It’s not even a real ad, btw.

The indipendent thought:

I use a Logitech keyboard + trackpad and it works great.

But yeah, laptop ones I’ve tried always sucked.

Probably dodged a bullet.

It does kind of have “We would have gotten away with it, if it hadn’t been for you meddling kids!” energy to me.

There’s no way they thought the PSN thing would’ve been a well-received update.

These reviews will have a lasting effect on the game even though the drama bubble has now popped.

Steam has a specific thing that appears when you keep playing a lot on a game that you’ve negatively reviewed asking if you want to change it. I think a game is rarely impacted long-term by review bombing for a resolved issue, unless the reviewers actually dropped the game and went on with their lives.

This is why Steam reviews should be taken much more seriously. This was impossible to avoid due to the enormous amount of bad press and devs themselves jumping on the hate train, but I’m betting that a lot of review bombing attempts have been quietly offset by the company just paying people for fake reviews. It’s especially obvious when the game has relatively low reviews for months and months, then suddenly bad stuff happens and along with the justified dump of negative reviews, positive ones also skyrocket (99% of which composed of “good game”, random memes or ascii art).

Aren’t playlists still broken? I remember shuffle not working, repeating some songs and then going off with unrelated videos before the playlist was even over.

They’re not a monopoly, discs for PC sucked and there’s a lot of DRM-free games on there.

Unfortunately the human vessel requires nourishment to keep working. Even on weekends.

you’d rather block your ears than ever admit you might have punched the wrong person

Blocking now. Adios.

Lmao. You really can’t make this shit up.

…what? How did you even assume all of that from two comments? You sure you’re replying to me and not to the strawman in your head? I haven’t said a single one of the things you’re accusing me of.

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Good on you for having the supernatural ability of arbitrarily assigning how much attention you want to give to something!

Unfortunately, that’s not how regular human brains work.

To be fair, they can’t see the future. People can change their minds. Better to write something like this than say “we will definitely always support Lemmy” and then in 5 years say “lol that was a lie”.

Well yes, maybe going that far back it was kind of a shot in the dark, but the late ‘90 to early ‘10 period was a time where you had internet (or at least tv/magazines) to know which games were “popular”, most of those were actually well done, and you’d rarely have an AAA title launch as a bugridden mess.

Reviews are also a hit-or-miss because they’re highly subjective. The Steam review system sucks as well, being only positive/negative and with troll reviews always at the top.

The difference is back in the day the great games were the highly advertised “big ones” and the “stinkers” usually fell flat. Now you have a mountain of AAA stinkers and have to go scavenging for indie gems.

I mean, I feel it’s kinda useless too, it keeps encouraging their “don’t mess with nature” mindset.

In the present, you like men? Go with men. I don’t care if you were “born like that” or not. What matters is you gotta live the way you want to live now (as long as it’s not actively hurting other people ofc).

Even if everything was actually learned it doesn’t mean it’s anyone else’s business what do you want to do with your life.

That’s a normal consequence of more tech-savvy people leaving Reddit than others. Just gotta wait for spez to mess it up even more and we’ll get a wider variety of people here.

Every other comment chain in the thread is talking about “the real issue”. This one’s top comment was about normalizing women hitting on men, and I just wanted to chime in about that. It’s not like one chain talking about a different take invalidates every other discussion in here.