AI in code. It does fine, it needs skilled people to vet its code. It really just makes programmers more efficient
Sony not making physical discs.
You people think Sony anything was worth buying in the first place?
For me, physical media in general. Modern software is not static. It’s too complex. Asking for a bug-free game is basically impossible, so you need a way to update it.
Chat Control. It’s not evil EU trying to read everyone’s messages. It’s EU working with various groups to solve an issue, like they do all the time.
Yes, various groups trying to solve a problem that barely exists by creating problems orders of magnitude worse but gives them more power. But surely there are no nefarious motivations there.
Online grooming barely exists? I’ve seen reports that it’s quite common in Roblox for example but I don’t have kids so I don’t know.
I am not saying online grooming is not a problem, but as you said, it happens on public spaces like Roblox, where predators can find children. Chat Control is unnecessary to monitor those. Random youtubers have been able to do that. No need to build a massive spy apparatus. Instead, of adressing this, Chat Control tries to pry open secure communications like Signal used by journalists, protesters, etc. Applications where grooming is not much of an issue as you only communicate with your existing contacts.
Chat Control ignores the rampant grooming in plain sight while trying to spy on communications where it is rare. So tell me, am I paranoid to think they have different motivation to breach those and are only using “protecting kids” as an excuse?
Tesla. The CEO is the worst, the cars are fine
No, they aren’t.
Firefox purity testing. Oh no they ran an ad or made a post on a mainstream platform or developed a widget. Look at the state of the world this is such a non issue and compared to the other browsers out there they are fighting the good fight unequivocally.
“Problematic media.” People who whinge over this are oversensitive children that treat fictional characters better than real people, think people can’t separate fiction from reality, and actively enable censorship states like the UK.
“Gooner,” “porn addiction,” and adjacent complaints. “Gooners” seem much more well put together to me than the people who hate on them. I swear this is another effort from the global Conservative apparatus to increase repression as a bid to increase the popularity of their social policies. Also I swear some of you just see a woman who looks under 40 in media and call it gooner.
“Cultural appropriation.” Not to say it doesn’t exist, but it’s been completely blown out of proportion, and probably does more to divide us than it does to protect anything. The modern discussion around it assumes everyone is an influencer doing things for money or power.
People want me to be outraged at Taylor Swift simply for being a billionaire and possibly having questionable people at her wedding. Is she morally perfect? No. I wish she didn’t fly around on her private jet so much. But she is a much better person morally than most rich people. She is reportedly a really kind person to work for, cares about her employees, pays well, and donates a lot to charity. Could she do more? Sure, but we could all do more. Almost everyone could be giving away more of their money to help others. And the outrage over her having a big wedding that supposedly blocked off traffic and stuff. It was a holiday weekend, it can’t have been that big of an inconvenience. How dare she rent out a space that anyone can rent out for a big party. She paid for the security too, contrary to claims that taxpayers paid for it.
Yeah, I’m not going to be mad at a generally kind and generous person simply for being rich. A large part of her billionaire status is her intellectual property. Should she not own the rights to the music she created?
The music she created? I’d be shocked if she wrote even half of it.
The moral failings of celebrities and creators who’ve been dead for decades.
Save your outrage for things that are happening now, that you still have a chance to change.
Being interested in celebrity gossip is not mutually exclusive to caring about politics or more meaningful things, but I understand why people don’t care about celebrity gossip.
I see this a lot here and it’s curious! Because would you say the same about other hobbies? That they’re a waste of energy because that could be applied to changing things now?
I wouldn’t make the argument that politics is a hobby first.
I didn’t, I compared being interested in celebrity gossip to other hobbies.
I’m specifically talking about dead celebrities. People like to point out that HP Lovecraft was racist, Gary Gygax was sexist and Clark Gable was fascist. All true and well-known, but it’s much too late to change their minds about it. Whereas racism, sexism and fascism are going on outside our windows right now and can still be affected.
Ahh I did miss that you meant specifically dead celebrities. Fair enough! Thanks for clarifying!
Trans people: I don’t care which sportball team you play on or what bathroom you use, just wash your hands when you’re done.
Whatever is in your pants is none of my business unless you’re trying to make it my business (in which case, I’m flattered, but in a monogamous relationship, sorry).
This should be the baseline bottom, but somehow its not. If you care or not or think its “wrong”, just keep it to yourself because Trans people are not harming anyone.
I have met 4 Trans people in my entire life, and they are just normal kind people. They’re not cheating at sports, or being weird in bathrooms, or anything people are fearmongering; they just want to live their life comfortable in their bodies
I’m with you on this, but I’m also against the opposite: the blind praise and promotion of being trans for some reason. Look, if you have something wired in your brain different that makes you present as another gender, go ahead. Present yourself how you want, I can’t imagine why I’d give much of a shit. It’s a free country. But why do people have to constantly yap and take over every non right wing chud internet space to make it about being trans or related like talking about how hot femboys are. It’s like…I mean honestly? A trend. And something major and life changing like that shouldn’t be a trend. I’m sorry but that is dumb. Have your own spaces where you can talk about your own issues, sure. Don’t be afraid to mention it in other spaces, sure. I’m cool with that. But maybe don’t take over everyone else’s spaces and make everything about you. Being annoying on purpose just doesn’t work in your favor.
Also related, if psychologists and such agree that the best way to treat gender dysphoria is hormones, that’s cool. But like maybe don’t push socialized treatment for that so hard when we have literally nothing else socialized in healthcare. Priorities, you know? People are dying, every day, and cosmetic appearance for something a lot of people find weird and off putting is too easy of a target to keep healthcare terrible. I’m not saying it’s right, but you have to pick your battles sometimes. Just like if you want to make someone not racist towards black people, maybe show them something like jazz or soul first, not hip hop. Is hip hop art? Absolutely, one of my favorite genres. But it’s going to be an immediate turnoff if you jump to bad language and drug dealing and bitches and the other rap tropes. Should you have to cater to someone racist or transphobic? No, but that’s the world we live in. Everyone gets to vote. and everyone starts somewhere with understanding people different than themselves.
Trans rights are human rights in the sense that you should be free to look and present how you want and not be harassed about it. But that doesn’t mean you get used everything you want, for free, and everyone has to not only treat and react to you exactly how you imagined it in your head, but also praise you for being different. That’s not how the world works, for anything.
Steam. Apparently I’m supposed to be angry they are a locked down monopoly but compared to practically EVERY OTHER GAMING COMPANY IN THE WORLD they are frickin’ saints.
They’ve done so much for gaming on Linux I forgive them for having a convenient launcher that launches everything
Yeah, it’s one of those things where one could argue that steam is successful in part to being entrenched (all of your friends are on steam and all of your games are on steam, so might as well continue using steam), but also… other game launchers are just worse? The fact steam has a lot of useful features, as well as surprisingly few scummy incidents in its history just makes it not worth switching off for me :p
Do other launchers have the workshop functionality to add mods directly from their launcher? That’s been something I love about steam
All the ones I can think of are for individual games rather than general launchers lol. And third party mod launchers that you have to add your own games obtained elsewhere :p
For me steam input the big one that pulls me towards steam; seamless proton integration too, but that one I could handle losing, steam input on the other hand I think is one of the best input remappers out there, I even added all my non-steam games to steam to make use of it too haha
I definitely have some games I need to use nexus mods for (looking at you stardew) but it’s honestly such little hassle that I don’t mind.
Yeah, I saw an article about Epic’s CEO having a gormless rant about Steams AI filtering and how but Steam was for them.
All I could think was: “well, make a better product then”
GOG Galaxy is the only launcher / storefront that comes close to competing with Steam, and that is because the one thing they do better:
DRM-free games.
The rest is about equal or slightly worse.
If Epic looked at the customer base and analyzed what people wanted I am sure they could build a better platform than Steam, but with a CEO as unlikable as Epic’s and with his trackrecord it would take many years of hard work and effort to even begin to come close to Steam.
It would probably take some massive PE/VC enforced changes at Valve where they start to enshittify Steam and the loss of confidence in the platform that will follow to make the other platforms competitive.
It would probably take some massive PE/VC enforced changes at Valve where they start to enshittify Steam and the loss of confidence in the platform that will follow to make the other platforms competitive.
Make no mistake, it’s coming eventually. I held off on trusting discord for years buy finally they won me over. Now look where we are.
Never again.
I have decided to bite the sour apple, as we say in Sweden, and overpay for the last two hard drives for my NAS build to complete it, then I will grab every offline installer for my games I can find and keep a local copy.
32TB of storage that can loose two drives before any data loss, a solid start for backups, media and software.
Valve has been around since 1996, Steam since 2003
Discord has been around since 2015 and was funded on VC money.
Kind of different situations lmao.
Yeah, the only people actually upset at Steam are people who have money tied up in other platforms. Steam is nothing but good for normal consumers.
They don’t have any monopoly. There are plenty alternatives and all are trash.
yeah but they support linux gaming!
and if you don’t use a linux PC to game, you’re a stupid ignorant complacent fool who is destroying society.
or so I have been told like every other day on lemmy. owning a playstation or a switch is like ragebait to the user base here. apparently if i buy a switch i might as well support blowing up babies in gaza and mass rape as a genocidal tool, according to these folks.
Linux becoming more user friendly and accessible is a plus though for individuals who like diy PCs, but stuck with Windows due to game support. Compared to then and now moving away from Microsoft is less of a hassle. That is pretty huge for long time Windows PC gamers. Not just for gaming, but regular usage of computers.
From the sounds of it you dont like pc gaming in general, and that is fine. Do hope you can see how a non corporate OS alternative is a win though. Just having an option that is not a huge downgrade to a trillion dollar backed OS is amazing.
You are on the fediverse after all which is an alternative from company run social media like reddit. Which also has its ups and downs when it comes to accessibility much like PC gaming, but there are similar pros to it too that some giving it a chance.
Oh yeah that could be a whole different thread on here. I use Windows and Linux, I would love it if I could rid myself of Windows completely but Linux is not there, and I kinda doubt it will even be a total replacement for Windows. It’s worth remembering Windows didn’t become the monolith that it is for no reason, people wanted 1 application that could easily do… Well everything without needing a lot of manual fine-tuning. That ain’t Linux.
windows became a monolith because of sabotage. and then! the network effect. microsoft is actively trying to sabotage linux, and they’ve got internal documents stating that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halloween_documents (the actual link is not loading)
microsoft doing monopolistic anticompetitive FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) practices dates back at least to 1992: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARD_code (yeah... i found out about this from a youtube video.....)
and when was clippit (colloquially, clippy) introduced? <drumroll>… 1996. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Office_97)
thus, using a clippy pfp is stupid. q.e.d.i don’t even PC game anymore because it’s just not worth the headache. i also work on a PCs all day at work, so I want to sit on my couch to play games and not sit in front of a monitor for more hours of the day.
And the reply is always ‘you are a retard then’. Yes, clearly, I am.
There’s no headache with PC gaming, this isn’t the 90s. You can plug a computer into a tv and use a controller.
Right, that’s why when I tried to play fallout last year it kept crashing and crashing and throwing errors and fucking up, and i had to download custom drivers and edit files to get it to be somewhat more stable.
but when i bought it on my playstation 5 it didn’t do that.
weird how that works. also did similar stuff when I tried to replay xcom. so i just gave up. or how i have to give my nephews tech support every other month for their gaming pcs where games won’t load or play or frequently crash.
but please tell me how I’m wrong and pc gaming is perfect and wonderful and clearly I’m an idiot if I have a bad experience with games not working.
The strength of a gaming console is that it’s a known quantity. My Switch will work the exact same as your Switch. Game devs can build and test with confidence.
This isn’t true for PC; there’s a huge variability factor. My PC is almost guaranteed to be different than your PC. The unfortunate truth is that you’re correct: console games are more reliable, and they always will be. There is no world where that isn’t the case. If you just want to play games without any friction, a console is the better choice.
People here don’t want to hear that though and will lynch you 😂
To be fair Fallout is a special stupid idiot that doesn’t work on PC smoothly no matter what.
and i never bought into the pc gaming masterrace nonsense.
I mean, I have a switch from like 8 years ago and while I enjoy it for the mobile gaming while on long flights I wouldn’t buy a new one after all the shit Nintendo keeps pulling. I don’t know which other handheld would be a good alternative, so I don’t really throw shade at people buying new ones but I would like the company to hurt a bit.
@Oni_eyes @AskewLord I use the steam deck for the same porpose. I bought a xbox few years ago to play read dead 2, the onlything that could probably make me buy another console would be gtav, and even there I already decided that im gonna wait for a version that works on linux or otherwise just gonna emulate it few years from now
If I didn’t already like palworld I would buy it just to hate on Nintendo more, but that’s just me.
In comparison they are very good, however that can turn on a dime real damn quick.
Scenario: gaben ded, bilzzard exec buys steam and it goes public. Hello enshittification
True, but every option comes down to a hypothetical scenario which does speak of how it is at a decent place.
And pc being an open hardware open OS system makes it so people can just hop to something, and have alternative means like piracy if worst comes to worse.
PC benefit in the end is control over hardware, the programs we can run on it, and modifications that can be done to it. Something that requires hoping for jailbreaks when it comes to consoles.
So? As opposed to what, a corporation that is impossible for someone bad to take over? That doesn’t exist. Anything can happen at any time, but no use speculating about a 180 in policy. And they don’t actually have a monopoly, people just love them so much that they but almost exclusively there. If Steam gets shitty, I will buy from a different PC game store.
I would argue that is the other way around?
“The internet” in general keep arguing that steam dominant position is not relevant, while they forbid any dev to sell their game on other plataforms for less (don’t even mention the steam keys because they are not part of the equation)
“What’s something the internet constantly gives a free pass to and simps for but should enrage people” wasn’t the question. The internet is overall much more a defender of steam than the opposite.
The downvotes are kind of proving me right lol.
The fact you have so much rage over that is amusing me greatly, I thought you should know.
This would be the comment I would write if I was promoted to respond like the most stereotypical reddit gamer possible.
I love Tolkien. I don’t like what Amazon did with Rings of Power, but I just didn’t watch it, simple as that. That’s how the free market works. People make a sucky product. You don’t buy the sucky product, they stop making the sucky product. And if they don’t stop making the sucky product, you make your own hopefully less sucky product. I don’t have the energy to complain about it online.
I’ll do you one better.
I like Tolkien, and I like Rings of Power. No its not a perfect adaptation, but its fine. Its better than those god awful Hobbit movies.
I liked the Hobbit movies lol
My personal annoyance is with the hubris required to think you can write LOTR lore better than Tolkien. All the money in the history of the universe couldn’t facilitate that. Amazon sucks.
Reddit. They were irritating, so I left, but I couldn’t care less if someone posts content here from teddit or(apparently gods forbid) mentions reddit.
I do not care about whatever happens with that company any more than I care about Apple or McDonald’s or any other company with shitty products I don’t engage with.
My only issue is the bots that mirror reddit content over.
And it’s not that it’s from reddit that bothers me, none of the posts I’ve seen ever have any engagement. So it feels like spam.
I mean if it is a community for reddit reposting or other social media its not so bad because you just block communities your not interested in.
It’s much better in the smaller more focused communities, which is reddits best use case anyway.
totally, i manuelly block nearly any account that posts more than three things in one hour
i just block the people here who just spam content from reddit 50 times a day. and it’s always the shittiest ragebait, and if you point it out, they go apeshit on you and harass you and report you and call you a facist/nazi etc.
then tend to be really dumb people who are true believers that post ragebait is ‘fighting the good fight’.
me too, i manually black them all.
Usually anything to do with celebrity drama. While it’s not that common on Lemmy, the rest of the pop internet seems infatuated with what actor/musician threw shade or dissed some other, or which diva is being treated SO unfairly…
those are the same people who cause all the drama in their own lives.
they love the celebrity stuff because it validates their own misery and poor choices. they view themselves as the poorly treated diva.
A lot of celebrity gossip is rooted in the true crime aspect of it. Like the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives drama - one of the women was literally throwing metal barstools at her children while fighting with her partner. The outrage stems from people wanting her held accountable in some form. And the networks know that outrage will spur more views.
I don’t see it any different than indulging in sports gossip or even Fediverse related gossip (Tesseract incident, anyone?). People like to indulge in some judgment and outrage at others. It can be unhealthy, but mostly I think it’s a rather neutral, human thing to do.
It’s more that the internet demands that I’m constantly outraged, but I want to spend the majority of my time being chill and happy. I can get my dander up for most things the internet wants me to be mad about, I just… don’t.
Rage bait is the worst internet trend to date. Yeah yeah, I know trolling always existed, but it was actually funny sometimes, done to bait assholes or uppity people usually, and done for the love of the game. Rage bait is just doing something out if pocket or legitimately bad just to get eyeballs on you which now translates to free money for them because the world is a fucked up place that rewards people with no principles now. My wife just saw a TikTok video where some jackass stuck his hand down his pants and the rubbed his hand on his toddler’s face. What the actual fuck are we doing, humanity?
I wonder if Palestinians just want to be chill and happy
that makes them angry though.
I stopped using Facebook because I got tired of all of that. “You won’t believe what [other party] is doing”…
Almost any single thing about movies or shows. I don’t consume either and literally could not care less about any of it. Double whammy with superhero stuff.
What entertainment do you consume if you avoid all movies and shows? I don’t watch much myself either, but I still do on occasion
Maybe they just watch shows passively, like my grandmother does. She watches Murder She Wrote, Judge Judy, Jeopardy, but she doesn’t really care about any of those shows and doesn’t really absorb what she watches.
Or maybe they mainly read books or play video games or just don’t consume entertainment at all
