From latest GameLinked episode (Linus Tech Tips gaming news channel)

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 months ago

      The only thing Lemmy doesn’t have that Reddit does have is the immense history of quality content. This will only get better in time.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyzEnglish
        7·
        2 months ago

        It’s also missing IMO some mass to discuss more specific topics. For example, there’s enough people to discuss “anime” or “games”, but too few to discuss a specific anime series, or a specific game.

        That’ll get better in time too, I believe.

        • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          Yeah, true. I still jump to Reddit to view tv show discussions, just won’t log in or comment anymore.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    27·
    2 months ago

    You know how people will repost screenshots of tweets or whatever? The other day I saw a screenshot of a Mastodon post on Instagram.

    • ngwoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      Reddit is probably too big to completely disappear but if they keep isolating themselves from the rest of the internet they could easily lose mainstream appeal and end up more like a SomethingAwful

  • net00@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    Why does it have to be LMG of all places to use lemmy. Linus is not the cool tech guy anymore, he’s just another corpa boss who prefers profits over people and accuracy.

    LMG has a long history of overworking its workers, plus reports of sexual harassment and bullying…

    He belongs with spez and all other profit shitheads the fediverse is supposed to be free of.

    My favorite linus quote (when asked why he didn’t properly test a product for a video):

    I don’t know if I can apologize for not spending another $500 of various people’s time.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Didn’t he step down as boss after the latest kerfuffle because he just doesn’t make for a good boss.

    • SuperSleuth@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Those reports were both unsubstantiated by a 3rd party audit. Linus does not prefer profits over accuracy, when they received backlash for being inaccurate and rushing out videos they took a week off and reworked their system and have stuck to it. Gamers Nexus The people who predominantly called them out have done, and are doing the same things as LTT.

      When their book bag carabiners were breaking they didn’t say “oh well”, and they shipped out replacement parts and gave them a $25. If they still weren’t happy they got a full refund. This does not sound like “corpa boss” to me. Now I can’t tell the future, but right now LTT is just fine.

  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Somebody wanna fill me in on the don’t kill games thing? I’ve heard it mentioned 3 times now over the course of a week or two so I figure maybe it’s something noteworthy.

    • Devorlon@lemmy.zipEnglish
      14·
      2 months ago

      It’s an initiative to stop game companies (EA, Ubisoft, Blizzard etc) from being able to decide if you can play a video game that you’ve bought. The example used is for the video game “The Crew” which was an online-only racing game. After the servers were shutdown by Ubisoft, the game that many people bought became unplayable.

      What StopKillingGames wants, is that any company that publishes / develop games provide a way for people who own the game to continue playing it indefinitely. This would most likely come in the form of a game server that could be run by any owner of the game, and shouldn’t be a requirement that publishers / developers run the servers forever as that would be unsustainable.

  • Ellia Plissken@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    did LTT ever actually fix that issue where they stole somebody’s prototype after trashing it in a review where they tested it on the wrong thing? I had a weird vibe about Linus before that, and just wrote him off after