I never really got the point of these conferences. Initially before gaming became as big as it has, it was originally a circlejerk for company executives to hash out deals on supply for video games. In Canada, for example, you dealt with a guy who had access to Sony or Nintendo’s stuff by proxy as compared to dealing with the publishers individually.
Back in the early aughts it still took some convincing for buyers to put certain games on the shelf. It was a bit of a gamble and E3 was a way to market the games to try to take up shelf space. As time went on and the digital marketplace evolved and matured, it became more of a social circlejerk - but the thing is, it stopped being necessary. There’s no competition in the digital marketplace for visibility or stock limits.
Yeah but it’s a non-issue, because they’re describing a behavior that cannot be prohibited regardless of if you can see who did it or not. It’s not like there’s a hard archive timer on votes disallowing comments to be interacted with; people can go down the whole history of any of our accounts and downvote all of it.
It’s literally a non-issue, this guy is freaking out because he can just see who did it, like it makes a difference. It’s the ostrich syndrome, if you bury your head in the sand (can’t verify) then it matters less.
It doesn’t change the behavior if you can verify who did it or not. It literally doesn’t matter that you can see who downvoted you when it’s always been the case that anybody can go into your history and downvote all of it.
How are you going to call viewing a post history on the public facing internet “stalking”?
Jesus you guys play some gymnastics up in your domes.
0.19 is not going to be the magical fix everybody is hoping it to be. Yeah, you’ll be able to block an instance from federating to your feed, but the posters from the instance will still show up.
I am sick of bots. I am sick of reddit. I am sick of reddit content being mirrored. If you want to read reddit comments go to reddit. Lemmy is not reddit, it should not aspire to be, and it is a unique and interesting place full of great conversations with quality users. Reddit is a wasteland, and I am tired of people trying to import it to our new space.
Netflix also made a killing by creating the ad-supported tier, because the ads more than cover the cost of lowering the subscription. My folks pay for Netflix with ads but you can block them with a DNS sink like AdGuard or a Pi-Hole.
I think it’s a scam honestly. Netflix’s library has shrunk with all the other streaming services coming into the market. It was convenient when it was the only game in town but now it’s just one of a dozen services feeling more like cable than streaming.
I just saw an article where Apple TV+ was going to bundle with Paramount+ for a lower rate.
There’s nothing coming out AAA these days that’s worth the price of admission or pre-ordering. Blizzard hasn’t made anything worth playing for years, I don’t give a shit about the yearly reskin of Call of Duty, Starfield was a try before you buy with Gamepass - it really feels there hasn’t been anything in years worth getting at full price. Even Baulder’s Gate, which I would consider worth the full price, I picked up below average price prior to official launch.