patchymoose

patchymoose, 9 months ago

I’d like there to be an OLED option for people who use handheld mode heavily and want to pay more for a better display. But for the base model, it makes total sense for it to be an LCD display. That’s just prudent, as the average player probably doesn’t care and wants to pay less. Especially parents buying this at Christmas.

patchymoose, 9 months ago

Yeah and characterizing the US response as “piss off” is melodramatic at best

patchymoose, 9 months ago

Thanks, I didn’t realize there was an expansion. I’m not sure if GamePass includes it so I’ll look into it.

patchymoose, 9 months ago

Awesome information, thank you so much!

patchymoose, 9 months ago

IMO it’s very condescending that there is a Russia-Africa summit where all the leaders of Africa are summoned to St Petersburg (and the US does the exact same thing with the US-Africa summit). As if they need to come and pay tribute.

patchymoose, 9 months ago

Well yes, you are definitely exaggerating if you are suggesting that half the planet is a ‘death cult’. Maybe if you want to say that the foreign policy establishment in certain countries is, then it would be a more reasonable statement.

I don’t think that “the West” is even a useful term.

patchymoose, 9 months ago

Maybe “The US and its allies”?

I mean Japan is typically included as part of The West, and it is to the east of China. Cuba is in the western hemisphere, but it is Marxist-Leninist. I don’t think directional terms of the globe make as much sense in the 21st century as they did in the premodern world.

patchymoose, 10 months ago

It must be incredibly frustrating to be the new CEO that he just appointed, only to have him continuing to run his mouth and make ruinous decisions that tie your hands.

patchymoose, 10 months ago

It’s really apparent that Spez and the rest of the admin team don’t actually use Reddit on a day to day basis. Their decisions are like some consultant coming in and recommending ideas.

patchymoose, 10 months ago

Nintendo 3DS is my favorite of all time 😁

patchymoose, 10 months ago

Just want to note that the link is an opinion piece, not a news article.

patchymoose, 10 months ago

I think it’s very on-brand for Reddit to announce that they are removing a feature without having a replacement ready for primetime.

Why on Earth would you announce this now when you’re not ready for whatever is coming next? It’s like they are purposely trying to kill Reddit.

I’m only half joking that I’m expecting Mark Zuckerberg to announce a new app called “Links” next week that looks suspiciously like Reddit, because this pattern is starting to feel familiar.

patchymoose, 10 months ago

It’s so on-brand for Reddit to announce killing these features without any explanation of what is to take its place. Just a vague mention of more communication “in the coming months”.

How exciting.

Reminds me of when they killed Reddit Gifts/Secret Santa.

Reddit and Twitter are racing to see who can kill themselves faster.

patchymoose, 10 months ago

True in society at large, but to be fair, I don’t think this post is trying to be “Team Threads” as much as it’s trying to point out the consequences of the very different decisions they made. And hopefully in the future, some stupid CEO will think twice when trying to implement shit like Elon Musk did.

patchymoose, 10 months ago

Are you a developer of both Lemmy and Jerboa? I just realized I think I’ve seen your name in both places. You are a freaking hard worker!!!

patchymoose, 10 months ago

The OP is the mod of this sub and he posts about almost every game coming to PS5. It’s not an ad for Baldurs Gate lol. Honestly Baldurs Gate does not need an ad. People have been hyped about it for years.

patchymoose, 10 months ago

This is just my own take, but I feel like at least part of the reason they went back to releasing new versions is because of the recent resurgence of macOS. Not only do Macs have the excitement of Apple Silicon, but they have annual “new” OS releases; even if not much has changed, it creates excitement with their fanbase. I think Microsoft realized that it’s not very exciting to just be on Windows 10 forever. So we got Windows 11.

patchymoose, 10 months ago

For better or for worse, the Plague Tale games are my favorite games of all time. I’m certainly not claiming that they’re the best, they’re just my favorite. Love the fairly short length, love the attention to detail with the setting, love the characters, the storytelling, just everything about it.

Asobo Studio’s work is incredible for being pretty much indie developers. Not only did they do these two games, but they did freaking Flight Sim 2020 for Microsoft!

Can’t wait for Plague Tale 3.

patchymoose, 11 months ago

I find it very strange how much Russia relies on this mercenary group. I know there are other groups like this in the West (I’m mainly thinking about Blackwater), but Wagner seems many orders of magnitude larger and more powerful, seemingly rivaling Russia’s own military itself.

I’m surprised that someone as notoriously paranoid as Vladimir Putin has allowed this man to gather so much power, and indeed, his own personal army. Putin will probably still come out on top, but this is going to hurt him tremendously in the PR arena.

patchymoose, 11 months ago

I really appreciate the thoughtful and well-explained response. In the past, I have not gotten responses like this when I’ve tried to ask people on Reddit on the communism101 sub. In fact I got banned for a question one time so I just gave up on trying to learn.

To clarify, when I say I’m not a socialist, I’m not anti-socialist. In fact, I am in favor of almost everything you described, and I really like the idea of worker coops specifically. I’m just still trying to figure out where I stand politically, and frankly socialists intimidate me because the online communities tend to be dogmatic and often hostile (I know oftentimes this is a justified defense mechanism towards endless brigading). I like this Beehaw socialism community because it seems more calm and reasonable.

So all that to say, I’m still trying to figure everything out.

The reason I came up with this question was because of the recent submersible accident in the news. Putting aside for a moment that the passengers were rich people, I was just thinking about what a sick society we have where the company that made this submersible was able to cut so many corners and make such an unsafe product, and lie to people about it. And then I was thinking about how limited liability is probably a harmful part of that. The CEO’s family will still get to keep all their wealth regardless of any lawsuits. So I was wondering how a “different system”, like one under socialism, might approach it. And your answer was really good. Under a socialist system, at least the one like you described, perhaps the profit incentives to cut corners wouldn’t have been there in the first place.

patchymoose, 11 months ago

It’s funny how Reddit rarely if ever has stepped in to reign in actual problematic mods in the past, instead just encouraging people to create their own subreddit if they don’t like how it’s being run.

But now, they suddenly change their tune, and spout this sentimental blather about how mods are “stewards” and “in a position of trust”, and now they will solemnly respond with “next steps” if mods don’t open these important communities. Their arguments are totally incoherent.