atrielienz
@atrielienz@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 4 hours ago:
Buying isn’t owning from literally any game company. When you buy digital you own a license to play that game. The license can be revoked at any time.
When you buy a physical game you still only buy a license to play that game, and the license can be revoked at any time. The only difference here is you own the physical disk that media is on, and it’s harder (not impossible) for the owner of that media (the one who sells the license) to revoke the license to that media.
I appreciate that people are pissed about this but it was a thing before digital media took off and the only difference between a steam game and a game from Epic is the inclusion (on Epic) of an offline installer store that allows you to install the game without connecting to the internet.
It’s the same license.
- Comment on Why are people doing this at voting locations in the USA? 18 hours ago:
If I had to guess it’s to protect their identity so that they can vote without being harassed. But I will fully admit I only looked at the picture and didn’t click the link or anything.
- Comment on Sneezing with cottage cheese in your mouth 1 day ago:
Are you really so preoccupied with the abilities of your flesh and bone prison that you felt the need the share this with us?
- Comment on Looking for some clarification on what im guna call the Lemmy workflow from a new post to the front page. 1 week ago:
An assumption isn’t good enough. If you want to implement this you’ll need a plan. It won’t be successful unless the community interacts with it.
- Comment on If I'm stuck in the same area as someone who is clearly sick (runny nose, coughing etc) is there some combo of short/long breaths or nose/mouth breathing that's a better defense against catching it? 1 week ago:
No offense but this was explained many a time during the pandemic, especially in relation to immunocompromised people. If op can’t mask I doubt there are any breathing techniques they can use to prevent them from getting sick. But cleaning anything they touch and washing their hands is as good a solution as any.
- Comment on If I'm stuck in the same area as someone who is clearly sick (runny nose, coughing etc) is there some combo of short/long breaths or nose/mouth breathing that's a better defense against catching it? 1 week ago:
I know that breathing through your nose is generally better than breathing through your mouth for the simple fact that your nose has special follicles that act as a filter. But honestly the eyes and nose are most sensitive to infection and that’s part of the reason people are suggesting masks. It’s to lower the number of mucus membrane vectors for infection.
Op is more likely to get sick, especially if the other sick person isn’t washing their hands and cleaning surfaces they touch, and limiting the amount of time touching their own mucus membranes.
- Comment on Looking for some clarification on what im guna call the Lemmy workflow from a new post to the front page. 1 week ago:
How do you plan to prevent bot user comments? I think that’s an important part of how this goes. Several users (including myself) have had hit and miss success with blocking instances. Block evasion is absolutely a thing here with users too. I really do want to understand what the plan is for implementation, if the communities and instances are going to be warned, and if this instance will have admins and moderators and most importantly tools to combat some of the problems I foresee from this.
- Comment on why does every single flashlight have multiple settings that you have to scroll through? 1 week ago:
If you’ve ever tried to read something off a label in the dark and outshined what you were looking at because the light was too bright, you know why.
- Comment on Looking for some clarification on what im guna call the Lemmy workflow from a new post to the front page. 1 week ago:
I’ve got bots turned off. Mostly because organic conversation can and often is stifled by bots. The lack of the karma system doesn’t change that. Over-inflated posting and downvotes still abound here and people dog pile on that even though there isn’t a karma system reward. They still get a dopamine hit from upvoting/downvoting, and they still get one from seeing upvotes etc. So in that realm it doesn’t matter that an algorithm isn’t boosting some content. Not when people can use bots to drown out other people or whole discussions.
People have posited this idea before. The community generally doesn’t seem to like this idea.
- Comment on How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons? 1 week ago:
I’d argue that I’m smack in the middle of the generation that grew up watching Dragonball and Sailor Moon etc. but I also grew up watching Superman, and Batman, and Spiderman etc.
The problem I have with American comics is a whole list.
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The serial nature of American Comics and the likelihood that the comic will end its run before the story is finished (this happens quite a lot with smaller American Comics, making it difficult to find new material and the will to invest interest in it).
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Anime Stories may not always grow with the fan base, but enough of them do that they maintain their audience over years as the story progresses. I think that’s pretty important.
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The most popular American Comic stories are over saturated on their own material. They reboot repeatedly, and have a wrote way that the main character(s) face/handle problems and conflict. You almost never have a full story that’s not just a cyclical thing. A lot of Manga have a beginning, middle and end, even if the story continues afterwards (story arcs finish more often than not). Sometimes they rehash, the same thing arc to arc, but more often than not, because those characters are new and not 50 year old icons, the audience is more willing to invest in that kind of story.
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There was definitely always this FOMO feeling about anime back in the day because it wasn’t such an outwardly accepted thing. It used to be only the “weird kids” who were into it, so there was a sense of it being scarce, even when it wasn’t necessarily. I think that helped it to be more sought after. It went from weird to cool.
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Anime often doesn’t have a way to endear you to the characters in a cheap way that’s everywhere, enough for you to invest in buying the media. Some American comics started out in news papers and on things like cigarette packets. They gained some level of notariety and recognition from the public that way. So they didn’t have to give as much effort to a first issue as anime manga often does. This to me is a notable difference.
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- Comment on How is anime and manga more popular than comics and western cartoons? 1 week ago:
Superman though is also popular just as an icon, not necessarily (in this day and age) because he’s a comic book character. There are people who have never picked up a comic who knows his name and his general story. They may have never even actually seen a show or movie about him, but he’s now such an icon that this doesn’t matter. People still know him.
- Comment on dream job 1 week ago:
It’s been this way since the inception of the news paper. To see papers they needed to get people invested in the subjects of the paper. That included giving information about the subject of the articles that other people might relate to. If you’re a mother you’re more likely to be inspired by a mom of 3 who went for a degree in science and ended up becoming a “Trebuchet Master”.
- Comment on Conservatives look to end — or replace — Miami teachers union 2 weeks ago:
Owning your own house isn’t the end all be all of cost of living. especially not if they bought a house pre-2020. I have a teacher friend who lives in the same state as me and she and her husband own a house. They bought it just before the pandemic after selling the first house they bought straight out of college. Because they were already living in the area and sold a home in the area it was much easier for them to buy a home here because of the appreciation on their first house. The same is not true for someone trying to move here from a place with a lower cost of living.
That’s my point, it’s not just about the pay. Relocation fees, differences in what they can sell for vs wheat they can buy in a different market, etc. It all adds up.
- Comment on I'm tired of every game being live service 2 weeks ago:
I think this may be algorithmic. Like steam gives suggestions based on what you have already purchased, and what other people who purchased the same games also like. Additionally it’ll tell you what your friends are playing if you friend them on steam. This sort of gives everyone a different picture of steam suggestions that is tailored to them. It might be a good idea to find older non-live service games you like, add them to a new profile or wishlist, and then see what new information pops up for you.
- Comment on Conservatives look to end — or replace — Miami teachers union 2 weeks ago:
My district pays probably close to that more than the district in TX where my friend works. But her cost of living is so much lower that moving here to be a teacher is taking a pay cut. Cost of living matters quite a lot and it also depends on what your district has to offer. It’s never as simple as just the difference in pay.
- Comment on Brave 2 weeks ago:
Edge is chromium based.
- Comment on The HELLDIVERS™^©®^³ 2 EULA is a URL 2 weeks ago:
Disney waved their right to arbitration after backlash. Uber might just do the same, or get sued by the government for the EULA itself.
- Comment on I didn't know HOW bad Google search has gotten. 2 weeks ago:
The more you scroll, the more ads they can serve on one page. So if you scroll to the bottom, don’t see the results you want, you’re likely to try to reword what you were searching for which will bring up new results and more ads. When you think about the fact that 4-5 of the first results are ads generally (if not more) and you have to scroll past those to get a result that isn’t an ad, you recognize that they are maximizing time spent looking at ads because that’s what they are selling to their real customers (the ad services for whom they aggregate).
This scenario makes it more likely that you will click on a sponsored result, backtrack, scroll some more, not see what you’re looking for, re-word your search query, click on maybe another sponsored result, backtrack etc.
- Comment on I didn't know HOW bad Google search has gotten. 2 weeks ago:
Part of the problem is that Google nowe defaults to “All” (web, shopping, news, video, etc) instead of defaulting to Web only and allowing you to select if you want video, or shopping or news etc. That’s a lot of what I see complained about most.
This is first and foremost because Google is an ad aggregation company and they literally want to keep you on the page longer to serve you more ads.
The second problem is that the SEO for Google is so abused at this point that it’s laughable. Search engine optimisation was useful until companies and people started trying to hack it in order to have their results show up before competitors. Because large competitors also have money, it’s no longer enough to just pay to play.
- Comment on Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit? 3 weeks ago:
I’ve been trying to Google it and haven’t come up with anything. It’s been literally article after article of “ex-target” employees making the claim. Might mean it’s an old wives tale they spread around to each other. Might be that it actually does happen infrequently (probably to repeat offenders who don’t get caught in the act but do get caught when footage is reviewed).
- Comment on Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit? 3 weeks ago:
Given the number of people this law firm has represented and the fact that for the most part they were not prosecuted for felony theft according to this article, my guess is that it happens sometimes but isn’t standard practice.
- Comment on Is there a specific example of Target getting a shoplifter convicted for a small individual theft that puts them over the felony limit? 3 weeks ago:
Reliable, I think.
- Comment on 👣👣👣 3 weeks ago:
Having been on the other end of this where they picked an applicant from outside so they could pay them less, despite more than one person being more qualified and already working for the company, I’m not sure who’s side to be in here. On the one hand, if you’ve already got someone lined up for the job, this is disingenuous. On the other hand, if someone already working for you can do the job but you don’t want to pay them what they’re worth, that’s just messed up on several levels.
- Comment on Lenovo is working on Legion Go Gen 2 and Legion Go Lite handheld gaming PCs - Liliputing 3 weeks ago:
I put Bazzite on my Legion go and it was very easy, and I’ve been loving it so far. The thing about these windows gaming handhelds is they’re great with Linux.
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 3 weeks ago:
There is a bigger barrier to them being able to take it away from you. But they absolutely can. Broadcast content like a movie or TV show illegally, and see what happens.
- Comment on California’s new law forces digital stores to admit you’re just licensing content, not buying it 3 weeks ago:
Is still only licensing you the game regardless of whether or not you can download it and play it offline without a problem.
- Comment on Shopping website search is terrible 3 weeks ago:
I have found that for certain things like this, if you can find a part number it’s better to use that to get more refined results. It definitely won’t help for everything (clothing, groceries, etc). But it does help for tech things especially.
- Comment on No 'Sims 5' Coming as EA Updates Franchise With Multiplayer 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much exactly what I thought of.
- Comment on Why did 3D Platformers die? 1 month ago:
Indie game studios still make them. So does Nintendo. They didn’t die. It’s just AAA game studios turned their budget to making blockbuster level games with shit tonnes of micro transactions in order to make more money because unfortunately they make more money and are generally more popular.
- Comment on The Crow review – unfathomably awful goth remake 1 month ago:
I never saw the original Crow movie, and I wonder how many people outside the cult classic scene would have seen it at all if not for this remake. Some things gain a cult following that persists and spans generations and some things don’t.
Because that’s the case I think that whole Ghost in the Shell is a very emphatic and real commentary on new technology and how we perceive our own humanity, I don’t know how many people know much about it or have even seen the original movie, and I wonder if it will have the staying power for new generations without this same kind of new media to renew the story to other audiences. It’s kind of important to recognize that not every audience is the same or finds the same topics and media consumable.
So I think you make a pretty good point here.