acosmichippo

@acosmichippo@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dawn of enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  honestly i think you’re just spewing bullshit. just because apple markets a product with style does not mean its customers are dumb or don’t know what a gigabyte is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dawn of enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  you’re gonna have to elaborate what you mean by “consumers” and “users”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dawn of enshittification⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i don’t think you know what enshittification is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Yes, He Was Actually That Good | Renzy [12:57]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s marvelous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Make Movie Theater Popcorn At Home: The LAST Popcorn Video You'll EVER Need!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  i do pretty much the same except i like using two nested stainless steel bowls for the popping. one inverted as a lid. the bowl funnels the unpopped kernels to the middle where the burner is, and after popping you can use the two bowls to serve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Make Movie Theater Popcorn At Home: The LAST Popcorn Video You'll EVER Need!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Flavacol is the butter salt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Formula 1 capitalism⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was an F1 fan for a long time and finally stopped a couple years ago. a LOT can be said about how it sportwashes petroleum and theocratic dictatorships, but that is barely mentioned at all in this video. Instead it’s about 10 minutes of word salad focusing mostly on F1’s excess which is a very superficial critique of the sport. Most of the points he brings up can be applied to just about any form of entertainment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games with Text-based Interaction?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been playing cluesbysam.com a lot recently. It’s a daily logic puzzle, so not really story-driven, but it is 100% text based.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Appears to Have Quietly Ditched the 10% Xbox Game Pass DLC Discount — Including for COD Points⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  makes me think it’s inevitable that they reverse their position on console exclusive games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  do they inject ads into loading screens and cut scenes?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electronic Arts nears roughly $50 billion deal to go private, WSJ reports⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  given how terrible it has gone for ea over the past 15+ years maybe this is a good thing.

  …oh saudi arabia, nevermind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Borderlands 4 boss tells players "please get a refund from Steam if you aren't happy" as Randy Pitchford continues his very public crashout over the FPS's performance woes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  why are we comparing a game 5 years ago to one released today? hardware is much more capable now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Physical Media Back?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  i get it, but it takes up so much room. I had thousands of CDs. Maybe over 9,000. But I live in a townhouse and there just isn’t room to keep all that shit, especially if you want to do the same thing for other media like blu rays, games, vinyl or whatever else.

  Personally, i find other ways to enjoy music and movies in a physical/visual form like prints, posters, and apparel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead of making suicide harder, we should be treating the root cause of suicide

  Or… both?

  If people get hurt due to gun accidents, I highly doubt they’d be happy if we took their guns away, since that’s like solving traffic deaths by banning cars.

  it’s not even remotely the same thing since cars’ primary purpose is not killing.

  Suicides and gun accidents are certainly interesting statistics, but mixing them with homicides just makes it harder to see what’s going on and arrive at effective solutions.

  it doesn’t really. what does make it harder to arrive at effective solutions is making any excuse possible to avoid gun control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  why should we exclude suicides and accidents?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  the comment wasn’t about fox news specifically, it was about news in general. like it or not, we need news agencies to cover what these people are doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s straight disinformation. Nevermind that everyone else plays the same games, let’s cherry pick the one western nation that has a comparable number of guns per capita and not think about that any further.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they control the country and people should know what they are doing. It’s not that complicated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  is the news supposed to NOT cover what the government is doing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  this is so obviously false it’s enfuriating coming from the head of HHS. Lots of coutnries all over the world have the same violent video games we do without the mass shootings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you miss old network multiplayer games, or would like to try them with your friends for the first time, may I suggest setting them up via SoftEtherVPN?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  i don’t think tailscale will fork for this since it’s L3 and old lan games typically work on L2. Zerotier is a similar service that is L2 and should work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you miss old network multiplayer games, or would like to try them with your friends for the first time, may I suggest setting them up via SoftEtherVPN?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  if you run into issues with softether, zerotier might offer a more streamlined experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  they are related and compound each other. it’s harder to “git gud” if you have to do a bunch of runbacks too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  disagree. they are related and absolutely add to the difficulty of learning how to beat a new boss. it’s way easier to develop a strategy and muscle memory if you can retry the boss fight as soon as possible without having to redo other sections of the game first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  if i purchase a game, you bet your ass i feel entitled to play the whole thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  well if you buy the game and it’s difficult enough to keep you from playing it all the way through that’s kinda shitty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨007 First Light – Gameplay Reveal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  yeah this feels more like Splinter Cell with all the climbing and sneaking. Bond spycraft is more social engineering and charm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in Your Electric Bill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  scrambling to get solar on my roof now before the tax rebate disappears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four wheels good, two wheels bad: why are there no exciting cycling games?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  look i’m not a ICE apologist or antyhing (these apply to EVs as well) but it’s not hard to figure out why car games are more popular. Also I’m not saying these are universal rules, i’m sure some disagree. But I think it’s safe to say these apply to most in the gamer market.

  1. more power and speed = more fun.

  2. Games are as close as most people will come to driving an expensive car like a BMW, let alone a Ferrari, or even actual racing cars. Even if you argue people are just not culturally conditioned to enjoy bicycles, could you even really appreciate them in the same way in a video game? you’d barely see them.

  3. Cars are much more complex machines and that leads to each having a more unique character than bicycles, and that allows a greater variety of gameplay. For example, mid/front engine, NA/turbo/super, ICE/EV, FWD/RWD, etc. And usually in games there’s a progression from lower performance cars to higher performance cars.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet kind of sucks right now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  also “public for actual people who support my forum business model” is not the same as “public for AI scrapers who destruct from my business model.”