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.
Apparently I'm supposed to hate standup comedians when they do anything the internet doesn't like. Because comedians are supposed to be embodiments of moral virtue? I still like Louis CK and Bill Burr.
Louis CK and Bill Burr.
Bit of a significant difference between these two to be fair.
I mean, Louis CK was whipping his dick out and sexually harassing women. That's a crime, not just "something the Internet doesn't like".
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Star Trek vs Star Wars. I like both.
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.
The Scrumbles. I don't care about it, it doesn't affect me, everyone who was affected deserved it, leave me alone about it.
Ferrari Luce.
Sure it looks goofy but nobody whose opinion matters can afford it anyways. I similarly cannot afford it but I think it's probably fine.
Sony discontinuing physical media.
I haven't bought a physical game for any platform in I don't even know how many years and I doubt I ever will again.
I think I wrote this in a few hundred comments already. It's a little weird people make it about physical games, it's not really about that, physical games are dead on PC, barely anyone cares. It's about Sony locking people into the Playstation Store and having full control over prices. With physical copies you can buy them wherever you want and they usually go down in price relatively quickly after release. Digital store prices remain high for years after release and only drop sometimes during sales, but even then they drop to the level of physical copies. The other issue are used games, at the moment that only works with physical copies.
Same here. In fact I own almost no physical media anymore except for a few rare CD’s and vinyl. All my games are digital.
The argument that this damages the preowned game market is valid to a point. Though anymore any time I shop for preowned games they’re close enough in price to new games that I don’t see the point. And if that level of greed has infiltrated that market, maybe it deserves to die.
I know someone is going to yell at me about that but that’s kinda how I see it.
Stop killing games. I'm not saying it's a bad or wrong stance, just that there are so many other way more important things taking up all my fucks that I'm all out of fucks for that one.
I think it would have been a good first start for other good things to happen. Not necessarily related to games but to digital content in general. It bothers me that something gathered so many signatures to adhere the "official" ways, and yet it was not listened anyway.
I can't bring myself to care about "iPad kids" the way the internet wants. Seems like another way to bash parents and blame the next generation for all the woes of society.
I used to not care about iPad kids until I had a long conversation with a school teacher friend who explained the drastic drop in reading, writing and comprehension in the latest batches of kids she teaches. Now I still do not care, but I understand the outrage behind it and why some treat it as child abuse/neglect.
It's because they are pandemic kids. Schools refused to adapt to the fact that the kids basically lost 2 years of education. Instead of giving the 5th graders 3rd grade materials, they just let the kids who lacked foundation fall further and further behind. It impacted every grade level, but the ones who were younger were the worst impacted. Research shows if you're behind on reading in 3rd grade, you'll probably be behind for the rest of your time in school.
Schools refused to adapt to the fact that the kids basically lost 2 years of education.
Yep, a lot of school funding is tied to passing students on to the next grade. And teachers have been severely undermined here in the states. It all compounds into this huge problem we're facing now.
Bashing parents with iPad kids is against the terms of AppleCare.
It's rare for me to be outraged by anything. I'm capable of not liking things while not being emotionally captured by them.
That is a rational and emotionally stable world view. And I hate it. Where's the emotional outrage?! The uncontrollable urge to bash your head against the wall? The yelling at innocent strangers on the internet?! TELL ME!
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