Main reason for me is that I have bought humble bundles, donated to gamejams, and gotten keys off of legit and grey-market sites in the past in conjunction with buying directly from Steam. Those aren’t included in the Steam spend category.

It’s kind of funny how this blog post seems to use the same exact slop-ass language the post it’s complaining about does. Well and truly dead and barren, most of the internet is.

It’s like 4chan-anons recounting things and only being able to do it coherently in a greentext style.

I try to catch myself being too antagonistic or soapbox-y even on Lemmy. I hope we can keep this place interesting enough to discuss stuff on. If bots can somehow emulate really respectful but concise, intriguing and fact-based discussion then, this might be an unpopular opinion but I don’t see that as too much of a problem. It’s that bots have copied overused comment chains and only seem to be product shills or propagandists wrecking the space.

Trump and Lutnick will be turning the American economy into a Lootbox/Skinner Box economy… let the FOMO purchasing flow through you, buy buy buy before the tariffs go on again!

It’s the year of the Linux desktop after all, like every year.

It’s going to be “become Truth Social 2 or else we’ll break your company’s legs” from the Trump admin now.

Stop non-antidisenshittification.

On my worst and most uncertain days, I write down how I feel, what I did today and anything else on my mind in a journal. That way I express the thoughts in my head, and then knowing that they are there means I don’t have to keep agonizing all the whatifs, worries and bad thoughts in there and can set them aside.

I mean it’s about highlighting the parts of you that you like and diminishing the parts you don’t. That’s all of aesthetics, makeups, digitial filters, and all of that.

A friend of mine turned a vacation photo of us into one of that style, and it really turned it into a movie-like vibe. So it was less about highlighting one’s ugliness but highlighting the nicest aspects of our vacation.

Seeing Angry Video Game Nerd’s 11 year old review in the curator reviews for this re-release made me lol.

what’s Ron Vara’s take on this?

Well good thing we have !cyberstuck@lemmy.ca, go and tell people about it!

Only PATH, NJ Transit and Amtrak service tracks between New Jersey and Manhattan.

Pre-orders for Nintendo Switch 2 in the U.S. will not start April 9, 2025 in order to assess the potential impact of tariffs and evolving market conditions.

From the article.

Not sure if the same thing but in Japan the Pre-purchase reservation lottery has already opened.

For the US only, lol

Markets will still consider it a win if Trump does not else good in the next 4 years except for extend the “tax cuts and jobs” billionaire and corporate handouts. He seems to be failing at that and DOGE has only made it harder in for Congress (in a budgetary sense) for them to do it.

Regarding your confusion and surprise, the person you replied to merely gave their reason why they bought it and supported a transphobe, and it was because this person’s sister requested that game specifically.

I know the question posed was mostly rhetorical in nature. But I’m not sure why you are questioning why someone is answering the question, and I’m not sure what kind of satisfactory answer you could get from anyone who had purchased the game (and supported a transphobe, yes, which I haven’t).

The rest of your comment is a legit response, but I’m only pushing back on the first sentence of your reply. Or even moving that sentence to the back of your comment to make it less charged. If someone’s going to answer a loaded question, let them, but get to the point about how misguided they are with their justification before you question the answer. That would likely make for a more constructive discussion. Unless you think that these answers are unhelpful in the first place, that we’re better off not hearing why people have done transphobic things with different intentions, and we should refuse to give them space to reflect, learn, then own up to their transgressions if they don’t come right out of the gate to apologize. Then sure, ignore what I said.

AGI is here: Art Ghibli Imitation.

That’s contraband in the state of Texas.

If you want the source of any future “technical glitches”, it’s this wilfully negligent act. Courts, take note.

https://programming.dev/post/27667403

It is being talked about over here from a Bloomberg / yahoo finance article.