mechoman444
@mechoman444@lemmy.world
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- Comment on EA: Ruin Everything 20 hours ago:
Lol it’s the actual name of the game.
Apparently I wasn’t lazy enough to do some leg work to figure it out (I actually knew about this game and was able to identify it by the name but that’s beyond the point.)
You’re the reason why Netflix has to take into account people doom scrolling on their phones while they watch their media.
It probably took less time for me to search, upload and write this message than it took you to type up that rancid pile of shit.
So for everyone concerned: shut the fuck up.
- Comment on Tax billionaires, insure millions: The CA wealth tradeoff 6 days ago:
The issue is they consider something like this to be an “opening the flood gates” scenario.
Which of course is bullshit since they don’t actually pay taxes. At all.
This isn’t an opening of the floodgates to more taxes for the hyperwealthy this is compliance enforcement for being part of society.
- Comment on first state btw 6 days ago:
I’ve been to North-North Dakota. It’s nice. Cold but nice.
- Comment on Console market craters as Xbox sales crash 33% to the lowest since launch 25 years ago, PS5 sales drop 25% 1 week ago:
OMG! It’s almost like constantly raising prices just isn’t working out!
It doesn’t matter how expensive RAM gets, what the market is doing, how much AI is driving up component prices, or whether the market is bullish or bearish. At some point, consumers reach a breaking point. When a product becomes too expensive, people stop buying it. They don’t particularly care why it’s expensive. They care whether it’s worth the asking price, and whether they can justify spending that much money on it.
And that’s the problem Sony and Microsoft seem to be running into. Between rising console prices, increasingly expensive games, subscription price hikes, and a growing number of anti-consumer practices, they’ve made gaming an increasingly expensive hobby while giving consumers fewer reasons to feel good about spending their money.
What’s worse is that these companies have spent years alienating a significant portion of their own fan bases. Aggressive monetization, digital ownership concerns, restrictive ecosystems, and the push toward subscriptions have steadily eroded consumer goodwill. You can only squeeze your customers so much before they start questioning whether they want to remain customers at all.
At the end of the day, consumers aren’t obligated to buy a PlayStation or an Xbox just because they bought one last generation. They can stick with their existing hardware, buy fewer games, switch platforms, or walk away from gaming altogether.
You can’t price your way to endless growth, especially when you’re simultaneously giving your customers more reasons not to buy your products. Eventually, the market pushes back. And frankly, it’s hardly surprising that we’re seeing that happen now.
- Comment on time to starr shootin some AI execs 2 weeks ago:
Yes which is why I almost immediately deleted my comment.
- Comment on Mental health professionals rarely allow you to talk about the socioeconomic factors too 2 weeks ago:
I was in behavioral therapy for over a decade a lot of it was about how to handle finances and the way of economics now and how they impact mental health. It was a common subject and group as well.
Don’t make it out to be like there’s some kind of conspiracy that mental health professionals on a lot talk about finances.
- Comment on The conservatives are calling basic Progressive policies "Communist". 2 weeks ago:
EXACTLY!
All those things that the meme mentions are something that the government should be looking into regardless of what economy they institute!
I’m paying $2,000 a month for a three bedroom that shouldn’t cost anywhere above $1100 a month!
I went to home Depot last night bought some cockroach traps, Teflon tape a plunger and a short length of stainless steel tubing for $30. What’s up on tables 98 cents the plunger was $4 the box of cockroach traps was eight bucks and the length of tubing was $15! And none of the prices make any sense!
- Comment on The Billionaires have spent a fortune making sure you hate Socialism. 3 weeks ago:
This is the second time this exact meme has been posted to this sub, so I suppose this is the second time I have to say this.
Socialism does not inherently guarantee collective worker protections, nor was socialism itself designed specifically to provide them.
At its most basic level, socialism is an economic and political framework centered on social or public ownership and control of the means of production. Worker protections, labor rights, workplace safety regulations, unions, minimum wages, and social welfare programs are separate policy choices. They can exist under socialist, capitalist, and mixed economic systems.
More importantly, there is very little historical basis for claiming that socialism, simply by virtue of being socialism, guarantees the protections this meme is describing. In fact, many governments that have implemented socialist economic systems have had extensive records of suppressing independent labor organizations, restricting worker autonomy, and disregarding individual civil and political rights.
You can argue for those protections. You can argue for socialism. But conflating the two doesn’t make the historical or economic argument any stronger.
- Comment on Ohhhhh, the year was 1778... 3 weeks ago:
Maybe so but I don’t trust sites like that. Many of them are scams.
- Comment on Ohhhhh, the year was 1778... 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Ohhhhh, the year was 1778... 3 weeks ago:
discogs.com/…/3385853-Various-Sea-Songs-And-Shant…
Sorry I didn’t really feel like doing the leg work but here you go.
I swear to God I have this vinyl somewhere in my house but I haven’t seen it in years and haven’t listened to it in years.
But it is quite quite good if you are able to find a digitized copy of it somewhere or the original which is extremely hard to find nowadays.
- Comment on Ohhhhh, the year was 1778... 3 weeks ago:
In terms of sea shanties, and I’ll be the first to say for a 40 year old my taste in music is… Eclectic to say the last, but there is a recording out of the 60s that is the quintessential collection of sea shanties and it is absolutely amazing.
- Comment on Why does all AI graphic design have the exact same style? 3 weeks ago:
I see what you’re saying thank you for the examples that definitely clears up a lot.
I guess I just kind of tune these out in public but you’re absolutely right they do have a very similar styling.
- Comment on Why does all AI graphic design have the exact same style? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know where y’all seeing all this ai adverts. Social media?
But I hardly see any of it.
Sometimes on a YouTube ad… By sheer happenstance.
- Comment on A Fediverse genre of Guy 3 weeks ago:
There is no way in Ba Sing Se.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 3 weeks ago:
I’m glad you liked Shameless and enjoyed it; it’s absolutely fantastic that you did. There’s no issue with that.
But I thought it was, objectively, a very mediocre show. It relied almost exclusively on unnecessary shock value to drive the narrative and keep people watching.
It was so pointlessly raunchy and disgusting.
If you have to rely on gratuitous sex and violence to keep your audience engaged, you’re not making a good show.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 3 weeks ago:
I would say you believe this for two main reasons. One, those are some of the shows that you watched and are familiar with, and you’ve seen spectacularly little of what is actually on that list.
And two, your own subjective experience is dictating what you feel is better versus what is worse, which is ultimately a completely useless way to estimate how good something actually is.
Furthermore, lists like this are intentionally inflammatory. They’ll put several genuinely good entries way too low on the list specifically so people will argue about it and drive engagement.
I mean, Westworld didn’t even make the cut but Scandal did.
- Comment on According to the New York Times, Game of Thrones is the 6th best TV show of the 21st century 3 weeks ago:
I’m like why aren’t the sopranos in here and I’m like o ya that show came out in the 90s! Then I’m like fuck i’m old.
Also Gilmore Girls deserves to be way, way higher on that list!
- Comment on *Throws grenade and runs* 4 weeks ago:
I fucking hate holodecks.
They are dangerous, psychologically destructive machines that have no place on earth. We have no idea what prolonged exposure to simulated environments does to the human brain. People are spending hours inside fake worlds instead of interacting with reality. Children are probably going to grow up thinking consequences aren’t real because their parents let them spend twelve hours a day fighting robots in a simulated medieval castle.
And don’t even get me started on the fact that the computer can generate literally anything you ask for.
That is not progress. That is an existential threat to society.
So, naturally, I have volunteered to personally test every single holodeck in the world.
Every last one.
I will spend as much time as necessary inside these horrible, dangerous machines so that nobody else has to endure the terrible psychological consequences of using them.
You are welcome.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Quality of life? For the two months a person has to live?
They have a deadline with cancer… You know that right?
I don’t know if you ever had to watch someone die from cancer but there is no quality of life. It takes absolutely everything and in the end you have nothing. Not even your dignity.
- Comment on I getting more and more enraged seeing self proclaimed leftists resorting to ghastly Gen AI to bastardise their rather humorous ideas. 4 weeks ago:
Also the fact that this is all you got in rebuttal to what I was saying is absolutely fantastic thank you thank you for showing us that you have absolutely nothing to contribute.
- Comment on I getting more and more enraged seeing self proclaimed leftists resorting to ghastly Gen AI to bastardise their rather humorous ideas. 4 weeks ago:
I’m happy you’re happy.
- Comment on I getting more and more enraged seeing self proclaimed leftists resorting to ghastly Gen AI to bastardise their rather humorous ideas. 5 weeks ago:
Yes.
This response was also AI generated.
- Comment on I getting more and more enraged seeing self proclaimed leftists resorting to ghastly Gen AI to bastardise their rather humorous ideas. 5 weeks ago:
I apologize for bringing your logical fallacies to light. I realize pointing them out is intellectually lazy, but unfortunately it seems necessary when they make up the basis of the rebuttal.
You’re conflating the effort required to manufacture an image with the effort involved in creating the joke. The context of the joke isn’t who manufactured the image; it’s who made the joke. The AI didn’t independently decide that Netanyahu, Trump, and Ed Sheeran standing on a stage would be funny. A person came up with that concept and used AI as the tool to produce it.
You could have made the same image in Paint.NET in 20 minutes. Great. That doesn’t demonstrate that the joke is lazy, and it certainly doesn’t demonstrate that it’s unfunny. It demonstrates that you prefer a different method of producing the image.
And “lazy” isn’t a synonym for “unfunny.” If I spend twenty hours painstakingly creating the exact same image in Photoshop, the joke doesn’t magically become funnier because I invested more labor into manufacturing the pixels.
If you don’t find the joke funny, that’s perfectly fine. But that’s a subjective reaction, not an argument. If your argument is that the joke itself is lazy, then explain why the idea is lazy. The fact that the production of the image was automated doesn’t establish that.
For the record, your rebuttal relies on several logical fallacies. The “you criticize AI while using the internet” comparison is a false analogy because my point was about the irony of criticizing the energy consumption of one internet-based activity while participating in another, not that you are somehow forbidden from criticizing technology you use. Your claim that the image is lazy because it was AI-generated is essentially circular reasoning because you are using the use of AI as both the evidence and the conclusion that the work was lazy. And saying that it could have been made in Paint.NET in 20 minutes is a non sequitur: the amount of effort required to produce an image does not establish whether the underlying joke is funny or whether the person who conceived it was creative. Those arguments don’t establish your conclusion; they simply assert it from different directions.
- Comment on I getting more and more enraged seeing self proclaimed leftists resorting to ghastly Gen AI to bastardise their rather humorous ideas. 5 weeks ago:
Great, another “AI sucks and I’m so much more enlightened because I don’t like or use AI” post.
The irony of this person using the internet on their device to post about AI’s energy usage while using the exact same infrastructure and consuming energy to make the post and complain about it… is… fantastic!
If OP really wanted to rally against AI, they would have stayed quiet and not posted about it at all.
And the fact that he doesn’t like the joke specifically because it’s AI-generated is one of the most pointless statements I could think of. No one cares what you like or why. It’s also one of the most useless pieces of information an individual can provide to another person.
- Comment on reddit banned me, rdrama banned me, even telegram and 4chan banned me, so now I have to post my shakespeare level writings here 5 weeks ago:
No, neither claim survives the light of day; Why set thyself beside the Bard at all? Thy works inhabit not the selfsame sphere; To liken thee to Shakespeare is to ask How well a rusted pogo stick might fare When sent to breach the heavens in a craft Designed by hands that conquered lunar seas.
And cease this strange recital of thy bans; For none may verify the tales thou tell. Thou claim’st that every gate hath barred thy way, Then trumpet’st forth the very words that made Those gates, it seems, so eager to be closed. Perhaps the fault lies not in every door, But in the hand that knocks upon them all.
Turn, then, thy gaze upon the inward glass And ask what common thread binds every gate. For when the world itself becomes the foe, And every forum casts thee to the void, Some modest introspection might reveal What in thy conduct summons such disdain.
And more: thy discourse wanders into realms Of shootings, narcotics, and stranger things, Then wonders why the doors refuse thy name. The cosmos need not conspire against thee; Perhaps, dear interlocutor, the cause Is somewhat nearer than thy theories claim.
- Comment on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% 5 weeks ago:
Preach brother.
To make the same old tired games over and over again and people go crazy for them.
“OMG this new Mario game is revolutionary they really improve the jump mechanic!”
- Comment on Over 85% of Japanese game developers use generative AI in game development, 2026 CESA survey shows. An increase from last year’s 51% 5 weeks ago:
O no! Looks like most of Lemmy is going to stand on their laurels and not play a single Nintendo game ever again! Right?
Because y’all hate AI so much.
- Comment on This Syrian man hid his private library in his home in the city of Damascus out of fear of the Assad regime, where the mere presence of a banned books could lead you to prison 5 weeks ago:
The casualties in Israel are probably much, much higher than 80k.
- Comment on The teacher challenged his students to remove a mandarin from a glass full of water without spilling a single drop 5 weeks ago:
Schrodinger’s mandarin?
