Skyhighatrist

@Skyhighatrist@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redirect to prevent back button⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s worse is that YouTube sometimes doesn’t do that, i.e. when you hit back it shows the same list from the cache or something. It gives you hope and makes it worse on those occasions when it does fully refresh on back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artificial price increase so that you can post “discounts” on Prime Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the same story in US and Canada. Illegal, but not really enforced. And when it is enforced the the penalties aren’t strong enough to be a deterrent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artificial price increase so that you can post “discounts” on Prime Day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s against FTC regulations in the US too. The trick is getting them to enforce it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mythbusters⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re the type of gamer that gets sucked into Rimworld, then Dwarf Fortress will very likely consume you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t speak for the parent, but I don’t remember ever getting past Nova Prospekt. Not because I didn’t want to, it’s just that every time I’ve started playing I get distracted right around that part. But I have a serious problem of not being able to finish games, I get distracted by other games far too easily.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favorite game that you will NEVER finish?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish there were more pedantic people regarding the difference. The more it gets diluted the harder it becomes to find the proper roguelikes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield End of the Year Update⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone, somewhere thought it looked cool and marketing people have been copying it ever since to make their site “pop”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starfield End of the Year Update⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see why you might think that, but that’s not how it works. All of the text is downloaded up front, but is hidden initially. It is made to appear as you scroll, but it does not get the text via additional web requests. If you view the page source, or inspect element you can see it all there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baldur's Gate 3 out now on Xbox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure they meant day 1 on x-box. X-Box players get to play the polished version of the game from the moment they get it. They get the version that already has all of those patches on day one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the name of the building at festivals located opposite the stage where the cameramen and lighting crews are located?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate it too, but irregardless has officially been a word in dictionaries for years now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity adding a fee for devs for each time a game is installed, after certain thresholds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well… not that shocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Games bought via Steam are covered under Steam’s TOS as far as I know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t Ubisoft make a statement afterwards that they would not be deleting accounts that have game purchases?

  The title is a bit click-baity. Even the article acknowledges that Ubisoft has stated they won’t be deleting accounts that have purchased games. That’s no excuse not to take precautions, of course, but it feels a bit like fearmongering, and the world has far too much of that these days.