GunnarRunnar

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[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's more like a default platform seeing as even former PlayStation exclusives are slowly getting a PC release as well. And I did call Starfield Xbox/PC exclusive, not just Xbox.

It's probably not the word to describe what's getting released where and stems from marketing but it's commonly used in gaming so most understand its meaning.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Why do people behave as if Starfield was the first game not released on PlayStation?

Who is doing that? It's just blatantly obvious that it would've been released on PlayStation without Microsoft meddling and their games sell a shitload, I mean Skyrim has been chugging along over a decade now. So I'm not really sure how Starfield is irrelevant to Ms buying shit conversation.

It's not what being an exclusive means (let not get into linguistics here, I mean strictly the gaming industry term). I agree this specific case was anticompetitive but framing it as an exclusive just weakens this point in my opinion and allows to shift the debate away from it.

Away from what? Everyone knows what it means -- or maybe I don't, please enlighten me in that case.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So I don't remember where but I'd heard about Microsoft wanting to buy Nintendo long time ago. The suits are always spitballing.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

And funnily enough Starfield being Xbox/PC exclusive is an example why their hoarding is bad for gaming, and why the Activision deal shouldn't pass.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

40 second load times are pretty dreadful in a genre that by design has a lot of them.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I'm still on my Bing diet from Google but they'd be an easy recommend if the search didn't suck ass. I'm not saying Google is that good either, equally bad on most cases, but from time to time I still need Google's help because they're getting me closer to what I want than Bing.

But sure, focus on spammy, intrusive ads straight in the OS. Fucking idiots. I don't understand how they think they'll win that war without improving the product. I hate the AI as well because I can't trust it.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago

It definitely is a different story when your (presumably) really good friend with industry connections is a piece of shit compared to just doing the right thing without risking anything, even getting praise for it. He's just a human with maybe less than average integrity who did good when it suited him. Who can really say why they wrote the letter.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Throw him in jail.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been wondering about this too.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

My guess is that women don't prefer to pay a higher price to get home safely but that's just reality they live in. Also it's an inconvenience to wait longer for a ride so why would they choose that just to spite men?

Also they (women) can probably decide from experience if they usually get harassed by men or someone else and choose to opt in to this program based on that. If it's nonsense then they won't do it because why would they.

Also only 23% of Lyft's driver are women (based on a super fast search) so this actually happens to also help that issue as well indirectly as their demand grows.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well getting harassed is also not fair.

Also this probably will have an unintended consequence of letting the popular gender choice(s) earn more, as there is less supply and more demand than if the whole driver pool was available.

[–] GunnarRunnar@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about pissing and shitting?

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