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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2³² will get interesting...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The real ethical question here is, is there only one round of trolleys?

  Because if this is a one and done question, then obviously I go for the one person.

  But if it’s possible at any point somebody comes along and has to run the experiment again after me, then if I leave an infinitely expanding number on one side, all it would take is one sadistic person to wipe out a incalculable amount of life.

  In which case, I take the track with two people. And again, it is a question of repetition whether or not doing it once means that it won’t happen next time or if this will continue with every cycle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There will be physical labor to get done. For a few decades at least until someone figures out the roomba of automatons.

  So there must be some labor force. It will just be a much larger unemployed and underemployed contingent. And with extreme overabundance, horrible downward pressure on wages.

  And so what labor remains gets squeezed, and the rest battle for the job of garbage man, or babysitter.

  Honestly real economies have many factors, but I’m really just saying that absent controls, the system by design approaches a hellscape at lightspeed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With every dime they can scrape together.

  Then with debt and labor.

  Then with lifelong debt.

  No hyperbole, by design the system is setup to bleed people dry for every penny, not to create thriving nations or economies with many wide participants. We have been hacking away at hard won safeguards for 4 decades now, and the consequences are coming.

  If enough of the people with the means own a majority of the assets, have little to no regulation to stop them, eventually you will be getting paid in WalmartCoin and redeem it exclusively at WalmartTown where the goods are all priced so you can never afford enough, just barely enough to get by.

  We did it 100 years ago, and had to trust bust and outlaw it. But I guess we’re in for a do over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon doesn't like AI⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They just have all the money, and charge you to extract infinite interest on all the assets they now control.

  VC is buying up as much water rights and housing as it can by the way.

  Just an unrelated detail.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Set up a recurring donation. Lemmy and Mastodon are great and I want them to stick around.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the exact ramifications and consequences of the recent meeting with Zelenskyy and Trump/JD?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello comrade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ratatan - Official Gameplay Trailer | ID@Xbox⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hilarious that this is being promoted on Xbox. Absolutely ridiculous Sony didn’t keep this team going.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So long as this is genuone, and not a stealth sabotage, that’s a genuinely good response and reaction.

  I would respond to them that that isn’t a bad idea, so long as the therapist isn’t “primed” on the issue, and you’re able to actually go in with a blank slate.

  Also, no idea where you live, but in the US make sure your therapist agrees to keep your therapy notes in some kind of shorthand. Musk and Trump don’t care about violating HIPPA to harm your rights, so be smart yea?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is. Plenty of giant titties on trad wives in the Steam category for porn games. Oddly that seems to overlap with this audience strongly…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good, now you just have to avoid buying from…

  checks staff lists

  Every single major publisher.

  Good luck. Don’t play that woke Call of Duty or that DEI Fortnite while you’re at it. And avoid the mind virus of Elden Ring and Bandai Namco.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It looks like someone at Activision is leaking Slack screenshots to right-wing X users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stop buying their shit then. Leave the people who make it the fuck alone.

  “Go woke go broke” vote with your dollars and let their “wokeness” fail in the free market. Don’t fucking harass people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genshin Impact Game Developer Will be Banned from Selling Lootboxes to Teens Under 16 without Parental Consent, Pay a $20 Million Fine to Settle FTC Charges.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  20 mil is peanuts. Selling shit to children for as long as you can is worth way more. FTC has proven that exploiting kids with gambling mechanics is just good business.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam has the best UI⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint: I can identify which part of the UI most of those come from. This level of variety between various UI functions is actually good. I don’t want the interface tabs or the settings tabs to be confused with tabs in the store, even though they are all tabs. I don’t want buttons to all look the same, especially not the huge purchase button. But even accepting that as an outlier I want some buttons to be clearly part of the steam UI and some as part of the site page I am on, so I don’t get confused.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t Look Up director says ‘half a billion people’ have now seen film despite critics⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When your movie is on the frontpage of Netflix with a handful of A listers and effectively “free”, a half million views is actually not that great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Death of Gaming YouTube: How Money Killed Authenticity⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Major difference is that TV and your examples aren’t a firehose free for all of content. There is at least a minor barrier to entry. Which helps stem some of the tide at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guy never bought a game on the Epic Store... Owns 200+⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The same applies for Epic as well regarding piracy. Again it’s just a matter of diversifying.

  If I had to rebuy 100% of my games, Id never adopt Epic at all. Atleast this way the library has something of value as an alternative without costing me a fortune.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guy never bought a game on the Epic Store... Owns 200+⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m thinking even farther back to their wretched Windows Live and then Games for Windows Live platform (now dead). MS is one of the biggest companies on earth and couldn’t find a cohesive way to migrate that game ownership forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guy never bought a game on the Epic Store... Owns 200+⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just like to own the things I own. And I’m more worried about someone hijacking my account because they want some bullshit inventory item or something than getting banned for something toxic. Account theft is sadly still pretty common.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guy never bought a game on the Epic Store... Owns 200+⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely. But if someone got you in one of those steam inventory scams or stole your access token, it sucks if you lose your entire game library and have all your eggs in one basket.

  So having a bunch “backed up” so to speak with Epic gives some peace of mind. VAC bans aren’t common for most users, but they do make mistakes sometimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guy never bought a game on the Epic Store... Owns 200+⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the point though. They have beefed up my Epic Games library to the point where if I got banned from Steam, I would have a viable fallback.

  That cannot be understated. It has a network effect and makes adopting it as a new platform versus a legacy one with two decades behind it, far easier to adjust to.

  I love that at least someone is really trying other than MS with their poorly supported windows games store attempts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deceive Inc. Developer Sweet Bandits Shuts Down⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And you are missing my point.

  You don’t trade one for the other. You add this in the options menu, in a smaller font.

  Then when The Crew, X-Defiant, Lawbreakers, or any of the 30 other games that AAA publishers end server support for this year go down, the people who bought it aren’t left unable to play at all. Theres a fallback. And it does not affect matchmaking because it’s down the menu out of the way, and not the default matchmaking method. L

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deceive Inc. Developer Sweet Bandits Shuts Down⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry man, but the fundamental backend of IP based matchmaking is a prerequisite to skill based matchmaking. At a high level, the skill rankings make an ELO value or similar ranking and feed that alobg woth player status into the active player pool for the region. The active player pool then feeds the game client the ip sets for the current match.

  Literally all these games are peer hosted, and require this. Once the match is setup they literally drop you into a lobby (this part is visible to you) and fill it with IPs (invisible). That is as old as DOOM.

  So again, everything costs something as people aren’t free, but this is a function must exist to power the skill based matchmaking, and needs only be exposed in the shell.

  Also, its not just valve, its literally every PC game ever made before the mid 2000s. Jedi Knight II? Unreal Tournament? Quake 3? Hell emulated PS3 and Switch titles have shown this off as well. All of these are still playable today thanks to not exclusively using skill based matchmaking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deceive Inc. Developer Sweet Bandits Shuts Down⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Great wall of text, defeated by the simple idea of adding a fucking optional LAN or Lobby based matchmaking based on IP can be for unranked and takes near 0 effort to add.

  You want the main game mode with matchmaking? Official ranked server.

  Wanna play 2 vs 30 AK-47 vs knives only? Private lobby.

  Also, the latter was how the original devs accidentally invented Left 4 Dead by figuring out that was a ton of fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For low res, no.

  Hi res, sure. Make it optional, or let players download the region they like. Or just the airports with much lower res landscapes, etc etc.

  Or just, let them have it all and make these choices. Memory is CHEAP nowadays. If you’re a flight sim enthusiast, a few terabytes for the map data is the least expensive part of your setup by far.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They need to make sharing controller presets easier. Like MASSIVELY easier.

  I cannot emphasize this enough. Let users send controller profiles and attach them to forum posts, etc.

  This is needed desperately because navigating presets is straight up busted. Currently it just promotes whatever has the most users, which is whoever published first.

  Doesn’t matter if there is an objectively brilliant control scheme for Resident Evil 5 or something, nope, you’re using the first layout published by GoonerMaster69 in 2014 or whatever.

  Both these factors make using the steam controller a chore. It’s incredibly powerful, but setup is a fucking CHORE. I love it, but making it work well is always me tweaking for way too long, or using g the suboptimal poorly named presets at the top of the list.

  The RE5 example is real. RE5 is amazing with the steam controller if you have a trigger full pull mode shift to mouse input so you can have perfect accuracy with no acceleration. But try finding this in the preset list.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  God I love having a future where my ability to play a fucking flight simulator depends on both internet access and server reliability.

  Completely unnecessary to boot. Store a low res copy locally, offer the high res as regional packs. 0 reason to stream this data in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Sony is in talks to buy Kadokawa, the media powerhouse behind 'Elden Ring'⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kadokawa is a massive publisher of books and media in Japan.

  For that reason alone I hope this is blocked. It would make Sony too huge in Japan to reasonably compete with outside of Shueisha and directly incentivize brand exclusivity deals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$250 Analogue 3D will play all your N64 cartridges in 4K early next year⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The speculation is wrong.

  If your hobby is making Paper Maché Owls, and one day Hobby Lobby calls you and threatens to sue you in criminal court for millions, or you can silently stop your hobby?

  Unless you have millions to burn, you give up your hobby, because it’s not worth ruining your life over.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else feel like fireworks are a complete waste of money and a ridiculous amount of unnecessary Pollution?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Good catch. And yea, at a local level this Wilhelm not exacerbate things.

  The crisis begins with the emanation of farm fires in Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh, where farmers set fire to hundreds of square kilometres of paddy fields after harvesting them to clear them of residue, causing a smog jacket to form over northern India, particularly Delhi.

  Banning firecrackers to not make the problem worse makes sense, given how absolutely bad it will be due to the slash and burn farming practices. But the firecrackers alone (while not good for the atmosphere) aren’t like a global warming factor. But for your on-the-ground air quality doesn’t help at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon tries to give a compliment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, once upon a time 4chan was pretty liberal and anarchist. They protested Scientology even. That is definitely no longer the case.

  Once the fucking Nazi types figured out extremely bare minimum lax moderation meant they could use slurs with abandon and still be okay, the use of slurs quickly turned from a “we hate everyone” in-joke to a “no, we legitimately hate you inferior races” bent extremely quickly.

  There are still boards that aren’t total garbage, but the site overall is kind of a shadow of itself in its heyday and now users spend as much time posting Qanon garbage and legit Anti-Semitic hate threads on every board as it used to spend being funny. Honestly really sad.