Scrubbles

@ scrubbles @poptalk.scrubbles.tech

Posts

203
Comments

6645
Joined

3 yr. ago

Little bit of everything!
Avid Swiftie (come join us at !taylorswift@poptalk.scrubbles.tech )
Gaming (Mass Effect, Witcher, and too much Satisfactory)
Sci-fi
I live for 90s TV sitcoms

Moderating

Satisfactory lemmy.world

I'll concede there, sports gaming and sports gaming are very overlapping venn diagrams

5d ago

What would be your opinion on a lemmy/piefed instance that's run like Athen democracy?

What?? I'm genuinely confused, I got an email that said they were ending it, I'll try to dig it up

5d ago

Xbox makes more leadership changes, hiring analyst who said games were losing the attention battle with gambling, crypto and porn as chief strategy officer

What an odd statement. Xbox is in direct competition with porn and crypto? Do they know any of those things? Do they think people are just like "hm, 60 dollars. I could game, buy porn, or crypto. Hmmmmmm"

Anything to avoid looking inward. Their IPs have empty corporate souls because they're made by souless corporate entities. Halo, Gears, Starfield, all shallow empty stories, and gamers are tired of it.

Of course they don't have souls so they assume gamers don't either. Couldn't be that were gaming to enjoy a story or feel something deeply, no we're literally debating on gambling or video games. Jesus Christ so out of touch.

5d ago

What would be your opinion on a lemmy/piefed instance that's run like Athen democracy?

Cloudflare actually stopped their service. If you come up with another let us know

6d ago

Clearly inferior

Simply that as I grow older I have learned that nuance doesn't exist on the internet. A human is boiled down to a few lines of text in a comment. That comment becomes everything the other human knows about them.

Nuance is knowing that humans are capable of holding two separate beliefs, for example that I can believe that the sex industry is exploitative, and also admit that this is funny, and know that those two things don't contradict each other.

It's the same argument to me of How I Met Your Mother's character, Barney. A sexist pig who in all sense of the word is a horrible human being. A binary approach to life says you can never watch the show or laugh at the jokes because he is in there. A nuanced approach is being able to watch and enjoy it, while also knowing that he's a horrible character, and we should probably make it clear we don't want more sitcom characters like him.

However, like I said, virtue signalling is important to many people, they have to know that you know how moral they are. To me, we're all very complex shades of grey, and I'm completely okay with admitting that things are more complex than a comment can express. Yes, I know the irony of this comment

6d ago

Clearly inferior

To me the meme is just plain silly. That's the point, it's ridiculous, and with the NSFW twist it makes it fun. But yes, I agree, on the internet if you see someone working in the sex industry you see everyone virtue signalling that there are problems with the sex industry, and no one can have fun without everyone being made aware that even acknowledging that the industry exists makes you a horrible evil human being.

6d ago

Clearly inferior

No idea why you're getting downvoted so hard, I found it funny

6d ago

Go ahead and reward yourself with a very small cookie, or maybe a string cheese.

Right? (I know it's not the same) but come on look at all of this fat you can burn! You're not hungry, you're lazy, you know, like I want to be.

6d ago

Thanks to all of you folks

Step one: you don't go looking for a money wife. You go looking for a dedicated life partner who you will encourage and support for many decades.

7d ago

Beloved whale mural painted over for FIFA World Cup artwork

Think of the poor corporations, there are so few places to advertise on!

I mean in a downtown core, where else do you advertise? Billboards? Other walls? Street signs? Busses? Storefronts? Paint on the street itself?

What alternatives did they have? You couldn't expect them to just put a temporary tarp over it or something, come on, that would have cost slightly more money!

What they're supposed to be content with just those few thousand options?

What a sad dystopian thing, to decide that a mural that's brought joy is somehow less important than your temporary ad, and worse than that, that there were so many other places it could have gone that wouldn't have destroyed a piece of art.

7d ago

Split Bill

Top: Seeing a boy complain about having to pay for dinner

Bottom: Having a man have a reasonable conversation about splitting expenses

7d ago

Split Bill

Eh that's a personal rule. We had that for a while but it quickly was clear it was unfair. There are a ton of expectations that one person invites the other, it just doesn't work out. First date I'd say play over the check, everything after that hopefully is a 50/50, or if one person can't afford becomes a conversation.

7d ago

New $750 plex pass pricing

Agree, I still have my $100 pass too, but it just got to the point where I couldn't justify it anymore. I got almost ten years out of that pass, I consider that good. 10 dollars a year to support their development. Then their development stopped being for server owners like me, and I knew it was sadly time to move on.

1w ago

Split Bill

Some weird sexist crap. My spouse and I have always split everything, in fact I was in college while she was already working, and paid for me most of the time. Generalizing like this only solidifies your own personal prejudices.

1w ago

New $750 plex pass pricing

Oh god I remember that. No one asked them to and they burned a ton of money to do it, shipped buggy, and arguably the design was worse.

1w ago

New $750 plex pass pricing

So instead of retiring it, we’re keeping it available at a price that reflects the real, ongoing value of the software we’re committed to building and maintaining for years to come.

I left Plex because of exactly this. What exactly have they delivered lately to actual users that isn't BS cloud streaming stuff?

1w ago

PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGC