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- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 5 days ago:
People pay to stream music?
I thought most people just put up with ads, or get the revanced version of the app with ads removed.
Then you have the smaller group that downloads off of any good distribution site, and then the small minority of music archive torrentors.
I think I only ever met one person who actually paid for youtube premium, but my sample size is probably too small.
- Comment on If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action? 1 week ago:
None of you fools in this thread have ever encountered a public situation, much less a dangerous public situation huh?
- Comment on ... 1 week ago:
Forgot the “Thinks his skills at hitting 100m targets will allow him to fight the government in a civil war situation”
- Comment on DO IT! 2 weeks ago:
Would that make Bart Nite Owl lol?
- Comment on Dinner is ready! 2 weeks ago:
D by far has the widest available palette, it includes the silk road which is the thing that fueled C, B, and E.
- Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 2 weeks ago:
Team Fortress was a quake mod
Half Life used a modded version of the quake engine
Counter Strike was a Half Life mod
L4D was a Counter Strike mod
Gary’s Mod is literally just a game revolving around you modding the Source Game Engine
Seems legit Nintendo.
- Comment on I may swear like a pirate, but I'm a fucking PRINCIPLED pirate 5 weeks ago:
Yeah the only environment it seems to fit is the military which sort of makes sense for how often you get smoked long before you ever see combat or even just active duty.
And even then most military people have a cleaned up citizen dictionary for whenever they’re not with their buddies.
Anything outside of that just seems excessive and vulgar for no apparent gain or reason. Even funny and wildly profane comments online don’t use expletives as much as some people do IRL.
There has to be wordplay and emphasis to make it justied (or funny like the gorilla warfare copypasta), otherwise it just comes of the same as ending every single sentence or phrase with “lol”.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Steam can't escape the fallout from its censorship controversy 1 month ago:
Welcome to the bank owned oligopoly lol.
Debit cards use the same PCI DSS backend, which is owned by Visa and Mastercard, both of which were created by banks (I think BofA made Visa)
“ePayment” systems like PayPal, Cashapp, Zelle, etc rely on the same backend, or also publicly owned by several major banks.
Direct bank wire transfers still have a useless transfer fee for literally no reason. I think maybe echecks don’t, but they expose your full bank account numbers (for no good reason), and they’re still controlled by the bank, and they don’t offer it as a solution for rapid payments.
Bitcoin technically solved this problem except the supply system wasn’t designed for stability, so the value is way too volatile. Even though there are better crypto currencies that have solved this problem like XRP, the blockchain hype train crashed so a ton of vendors don’t accept crypto anymore even though they used to.
This entire system is nothing but a highly organized and legalized fraudulent scam to ensure banks can rip off vendors and consumers with transaction fees and debt.
The only thing that bypasses this system at the moment is using physical cash, which doesn’t work online.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 months ago:
Just like how Pakistan administers Jammu & Kashmir and India administers AJK & Gilgit Baltistan, both of which are across the Line of Control in the opposite country’s border lol.
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 months ago:
- Comment on Public transit in Chengdu, China versus Toronto, Canada 2 months ago:
Pentagon wasted tax money on facebook bots to convince people in East Asia that the chinese covid vaccine was poison, so no one is really buying the “China human rights abuses are what allow China to succeed” idea anymore.
Especially since you can just as easily point to Japan’s infrastructure projects which achieved the same thing under US supervision post WWII, meaning said human rights violations aren’t even a supposed cost if there’s less evidence of it that of UAE literally pirating in immigrants to build their lavish towers and stadiums.
Of which the US fully supports, so this just goes back to the blame game of who is worse.
Yes, China has some shady ideas of what is considered acceptable behavior and work output from citizens, but the point is that they are using it to rapidly grow their infrastructure, unlike NA which take a decade for a single transit system to get approved all while car OEMs are pumping out dumpsterfire vehicles of whose parts are overwhelmingly made in China.
- Comment on Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewers 2 months ago:
Lol I remember Dunkey complaining about this guy and twitch streamers in general showing up to E3 because “The only Twitch streamer that plays games is Pete Dorr, and he wasn’t even on there”
- Comment on Reddit assemble 3 months ago:
- Comment on How bad is it that Israel has attacked Iran? 3 months ago:
I honestly think Iran is too defanged to make a difference with escalation. Israel flexed their capability heavily and eliminated part of Iran’s C&C and a lot of their military and nuclear assets in one go, and they’re still continuing with strikes for any mop up.
It’s a win-win situation for them because they’ve got the US to defend them and they can go almost full force on whatever they deem a threat.
It might technically backfire for Netanyahu if Iran fails to mount any serious counteroffensive, at which point he won’t have any escalation path to stay in power, but it’s still a big win for Israel’s interests.
Also not related to the question, but this proves HTS in Syria is just another CIA project that will follow Washington’s demands no questions asked since they clearly allowed Israel to operate within their airspace.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 4 months ago:
–recurse-depth=3 --max-hits=256
- Comment on Comfy cozy 4 months ago:
The funny thing is that statistically, there’s a 43% chance that you’re living in one of the other 8 countries with nuclear warheads lol.
- Comment on 🌊🌊🌊 5 months ago:
- Comment on do crimes 5 months ago:
Big grants and research money connections are typically only accessible because your paper got in a “reputable” journal, which of course you only have a chance of getting if you publish with a “reputable” system.
spoiler
Reputable my ass
- Comment on Things are about to finally change! 5 months ago:
Criticism of one of the worst democratic party campaigns is clearly the mark of a tankie.
There’s just no way telling your constituency and voter base to “fuck off” would have any kind of negative consequence on the election.
It’s just simply impossible. We clearly lost because the tankies from .ml ran a nationwide psyop that lead to losing every single swing state.
- Comment on Things are about to finally change! 5 months ago:
At this rate I fully expect the democrats to fumble the midterm elections which should be literally the easiest campaign in decades.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 5 months ago:
Compiz, Wayfire, and KWin all outshine both Windows and MacOS in quality and render performance.
The amount of visual magic in Compiz and Wayfire especially is both incredibly useful but also hilarious.
3D desktop cube is a great way to handle multiple desktops, but rotating your windows to any angle is just to show off to your friends lol.
- Comment on What is the best Sea based game out there in your opinion? 5 months ago:
Probably will get some groans but World of Warships is actually modeled very nicely. And yeah its a free to play monetized game, but it is miles ahead of war thunder in terms of actually having fun and playing the game at high FPS and great quality even with a potato computer.
The engine has some cool tricks that really makes it shine with water spraying and sloshing onto your vessel.
- Comment on Nintendo confirms $90 price for full Breath of the Wild experience on Switch 2 5 months ago:
That assumes people actually buy it though. Everyone already has this game, so I would expect most of the sales to come from the upgrade pack and not the $90 switch 2 edition. Nintendo usually makes bank by selling old games at full price with a generational console gap.
Tons of the full price successful “remasters” on Switch were Wii games which people no longer used, and Wii U games which no one originally bought.
On the other hand, the last time I didn’t see Nintendo make bank on literally zero effort was never, so I’m not that hopeful that people won’t just shill out for this scam too.
- Comment on Switch 2 Tutorial Game Welcome Tour Costs $10, Nintendo Explains Why It's Not a Free Console Pack-In - IGN 5 months ago:
I like how there’s so many fees on this console that we haven’t even gotten to the $50 skype webcam accessory which they spent a solid third of their direct showing off.
I miss the DS era :/
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con may have the same stick drift problem as original Switch 5 months ago:
I said the same thing about the same type used on the 3DS but I guess for people who grew up on analog sticks, the flat design is not comfortable or lacks precision in some way, which is weird because I hate regular analog sticks because my thumbs never stay centered and I dislike the curve motion compared to the flat design which feels more akin to a mouse, which is what I primarily use on PC.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 months ago:
Bruh, uh… maybe OpenSUSE lol?
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 5 months ago:
Gonna be a useless recommend, but try Fedora or Bazzite (Fedora Silverblue gaming with tweaks to make it easier).
I’ve had some friends with similar complaints about Mint having one off issues with hardware, which is usually because its downstream Ubuntu which means kernel support can be all over the place.
Fedora is probably best bang for buck in latest stable release without entering the realm of unstable rolling like Arch. Really the only thing I’ve found that it lacks is more varied support for ARM boards out of box and a cross compile package for ARM from x86.
By default it does have a slightly annoying repo setup because software that isn’t FOSS ends up on RPMFusion which you have to enable as a user, which is why I suggest Bazzite, which also uses the immutable Linux design which makes it much easier to prevent from breaking or fixing by rolling back a change.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 5 months ago:
latest innovative mario kart.
This is literally the Cars videogame but with Nintetendo IP and Nintendo Proprietary TCP pos p2p online multiplayer.
I used to play that game for free with my friends at the local library 2 decades ago.
- Comment on Note: before tariffs 5 months ago:
Pay to use hardware button that offers 10 FPS pre-skype era fidelity is totally a good thing to show off, and Nintendo has totally never been the only company to notoriously harass, litigate, and shutdown mods, tournaments, homebrew. emulators, fan projects, and literally anyone who so much as so glances at their Intellectual Property.
Utterly delusional
