Cataphract @ Cataphract @lemmy.ml

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Wow, didn't think you would take the victim stance so hard. Just to be clear, you're saying I didn't reply to you but I need to take my arrogant stance somewhere else? The instigator of this argument is telling me I'm antagonistic? hahahaha

You can lie all you want about your big-boy pants, the proof is in the pudding when you show your immaturity. You can't even get the basics of this discussion right. "not only are you underselling the nintendo switch emulator, you are overselling emulators like dolphin etc." if you don't see the dichotomy you've created I don't know how to solve what's obviously a lifetime learning problem.

Let's see, was there anything else you actually said? Hmm, now 34.17 is acceptably 34 but not 35 when budgeting bills, idk wtf you're doing now. More company defending... made up anecdotal shit about your life I don't believe.... and you still don't understand how subscription services work.

You can't see the point of Netflix enshittification so you're lost there, you think creators are being fairly compensated for the games on the nintendo emulator... lol it's getting harder to address the BS as this goes on.

I don't know how many times I can say this just for you to come back all huffy puffy again. "will pay for something if i find its more convenient. I dont care about paying," Tell me more how you're paying a monthly subscription for a free emulator and a mario kart expansion.... 4 years, woah. That's really just mindblowing. Let's cut the bullshit and actually give real world examples.

NINTENDO SWITCH FAMILY PLAN - $79.99 yearly subscription (FROM THE WEBSITE) (86$ish x 4= $344!)

Do You Keep DLC After Expansion Pack Expires?

No, absolutely not. When your Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership expires, you lose access to all included DLC, N64 games, Genesis games, and other content. You‘ll have 180 days after expiration to renew your membership and regain access to everything. But after 180 days, all of that content gets permanently removed unless you purchase the Expansion Pack subscription again. It‘s designed as a continual service rather than a one-time add-on purchase. You only keep the extra content as long as you keep paying for it.

Is the Expansion Pack Worth the Cost?

the value depends heavily on how much you actually play the included N64 and Genesis games. Many criticize these retro game libraries as lacking depth and variety, especially compared to Xbox Game Pass. You can also purchase Switch DLCs individually without the bundled Expansion Pack subscription. Here are normal prices for the major DLCs it includes:

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Booster Course Pass: $24.99

Buying these one by one costs only $70 altogether – already less than a year of the subscription. And you‘ll own them permanently rather than temporarily renting with a subscription.

Your cost/benefit analysis is biased and flawed. Like you glossed over before, here are some examples of handheld emulators you won't lose when you decide to stop paying. They have more games and will last longer, better companies and progressive consumerism (I'm advocating for positive consumerism, not blind purchases). Best part is you'll actually save some money in the long run, I think we can stop pretending now that other people in the plan and your children are helping pay the bill at this point lol.

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Man you kinda just suck at this and have completely proven my point. You don't round bills down.... have you done a budget before like a big boy? I can't even take you seriously when you dance around some numbers bullshit lol. You're paying for a monthly service to play a free emulator, justify it all you want.

I never replied to you, @samus12345@lemm.ee is who I replied too. You've decided to jump in and talk about BOTW lol

I literally linked you the exact program for the nintendo switch emulator, which you've paid hundreds of dollars for the "portability" of taking an emulator off a desktop (congrats! I don't think it's ever been done before....oh wait). The glitch shit just is false dichotomy that you're stretching for.

Funny you mentioned Netflix but unironically used it as a positive example?!?! Even though it's enshittification and current state promotes piracy?!?! hahaha and then just completely blow over the fact that yes...the first game was just removed a few days ago, and the version before literally lost a bunch of great games (do you really not get the message? You don't own the game, they are not required to keep letting you play it)

It's obvious you're a happy-mindless consumer, everything you've said points more negative light on exactly why I wouldn't pay for the service. You don't think Nintendo is a good company, you think they're greedy and aggressive, yet you're completely ok with doing business with them. I think it's a shit company with a shit service and you're getting ripped off in more ways than one (financially,morally,technologically,socially).

If you're actually serious about being a real consumer, put your money towards actual companies and developers you can feel good about. Here's some examples listed, the best part is they're not going to keep showing up every month to collect money from you! I guarantee you, your family would remember an awesome product from one of those companies 10x more than just playing a dumb ol' switch like every pleb. Really just trying to give them the most basic corporate experience in life eh?

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Good lord, you're actually gonna come down and try to defend your actions like some kind of corporate propagandist. Fucking sad really how you've got it all twisted. SOMEONE IS PAYING FOR THE SERVICE! I don't care how many people are listed and aren't using it, YOU'RE STILL PAYING FOR A YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION FOR A FUCKING ONLINE EMULATOR. Where the fuck was a lie made? Care to misrepresent some more shit?

It's 4.17 not 5? I should take that as my first clue you're not serious. People round up to 5 for meals all the time, this is such a strange thing to start on.

Nintendo confirms Switch Online retro game removal in US and Europe

Responding to the news on X, former PlatinumGames co-founder and current Clovers Studio founder Hideki Kamiya – who regularly posts about his love of classic games – criticised the move, asking for the return of the Virtual Console service, which was available on Wii, Wii U and 3DS and allowed individual games to be bought.

“Hey hey hey, I guess subscriptions are no good after all,” Kamiya wrote. “Seriously, bring back the Virtual Console… don’t be so mean.”

It should also be noted that numerous retro games were delisted from Virtual Console over the years too, including Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Yoshi’s Cookie, Pitfall: The Mayan Adventure, Aleste, SimCity, Street Fighter II, Final Fight 1-3, Super Turrican 2 and Super R-Type.

for 1-6, you're paying a rental subscription service to play an emulator... just type emulator into a search engine, go to one of the hundreds of sites. Hell, go to archive.org and get the official nintendo online emulator pack.

Here's your mariokart, here's your banjo.

Guess what?!?! I'm not gonna charge you a fucking penny and I'm not gonna log onto your device and remove your data!! You're welcome!!

(don't know what the fuck you're talking about BOTW for, it was an example that nintendo is making shittier products and can't be relied upon anymore if their flagship game can't even run properly on the console, keep making an ass of yourself though)

cough amiibo cough

seriously though, Nintendo knows what they're doing with their new limited scarcity tactics with trying to stay relevant. I think you'll be able to find physical SNES games easier than switch 2 games in 30 years.

person just unironically said they pay nintendo 5 bucks a month for the privilege to play a curated list of 40 year old games you can quite literally find anywhere online. That's 60$ a year to access an emulator they probably have less than 10 hours of playtime on. There's just really no justification for Nintendo anymore, BOTW broke me and I had to be talked into it.

See, that whole entire thought process just doesn't hold me prisoner anymore like it used to.

If you want the capital to survive (buying a car is survival in most places) or to try and get ahead, you must pay more capital than you have. If the banks don't make money this way, the poor and middle class will fail.

I don't think this is true economical theory anymore. It's corrupted greed that's overtaken institutionally in every facet of life including academia. It's like saying nuclear war is the best peace keeping practice.

lol and I wonder why you had the idea and were inspired to play up the idea of "countries that start with R" after you just read two other comments doing the same thing.

well the spoiler text really was just because I wanted to talk about Mbaye Diagne and you just have to hover over the links to get the joke. But I get it, different levels of humor appeal to different people. A lot easier to digest when it's all just spelled out for ya and you don't have to think any harder about it.

😒 , at least like put any effort forth if you're going to steal a joke and make it shittier.

I'm so sick of the bullshit misinformation that gets upvoted on this site. First, you demand tariffs on what equals to roughly 0.8% of our total imports. Second, there is no "war" currently going on between "R" and "U". Also, I thought the "P" man ended the genocide against "R" citizens by taking power, I'm not a scholar though so link away with whatever truth burger you're trying to peddle.

If it makes you feel any better I'm lost as well since the points they made in their attempted speech is just incorrect.

From 2000 through 2008, majorities ranging from 54% to 69% believed the federal government should ensure universal coverage in the U.S. (link)

The rest is bizarre word ramblings, "he achieved something that nobody thought possible", "his legacy will be dismantled".

It's kinda interesting, like he's specifically blaming you for hurting Obama's reputation and the country at large... Not that people in charge should be held accountable or have some sort of standard for what they campaign for. I'm happy for the people who benefited from ACA, but plenty people still don't and I imagine a lot of people don't realize you are fined if you're uninsured because of the act. Reminds me of being penalized for being homeless.

In other words, unless the insurance premiums exceed 8 percent of your income, you're a religious objector, a taxpayer with income below the tax-filing threshold, or a member of an Indian tribe, you're required to have insurance. That is, unless you'd rather pay the penalty, which is enforced through the tax code system.

It's that same fucking shtick with the whole student loan debacle. Keep the current profit generating system in place and pass laws and subsidies to help prop it up and stay as lucrative as possible. Any actual awareness or targeting of the greed is completely swept under the rug, so it's hard for me to get excited about this one step forward-two steps back bullshit. Especially when there's already so many perfectly acceptable examples around the world to learn and develop functional systems from.

I'll always be bitter and upset when I see people snarking on Dodge, they fully deserve it but I just love their body styles and designs compared to most modern cars. The dodge caliber is the only wagon I've ever seen that made me drool and even though it's out of production I'm still considering purchasing one to this day for work equipment hauling.

It's just hyperbolic masculine capitalism being parroted. Live in the U.S. south and have dealt with many friends and their relatives who have said the same shit. I've been around long enough to see those same people completely fall apart when the lives at home just crumble because they're too busy with work (illness, deaths in family, etc). They always eventually come to regret the decisions and times they've missed once they get in their later years.

There's nothing wrong with choosing to prioritize a work career in one's life though, but hating on someone else's choice is just ridiculous.

the irony of posting an amazon link...

It's kinda sad, I've been back and forth with online ordering actually being a "logistical god-send" for our chaotic consumerism. I mean think about it, one full delivery truck that can bring in a full neighborhoods worth of goods for the week/day versus every single car being driven to only transport a portion or less of a trunk (sometimes driving out for even one item).

In a perfect "non-monopoly/Amazon couldn't exist world" where everyone could plan ahead and have everything shipped, you could save on store/display costs (including environmental) and just have a smaller distribution center from semi-trucks to box trucks for local deliveries. Could even go from box truck to local end point distribution (biking,etc) so city spaces could go car-less. Keep the local farmers/co-op markets for socializing/freshest produce-shipping and bob's your uncle.

Instead we have the worlds most horrific amalgamation where you have underpaid people in fucking V8 trucks delivering a few bags of groceries someone has "door dashed" from the local grocery store or just a burger from a local joint so they don't have to cook because they only have an hour of free time a day.

It's so bad and cyclical while just being unavoidable in some areas. On the map, you'll notice how heavily populated northern europe is compared to a lot of sparse areas which have less options. I'm in a relatively normal size town and there is one big box choice and maybe one defunct "local" store that's barely getting by.

I had to beg a guy in a corner shopping center "repair shop" for a small syringe of thermal paste when I ran out (I'm not fucking kidding, there's just no electronics store anywhere nearby, losing Radioshack was fucking hard). Dude at the shop was the only reason I didn't have to go online and wait a week (he wasn't selling it, just had spare for his own use). My trades and hobbies make this a common occurrence throughout the week. Most places now are forced to sell on Amazon to remain competitive (Amazon dominates with shipping cost reduction alone for large items), finding a local or even nationally based company through search algorithms becomes harder and harder as they can't pay to keep up with SEO bullshit. You can try to keep it all legit but with competitive monopolies everywhere you just eventually find out your favorite company no longer really exists.

There are some suppliers I could shop with but each one is an hour drive in different directions and 80% of the time they're ordering the same shit through the same companies I would be using if I went online. It works sometimes, but takes so much effort it becomes it's own full-time job that no one has the ability to keep up with.

You do yourself and any potential ally a disservice when you spout negative bullshit like this. And it is bullshit because what you're saying is nonsensical and fucking being upvoted (come on lemmy, we're better than this).

What do pro-Palestinian student protesters at US universities want?

They are demanding that their schools, many with massive endowments, financially divest from Israel.

What is the effective message of protesting at a university over Trump? People have been organizing protests, but what part are you demanding the students actually protest? Just... protest Trump in general? at the University? Protesting till he's taken out of office or some action is performed?

I honestly want to see the rest of the government make a choice of bowing or standing up to the would-be king before we call to send in the children. Let us know where everyone in the system stands because once Uni kids get involved with mass protesting.... it's gonna get dicey real fast.

I really hope the unwarranted attacks that everyone is spewing at each other is statistically on the decline, it really needs to be shot down the instant it's seen so we don't have actual trolls and bots getting footholds.