This is reddit behavior is what it is.

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Lemmy is meant to be a direct alternative to reddit

There are whole instances without downvote buttons for example.

well this is not one of those instances.

if i was planning to upgrade my rig soon i’d save these games for the new hardware.

if that was the intended layout of lemmy comments they wouldn’t have vote buttons at all.

it’s not about anger, the point of downvoting is to put low effort or other random crap comments below any others that may actually contribute to the topic.

i got giant ceramic multicolored C9 LED lights from amazon and absolutely love them. never liked the tiny lights.

at much, much lower levels.

that doesn’t make it a good headline.

‘The science of fluoride is starting to evolve’

what an awful headline. nothing is ‘evolving’ here, any negative effects from fluoride only occur where fluoride in the water is well above the recommended level.

then stop fucking firetv sticks.

steam says I played Fallout 4 for 436 hours, but that seems very high. not sure if that count is accurate.

are these games even multiplayer? is it anti cheat or anti piracy?

are there any 2k games left worth playing?

ok, I was not aware of the coke stuff. even so, it’s possible they’re doing much more of it now than in the past.

difference is now they’re basically product placement, and easily able to hoard by people with money and time to game the system.

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it’s not too complicated to give people an elevator pitch. of course there is more detail and nuance to get into (as with with literally everything), but it’s not needed to get the general point across.

Well the general idea of federation is not the same as “fediverse”. most “fediverse” sites are FOSS which is the main selling point in my opinion. They cannot be sold and do not rely on ad income (and thus preying on people’s cognitive weaknesses with algorithms) to operate. Federation is an added bonus on top of that which allows you to set up your own instance if you want.

Sure meta could make a federated service of some kind (like bluesky has done), but without being FOSS there’s always the high likelihood of enshittification.

elon musk bought twitter and turned it to shit. elon (or someone else) could do that with Bluesky too, but can’t with Mastodon.

maybe not your mother, but anyone who left twitter recently (because musk) should understand. that’s who we are talking about.

the cloud services are probably fine, their willingness to actually use the resources for a game may not be.