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Are you a patient gamer? (kbin.melroy.org)
submitted 16 hours ago by Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org to c/gaming@beehaw.org

There's no magazine on any instance that I see of such a community on the topic matter. To anyone not familiar, a patient gamer is someone who is immune to FOMO, doesn't get caught up or tied up with current modern gaming. Someone who doesn't care that they've beaten a game from 1996 and here it is 2024. Someone who doesn't care that they're still playing games 40, 20 or even 5 years ago on the present day.

I would personally say that I am. I don't have a level of disposable income where I'm throwing down on buying games. I've spent 10 years between 2011 and 2021 wheeling and dealing on game sales. So much that I've piled on over 1,000+ games combined between GOG, Steam, Battle.net and Epic Games.

I do more often than not, play games from so long ago than I do modern games. I'm at a stage in my life where I am noticeably slowing down on gaming in general, I am also finding myself more comforted in what I play and I again can't simply just keep buying newer games. I also don't really care about buying newer games, the time of the present is rich with game sales all day, everyday.

There will always be a time later to buy a game that is ripened for a good sale. So I don't have to worry at all.

[-] Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 23 hours ago

People are allowed to enjoy their free time as they wish. Stop being so snobbish.

[-] Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org 11 points 1 day ago

His voterbase are the ones in the back.

[-] Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 day ago

Even if someone doesn't regularly use computers, it doesn't hurt to gain some experience in communicating in ways you're not used to. Like, I don't like 'typing' on a mobile phone. The interface is small, customization is limited and you're prone to constantly make spelling mistakes. But I adapted and can at least now type on mobile half the speed I can on a keyboard.

Generational gaps need not apply. This is simply just a learning thing that is applicable to all.

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I was in a bit of a soft argument (where nobody was insulting another or being cutthroat and illogical) with a friend about something they were venting about. And we got to a part of the discussion where he admitted that he would rather be a 'robot' who wakes up, looks in the mirror, goes about their job and is 'okay' with it.

Like he didn't understand why it is that people seek so much escapism to be away from dealing with the bleak, always-gloomy mentality of work. I brought up a point that we're all essentially working our asses off to make other people's lives better than ours, those people being managers/CEOs/Executives.

And that we need our escapism to better handle it. Because that's really the reality of work as it is now and has been for essentially decades and decades. It's not that we can't accept the reality, because we already do, it's when we have to step away from our homes, spend however many hours in places we don't like being in, exhausting ourselves, stressing ourselves, spending however long in commute back and to. That's our way of accepting the reality as much as we hate it.

I respect my friend for being one of the few that can just shrug it off and go about business as usual. But, I don't like it when people look down at others and wonder "why do you play so much video games?" or "why do you just binge so many shows and movies?" .etc

...Why not? What's the alternative? Just work ourselves like "ohhh boy! I can't wait to get all of these bills in the mail, both electronically and physically! oh boy!". As well as just get excited for yet another drawn out workday where some of us fear for our jobs?

That's not how things should be, to me. It never should've been like this.

[-] Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org 41 points 1 day ago

Meanwhile at Epic...

"Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

[-] Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org 13 points 1 day ago

Meanwhile Hyundai over there is like: "LOOK AT OUR HYDROGEN POWERED TANK, GAIS! :D COOL SHINY THING!"

Do rich people really sit and think about the day the world will truly be uninhabitable? There's no where else to go and all of their money combined cannot accelerate technological progression enough to not only try to explore space, but to colonize the exoplanets that's out there and funnel resources to and from as well as from and to.

This is all we got and they're happily ruining it because the 'growth' they're thinking of is profitable growth.

[-] Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org 33 points 1 day ago

When you block someone, you can still see that they replied to you. I don't want to know of their existence period, that's why I'm blocking them and they shouldn't have a chance to respond to me period. It's not blocking if they can reply to me and I still see a notification that they did.

[-] Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 1 day ago

I roll my eyes at the dishonest bad faith takes people have in the comments about how people do the same thing behind the wheel. Like that's going to make autopiloting self-driving cars an exception. Least a person can react, can slow down or do anything that an unthinking, going-by-the-pixels computer can't do at a whim.

[-] Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org 31 points 1 day ago

I don't call them garbage. I call them traitors. That's who the MAGA crowd is. A bunch of treacherous traitors.

Our founding fathers would've worked overtime, rallying and rounding up millions of these traitors to be drawn and quartered. Because, aligning with an obvious dictator wannabe isn't bad enough, it's the fact that they're aligned with the values of a newfound Axis Party between Russia, North Korea and America (under Trump).

So, they're traitors.

[-] Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org 40 points 1 day ago

This is why I want a woman president so bad. Clinton was a weak candidate but Harris is stronger. Once Harris wins, the misogynists and incels will all lose their minds. So will the bigots and racists. It's like one stone, hitting multiple angry hateful birds in one win.

I want to see it. "GUD DAMN WOMUN NI...HOW DARE SHE WIN HGUHFSGHSG!!"

[-] Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org 35 points 2 days ago

GOP Reaction: "Our thoughts and prayers..."

[-] Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org 94 points 2 days ago

"Freedom Fighter"

Man if there's one thing I'm tired of with the psychopaths of trumpists, is the bastardization of names like Freedom Fighters, Patriots, Truthers, Brothers of Oath .etc

They all sound cool if they're implemented right. But, they're just screwed around to represent said psychopaths.

[-] Nytixus@kbin.melroy.org 23 points 2 days ago

All that this bitch is doing is damaging the Green Party's reputation by being associated with it. She's just as batshit as the GOP.

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My job at wal-mart has been fluctuating and bipolar that it's making me want to potentially seek out other jobs. I've acquired a few certifications with them that enables me to operate some of their machines like electric pallet jack, sit-down forklift, a walking stacker .etc

Unbeknownst to me, I am not allowed to carry these certifications outside Wal-Mart to use. But I know I can at least mention on my resume that I am capable of using these machines.

How would I word this on my resume?

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When it comes to dealing with advertisements when they're surfing on their browsers. I've just learned recently about how Google has or is killing UBlock Origin on the Chrome browser as well as all Chromium based browsers too.

We've heard for years about people complaining, bitching, whining and vice versa about how they keep seeing ads. And those trying to help them, keep wasting time to tell these people that they're surfing without extensions. Whether it'd be on Chrome or Firefox or another browser.

By this point, I've long stopped being that helper because if you cared at all about the advertisements you see, you would've long had gotten on the wagon of getting adblockers by now. You bring this onto yourself.

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I love using Consoomer, as recent as a while ago. This is the perfect term to describe people who spend their every waking minute, feeling like they've got to go buy things. It isn't because they're buying to survive or sustain. They're buying just to consoom. Cattle with wallets as I've called them.

I also like Coomer, because it makes fun of people who're obsessed with jacking off and pornography in unhealthy ways.

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The US Copyright Office has denied a request to allow remote access to out-of-print video games, a decision that impacts video game preservation efforts. The request, supported by the Video Game History Foundation and the Software Preservation Network, aimed to let libraries and archives digitally share these games with researchers. However, the Copyright Office ruled against it, citing potential market harm and copyright concerns.Key PointsDenial of Exemption: The request sought an exemption under the DMCA to enable remote access to preserved games. The Copyright Office found that proponents did not sufficiently demonstrate that such uses would be noninfringing or fair.Opposition

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