tempest

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[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The appeal of Amazon is the things that surround the store.

When I buy from a random website it often takes weeks to ship, costs more to ship, makes me deal with CC fraud if something is untoward, fights me on returns and I usually have to pay to ship back etc etc.

Amazon is bad for a number of reasons but the main driver for me is not the choice of things on there, it's everything else.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago

It's just rage bait. You don't need to read into it any more than that

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been playing Issac again lately because Northern Lion has been releasing videos again.

Still a great game.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

Every time I hear that I always say the same thing.

It isn't enough that you have nothing to hide.

All that's required is that the general public think they have access to information that someone might want to hide.

Once the public thinks that data can exist or is accessible all that's required is for them to lie or fabricate the required data.

"It would be very unfortunate if there was questionable content 'found' on your phone"

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

As a non FF player who played 8 and 9 I thought 13 was kinda bad.

Lots of hallways when the previous games had more discovery to them.

Have not really played one since as I wasn't into MMOs and figured I would try the 7 remake when they finished which it looks like they never will.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I just realized that that game was made by Edmund McMillan.

Honestly if you have played any of that devs games you would have known going in that that is basically exactly how you might describe most of them.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

No, there are a bunch of things required to be met in the US for libel and a bunch of precedent which is why it's hard to sue for it and succeed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)

As much as I would like to see that happen paying to fight a court case against Conde Nast just to get a retraction that they will stick somewhere invisible doesn't really sound like a winning formula.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago (14 children)

Sue them for what? He would have to prove damages and they took it down.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You've brought 2010 ad blocking techniques to 2026.

The ads now a days are less in your face and way more pervasive.

They are in the articles you read with a tiny "sponsored content" under the by line(if there even is one)

They are recommendation from a friend who themselves got the information from some small time influencer or podcast they follow.

They are the AI comments here and elsewhere that might not stick a product in your face but make sure it's always in the conversation.

The list goes on and on and sucks.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 73 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This happens every time there is blow back on something like this.

They will reverse course and slow walk it a bit every 3 or 4 months and we will be back here in a years time.

Someone's bonus depends on this deal at Amazon, they are still going into work tomorrow and they still want that bonus.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I should not have even gotten the 128.

I can use it but barely at 4600 because ryzen chips can't handle 4 dimms of 32gvb.

I honestly didn't even bother to check at the time of purchase and it is is still a roll of the dice if I restart.

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