qarbone

@qarbone@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon lives on a budget⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’m understanding comments in other parts of this post, I don’t think Obamacare is cutting into his profit. His employer is making sure his hours are sub-full time, i.e. less than 40 hrs a week, to ensure they don’t have to provide him with healthcare, which is required by Obamacare.

  So getting a second job and qualifying for Obamacare are not part of the equation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wreckreation maker Three Fields Entertainment puts whole studio on redundancy notice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You also didn’t hear about it because it’s not great. I watched a stream of it: the gameplay looks uninspired, like a student project to mimic Burnout, and the visuals would have looked dated in 2010.

  But it was functional. So it’s neither good nor bad enough to rave about. You just say “huh”, flip a coin, and either uninstall forever or play every 7 months when you remember it’s on your hard drive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gravity!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Believe in round or die, flatter!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Greed is Destroying the World - Drew Gooden⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think I understand this position, such that you don’t want people focusing on removing the oligarchs without also dismantling the machine that makes them.

  But the machine doesn’t have to crush orphans. It gives you a pat on the head and hands you a cookie each time you do crush an orphan but it has other settings. They aren’t getting punished for not exploiting the system, they just don’t get as much of a reward as they could. No one gets to say “I had no choice but to crush that 99th orphan, so I could get that 99th cookie.” You could’ve stopped at 90, or 50, or 1.

  They are exploiting a broken machine for their own benefit, which is nothing but greed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon asks out a girl⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It really does ring faintly of a “poor people are dangerous” kind of note.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never count your chickens before they hatch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless the kid was planning on a single shot per partner, he would need more than 3 condoms. Pharmacist should have warned him smh, lost business opportunity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You are in essence gatekeeping enjoying a video game as a concept. Like people must enjoy them the way you envision.

  What an incredibly inaccurate statement. I love modding video games, I spend more time modding video games than I spend playing video games. I understand that the vision developers have doesn’t often align with what I want from their product.

  I don’t agree that developers should be spending dev cycles making a game functional for a user that turns off any configuration of gameplay mechanics.

  Saying you can just set a variable from “true to false” is so laughably misunderstanding what goes into software development much less game development that it sounds entitled. What gameplay mechanics are you even saying should be configurable? All of them? Just turn off the combat in a fighting game? At what point is a gameplay mechanic integral to the genre/experience? And who is the person or persons that decide?

  Developers should be free to create what they want, and the end user is free to mod it however they want. That includes, for the devs, not purposefully obfuscating things so that modding is more diffcult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I disagree because it solely approaches games as some sort of “electronic commodity” and outright despises a development group’s artistry.

  Sure, not every game is trying to be art. But games have long gone beyond the realm of simply “entertain me”. That opinion is like saying “books should be made in a way that allows users to change the story whenever and however they want.” It is something you can do but there’s no imperative to cater to it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But the context of the Game of Throne quote is diminishing.

  It might seem like I’m trying to make you out as a bad person; I apologize because that’s not my intention. That comment was just the latest one I saw using it and it stood out even more because I didn’t get the sense that you were trying to be rude.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Beyond how dreadfully overused it’s become, I think people should acknowledge how explicitly patronizing the phrase “you sweet summer child” is. If you’re not actively trying to demean someone, it’s strange to essentially tell someone “it’s cute how naive you are.” If you were trying to demean the other person, then that’s a different issue but I’m assuming you aren’t that type of person.

  I decided to leave a comment instead of passively downvoting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine is huge for indie development⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think we should see what it’s priced at before we start making proclamations about the Steam Machine being the “standard gaming PC”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I don’t know why this would translate to mental illness?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That advice stands in opposition to my lifestyle: living in four-day batches.

  History will prove I was correct…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t talking about people.

  I’m talking about me.

  I don’t want needles (or any sharp objects) close to my genitals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She is making a GREAT point⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is the syringe in the dong? Because that’s a beeg no for me. I’m not squeamish around needles but am squeamish about the dong and dings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albania what are you doing? I thought you just made peace with Aberbaijan??? ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What in the fuck does this even mean?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gotta get those tickets!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen a number of comments coming in defense of the mother but I didn’t read the OP as a critique in the first place.

  The caption is just a funny “rationalization” for the scenario we’re seeing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what it seems. I try not to write everyone off immediately and gave them space to explain themself because some people’s brains are a mass of wet noodles that don’t do logic good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Indie and AA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve gotten release copies of games for review. Unless they have another secret tier of pressers, this is nonsense. If anything, review copies are more likely to have bugs that making completing the game harder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Landlords are parasites⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s kinda like saying housing would be a lot better if there were more forest rangers.

  How is that at all the same?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arborholing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Then they redwoods should be sending aid to the Amazons, because they are losing hold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Great business idea, tbh⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dom’t worry. His services are not mandatory.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discuss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta up the drone strikes to set a spectrum. More strikes is more serious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Next Fest is back for October 2025. What good demos have you found?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe I’m suddenly shite at games but parrying feels like happenstance rather than a technique. The block windup is too long for me to react to the quick strike they throw out. It feels like Skyrim combat, from a “battle flow” standpoint.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Priorities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think non-consensual modifying people’s bodies (and minds because who knows how a human mind maps on to a dinosaur brain) is pretty top-shelf villainy. People have body dysmorphia over body shapes human normally have. Toss on leathery skin or scales, and people will be offing themselves if there’s no fix.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Priorities⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think he’s getting consent…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨*squints*⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dat’s caked up heels

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Potential partners don’t have to be rapists or murderers to be worth avoiding. They could have anti-social tendencies, explosive tempers, or violent reactions. Or, just be generally unpleasant. Like you.

  I wouldn’t have discovered I’m not much a fan of you, if I hadn’t made an innocuous comment about not holding it against women if they do a single smoke test for bad actors. We might have otherwise been buddy-buddy, with years of casual friendship, before something else triggered this, or a similar, conversation. And then, months or years down the road, I’d have to grapple with whether the friendship is salvageable. Because I don’t think shrugging at women who have to play russian roulette for love is very cool.

  But, as I said, I’m lucky. I can say we’re done here, right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Has this ever happened to you?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is so utterly devoid of empathy that I have nothing left to say to you.