Vub

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[–] Vub 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I agree. Good load times, a silent console and the controller are the positive sides, most of the rest is disappointing. Same goes for the Xbox Series X, except the controller is not really an upgrade and that platform has almost zero really good exclusives. Even Game Pass, which was an amazing value deal a few years ago, has turned into a shovelware desert.

[–] Vub 3 points 10 months ago

I'm not so sure, there are already pure PS5/XSX games and they are not THAT impressive. Also as someone else commented, once they reach that time there will be a PS5 Pro. This entire generation is a disappointing mess.

[–] Vub 2 points 10 months ago

Good for you, IMO (and as a PS5 owner) you're not missing much.

[–] Vub 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Because we want to enjoy gaming in the couch and have no crappy hardware mess, driver and update hell. Just a box that works and can be played from cozy cushions while talking to friends next to us instead of sweat, back pain and eye strain at a desk.

If you like pc gaming that is great but it’s weird that you can’t see there are different types of gamers.

[–] Vub 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

To me the PS5 feels like PS4.5 at most.

The box even says “8K capable” and they promised an amazing 4K-8K 120hz raytracing heaven before release. Every time I see the box or watch old presentation videos I feel scammed.

Because in reality almost all games have a pathetic “slow mode with higher res” (often 30 fps!) or “fast mode with previous generation graphics and resolution” (usually some variable upscaled mess and far from native 4K).

It’s still a decent machine (I like it being silent a lot, load times are also quite good) and I enjoy gaming regardless of performance BUT their promises were nothing but a marketing scam. It feels far from “next generation” to me.

(Same goes for Xbox Series X of course, it’s just as bad in this sense.)

[–] Vub -1 points 10 months ago

Your choice not to answer my comment just proves you are a troll. Shame on you for using the suffering (murder, rape) of other humans for your lies. I bet you have never experienced war, terror or sexual abuse and sit in your basement to spread your propaganda. People who (rightfully) condemn Israel but choose with their words and actions to minimise the awful fascist terror cult Hamas are just deplorable.

[–] Vub 3 points 10 months ago

Oh, OK, I've never noticed that, thanks. Sounds logical, there is probably much more societal stigma in the corporate office world.

[–] Vub 40 points 10 months ago (36 children)

I don't get it, can someone explain?

[–] Vub 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The Sweden Democrats started as a anti-immigrant campaign and in the early years were mostly doing extremely blatant, racist, antisemitic and anti-black propaganda (stickers, posters, radio broadcasts) and organising demonstrations which attracted loads of neo-nazi skinheads. Leading to riots and attacks around their events. This was in the dark decade of the 90s, the atmosphere was similar in Sweden to most of Europe with neofascism returning to the open. Murders, arsons against refugee camps, the wave was everywhere. There are photos from their early years with officials wearing swastika armbands. Since in these groups we know historically that everyone wants to be the Führer they had the more radical individuals trying to coup the party leading to several splinter groups weakening them. This problem plus a very strong antifascist campaign against them led to them taking on a more "serious" path trying to get off the street hooliganism and into local politics/councils. They succeeded with that and have become more and more mainstream to be able to grow, so their party program is now very watered down from their original nazi roots. Their focus now is "law and order" and anti-islam and they attract the general racist, conservative, uneducated, by far mostly male and by far mostly rural voters. They get around 20 % of the votes for over ten years now, if I remember correctly.

Initially all other parties refused to work with them in any way but this has started to weaken in recent years and after the last election the new right-wing government ("tories", cristian democrats, a mish-mash of right-wing conservatives) decided to take them on as a "support party" in the parliament. So they are not in the government but directly influence the governments actions with their support votes, without them the government would be too weak. It's really awful.

But even if they are now the 2nd or 3rd largest party they still house open fascists. And there is scandal after scandal happening. Someone already mentioned the recent "sieg heil" thing in a comment. A few years ago there was a scandal where three of the party's most prominent parliamentary individuals had a night out, getting drunk, harassing people on the streets which ended up with them gearing up with metal rods from a building site getting ready for "a fight". Of course these stupid nazi fucks filmed it all and it was leaked to media. So the party is forced to do cleanouts of these problematic individuals very often, but the party somehow STILL maintains more or less unaffected in the polls. Even though this self-proclaimed "law and order" party obviously has bonehead thugs in their leadership. It's laughable. But tragic. It says a lot about the voting grounds in Sweden, there is so much everyday-racism.

With that said, Sweden is not really more racist than most other countries in Europe, I would even argue less so than most. This problem is identical everywhere, racism/fascism is deeply rooted culturally.

I hope this helps to understand this shameful party.

[–] Vub 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (13 children)

If not even the most psychotic nazi-wannabes want to be your friend, you know it’s bad. Suck it up Orban, you loser.

[–] Vub 3 points 10 months ago

The entire service didn’t feel very reliable from the start. And look what happened.

[–] Vub 28 points 10 months ago (6 children)

It’s a nice thought but if everyone were to manage their own email server (and other things) we would have SO much more security problems in general.

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