any kind of recording in way that does it justice.
- Comment on Let's discuss: Journey 4 weeks ago:
Opening the pause menu will cause the traveler to immediately sit down, according to my sister who played the game religiously for a while, this is the equivalent to “BRB” among people who play a lot.
Each secret you find will add embroidery to the clothing of the traveller, meaning players can tell which one should likely be showing the other around, as well whether someone is a first-timer.
Sticking together is also not that important. The game will match you with a new player if you get separated.
People who play it more than once typically do it to show new players around, that’s where the value of repeat playthroughs comes from.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 4 weeks ago:
They do. In fact they’ve been caught “reselling” tickets at scalper prices without them ever having been sold a first time.
The entire scalping/resale market arguably shouldn’t exist, instead tickets should be refundable within reason, at which point the organiser can issue and sell new tickets.
- Comment on Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app 4 weeks ago:
Yes because the security of barcodes and screenshotted tickets were such a huge problem before. Paying customers used to constantly miss out on events because someone else had already gotten in with their ticket. /s