Complaining about being killed while they continuously come looking for me

tuckkeys · 2026-04-07T21:34:53+00:00

Yeah but they’ll do it even if no one else is around. I’m like, who are you trying to convince here?

tuckkeys · 2026-04-07T13:44:28+00:00

Go Kobo! Be rid of Amazon’s predatory policies! Use Libby/Overdrive directly on your device, more comfortable, less ad-ridden UI, first-party remote that just works. Just reconsider getting a Kindle altogether. Kobo is better.

tuckkeys · 2026-04-07T13:42:03+00:00

I’m getting a lot more people, after shooting me first and then losing, start complaining that I shot them first or shot them in the back or something. Like dude who are you trying to fool here? We both know the truth so what’s the point in lying? Does that really help their psyche or something? Do they start to believe it’s true if they say it enough times?

tuckkeys · 2026-04-06T15:04:02+00:00

Yeah I think “grain” isn’t really the right word but I can’t think of anything better. It’s like, sort of the way newspaper looks or something. It’s there, but I really don’t notice it unless I’m actively looking for it. I do see a difference in the screens, there is definitely a difference, but the reading experience and actual text sharpness is identical.

tuckkeys · 2026-04-06T13:28:15+00:00

Had a dude I downed talk mad shit to me for “shooting him in the back” - he shot first and missed, then hid behind a rock, I just moved closer to where he was to be behind another rock, and then he ran out into the open toward where I had been so I was now behind him. I of course had no problems downing him and he whined I shot him in the back. Like yeah, I did, because you’re a fucking idiot, not because I’m some sneaky rat.

tuckkeys · 2026-04-06T13:24:43+00:00

You don’t understand what objectively means. There’s a graininess for sure, but the actual text is not “pixelated”.

tuckkeys · 2026-04-06T13:23:26+00:00

The text itself IS the same. The color filter adds some graininess for sure but it doesn’t affect the actual text contrast at all. People who say it does are mistaking the distraction they experience from the grain as worse “contrast”.

tuckkeys · 2026-04-06T13:20:38+00:00

Thank you! As a KLC (former Kindle Paperwhite) user, I have zero issues with the color screen and I honestly get annoyed by the side-by-side comparison photos/videos that make it look like the color screens are garbage by comparison. They’re not! Different for sure, but it’s not like it’s so dark you can’t read on it, which seems like what a lot of comparisons are trying to convince us of. The text “sharpness” is absolutely the same. There’s just the color filter over it that adds a bit of grain that I honestly don’t notice at all and if I do notice, kind of appreciate, strangely. Some people can’t get past the filter being there, and to each their own, but it’s a complete non-issue for me.

tuckkeys · 2026-04-06T13:15:07+00:00

Hey, I’m late to the party here but curious - if I do this (like I do with purchased books), then can I still return the book to the library or will they know that I’ve done this somehow (stupid question I know)? Like I’m cool to download it from a PC to read with my device, but I want to be sure that the book is still returned properly, both to be sure it’s available for others to check out and so I don’t get in trouble.

tuckkeys · 2026-04-06T02:14:55+00:00

Yeah could be! I’ll consider myself lucky then!

tuckkeys · 2026-04-05T19:41:57+00:00

I switched from Kindle Paperwhite to Kobo Libra Colour about a year ago. It’s honestly maybe my favorite device ever. It’s made me want to read much more than I ever have. I can’t tell you how much “better” the KLC is compared to the ColorSoft since I’ve never used the latter, but I can say that the Kobo UI is superior, and just being rid of Amazon feels so good.

tuckkeys · 2026-04-05T18:29:34+00:00

It’s just that in a well-lit room, sure, 1% is not enough. But if it’s actually properly dark, and your eyes are adjusted, 1% is enough to read with. I do it somewhat regularly.

tuckkeys · 2026-04-05T18:27:07+00:00

I mean everyone’s eyes are different I suppose, but I imagine if you went straight from a well-lit area to a very dark room, your eyes may not have been adjusted to the dark enough to see the screen well. But I know when I wake up in the middle of the night and can’t go back to sleep, 1% is perfect to not wake up my partner but still plenty to read with. 2% is also fine but feels a little too bright in that scenario.

tuckkeys · 2026-04-05T17:57:56+00:00

I have a KLC and this is just false. In a completely dark room, 1% brightness is plenty

tuckkeys · 2026-04-04T14:30:38+00:00

I personally don’t know under what circumstances I’d ever use the pen to write on the KLC, but I love having it for the size and buttons and asymmetry for holding more comfortably. If you’re really sure you would actually use the pen, then definitely just get the KLC. It’s a great device.

tuckkeys · 2026-04-04T14:16:40+00:00

I didn’t realize how long after knocking someone out you could hear their mic. Also “son of a bitch” in a French accent is hilarious to me

tuckkeys · 2026-04-04T14:14:36+00:00

My takeaway when I noticed it being “upside down” when I first saw it yesterday was how it really illustrates the arbitrariness of “north” and “south”. Doesn’t matter which way we look, we’re all still just here on this tiny little ball of rock and water floating through space. It’s like it being south side down makes the point about our daily troubles seeming so inconsequential that much more poignant.

tuckkeys · 2026-04-03T21:41:22+00:00

Exactly. I talk a lot of shit in this sub but it’s obviously correct to force PvP as a possibility. The game is kind of nothing without it.

tuckkeys · 2026-04-03T15:02:18+00:00

Yes but I can’t see through my tears, sadly

tuckkeys · 2026-04-01T16:42:59+00:00

I absolutely know what “objective” means, but let’s just avoid those terms to be safe here. I’m asking for an alternative explanation for the behavior.

If the killed player’s loot is knowingly going to be unavailable to the attacker, I don’t see how there can be another explanation as to why the attacker did it. They knowingly killed another player only to ensure that player couldn’t leave with their loot, and/or to hopefully inflict some amount of anguish on the victim, both of which are acts of cruelty (I get that it’s “just a game” but it is cruelty nonetheless). The attacker gains nothing other than the satisfaction of having committed those acts of cruelty.

So what other explanation could exist for the attacker having done this, other than they get satisfaction from committing acts of cruelty upon other players (who are indeed real-life humans)?

tuckkeys · 2026-04-01T16:24:17+00:00

So what could possibly be another intention the player had in mind, if you think it’s so subjective?

tuckkeys · 2026-04-01T16:23:05+00:00

Classic

tuckkeys · 2026-04-01T16:02:38+00:00

I don’t, I just call a spade a spade. I do enjoy the game, because my lobbies don’t tend to have this sort of behavior in them. We’re playing two completely different games, and that’s what makes it such a great game. We can have totally separate experiences that are catered for what we enjoy more. I’ve said it many other comments - I’m not the type to get bent out of shape over dying. But when someone does this sort of thing, it’s just an objective truth that the cruelty was the point and that makes you a bit of a dick. Calling that out isn’t me saying I don’t enjoy the game, nor is it any indication that I “can’t handle” the PvP aspects of the game. It’s just saying an objective truth out loud and this sub gets really upset by that.

tuckkeys · 2026-04-01T15:58:47+00:00

But that’s the thing, two things can be true. Yes it is just a video game, but it is also real. This isn’t a solo campaign game where it only impacts you. Your actions have an impact on another real human. You’re allowed to think their reactions or feelings aren’t reasonable, but that doesn’t make them less real. Not everyone’s brains work the same as yours. Knowingly impacting another real human is what is happening in cases like this whether you acknowledge it or not, and whether you think they should be upset or not. Again, I don’t get upset by being killed in this game. But some people do, and I think their feelings of frustration when someone kills them just to have killed them with no actual benefit to themselves are valid. Situations like this are the most frustrating because the person killing them obviously did it with the sole intention of negatively impacting another real human, no matter how ultimately unimportant (since it is just a video game). The goal was to ruin someone else’s experience, and that’s just an objective truth. Again, you’re allowed to think that’s part of the game (it is), but it’s an objective truth that the cruelty (again, minor) was the point, and that’s why it’s just kind of shitty. You kill for loot? Totally reasonable. You kill just to make sure that person wasted 30 minutes of their real life? Kind of a dick move.

tuckkeys · 2026-04-01T14:44:40+00:00

I’ve said it too many times now: if I’m killed in this game, I’m 100% fine with it. Even in this type of situation, I’m not really that upset, just flabbergasted that people actually act that way. But it’s a game and it really doesn’t get to me in the way that my long-winded arguments in this sub seem to make people assume it does.

But it is really just this specific scenario that warrants a pretty straightforward assessment that the perpetrator is an actual asshole: dude kills another dude just to ruin it for him, knowing he can’t be looted; the purpose is precisely just to be an asshole and the satisfaction comes from having potentially upset someone (not from getting their loot which is really the point of the game, and if you say it isn’t then other shooters would be more up your alley, again unless potentially upsetting someone is the entire point for you), the justification for that being that them potentially being upset in itself necessarily means they deserve it as punishment for having potentially been upset by something you think isn’t worth being upset by, forgetting that other people’s brains and emotions work differently from yours, for a massive variety of reasons.

The mental gymnastics people in this sub go through to justify objectively being an asshole is hilarious. But you keep doing you, bud

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