KoboldCoterie

KoboldCoterie, 14 hours ago

What it actually does in my case is make me forget about the game before it comes to PC, and just not buy or play it. I might be excited about a game now while the hype is fresh but in 6 months, I’ll be excited about other stuff. If anything, I’ll buy it when it’s 75% off on some Steam sale.

KoboldCoterie, 1 day ago

Your argument is supporting the comment you’re replying to. “Users” is equivalent to “cows” in your example, not “herd”. If you lost 50% of the herd, you’d still have a herd of cows, but you’d have fewer cows, just like there are a lot fewer users in this instance.

Herd is closer to userbase. Lemmy has a userbase; Reddit has a userbase. Lemmy’s userbase has a lot fewer users than Reddit’s.

KoboldCoterie, 1 day ago

It’s not, but even if it was, the original comment would be grammatically incorrect.You wouldn’t say “You have a lot less herd”. “Less of a herd” would work, “Your herd is a lot smaller” would work better, but it was written originally as though ‘users’ was a collection of individuals, not a userbase as a singular item.

KoboldCoterie, 1 day ago

If $70 got you the full game, I wouldn’t even be as opposed to it, but it’s always $70 for the standard edition and oh, also, there’s $200+ worth of DLC and microtransactions to buy, as well. Back in the 90s, you got everything for that price.

KoboldCoterie, 1 day ago

Technically correct.

KoboldCoterie, 1 day ago

They claimed that the FTC never alerted them to any wrongdoing before filing the lawsuit, so how could they have known they were violating the law?

“The police never informed me I was doing anything illegal before arresting me, so how could I possibly have known?”

Ignorance of the law isn’t a defense against breaking it in any other sector…

KoboldCoterie, 3 days ago

Assuming you’re making the change in your browser’s default search settings, and not editing the URL every time you do a search, it takes a minute or two once, and it’s done forever. No harder than adding an adblock rule and it also removes a lot of other bullshit, too (since it’s just defaulting you to a ‘web only’ search).

KoboldCoterie, 3 days ago

How is that different from the emulators that Nintendo has shut down?

Nintendo alleged Yuzu was “primarily designed to circumvent several layers of Nintendo Switch encryption so its users can play copyrighted Nintendo games", that’s all it took, and isn’t that exactly what this is doing? It just happens to be one single game, rather than a large number of them.

KoboldCoterie, 3 days ago

While this is a nice thought in theory, it breaks down as soon as you start actually thinking of it in practical terms.

• Some rural road that gets a few cars a day at best does not really need sidewalks and certainly does not need bike lanes.
• A road with potholes is more dangerous to pedestrians and bikers due to the potential for cars to lose control, or for drivers to swerve to miss a pothole and potentially endanger other travelers.
• Adding bike lanes and sidewalks is just impractical in a lot of areas. Where is that space coming from, when private property extends to the road edge currently? Are we just declaring eminent domain and taking 3-6 feet of everyone’s property frontage for this initiative? I’m sure that will be a very unpopular initiative. What about areas where buildings are too close to the street to allow for this? There’s just too many areas where it’s not practical or possible to do.

I’m all for phasing out cars in areas where it’s reasonable to do so, but your proposal just isn’t compatible with reality.

KoboldCoterie, 3 days ago

It was easier before every random website wanted to send you a text with an OTP just to log in and order a pizza or whatever.

That said, if it was $10 / mo for unlimited, or $0.02 per text, I’d take the per-text charge. I don’t use texts much and I’d probably save $8 / mo or more.

KoboldCoterie, 3 days ago

Do you not? I really don’t know, I don’t use texts much and we’ve had unlimited texts for like, 15+ years. I always see ‘normal carrier fees apply’ on OTP notifications, so I just assumed they counted against limited plans.

KoboldCoterie, 4 days ago

I get the sense that you aren’t familiar with ‘Bad Dragon’, maybe Google can help you. ;)

KoboldCoterie, 3 days ago

I know, right? Fuckin’ wild! So, tell us which one you decide to get!

KoboldCoterie, 4 days ago

Has Interstellar vibes.

KoboldCoterie, 5 days ago

Pretty sure that was sarcasm.

KoboldCoterie, 5 days ago

I dunno, man… Look up coprolite. You can absolutely polish them.