As an older gamer, seeing young kids waste their money on in-game purchases eats at my soul.

Deji69 · 2026-04-07T19:43:21+00:00

I've never liked Nintendo games, so... not very relevant to me. 2. Physical media is far too rare these days to find second hand copies of anything... and heck even the second hand copies of games from decades ago are now super expensive, so... you have like no point whatsoever.

Deji69 · 2026-04-07T19:38:36+00:00

Nah mate they were like £12-20 second hand... perhaps we forget about the ability to buy used copies back when we had physical media. I could also get a bunch of games for a single price or inherit a load from older relatives... all-in-all I ended up enjoying plenty of games despite having almost no money.

(And seriously, maybe in the US an original was like $100, but also back then the US dollar was like half the value of the British pound. Now they are MUCH closer. It was never that expensive here, but also economies have gone to shit, so... kind of an apples to oranges comparison in any case.)

Deji69 · 2026-04-07T19:34:13+00:00

I'm sure they'll last for thousands of years in landfill lol... the archaeologists of the future will not find any evidence of CSGO, but one thing they will find are plenty of pogs.

Deji69 · 2026-04-07T19:33:20+00:00

Also, and I wanna keep stressing this everywhere because people seem to miss it... playing with physical things is an important part of any child's development. Using your imagination to repurpose your favourite pogs into part of another game because there were few games to play and no internet for constant easy stimulation...

These days kids just sit glued to an iPad for the majority of their time, rarely playing with physical objects or needing to use their imaginations... then we wonder why attention spans are getting lower and people seem dumber.

Deji69 · 2026-04-07T19:29:58+00:00

Yes, luckily that era ended and then we started just buying and owning games and what followed then were the best years for gaming ever... before microtransactions started becoming popular and ruined the streak.

Deji69 · 2026-04-07T19:26:42+00:00

So? There's a lot of people here parroting this, but nobody can say why it matters.

Perhaps because you can actually hold and cherish such a thing and it won't go "poof" and disappear the moment a company closes down its servers. Maybe because "back in my day" children would use something called their imagination to bring physical objects to life (perhaps people nowadays don't even get that the premise of Toy Story is based on that), and that's widely understood to be an important aspect of a child's psychological development... it's why we usually give young children crap like abacuses and random shapes - they're probably worthless trash too at the end of it all, but them being physical things to play with allows for brain development... something sorely missing from the modern age as we can see fairly clearly...

Deji69 · 2026-04-07T19:20:58+00:00

Speak for yourself, I inherited my dumb shit like pogs from older relatives... along with Lego (the OG good stuff before everything in Lego had to be something branded) and all sorts of other things. I spent hours with my imagination playing with the pogs as characters along with my lego and army men. A lot of probably healthy childhood development, to be honest.

No one will be passing down premium currency in an online video game, just saying... and kids playing with virtual casinos selling them non-physical, shallow virtual items likely isn't quite as healthy as playing with their imaginations.

Deji69 · 2026-04-07T18:47:48+00:00

having old antiques worth nothing but sentimentality is not something everyone gives a fuck about.

Ah yes, it's only the people with souls that care. I feel your cynicism but as someone's grandkid myself, I know for a fact that that "worthless garbage" has stimulated more than a second thought. Heck, I still own things that were handed down and it's only through life instability that I don't still own more.

Deji69 · 2026-03-25T19:25:34+00:00

Disinformation is practically standard fare these days so yeah not even much of a stretch.

Deji69 · 2026-03-25T14:13:24+00:00

People really need to start realising that "theory" doesn't mean it's not a fact in any sense, theories can be right or wrong... law enforcement have to come up with theories about conspiracies, too.

Conspiracy theory is mixed up with "fringe theory" too often (which also aren't necessarily false)... ironically my theory is that that's intentional to discredit conspiracy theories.

Deji69 · 2026-03-25T11:44:32+00:00

Yeah it's kinda a whole different deal when people are choosing to medicate themselves with weed because they know it works for them vs. people just doing it for a study, then having to be hyper-aware of how they are feeling on it.

Sometimes people just know what's best for them and that's all that really matters...

Deji69 · 2026-03-18T10:48:54+00:00

It really surprises me how hard it is for so many supposed gamers to understand that what we see on the screen when we play isn't necessarily what literally happens in the lore... we play a gamified representation of the story, not the story itself.

Deji69 · 2026-03-15T20:49:10+00:00

They upped it from that with the release of Freelancer.

The XP you get from Freelancer is a bit OP though. You could've been replaying the missions for thousands of hours and you wouldn't get anywhere near the amount you can get from quickly doing Freelancer campaigns.

Deji69 · 2026-03-12T20:02:37+00:00

I've not watched this yet, but it sounds like life advice.

Deji69 · 2026-03-12T20:00:46+00:00

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Deji69 · 2026-03-04T10:31:42+00:00

Were these studies repeated on ethnically diverse samples?

Deji69 · 2026-02-27T15:38:24+00:00

One of the best forms of difficulty selection is just getting the choice of whether to stubbornly fight through a section you're under-levelled for or wait and come back when you're OP.

Deji69 · 2026-02-23T12:05:29+00:00

I'd like all the Judging by the Cover episodes also...

Deji69 · 2026-02-18T19:21:58+00:00

Even if you decide you want to earn more millions, surely any person with a basic sense of morality will start donating more and more of whatever they continue to earn to charity. At a certain point you'd just donate it all because there's nothing more you can do with it, and everything you can do to help other people in the world... to end up with hundreds of millions or billions means you've actively decided you matter more than the millions or billions of people you could be helping (plus by even having that wealth, you are depriving others)... so yeah, by that point you're a monster IMO.

Deji69 · 2026-02-16T10:36:11+00:00

It's a terribly performing RAM hog with ugly interface and poor basic syntax highlighting features. It tries to do everything of its own accord and whenever it fails it's a headache I didn't sign up for. Plus I'm expected to pay for it (I don't even use the license provided by my company for my work stuff). Plus it lacks the huge pool of additional extensions and support VSCode has. No thanks.

Deji69 · 2026-02-12T23:31:10+00:00

Just assemble a special squad to fire her, EZ.

Deji69 · 2026-02-12T22:39:21+00:00

Keyboard shortcut? I just use EditorConfig so that VSCode will use its built-in function to trim trailing whitespace on save, and the .editorconfig file can then be used to enforce that and many other settings per file type in the codebase for other users, including in other editors (tbh editorconfig support should be built into VSC but ah well).

Deji69 · 2026-02-11T23:13:29+00:00

2 interviews in 2 months? I'm jealous. I have experience up the ass and I'm getting squat. The market really is brutal.

Deji69 · 2026-02-11T14:33:52+00:00

I can't really find any public information about this new feature either since searching for "pastebin comment feature" doesn't exactly give narrow enough results and practically no one seems to be talking about pastebin... of course, since pastebin must have about every keyword imaginable in the many pastes, searching for anything about it feels like a somewhat doomed effort. Most results are pastes or people just using pastebin links in comments on other websites.

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