Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "SomeOrdinaryGamers" channel.

  1. Most businesses will not legally be able to use Adobe products now, as they are agreeing to hand over unlimited access to absolutely everything on their computers! Yeah Mr Adobe, define, “ethics,” and, “ethically sourced,” for us please? Define, “improve,” come to think of it? Does that just mean make your shareholders more money?
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  2. What? Putin really did a number on you, Muta, didn’t he? Putin is more ruthless than the average dictator! Just because he goes through the farce of democratic performative arts, you treat that like it means ANYTHING??? Well, I guess that’s why Putin does what he does, isn’t it? Because even smart people can be idiots from time to time. You realise Putin is the only person on Earth to have EVER threatened nuclear war, since the Cuban Missile crisis, right? And he’s done it more than 100 times? Wake up, Muta!
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  3. It’s not just where they’re from, Muta. Look up their history. Kaspersky are spies.
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  4. Most flat earthers are trolls. They get more fun out of watching normals pull their hair out and wasting the time of their betters, since they don’t have lives.
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  5.  @TheFallenAngel13524  : I wonder what this family is talking about among themselves? Who’s going to take the rap? Claim that the others didn’t know? Or fleeing the country? When I look at those other people (mostly women, his sisters, friends? Trusties?) sitting around him in his YT videos, nodding along and chiming in with their own echoes of his words. What’s going on in their heads? Do they know? Are they in on a massive con? Ruthlessly exploiting one of the cruelest diseases known to humanity? . . . This is all so F’d up.
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  6.  @DakotaActually  👈 When you say silly stuff on a public forum, but wish you weren’t on a public forum.
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  7.  @chairyannn  : Wouldn’t matter who did it, the form should still show all donations and monies raised and has been signed off by Open Hand’s directors. Unless you’re suggesting the accounting firm stole it all? In which case, no, again. You don’t hand your money over to an accounting firm, you pay them to read numbers from accounts that they don’t have access to. There’s no middle man, taking the cash. Other than someone inside Open Hand, that is.
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  8. It’s a pretty interesting podcast. But, to this issue: Not many people will remember this, but YouTube used to use the fact that there were, “no ads,” on their videos as a selling point. Part of me hopes this new Google software is as bad as people worry it might be, simply because it will do the consumer good if there is this huge, “migration,” that Google fears, to other web browsers. All monopolies need breaking up in the web space. YouTube needs a serious ad free competitor as their ads have gotten ridiculous. Several videos I’ve tried to watch are simply, “ad-locked,” at least, as I see it. I can’t and won’t watch a video that starts with a 15 or 20 second ad that has no 5 second skip. Surely the appetite for an ad free competitor is out there?
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  9. Yes, absolutely. Tell us more about how all this stuff works. Technically and legally. Show us how it impacts in the real world.
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  10. Thank you, Mutahar!!! “I don’t think we should be praising companies for finally reaching the standards they advertised.” So sick of games journalists practically fellating CDPR for giving us a game that is STILL not free of bugs and will NEVER be the, “open world,” that they promised! By all means, praise what is good about this game. But let’s not THANK THEM for finally stopping hitting us today!?
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  11. Just going to ask, as I have in the main comments: Is it true that it’s the anti-hacking software that makes these hacks possible? I know that happens with a lot of the standard stuff that games are sold with, and frequently spoiled by, slowing frame rates, causing crashes and data mining.
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  12.  @Acidiot  : So you missed the revolution then? What do you think of our new robot overlords? 😉
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  13.  @Voyajer. : Oh! (Hydroxide) that’s clever. Comedy gold. (Au) 😉
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  14.  @fenix849 : Do you think maybe some sort of memo went around YouTube in the last year, or something? The number of things that are now described as, “Insane!” of late is just . . . well . . . insane! Though, in this case, it seems a perfectly reasonable title for the material.
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  15. “Pay us to stop stealing your information,” sounds like a protection racket to me. If I was compelled to pay someone to stop the stealing, I would probably think it’s smart to pay a third party, rather than the thieves themselves!
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  16. I am genuinely stunned by, “Starlord’s,” elitism, snobbery, cruelty and absolute entitlement. He’s a Karen! I could picture him shouting, “Do you know who I am?” in a restaurant, demanding to speak to the, “manager,” at a traffic stop. He’s a lot of things, but he’s NOT a business man. What a Cnut!
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  17. Yes! We want you to talk about Google’s algorithm leak! Of course we do! Every time the major players, with ALL the money and ALL of our data, makes a mistake or gets breached, it’s in the public interest to know! Especially if it’s, “super duper,” fun!
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  18. Do people get it yet? . . . Billionaires are NOT, “geniuses.” They’re more likely to have a lower than average IQ because of the bubble of isolation and privilege they’ve been brought up in. What happens is that some of these idiots get so high on the smell of their own farts, because they’re surrounded by, “yes sir, great idea sir, you’re so clever sir, for using my ideas sir,” that they actually come into contact with large numbers of the public, due to their need for attention and approval making them decide to run for president or buy a social media platform. Then we suddenly see and hear them, unfiltered, on a daily basis and we find out they’re idiots. Their mystique is destroyed and the public starts to question how such a dumbass got their cool reputation? And the answer is simple: They started with lots of money, made more money by buying the right to slap their names on every product they invest in, and then making all of the employees sign NDA’s which prevent them from telling everyone that these, “great products/inventions,” he’s going around talking about like he came up with the ideas himself, were not his idea at all. Musk Google’s, “What are smart people talking about?” every morning, and then says something dumb about it. We really need to stop assisting these idiots by acting like they’re any different from the rest of us, just because they have enough raw cash to pay Dave Chappelle to let him walk on stage in the middle of his act and shout, “I’m rich, bitch!” in the faces of an already loudly booing audience.
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  19. Because Google owns YouTube, they own 50% of the worldwide web! Actually OWN that! No wonder the internet has gone so badly downhill. They need their monopoly breaking up!
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  20. F’n LOVED your opening! Both your presentation and the graphic that preceded it. Dayaaam, dude! You rock. 👍
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  21.  @izaacpitt-gill1825 : It’s unavailable when he sleeps. Try it for yourself. Just write the phrase and it will vanish from the comments whenever Muta is unconscious. Find that implausibly unacceptable? I hope so.
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  22. It’s only a question of time before the perennial Pyramid Scheme returns in a new skin. Since Ponzi and the numbers rackets before then, it’s the same con, only the law is too slow to catch up. As long as money exists, idiots will be fooled into losing lots of theirs, whilst trying to steel it from others. There’s something satisfyingly Darwinian about that. But there really ought to be a law against this shit.
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  23. “. . . and you’re about to commit some illegal crimes.” As opposed to the, “legal,” ones? 🤭😉
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  24. When you stopped that propagandist, “right there,” you could have started with, “Because it’s a dictatorship.” Or, “They have openly PROMISED to nuke Washington!” They even showed a video simulation of that nuke, from satellite signal to launch, through to following the flight path of the nuke down the chimney of the White House! At an official state gathering, broadcast to the whole country, in front of a packed theatre, with a full orchestra playing it out live! We could START with that before getting down to particular cases!?
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  25. You call it a cat and mouse game, but it sounds more like an arms race. I would have bought YouTube’s ad free service years ago, but it’s just so egregiously expensive I can’t bring myself to do it. If it was £5 or £6 quid a month I’d do it. But £15 to £17? Come on? Premier movie sites like Amazon Prime and Netflix cost less! It doesn’t make sense!
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  26. Well, I’m watching you, along with 83 thousand + others, so I shouldn’t worry about it. Glad to see you’re so unflustered by the algorithm trend and not feeling the need to chase it. If only there were more like you.
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  27. It is shocking that Sony has NOTHING to say about WHY they’re down, or how long this situation will last? It makes me glad I plumped for the Xbox version . . . THIS time at least! . . .
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  28. Nah, he’s not telling the truth. If he was, he wouldn’t have lied in his letter, about, “Italian laws,” as no EU country has laws preventing people from showing their receipts and it’s obviously bullsh*t.
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  29. I just realised I was doing my best Doc Brown impersonation from Back To The Future. Instead of shouting, “One point twenty one gigawatts!?” I looked at your thumbnail and exclaimed, “THREE QUARTERS OF A BILLION DOLLARS!?!?!?” That HAS to be THE most expensive unreleased game in history so far?
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  30. Is it true that it’s the anti-hacking software that makes these hacks possible? I know that happens with a lot of the standard stuff that games are sold with, and frequently spoiled by, slowing frame rates, causing crashes and data mining.
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  31. And we must prevent that. I hope people will dig deep to fund the archive out of donations. It has been VITAL to proving the truth, settling countless major arguments about what people said, promised or offered in various political and business situations; even criminal evidence has been stored in this archive! We cannot afford to lose this!
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  32. Read your headline and thought, “Hope not. They certainly don’t deserve to.” The problem with Ubisoft is their egregious leadership, the Guillemot brothers. They have their claws in deep and seem determined to go down with the ship, rather than relinquish enough control for any genuinely CREATIVE artists to just make great games. I’m old enough to remember when, “Ubisoft,” was such a guarantee of QUALITY that you could just buy any new game by them at the store, knowing it would be good because it had their name on it. Once, “they lead the way,” for games and gaming. Then they lead the way with data scraping, customer exploitation, crunch time, staff exploitation, egregious business practices and lowering the quality of games as graphics got better, until even the graphics got not all that great! They deserve a hostile takeover.
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  33. I pronounce it, “Tech-lead,” like the dense, pliable, heavy metal, lead. For the lead-heads that follow this kind of dude.
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  34. What should we use instead of Firefox in the UK?
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  35. Will do. Loving your channel. Like Charlie’s Penguinz0, it’s an eclectic magazine with the power to make you laugh, feel angry, experience schadenfreude, run the gamut of emotions. And the channels that make me feel something matter. The video games industry is still a Wild West of unregulated robber barrens and con artists. And both the little crooks and the, “respectable,” industry leaders seem to be buying off politicians through quiet lobbying. Half of our politicians are clueless old assisted living idiots, just happy to take the lobbying brown envelopes from EA, Ubisoft, or whomever, to look the other way. We need to start inundating our representatives and making gaming regulation an election issue. Billions of dollars are being as good as STOLEN every year. And the tax payer could be benefitting from some ACTUAL regulation. Is this really going to take us 100 years to get some LAW into the industry, like it did with the railways in the Wild West? Write to your representatives, people.
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  36.  @encycl07pedia- : That’s kind of missing the point entirely. The point is that the numbers don’t lie. People may be leap frogging over each other, every two or three years, but there are enough of them, each and every year, buying these, “games,” and rewarding these con artists to keep robbing the general public. There needs to be some LAW in this town!
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  37.  @MintBerryCrunch : You’re arguing with a ghost, son. If you’d have been listening, you would have heard him say it isn’t even reasonable to expect a game to keep running multiplayer servers indefinitely. He sited an example, showing it on the screen, of one that is still going after 11 years, as being exceptional. He said out loud that between 10 and 20 years seems reasonable to him, but he doesn’t really know. And you missed ALL OF THAT, to kick up a fuss about something that was never said. The POINT is that there aught to be a MINIMUM limit by LAW. In fact, a little LAW to protect little guys like you would be a good thing across the board.
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  38. The judge clarified that this guy has NEVER had a legitimate license EVER! And he proved that the guy was at an official appointment when he claimed he was, “laid up at home.” He’ll probably get busted for fraud if he took any compensation or benefits for his, “condition.” His judge was very, VERY lenient.
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  39. I think you’re probably wrong, Muta? Google has made a statement, saying it’s a piece of code that is testing randomly. The way to get around anti trust laws is to make it occur inconsistently, over time, isn’t it? For most people, 5 seconds will be enough to make most people abandon the video and maybe even the tools that are there to help them block ads and spoof sources. If that random effect gets around to everyone eventually, you don’t need it to be persistent. Why is the 5 second delay there at all? It doesn’t even look like regular buffering, but more like a server crash of some sort, until it clears up.
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  40. We should be campaigning for the, “Right To OWN,” law. All single player games should work offline. Even updates could be subscription funded, but NEVER forcing players to be at the mercy of greedy corporations.
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  41. Do people get it yet? . . . Billionaires are NOT, “geniuses.” They’re more likely to have a lower than average IQ because of the bubble of isolation and privilege they’ve been brought up in. What happens is that some of these idiots get so high on the smell of their own farts, because they’re surrounded by, “yes sir, great idea sir, you’re so clever sir, for using my ideas sir,” that they actually come into contact with large numbers of the public, due to their need for attention and approval making them decide to run for president or buy a social media platform. Then we suddenly see and hear them, unfiltered, on a daily basis and we find out they’re idiots. Their mystique is destroyed and the public starts to question how such a dumbass got their cool reputation? And the answer is simple: They started with lots of money, made more money by buying the right to slap their names on every product they invest in, and then making all of the employees sign NDA’s which prevent them from telling everyone that these, “great products/inventions,” he’s going around talking about like he came up with the ideas himself, were not his idea at all. Musk Google’s, “What are smart people talking about?” every morning, and then says something dumb about it. We really need to stop assisting these idiots by acting like they’re any different from the rest of us, just because they have enough raw cash to pay Dave Chappelle to let him walk on stage in the middle of his act and shout, “I’m rich, bitch!” in the faces of an already loudly booing audience.
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  42. That quote about the definition of insanity is usually attributed to Albert Einstein.
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  43. Yes, Discovery is called, “Discovery,” wherever you are in the world.
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  44. So, Sony doesn’t sell us stuff. It’s an expensive rental service. Until they decide to take away your stuff.
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  45. You asked, but the fact is that you can’t, “explain away,” these pump and dump schemes as anything other than what they are. I think people just get to a point where they believe they can get away with anything. They believe their audience will forgive them, the authorities will not come for them and the world just doesn’t seem to care enough to stop them. And it seems they’re right. Law makers and law enforcers seem woefully behind, barely understanding the crypto-space, let alone protecting public interest. And we are failing to make these things into election issues by demanding more from our politicians. I can’t even see a solution at this point.
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  46. Once again we’re blaming the wrong people. Take Two makes these decisions. Rockstar had nothing to do with handing their trilogy over to Grove Street, or the fact that no QA tester ever laid eyes on it.
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  47. You sir, Mister Mutahar, spoke my heart. CDPR may well have been pressured by their share holders into conning us, but they DID commit the biggest FRAUD in gaming history! They knowingly took our MONEY after LYING to us and they will NEVER actually provide us with the game they promised. Now, it FINALLY works and we’re meant to say, “thank you,” for that? Phantom Liberty should be completely FREE to anyone who bought the original ps4 or Xbox one versions, at minimum! Thank you and well said, sir!
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  48.  @valyshknee4203 : But, aren’t you just another one saying, “Because I was happy to accept minor bugs, I don’t believe that all the other people who experienced game breaking bugs are real,” now? You can’t get more game-breaking than crashing, and that was most common on high end computers and the PS5, ironically. Repeated crashes that made people give up reloading. And I’m glad you brought up RDR2 because, whether you liked the final product or not, you cannot pretend it was what they advertised it to be? In the opening scenes you can see people playing pool, banks of arcade games, drinking and eating, but you couldn’t actually DO any of that yourself. It is a sterile shop window of a world, that actively punishes you for going off the rails and just exploring. It may have a good story, good script and good performances from a cool cast, but they told you it would be an immersive open world. Now, you and I both know that in both of the RDR games, you can completely ignore the story quests and side quests and still have an awesome day of making your own adventures for several entire play sessions in a row, playing cards and other gambling games, bounty hunting, finding outlaw dens and f*cking up their sh*t, racing horses, hunting a serial killer, getting drunk, shooting contests, hunting and fishing the fauna, botany and recipe collecting, I could just keep going. And that’s ignoring all the random encounters, treasures and weapons built in to that experience. NONE of that happens in CyberPunk. Is it a good game? Probably. Is it worth the asking price? Not for those who bought it on a PS4 and found it unplayable, like me, no. We should be getting Phantom L for free. Though I sold my PS4 and gave the game away for free, so it wouldn’t do me any good. But, even CDPR admitted about half of the truth in their own apology video, and that was only because the Polish government made them come clean and fix their sh*t, rather than allowing them to just walk away from it.
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  49.  @imnotgivingyoumyname810 : And I think you will be speaking the minds of around 90% of CyberPunk players now. We know we were lied to. We know we’re never getting the open world experience they promised us. We know it’s pretty sickening to watch the gaming press drop to their knees and all but fellate CDPR for finally fixing their bugs to an acceptable point after 3 long years! But, at the same time, it’s still a pretty good story, with flashes of brilliance in the script and you get to hang out with Keanu and Idris, which is cool AF, so it might be worth your money now. But, we should never forget what they did and never let them skate for that. The price of full forgiveness is too high. We’ve seen it time and again. What we forgive is what will happen again.
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  50.  @LoneRogue96  : That’s a good question. The Witcher games proved that they could do side quests and side activities galore, better character models and working systems, all on their engine. So, there really isn’t any excuse for, “accidental,” failure. The Witcher 3 did release with major issues, but they patched all the worst of those within 6 months and finished off within a year. There wasn’t even an attempt to make any of the shiny objects in CP interactive. So, was it a tension between the investors and the devs, or something more? Nothing takes 3 years, after the base game game? I know the investors wanted to walk away after the disastrous release. And it was largely due to the Polish government threatening to sue them, which would have meant them getting a good look into all their books through the Discovery process and possibly uncovering criminal activity, that frightened them into putting all of this right. But there are still several shady characters, several shady decisions, and several shady plans that went awry, that we don’t know about. My gut tells me that much. A deep dive investigation would be so instructive and valuable to the community of gamers and devs alike. Y’know? Given that this was the biggest fraud in gaming history . . . so far . . .
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