I haven’t, because I haven’t bought access to Ubisoft junk in years. Last I saw of their financials, I’m not the only one. If you want this behavior to stop, stop consuming media. I sure have cut way down. I cut the cable cord, I barely watch TV, cut all my streaming services except for one. Don’t buy many games anymore (mostly because they all suck, are often poorly finished and are often just a damn re-release). I saw my Spotify is going up 5 bucks this morning, it’s getting cut this week too.

All this purging, yet my life hasn’t changed whatsoever. Almost feels good to get rid of all this crap. They only did it to themselves, so I hope they go have fun chasing people pirating 20 year old software. The crash is imminent.

Might want to start with not being a robot.

We can fight them, but ultimately these companies have the control. They can enrich and empower, and there’s probably not a lot we can ultimately do about it. When the chips fall, I’d rather they just stay on a sub and endlessly echo chamber themselves into oblivion. Some will come here, but it seems like most will stay there until something ultra stupid forces them here. And I mean at this point, even ultra stupid hasn’t, so yeah. If they have to collect somewhere, I’d personally rather it be there than here. I think that’s the main point I’m making.

I believe the definition is somebody who is totally lame.

I think that’s also pretty much universally true with all our politicians

Then just go to a different Instance. I agree the powermods are a headache, but at least with Lemmy they have way less power. You can start a new sub with a matching name on a different Instance, and draw people away from the power mods. People get pretty sick of the power mods, pretty fast.

I think you have misconstrued what I’m saying here. I hope reddit exists to collect the weirdos, and be a breeding ground for the gross shit it is, and keep it away from here. We don’t need to inherit the 2024 users of reddit, no one wants them. Let them echo in their bot chambers until they literally spin into the ground. Keep Lemmy normal.

Hilary was polling at roughly the same numbers as close as two weeks before that election he won back in 2016, if I remember correctly. It was looking like a clean sweep for her, and it was anything but. So don’t get comfortable yet.

Canada here. Sorry bruh, but we are all tapped out.

No, because then they’ll all flood here. Then I’ll have to consult with 9,006 different rules between each sub, while subsequently making sure I’m bending to each power-mods weird and unwritten agenda.

No I’m good with reddit. I encourage reddit. And I encourage all the weirdos to use reddit!

It’s so much better. Personally I don’t hope it grows much either. Satisfies my content itch, have still had some good quality convos here, seen some great comments threads. Absolutely none of the bullshit that Reddit purposely encourages. Plus most of the zeebs and the chronically offended seemed to have stayed with reddit, and I’m super OK with that.

Also $700 isn’t going to buy you much of a PC if you don’t have one already. Maybe mid spec 1080p.

Not that I’m arguing for PC. I’m pro-console in most circumstances. Only for power modders, power gamers or power purchasers would I maybe argue that PC is the better route. Everyone else, console 100% (except this joke of a console).

AI is just boomer fuel. The amount of boomers running around at our firm that have turned into AI bots is hilarious. Every solution, every question, “ai ai ai ai ai ai ai”

I enjoy making humourous pictures of them and their 9 fingered hands using AI. We’ve cranked some great memes out lately.

I’m not a fan of multiplayer either. The campaigns are usually good, but they get kind of trope-y, and they aren’t very long. The franchise is starting to run out of steam. It also doesn’t help that Activision Blizzard is whoring it out way too much, the ux is getting pretty bad.

I think Persona 3 Portable on the Vita had a female protagonist too. I believe it was just a port of the PSP version though.

I always struggled with the Persona games. I had P4 Golden on my Vita, and that game was pretty strange, I got weirded out by it about 15-20 hours into it, and never got back into it. They had P5 on sale at Best Buy for PS5 awhile back, I almost grabbed it, but picked up FFVII Rebirth instead. Still haven’t got around to opening it either. I always did love the style of the Persona games though.

I’m in a weird space with fall activities/work/professional development course work/etc., so while I’m in between games, I also don’t really want to get sucked into something too involved at the moment. I bought Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2022) on sale on steam awhile back, and realized last week that I had never installed/played it. So I figured that was a good game to bide some time with. Until I beat it this aft, which sort of sucks because the campaign is never very long on these modern CoD games.

Nevertheless, I’m now in the mood for FPS’s, so I loaded up the OG CoD tonight. It’s been 21 years since this game first came out, right about this time of year in fact. I was in my freshman year of college, and we were obsessed with it. A copy or two floated around the floor of our dorm, and I swear pretty much the entire floor was playing it that fall term. It actually hasn’t aged that badly either. I last played through it about 5 years ago, and I imagine I’ll go through it again over the next week or two.

I’m on a replay of the single player campaign, and since this update the map is laggy as hell, and it’s dropping frames like crazy.

Monetary policy makes the world go round, unfortunately.

I believe the ICC does have a dispute forum. But when you get to these IGOs, it’s unbelievable how many there are. Could probably bring the complaint forward in multiple other forums too.

Ah I get you, sorry, I stand corrected. Surely such a claim would come forward through the WTO though, would it not? Would the ICC (the Chamber of Commerce) have enough teeth as the forum for what’s surely a monumental case?