ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
@ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on True art is polarizing 2 weeks ago:
Sorry, you need to tape the poop to a wall for it to be art.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 3 weeks ago:
You’re still implying they have a right to my thoughts. I strongly disagree.
Counterpoint: No, I’m not. You’re making the life of internet users who are looking for a solution worse, and hoping Reddit is somehow harmed as a side effect. Nothing in that implies I think that I or they have a right to your thoughts. You are just following a poor strategy, lashing out using the only lever you have, without any logical basis to think it will achieve what you want. Your methods will not produce the results you seek.
If you feel differently, feel free to explain. I’ll read your post. But I think I’m done replying to this thread for now - my original post said what I mean.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 3 weeks ago:
It’s their - and your - right, sure. They’re by definition done on comments the user owns. But this is just punching desperate Internet users in the face hoping it gives Reddit a bloody nose.
Buddy, this is in my original post: “It’s their - and your - right, sure. They’re by definition done on comments the user owns. But this is just punching desperate Internet users in the face hoping it gives Reddit a bloody nose.”
I’m making a point about cause and effect, and started out conceding that you can do what you want with your own comments. You’re arguing with a phantom projection of your own issues.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 3 weeks ago:
See the last paragraph of my post. I both addressed this, and am talking about past comments, not future comments.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 3 weeks ago:
You’ve reposted all of your deleted Reddit comments to Lemmy?
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 3 weeks ago:
Ah, where are those books now? Which shelves can I find them on?
I get the metaphorical point, but it’s a point without effect. “Removing with no possible present or future access” is the same as “burning” for society’s purposes.
- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 3 weeks ago:
I hear these justifications a lot, but the conclusion doesn’t follow from the premises.
The value of the archival data that can be affected by deleting or editing is almost entirely only user-accessed value. Reddit isn’t harmed at all from the edits. It primarily needs active regular users to improve its stock value. Alternatively, it can sell archival data for AI training.
Editing old comments removes neither value source from Reddit. You moved away from it so deprived it of both the material value of new comments and the statistical value of being an active user. Reddit also assuredly has saved data from before the API issue and can likely spot and clean the mass edits to sell the data from training purposes.
Conversely, the value to users and society is high. So many solutions to problems that are gone forever. The Internet is decaying already and it gets harder to find useful information, and those leaving decided to just burn down a library of Alexandria.
It’s their - and your - right, sure. They’re by definition done on comments the user owns. But it’s about as effective as punching desperate Internet users in the face to try to make Reddit feel pain.
- Comment on Anon saves up 3 weeks ago:
Many places don’t pay them out - use or lose.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 3 weeks ago:
Hey, Canada is on top and Alaska is on the bottom, it’s even in the picture.
But what people don’t get is that the scale of the map means that bridge would have to be half as tall as New Mexico, which is like at least 5 miles, and also there’s no way the bridge would support the weight of the entire United States. C’mon people.
- Comment on Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month 4 weeks ago:
I think those doomsayers will be partially vindicated in the coming months. You can go to Best Buy’s website and order a Switch 2 with no waiting line, no delay. The supply is outpacing demand. Because I think a huge part of the 6 million sold was pent up demand for a new console and the inevitable cumulative brand effect and population increase leading to a larger early-adopter pool.
Unless Nintendo somehow had the ability to increase supply in a way unheard of for launch consoles in the past, I think that they met that early demand, and now it’s going to slow down abruptly. Now they have to convince regular people in a bad economy to spend way more than normal for a Nintendo console, with no Mario or Zelda killer app.
Eventually it’ll be a great selling machine, but these early numbers are misleading.
- Comment on GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom 4 weeks ago:
Funnily enough I tried that too, still needed a code. Probably will be fine, I’ll try tomorrow,
- Comment on GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom 4 weeks ago:
Just FYI, they may be getting hammered. Tried this and it sent a 15-minute-expiration 2FA code, which took 3 hours to arrive.
- Comment on Delta Air Lines is using AI to set the maximum price you’re willing to pay 1 month ago:
The article isn’t very clear, but the novelty here is that this is unprecedented hypertargeting to individual users. Instead of the current demographic, website, days-before-flight, and other factors, think Uber’s pricing, where you are quoted $40 for a ride, and the person right next to you is quoted $25 for the exact same ride thanks to their dynamic data-driven (and ethics-free) prcing.
This opens the possibility that Delta will charge you more solely because the data Delta has been able to acquire for you suggests you’ll pay more. And that black-box AI system could base it on all sorts of nefarious reasons - e.g., your mother is dying in the hospital, increasing your desperation to get a flight to that location, which makes its way into the dynamic “motivation” index in the AI calculus, which doubles the price of your flight.
We’re not there yet, but when you see the sorts of things Uber does for reference, I feel it’s a clear path to airfare’s little corner of our coming dystopia.
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 1 month ago:
Even if any of them believe they are praying, their “faith” is a sham in support of their real religion: power. To Republicans, “politics” is the religion founded on increasing personal power through symbolic speech and conduct.
They are hollow, nihilistic simulacrums of human-like virtue, expressing themselves only to drain the actual human value and agency from the public.
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 1 month ago:
Yeah, Match.com isn’t satisfied until everyone is miserable.
It’s weird to think about how dominantly successful any app that took a principled position and resisted enshittification starting in 2010 would be now.
- Comment on 32, f. Are there any dating sites that are actually free and don't suddenly force me to pay to actually use the site? 1 month ago:
I think civilization is probably just ending after these last few generations, frankly.
Probably for the best…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s just the creative writing variant of shitposting.
Sometimes more literal than others.
- Comment on Hesitating getting a Switch 2 (1st game console in 15 years)... 2 months ago:
I’m in the same boat. The only reason I’m considering getting a Switch 2 now is because the first gen consoles always end up the easiest to hack.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You raise a good idea - replace this as Trump’s official portrait wherever possible.
- Comment on How streaming changed the way you watch TV 2 months ago:
And for retro games, emulators have left even that in the dustbin of time.
Sick of the last RPG save happening 20 minutes before a boss fight? Save at literally any moment with save states.
That too much work? You can rewind the entire game.
- Comment on Classic Gaming: Retro Gaming Growing Up 2 months ago:
Guess I’m an outlier. For me, games were the way to disconnect from the stress of relationships. I’ve been an introvert since the beginning, and so games’ positive associations for me are a safe place away from social pressures.
I also imagine every “retro” generation thinks its games are the best. Like, there was a meme post about joy at finding a PS2 torrent recently with strong implied nostalgia, and that’s ok. People usually experience video games at an age where the games teach them archetypical feelings of intellectual pleasure, the first time they experienced joy at solving complex problems for example. That becomes a core association through life.
So I think we’ll all have strong feelings linking the systems we played at our formative years. And again, that’s ok. That we can form such strong associations is an expression of the basic human value of video games, as an art and modern cultural necessity.
- Comment on House members erupt into a screaming match following senators forced removal from press conference 2 months ago:
Was she the one who kept ad hominem attacking with “antifa” at the end?
Relatedly, I’ll know we’ve left the worst timeline once it’s no longer a mainstream slur to be anti-fascist.
- Comment on Anon plays Metroid 2 months ago:
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night on PS1 revitalized the genre so much, I think it’s fair that it took on half the genre name. Modern metroidvanias are as much SOTN as Metroid.
- Comment on More than 90% of JPMorgan employees reported a decline in morale following RTO 2 months ago:
What is it about CEOs that makes this the ego power trip issue for them?
- Comment on I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought.... 2 months ago:
The federal agency ICE is completely captured by fascists. They are arbitrarily staging immigration crackdowns using hastily deputized agents who arrest people off the street while hiding their identity. They came to Los Angeles, a fervently anti-fascist area. It triggered massive but mostly peaceful protests. Trump is using the protests as a pretext to mobilize the federal military against citizens.
- Comment on I've hated donald trump since day one but then I saw this and thought.... 2 months ago:
I’m not sure what the hostility is for. The very thing the protesters are standing up for is the correct idea of America. The flag should be for real patriots who believe in the Constitution, not Trump and his insurrectionist ilk.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO on going AI-first: ‘I did not expect the blowback’ 2 months ago:
The Tech CEO Bubble is real and one of the most harmful, even if it doesn’t get talked about like our respective political bubbles, geographical bubbles, etc. I actually believe he was actually that deluded that people were as hyped about AI replacing workers as he was.
- Comment on Why do so many people delete their posts? 2 months ago:
Sometimes I do it, and it’s just because I don’t really like what I wrote. I read it and it’s just banal, and I’m like, “you’re not moving the discourse forward at all.”
What annoys me are people who did that to thousands of their posts after leaving Reddit to their posts. They’re their posts, they have the right to do it, but I’m like, c’mon, Reddit isn’t suffering from it. They’re selling the data for the same price with or without, and they have all the backups. No, all the users who are googling a one-place-on-the-Internet solution to their extremely specific problem are suffering.
I think that’s like getting angry at your boss and taking it out on your family.
- Comment on Bait or r*ta*d*ti*n. Call it. 2 months ago:
He was also in South Park, and Rick & Morty. He had a great PR team considering what they were working with behind the scenes. They dressed him up real nice.
Then he fired them, because he didn’t like having to wear anything in public. Metaphorically-speaking.
- Comment on Sleep well 3 months ago:
That’s a hell of an act. What do you call it?