Phil_in_here
@Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 3 days ago:
I’m in there. I see “story rich” and it reads as a crutch for no gameplay, or a premise for a book without the responsibility of pacing.
I know that’s far from true, and there are loads of great story-rich games that are fun and engaging. But when that’s the main tag, it turns me away.
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 1 week ago:
Quit exhaling! We have a climate crisis!
- Comment on Do you want the murderer of the UnitHealthcare CEO prosecuted? 2 weeks ago:
And I hope his peers understand that he should be sentanced to community service and what he’s done is already time served
- Comment on Lt. Gov. Patrick vows to ban all THC in Texas 2 weeks ago:
Classic free market, small government, deregulation conservatives.
- Comment on Brazilian's impression on the united states(i have never been there and this is based on nothing) 3 weeks ago:
Montana? Montana’s just, like, Montana, man.
- Comment on AI slop animal abuse 4 weeks ago:
AI is finally becoming self aware
- Comment on Tom Hardy's Splinter Cell Movie Is Officially Dead 5 weeks ago:
What better way to advertise your clandestine movie than with clandestine marketing?
- Comment on How would American culture change if the internet went down? 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, Rogers didn’t die. It monopolized data communication with insufficient regulation. It had an inevitable outage that could have been bypassed if not for the reasons listed.
Rogers continues to make stacks while the public foots the bill.
- Comment on THE HECK? Documents show FEMA official ordered workers to ignore houses with Trump signs 1 month ago:
It’s a real leopards ate my face situation
- Comment on US Democracy 1 month ago:
“We won it last time! Why change now? Besides, proportion representation only leads to more parties and that’d mean we’d have to… cooperate.”
- Comment on Go fuck yourself, Mike 1 month ago:
Sounds like that’ll buy you one logistic
- Comment on Most of the trick-or-treaters have been skipping my house, and I finally figured out why 1 month ago:
That’s not it at all. Literally, my children told me, “I don’t want to go up, I just want to go to the houses with bowls”. But it’s not a lazy thing, it’s a social anxiety thing. We don’t chat with strangers, we don’t make small talk with people we don’t know, we don’t ask people things we can find out without asking people things. We’re socially awkward parents and we have socially awkward children.
Millennials, the ones who would much rather text than call on the phone their dearest friends and closest relatives, are 35-40 years old. They’re the ones with halloweening children and those kids are just ask averse to face to face interactions with neighborhood residents as we are.
- Comment on Mom of the year 1 month ago:
TIL
- Comment on It's a matter of perspective 1 month ago:
Or that we should agree on “throur”
- Comment on Rules 2 months ago:
That’s our appreciation for clear rules
- Comment on In order to pay import duties, these crazy fuckers are expecting me to enter my bank logon details into their website. What. The. Fuck. 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Why limit immigration? 3 months ago:
It is with that attitude
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 3 months ago:
Fun fact! My coworker pays more in rent for his apartment than I do on the mortgage of my house. Most often this is true.
I’m getting a once over by the bank, he’s getting done once over by the bank and again by his landlord, and they might not ever be different.
So how is an immigrant supposed to thrive when a foreign investment firm is profiting off them twice?
Subsidize affordable housing, tax wholesale & foreign landlords out of existence. It’s simple.
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 3 months ago:
If only we had some sort of public entity that could fund housing investments with little to no financial gain, but great gains to public support and well-being that was also in charge of controlling and permitting immigration rates so that the two could be balanced…
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 3 months ago:
No. No, that’s not it at all.
Immigrants would be better served by unprofitable low income housing, not feeding their meager scraps to pay artificially inflated rent prices to an offshore real estate investment company.
- Comment on Why limit immigration? 3 months ago:
I don’t think anyone wants to make a brand new condo and try to full it full of fresh immigrants that other businesses are exploiting to pay less.
They want to develop 1 set of condos they can sell for $300k+ rather than 3 sets for $100k
- Comment on Burning Up 3 months ago:
Fahrenheit is literally a German dude making a scale from, “scheiße its chilly outside” to “oh mein gott, its hot out!”
- Comment on Burning Up 3 months ago:
It’s that extra “one” of incredulity.
40 degrees, that’s just too hot.
41? You’ve got to be fucking kidding me.
- Comment on Why is waking up when my alarm goes off so difficult and unpleasant yet "sleeping in" does feel good and isn't satisfying? 3 months ago:
It might not help you, but it helped me to recognize when laying in bed trying to “sleep in” wasn’t going to happen. If I’m not asleep again in 5 minutes and it’s past a certain time (6:30 for me), fuck it. My body just aches if I lay in bed awake trying to sleep. I get up and enjoy the quiet morning.
- Comment on My word game had some weird archaic racist word as one of the answers. 3 months ago:
Isn’t that just “giraffe” with a regional accent?
- Comment on Those poor plants 3 months ago:
Similarly, I plan on double crossing the mafia so Thin Lips Johnny can chop me up and feed me to the pigs. Circle of life.
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 4 months ago:
Yeah, that’s exactly it. That was my point: It’s better to be enjoyed for free than not at all.
- Comment on Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century. 4 months ago:
The fruits of artistic labour.
Ask any artist if they’d rather their work not be enjoyed at all, or enjoyed for free.
- Comment on I just got out of the shower. what is with the product placement ? 4 months ago:
I for one am excited for this new form of capitalism! The government picks one brand to be the national brand for everyone.
Hey, wait a minute…
- Comment on The US shouldn't have so many men 6 feet and over 4 months ago:
Are you suggesting to give 'em all the Cotton Hill treatment?