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- Comment on Why doesn't Food Network do product placement in there shows? Would they not earn more money by a host saying I use this hot sauce name drop but you can use whatever? 23 hours ago:
Food Network is in the bag for Kitchen Aid products.
- Comment on Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing? 6 days ago:
The special provisions that exist or have been proposed are for first responders because they breathed in dust and were exposed to various health hazards during the response.
What above and beyond taking care of do people in the back end need?
- Comment on Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing? 6 days ago:
In your own question you are identifying something that isn’t a first responder. First responders arrive on scene.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 6 days ago:
Repeat from the other thread:
I beat The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
It was alright. A third person shooter where you are theoretically giving tactical orders to two NPC followers. In reality, good or interesting tactics go out the window in favor of just spamming special abilities as much as possible in a chaotic mess of fights. The story was decent and gets interesting near the end, although for my money after the big reveal it feels like it drags out a bit longer than it needs to. For $3 I got my value.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I beat The Bureau: XCOM Declassified.
It was alright. A third person shooter where you are theoretically giving tactical orders to two NPC followers. In reality, good or interesting tactics go out the window in favor of just spamming special abilities as much as possible in a chaotic mess of fights. The story was decent and gets interesting near the end, although for my money after the big reveal it feels like it drags out a bit longer than it needs to. For $3 I got my value.
- Comment on A live-action Call of Duty film is on the way 2 weeks ago:
COD4 was the first Modern Warfare game.
World At War wasn’t numbered.
- Comment on A live-action Call of Duty film is on the way 2 weeks ago:
I’m not saying Clancy stuff is always completely grounded, especially the longer it goes on, but I’m trying to use the Clancy comparison to capture the essence of an idea. COD4 while fictional, and with moments that aren’t wholly realistic if you really hold them up to the most intense scrutiny has the overall texture of realism. MW2&3 and Black Ops games all exist as throwing bigger and more insane setpieces out with no regard to any realism.
It’s a the last COD with a real gutpunch moment that says anything about anything. The nuke going off it a moment of realizing you aren’t a special main character and you die like everyone else, and that maybe war isn’t just a big fun adventure. All the shock moments have been trying to top it are so dramatic that they don’t have the same effect that the nuke did.
- Comment on A live-action Call of Duty film is on the way 2 weeks ago:
While (classic, I’m not counting stuff Ghost written under his brand) Clancy characters have hyper competence, it’s to be expected given that they are turbo ultra elite soldiers or spies. Their motivations and ability to act doesn’t reach the point of self parody.
For a COD4 example: Yuri, the Russian that the player rescues early on in the game. He is a mole inside the Russian antagonist faction feeding information to the SAS who got made. He’s being kept at a house with a handful of regular soldiers watching him. When you rescue you him he is calm or at least puts up a calm front and thanks you. That’s a pretty believable guy who could have been a real person who is doing something realistic and dangerous.
In MW2 that character can materialize with apparently infinite types of military aviation hardware, and he is also a pilot able and willing to do insane maneuvers. And he is personal friends with Captain price rather than just being an SAS asset. And he is in touch with a militia group.
There is a distinct jump from COD4 to MW2, where it goes from Tom Clancy to Michael Bay.
MW2 is still fun, but it exists in an entirely separate tonal reality than COD4.
- Comment on A live-action Call of Duty film is on the way 2 weeks ago:
I’m replaying COD4 and taking notes at the moment, coincidentally.
Looking at just COD4 without being influenced by knowledge of the sequels, it’s got a decent story and if you look at the edges it has contemplations of cycles of violence, and while not to the point of being anti-war it does emphasize the waste of it.
The characters are Tom Clancy levels of larger than life, which is significantly more restrained than what came later. Individually the story beats and scenarios have at least a texture of realism, often loosely based in something real and then strung together in a story that isn’t convoluted.
I could see it being a good movie with the right handling. It probably wouldn’t be.
- Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species. 2 weeks ago:
Spock in the original series goes into his mating season, which is a time where Vulcan emotions become too uncontrollable to repress. Vulcans are ashamed of this loss of control and try to hide it away.
Spock had to fight Kirk because Spock’s arranged marriage wife-to-be was allowed to chose anyone as her champion against Spock when she decided she didn’t want to him. Spock was out of control in full ragemode and only regained his senses when he thought he’d killed Kirk.
Vulcan society has, to my eye, always been one that acts like it has everything figured out but its repression has created just as many bizarre rituals as any other culture.
- Comment on Vulcans are an incredibly emotional and passionate species. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve long seen Vulcans as something of a cautionary example of going to an extreme. Rather than living alongside their emotions and learning their appropriate uses, Vulcans just repress them until it all occasionally explodes in an uncontrolled outburst.
Trek has from the beginning framed the strict adherence to cold logic as a flaw. That’s why Spock got a bunch of people killed on the Galileo 7.
- Comment on Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 36] 2 weeks ago:
I watched all of DanDaDan season one and enjoyed it. I like the characters, the world so far, and the animation is fun. I have heard the mangas storylines drop off a bit, but for the time being the first season of the show is solid.
- Comment on What is the difference between these 3 sets of movies? 2 weeks ago:
The first one has slightly different foreign languages dubbed. It is also listed as a Sony manufactured box set, I really don’t know the rights history there, but that’s what the product page says.
The second one is listed as a Disney made box. It contains one disc with everything on it.
The third product looks the same as the second but containing three discs instead of one.
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- Comment on Are drones in war just a one off. Like they drop one or two bombs and are done for? Or do they get flown back to the site to get rearmed and repeat? Asking in context about Russia Ukraine debacle 3 weeks ago:
Questions like this are why I don’t like “drone” as a catchall description. Drones are everything from single use first person view suicide devices, to off the shelf quad copters for recon, to essentially unmanned aircraft.
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- Comment on do what you love 3 weeks ago:
Looking down on manufacturing jobs is so cool.
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- Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord, Barbarossa to Berlin, and Afrika Korps are returning with updates to Steam in Septemberwww.pcgamesn.com ↗Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment
- Comment on True art is polarizing 4 weeks ago:
What’s weird about video games is there isn’t a library of stock prop games. It doesn’t take a ton of time to make something in a free engine. I’m sure studio VFX departments have people who could whip up a few demo sized “games” that can actually be controlled and played but don’t have failure states so actors can actually “play” them while filming without having to be too distracted from the scene itself.
Instead we get actors often overenthusiastically wiggling controllers around and insert footage of games that don’t match the motions at all.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 4 weeks ago:
The movie telling us that Teslas can be remotely hijacked feels like it should counteract any positives about automatic driving.
Then again this movie starts with an armed warrant execution for posting a YouTube video critical of the NSA, so the values are bit catywompus.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 4 weeks ago:
Something that you missed, which became increasingly amazing as the movie went on was the elastic nature of time.
It took the same amount of time for earth to globalize its military, fight the tripods successfully, have the tripods break into data centers, disable all the military technology, and put the military on the defense as it did for a car with his daughter in it to drive a mile.
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- Comment on True art is polarizing 4 weeks ago:
Some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 5 weeks ago:
It’s a readymade interactive art piece. That will be 30 million dollars.
- Comment on Standing desks are like gym memberships. Plenty of people (and offices) pay for them but never use them 5 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 month ago:
complete lack of understanding of personal responsibility
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