LandedGentry

joined 2 weeks ago
[–] LandedGentry 6 points 2 hours ago

When it comes to legality it is not reasonable for us to ask instance admins to risk themselves over something like age requirements for NSFW content. I fully agree with this decision if you feel it is necessary to protect yourself, which seems to be the correct take.

As long as I don’t have to give personal, identifying info, I’m down.

[–] LandedGentry 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

You know, the world is larger than Japan and the US

[–] LandedGentry 2 points 19 hours ago

Yeah Mullvad or Proton I’d say are well worth the investment. I doubt it’s necessary but I use secure core on proton whenever I am doing very legal and very cool things.

[–] LandedGentry 2 points 19 hours ago

So they didn’t say it’s an opinion. Cool.

👋

[–] LandedGentry 8 points 19 hours ago

No. We played “wait and see” 2016-2020. We know how this shit is going down.

[–] LandedGentry 8 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (2 children)

He put RFK jr. and Dr. Oz at the helm of our health system get with the fucking program dude.

[–] LandedGentry 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I just wanted to come back and apologize. I’ve been in a pretty shitty mood the last few days and I’ve been letting a lot of stuff get to me.I shouldn’t go online and take it out on other people and just spread that misery.

It doesn’t matter whether or not I think the word is flexible. I shouldn’t talk to people like that, I don’t know a thing about you and I just started attacking you. Again I apologize

[–] LandedGentry 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Exclusivity in general (not always) is a mistake. Sony has been learning this with the money they’re raking in doing PC ports finally, and Microsoft is learning it when they realize that going exclusive while also offering Game Pass cannibalizes direct sales beyond an acceptable amount (HFR, Indiana Jones). Nintendo only gets away with it because of their tight control of their IP’s and complete refusal to port to virtually anything. They barely even port their old back catalog to their current hardware. If you try to do a middle ground you often end up with the worst of both worlds.

They need to open up pretty substantially or lock it down completely, though the latter requires you to have a very strong exclusive catalog which Sony and Microsoft do not have right now compared to Nintendo.

Another good example is the Wii U. The catalog on that console is actually pretty thin compared to Wii and Switch, and it suffered for it. People try to explain it with vague statements about how folks didn’t understand what it was or whatever, and I’m sure that contributed, but it took them several years to get any games of note off the ground which meant there was no reason to buy one.

[–] LandedGentry 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

You’re absolutely right. Indie is a murky term that people use very liberally. I’m glad we agree that being pedantic and rigid about a definition when the rest of society isn’t out of some weird need to be a contrarian online “well AKSHOOALEE”-ing folks is not only unproductive, but it kind of makes you a tool.

Have a great rest of your week. Feel free to have the last word. I’m sure it’s very important to you.

[–] LandedGentry 0 points 1 day ago (6 children)

It’s already muddy dude I can’t believe we are having this debate in 2024 lmfao

[–] LandedGentry 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

Oh come on are you really going to play this game?

Do you think all “indie films” come from independent filmmakers/tiny studios with no big connections?

Do you think all “indie rock” only comes from independent bands without studio deals?

Indie absolutely connotes either the above or a style/genre. Everyone knows this. It’s a very flexible term that can vary from person to person. It’s a “vibe,” it’s classic “I know it when I see it.”

[–] LandedGentry 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I can tell you firsthand that companies are lowering their ad buys on and generally pulling away from Twitter. It is not 2015. You are not going to lose your house if you lose Twitter. It is over dramatic. What I said is not dramatic. How on earth you were defending people sticking with that sinking ship is beyond me. It is a right wing mouthpiece that becomes more impossible operate safely on every week. When you block people they see your posts and can comment all over your stuff now slandering you you just can’t see it. How on earth people want to live with that is beyond me.

The sheer number of journalists and media outlets abandoning the platform is about as big of a canary in the coal mine as you’re going to get.

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