BmeBenji
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- Comment on Why do we tolerate it that Luigi Mangione is being held in prison. We know its absolutely the least safe place he can be? 23 hours ago:
Why do we tolerate it
The person who ceaselessly bashes their head against a brick wall hoping to knock it down will accomplish one thing, and it’s not knocking the wall down
- Comment on What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games? 3 days ago:
All of fucking Bloodborne. Fast travel is great. Building into the narrative where you don’t tell the story directly? Fuck that.
- Comment on Would you rather have a pet dinosaur or a pet dragon? 6 days ago:
Is this the shapeshifting, intelligent kind of dragon? Because I wouldn’t want it as a pet but as a friend. That’s way nicer than having something that all my neighbors will treat the same way so many bigots treat pit bulls.
- Comment on From 4chan to the White House: James Ball explains how failing to take games seriously has fed the populist right 6 days ago:
the rejection of games in liberal democratic culture
The fucking what? I’m sorry but in my experience playing video games since literally before I could read (Pokemon Yellow was a real struggle for me) the only people who have discouraged my passion for it are the conservative fucking boomers, and absolutely no one else.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 1 week ago:
I don’t have a helpful answer to your question, but wouldn’t it be better to call him something that’s actually an insult about his character rather than his vanity, like “First Felon” or “First Rapist” or something? Not that he’s the first of any of those but “First” is a descriptor commonly reserved for the White House
- Comment on Do British people say "brr" when they're cold? If so, how do they pronounce the R? 1 week ago:
I don’t have the answer but I’ve always thought it was interesting that British-English spells the filler words that Americans normally write as “uhh” or “um” as “er” or “erm”
- Comment on What's the point in getting married? 1 week ago:
I talked about this a lot with my partner since we had been living together for a couple of years before we decided to get married.
Marriage, to us, is really just an external expression of the love that we share and the commitment we have already made to each other. The marriage itself is not the commitment, just a statement of it. There are lots of members in our families who disagree and say that marriage itself is the commitment, but then again they’re the same ones who have been divorced or who have extremely unhealthy relationships with their spouses.
Leaning on a piece of paper with your signature on it as the reason you’re staying with someone is idiotic; paper tears extremely easily. I choose to love my partner, not because a paper tells me that I chose that long ago, but because I wake up every day and make that decision.
Why get married? I dunno, if it doesn’t mean the same thing to you, then don’t, and I say that with no judgement at all. If you care more about the person than you do about the idea if marriage (like I do) and you gain nothing from a marriage, then don’t worry about it and just focus on the person, yourself, and the relationship you both share.
- Comment on Sagan, you look high. 2 weeks ago:
Kinda blows my mind that capitalists so desperately want marijuana to be illegal. It’s basically the closest real-world analogue to Brave New World’s Soma.
You want the populace to be complacent? You need to let em blaze it.
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- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 3 weeks ago:
I had to remember that I bought an Index and Steam Deck on Steam so that has definitely inflated the amount I’ve spent compared to the 3rd party valuation lol
- Comment on Do it 3 weeks ago:
More Than A Feeling In My Ass
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 4 weeks ago:
There’s nothing more masculine than dominating another man physically.
;)
- Comment on Should visitors to a country (tourist / visa-holders / people staying temporarily) have the right to criticize the government? When should an immigrant have the right to criticize the government? 4 weeks ago:
Are you asking if humans have the right to free speech? Because yes.
Any “government” that doesn’t recognize that deserves the respect of no human being
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen more than 3 of his movies, but Heath Ledger seems to have been consistently great.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 4 weeks ago:
THE Harold Zoid!
- Comment on What actually came first? The chicken or the egg? 4 weeks ago:
The chicken. When it decided to cross the road
- Comment on Why dont more people live in smaller communities , appart from economic opportunity (WFH is making it possible if not prefferable too) 4 weeks ago:
As an American (not that it’s particularly unique from Europe) living in a city feels much better because I’m not completely tied to my car. Living in suburbs and rural areas makes it far less tenable to walk or bike anywhere. Cities are the only place with any sort of public transportation or even pedestrian infrastructure that is remotely walker-friendly
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 1 month ago:
Call of Duty: World At War Zombies
Every map in WaW zombies has been re-released at least twice. WaW zombies is cool because of how simple and barebones it is, but holy fucking hell that game was not coded for any sort of melee combat. The zombie bodies are so damn large, according to their hit boxes. Try to run past them but brush up against their pinky? Guess you’re done. Also for some reason the co-op splitscreen is not split vertically, and it’s not split horizontally, each of the two players just gets a quarter of the screen in a tiny box. Who knows why.
I love it to death but it’s real hard to go back to it.
- Comment on HP are interested in making a SteamOS handheld as the Windows experience sucks 1 month ago:
The headline also sucks. “HP are [doing something] because [a different company’s] user experience sucks” reeks of utter hypocrisy
- Comment on Do you think Social Media is just exaggerated as being placed of being the source of all problems? 1 month ago:
Social media is not just a tool; every single major social network has an algorithm with an agenda
Tools for connecting people cannot make editorial decisions. Tools for connecting people don’t try to manipulate those people into thinking certain ways.
If social networks were purely tools for connecting people who want to communicate, then we’d be having a different conversation.
If you ask me, we should recategorize Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, Twitter, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc from “Social Networks” to “Content Distributors” because that’s what they are. They take content from the users and advertisers and prioritize what they want to promote in front of the users.
Signal, Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, etc don’t have algorithms with agendas so their purpose is purely social networking. They are the actual social networks.
- Comment on Is there a good way to buy chrome lettering in the same font as the brand's original lettering on the back of the car? 1 month ago:
More towards the funny side. Just looking to customize my car with the same font
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- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 1 month ago:
Yes. The media is suppressing them. See c/50501
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege X update detailed, as game goes free-to-play on June 10 1 month ago:
I’m curious- what PvE mode were you hoping for? Like some kind of expansion on what T-hunt used to be?
- Comment on Rainbow Six Siege X update detailed, as game goes free-to-play on June 10 1 month ago:
The ranked pool is limited to paying players still, which is a good way to help keep cheaters out
- Comment on Starbucks continues to be terrible 1 month ago:
96 million could pay the salaries of basically 2000 baristas
- Comment on Why build for tomorrow when it's someone else's tomorrow? 2 months ago:
Odds are that there are dozens of people way cooler than me who would benefit from the work that I can do in preparation for them.
Also, eternal life, like immortality in the annals of human history, is only something I can hope for. Making other people’s lives better is the only way I know for sure I can make a mark in the world.
As Bo Burnham puts it, “You pray so badly for heaven knowing any day could be the day that you die. Maybe life on Earth can be heaven. Doesn’t just the thought of it make it worth a try?”
- Comment on Should all AI generated images be age restricted? 2 months ago:
Ok.
- Comment on Pokémon games have become consistently ugly, and it's alright to wish they weren't 2 months ago:
Yeah that’s fair. I haven’t cared about Pokemon since the remakes of Sapphire and Ruby during which I didn’t lose a single battle. It was a cool nostalgia trip but since there was absolutely no strategy necessary I never ever wanted to go back since there’s not enough reward for the time sink; it’s just not fun imo.
- Comment on Pokémon games have become consistently ugly, and it's alright to wish they weren't 2 months ago:
Dudes be like “devs too focused on making a game pretty instead of fun” then be like “this game is too ugly and it’s making me upset”