Minotaur @ Minotaur @lemm.ee

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It “stinks”, but I don’t really care if the game is good without interacting with the MTX at all. I just don’t

No I didn’t? I’ve had this account for months. I’m even a donor

Not only are you conspiratorial - you’re just wrong.

It’s the most bizarre and almost worrying thing now how much video games have transitioned into this “game of the month” thing - where seemingly everyone with a computer all goes and buys the same game each month because it got hyped up by the twitch steamers they watch or whatever.

Just strange. “Are you playing Lethal Company? Everyone’s playing it. Oh, you wanna play Lethal Conpany? Everyone’s playing Palworld now. Oh shit man, we’re not playing that anymore, Dragons Dogma 2 is out”

I get what they mean. A lot of the MTX seems to be items that you genuinely would find very readily in the game. Paying simply gives you a type of “very easy” mode if you’re for some reason inclined.

It’s a…. Strange decision, as it makes the game look bad. But by all accounts it doesn’t really impact the gameplay of the game. It’s just like giving you the option buy Phoenix Downs in Final Fantasy with real money. You… can. You really don’t need to, 98% of players won’t.

It’s goofy more than anything. I guess I’d rather have it rather than day 1 expansion packs like Mass Effect had.

I don’t know if I agree. Reddit doesn’t seem to have a huge issue with “bad mods” atm (despite what the community says, the website is more popular than ever). I struggle to think of a way to pay mods that wouldn’t absolutely fuck things or immediately drive it into a system where suddenly all these users are trying to maximize their profits or bribe existing mods to be part of the team in order to get Reddit money.

For instance, some large subs operate with only a small handful of mods. Others like the askscience sub operates with literally hundreds of sub-mods. Does each subreddit now need a guild accountant to determine who gets what money?

I don’t like Spez, but I really dont see paying mods as making the site better in any capacity for end users

Yeah, I was the sole mod of a “mid sized” community of around 50,000 for several years. It took maybe 10 minutes or less of “work” in an entire week. For the vast majority of communities, even ones with a few hundred thousand subscribers, it simply does not take that much effort to filter out bad posts and handle reports and similar.

On the flip side, I have personally communicated with a decent deal of mods of major subs like news, politics, twoxchromosomes, etc. and in my experience it’s these subs that tend to get the… stranger dynamics, where a disproportionate amount of the mod team are people who have WFH jobs with essentially no actual workload, they’re stay at home disabled, they’re a NEET in some capacity (or maybe like, going to college but only taking a class or two a semester). Other subs like askscience revolve almost exclusively around discord channels with hundreds of “sub mods” who get together and kind of randomly review content and basically approve it on a lottery system.

So without being too sympathetic I almost get the CEO from a purely business standpoint. I genuinely cannot figure out a way that you would pay some mods at a rate “equal” to their workload, and how doing so would in any way make the site better and not completely fuck things up where people are now exploiting the payment system for profit without actually contributing to the site.

The mod situation on Reddit is weird. There is a very small handful of subs where paying mods makes sense, and then a gigantic swath of them where it really doesn’t.

He is absurdly, almost comically overpaid though. To the point that I almost consider it’s an intentional choice aligning with going public so they can say “hey! Look at how big we are! Our CEO makes as much as Facebooks!” Or whatever

It’s a good meme, but surely Treebeard and Aragorn should be swapped, right? I don’t know if anyone really considers Treebeard the “obvious” protagonist of TTT.

(Also you could have a version of this meme with that one burning ent as the hot one, but I suppose the timing would be off)

Yes. You have to beat your own level to upload. It’s right here in the post. You can even see the video of the guy doing it

Weird that the Libs of Tiktok account is able to post names and locations pretty freely… I wonder what the difference is…? 🤔

I mean I’m a PC guy and I’m pretty handy with tech and even I have genuinely I don’t think ever fixed / upgraded my computer past cleaning it out and one single time re-setting a ram stick that had a bad connection.

There’s simply no reason for a lot of people to do so. I’m not a huge gamer, I’m not running a database or a torrenting operation from my computer, and by the time one of mine starts to get slow or break down it’s been like 7 years and I’m just due for a new one anyway.

Honestly the only reason I don’t get mac is the price point and .exe files

I’ve gotten all of my opinions from twitch streamers, and suddenly I’m miserable!

I’m going to be honest, I know people on Lemmy love Linux, but it always is kind of impressive that Apple has built a very successful brand basically catering to the 90% or whatever of home users who basically just use their PC for social media and video watching and maybe some very minor photo editing/management

Anyone who says I can’t wear my JNCO jeans can be defunded

Appreciate this response, it seems to make a lot of sense to me.

I think people on sites like Lemmy and similar can kind of uhh… overestimate how much anyone outside of a very niche crowd care about the whole “federalization” movement, and yeah it seems unlikely to me that Threads is going out of its way to shadowban a (comparatively) niche competitor like Pixelfed

Very interesting. Appreciate the response. Didn’t know big companies like meta had any interest in the whole “federation” gig, seeing that it seems a little “opposed” to the kind of big revenue that supports tech companies like that

I’m kind of stupid and more here just because it tends to be better discussion than Reddit: what does “federate with” mean in this context??

Thanks!

You are STILL looking at the chart of logical fallacies 😂😂😂

You literally do though. You have a post saying you do. What are you talking about????

Also the regular police