VindictiveJudge

@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe there was a cure for human cancer, but it didn't work at all in mice.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Cheap to duplicate is great for them. That means larger profit margins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Gameplay-wise, Rogue is even better than Black Flag. Narratively, Rogue is a disaster fueled by Shay being painfully stupid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Parker/Spider-Man should just get a job in fashion⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Like Bruce in Batman Beyond. Typically he was on comms helping Terry be Batman, but it was always memorable when he went into the field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I once had someone flip me off because I put my turn signal on. We were in the right lane, I was turning right, and the left lane was completely empty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who was your first childhood videogame crush?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. The pupils were generally only visible in the pre-rendered videos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Parker/Spider-Man should just get a job in fashion⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He actually did that. Part of the reason Miles Morales was created is that Peter had started a business and actually started making money, which made him less of an everyman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smells Great⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hurt my knee; can I remain seated?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3157: Emperor Palpatine⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Who is Angelica?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨one bright second⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless, of course, that onion knight has a lot of experience in other professions, in which case they can easily punch gods to death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | Official Trailer | Paramount+ (NYCC 2025)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The first and third for sure, don’t think the second will be a significant factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The 360 had far less RAM than the average PC of 2010, and the engine has had a memory leak since Morrowind. I never finished New Vegas due to that, even on PC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨At 1%⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The monitor has to send some data to the computer to tell it what screen resolutions it accepts. VGA, HDMI, and DisplayPort will all do that for sure. Less certain about component, composite, and S-Video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck yes. A slave that takes on the slave owning Templar? Sign me up all day, I want to run into a confederate camp and crush them.

  Freedom Cry, the standalone expansion for Black Flag, was essentially this concept in the Carribean. You play as Adewale, a slave turned pirate turned Assassin, and liberate plantations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm tired of teen superheroes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cowboy Bebop and the Ghost in the Shell movies are great places to start.

  Anyway, it’s not so much a change in what’s being produced as what’s being imported to the US. There was a good mix of shonen and seinen at first, but shonen sells more merch so we get a lot of it now. Just watch stuff tagged as seinen if you want more mature themes or more sex and gore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Superhero stories have become less about saving people and more about fighting villains.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This has been a problem for far, far, longer than you think. The silver age definitely had it, the golden age probably did, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it cropped up in the proto-superhero stories, like Zorro. It’s a consequence of having a long-form story where the narrative’s status quo isn’t allowed to meaningfully change and characters either aren’t allowed to die or aren’t allowed to stay dead. Recurring antagonists also can have much richer characterization and more complex relationships with the protagonists, which makes writing stories about them more appealing the more often they appear.

  The usual trajectory for a new superhero or new incarnation of an existing superhero is to start off with street-level problems, then get a nemesis that has strong ties to those street level problems, then have the dynamic between the two grow in prominence to eclipse all other parts of the plot. The Joker, for instance, always starts off as either a mob boss with a gimmick or a serial killer with a gimmick, not far removed from the mundane crime Batman always starts with, but always winds up with a fixation on Batman and spawns stories designed as some commentary on Batman’s no-killing rule. Again and again and again, dozens of times over the decades.

  Why? Because the dynamic between the two characters tends to be fascinating and results in audience engagement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BREAKING NEWS: We did it, guys! 20 poptarts!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  At what point does it become a grass roots movement?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  en.wikipedia.org/…/Advice_to_a_Friend_on_Choosing…

  More seriously, some people just like older people better. Their interests or personality may make it harder to jibe with people in their own age group, but mesh well with people in another age group. Sometimes they’re ahead of the curve on mental maturity and their peers won’t catch up for a few more years, sometimes they just think they’re more mature than they really are, and sometimes they really would have fit in better if they had been born a couple decades earlier.

  Personally, when I was younger, I had a hard time relating to anyone around my age and generally fit in better in conversations with people my parents’ age. As a preteen in the early 2000s, I was reading things like Dune, watching things like Blade Runner, and my music tastes included the Rat Pack. The things the adults talked about were just more my speed. This got to be less and less of a problem as I got older and my current friend group is actually a few years younger than me on average, though I do still have the occasional ‘faux old man’ moments with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love VTMB, but the gameplay was never the highlight, it was always the writing. If the story and characters are well written and it ties into VTMB1 somehow, I’ll consider the title justified. The writing is a pretty high bar, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Beginning of internet memes? Maybe. I’d have to look up when that happened. Beginning of memes as a whole? That would be off by several thousand years at a minimum, just going by ones archaeologists have already found.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I could be wrong, but doesn’t he own the company?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3142: -Style Pizza⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In particular, it’s a very East Coast thing. While we have the mom-and-pop pizzerias on the West Coast, there aren’t styles of pizza named for West Coast cities and we just don’t have that pizza rivalry that the other coast has. There’s California-style pizza, but that’s named for a state rather than a city, and as soon as you leave California it’s easier to find almost any other kind of pizza.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What D&D alignment would my character(s) be?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Really, the problem is labeling that axis law-chaos in the first place when it’s really order-chaos. We’re pretty much stuck with it now, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  2 and 3 do the same diagnostic routine, and Reach asks you to look at a building in the distance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GN's GPU smuggling documentary is finally back up after being fraudulently DMCA'd by Bloomberg. Go give them a watch to try to make up for the lost traction!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is exactly my experience with their dice sets. I got the transister dice, but I think the cat dice use the same box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You made a comment that is typically meant with complete seriousness without any indication you were joking. PETA, for example, has an entire anti-Pokemon campaign built on the premise that Pokemon is animal cruelty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amid Palworld Lawsuit, Nintendo Patents a System for Summoning a Character⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft, Sony, EA, Activision, or Square Enix would be my guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Like a heart⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think ducks typically use tampons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I use some as coasters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only for backwards compatibility titles. PS5 titles have to be run off of either the integrated storage or an M.2 SSD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Immortals must be riddled with cancer thanks to gene errors in their dna replication.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it just takes longer to become a problem? I would expect (and someone correct me if I’m wrong) that a tumor likely grows at roughly the same rate regardless of body size. A 3cm diameter tumor likely just isn’t as big of a deal when you mass 100,000kg.