Affidavit

joined 9 months ago
[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago

Crunchyroll's (then Funimation) acquisition of Animelab is what led me to stop paying to stream anime.

Lower quality videos. Harder to navigate. Distracting watermarks on the side of the screen. Blocking VPNs. Ads even though you already pay them.

I hate that there is so little effort put into preventing monopolies from buying out the competition

[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago (4 children)

This is a fair assessment. I actually like politics, but I have still blocked numerous political communities because the users spam variations of the exact same 2 articles over, and over, and over, and over again.

It's either going to be:

  1. Trump be stoopid
  2. Israel be bad

The first few times were interesting, now it's just effing annoying. Blocking these communities has definitely improved my Lemmy experience.

[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 61 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I used to pay for 4 streaming subscriptions.

Now no one gets my money. I would love to support developers, but I'm unwilling to put up with this bullshit to do so.

Ads even though I already pay? Have to turn off my VPN to use your website? Incomplete series? Inability to watch content offline? Regularly increase the cost well above inflation level? Geolocking content?

Streaming services get shittier and shittier with each passing day. Glad I 'opted out'.

[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

Ah, that is not how your initial comment came across. Though I guess you realise that now.

I honestly don't recall ever encountering any bars on buying video games as a kid, or even knowing that ratings existed, though it could just be because my parents bought most of my games. I think you're right that very few people in Australia care about ratings. To me, it's clear that ratings are almost entirely arbitrary. It's obvious that big developers get more leeway in how their products are rated than smaller developers anyway.

[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Australians do. As do international companies selling to the Australian market.

[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago

I've been using Linux on and off for years and I've never really understood what these different directories are for. If I don't know where something is I just search for it, though more often than not whatever I'm looking for is somewhere in the home directory. I'm also not sure of the accuracy of this though. I have a VM in /run, and an SSD and thumb drive in /media. I would've expected these to be in /mnt.

[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 23 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This somehow makes me feel both old and young at the same time.

[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

This would be a good move in my books.

I haven't played Final Fantasy Remake because they split the game into 'parts', made PC users wait over a year before they could play the game, then had the nerve to still try and charge full price when they eventually got around to releasing it for PC.

I was very interested in the game, but not that interested.

[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I agree with this order. TPS is a slog. It is almost entirely comprised of traveling across the map and then traveling back the way you came except everything just respawned. Over and over again.

The 3rd game makes item drops boring. 'Legendary' gear is ludicrously common which makes anything sub-Legendary pointless. There's no excitement when a legendary item drops because they always drop. The story also does not compare with the second, which was awesome, or even the first, which was pretty good.

Borderlands 2 also has a pretty good VR port that I highly recommend.

[–] Affidavit@lemm.ee 74 points 6 months ago (9 children)

I wonder how much of their income actually goes towards development. At a glance, it seems a great deal of unnecessary administrative bloat has been added to Mozilla.

I honestly don't see why a browser company needs to be so large (>700 employees).

Not that I want people to lose their jobs, it just seems unnecessary.

view more: ‹ prev next ›