Womble
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- Comment on Guy never bought a game on the Epic Store... Owns 200+ 4 days ago:
They certainly cant do that in places with actual consumer regulations, ToS and EULA mean nothing if they go against the law.
- Comment on Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell 2 weeks ago:
A small number of mobile games sell better make obscene money, the vast majority make a pittance or lose money. But corporate types cant stop salivating at the thought of being the ones to own the next candy crush, so they’d rather take a shot at that than produce something with merit that will likely make a reasonable return.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 players rip into Arrowhead for 'straight-up ridiculous' Killzone crossover prices, CEO defends the choice 2 weeks ago:
No but your argument that no-one is forced to buy cigarettes is equally valid to arguing that for micro-transactions. One is chemically adictive, the other uses physchological tricks and is almost entirely unregulated.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 players rip into Arrowhead for 'straight-up ridiculous' Killzone crossover prices, CEO defends the choice 2 weeks ago:
Thats true in a surface level way. Buts its equally true about cigarettes, heroin any other adictive substance you can think of.
- Comment on *Everyone liked that* 4 weeks ago:
As did the many of the thousands of people who died from being denied treatment in order to push his wage packet up another million dollars. Some of them were children themselves.
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 4 weeks ago:
Thats incredibly crass and you should be ashamed of yourself
- Comment on MPs vote in favour of historic bill to allow assisted dying after emotional debate 4 weeks ago:
The proposed law is only available to people with a terminal illness judged to have 6 months or less to live, needs to be signed off on by two doctors and a judge, and the patient needs to take the drugs themselves. If anything it’s potentially too restrictive, but a step in the right direction.
- Comment on Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts 1 month ago:
Immediately critising someone/a group for doing the right thing but not doing enough/quickly enough is probably one of the main reasons its so hard to get traction for progressive politics. It’s incredibly tiresome.
- Comment on There are Minimum Wages, Why Not a Maximum Wage? 1 month ago:
Use milliseconds instead: a million milliseconds is 17 minutes, a billion milliseconds is 12 days, a trillion is 31 years.
- Comment on UK experts warn against buying ‘XL bully cats’ 2 months ago:
People are being urged not to buy the feline equivalent of XL bully dogs, which have been created by breeders in the US.
- Comment on Rachel Reeves paves way for cuts and tax rises to fill shortfall left by Tories 5 months ago:
Yes thats the idea at least.
- Comment on Construction workers are dying from suicide at an alarming rate, with an estimated 6,000 construction workers dying as a result of suicide in 2022 6 months ago:
The focus on construction is a distraction, the point here is that men of lower socio-economic status in the US are killing themselves at a horrific rate. From the actual paper this article is based on:
The overall suicide rates by sex in the civilian noninstitutionalized working population were 32.0 per 100,000 among males and 8.0 per 100,000 among females. Major industry groups with the highest suicide rates included Mining (males = 72.0); Construction (males = 56.0; females = 10.4); Other Services (e.g., automotive repair; males = 50.6; females = 10.4); Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (males = 47.9; females = 15.0); and Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, and Hunting (males = 47.9).
- Comment on London cinema cancels screening of AI-generated film following backlash | Evening Standard 6 months ago:
Book burnings dont remove all copies of a book from existence either. And no I dont get to decide what is and isnt art, and I dont presume to, generally if someone says something they have made is art and they’re not asking me to buy it I’m happy for them to consider it art. Also I dont go around cheering when creative works I dont like get censored.
- Comment on London cinema cancels screening of AI-generated film following backlash | Evening Standard 6 months ago:
The director, the actors, the camera crew. Take your pick
- Comment on London cinema cancels screening of AI-generated film following backlash | Evening Standard 6 months ago:
I’m glad that the art decider has come to tell me what is and isnt alowed to be art. Is there any other degenerate art you think should be removed? We could have a bonfire.
- Comment on London cinema cancels screening of AI-generated film following backlash | Evening Standard 6 months ago:
Great retort, consider me converted. Who are we censoring next for doing wrongthink?
- Comment on London cinema cancels screening of AI-generated film following backlash | Evening Standard 6 months ago:
I hope the anti-AI reactionaries feel good about their success of censoring an small artist.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
And jesus, the writing in BE! There’s only so many times I can hear “haha look at these funny space people who think the dynamo is an invention from antiquity”
- Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' 7 months ago:
The original point being:
yea, see i just don’t like how we first automated creativity instead of like, idk, manual labor???
emphasis mine, but this is just incorrect. Technology has been reducing the need for manual labour since the wheel and the plow.
- Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' 7 months ago:
And do you wash your clothes in a bucket, wring them out in a mangler before beating your rugs with a stick to get the dust out of them?
- Comment on Damnatory Arbitration 7 months ago:
The whole forced arbitration is bad enough, but retroactively enforcing it on something you already own while deliberately making it difficult to opt out just seems like its begging to fall foul of anti-consumer rules.
- Comment on Damnatory Arbitration 7 months ago:
Is this actually meaningful in any way or is it just the corporate equivalent of positive manifestation? Surely no court would take seriously an after the fact imposition of you waiving your rights by default unless you send a physical letter to them informing them you disagree with losing your right to sue (for no gain on your part).
- Comment on Discord Shuts Down Servers for Switch Emulators Suyu & Sudachi; Disables Lead Developers Account As Well 8 months ago:
And yours even moreso
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 4 Isn't Next For Larian; Something Bigger Is Coming | Spot On | Gamespot 9 months ago:
Tolkien spent years creating a fictional world and languages before even deciding to write a novel.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 4 Isn't Next For Larian; Something Bigger Is Coming | Spot On | Gamespot 9 months ago:
Given that is the opposite of what Tolkien did i think you are overstating your case to say it’s a foundational tenet.
- Comment on Gen Z is forcing a workplace reckoning that should have happened years ago 1 year ago:
Companies, by their very, nature are authoritarian structures. You receive orders from on high and by and large are only able to discuss how to implement them (if even that). Unless there is some level of worker ownership or worker representation at senior management level companies are more akin to feudal power structures than modern ones.
- Comment on higher wages for the servers... by the customers. Fnbs 1 year ago:
A companies shitty business model is not the responsibility of the customer.
- Comment on There's a steep decline in pay compared to the value workers add to the economy, closely tracking the fall in union membership. 1 year ago:
Especially given that union memberships mirrors but lags a few years behind the fall in income share.