DanseMacabre

joined 1 year ago
[–] DanseMacabre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nebula is absolutely amazing, but it's a very specific niche. I don't think that kind of model could ever work outside of that genre of educational, super high production value content.

[–] DanseMacabre@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

using chrome in 2017 was embarrassing. using chrome in 2023 is just sad.

[–] DanseMacabre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mike Ybarra confirmed this is not the case. They will launch directly from Steam.

[–] DanseMacabre@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Redfall's development was started years before Microsoft acquired Zenimax. They had nothing to do with any of the GAAS stuff in that game. In fact people at Bethesda were hoping that Microsoft would cancel Redfall because its development had been so troubled, but Xbox apparently has a very hands off approach with their studios. Maybe that will change in the wake of Redfall's disastrous release.

[–] DanseMacabre@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I've cancelled various subscriptions through Microsoft probably 10 times over the last 15 years and never had any issues. In fact my experience is often that the bigger the company the easier it is to cancel things or get a refund. Hell Amazon has on multiple occasions just sent me money for something I wanted to return and told me to not bother even returning it.

Obviously I'm not defending megacorporations - they're fundamentally incompatible with a moral society, but of my many complaints with them, "Their products don't work" or "Their customer service is subpar" is almost never one of them.

[–] DanseMacabre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

both of Jason Schreier’s books - Blood, Sweat, and Pixels and Press Reset

[–] DanseMacabre@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah I used PowerDeleteSuite to “edit” and “delete” all my history, and it sure looked like it worked. When I go to my user profile and look under posts and comments nothing is there, but I am getting replies on comments from years ago (which is already stupid on its own) and there’s my comment, completely unedited and public🙃

[–] DanseMacabre@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Not enough to matter. Not even out of step with any other social media site lol. We’re doomed

[–] DanseMacabre@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I get why people don’t want anything from Meta around stuff they use. They’re obviously awful. I just don’t think that even 5% of Fediverse users are going to ditch for Threads if Meta defederates. They were here before Meta and I can promise you not a single person on earth is signing up for Mastodon because it will federate with Threads only to have the rug pulled out from under them. This is a small niche community and that will not change with or without Meta. The people that Meta could siphon with EEE are already in their ecosystem.

[–] DanseMacabre@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (22 children)

Threads being in the Fediverse is a plus for me, not a negative. It means I could follow regular people and friends who would never in a million years join places like Mastodon or Lemmy while I still get the benefits of being on those platforms, all while being shielded from Meta’s ads and data harvesting. The only issue is I don’t actually believe Zuck will go through with it. They’ll either never federate or severely limit it if they do.

Mastodon themselves have put out a post outlining how this will affect them (it won’t) and how EEE is not a threat. If Meta does eventually opt out of ActivityPub then cool. It’s not like that’s why Mastodon users were there in the first place.

[–] DanseMacabre@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. 2023, at least from a AAA perspective, is probably the best gaming year we’ve had in at least half a decade. Many of the covid delays are finally reaching their conclusion this year.

For indies/AA it’s always hard to tell until the end of the year because so many things come out of nowhere. But with stuff like DREDGE, Darkest Dungeon II, Wildfrost, and Hifi Rush already out plus demos for future 2023 games like Jumplight Odyssey and Norland being great it seems like a pretty solid year on that front as well.

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