ryathal
@ryathal@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 1 day ago:
Indie games are overrated, it’s still mostly crap. I don’t blame people for waiting for absurd popularity to bring actually good titles to the surface. It’s still the same general problem, I have a the time for maybe 5 games per year, and that has to compete with my existing backlog, favorites and new titles. I’m not risking that time on Indie or AAA titles without some good evidence it’s worth it.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 week ago:
It is to a very high standard. There’s been 14k games released this year alone which would be a .01% miss rate for malware games. If you compare against all games to account for updates that add malware after submission it’s basically 0 at .000001%
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 week ago:
Malware creation and detection are billion dollar industries playing an eternal cat and mouse game with each other. These programs don’t just instantly try to steal every file the second they run.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 week ago:
Steam does scan for malware, which is why this is news. It’s notable that a game got through that was malware. You haven’t heard about other stores because it’s not worth the effort in targeting them. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that most stores use the same vendor for malware scanning.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
There’s baggage with Nazi that doesn’t really apply and it hurts the argument. The Holocaust is the big one, there’s nothing remotely on the same level happening, lots of regimes have rounded up a particular minority, but systemic extermination is extremely rare. Maga also seems more isolationist than expansionist.
There are strong parallels that can be drawn, but at there’s also contradictions. It doesn’t help that Nazi has routinely been used as a placeholder for super evil and go to for exaggeration. By using Nazi you allow your criticism to be dismissed as hyperbole. Until Trump invades Poland with Russia, it’s probably best to use a different term.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yes you can be a good president without being a good person. I wouldn’t call Clinton a good person, but he was a good president. LBJ would also be a good candidate for bad person l, but good president.
This one really depends on what you did and why. FDR generally gets a pass on Japanese concentration camps, Lincoln also subverted the constitution in some ways. Eisenhower using nationalized troops to integrate southern schools was an abuse of power, but the result was deemed worth it.
There were a small handful of good Nazis, but that’s not really the issue at hand. Calling modern politicians Nazis is intellectually lazy and counterproductive to achieving anything.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 1 week ago:
This seems way too hostile to valve for what this really was.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Natural Selection 2 is still an awesome game with a pratically unique gameplay. It’s an RTS/FPS hybrid with asymmetrical teams. It’s worth checking out if you can handle a bit of a learning curve.
- Comment on Massively Overthinking: Is it possible to launch a new subscription MMORPG in 2025? 2 weeks ago:
That’s likely what is preventing any new subscription based mmo. Why bother with a reliable and fair price when lootbox bullshit makes you 10x the money.
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 3 weeks ago:
Which part? The ruler that can’t exist or the part where finished lumber is smaller than the listed size?
- Comment on Half of Young Men Would Rather Date an AI Girlfriend Than Face Loneliness or Rejection, New Report Reveals 3 weeks ago:
A large part is fear of rejection and you are paying for an AI girlfriend anyway, it gets pretty blurry.
- Comment on Half of Young Men Would Rather Date an AI Girlfriend Than Face Loneliness or Rejection, New Report Reveals 3 weeks ago:
Is it? Prostitution has existed since forever. Women as property is still a cultural norm in some countries that exist today. We are within living memory of marital rape becoming a crime in the US.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 4 weeks ago:
Each vote is approximately equal in the house which is the proportional body.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 4 weeks ago:
It has proportional representation, it’s just really big portions.
- Comment on There are people young enough to not even remember Pokémon Red/Blue who are old enough to be parents now 5 weeks ago:
That’s actually a big number. There are people that haven’t seen CDs or DVDs.
- Comment on Fairies 🧚♀️ 🧚♂️ 1 month ago:
it’s just a hummingbird moth Who’s acting like a bird that thinks it’s a bee
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
In the US if you’re a white woman in cuffs they aren’t coming off. This is because you likely committed multiple felonies on film to even get put in handcuffs.
- Comment on Aspergers officinalis 1 month ago:
It’s not that crazy honestly. Fruit trees take even longer.
- Comment on Aspergers officinalis 1 month ago:
It’s extremely low maintenance once it establishes though which is nice.
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 1 month ago:
It makes a lot less sense when you could make assault rifles that never overheated
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 1 month ago:
The hamfisted explanation was also pretty bad as well. It’s not super believable that swapping heat sinks was superior.
- Comment on Mass Effect 1 is still my favourite sci-fi game of all time 1 month ago:
The first is very much a story first, combat second style game. I wouldn’t pick a “caster” focused character for a first play.
- Comment on One Angry Man 1 month ago:
Starship trooper is a knock off halo movie that’s more accurate to the franchise than the series.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US name this state? Are they stupid? 1 month ago:
It’s called the superior state.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 month ago:
That’s mostly all it’s ever been.
- Comment on Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon Lookalike 2 months ago:
There is also evidence that an out of court settlement happened between those companies. Notably moving away from cerebrates in SC2.
- Comment on hoarding 2 months ago:
Probably, and piss would be way better in those bags than gasoline.
- Comment on "Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana 2 months ago:
Cross platform games aren’t a buggy mess, everyone else has figured it out. Nintendo could do it as well.
- Comment on "Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana 2 months ago:
Nintendo is heavily reliant on physical media and traditional retailers, they aren’t getting anywhere near 100% of most sales. Brick and mortar takes around a 50% cut, Amazon takes a cut as well. Being on Xbox, PlayStation, and Steam isn’t a significant difference in what they would make.
- Comment on "Bringing your games to other platforms is how you’re going to win" - Circana 2 months ago:
They would still sell a lot of consoles, the super fans are going to buy Nintendo consoles. The people that actually own multiple consoles in the same generation aren’t actually that big of a group, especially compared to non-Nintendo owners that would consider buying a few games if they were available.