MonkRome

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA: Ruin Everything⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  More like $12.99 for core functionality that should have been released with the game (cities skylines is the worst for this). I’m all for reasonable pricing to cover the costs of development, but chaining together a dozen expansions and making a $40 game cost an additional $160 is bonkers. Its deceptive pricing, and it shouldn’t be excused just because you like small studios making better games. It would be better to release games when they are fully ready and have a roadmap of full cost available.

  Though it does look like they’ve now offered a subscription service to essentially rent the expansions for $8 a month, at least that provides choices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA: Ruin Everything⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Paradox just added a expansion for your comment. To unlock please pay $12.99…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wealth inequality will destroy America.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience the difference in voting is really between the educated class and the uneducated class. Educated people are tend to be left wing. Uneducated people tend to be right wing. I’m pretty sure the data bears that out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Grandma Why⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbf in some cultures its rude not to initially decline and say, “no its too much”, or imply your not worthy of that much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've gotta ask yourself, "What's the point?"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I doubt all 4500 homeless people that still sleep outside in the UK all refused shelter, but the UK gives temporary housing far better than the USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've gotta ask yourself, "What's the point?"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On my bike to work I pass a few homeless encampments and they aren’t even the biggest ones in my city. Homeless people lack basic nutrition, adequate medical care, safety, housing, etc. They are by definition not meeting basic needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You've gotta ask yourself, "What's the point?"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m fine, so everyone else must be”. Most privileged take in human history.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I feel invisible’: over-50s reveal harsh realities of trying to get a job⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Every year I’ve been alive my resume grows and getting a job becomes easier and more lucrative. While im not yet 50, I find it hard to believe that experience is just going to disappear the second I’m over 50. This article is nonsense. People under 40 have been absolutely devastated in the job market over the last 20 years and we’re complaining about the most privileged generations in world history not getting 100% of the jobs they don’t know how to do anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minimum wage isn't survivable anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We have organizations that calculate the “living wage” in each area, it should be tied to that. Its $26/hr where I live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  English is one of 2 official languages there and Christianity is the primary religion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My research in school was exactly this, I set out to prove people on social media lacked social connection irl. What I found out was the opposite, the more people were trying to connect online directly correlated to connecting more offline. Some people just seem to crave those connections anywhere they can get it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨European Commission rejects new laws for Stop Destroying Videogames⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How fragile is your ego when you have to say “nuh uh” to something so unambiguous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aerosol⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Solar is easily the cheapest energy and its getting cheaper every year. Repairing a coal power plant is not as attractive as a much cheaper to run biofuel plant. Etc.

  Here in germany we have investors abandoning half build solar parks cause they aren’t profitable anymore.

  Without knowing the specifics, I doubt profitability was the issue. Once a solar panel is installed it is pure profit with minimal maintenance. Companies get in trouble when they commit way more to a project than they can raise in investments. It seems more likely that is what happened.

  Lastly your looking at a few countries that are pushing back with what amounts to theater (Germany is 56% renewable energy). Meanwhile the largest producer of energy in the world, China, is staying committed to converting to renewables and s also 56% of the way there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aerosol⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure but the problem would be 100 times worse if fossil fuel adoption doest decline. Its good news that we seem to be on the way to shifting our behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aerosol⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m concerned about climate change. But if you ask most people how much progress we’ve made they would say “barely any”. That belief that we can’t do it, is the main thing aside from public policy slowing us down. When people think things are hopeless, they often don’t see the point in fighting or changing their behavior. I also think most people don’t realize that renewable energy adoption has accelerated so quickly the last few years. Every year we have had massive growth over last year in adoption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aerosol⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  iirc ~1/4 of the worlds energy production is renewable. More than 90% of all new electricity capacity worldwide came from renewable sources in 2024. Doomers want you to believe it can’t happen again while we are in the very decade that is likely to change the world. Public policy doesn’t even matter at this point, renewable energy is cheaper, so nearly all new investments are in renewables.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨vacation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And you become part of what makes it sick if you don’t have they tools to develop a deeper self awareness. I was profoundly skeptical of therapy for a long time, and also thought myself very self aware. But with a good therapist you can uncover enormous blind spots and generally improve how you treat yourself an others. Society is built by those within it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨vacation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean for some it can help them accept and process reality a little better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Forbidden Fruit⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought neanderthal males were thought to be a lot less aggressive than homo sapiens (possibly even the reason for their extinction)? Even though I suspect you could be right. I think it’s possibly a mistake to apply how we are today to how our relatives were 40,000+ years ago. Also they might not have a comparable concept of rape if you go back far enough. So the person trama, cultural implications, and psychological impact are possibly hard to analyze from a modern lense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 was a bleak year 😢⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Everything at KFC in the US is horrendous. They stopped being good 30 years ago. I’ve only had good KFC outside the US.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2022 was a bleak year 😢⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not vegetarian, but I like Quorn nuggets more than chicken nuggets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My mother in law used to refuse to eat in an empty or nearly empty restaurant. On the logic that if it’s empty it must be bad. Never mind that the reason a restaurant is empty often has more to do with location than quality, or that it’s packed for dinner and empty at lunch or vice versa.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so easy to not buy games. When was the last good game they made? I guess I’ll continue to ignore their catalog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kiribati ⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Iirc somewhat like the fish

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be a friend to the animals⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve come to realize over the years that most TV is problematic, but you can still be consciously aware of it and still enjoy what you like within that context. I think it’s worse if you watch it, but have no idea that it’s problematic. My dad watches big bang theory sometimes, and that show is incredibly misogynistic for laughs. He has no idea, he thinks the humor is normal. He just takes a lot of that stuff in completely unexamined. My point being, if you are consciously aware of something being problematic, it makes your consumption of it more responsible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨be a friend to the animals⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like it, but it’s plenty well written, it’s obvious why people like it. I think people just like to hate on things they don’t like, it can be fun to be negative with no substantial harm, like complaining for fun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I watch twitch, this dude is gross. I’ll watch some pretty degenerate twitch streamers, but this guy seems like a grade a nazi.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I never noticed this before. But now I see it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  When kia redesigned the logo I thought it was a new car brand with a K and backwards N. When I realized it was kia I can only think about how bad that logo is, not that the old one was any better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree they should expand their review protest to all games in the catalog and not selectively review bomb. Consumers have every reason to impact products success through their purchasing power and reviews. I stopped giving my money to game companies I don’t like a decade ago. It means missing some games, but there is so much out there it hardly matters. I don’t give a shit about this specific controversy, but I do think people have every reason to use their bully pulpit to attempt to impact consumer habits and therefore at least attempt change, even if they are often unsuccessful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s try this logic on other things. Their EULA says they can cut off a finger whenever they want. They haven’t cut off my finger for my purchase of this game, call me back when they cut it off.

  If you’re someone that doesn’t want companies to have root level access to your computer, waiting until it happens, when they’re telling you it’s gonna happen, is every reason to complain and be concerned.