Goronmon

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by Goronmon 3y ago
I would argue forums are just a subset of social media. "Social media" being the high level umbrella for platforms where users interact. Differentiated from platforms which are "read-only".
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by Goronmon 3y ago
I think there's a huge difference between content aggregation/discussion sites, and content creation sites. Are comments and discussions separate from "content creation"?
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by Goronmon 3y ago
Our phones are closer to Super Nintendos than supercomputers. I think you have the relationship reversed. Supercomputers are closer to Super Nintendos than smartphones.
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by Goronmon 3y ago
I'm still on the fence about government doing a parent's job here, especially for kids under 13, but I can't stand that no one pushing these bills has come up with an actually reasonable age verification method. How do you
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by Goronmon 3y ago
Larian Studios has 450 employees... Exactly, you need a massive team to live up to expectations for AAA games these days.
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by Goronmon 3y ago
I'm not convinced that workers shouldn't have any rights or protections. That sounds like a pretty extreme viewpoint. Or just one coming from an employer's perspective where I can see why you might desire no limits on treatme
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by Goronmon 3y ago
Exactly, it's important in these situations to put aside the concerns about children and instead we need to have a lengthy, detailed discussion on the exact nature of the use of the phrase "sexual harassment". Once we have ac
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by Goronmon 3y ago
I watched a bit of that in passing while my wife was watching, even in the few minutes I watched, it spent more time cheer-leading for veganism than anything that sounded like an "experiment" or providing useful information to som
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by Goronmon 3y ago
Maybe what they are feeling is a deep unconscious unease at the realisation that the cancellation culture the leftists have bought to life is bad karma. What goes around comes around. This is definitely one of the more interesting fantasi
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by Goronmon 3y ago
Is that really better than a regulated industry? Because that’s the alternative when you have prohibition. Scale is important. If the "regulated" (I use that term loosely in this context) industry is hundreds or thousands of tim
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by Goronmon 3y ago
Why would any big media company ever want to allow that? Not even "big media companies". Why would even say, an indie game developer, want to have a secondary marketplace where there games are sold?
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by Goronmon 3y ago
Digital ownership seems like a wonderful use case for blockchain technology, and it baffles me that there hasn't been a DRM company yet that's jumped on this idea. Why would any content creator (outside of those specifically pus
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by Goronmon 3y ago
Which is why mini-vans have sliding doors.
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by Goronmon 3y ago
You know, I was wrong on this. I had forgotten how many games were available around that time. Plenty of competition was available in that space around when Half-Life was released.
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by Goronmon 3y ago
You hit the nail on the head. Hacker News ironically tends to be pretty hostile towards open-source. It's actually much better than it used to be. Since it's roots are in startup culture, there has always been an under-current f
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by Goronmon 3y ago
"Poisoned"? Or just more competitive? If you thought Half-Life was a "7/10" back in the day, what would you play instead? Quake? Unreal Tournament? Both were mainly multi-player games and not really a direct alterna
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by Goronmon 3y ago
Can you elaborate? I was personally so happy with Pixel4 that I've decided to buy a new version when my phone lost support. I still use Android, but the lifespan of every Android device I've ever owned is two years or less. They
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by Goronmon 3y ago
Isn’t there a discussion to be had about journalists (and activists) needing to insert intersectionality into fantasy worlds in a genre for a demographic that didn’t ask for it? Don't we need to have a discussion first to debate whet
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by Goronmon 3y ago
From my experience, "great content" to gamers is just content that confirms their pre-existing opinions and biases. Anything that goes beyond that is labeled "bad journalism".
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by Goronmon 3y ago
I have an 11700K and a 3070ti. Both of these were panned by GN and others as somehow pointless. "Pointless" in the context of the hardware that already existed at the time of it's release. Not "pointless" as in it
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by Goronmon 3y ago
So... you will get answers? No? I haven't seen any answers yet. "Just use an ad-blocker" isn't an answer for why you can just not use Youtube. Neither is "They track personal information" or "I control m
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by Goronmon 3y ago
Who says people who use adblock don't do that? I certainly avoid those sites, that's also why I self-host Invidious and often use youtube-dl. If you are using a different front end for a service, you aren't avoiding using t
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by Goronmon 3y ago
Cable TV shows ads. Spotify Premium shows ads. Paramount Plus shows ads. I don't use those services. Problem solved. See how simple that is? Roads have ads (billboards), but so do the subways. Sure, that is a problem. But I don&#x2
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by Goronmon 3y ago
That's why most have Patreon, Ko-fi, merch shops, donations etc., which is a far more solid business model. Is it? Most of the times I've seen these things come up it's mainly in the context of those being additional, but m
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by Goronmon 3y ago
In fairness, there’s also the misguided assumption that services cost nothing to host and ad revenue cannot possibly offset the costs. No see, you can't bring that up because they already called that reason "tiring". Thus i
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by Goronmon 3y ago
If people don’t want to pay for YouTube, then why not use peertube[0]? You won't get a direct answer for this. Only endless justifications as for why it's seemingly impossible to just not use Youtube.
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by Goronmon 3y ago
What's tiring is trying to figure out why people just don't use sites/services that show them ads. It's extremely simple and from my experience pretty effective at avoiding the ads those sites/services display.
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by Goronmon 3y ago
Yup, the few more basic antennas I've tried effectively got no signal worth using on any channels.
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by Goronmon 3y ago
Having to invest time and money into the antenna is definitely what's stopped me from using OTA up to this point. Especially given that our location is between multiple broadcast points so it's not as simple as pointing an antenna
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by Goronmon 3y ago
At the end of the day, there is a path to switch from Windows to Linux for gaming (both playing and development) without requiring an investment in hardware. Switching to Apple for gaming effectively requires investing in new (at least to t

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