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  • Yes. Just move on and make new games worth playing, instead of rehashing the past. And more often than not, fucking it up in the process. Only our modern society would accept and accommodate a remade game that's 100% worse than the original.

  • I might be in the very minority crowd here, but I just can't get used to Firefox. I mean once upon a time I was clinging to Netscape screaming foul at Internet Explorer too, old habits die hard. But Chrome just clicks for me, whereas the multiple times I've tried Firefox, it just doesn't click for me. Can't put my finger on it.

  • Reddit allowed their communities to get shifted to the poles. My local community is the exact opposite, it's so far to the left that it's painful. The extreme poles of either side of the political spectrum are just as painful as the other.

    Here we just chat. Left right square circle triangle, doesn't seem to matter. The threads and interactions on here seem to be with people that are most like me, and not so much with the Ultra Hardcore MAGA bros, or the basement dweller 40 year old virgin social assistance crowd. Can't say the same for Reddit. Glad they have a place too, hopefully they stay there.

  • I treat Reddit like I treat twitter. When something happens, I look at it to get a read on the situation, or what people are saying or whatever. But I otherwise totally ignore it now.

    A year ago, I couldn't go an hour without looking at Reddit.

  • If anything, I feel a lot more calmer and more at peace when reading Lemmy threads. I find the people here are the reasonable ones, and all the other maggots seemed to stay on Reddit. Which I'm super ok with.

    Now and then you'll see someone who just goes thermonuclear on the first response to one of their comments, but they are far and few between. They all seem to eventually go back to Reddit, thankfully. Maybe because they can't get the endorphin rush that they crave here.

    This period of peace won't probably last long, but I'm enjoying it while I can.

  • They still get into the lockups. The building at my former workplace had a secure lockup that required key card access, and a stringent card granting process. Yet it still happened. Just takes one bonehead to leave the gate unlatched, or to let someone in. Short of actual security guards standing within the cage, unfortunately I just don't trust it enough.

  • I got the Hollywood escort from my local Apple store for simply trying to stand my ground over a cell phone that had been returned nine times (yes that's nine appointments) being handed back to me with the exact problem. Being told to make a tenth appointment was the last straw for me, and I asked to simply get this resolved now. Their response was to call security after I calmly told them I wasn't leaving until someone with some common sense would come up with a workable resolution for me.

    Y'all are acting surprised here. I'm not surprised. This company is literally scum of the earth, with zero concern over their behavior towards their customers. Fuck apple.

  • I'm not arguing that this wait wasn't ridiculous, because it was, but it's not like they weren't doing anything in those years. RDRII was pretty epic, and it was a lot more ambitious than RDR. It couldn't have been an easy development journey. Now I mean that takes us to what, late 2017, I can't really explain 2018-23. This game should have been released in 2020 at the latest.

    We don't yet know how ambitious this game is either though. It might blow your socks off. It sounds like you are pretty negative rockstar, which I totally understand and can sympathize. But games in the past four or five years just haven't been doing it for me, we desperately need an awesome GTA, at least IMO.

  • Fair enough. I mean health care belongs to the provinces anyways. Ontario liberals are their own little island though, I lump them in as just as fucking corrupt than the Ontario conservatives. Ontario politics were a sewer long before the Ford boys showed up (to provincial politics). Not sure I'd automatically put the liberals from all the other provinces in the same bucket though. Most of the provincial conservatives have historically been pretty consistent in attacking healthcare though. And we can't even compare this new (super old?) breed of conservatives that we face.

  • The Ontario liberals are definitely a hot fucking mess. Aren't we discussing the Canadian liberals here? Provincial parties aren't 1 to 1 with Federal parties, for example an Alberta NDP and an Ontario NDP are very different, both at a party and individual level.

  • I'm not saying this isn't factual, but I'm struggling to recall federal Liberal health care cuts, while I can think of quite a few conservative ones. Not being partisan, just trying to think of examples.

  • 13 or so years ago, whenever the first iPads were coming out, that was my first thought. Why don't they take their laptops, and have the screen removable that it instantly turns into an iPad? Or a windows computer that does the same thing. Microsoft did it with the surface, and it worked pretty well. Still wasn't quite what I had imagined, but pretty much was. Apple could have made a killing doing something like that, I'm still convinced (if it was PC based when docked though, not their cell phone/iPad OS).

  • I'm not sure I buy that 12 is going to be subscription based. I think that would be the straw that broke the camels back. I think we are peak subscription at this point, it's getting hard to justify this ever growing faucet of money outflows to these friggin subscriptions. Cell phones are quickly becoming PC replacements too. Maybe not in our lives, but for a lot of the common folks that just want to browse and email, absolutely they are. This is why you are seeing Apple's OS and Android increasingly becoming more PC-like. The next battlefield, I think, is going to be Android vs Windows. Android is currently free, which isn't going to bode well for a 12 subscription model.