I think that's also pretty much universally true with all our politicians

Then just go to a different Instance. I agree the powermods are a headache, but at least with Lemmy they have way less power. You can start a new sub with a matching name on a different Instance, and draw people away from the power mods. People get pretty sick of the power mods, pretty fast.

I think you have misconstrued what I'm saying here. I hope reddit exists to collect the weirdos, and be a breeding ground for the gross shit it is, and keep it away from here. We don't need to inherit the 2024 users of reddit, no one wants them. Let them echo in their bot chambers until they literally spin into the ground. Keep Lemmy normal.

Hilary was polling at roughly the same numbers as close as two weeks before that election he won back in 2016, if I remember correctly. It was looking like a clean sweep for her, and it was anything but. So don't get comfortable yet.

Canada here. Sorry bruh, but we are all tapped out.

No, because then they'll all flood here. Then I'll have to consult with 9,006 different rules between each sub, while subsequently making sure I'm bending to each power-mods weird and unwritten agenda.

No I'm good with reddit. I encourage reddit. And I encourage all the weirdos to use reddit!

It's so much better. Personally I don't hope it grows much either. Satisfies my content itch, have still had some good quality convos here, seen some great comments threads. Absolutely none of the bullshit that Reddit purposely encourages. Plus most of the zeebs and the chronically offended seemed to have stayed with reddit, and I'm super OK with that.

Also $700 isn't going to buy you much of a PC if you don't have one already. Maybe mid spec 1080p.

Not that I'm arguing for PC. I'm pro-console in most circumstances. Only for power modders, power gamers or power purchasers would I maybe argue that PC is the better route. Everyone else, console 100% (except this joke of a console).

AI is just boomer fuel. The amount of boomers running around at our firm that have turned into AI bots is hilarious. Every solution, every question, "ai ai ai ai ai ai ai"

I enjoy making humourous pictures of them and their 9 fingered hands using AI. We've cranked some great memes out lately.

I'm not a fan of multiplayer either. The campaigns are usually good, but they get kind of trope-y, and they aren't very long. The franchise is starting to run out of steam. It also doesn't help that Activision Blizzard is whoring it out way too much, the ux is getting pretty bad.

Could someone (politely) explain why anyone who criticizes steam gets absolutely scorched?

I mean I'm a user, on the PC it's probably the platform I purchase on the most. I've also used Epic, GOG, and a few of the others. Like most, I'm getting pretty annoyed by having to load what seems like 15 different platforms to play a variety of games.

But I've never understood this blind absolute cult-like following of steam. What makes them absolutely beyond any reproach or criticism? Especially when at least Epic gives away lots of free games (like I think I've spent about $20 bucks on that platform, yet it seems like I have just about every game known to man in my library). Or others that don't mess around with DRM, etc. So what gives?

I'm in a weird space with fall activities/work/professional development course work/etc., so while I'm in between games, I also don't really want to get sucked into something too involved at the moment. I bought Call of Duty Modern Warfare (2022) on sale on steam awhile back, and realized last week that I had never installed/played it. So I figured that was a good game to bide some time with. Until I beat it this aft, which sort of sucks because the campaign is never very long on these modern CoD games.

Nevertheless, I'm now in the mood for FPS's, so I loaded up the OG CoD tonight. It's been 21 years since this game first came out, right about this time of year in fact. I was in my freshman year of college, and we were obsessed with it. A copy or two floated around the floor of our dorm, and I swear pretty much the entire floor was playing it that fall term. It actually hasn't aged that badly either. I last played through it about 5 years ago, and I imagine I'll go through it again over the next week or two.