Not aware of any of these, which is nice, but iddqd caught my eye since that’s a Doom reference! Overall I always thought the Doom community was pretty positive (at least going by Doomworld forums, and various Doom streamers, as I remember them). I thought surely it must be some misunderstanding! Oh maybe they didn’t reply quickly enough to take down some drive-by hate speech, but that was it.

Anyway, holy shit, do not go to that lemmy instance. It’s rotten to the core. I’m going to go take a shower and play through Episode 1 to cleanse myself now.

I’m not going to deny that antisemitism isn’t muddying these waters to some extent. Sadly, that’s always the case when Israeli comes up.

But with regards to the treatment of Hamas in relation to the Israeli government, one is an ad hoc terrorist organisation, and the other is a functioning democracy with ties to west. Hamas is already considered a terrorist organisation, what more is there to do? I hate to use an Americanism, but they’re the “underdog” here. Israel is threatened, yes, but they have unprecedented control of the situation when compared to their aggressors.

PS EDIT not to deny that Israel has historically been an aggressor

Wow yeah, I lost a lot of time there. Hard to shake off!

Lesson I learned early in life: most bosses prefer predictability over excellence.

Only thing I miss about the office is the free taps 😞

Exactly this. I like my manager, but they busy themselves with their own job and making sure I’m not going to quit. If they had time to look over my shoulder, I would question their utility to the company.

I mean I’m on board with the generality, but looking up the original article it looks like was was taken down, stating:

EDITOR’S NOTE 10/6/2023: After careful review of the op-ed, “How Google Alters Search Queries to Get at Your Wallet,” and relevant material provided to us following its publication, WIRED editorial leadership has determined that the story does not meet our editorial standards. It has been removed.

Apologies for the disgusting timestamp. I’m quoting.

It could be I’m missing something though since I can’t see the whole article. It sounded like the Wired article was the basis for this one by The Atlantic.

Disney especially has all but totally captured their target demographics, and not many working parents are likely to put the time into setting up a Plex and torrenting movies for their kid(s). Sadly, it’s easier to shell over an unreasonably large fee, and let their kids have at it.

It’s families. Dual income with several kids, yeah the fees sting, but when your cashflow is high and your savings nil, $200 a year doesn’t sound crazy. It’s not smart, and it’s not fair, but if you know any parents of young children you can see how they could make that decision.

My partner drives our neighbour’s kids around sometimes, so we rack up seats on family streaming accounts that way.

Never had Disnkey, so this is more about Netflix. Back at the beginning, I didn’t mind paying a fair price for a service that made discovery and streaming easy and convenient. Plus subscriptions going to fund more interesting content? Amazing! Yeah, it’s a bit of platform capitalism, but the fees were reasonable and they spread the wealth in a way I agreed with.

I’m still not against a service that keeps its fees reasonable for what it’s providing.

Can’t eat them and tax them at the same time 😞

Definitely. It feels good just moving around, checking things off your lists. 😌

Rofl, yeah if it hadn’t come so highly recommend I would not have stuck it out. Because at first I was put off by the very obviously stock Unity-looking visuals, floaty feeling physics… it wasn’t a good first impression IMHO. But it made a great second, and third, and fourth impression 😉 Game just got deeper and more poetic the more I played

I don’t know, and… I don’t know.

I was making a go of Wayland with Sway wm most recently. I’m back on the ol Xorg with i3 now.

Tiling…GNOME…? 👀

For me it’s the ability to screenshare at work on Wayland.

When I first played I didn’t even know that you left the starting town. It was just strongly recommended to me by a trusted friend, and I took their word for it, and bought it without even reading the store description. It was truly the kind of wonder producing experience that old gamers don’t get often.

Volition may be one of the “boring” companions, but what it lacks in dynamism it makes up for by being uplifting.

It’s interesting you bring up the controls, because that is one of the things that instantly grabbed me about the game. Before I even knew what was going on, I knew I absolutely loved moving around in the world. I used to spin up the game just to zip about for a half hour.

But of course everyone is different. Not every game is for everyone. I really grew to love Outer Wilds more and more over the days.

Guess it’ll have to be a live service that is constantly running and updating what a wonderful world