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[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 10 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Maybe Linux, too lazy to swap back to windows, a lot of random stuff doesnt work or is super annoying to get working, like a material library addon I use for Blender doesn't work for linux apparently (sanctus) and makes it so I cant render with any light in the scene so its not just the menu but the materials themselves. I was hoping at least blender would work, already had to stop pirating houdini and I couldnt get the free version to work either.

All games have been fine, but I dont just game anymore, I like making stuff and playing with 3d tools.

At least embergen seems to work, so I might transition to jangafx over houdini, can buy it monthly and I spend way too much time learning houdini (its fun af) when im likely never making money off this hobby. (cant justify 300$ a year or 2500 perpetual rnow, its an insanely fun simulation toy so it honestly might be worth that, even not making money off it) Its just annoying, I've spent too much time learning it, my brains crammed with Houdini specific information.

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[–] nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 26 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Doing a PhD. One more year and then I’m free again…

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[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 9 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Not that it was particularly hyped but I bought PS4 back in the day and just never really used it. My SO has uses it to watch netflix occasionally but that's pretty much it. The most useless purchase I've ever made.

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[–] TheEschatonSucks@sh.itjust.works 23 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Tasmanian devil ankle tattoo.

Fuck, I know alright? It was 93 and I was barely 16

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 9 points 15 hours ago

That's one tattoo I can respect.

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[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 117 points 23 hours ago (6 children)

I have a Tesla that, for financial reasons, I can't get out of for another couple few months and while it is one of my favorite cars I've ever driven (and I've driven many), I can no longer enjoy driving it because Musk is a piece of shit that deserves cancer. Looking at Lucid and Rivian now.

I also used to believe America was a great country, but in my late 20s started to realize it's bullshit (I'm in my 40s now). It was kind of a sad realization and it has only gotten worse since then.

I also used to believe more in people and their ability for empathy and, if presented the facts, they'd ultimately make good decisions. I now believe people are generally selfish and narcissistic, and that most don't give a shit about facts and live entirely on off-the-cuff emotion. It doesn't stop me from caring and trying to help (some) of them, but it's definitely made me more wary and paranoid.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

I went here as well, but managed to turn it around. I now have more belief in America being a great country, but as an ideal, as something we need to work hard toward. I’ve become a lot more progressive as I see what it would take to live up to this myth about ourselves. Let’s do it. Let’s do it for our children, for the next generation, for a better world tomorrow! Lets start small and local, be the neighbor you thought you had, show the empathy we all deserve, make America a Community again

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago

Are you me? I was about to post the exact same thing, almost verbatim.

[–] herzberd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 20 hours ago

I also used to believe America was a great country, but in my late 20s started to realize it's bullshit

Honestly I was 100% bought in when I was like 19. I'm still a big believer in what the Constitution stands for (at least as it means to me), but I fully understand that I got duped by the branding with that one. It has been exceptionally radicalizing and upsetting to see how few of my countrymen believe in the dream of America as I do. May we one day live up to our lofty ideals.

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[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 65 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

"Get a college degree and the world will be your oyster"

"Put in those extra hours/days/years, do more than the people around you, and it will payoff"

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 36 points 20 hours ago (6 children)

I pre-ordered No Man's Sky -_-

Now, they've done WAY more than any of us thought to make things right; but at the time of release, NMS was probably the single most egregious example of false advertising to hit the gaming industry, ever. Or at least within a comparable scope of visibility to the gaming community.

It wasn't just not living up to the hype; it was purchasing a brand new Lamborghini, and receiving 2003 Honda Civic.

And no they didn't just bite off more than they could chew - they knew what they had created; and proceeded to show demos and make promises that amounted to a completely different product. We were scammed.

...and then I guess their conscious got the better of them, cuz rather than disbanding their studio and laughing all the way to the bank like we all expected them to, they spent years at least trying to make look like the product they promised. So, credit where it's due. But still lesson learned: never preorder a game, no matter how good the demos looks, no matter how charming their spokespeople are, no matter how closely the product they're pitching aligns with your specific niche interests: assume it's all complete bullshit until you've seen some gameplay posted by real people.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 9 points 13 hours ago

I preordered Spore back in the day. The galactic edition. As a teenager I kept it visible on my dresser as a reminder to never preorder games.

[–] Roundeyegweilo@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago

Yea, Hello Games, and No Man's Sky burned me so bad. I essentially had dreams about being Han solo, smuggling cargo from system to system, for months.

Then I got the game after pre-ordering and was dumbstruck at how..... Not anything they promised it was. I mean, the game was HUGE, but aside from that?

Ive heard they fixed it, but I never checked back in after playing for a few weeks. My 9 year old likes to play it though. It came out not long after he had as born hahaha.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I remember when John Bain was trying to explain this to people constantly, and then he died and all the motherfuckers kept being NPCs and gobbling up the bullshit

[–] Akasazh 3 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Fluke@lemm.ee 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The bloke that told others to "Go die of ass cancer."

Oh boy, did he ever tempt fate.

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[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 38 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Spore :(

Everytime I see it in my library, i feel a little sad.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

What's funny is I just made another comment about it in this thread and I'm starting to feel nostalgic, but I know if I go back and play it I'll just be disappointed again!

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (2 children)

I'm so sorry that you have to suffer and see that some people have the same answer to the question OP asked.

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[–] ytsedude@lemmy.world 30 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

"Spore." That video with Wil Weight showing it off was incredible. Ordered it from Amazon. CD key was no good. EA didn't give two shits. After over a week of dealing with them via support tickets and called, I gave up and just returned it.

Meanwhile, my friend pirated it, played through the whole thing, and said it was just ok.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 12 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

How did spore make it into this list twice?

[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 5 points 11 hours ago

Thrice now, at my time of reading, rofl.

[–] Dagamant@lemmy.world 11 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

It was kinda like the launch of No Man’s Sky. Tons of hype, failure to deliver.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 14 points 18 hours ago

GTAV, sure the online portion was fun for a while, but it quickly devolved into a money sink.

At my lowest I bought shark cards for thousands of SEK every month, and it got clear that the devs had built the game to require an insane ammount of effort to gather enough money to enjoy it properly.

I quit cold turkey and am still ashamed that it is my most played game in steam

[–] EgoNo4@lemmy.world 13 points 19 hours ago
[–] nick@midwest.social 38 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

I’m flopping what someone else said and goin with: buying a home in 2008. “Build equity! Stop renting”

Then the economy collapsed, I lost my job, moved to California for work after listing my house, could not afford Bay Area rent AND my mortgage, and the house got foreclosed on.

Fuck Chase fuck banks fuck the economy.

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[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 50 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m really glad I couldn’t afford a Tesla back when the Model 3 came out because I probably would’ve bought one.

Things I actually fell for… mostly video games, but it’s not the end of the world. Mostly it made me much more discerning with new purchases.

[–] invertedspear@lemm.ee 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

I have this weird habit of buying the less popular but arguably better thing. I went with windows phone, a nook instead of a kindle, an zune mp3 player, and a Mustang MachE instead of a Model Y. That last choice might have been the only one that ultimately paid off.

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[–] nicgentile@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Twitter/Reddit.

I was all in. Quit Twitter around 2015 when it started getting ultra toxic. Quit Reddit when 3rd party apps were killed.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

I don't regret my time on Reddit. I enjoyed it a lot, though it did kind of feel like I was in a bit of a backwater after development switched to the new interface and updates for the UI stopped coming in.

I also expected Reddit to shift to their monetization phase at some point. I just hoped that whatever they did wasn't going to be something that I didn't like. As it happened, they killed the third-party apps, which is something that I wasn't going to put up with if there was any reasonable alternative. I have never used the official app, and don't intend to do so. But I don't think that I "fell" for anything -- I got use of a service that made me happy for a long time.

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[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 25 points 23 hours ago

Many people commuting in the Bay Area… “My Telsa.”

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 21 points 23 hours ago (5 children)
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