AeroLemming @ AeroLemming @lemm.ee

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I think the most important thing to teach young people in today's gaming market is that microtransactions are NEVER worth it. Yeah, maybe you want 500 gems to buy another builder or whatever, but then you'll be out $10 or however much it is and nothing fundamentally changes about your experience to make it $10 more fun. Games can actually become less fun when you start spending depending on the game, because then you're just paying to either win or make progress, which ruins the whole point of a game.

You should only ever pay money for actual content. Paying for the base game and certain types of DLC can be worthwhile. If the game has a currency you have to buy, you're probably getting scammed.

This is the real problem with subscriptions. Yes, they tend to be more expensive in the long run, but they also stress you out because you have to constantly think about whether or not you're getting your money's worth. If you buy a game, there's no stress because even if you're busy, you'll have plenty of time at some point in the future to get your money's worth.

I liked lockdown at first. I became severely chronically ill during lockdown, so I'm basically still in lockdown due to low mobility and it has gone from an introvert's dream to a nightmare. I haven't made any new close IRL connections in years and I can barely ever see my existing friends other than online. It feels like it's been simultaneously an eternity and only a few months since lockdown started and my mind is deteriorating.

The subconscious is a sudoer, the conscious mind is not.

I fucking loved the Forsaken expansion and felt that it was worth the money. I got Black Armory not realizing it wasn't an expansion like Forsaken and was so fucking disappointed. I eventually quit because they kept making the game worse.

I'm not really talking about people who seek to abuse Lemmy for profit (see: misinformation VS disinformation). I mean more just the people who are confidently incorrect and talking out of their ass. Some of these things would be very hard for a mod to definitively fact-check without field-specific knowledge and understanding. Also, even if Blahaj has anti-misinformation policies, the fediverse is a big place. I'm arguing against disallowing downvotes on an instance I'm not even on because we're federated and a portion of Lemmy's population not being able to downvote makes things a tiny bit worse for everyone, not just them.

Oh no! Anyway...

I mean, it could just be one of those apps with a fully transparent icon and no name that sends ad notifications. If a tech-illiterate person installs it, they may not realize what they did and then not know why they're getting ads or how to find and remove the app. It doesn't need to be system-breaking malware.

I feel like opening a portal to the sun would result in lots of highly pressurized, super-heated plasma shooting through and fucking annihilating everything in a massive area around the portal. I guess you could do it if you wanted to blow up, like, an entire building with a tiny and short-lived portal. Same thing in reverse when opening a portal into space.

Just charge people for it. You could say $100 per teleport and then give your friends a "discounted" rate of $50. That's still like $300 to move half a dozen people and all you have to do is show up and spend a couple of minutes going back and forth.

I only want teleportation if it makes me sound like an Enderman!

You could do that just as well with teleportation, possibly even better depending on what security measures you need to bypass. Teleport in, plant a bug, dig through their computer for anything incriminating, teleport out.

Of course, obtaining evidence in this way makes it illegal to use in court, but that doesn't really matter because the people you're after will never be taken down in court anyway.

I hope that doesn't turn out to be the case for the Blizzard people that left and formed FrostGiant. I want modern, snappy RTS!

What if someone posts factually incorrect information that doesn't technically violate any community rules? Like, I could just go on one of the casual conversation communities that don't have any "no untrue statements"-type rules and claim something absurd. For example, pretend I stated with confidence that,

"No, exact Euclidean nearest-neighbor searches actually get a lot more efficient as the dimensionality of the points increases because the increased per-point entropy allows algorithms with better time complexities to be applied."

This is complete horseshit and the problem actually gets way harder due to something nicknamed the Curse of Dimensionality (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_dimensionality), but only people who have actually studied this problem would know that and while you may feel inclined to reply debunking my bogus claim, it would be a lot more effective if you and others capable of understanding your debunk could downvote my comment so it was less likely to appear that I was the one with the votes and you were the one full of shit.

Not immediately wiping a used device that hasn't already been wiped is such a hazard. If they didn't wipe it, they're probably technologically illiterate enough that it's loaded with tons of malware too.

If you used transporters to remove feces from yourself for years and years, would you eventually lose the ability to poop normally? Imagine the transporter functions and they have to replicate a bunch of industrial-grade laxatives for the crew.

It's legitimately a good use for ChatGPT. You just have to put what you want into words and then it gives you the command.

"If you can't install Arch yourself, I don't want you on my machines."

Yeah, I see video monetization as running on a similar model to that of free to play games. The majority of people either don't make you any money or only very little money, but they boost your engagement and popularity metrics so that you get more 'whales' that do things like donating on Patreon, choosing to watch sponsors and use affiliate codes, and buying merch.

Ads are only the worth the actual amount of business they generate. I know that a lot of people don't realize that even if they never intentionally buy something from an ad, the familiarity of seeing things in an ad makes them more likely to pick it over something else down the line. However, this still only works if you have any disposable income and don't immediately hit mute, close your eyes, and count to 30 when an ad comes on. A lot of people using ad blockers would just devalue the ads themselves if they were forced to watch them. The people with the money just pay for Premium.