Sorry, what? Err, yes, of course it is... i mean, its not quite chicken nuggets in the fast food sense, its cut pieces of chicken breast fried in batter and tossed in sauce as opposed to mashed up and reformed chicken anythings battered and tossed in sauce so its a little higer quality.
Forgive me, but it's like saying a snickers is just a mars bar but with nuts in.
Until you said he sent her proof of purchase, etc, i was on the side of 'maybe not a scammer,' but once you said that, the alarm bells started ringing again.
Dont trust this person. His story is likely fabricated and tailored to pull at your mums heart strings. He is manipulating her. What you need is picture evidence of who this person is. Or better a video call. That will prove he is at least who he has described himself as.
It's not really clickbait. It sounds like clickbait, but the video is actually very interesting and a compelling watch. Really well put together and worth your time.
Why dont you pay him any rent? Houses are expensive and you are using electricity, water, gas etc. Im sure he would appreciate it if you just decided to pay your way.
Edit: Since im being downvoted i want to add some context.
The tone of the message im responding to (or at least the way it read to me) was that this person is taking advantage of their dad. They said
Why wouldn't I take the deal to have no rent while I work full time at a decent job so I can pay off my student loans? Sounds stupid to move out at least for me right now
It doesn't come off like they have discussed and agreed on anything with their dad.
It sounds like they are earning a decent wage and haven't even considered getting their own place.
It sounds like they want to milk their dads generosity for everything they can so they can have an easier life.
Now ABSOLUTELY i cant be sure and could be completely wrong. But that's how it reads. Like they don't give a shit and are acting selfishly and dont even see how its selfish.
To be clear, i dont think the dad should impose rent or any kind of fee on them. I know how hard it is to get a home as a young person, and i likely won't be asking my kids for rent. I just found the attitude i perceived in that post to be asinine.
Its nice to see a low cost microtransaction, and nice to see that you can get the currency in game but really thats just the same as it was a few years back before it went full 100 dollar for a reskin mode.
You are defending a game by pointing out that its money grabbing methods are less greedy than another company.
Games wont make the billions and billions they make now if they move away from the in game purchases models but they also evidently dont need billions and billions to operate.
Some of the best games on the market were made on small budgets by indie developers and sell well because the are fun and people actually want to play them.
But in the i terest of a fairer comparison, i had a quick google and found this game "atomic heart," a generally well received game with high ratings and the following from Steam Revenue calculator
"We estimate that Atomic Heart made $55,756,625.68in gross revenue since its release. Out of this, the developer had an estimated net revenue of $16,448,204.58."
New ip, single-player, shooter.
Comparatively, immortals lost money and tbey apparently laid of 45% of the staff who made it to avoid losses.
Sometimes not remebering dreams can happen due to medication, recreational drugs or alcohol consumption. Not getting aproper sleep and interrupting the sleep cycle makes it difficult to remember.
Anecdotally i "stopped dreaming" or at least remembering them when i started smoking weed. For years i didnt remember a dream. When i stopped smoking i suddenly started dreaming alot.
Last night, i dreamed about a new AR/VR ride at a local theme park. It was like a giant crane shaped building, but it wasnt a metal structure, it was like a skyscraper with a structure built horiOntally at the top with a glass ball at the end with a bunch of chairs inside and a laser gun sticking out from it. You got in as a group and shot as flying alien ships, and it moved around like the gun pods in Star Wars. There was another building next to it that housed a VR game. Both buildings were wonky/leaning over and wouldn't be able to stand up without some supports (or being a dream)
In the case of the AR shooting thing i was both some distance away, looking at the towers whilst also being inside the ball doing some shooting amd sometimes watchk g from some floating point outside of the ball with me and my family in the ball.
The VR thing was odd. You were in a medium-sized room with a table and some couches and an open space in the middle. You had a laser gun thing, but it wasn't really a gun. You had to shoot these little shadow things that came towards you. Some were shaped like teddy bears, and some were shaped lake ants. They both made a weird creaking/squeaky noise as they moved so you knew where to look. Eventually, when you kill enough, a big dragon comes down, and you have to dodge its fire breath whilst shooting it. Beat it, and you win.
My wife went first, and you could see what she saw on a tv screen. I both watched her on the screen and also saw from her perspective. I k ow i watched on the screen because i remember when another person had a go. i was telling their friends they could watch on the screen. And then when i had my go, i remember thinking I've done this before, but i was my wife.
Single player (with optional co op multiplayer) but massively successful.
Not to beat a dead horse. Its just the first example that came to mind.
A huge amount of very successful indie games are single-player and even other AAA games.
They talk about the genre being dead but they forget that most games dont charge you to play them anymore. They make money through in game purchases selling cosmetics and battle pasees.
These game genres could be described as dead by the same criteria if they cost actual money.
In addition to that jimquisition that another user commented, remember that its easy to say "it doesnt affect me if i dont buy it" but people do buy it. Some people spend silly money on cosmetics and if people keep dojng that then it encourages game companies to spend less time on making the games good and more time on pumping out cosmetics.
The proof is in tbe pudding. Games are mostly shit now.
These are massive companies whos sole aim is to make money, not entertaining games. They dont care, they will just follow the money.
And when reddit started it wasnt useful. I dont want to repeat what i already said in another reply but essentially it boiled down to: the only way that lemmy replaces reddit is if people create the communities here and encourage people to move here.
Reddit is great for info but its gotten quite alot worse since the blackout when alot of people deleted their comments in protest. I have had a number of situations where a comment with a bunch of replies saying "thanks that solved it" has beem deleted and my problem goes unsolved.
We all need lemmy to become more popular so it can replace reddit as a massive repository of useful information about everything.
Oh! I am. If i recall, i moved to lemmy and subbed to this community when reddit went dark to keep in the loop on how the protests were going and if there had been any real impact on reddit overall. I guess i never unsubbed.
Either way, it doesn't change anything i said.
If anything it juat raises the question of what the purpose of this community is. Is it reddit recon, is it a space to point and laugh at rhe choices reddit makes, or is it a place for those who can't let go to cling to the past?
Why is anyone here still using reddit? What's the point of not using reddit anymore if you still use reddit? Whats the point in saying fuck u/spez if you keep using reddit?
I've been exclusively on lemmy since the reddit blackout, and it's been great.
Sorry, what? Err, yes, of course it is... i mean, its not quite chicken nuggets in the fast food sense, its cut pieces of chicken breast fried in batter and tossed in sauce as opposed to mashed up and reformed chicken anythings battered and tossed in sauce so its a little higer quality.
Forgive me, but it's like saying a snickers is just a mars bar but with nuts in.
Or fries are just potato strips cooked in oil.
But yeah.
Most things are things