Blackmist

@Blackmist@feddit.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The rich convinced us that taxing them is too complicated but everyday people can be taxed pretty easily⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  We need a tax system where the government figures out how much they need each year, and then just takes it proportional to net wealth above a certain amount.

  You can bet Elon won’t be declaring himself a trillionaire under that system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anyone get this?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Mr Tumble has a basement full of dismembered prostitutes, and you’ll have a hard job convincing me otherwise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there an "Avoid Amazon" community for people who want to support smaller online retailers?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I found the best way to avoid Amazon was just to buy a lot less pointless stuff.

  If you don’t buy that bluetooth shower speaker shaped like a cat, you don’t need to find a dodgy dropshipping company in a self storage unit that resells it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rejecting Cookies⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just use the I Don’t Care About Cookies addon.

  I don’t know if it’s just agreeing or disagreeing, but I suspect they’re all selling your data regardless of what you pick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean it is from 1951. I’ve seen a lot worse by people who meant it.

  It’s 4 years before Emmett Till was murdered for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon is a gamer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly, the real reason is because we’ll buy any old slop if we see enough adverts for it, or enough streamers wanking off over it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not a lot of point while PC hardware costs this much.

  I guess bringing it to PC several years late at full price isn’t doing much for them either.

  It may work for Rockstar, but that’s about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨.ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because they do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mint⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, good news!

  You’ll certainly have a lot of blackberries if you plant them.

  The bushes down near the river by me are about 20 feet thick and 8 feet high. The only other thing growing near them are nettles. It’s a genuinely fearsome plant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s always been like that, unless you upgrade a CPU for a 10% improvement.

  I tended to do GPU as one upgrade, then the rest a few years later, treating the RAM, CPU and mobo as one unit.

  But since prices of everything have been out of whack for ages now, I’m sticking with this 1060/i5-8400 box until something gives. If I want the latest whizzo graphics, I’ll play my PS5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When traffic comes to a standstill, drivers instantly shift left and right to create a Rettungsgasse, an emergency corridor right down the middle, so ambulances⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We Brits got rid of a lot of them (and laughably called them “smart” motorways), so now we just sit there and watch people burn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 Exclusive Saros Has Reportedly Only Sold 300K Copies⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A £70 roguelike is a big fucking ask.

  The only one I’ve played, completed and enjoyed was Hades. It doesn’t waste your time even on a failed run. A run is like 40 minutes of real time. That’s about where this shit needs to be to attract non-masochists. Even then, £70.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lmao⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched The Smashing Machine because I heard they made the Rock actually act in it.

  They didn’t, they just stuck a wig on him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is wrong with Pop OS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just don’t like the name.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please the overlords⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sir, this is 2026.

  You’re not even allowed to ride your own in the UK. At least not in public areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please the overlords⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So make sure to just smash up all the abandoned ones littering the streets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well at least she died free of worms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're so back⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I loved something as much as conservatives love Ivermectin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Science is iterative⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My quest to get a steam controller has failed⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The lack of twin thumbsticks are what killed the original.

  This one is better, but aside from better trackpad placement, it doesn’t offer a lot above the PS5 controller, which a lot of people already have.

  Still, they sold out, so mission successful I suppose. I’ve no doubt the same thing will happen when I try and get a Steam Frame.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it’s nice that he got his red flag out early.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nothing is funnier than The Onion taking over Infowars and making rainbow merchandise.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s going to be so many confused retirees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is society at large okay with euthanasia for pets but not for humans?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because pets aren’t leaving anyone large sums of cash in their will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout: New Vegas dev says don't expect a remaster, argues Bethesda doesn't have the source code or 'the engineering knowhow'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll disagree a bit. Angel of Darkness should definitely have been a Remake.

  They must have put so much effort in to get that just as crappy as the original.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Test ride⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it didn’t cost him anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation To Require Age Verification For Certain Online Features⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s “show us your face”, if the Yoti app is involved.

  However, it looks like the only limit is communication, and I’ve no interest in being communicated with by anybody on PSN thank you very much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Driving game poll⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds a bit shit to me. Racing is why most people play car games.

  But then MS Flight Sim is basically just that but for planes, so who knows. It could find a niche market. You’d probably have to go all in on the details though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The more time goes on, the more I think Sony’s approach of adding games after a year or so was the right one.

  You can’t have a subscription service giving day one access to all your content, and provide good content, and have it at a reasonable price. Something has to give. Even when you’ve got as much money as Microsoft.

  The glorious cloud gaming future they envisaged never happened. You’re still limited to people willing to shell out for some gaming hardware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t care that Steam has an effective monopoly on digital games. That’s fine. Games can and are on many other services for PC, but gamers want them on Steam. Fine. Whatever. You can even buy games from other services, get Steam codes, and use them as if you got them from Steam, even though Steam get no money from that sale. That’s amazing. Really.

  But.

  They killed the idea that you can own a PC game. I mean legally own it, be able to sell your copy of it to another person, and no longer have it yourself. You could do that with physical. You still can with physical console games. But on PC that concept is dead. It’s not coming back. And Valve did that. You now just rent them. Fine, you think, Valve isn’t going anywhere. But one day Valve will be gone, and this will matter. No king rules forever.

  And the least said about lootboxes and hats and all that scummy crap the better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playnix: Boutique Linux PC released with better gaming performance than Valve Steam Machine⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Expensive PC in outperforms cheaper PC shocker! Read all about it!