Astroturfed
@Astroturfed@lemmy.world
- Comment on October 13 - 15, 2023 - Weekend Box Office (Estimates) 1 year ago:
I look at it kind of like all the people screaming to vote for Hilary/Biden at real left wingers. It’s the best we’ve got so try and support it if you can. I’m sick of all the shit tier superhero movies topping the box office…
- Comment on October 13 - 15, 2023 - Weekend Box Office (Estimates) 1 year ago:
I watch a decent amount of football (only ads I ever see) and I’ve seen multiple ads for it. Maybe their marketing budget was allocated poorly. I think “scifi nerds” are hard to market to because we use adblockers.
- Comment on October 13 - 15, 2023 - Weekend Box Office (Estimates) 1 year ago:
Sad to see the creator doing poorly since it’s actually an original film. Wish people were more interested in new IP. I guess I can’t gripe too much since I can’t even remember the last time I went to see a movie in theatre…
- Comment on Thinking of visiting a pawn shop. What should I know? 1 year ago:
Nah man, businesses tell their customers to get the fuck out all the time.
- Comment on Well, it was nice while it lasted? 1 year ago:
Apple doesn’t need to turn a profit and can burn money on high quality projects and keep renewing new seasons without caring about viewership. As much as I normally hate mega corps, this is a space where they’re using the fact that they’re too big to fail for a positive…
- Comment on Well, it was nice while it lasted? 1 year ago:
I really didn’t get the hype for that film personally and am not surprised it didn’t find a wide audience. Same with most of their films. I enjoyed a ton of them, but they aren’t suited to the mass appeal box office draws for monetization.
- Comment on What kind of upbringing makes an incel? 1 year ago:
Toxic male role models (boomer parents have this is far too large of a quantity) a long with modern society/the internet. There a lot of people looking for someone to blame for how their lives turned out. The Internet makes incels if you watch a couple of the wrong videos/frequent the wrong forums.
- Comment on Does Hexbear mandate all users to specify their preferred pronouns? 1 year ago:
Trumps campaign got off the ground from internet memes and satire groups on places like 4chan and reddit. There’s so many idiots out there looking for something to grasp onto and make their identity. You can’t get a satire/parody group too large or it breaths life of it’s own.
Poes law: without a clear indicator of the author’s intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
The answer is yes. But, vets also go to school for many extra years often racking up student loans to be vets. They then make very little money and I don’t blame them for trying to make some extra money on medication etc. It’s an overcrowded job market because people like animals and want to become vets. There isn’t enough money in it.
- Comment on Diablo® IV is coming to Steam 1 year ago:
Please tell me you did something horrible on your way out, or plant to…
- Comment on Diablo® IV is coming to Steam 1 year ago:
I sold a wow account 15 years ago that was decked out for the time (guild broke up) for $1,000. Kept getting emails for years. Eventually I got sick of it and responded to one saying the account had changed hands and they banned it immediately. They only care about people selling/trading things outside of their system. They get a wiff of an account being sold and they’ll nuke it.
- Comment on Diablo® IV is coming to Steam 1 year ago:
Blizzard is a shit company that exploits their customers, their employees and had a huge sexual harassment issue recently. Overall just a complete shit company making overpriced mediocre games. They used to be great, which is why they draw so much hate for now being awful.
- Comment on New cars are great... 1 year ago:
Nah man, just buy a solar wind powered land windsurf board. Take it to the train that doesn’t exist.
- Comment on Open for discussion 1 year ago:
I don’t know if it’s the way they’re sorted or the voting, but the comments sections are well less mind numbingly stupid. People at least make logical arguments and have a point generally. Not a whole bunch of recycled bullshit. On Reddit I could guess with about a 75% certainty what the top comment was going to be before I even opened it.
- Comment on What is the attraction to kids? 1 year ago:
Don’t try to understand it. You aren’t going to get a good answer. It’s a horrible mental illness level of sexual preference.
Anything can be sexualized with enough impulse and experiences. Everyone’s got some weird dark fetish shit. Some of it’s illegal in practice. Normal people bury that shit or only discuss it in therapy. While talking it out so they can hopefully never think about it again.
I’m sure there’s different answers to this just like “why are there serial killers?”. Just be glad it confuses you.
- Comment on An £8 sandwich in Starbucks 1 year ago:
Reviews are a bit of a shit show with everyone being used to Starbucks as the “standard” now. I still give the local places a shot when I travel. I find them rarely worse than Starbucks for a latte and quiet often better. Plus, you know not giving money to Starbucks and their horrible anti-union leadership…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Microsoft owns the game company. So unless your pirating it…
- Comment on Jim Cramer Says OEMs Should Move American Auto Manufacturing To Mexico For $5/hour In Response To UAW Demands 1 year ago:
Although Henry Ford was a fucking Nazi, he had a lot of good common sense business and economic points. He made sure all of his employees could easily afford the cars they were building and it made an empire.
- Comment on McDonald's franchisee group says new $20 minimum wage California fast-food bill will cause 'devastating financial blow' 1 year ago:
“We’ll make less money. We’re job creators. We can’t create more jobs but hording the money if you don’t let us have the money!”
- Comment on Paid full price and got this in the mail (open box). GameStop and I have different definitions of “new” 1 year ago:
Quiet, buy GME best company. The shirts are controlling them. The low stock price has nothing to do with them being a bad business pissing away millions of dollars. Their NFT wallet that was a huge waste of money is the wave of the future.
- Comment on Paid full price and got this in the mail (open box). GameStop and I have different definitions of “new” 1 year ago:
That’s a fuckload of words to explain why they sent OP an open box product as new. Like a super shitty company.
- Comment on Paid full price and got this in the mail (open box). GameStop and I have different definitions of “new” 1 year ago:
BUY GME BEST COMPANY. SO GREAT APES STRONG. Please, realize this is a joke and fuck off back to reddit if you didn’t immediately get that.
- Comment on Paid full price and got this in the mail (open box). GameStop and I have different definitions of “new” 1 year ago:
Shhhh, buy GME. Best company ever. They only lose millions of dollars a quarter. Such a great company.
- Comment on Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses? 1 year ago:
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“The Act authorizes the President of the United States to use “all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court”. This authorization led to the act being colloquially nicknamed “The Hague Invasion Act”, as the act allows the President to order U.S. military action, such as an invasion of The Hague, where the ICC is located, to protect American officials and military personnel from prosecution or rescue them from custody.”
- Comment on Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses? 1 year ago:
There’s literally a standing US order to invade the Hague if a US military member is tried. I’m sure they’d use that for a president… The US isn’t capable of war crimes. They said so.
- Comment on Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses? 1 year ago:
Bush buys shit coin though. He can’t be wrong.
- Comment on Suella Braverman pushes for ban on American bully XLs after attack 1 year ago:
Normally the English have more fun elegant names. I guess the need to make it sound foreign so they could be more xenophobic and hateful about it took priority.
- Comment on Payday 3's roadmap promises four DLC drops in the first year 1 year ago:
“Skeleton of a game released so we can sell you muscles and pieces to make the corpse move later.”
- Comment on Guild Wars 2 + SotO Review by SkillUp 1 year ago:
Guild wars doesn’t have a subscription right?.. If you are playing an MMO without a subscription fee and don’t expect them to slid in monetization in a ton of different ways I don’t know what to tell you. It’s the whole live service business model.
- Comment on Starfield, is it getting review bombed? 1 year ago:
Doesn’t metacritic aggregate reviews from other sources on their review scores as well? I havent really considered any of the big name review places a reasonable source for a long time anyway…
Everyone expects the next big game every game. How often can a studio really live up to the hype people create?