gk99

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gk99,

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I miss power-up racers that weren't just Mariokart clones, like NASCAR Rumble and that.

gk99,

Kinda already is. Everyone over here is so much more polite than on reddit, which implies reddit has lost a chunk of the community that doesn't suck.

gk99,

Votes are public here, as are moderator actions, so we can actually see everything going on, including empty accounts only used to bot upvote stuff. In addition, not every platform works the same way. Some have upvotes and downvotes, some only have upvotes, some are wonky like kbin where upvotes don't count toward reputation but boosts do, etc. An upvote isn't just an upvote like it is on reddit. They also can't "enshittify" something that users can self-host their own instances of to interact.

Edit: Also, we're in the early stages right now, reddit has a decade lead.

gk99,

I saw this exact sentiment on r/patientgamers weekly, and the general advice was to take a break from gaming or try something different.

Games can still be fun, but burnout is real and there are a lot of shitty games that prey on addiction and FOMO to keep players.

gk99,

“But you don’t understand! They are the bad guys!”

Y'know, that's the funny thing. I live in the U.S., and all the people losing their rights seem to be the good ones that are nonviolent and just wish to live their lives.

gk99, (edited )

Make a product, make it good

I hypothesize that if this worked, Xbox would be outselling right now. From a features standpoint, Xbox has been on the ball for years trying to improve their platform. Backwards compatibility, a cheap 1080p console to go along with their 4K flagship, 1440p support from day one of this generation instead of taking nearly two years to put it in, Xbox Adaptive Controller and Copilot for accessibility, Series X|S having Xbox One controller compatibility, replaceable controller batteries so that slow controller death isn't an issue, Microsoft Rewards exists to get stuff like Xbox giftcards for just playing games and typing shit into Bing, a fully-featured Chromium-based browser (meaning you can do pretty much anything on there that you could do on a normal browser, like GeForce Now or browser games like this (and yes, it works with the Xbox controller on the console), Gamepass (specifically Ultimate, which comes with hundreds of games on its own, EA Play Basic, a bunch of stuff for Riot Games games, game streaming, "perks" like game DLC, movies, and trials for services, and more point-gaining opportunities for MS Rewards), and on top of all of that, you can pay $20 for developer access and install emulators for pretty much any console Xbox 360 or below.

On the PlayStation end, they also have a lot of great features, like the DualSense controller (built-in controller microphone is a super nice-to-have, the DualSense haptics are sick as fuck when they get used to the fullest, and they've got gyro functionality for console users wanting to play with gyro aim in competitive shooters), the fancy PS+ guides feature, the most high-end VR headset on the market, and I really appreciate them not using a proprietary expansion format that completely fucks people all the way from launch until like a couple of weeks ago when Seagate exclusivity runs out finally, but that's about where my praise of the platform itself ends (Edit: The monthly PS+ games are also way better than the XBLG games, which is excellent for people who don't want the Netflix-style subscriptions but do pay the online fee).

The real value to people seems to come pretty much just from what games are on the platform. So,

and people pick what they need based on WHAT THEY ACTUALLY NEED.

they actually are. People just wanna be able to play the cool new games, and Xbox hasn't had any in a long time. Starfield might actually be the first game since the Xbox One where a large amount of people are pissed off that it's exclusive to Xbox, whereas PlayStation gets game after game that Xbox gamers would really like to have. Hence, exactly why they bought Bethesda and made Starfield exclusive.

gk99,

I kinda don't even care, I'm enjoying my time here. That's really all that matters, isn't it?

gk99,

forgettable and unmemorable

Not true, I distinctly remember my hatred of the entire plot and progression of The Last Jedi and the ending of Rise of Skywalker.

The rest of it I don't know anything about but that's more likely because I've only seen each one once and never subbed to r/sequelmemes and have only played The Complete Saga LEGO Star Wars games.

gk99,

Despite the "no microtransactions" label, the communication all-around for the cosmetics kinda sucks and I want to clarify some stuff.

  1. While there is an absolute ton of stuff to unlock in-game, a bunch of armors and handful of weapon skins are labeled stuff like "VIPs only" and "Veterans only."
  2. In reality, most of that stuff is available via the "Supporter Pack" for $20. The only exceptions here are some scoreboard icons and anything labeled "Veterans only" or "Content Creator only."
  3. Despite plenty of paid/event/status cosmetics being shown in the menus, that's not actually everything. For example, there are currently Twitch drops available to get purple gun skins for a bunch of weapons.

But unlike games like CoD, you can ignore the vast majority of this shit and just play. There's no in-game store or anything, you load the game up and they just go "here's all the available quickplay modes and the community servers button, have fun."

gk99,

edit: I was part of this attempted migration, not the hate one. This isn't the first blackout for reddit being shitty.

It's the first one where average users were affected beyond the blackout, though. Other than the alt-righters nobody wanted there and weren't going to follow when they left. Patriots.win isn't a real community either, it's just constant Trump, Biden, and "democrats bad" content.

gk99,

And considering they're just adding to the Chromium near-monopoly.

gk99,

Have to go to their site to continue deleting everything I've ever posted.

gk99,

I think it'll help me out that my hobbies are likely to be the hobbies my kid has. When they see me playing Minecraft or something and they ask to play, I'll be able to just slide them a controller or hand them my phone to play on or something and we can build a house together.

gk99,

They have a definition, they just won't tell the users because it's not a realistic definition and they plan to pull the rug out later on.

If third-party apps were only 3% of total traffic and reddit was willing to destroy its image and massively increase the viability of its only competitor just before IPO over it, I'm sure they'll have no problem getting rid of whatever percentage of blind people who can't see the ads reddit wants to serve anyway.

gk99,

And vice versa, if someone's on Lemmy and I'm on kbin, we're using the same shared content pool as long as we're federated and thus we don't have to worry about sites "dying." I can't browse reddit without going to reddit, but I can browse lemmy instances with whatever fediverse instance I please.

gk99,

Yes they are. Facebook's audience is as many people as possible, because their business is advertising based on collected data. They would ideally want literally everyone on the platform, but this is the real world and lowest common denominator makes more sense from a business standpoint.

Edit: Getting celebrities and influencers on-board is basically a requirement to get the average person to care, because they're not on the platform to follow other average people.

gk99,

Either way you're being inflammatory by pointlessly generalizing political parties.

gk99,

Because it was never for the "privately owned company" that they were doing the work, it was for the communities. Reddit was just a site where people could go to talk about their favorite subjects or discuss news posted by the users, reddit the company never did anything to improve the site and often made it worse instead.

If reddit is going to make claim that the communities aren't community-run and are instead owned and regulated by reddit, then mods deserve actual wages and employee status.

gk99,

I'm happy to see lemmy.world grow as I look inward from kbin.social, and I think we should all be happy the fediverse in general is gaining traction.

gk99,

I keep opening it but only to re-delete my posts. Gotta work eventually, right?

gk99,

Name a more iconic duo?

gk99,

I'm beyond glad to see subs take a stand of indefinite (or prolonged) darkness. Maybe Spaz will give up the "it'll blow over" stance when subs just don't come back after continued evaluation.

gk99,

In order: I heard about Lemmy, I heard its owners were awful, I read about reddit shutting down the Kbin transition community, and chose to make a Kbin account within minutes of seeing that news.

I have a feeling a lot of people will have had similar experiences.

gk99,

I dunno what it is, but I feel way less comfortable commenting than I did on reddit. I'm forcing myself to in the hopes that I get used to it.

gk99,

Irresponsible answer based on my hobbies: gaming. Most people have a phone these days, or better yet a tablet or Chromebook, and there are plenty of very good titles on there, many supporting Bluetooth controllers no less. You pick up Minecraft for $8, and that's hours and hours of game. A full-fat game console like the Xbox Series S is relatively way more expensive, but that has the bonus of being a sort of all-encompassing little box that does games, streaming media, web browsing, social features, etc. all on a big screen from the couch.

Helpful answer based on what I know I should be doing right now: exercise. While full sets of exercise equipment can be costly, it costs nothing to do push-ups, crunches, a nice brisk run, or whatever else like that while watching TV or listening to music. Certain simple stuff like lower-weight weights aren't that bad either, and regionally, gym memberships might not be that bad.

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