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.
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more power and speed = more fun.
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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.
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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.
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- 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.”