adam_y
@adam_y@lemmy.world
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 1 day ago:
The only part that’s unique to gaming is that gamers are the most toxic community in the internet.
I wish this wasn’t as true as it is.
- Comment on Gaming has a polarization problem 1 day ago:
I don’t think k this is a gaming problem.
It is a discourse problem.
People engage in absolutes. They either love a thing or hate a thing. There’s no nuance.
And it must be made to cater for them, there’s no expectation that it will contain choices they don’t approve of.
And this stance, this modern relationship with the world permeates everything, especially forms of media.
You see it in films and books… Fans and stans and folk trying to take it down. There is no nuance or middle ground.
People don’t accept that, perhaps, something isn’t just “not for them”. That’s why you get grown men complaining about the direction of children’s shows they used to watch.
And this is compounded with social media where polarisation, blunt takes and contradiction are the primary drivers of engagement.
Audience error.
- Comment on SNP MP calls for Trump state visit to be scrapped 1 week ago:
Nah, let him come here and make sure his motorcade gets stopped on the streets.
- Comment on Current chain of command 2 weeks ago:
Going to guess you aren’t European and you aren’t aware of what Putin did to our gas prices at the start of the Ukrain invasion.
You’re out by a million miles (sarcasm, not exact figure).
- Comment on Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain 3 weeks ago:
The Britain’s invaded Britain. Power move.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
Been using Lemmy for a couple of years, not seen this once.
Also, the ux is pretty much the same as Reddit.
These people are just stakeholders in Reddit. They are afraid of change, or losing any rep they have. They sit on a pile of useless upvotes.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot? 4 weeks ago:
"If it was easy, it wouldn’t be a shortcut, it’d just be the way. "
Modding varies from game to game, but having been doing it for nearly 40 years now, I can say it has generally become easier in the titles that want you to and harder in the ones that don’t.
- Comment on Not enough teachers, children turned away: Schools 'can't cope' with population boom 5 weeks ago:
We are currently witnessing falling numbers in the primary phase
So there’s no population boom.
Most of this article is talking about a speculative boom that might happen and what that could mean.
Meanwhile all of the current problems are attributed to not enough staff and chronic underfunding.
What an awful shitty article posing as journalism.
- Comment on Nintendo omits original Donkey Kong Country Returns team from the remaster’s credits 1 month ago:
Here’s that vague statement in full:
“We believe in giving proper credit for anyone involved in making or contributing to a game’s creation, and value the contributions that all staff make during the development process,”
- Comment on Don't let the smoke out 1 month ago:
This is why we say fog in the theatre.
Fog is fine. Smoke is a situation.
- Comment on Meet Orbit, Mozilla's AI Assistant Extension for Firefox 1 month ago:
Yeah. No thanks.
Just please don’t make this compulsory.
- Comment on Horizon Zero Dawn and Helldivers 2 are getting movies plus a Ghost of Tsushima anime is coming 1 month ago:
Starship troopers > hell divers > hell divers movie > hell divers movie the video game > hell divers movie the video game extended universe books
Can’t wait for the franchise to get massive, overblown, ubiquitous and then die off in subsequent TV spin-offs.
The Marvel Way.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“I’m a little bit upset with the person of low IQ that lives down the road. He’s always fussing around his car as if it is more impressive than it is. He is certainly full of underserved confidence”.
Also, Scots is a distinct language. Not an accent.
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 2 months ago:
Deeply unserious man.
- Comment on The Verge raises a partial paywall: ‘It’s a tragedy that garbage is free and news is behind paywalls’ | Semafor 2 months ago:
If it is behind a paywall, it isnt news, it is an asset.
- Comment on wtf Cambrian 3 months ago:
Don’t mean to make this all serious but sure you could talk about how god or a designer was just playing around or you could think about how the environment and the selective pressures were different during this period of the planet’s history.
- Comment on Feral Science 3 months ago:
Best moment of Disco Elysium for me.
- Comment on Like Fleetwood Mac? Get ready for 4 months ago:
Fleetwood Mac and cheese.
Yeah, OK. I’m in.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 4 months ago:
I do find it interesting that folk think Renaissance art is realistic.
I’m being a little glib, but the truth is that we are still looking at hyper-idealised bodies.
The main difference,I suspect, is the use of perspective rather than drawing on a flat plane. In a way it took a leap of imagination to make things look more “realistic” whilst sculpture was merely (again, said with a certain smirk) just mimicking what the artist could see and feel in the real world.
That is to say that sculpture is reproduction whilst drawing is representation, and with representation you need to be able to take some pretty big leaps for both the artist and the viewer to work these things out.
- Comment on Probably 4 months ago:
This is so on form for UCLAN.
- Comment on British travel bloggers ‘sugarcoating’ China’s Uyghur problem to the delight of Beijing: Influencers claim to be exposing 'Western lies' about Xinjiang, claiming they have not seen human rights abuses 5 months ago:
Influencers are just fleshy billboards for whoever wants them to shill.
It isn’t a job, it is a resource.
And honestly, I think we are all getting tired of seeing their burning faces and hearing their vapid takes.
- Comment on Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it 5 months ago:
Is this showerthoughts or oldbumperstickers?
- Comment on 5 months ago:
That makes a lot of sense.
As far as I’m aware, if your TV did start to provide feedback as you played you were in for a bad time.
I guess I’m thinking more holistically. Gaming is often seen still as a visual medium, but you’ll know that the physical set up was part of the fun/not fun.
I suspect you might remember man parties and lugging gear around just to play with friends. In theory it wasn’t exactly easy, but somehow still enjoyable for it.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
And I forgot the smell and the heat too. That warm ozone thing a lot of them had going on.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Yeah, when you turned them on they frequently had push buttons with satisfying resistance and a click.
As an object they had their own tactility, often solid and heavy (as opposed to the sort of articulated physicality of most modern monitors). You could often feel the static electricity across the glass.
They even had their own sounds. The hum of warming up, the whine and clunk of being turned off.
When we talk about nostalgia it’s often the sensations adjacent to the activity that we are talking about.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
People will knock nostalgia … They see it as a sort of softness, a yearning for the past…
But what they miss is the way that it can create intergenerational connections.
That’s a really lovely thing to hear about your relationship with your dad and Ms Pac-Man.
Wait, that sounds libellous.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
I think people who played those games on CRTs originally remember the feel of the visuals. It is a rather nostalgic thing.
The filters aren’t the same, but they’re not a bad approximation. Mist of those games were not meant to be played on modern hardware and look worse for it too.
Then there will be a ton of folk who just do it because they see other people do it. That’s fine too, especially if they are enjoying themselves.
That’s the point. If the filter makes you feel happier, go for it. It’s an aesthetic choice.
- Comment on There is no history on the History channel. There's nothing true on TruTV. There's no music on music television. There's no science on the science channel. 5 months ago:
Deep.
This is now classic stoner chat.
This dude took it for a spin over a decade ago…
