killeronthecorner
@killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
- Comment on prediction 4 days ago:
Et tu, SZA?
- Comment on People don't know what they are voting for 4 days ago:
“Muslim… Tripping… Ritual, nailed it” - NYT eds
- Comment on Just.....why? 5 days ago:
But any man’s toothbrush logout diminishes me
Because I am involved in brushing my teeth
- Comment on fuck the rules! 6 days ago:
She’s going undercover at the Kwik-E-Mart
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 week ago:
It’s often not the speaker doing the editing, there are thousands of channels built around creating and releasing these cast-a-wide-net shorts to subtly drive you towards their goal of obsessively watching right wing vtubers saying things that compel you to be a selfish narcissist.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 week ago:
Yeah, for real. YouTube is essentially placing infinite bets that it can drive you into the rabbit hole. Watched a short of Dillahunty give Peterson a verbal wedgy? You must like big words, so here’s more Peterson! Watched a short of Joey Swoll telling people to be polite, because it rolled on automatically? Here’s an Andrew Tate wannabe with shrivelled nuts to subtly criticise you about your dad bod.
Obsession and radicalisation are one and the same to the algorithm, and both turn a targeted individual into a money printer. And fuck the consequences right? Because Google got theirs.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 1 week ago:
I came to PS through YouTube shorts and his streams were cut to ribbons and repatched into something resembling a zeitgeist-appealing view.
Then I watched a couple of his long form videos and was like … eh. If anything it taught me more about the danger of using shorts as an onboard to any big vtuber. Much like movie trailers and their movies, they tend to overpromise and underdeliver.
This became undeniably apparent when YouTube started shoving Jordan Petersen into my feed. Much like the thousand monkeys at their typewriters, you can take the words of anyone who talks at length almost daily on a subject and edit them into something that sounds reasonable and appealing.
I already knew that JP was a right wing rhetoric Markov chain posing as an expert/pundit before YT started promoting him, but it really did cement the point.
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 1 week ago:
Oh yeah, sorry not trying to be snarky - you are completely right so it is useful information.
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 1 week ago:
I have made a note, thank you!
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 1 week ago:
Yes I know, that’s why I use both for different purposes
I mean whether TailScale is more similar to Mullvad in business model and customer centrism, or whether the early signs of enshittification are already there (I haven’t seen any red flags to date)
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 1 week ago:
Mullvad is one of those services that just works and I never worry about whether my server’s connection has fallen over. It’s fairly priced, transparent, and doesn’t abuse my privacy or trust. They never try to lure me into buying more/bigger/better like pretty much every company does now. Much like my water supply, I literally forget that the underlying solution exists because it so reliably does it’s job.
Feeling the same about Tailscale recently, but this comment is bait to find out if I’m wrong! Not paying yet but considering it.
- Comment on Day 347 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
Do you have a special game planned for the year anniversary of your posts?
- Comment on 43 pregnant men 2 weeks ago:
They had a baby in 0.2 months!
- Comment on America last night 3 weeks ago:
Oh is it world war 3 again? Crumbs it’s come around fast this time hasn’t it. Are we up to them securing the oil fields yet, or are they still talking about WMDs?
- Comment on mood 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Studio Camelia shuts down a year after raising €300,000 on Kickstarter to fund JRPG (Alzara Radiant Echoes) 3 weeks ago:
The point of that is to allow risky projects the opportunity to succeed in comfortable financial circumstances.
Cases like this abuse the system to scam people while using the ToS to skirt legal implications. So it is fraud, just dressed up as a gambling.
That said, the outcome is the same: don’t waste your money on Kickstarter unless you’d be willing to use the same money at a blackjack table
- Comment on New Lemmy meta just dropped.. 3 weeks ago:
It’s a shortening of metagame
- Comment on Press F to pay respects 4 weeks ago:
Absolutely, but these problems are common to all the instances. Maybe I interpreted it wrong, it sounded like they were directly engaging the bad actors over management of the platform, and doing that rather than just quietly banning them and moving on.
And to be clear I’m all for open collaboration and taking feedback, but I’ve seen this occur for Lemmy apps where loud and overbearing voices try and dominate the conversation to the benefit of noone, until Devs either stop responding or shut things down.
Regardless, it’s sad to lose an instance and I hope the admins find something rewarding to invest in without having to deal with the internet’s worst members.
- Comment on Has Slavic engineering gone too far? 4 weeks ago:
Or has it gone not too far enough!?
- Comment on Press F to pay respects 4 weeks ago:
there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll.
While I respect their decision I feel like these people will just move on to other instances to do the same thing.
I don’t know all the details but it smells a bit “tolerant of the intolerant” and that these people should have been shown the door before it got to the point of shutting down (other reasons aside - they’re all valid)
- Comment on He's in the weather patterns 5 weeks ago:
Show me the mars bars
- Comment on Helldivers 2 and Palworld devs wish players understood that 'easy' additions and updates are sometimes really hard: 'That's half a year's work. That takes six months' 1 month ago:
Describing design problems and attributing them to “bad code” is part of the problem tbh. The issue in your example started long before any code was written.
- Comment on Common British L 1 month ago:
That’s the Indian national dish
Uh, no it isn’t…
- Comment on 70% of games that require internet get destroyed 1 month ago:
Me building mega castles on my one man modded Rust server.
- Comment on 7 for me 1 month ago:
Hi, I’m the second data point, it’s nice to meet you. Do you know what time the others will be arriving?
- Comment on Star Citizen’s new cash shop offerings provoked fresh pay-to-win and predatory monetization accusations | Massively Overpowered 1 month ago:
They can’t. Star Citizen is the Trump of videogames
- Comment on Good times were had 2 months ago:
Introducing people to the alternate controller layout was like unlocking part of their brain they didn’t know was there.
- Comment on Literal interpretation 2 months ago:
Lol I really shoulda looked it up first
- Comment on Literal interpretation 2 months ago:
Probably-crones-disease homies, represent
- Comment on Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games 2 months ago:
As a long time Bethesda game fan I agree with you on almost everything you’ve said about Bethesda… But the remaster is a terrible example of your points.
The remaster does exactly what it says on the tin and they’ve been very upfront about how it was made and why it was made in the launch video.
It’s hard to criticise them for cashing in on nostalgia when they’ve shown time and time again with Skyrim re-releases that do a fraction of what the Oblivion remaster does still selling like hot cakes.
Nostalgia is at the core of their business model. That’s why they march Skyrim’s corpse out every two years like clockwork; that’s why they picked Fallout for a new franchise after ES; that’s, frankly, likely why Starfield sucks so much.