perfect response to their argument.

piefed users have a “quirky” personality flaw about bringing up how great piefed is when it wasn’t asked for or even relevant to the discussion. case in point, posting on a lemmy instance about a milestone on piefed. although not completely irrelevant to the community, I don’t really get the justification about posting on here about a different instance other than self promotion.

it would be like me posting on here about my personal instance. yeah sure, it’s gaming adjutant, but wholely a cheap ploy to deliver free advertising to an instance that is siphoning interactions and content away from the community.

secondly, I don’t believe any of the points about piefed being “better” since a social media platforms performance by users is entirely subjective by the user. I don’t believe any platform that uses Reddit, Twitter, or Facebook as a shining example of what “good” is should be trusted. this is also applicable to lemmy and mastodon at large. the only thing that the platforms have going for them is federation, but even that can be damaging to the users (eg: hexbear/ml instances).

my point is, I don’t like piefed because everyone on it seems so pushy to get others to be on it. it is working though, posts on lemmy have noticeably dropped over the last couple months. presumably shifting to piefed, which I have blocked the instances of so I couldn’t tell you one way or another.

cool. more piefed shit. I blocked piefed instances for a reason and now I have to see this shit?

jokes on you if you thought this was about this term, it’s about his first term.

that’s an android feature. technically I think any phone could do it.

true, but the fact that it is even allowed to exist in Japan in the first place says a lot.

you know you fucked up when the most conservative government that censors everything tells you that you went too far.

MasterCard knows exactly what they’re doing.

executive leadership is varying degrees of Christian nationalist and trump supporters.

source: me, I know people.

correct, but it could be argued the clause is too broad and doesn’t fit into the current circumstances considering it wasn’t a choice itch made, but a choice their payment processor forced them to make.

that in itself could be a bridge that leads to a direct confrontation between developers and mastercard.

correct. so they could sue itch, which does have an agreement with them. and itch can sue the processors.

sounds like it’s time to bring the 90s back. rotten.com here we go.

they want to stop the sale and purchase of adult content, so just give it away for free. shareware that shit and spread it like VD.

ryfc.

I did, you said a few years ago. IE not the Fairphone 6.

unless you’re a time traveling scumbag?

care to share what those practices are?

what the fuck is with all these payment processors trying to curtail adult entertainment?

it’s fucking weird. they should stop being weird about what people do with their own money.

why not pay some unknown artist on fivrr for some work.

well, that’s probably a bad idea. they’re probably also using AI.

Legacy of the Wizard on NES was always my favorite.

there’s many ways to identify where something like that came from.

data forensics is a bitch like that.

devs aren’t smart people. talented, yes. smart, no.

I worked with many devs making $100-200k a year and could barely afford their apartments because they were so spread thin financially. spending $100+ a day eating 3 meals a day out. “investment” in crypto scams. girlfriends(yes plural). $4k a month rent for apartments that are way too extravagant for someone who spends 80% of their time at the office. driving nice cars with monthly leases in the $2-3k range. living on credit cards.

the only time I saw most of these guys get their shit together was when they got married.

does jerking off while I’m supposed to be working count?

for fucks sake. this isn’t a fucking search engine.

educate yourself.

I was a poor farm kid and winters were long.

I was still playing our Atari 2600 when the PS2 launched.

yes, because the real problem is too much choice.

fuckin finbro bullshit.

I remember paying $10 for an Atari game. I know it’s not a great comparison, but I got hundreds if not thousands of hours of gameplay out of Qbert. Can any of the leading games in the last decade do that?

It’s funny I mention Atari. They had so many games to play. the choices you had were bonkers. best part was you could take your carts to a friends house and trade or share.

can’t do that today since most games are digital downloads that need 32gb day-0 updates.

perhaps the problem isn’t the gamers, but instead it’s the greedy corporate interests that are poisoning the game industry requesting $80 single owner games.

I mean, he’s not wrong. it is something within their power to control, and only they can stop the cycle.

addiction is a hell of a drug though.

companies that prey on the vulnerabilities of humans like that should be regulated no different than drug, alcohol, or firearm companies.

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