hell nah, the only reason why i don’t call myself pan is because the flag colours are ugly

late sunset over a deep ocean vs printer toners

it’s less about intelligence and more about just not caring and being numb to ads

i used opera for around 13 years. i knew about the flaws but i was simply used to it, and as long as adblock worked i couldn’t be bothered to switch to anything else

then my laptop broke and only that happening gave me the incentive to install something else, i was starting from (close to) scratch anyway

it’ll take a lot of effort for people to abandon what they know, even if they’ll be moving towards something better

i use Zen now :) it’s nice

as a fresh linux convert all of my games work on linux thanks to steam. it even runs my ancient 2007 arcade-esque game that i was sent in an email from the dev better than windows used to

valve has put in the work for us, and now no gamer can use that as an excuse

some of that basic advice still boggles the minds of leaders today

“always leave a way for your enemy to escape, a hopeless enemy fights to the death”

oh what was that? grind all the money out of everyone so they feel hopeless and feel like there’s no way out? yeah great idea let’s do that - apparently every profit centred institution

grief is the debt we take on by loving something

there will always be a tragedy at the end

just type the quotes in numbers and cross off the 1s :)

man, imagine calling people lazy for not wanting to do double the work just so a social media platform has more content

why don’t you start archiving all tech issues from reddit since you have so much free time?

yeah man but when i have an issue i want a solution to that problem, i’m not thinking about the engagement strategies of social media environments

the problem with reddit is that it used to be amazing, and is still the best place to ask questions (though with the number of bots this is slowly becoming less and less true).

i still vividly remember the time when i spent 2 weeks messaging microsoft support that insisted that i need to replace the device i just bought, even though i repeatedly told them the device works fine with a different machine so something must be wrong with my PC. so i got frustrated and asked the same question on reddit, within a few hours someone diagnosed exactly what was wrong, and gave me tips on how to fix it (or well, in that case i needed to walk around the issue rather than fix it)

and even now whenever i look up tech issues the first results that actually have thought behind the words (instead of sponsorships for whatever driver updating software company bought the article) it’s usually on reddit

it’s such a shame it’s been aggressively going down hill, it could’ve truly stayed the front page of the internet for decades. all it had to do was not get worse for the user

tf you expected we’re all broke. you’re lucky some of us haven’t heard of piracy yet (somehow)

it’s still an asshole move though, only a soulless corporation would ever clutch to the “well actually” of a single point of an average of reviews to deny a whole bonus

even if they were cheeky like “oh you were one point short so the bonus will be 5% less than we promised haha” it’d have been better than a binary yes/no

i mean, birth isn’t exactly a fun experience for humans, and yet, there’s quite a few of us here

oh it wasn’t ignored, it gave you a generic error message when you clicked it :D

yeah that’s what i mean, how do you break something so obvious and then just make that version live globally. it took them a day to fix it, even if an intern did it it should’ve been fixed in minutes

throwback to that one update that somehow managed to break the “X” as in, the button that closes the software. how do you even break that???

animals like being a little fucked up sometimes, as a treat, we all do it

i never said anything about not taking inspiration from other sources or re-using ideas. provided with what i said that’d be the most extreme assumption possible, why would you jump to the conclusion that i hold an opinion like that?

but you did say that people should start making their survival crafting games by using the most popular thing around (valheim) as the base and going from there (instead of, for example, looking at valheim and analysing what you enjoyed or didn’t enjoy about it, and using that research to help you make something better)

& i won’t stop liking games that i enjoy because they aren’t similar to a game that i don’t enjoy what T–T

if that pirate survival craft succeeds it won’t be because it was like valheim, and if it fails it won’t be because it wasn’t like it either. it will either succeed or fail for what it itself tries to be, and clearly it’s taking inspiration from different sources than valheim

idc about the popularity data, if every artist only sought to replicate what’s the most popular thing around we’d enter an age of total homogeny

you have what you like, i don’t like what you like, i have what i like. multiple things that some people like, and some dislike, can exist at the same time, and that is good

ew no please, i dislike Valheim and i do not want it at the base of all survival craft games

you’re free to enjoy what you enjoy, but don’t make sweeping statements about how a whole genre should look at one specific game for inspiration

i’m guessing it was a brain shortcut for a “digital zoom lens”