Bold of you to say that on lemmy of all places

I hate to say it, but this is Mamdani for me. It’s like he’s too perfect and his whole image and persona seems like it’s finely crafted by a media team.

Well yeah, you can say things like “the eruption was a harsh reminder of the dangers of living next to a volcano”

Execs aren’t usually included in unions

Basically any of the really cheap ones. They do resistance by friction against what is essentially a strip of carpet and feels really shitty and gross to use.

Eh I tried this and found it difficult to use and work at the same time, especially as peddling gradually pushes away my office chair. Also most of them do resistance by having a strip of carped on the inner wheel that rubs against a break pad that you can tighten, which just feels gross, not like how a gym bike machine feels.

Also I feel it’s really difficult to make it feel like effort.

Macrofactor is the gold standard, but requires a subscription. Calorometer is a decent alternative, but still locks some features behind a subscription and is a bit messy.

Increasing weight is actually not very effective at burning more calories, you’d be better off just adding like 10 minutes of time

Losing 8 pounds in 5 days would require a daily deficit of 5,600 calories, so if you ate nothing you would still need to burn 3,600 calories to hit that, and if you’re hiking with a moderate load at a relaxed pace you’d be burning around 500-600 calories and hour, so would need to be hiking for like 7 hours a day AND not eating anything to lose that much weight in that much time…

A controversial part of that is reducing pension interests.

I’ve found loads of actually good and interesting high effort content from recommendations.

So you think having to buy a unique licence for every game is a better alternative than being able to buy an actual copy of a game that you own, second hand for a fraction of the price?

Because thats the argument here, not comparing them to netflix, comparing steam to a model where you actually own the media you buy and can do what you want with it.

I hope his boots are tasty

I don’t buy any software FOSS all the way baby.

Yeah physical media died, and guess who was leading the charge on licence based media a decade before streaming was a thing?

markedly for the better

Yeah I’m so glad I don’t actually own any of the games in my steam library.

It’s amazing how many people drop the whole “nobody becomes a billionaire by being a good person” rhetoric as soon as you mention their pet wholesome chungus billionaire.

You guys are just as bad as the people that defend musk because “he’s real life Tony Stark! He makes rockets and electric cars!!!”

Yeah it’s not like he popularised the model of only owning a licence to a game, not the game it self, popularised lootboxes and keys and made tons of money of pushing gambling on kids, had to sued into having a refund policy, popularised early access as a business model, takes a huge 30% of profits of other people’s labour, and was the first to fold to puritanicals that wouldnted him to ban certain games from the platform or anything like that.

Yeah lord Gaben is my wholesome good guy billionaire.

Gyro control is still just a gimmick, but grip buttons are decent I guess.

But it’s still combining a controller and a kbm and ending up being worse than either one individually. And there’s only a very limited niche where a steam controller could be better than either on its own.

I genuinely don’t understand the hype beyond valve fanboyism. They already released a steam controller years ago and it was actually terrible, like there’s a reason no one else has even bothered to try and copy the track pad controller gimmick, because it’s just bad.

Thanks for the meme, but all these are real words, so it’s not quite the same innit?