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Stewie@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•YouTube confirms 3-strike policy for blocking adsEnglish5·2 years agoIts not that hard to fathom when you have worked with these types of people.
All it was was a numbers meeting, no User Experience folks in the room. They said how much revenue they would increase quarter over quarter, and how much engagement it would drive. Everyone claps, the meeting ends they move forward with the next terrible design decision. Companies no longer take focus group testing seriously for anything.
Stewie@beehaw.orgto Science@beehaw.org•Debating Antivaccine Cranks Debases Science and Harms the PublicEnglish1·2 years agoScience already has an established method for debating and refuting scientific findings/claims. So this idea that we need to make a spectacle out of it is so disingenuous on its face. “oh but if they know what they are talking about it would be easy to defend in a debate”, but it goes the other way. Then they keep moving the goal posts on what qualifies as a “real” scientific test, and I just can’t have a good faith conversation with these people. I’ll correct people in real life, but the internet is a cesspool and I don’t have the patience.
Stewie@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'English1·2 years agoI use discord for 2 things, my personal group chat with friends that I manage, and keeping up with Mechanical Keyboard artisan shops and manufacturers. So I mean it wont be a huge leap for me to migrate to something better.
Stewie@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•Discord is opening the monetization floodgates: get ready for microtransaction stores and paid 'exclusive memes'English15·2 years agoThis is essentially where I am with it. I get the outrage but for now I don’t have an issue. But likely as with many things lately, we should maybe pursue the federated option.
Stewie@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Super Mario RPG (Remake) Trailer | Nintendo Direct 20234·2 years agoYour client may show it and your instance may collect the locally but once your instances syncs with Beehaw again it will update. At least that’s my understanding - not sure if there is someone with a better understanding about federated instances and how they handle downvotes.
Stewie@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Super Mario RPG (Remake) Trailer | Nintendo Direct 20233·2 years agodragon quest monsters 3, Luigis mansion 2 remaster, pikman 1+2 hd, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Stewie@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Super Mario RPG (Remake) Trailer | Nintendo Direct 20238·2 years agoOn here? not possible, the beehaw community this is hosted on has downvotes disabled. Unless you mean on yt which all i can say to that is “its youtube”.
Stewie@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Super Mario RPG (Remake) Trailer | Nintendo Direct 20233·2 years agoThis direct was a hit after hit for me. I am excited for nearly every game on the lineup
Stewie@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Nintendo Direct 6.21.20231·2 years agoThis was wonderful looking. I can’t wait to play it.
Stewie@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Reddit communities adopt alternative forms of protest as the company threats action on moderators7·2 years agoYeah I think its the same issue Twitter is having right now. All of the bootlickers are being elevated above the rest of the conversation. Could be 2 fold apathy in terms of lurkers not wanting to participate in the conversation leaving all the air for the mouth breathers, or bots. Or a combination of both.
Stewie@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults Protesters, Whines About Not Making Enough Money From Reddit UsersEnglish5·2 years agoI agree, and the hard pivot outwardly over policies and the near antagonistic stance the admin team has suddenly taken has got to be a precursor to something we not be aware of yet. Spez feels like a willing scapegoat to make a few million as he parachutes out when it blows up. They will use him to implement the unpopular decisions, get it “profitable” leading up to the IPO then remove spez and bring in a populist type CEO to smooth over the dissent. Maybe give better tools, act like they give a shit but not actually roll back any changes.
We know this tactic as its something wall street does all the time, and something reddit specifically has done before as well.
They really did recommend Digg as an alternative to Reddit. Some stubborn exec at Digg is punching the air right now.
Stewie@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults Protesters, Whines About Not Making Enough Money From Reddit UsersEnglish4·2 years agoI mean genuinely if your charging for access to the content I have created then I am I entitled to a portion of your revenue. Same as Adsense on YT not that I want to turn it into a race to the bottom for engagement like those scenarios are conducive to. But if we want to make it about money we can make it about money /u/spez.
If I were an executive and If I was even 2% clued into the effect this is having on shifting the conversation to fediverse type projects I would be shitting myself. Not because this will have an immediately noticeable effect on my bottom line, but that it will continue to grow organically. We already crossed the threshold of momentum needed to self sustain, its all up from here especially as the tools and systems mature.
Just look at the tech literate around us start to question “yeah why the fuck are we leaving social media in the hands of corporations???”
Stewie@beehaw.orgto World News@beehaw.org•Feds tell automakers not to comply with Mass. “right to repair” lawEnglish5·2 years ago🎶you got cheesey blasters🎶 Thanks meatcat!
Stewie@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•TIL Windows XP had specific code just to maintain compatibility with Lego IslandEnglish13·2 years agoThat is so funny to me. Imagine how the devs felt to know their game was so notable to get a windows compatibility just for them.
Been playing this for the last year in early access. I have loved all of the progress!
Stewie@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Whats a game that everybody seems to love that you cant stand for one reason or another?5·2 years agoSee I originally was like this, and then I tackled it like a coin eater arcade game. Its is begging you to throw yourself over and over at the enemy and learn their patterns. It becomes so satisfying when after a few hours your a master at parrying an enemy the day before killed you in seconds. The games do a fantastic job of giving you that feeling of a protagonist whose finally learned to work their powers. Then you get a new enemy and its back to square one.
Stewie@beehaw.orgto Technology@beehaw.org•The green bubble problem is about to get even worse (Apple/Android)English3·2 years agoIs there a steamdeck lemmy community? I quite liked having a place to talk about performance of some games or tweaks or releases.
Stewie@beehaw.orgto Gaming@beehaw.org•Steamworld Build Gameplay Trailer - Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2023English3·2 years agoI count these guys up there with the devs I will ALWAYS buy their new game. They just mail everything I love about indie games.
Being completely transparent I don’t care if there are any health risks associated with it for the greater population. I am just allergic to it and it gives me the worst shits possible, so if we could stop putting it in things that would be killer. It’s in every gum now so I just can’t buy gum anymore.