Blakerboy777

joined 2 years ago
[–] Blakerboy777@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

In the Venn diagram of people who will pay for ESO and people who will pay for ES6, I'm sure there's a ton of overlap, but there's probably some ESO players that aren't necessarily huge fans of single player games, and I know for a fact a huge portion of people who played ES5 and will play ES6 will never play ESO. They are not the exact same group of consumers.

[–] Blakerboy777@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They released a teaser trailer 5 years ago. It's surprising to me that the game wasn't being worked on in all that time.

[–] Blakerboy777@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Magic: the Gathering - Beta basic lands.

Basic lands are a commodity. If you need some for a deck, you can get them for basically free. Often literally free. If you want to baking out your deck, very rare versions of basic lands (functionally identical in gameplay, just unique art or a rare printing) can cost hundreds of dollars.

Beta basic lands are from the first set of magic. When I played more they were still like $10 a piece- a luxury, but quite affordable for this game. Alpha is the very first printing, but they have historically been a little further out of reach price-wise, and Alpha cards are cut slightly differently on the corners than all subsequent sets, so Beta is a little more desirable for actually playing with. It's considered basically the classiest way to pimp your deck- out of hundreds of printings, this set is by far the most common to find the pros running.

[–] Blakerboy777@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Date is 6/21/2023 not 6/23, that's two days from now. I think you can edit the title.

[–] Blakerboy777@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They are presented with the same choice every single day to condemn people to die by hoarding their unfathomable wealth. Anyone of them could singlehandedly end all deaths from polio or TB, but instead every single day they decide that the idea of only being worth $2 million dollars is so horrifying that they'd rather allow the deaths to continue unabated.

[–] Blakerboy777@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think this is going too far. Reddit isn't doing something SO horrible that we need to drive them out of business by boycotting advertisers. Boycott reddit, 100%, but do we really need to try and punish companies that just do business with them? It's not like Fox News or Twitter where they've directly taken an odious ideological stance, they're just running their business badly. I disagree so I won't be their customer. I'll tell other people that they're doing dumb things with their site and should leave it. But I'm not going to go further than that.

[–] Blakerboy777@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think reddit is more replaceable than Twitter. It seems the stickiness of Twitter has to do with the specific individuals on there. People don't want to leave not because they get news about famous people, but because the actual famous people are on there. And the famous people don't get the same status recognition on other platforms, so they want to stay their too. I can get my news from anywhere, and reddit was just the best tool to facilitate that. Lots of communities used Reddit, but you can build that community other places too, reddit was just a really suitable place to do so.

[–] Blakerboy777@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I pretty much agree with this. If you look at the accounts of the people complaining, how many of them have posts hitting the frontpage? I'm not saying I have any data, I'm just speculating that most people who are power users, whether they use 3rd party apps or not, can recognize how shitty reddit went about this and won't complain about the protest.

[–] Blakerboy777@kbin.social 29 points 2 years ago (3 children)

He's said that very few people use 3rd party apps, but at the same time, he says "And the opportunity cost of not having those users on our platform, on our advertising platform, is really significant," So are 3rd party apps very unpopular, or are they taking away a really significant number of users? He's essentially saying- nobody uses Apollo, but Reddit is dying without Apollo's users.

[–] Blakerboy777@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I've heard that if you tried to edit a comment in a community that had already gone private, that it could prevent you from editing it. Are you sure you were able to edit and delete the comments you're seeing? Normally if you delete your account without editing/deleting, the comment stays up and it just changes the username to deleted. I used Power Delete Suite on Sunday and don't see any of my comments have been restored, but most subreddits hadn't gone dark yet on the 11th.

[–] Blakerboy777@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'll second this. I really like it. Apple just added the privacy feature of FaceID locking incognito tabs that Edge has had for a long time.

[–] Blakerboy777@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

For me it's rather trivial. It just means "I like that" or "I don't like that." It's an easy way if someone says something dumb or wrong for everyone to see that what they said was really unpopular. I think blocking is a far less trivial and shouldn't be bandied about so easily. Commenting in response can be adding to the discussion, or it can just be a super downvote where you explain exactly how wrong they are. You're entitled to your opinion and I won't block you for having a different one than mine, but I will downvote when I disagree.

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