grahamja

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[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You are labeling other people as weird, while being super weird about it.

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 6 points 1 month ago

I am wildly speculating it is to collect all the workflows from remote workers in the hopes they can sell the data to other companies for future automation. Just another way of squeezing money out of users who already paid for the software just to have more information stolen from them.

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I can't be the only one that puts their age as 1st Jan any random year in the 1920s instead of taking the time to put my real age in to view new games coming out. Steam already thinks I am near death.

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 1 points 4 months ago

Have you never raked a yard?

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I went to Digg yesterday, it looks like the MSN start page full of terrible probably automatically generated articles. Shame reddit didn't have the same amount of people jump ship like when everyone left Digg 4.0.

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't these people just pitch wild ideas constantly knowing it won't work in the hopes they can live off of someone's venture capital until they can end up with better jobs?

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 1 points 7 months ago

War craft 1 was great at the time, the 2d one is still a lot of fun.

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 4 points 8 months ago

If the Russian Army is canablizing old Naval weapons, there is a chance the Russian Navy doesn't have a lot of manpower or weapons to requisition from stocks. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/03/04/desperate-russian-forces-are-adding-80-year-old-naval-guns-to-70-year-old-armored-tractors/

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Halo 3, Call of Duty Modern Warfare and Mass Effect 2 were all triple A games. Whatever this game is that they are trying to peddle, is not better than any of the previous games I listed.

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 42 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The example video of showing wearing the headset and showing the outer display:

https://valkyrie.cdn.ifixit.com/media/2024/02/03103510/Display-Stack_sm.mp4

It is off putting and reminds me of one of the Robocop 2 Prototypes.

https://www.robocoparchive.com/info/prototypes.htm

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 7 points 9 months ago

This reminds me of having a palm pilot as a teenager. It played mp3s, and had pdfs, but otherwise you could only take notes and fiddle with settings. I read all of the origonal halo books off of it.

[–] grahamja@reddthat.com 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think all of the card games with random pulls are a bit of a ripoff.

The RPG crowd is the lead in pirating or flat out making their own rules and barely spending money. They just need rules and dice. You need a small group, and there really aren't tournaments so you can play it however you want.

Table top war gaming in the middle is being filled with indy 3d printed miniatures and home made rules that can take over local scenes pretty easily. 40k still dominates the space, only because most people act like its the only game (it is by far the most common already) and you can buy the minis from most any hobby store. The tournaments are huge, and sometimes the biggest tournaments even dictate the rules just as much as the game seller and most people want to play "tournament legal" armies only.

MTG and other card games are the only thing keeping most hobby stores alive and prints money. it is entirely on for whatever reason, people just want to buy another booster. It is as bad as gambling if not worse, you don't even know what you are buying. It should be even easier to pirate and print your own resources to play card games but somehow it is a huge money maker because as always, people flock to the largest group of gamers in their space.

Indy RPG and Skirmish tabletop games make boat loads of money for small groups of people and it is easy for them to run circles around larger game manufacturers. Things like 40k and MTG where there is such a huge following of people who might not necessarily care and just want to go to massive tournaments it is much harder to challenge those established followings.

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