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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  60 second summary of 1 and 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terraria hits over 60 million sales with Terraria 1.4.5 shaping up to be another big update⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah Terraria Elseworld (otherworld?) fell through. It was going to be a spin-off/sequel before they cancelled it and later announced Terraria 2. T2 is still in development I believe (and pray).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Racism⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah the Salarians neutered the Krogans. They uplifted the Krogan to beat back the Rachni only to turn on them afterwards. Whether or not the Krogan were expansive or betrayed is a “history written by the victor” scenario but what the Salarians did was straight genocide. The Batarians are assholes (especially that one piece of shit bartender in Afterlife) but they’re not responsible for what happened to the Krogan.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic Mineral⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is probably how I’ll die tbh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Magic Mineral⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To quote Wikipedia:

  Asbestos is an excellent thermal and electrical insulator, and is highly fire resistant, so for much of the 20th century, it was very commonly used around the world as a building material.

  It was later discovered to cause lung cancer, mesothelioma and also because of its fibrous structure; it breaks into lots of tiny little microscopic needles when agitated. Those little shards get inhaled and poke tiny holes in your lungs which causes Asbestosis (kind of like Emphysema for smokers).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data is a plural⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Datums

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I make games and this literally happened to me this morning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone who is also awkwardly treading the line between being a soulless hack and trying to get my work noticed by literally anyone: please edit your top comment with a link to your game.

  I mean it. I can’t even muster the courage to post my renders to Instagram without feeling like some desperate influencer goof.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LG TVs start showing ads on screensavers | LG's TV business is heightening focus on selling ads and tracking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that shrink-wrapped agreements aren’t automatically void worldwide is a fucking abomination. No you shouldn’t get to push a legally binding contract on me after I paid for the product. It’s my property now and if you want to require a license agreement after the sale then I should be able to decline it for a full refund fuck you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The mod who bypass' the PSN login for God of War Ragnarök got removed on Nexus Mods⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  When I bought Fallouts 1, 2 and Tactics from EB like 15 years ago I couldn’t run them even with the disc in the drive. The shitty securom was broken and refused to recognise the disc. It was only thanks to pirates that I was able to crack them and play the copies I fucking paid money for.

  DRM is cancer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Reminder⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But that’s not… Halloween isn’t… Ugh nevermind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kotaku being Kotaku⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t think House of the Dead was a cinematic masterpiece? Tsk tsk! Poor taste I say!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kotaku being Kotaku⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not disagreeing with you because I know terms like classic are entirely relative but holy shit referring to fortnight as a classic nearly triggered a mid-life crisis. Holy hell. Ow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kotaku being Kotaku⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hear hear. Soul was a great movie because it was fun for kids but spoke to adults. Pixar does that a lot. A good kids movie is just a good movie that’s appropriate for children. Sure you can feed kids entertainment slop and it might even make bank but if you’re trying to make a film and not just a vehicle for the line to go up then slop is not it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky adds fishing, a fishing skiff, a new expedition, deep-sea diving and loads more⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think they redid the oceans a couple years back. I don’t remember how deep they are but they were more interesting than before with underwater base building and stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Average game chat censorship⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Two best examples were:

  • Total War censoring the username Nasser to N***er

  • Gamefreak banning their own Pokemon (Cofagrigus) from online play unless you renamed it first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Furthermore, if the manufacturer wants to pretend that they’re selling you a perpetual license to use the hardware or whatever legal bullshit they came up with on the back of a cocktail napkin then they can’t advertise using the words buy, own or anything similar without explicitly indicating in the largest font that you aren’t the owner of the product.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨8 Minutes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What I wanna know is if gravitational waves travel at the speed of light all the time or are they influenced by media like light.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What song would cause you to do this to yourself ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pepper by Butthole Surfers.

  I’m very impressionable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most important map⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Legit forgot the name for a second. I was frantically scrolling across Europe for a reminder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Restaurant in NYC offshores cashier job to Philippines so they can pay below minimum wage ($3/hr in Philippines)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like something the Department of Labour could legislate… Or could have.

  But the supreme court just ruled that this falls under the courts jurisdiction and there’s a snowflakes chance in hell that a case pushed high and far enough will result in those ghouls will rule in favour of labour interests.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Considering the Heavy involvement of CGI in today's action films, shouldn't we consider them to be just hyper realistic cartoon films ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also a lot of difference in mocap vs traditional animation. When characters are animated they follow certain principles that aren’t realistic but result in pleasant and entertaining movement. Real humans and creatures don’t behave this way.

  So when animators are working on live action films they have to carefully balance the adherence to these principles with the realism of the scene.

  There’s obviously liberties taken (the mocap data is always cleaned up before being applied to a character) but think of the difference between an explosion in a Michael Bay film vs one caught on someone’s camera in real life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Street Fighter Movie Finally Has A Solid Release Date | Retro Dodo⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing could possibly top Raul Julia’s performance as Bison. One 1994 Street Fighter movie is worth 5 2026 Street Fighter films!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing that always jumps out to me with each of these is that these videos are all just a sequence of 3 second clips stitched together.

  I know all film consists of discrete shots edited into a larger piece but there’s something mechanical about these. Like I’m watching a slide show that’s just been placed in chronological order.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remember when the body washes contained literal micro plastics and were advertised as such?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Abrasives. Same thing as charcoal. Tiny hard particles help remove gunk when you brush them against something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨unsure why we are surprised lol⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No they do it for free. These aren’t paid assets they’re angsty disaffected teens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's kinda wild that zombo.com still exists⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only limit is yourself

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I miss the trend of games insulting you for quitting⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri would vocalise “Please don’t go. The drones will miss you. They look up to you” when you go to quit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony misses PS5 sales target as console enters ‘latter stage of its life cycle’⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also the simplicity. I enjoy my PC for sure but for some people the ease of popping in a disc or downloading the title and it running perfectly on the first try is a major selling point. Troubleshooting my Ex’s PC for 2 hours only to realise I didn’t install the standoffs is an experience I can’t get on console.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What were some of your favourite Australian TV shos?w⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Round the Twist was 4 seasons of straight bangers

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity bans VLC from Unity Store.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What pisses me off about the whole Unity thing is that if Unity makes itself eat shit then it just further consolidates engines into fewer hands. Godot is great and all but it doesn’t have everything Unreal has (I’m not throwing shade it’ll get there dw) and I really really don’t want Epic to have a bigger stranglehold on the games industry than it already does.

  Unity had its niche and if the executives could stop fucking around it would be lovely to have as a competitor in the landscape.

  Also to everyone saying “just don’t use Unity”: there are a lot of people who have put a lot of time and money and effort into learning Unity and it’s not exactly as easy as you think to just switch to an entirely new workflow. You also have to consider how impractical it is to switch engines mid-development. There’s a reason why Unreal 5 has been out for multiple years and we’re only just seeing games developed with it now. Developers (especially ones with big budgets and all the caveats they come with) don’t want to ship a game with the latest and greatest engine if there’s kinks to be worked out. This is why you still see Unreal 4 in games released today.