[-] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

IGN and its consequences have been a disaster for video game journalism.

"This game barely works. I had multiple game-breaking bugs during the tutorial. The art style is ugly, the music is annoying, the gameplay is generic and not fun at all, the graphics stutter constantly, and it tried to make me drink a can of mountain dew on camera to verify my purchase. We give it a 7... point 1."

[-] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 18 points 1 month ago

If your name was your mother's maiden name followed by your bank password, what would your new name be?

[-] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

One of the countless reasons we need to repeal the DMCA and change copyright expiration to set in after 25 years

[-] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 37 points 7 months ago

This has been my weekly reminder that there are people who use Bing. Harrowing.

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It's very difficult to characterize this as an isolated incident of anti-semitism by the BBC considering it's far from their first incident, and considering further that the BBC has spend 20 years and well over £300,000 keeping the 20,000 word Balen Report into their perceived anti-Israel bias buried.

How can we be expected to believe that there is no anti-semitism at play when the BBC claim that they refuse to call Hamas a terrorist organization because 'Terrorism is a loaded word, which people use about an outfit they disapprove of morally. It's simply not the BBC's job to tell people who to support and who to condemn [...] We don't take sides. We don't use loaded words like "evil" or "cowardly". We don't talk about "terrorists".' despite the fact they actually do that constantly, and have for decades?

Rajib Karim: The terrorist inside British Airways

Brussels: Epicentre of the terrorist threat in Europe?

Built at a time when IRA terrorist attacks were a constant threat, High Point was built to be bomb-proof

Securing and maintaining reliable funding is the key to moving from fringe radical group to recognised terrorist organisation

Eighteen years after the Brighton bombing, former IRA terrorist, Patrick Magee, has continued to defend his role in the blast

[Lisa] Smith was, however, found not guilty of financing terrorism by sending money to a man for the benefit the terrorist group.

Sudesh Amman: From troubled schoolboy to terrorist

Between 1969 and 2001 over 3,526 people were killed in terrorist violence in the UK. ↑ this one is from BBC Bitesize, educational material the BBC writes for children. I guess editorializing to children doesn't count as taking sides.

The BBC clearly has no problem naming and shaming terrorism when Jews aren't the target. This assertion of "Jewish wealth" isn't only an obvious Elders of Zion appeal, it's the latest in a long, long line of Isolated Incidents of the BBC suddenly altering its established reporting standards for only the situations where they address the one country in the world full of Jewish people.

[-] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 58 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Decay"

What's left to decay? It's dust now. Remember when Eidos used a PR firm to strongarm websites into not publishing reviews of Tomb Raider: Underworld if they were less than an 8/10 till after launch?

"That's right. We're trying to manage the review scores at the request of Eidos." When asked why, the spokesperson said: "Just that we're trying to get the Metacritic rating to be high, and the brand manager in the US that's handling all of Tomb Raider has asked that we just manage the scores before the game is out, really, just to ensure that we don't put people off buying the game, basically."

That was 15 years ago, and despite the fact that Barrington Harvey went on to lie and pretend they never said that, everybody knew that kind of thing was old hat back then too. Mainstream gaming journalism is a captured industry.

[-] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 65 points 10 months ago

I'm not a console owner, are PlayStation owners really giving Sony $60 a year to play online multiplayer? It shouldn't cost anything in the first place. If Valve or GoG or anyone else started trying to tell me I had to pay them extra to send certain packets through my router, I'd have a good laugh.

[-] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 17 points 10 months ago

Crypto will never be a thing. We'll be in a Star Trek style post-economy future where the concept of money is worthless before crypto will ever be a viable alternative to fiat currency, at least for anything aside from buying drugs online from dudes with roman statue avatars who talk like anime villains.

[-] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 27 points 10 months ago

Not a single solid reason given

Well not to you, but that doesn't mean much considering you think spyware is fine as long as it's opt-in (and that being a furry is equivalent in severity to being homophobic, wtf). The fact that you think this article is bad is basically a ringing endorsement.

[-] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 16 points 10 months ago

Their motivation essentially boils down to "We have to separate them to protect women from the terrifying power of the superior male intellect".

[-] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

It's become increasingly clear that Steve and his cronies are desperately trying to get Reddit to its IPO with value intact so they can cash out and leave someone else holding the bag. As I've said elsewhere, I wouldn't be surprised if he and others end up shorting Reddit.

[-] sarsaparilyptus@beehaw.org 47 points 1 year ago

coming from a disinformation campaign

It wouldn't be surprising:

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