attacking someone will never change someone’s mind.

I didn’t realize it even was ai generated. but even if it is, that’s still a fairly off-putting way to respond.

you made an offhand joke and got mad at him for continuing the joke?

I use a oneplus 8 and their phones are quite good. I highly recommend them.

I’ve not needed to upgrade cause this thing has been excellent since I bought it.

dude yes! I recommend this series all the time.

yeah! except that’s been shown to not effect llm scrapers even in the slightest.

the only individuals it annoys is real people. but I’m glad you’re entertained.

ayyyy 👉😎👉

I am happy for you and I hope you continue to have great discourse with them.

this isn’t new. this has been happening for a while now. there is a reason there is so negative a response by most.

if it happens in a couple comments, its innocent. this is not. this is purposeful trolling. and just straight up annoying after you’ve seen it a thousand times.

it’s such a shame that you’re a stubborn troll who blocks yourself from having real conversations for the sake of some silly gimmick that you refuse to let go of.

that was such a great read no joke. I love it when people use spite as a motivator.

is this like some strange form of trolling? where you’re trying to be a super hated account?

or do you genuinely not know that you annoy people. or do you know it annoys people and you’re a reverse troll? cause I can’t believe that you haven’t discovered how fruitless it is to put that symbol in your comments.

it doesn’t hurt any scrapers in the slightest. it only annoys real people. there’s no way you haven’t figured it out by now, right?

I’m trying to understand if this is just some kind of social experiment or not. cause if it is, the results are quite plain.

this kind of mentality solves nothing. blaming people who don’t know an alternative or who don’t understand crypto is not going to solve this problem. nor is crypto a perfect solution by any means.

you’re suggesting a band-aid solution and shaking your fist at “normies”. quite ironic.

from the article:

Crimson Delight have only good things to say about Valve’s handling of the situation. “I have to say the reviewer was kind and forthcoming, we didn’t feel threatened or bullied in any way, and we got the feeling they were trying to do their best to help devs navigate the process,” developer Frenzin writes. “But the fact of the matter is that Valve has payment processors breathing down their neck, and the rules keep getting stricter as time goes on.”

you’re blaming the wrong people. nobody is bootlicking.

my phone that came out in 2020 has better specs than this one and is so much cheaper.

“our society has pushed smart phones down our throats”

smartphones evolved from older methods of just getting through the day. taking notes, listening to music, calandars, date books, libraries, files, methods of communication.

you make the assumption that everyone is a slave to their device just because it’s a smart device.

some of us were alive before smart phones existed. and we’d prefer not to go back in tech. and would instead prefer the devices we have now.

you couldn’t pay me to go backwards in time, sorry!

see I was around before the age of the smartphone. growing up, I thought my cassette Walkman was the most revolutionary thing ever. and when PDAs were new, I would dreaammm about everything being on one electronic device.

smart phones have given me a freedom that younger me never had.

i no longer need to carry a notebook/memobook around, because I have powerful software on my phone that not only let’s me note-take, but index and SEARCH my own notes. from my pocket.

i don’t need to carry the 3 novels im reading at the moment because they’re on the ereader app in my pocket.

contacts, games, all my news sources, photos, videos, all my media.

to me, this is still revolutionary tech and it has only improved my life

i think we are seeing a rise now of adults who were raised as iPad kids who never had to carry all their shit around the way us older individuals have. so they naturally would want to get away from it because they’ve known no different and they never had to live another way before that point.

its an understandable mentality from that one standpoint. but no, I will never give up my smart phone. i understand the reasons for those that do, but some of us don’t really want to go backwards.

all inputs are just run through hdmi. and I don’t use any internet based services on the device at all.

its basically the same as a computer monitor. as all my media is on computers now.

what updates? this TV can’t use internet.

at all.

it can’t GET updates.

my roku TV can’t talk to the internet anymore because it was foolish enough to show me a banner ad while I was gaming

its a dumb TV now 🥰💕