ArgentRaven

joined 3 years ago
[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 16 points 8 hours ago

So The idea was to reduce ownership and increase subscriptions for a steady stream of cash, of which users would pay forever for something that used to be a 50 dollar one time fee.

Now, even that's too expensive so they're having up the price and capping the hours you can play per month.

Which means, any suckers that bought into this scheme are always at the mercy of a company that can alter the deal at any time, and leave you with nothing.

PlayStation is doing it as well.

I implore all people it there reading this... Don't subscribe to anything! You're giving up control in exchange for nothing!

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I disagree. Solving a problem is the fix. That releases endorphins. Completing a task doesn't do it. It has to be a solution to a problem.

I've never talked to a man that spoke of providing or failure in the context you're speaking of. Not to say they don't exist, but I've never encountered a person that felt that way.

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Nazis put threats and scapegoats in the camps. Political opposition, threats. Jews, homosexuals, trans (though I doubt they called them that in broad terms) were scapegoats. The upper echelons knew what narrative to push and how to keep it going. The culture wars were how it was sold to the general public.

All she would have to do is read some history books. Shit, this is probably easily extrapolated from Wikipedia if it isn't spelled out explicitly.

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Do you mean x.com? Because someone registered the expired Twitter name and is building Twitter.now as a replacement for What the old Twitter became.

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Do not my friends, become addicted to water! It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Why is it a shitty corporation, if you don't mind expounding upon your thoughts?

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 16 points 4 weeks ago

It's absolutely the best way to see the films. I want to see what the movie was like with the limitations of the time. That's what made it amazing. A lot of modern movies suffer from being able to CGI everything, so they all just turn out boring.

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

It sure feels real. I have a very vague memory of all of that happening. Or maybe I watched a YouTube video about it years ago? It's hard to say.

I do remember they had pictures of the lid during commercial breaks for a while leading up to it, to build hype.

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 37 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

The original Dragonlance book, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, didn't need a map. Because a major plot point was that all the maps they had were pre-cataclysm and over a hundred years old. They had smaller local maps, but no explorers had stitched them together as 100 years is short to do that. So traveling over the map outside of where they would normally be in their lives, meant they couldn't be sure where they were going or where they'd end up.

They went to Tarsis-by-the-sea to take a ship to cut down their travel time, only to find it had become a dry seabed.

They did still have a map, but much more local to where the group started out and lived. I suppose that's why in most fantasy settings, you need a local map, because big world ones like Tolkien had require a lot of stability over a long period of time, along with trade and a market for large map.

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 26 points 4 weeks ago

None of the stuff they develop trickles down to us, though. Certainly not for free. Unlike NASA discoveries, which were taxpayer funded. We had a stake in it.

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's all a grift. Celebrities found they can make money off of suckers by putting their name on a crappy product and charging more.

All I see are Krusty brand products. It was common in the 90s, but it's absolutely rampant today.

[–] ArgentRaven@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I'd love to know the rate of return on ads that show up when you search for something. Does anyone actually want to buy anything from an intrusive search result? I can't imagine it's worth the aggravation.

To hear that they're pulling back from it in the future means we've been suffering on some executive's hope that we're just waiting to buy more all the time.

Too little, too late for many of their previous users.

 

If you just found out your kid is a leftie, most of the world we can adapt to. But something that will make their school years easier, as well as their crafting ability, is left handed scissors. Once I got my pair, I found it was individually easier to cut things out. Try it - the typical pair is molded for a right hand, so it cuts into your thumb over extended use. But the worst part is the way the blades connect - you can't see what you're cutting! You have to hold your left hand far over your body's right side, or crane your neck over your hand to see what you're cutting. Otherwise, you just guess and it looks sloppy.

Keyboards, pianos, drums, doors, manual cars, all of this can be overcome. But scissors? Lefties need leftie scissors. I'm still using my pair 30 years later and they're worth their weight in gold.

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