Blackmist
@Blackmist@feddit.uk
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 1 hour ago:
It’s mostly small places that don’t. I think they started during covid so they didn’t have to physically take anything from the grubby customers, and found they didn’t lose much (if any) business over it.
Cash still costs money to handle, either for the time or wages of taking it to the bank, or paying somebody to collect it every day.
I guess it helps that contactless payments are now ubiquitous. Practically everyone has a phone, and readers like SumUp and Square can be had for a few quid.
But then there are places that still only take cash, because it’s easier to hide that from the tax man.
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 3 hours ago:
I couldn’t actually top up a prepay meter with a credit card.
Direct debits are preferred and they’ll often offer a discount for using that.
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 16 hours ago:
Lower fees.
- Comment on Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content 16 hours ago:
Who the fuck takes cheques? Hell, some places don’t even take cash any more.
- Comment on Day 374 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 day ago:
The weird thing is, it’s not actually that different to how it looked and played on PS3.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=7mzeDC6RDr0
Meanwhile there’s people considering an upgrade for that 4080 Ti…
- Comment on Off topic 2 days ago:
I’ve got a decent 5.1 system. It brings the boom boom when needed.
Still need subtitles. I blame the lack of theatre trained actors. The Hollywood gang mumble.
- Comment on They even got their own island 2 days ago:
If “he’s got a car and he’s dead mature, like” is your main selling point, you need a better selling point. And to not be a fucking nonce.
In the 90s we didn’t even know what a paedophile was. I don’t recall even seeing that word before Sarah Payne was murdered.
It took a while for UK residents to get used to this new exciting word.
Hopefully today’s kids are a bit more aware…
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 3 days ago:
It is fucking mental that an industry plagued by data harvesting is being asked to harvest more data.
Anyway, I’m now in Belgium according to my VPN.
- Comment on These totally legitimate comments 3 days ago:
It can’t even count them properly.
- Comment on I just went onto reddit to a intrest subreddit which happens to be NSFW and i got this, fuck reddit im glad i quit it. 3 days ago:
It’s weird how they voted against it as opposition, but as soon as they took power just let it in.
Almost as if that’s what they wanted all along.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 4 days ago:
Maybe because those of us saying it probably wouldn’t lead to much meaningful change got downvoted to shit.
- Comment on How Coldplay actually sounds 5 days ago:
You can add Imagine Dragons to that.
And Fall Out Boy who are Imagine Dragons for people with an eyebrow piercing.
- Comment on How Coldplay actually sounds 5 days ago:
They’re kind of soulless. But I think most people just don’t like Chris Martin.
- Comment on Labour MP claims it'd cost "Upwards of £100bn to Nationalise Water". He is an extremely smart man. Why does he lie like this? 5 days ago:
Then privatise it properly.
If I can’t choose my water provider like I do with electricity and gas then it’s not privatised. It’s a monopoly.
- Comment on Chippie owner given ‘devastating’ £40,000 fine by Home office for allegedly illegal hire 5 days ago:
Yeah, I feel HMRC should have done something other than wait two years before going “actually no, pay us a fine”.
- Comment on That sounds like a fun thing to do 5 days ago:
We mean the other unemployed bipolar refugees.
Those are “one of the good ones”.
- Comment on UK's most powerful supercomputer comes online 1 week ago:
Another £225 million of tax payers money sent to Jensen Huang so he can spend it on more leather jackets.
They could have spent that on something useful, like about 100 metres of HS2 track…
- Comment on Labour nationalises second train company 1 week ago:
And water while we’re at it.
It is beyond ludicrous that these things were ever privatised in the first place.
- Comment on Where do British elites get their news? Publishers, social media and AI 1 week ago:
Jim Hacker: Don’t tell me about the Press. I know exactly who reads the papers. The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; The Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; The Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
Sir Humphrey: Oh, and Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?
Bernard Woolley: Sun readers don’t care who runs the country as long as she’s got big tits.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 1 week ago:
I was level capped before I even touched the DLC. I ignored everything that was generated rather than having some story to it. There’s just a lot of game there. Too much, in fact.
I just don’t know who the funbucks shop is even for. It’s not like you can even show it off online because it’s single player…
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 1 week ago:
Yeah, I played AC Odyssey and the DLC a while back, and I’m still burnt out on Assassin’s Creed about 4 years later.
It just seems designed to sap as much of your time as possible. Like an MMO but without any tangible benefit for them doing so.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 week ago:
I think a lot of first world countries like do it (e.g. the UK sends around 60% away), because recycling elsewhere is cheaper than doing it at home.
And it’s cheaper still if you don’t bother to check that it hasn’t just ended up in a landfill in Bangladesh or something.
I think also part of the issue is that plastic can be recycled, but not in the same way as metals or glass. That plastic bottle might get shredded and used in road surfacing (where it will doubtless leak micro plastics everywhere), which is probably not what most people envisage when they clean it up and separate it nicely.
- Comment on Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios 1 week ago:
The rest of us do it all the time.
- Comment on Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios 1 week ago:
That’s because Nintendo don’t run a studio. It’s a prison, where developers are protected from progress made by the outside world.
This is the only explanation for their online offerings.
- Comment on Nintendo touts high employee retention rate after loss of Microsoft jobs rocks Xbox Game Studios 1 week ago:
I don’t know when we decided that games should have credits but other software doesn’t.
I don’t see credits for business software. When you shut down Linux it doesn’t go “A Linus Torvalds OS. Written by Linus Torvalds”
Why are they even there? Is it a union thing, like with movies? Did they just need more than “Congratulations, you have finished the game” at the end? Who even reads them? Nobody needs to know who provided the catering at the translation company they outsourced to.
- Comment on The Star Wars Outlaws flop - Guillemot blames waning interest in the franchise 1 week ago:
Could it be waning interest in the Ubislop formula?
No, it’s the gamers who are wrong!
- Comment on Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign 1 week ago:
Round edges and a Windows Vista era soft blur?
I can’t think of anything more generically Apple…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Hell of an afternoon
- Comment on W.XP 1 week ago:
Oh, I noticed.
- Comment on Gallium 1 week ago:
CEOs don’t have friends.