halcyoncmdr
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- Comment on The way two of the usb's are one way while the other is another way 6 days ago:
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 week ago:
It is intentionally vague, because companies want to be able to weasel out of any and all accountability whenever possible.
But Mastercard isn’t off the hook either way even if we accept the rules as they are currently. Before this incident, Mastercard has been starting to censor adult content in general with rules changes. To the point where there was already a petition on the ACLU site about this exact type of censorship.
…aclu.org/…/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unj…
Mastercard is trying to weasel their way out of this particular instance because they didn’t directly have a hand in this video game situation, even though they clearly would agree with it based on other recent changes. They’re trying to play both sides by assuming that people didn’t know they were already doing these things.
- Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games 1 week ago:
What I see is Mastercard hiding behind their generic rules for processors and being fine with the processors taking unilateral action that could damage their brand.
Mastercard should demand they rescind the decision based on a flawed interpretation of their rules since the content IS NOT ILLEGAL where Steam provides it, or drop those processors entirely due to the brand damage their unilateral decision has caused.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 1 week ago:
That’s almost surely a result of how Valve works internally for approving projects. They operate with a flat management structure. With no bosses or managers, the employees themselves choose which projects to work on. The philosophy is that Valve only hires the best, and they should operate at their best doing what they enjoy instead of simply being told what to do.
Every employee at Valve is given the freedom to join whatever project they choose, or to create a new one. They are encouraged to work on what they feel if the most important project to the company and what will have the highest direct impact on their customers.
If the Valve employees wanted to make Half Life 3, they would. At this point the joke is that Valve simply can’t count to three. Half Life 1 and 2, them Episode 1 and Episode 2, Portal 1 and Portal 2, Team Fortress and Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike 2. Several of these have had other interim releases, especially Counter-Strike, but those were always based on the previous game and not a totally new game from scratch, much like the Half Life Episodes.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 1 week ago:
Steam can 100% enter any market they want, especially something entirely digital like online payment processing. That’s pretty closely related to what they do already. They just have to have a reason to want to do so.
Steam makes a reported $3.5 million per employee from commissions alone. Possibly as much at $19 million per head across the board. To put that into perspective, Facebook, one of the most profitable companies on the planet, averages a net income of $780,000 per employee, and Apple at $476,000 per employee.
pcgamer.com/…/valves-reported-profit-per-head-fro…
Steam may not be as large as those companies, but they’re so effectively streamlined. So much of their profits come from existing systems that only need minimal maintenance as opposed to needing to constantly develop new products. It is a well-oiled money printing machine at this point. And nothing they do is based on any sort of speculation bubble threatening to burst at any point.
- Comment on Payment Processors Are Pressuring Major Gaming Vendors to Pull LGBTQ+ and NSFW Titles 1 week ago:
100% they would try to ban anything with any sort of romance in it if they could.
Collective Shout is a group of anti-porn nutjobs hiding behind a feminist facade.
Surprisingly, not American, the Australians decided to join the puritanical bullshit this time.
- Comment on I swear officer, I ain’t had nothing! 1 week ago:
To be fair, a lot of energy drinks also take like crap and have weird flavors and aftertastes.
I can 100% see someone making that mistake if they don’t normally drink alcohol or energy drinks all the time.
- Comment on I swear officer, I ain’t had nothing! 1 week ago:
It may have been there longer, but when I go to the store 90% of the energy drinks are in the larger cans like Monster, not the traditional Red Bull can size.
- Comment on I swear officer, I ain’t had nothing! 1 week ago:
Huh. I thought Celsius was an alcoholic drink already. That’s kind of the usual can size for those while energy drinks usually are Monster sized. Some exceptions if course, like Red Bull, but generally across the board those sizes are standardized for lack of a better descriptor.
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 2 weeks ago:
My current Amazfit GTS 2 advertised a week, and I only get about 36 hours with heart rate every 15 minutes and sleep tracking overnight.
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
There is a lot of text just to bitch to people that probably don’t care about niche differences. We’re talking about budget options here, not “audiophile” snake oil.
I do trust the opinion of places like Rtings and while that is definitely a generic mid-range system, it’s what they recommended for a budget soundbar system. You provided opinion and an alternative that’s twice as expensive for a pair of bookshelf speakers.
I don’t personally care about a random “audiophile” opinion, especially on a random site like Lemmy. From my experience most of those opinions usually are about as good as Monster cables were. 100% when that audio opinion includes absolutely horrendous a things like “I have two ears: I only need to speakers.”
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
Quality audio doesn’t have to cost a ton. You can get a quality budget Dolby Atmos soundbar for less than $350.
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 2 weeks ago:
God do I miss the 30 day battery life.isplaced my charger a bunch of times because I simply wasn’t using it.
My current Amazfit barely gets a day with my usage. And I only use it for notifications and sleep tracking.
- Comment on Off topic 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that it’s mixed shitty, it’s that they never remixed it for new releases. So it still uses the theater audio mix and range where there’s 12,000+ watts of audio power available and like 12 audio channels.
When they actually remix it to a home release format the issues almost always go away. Even remixing for 5.1 most TVs can downmix to stereo just fine.
- Comment on Pebble is officially Pebble again 2 weeks ago:
I’ve still been trying to find good replacements for my Pebble. Long battery life, and just doing what it needs to without gimmicks or extra unnecessary crap. My watch doesn’t need to be a mini phone, it’s there to tell me if I need to bother with the actual phone.
Went through Vector and Amazfit since my OG Pebble and Pebble Time.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 2 weeks ago:
The shareholders aren’t the ones pressuring the payment processors.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 2 weeks ago:
That hasn’t ever stopped other companies from pursuing profits at all other costs.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 2 weeks ago:
I don’t even understand how they give a shit. Seems like the perfect place for shareholders to want them to make as much money as possible, and there aren’t many alternatives.
- Comment on Why can't a liquid move faster than the speed of sound in that medium? 3 weeks ago:
Badically. “Liquid/fluid” and “gas” don’t necessarily mean the same thing scientifically as they do colloquially, they’re actually very close to the same thing.
Fluid dynamics covers the study of liquids, gasses, and plasmas because they’re effectively the same.
- Comment on Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors 3 weeks ago:
Maybe they should have a way of determining where someone is from and not process transactions for those regions… Oh wait, that’s a fundamental function of what they already do.
- Comment on Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors 3 weeks ago:
I’m honestly surprised that the processor shareholders aren’t demanding they process those transactions to increase profits even more.
- Comment on Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors 3 weeks ago:
I’m getting really tired of payment processors deciding what adults should be able to do with their money.
Same with lazy platforms and advertisers that aren’t even targeting children resulting in dogshit censorship across the internet.
We’re honestly supposed to believe that with the advanced algorithms, metadata matching systems, and audience targeting systems that these fucks use, that they can’t tell with high certainty whether an account is an adult or a child, and allow the appropriate type of ads through? Get fucked.
- Comment on Missouri governor repeals paid sick leave law approved last year by voters 4 weeks ago:
What sort of ass-backwards State allows direct Voter-approved laws to be repealed by the politicians. The purpose of having that process is to deal with situations where the State can’t get their shit together.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This is a person that in decades past would have appropriately been institutionalized for their own safety. Instead they’ll probably end up as a supervisor for some fucking DOGE team where their mental capacity fits like a glove.
- Comment on If I found voter irregularities in my home district do I have to hire a lawyer to prove it.? Or just let it go and the Florida Orange win? 4 weeks ago:
That’s illegal in most places. Votes are anonymous specifically because people have been threatened to vote certain ways in the past. If you aren’t given proof of voting a specific way you can’t be forced to vote a specific way.
- Comment on Bitcoin investor moves $8 billion worth of crypto after 14 years, originally bought for less than $210,000 — 80,000 BTC transferred from Satoshi-era wallet 5 weeks ago:
Probably lost the wallet and forgot about it, and found the USB drive while moving furniture.
- Comment on Don't let it be you 5 weeks ago:
The third of it that voted for exactly this.
- Comment on Xbox Producer Recommends Laid Off Workers Should Use AI To 'Help Reduce The Emotional And Cognitive Load That Comes With Job Loss' 5 weeks ago:
I mean that would save millions and millions of dollars right off the top. Between salary, bonuses and stock were talking hundreds of millions in some cases. Maximum shareholder value increase.
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 5 weeks ago:
No, Satan dared to defy his father and was thrown out of the house.
None of these fucks would dare defy their daddy Trump.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Any backers if there are any, searching their name online to see about controversial decisions.
And then I default to replacing them.
