patchymoose

joined 2 years ago
[–] patchymoose@rammy.site 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Can you still buy Pilsner or Staropramen for less than a dollar (I guess about 20 czk)?

[–] patchymoose@rammy.site 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I did a 6 week study abroad trip to Prague in 2009 in college, and it was the best experience of my life. One of the things I like is how the city is organized into districts (Prague 2, Prague 8, etc), and so as a visiting student I could judge how far something was when someone said "that's in Prague 9".

Also, obviously the beer. I distinctly remember being stunned by the fact that beer is quite literally cheaper than water. Here in America, water is like the free thing that you order when you don't want to spend money. But when I was in Prague, water was not free, it was the nice stuff that came in Perrier bottles and was poured into a bespoke glass. Whereas beer was absurdly cheap. When I was there you could get it for the equivalent of less than 1USD for a pint. It's probably more now.

Not to mention all of the beautiful buildings. Prague is one of the few large European cities that managed to get out of WW1/WW2 virtually unscathed, and has a ton of very old buildings. Vysehrad Castle is excellent and is not as known about as Prague Castle. I highly recommend it.

[–] patchymoose@rammy.site 9 points 2 years ago

I really owe Steve one for opening my eyes to Lemmy. I'll certainly never go back to Reddit, other than perhaps the occasional Google search for an IT question somebody solved 10 years ago.

But as far as actively contributing? Having a Reddit account? Nope, I'm done. I was very active on Reddit, and I haven't posted since the announcement.

But despite me and many others leaving, I really feel for Christian and the other developers. They really got fucked. The 30 day turnaround was an absurd notice to give someone, and Steve didn't have any defense to give for that, according to this article. He seems like a really ruthless, uncaring person.

[–] patchymoose@rammy.site 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He definitely has a choice. As a founder of Reddit, if he really believed that this was the wrong move, he could refuse to do something he disagreed with and make the board essentially have to fire him.

I walked away from a well paying job myself several years ago because I disagreed morally with choices being made by the company. It is absolutely something that people can do, especially someone of his means.

Unfortunately we live in a society where it's easy to separate responsibility for actions taken at work with actions taken personally; indeed, that is the whole premise of a limited liability company. But I still hold Steve personally responsible for his choices, and I think he is selling out the values of Reddit, and his own values if he ever had any, for money.

[–] patchymoose@rammy.site 2 points 2 years ago

I'm glad you said that, because I have access to both Birthright and Conquest, and couldn't decide which one to play. I'll pick Conquest if it's your all time favorite!

[–] patchymoose@rammy.site 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What's your favorite Fire Emblem game? I recently started getting into some of the older ones after playing the new ones. I really enjoyed Radiant Dawn, although it was super hard compared to the ones I was used to lol.

[–] patchymoose@rammy.site 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Have you ever played Lost Odyssey? It's a more obscure title because it was an Xbox 360 exclusive, but it's excellent. If only Microsoft had kept doing more of THAT, the Xbox would be in a heck of a better spot now.

If you have an Xbox 360, an Xbox One, or an XSS/XSX, it can be purchased for a pittance. And there's also the Xenia emulator if you'd like to play your legal backup on PC or Steam Deck, but Xenia doesn't emulate it perfectly yet.

Its one of my favorite games of all time.

[–] patchymoose@rammy.site 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Drug dealer character Stringer Bell in 'The Wire' had a good scene where he talked about the business strategy of repackaging and renaming something when you are unable to raise the quality of a product. Just rename it and customers think it's better.

[–] patchymoose@rammy.site 17 points 2 years ago

After that, I just stuck with Apple's default offerings

Bingo. That's Apple's intent!

[–] patchymoose@rammy.site 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I've been having trouble trying to search for !ps5@lemmy.ml, which seems to be the "main" PS5 sub. No matter how many times I've searched for it, I can't get it to come up. Is anyone else able to? I haven't had any issues searching for other communities.

[–] patchymoose@rammy.site 9 points 2 years ago

It's a shame, because there are a ton of awesome niche communities on lemmy.world and shitjustworks. I was on Beehaw but I ended up moving to the smaller instance I'm on now so that I can actually access everything.

[–] patchymoose@rammy.site 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for making this instance! I was originally on Beehaw, but they just defederated from lemmy.world and shitjustworks, which took away a bunch of content that I was subscribed too.

Is Rammy federated with everything? That's all I ask for in an instance!!

view more: ‹ prev next ›