Even in petrol cars automatic transmissions are more common than manual for new cars now. Automatic has just become better and better, and there’s just very little reason to have a manual these days.

Bloons

Kingdom rush

Monument valley

Machinarium

The Room

Shattered pixel dungeon

They exist, you just need to hunt a bit harder and be prepared to pay a little for them.

Pitch it well and I may do, crowd funding isn’t a bad thing imo.

If you were pitching a sequel to an already successfully game with a studio attached and funding secured then no, I would not.

I will never install Linux because I’ll never trust that it’ll be easier to use than windows, and that’s all I want.

I can’t count the number of people that have told me I should be on Linux and that if I use Mint it’ll be a piece of perfect cake, despite me also seeing comments like this on a pretty regular basis.

Why is it that so much of the community REFUSES to acknowledge any shortcomings? Almost like it’s their child and you’re personally attacking their parenting by suggesting its not flawlessly simple.

There are some great paid mobile games too though.

I’ve played nothing on my phone but bloons td6 for a year or so now, cost £6 and I’m nowhere close to maximising the content available.

Then you have shorter (but brilliant) games like the room series, monument valley, machinarium.

Not all are F2P microtransaction excuses with an ad every 30seconds. But I totally sympathise with the frustration and don’t play F2P mobile any more either.

I don’t get this mentality. I’ve rented for over a decade and always wall mounted my TVs. It’s not tricky to unmount and fill in 6 or 8 holes with a bit of filler.

Do some renters really not hang pictures or put up shelves either? The effort to correct it is probably less work than it is to hang in the first place.

You might be blinded by your own country’s prices there mate, but even considering that, not many people are calling any $400 TV “high end”.

By all means have a look on UK amazon (or any UK store) for a new 55in screen for under £200 though…

A high end tv is over a grand, whether that’s from US Walmart or UK John Lewis. What “high end” TV can you show me advertised at $400? Lets keep it simple and just say any OLED 55in screen. Not particularly high end necessarily but I bet you can’t find a $400 one, in fact I doubt you’ll find one for 3figures.

I just checked Walmart US and not sure how you arrived at 240. The absolute cheapest 55in TV is 250. Where you get 240 average i have no idea, maybe a few TVs elsewhere but they’re at the absolute bottom rung for quality and we’re talking about affordable TVs , not budget ones.

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People very upset that a company which exists to make money has used the cheaper option for the part of a TV that 80% of buyers will leave in the box anyway.

I saw a comment suggesting that it must only be $5 to add a proper stand. TCL made 30million TVs last year so that’s a substantial bonus for whoever made that choice.

Breaking news! Budget TV has budget parts!

I call 370 an affordable TV, I searched the word tv and that was my 3rd result. If you wanted a good deal I would search for more than 15seconds, but that’s how long it took to find the first tv that matched the criteria.

Take a look at the 5th too, $400 for a 55in, plenty affordable!

Nice :)

That’s a black Friday sale price. And in typical black Friday fashion it’s been advertised to make it look as appealing as possible, that TV doesn’t sell for 500 anywhere.

Either way, there’s a difference between a budget TV and an affordable TV. You can pick up a TV with a base for £300 pretty easily, and I’d definitely consider that affordable.

Have you considered buying one with feet and spending $30 on a vesa stand to solve the issue?

A 55in TCL is £63 more than the one I linked in the UK.

How cheap are your TVs!? You’re getting 55in screens for under $200?

So original. I havent heard that one 13 times already today.

Do you think there might be a reason you hear it a lot…?

Was my 3rd amazon result when searching for a TV…

Or if you want something a little bigger, this is the 5th result.

Absolutely mate, I don’t know shit about it at all and really am not interested, I feel like I made that pretty clear. But anyone claiming something is 100% fact in a debate without having actual proof is arguing in bad faith, because they’re literally engaged in a debate, if it’s 100% fact there is no debate, it would have been proven and anything else becomes conspiracy. The fact that Wikipedia actually says man made means there is some debate.

They might be bang right, but not acknowledging any amount of doubt when it clearly exists (unless they are holding back the proof that they haven’t shared with the world for whatever reason) is bad discussion.

I’ll side any day with someone passionately espousing the truth, over someone who calmly lies

I’m totally with you there bud, there’s a big difference between passion and anger though. One might win people round to your side, the other will only ingratiate you to people already on your side.

You’d have to do alot of explaining if you claimed global warming wasn’t manmade too, at that point you’d just be arguing definitions… Whether that’s the definition of what constitutes global warming or the definition of when something becomes manmade.

Good talk :) x

Uninterested in the argument itself bud, happy to discuss the awful methods used in their arguments though. I literally checked the wiki page to even know what holodomor was, that’s how little I know and I’m not interested enough to debate with people that seem to argue with spittle flying from their mouths.

The first sentence is “While scholars are in consensus that the cause of the famine was man-made, whether the Holodomor constitutes a genocide remains in dispute.” Wikipedia is hardly a rock solid source of course, but obviously there is some debate, so it really doesn’t seem like a black and white argument as stated. But as I said, I’m really not interested in debating that. I’m literally just pointing out the toxic arguments that happen here so unbelievably frequently.

Advising someone that they should refrain from debating full stop is just cunty behaviour, however right or wrong the person they’re attacking was. Attack the argument, not the person.

I’m very happy to be wildly wrong in your eyes mate, it makes no difference at all to me and people’s perceptions are their own to have. Reddit has some right wing subs obviously, it’s a platform with hundreds of millions of users and allows for easy engagement. People of all sorts will use it but show me someone claiming its heavily right wing and I’ll show you 10 more who believe it’s heavily left wing. In fact just ask Google if its right wing and most results will be along the lines of “why is reddit so left wing?”

I will say that I thoroughly appreciate the tone and structure of your arguments though (maybe with the exception of accusing me of crying, that does let it down somewhat). It’s exactly that structure or argument which I feel is missing all too often and at the very least when I read your comment it didn’t sound like you were bright red with anger. So thanks for that :) x

Welcome to lemmy.

Like I said, I’m not interested in the debate. Just pointing out the horrible discourse that is seen way too often here.

“They” who dive into adhominems includes you too bud, just from the last couple comments you made in this argument you said the following:

Let me give you some advice on debating or trying to discuss things. You should refrain from it.

Just a straight up nasty adhominem attack

Lol no wrong like confidently wrong.

This one is interesting because the whole cause is debated (though generally you’re on what most scholars consider the wrong side, whether that’s right or not I have no idea or interest though). But you state your point like it’s a black and white fact, when it largely depends on your own opinion of which sources you trust. >

I’m used to kiddies like yourself.

Another adhominem attack, “lol child! I don’t have to take anything you say seriously”

Honestly just pretty shitty discussion all around, from both sides.

Reddit is pretty far left too mate, less than here because it’s a bigger pool of people that doesn’t hound anyone (not as badly anyway) who doesn’t fit the classic mould of the “typical user”, but overall left nonetheless.

I think what you’ve discovered is that lemmy is more of an echo chamber for YOUR beliefs than reddit was, and people enjoying feeling like their opinions are validated and praised, so you’ve had a better time here but you may not be more informed (arguably less, as fewer people are challenging your thinking).

Have a nice day anyway mate :) x