LouNeko

@LouNeko@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We could kiss each other on the mouth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rainbolt never misses⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A brief summary of the history of Europe.

  First thete were the Italians but back then they weren’t called the Italians, back then the were called Roman Empire because it sounded cooler. They set out to conquer the whole world, not knowing that this would also include the small tiny tiny provide of ALL OF CHINA, and India, and Persia. But they came pretty far into Europe’s mainland. But then the were like “It’s to biggus, we can’t governus all thatus, let’s justus leavus.” And then for like 5 minutes everybody could develope their own culture - surprisingly even Britain, but their culture was mostly throwing rocks at Scotts and building boats to escape their women.

  So while everybody was cooking, the Spanish decided it would be cool to fall of the edge of the earth, but to everybodies disappointment they just discovered America instead, which was a little less cool because they hoped to stop at India but GPS hadn’t been invented yet.

  Then 50 million people died because of the plague.

  …

  Anyway, the Jews survived because not only did they have soap, but contrary to The French™ they actually used it too (this will be important later).

  So Jews were suddenly everywhere, and the catholic church didn’t like that. Luckily the catholic church got nerfed into the evangelical church because they offline farmed XP during the crusades and gotten to OP.

  So while everybody was busy swimming to America to find out what all the fuzz is about, The French™ decided to conquer Europe but this time with more sass. But then they got too sassy and a bunch of students killed all the rich guys on a mountain. But then they themselves themselves became the rich guys on the mountain. I know shocker.

  Then Germany was like “Why are we just like 20 small countries in a trenchcoat instead of being an actual kingdom, yo Austria you in?” And Austria was like “No, fuck you, here take this random painter dude, but carefull, he’s wierdo.”

  Then some prince guy was chilling a little bit to conformably outside 6th street, and a Serbian dude was like “He he, don’t mind if I do.” and 360 noscoped him (but only on the 3rd try tho, he had really bad RNG). And then Germany was like “That’s a neat trick, but check this out.” And then 17 Million people died.

  After everybody ran out of food and ammo, the weird Austrian painter guy was like “Man all those Jews with their soap, what if we just turn them into soap, hehe”. AND he was salty because he got gassed big time in the first war so he wanted to gas someone back. Then he proceeded to scream “ROUND 2 BABY” and then 80 Million people died.

  Afterwards America, the British and Moscow were like “That’s it Germany, 1 was pushing it, but 2 is enough, you don’t get to be a country any more”. Weirdly even The French™ had a say in this even tho they lost their whole country in the pre-game.

  But Japan was like “We wirru neveru surrenderu.” but made the mistake to attack Americas boats (they really love their boats). So America decided to drop 2 Suns on them and then they were finally like “OK, we surrenderu”. And that’s how anime got invented.

  America had its Emo phase and decided to hurt itself by dropping 2000 Suns on Nevada (which explains a lot) and some Islands. Japan thinks that we made a giant lizard they call Gojira, but nobody tell them that we just made that up.

  Moscows Nevada was Kazakhstan and they also dropped 2000 suns there until they almost lit the atmosphere on fire on some Island because they laced their scientists coffee with vodka.

  Meanwhile in Ukraine a nuclear reactor exploded, and soap wouldn’t cut it this time. So while Russia were fixing that they ran out if money to fix the cracks in the wall that divided Germany so a bunch of hippies could just break it down with their bare hands. So Germany could finally be a country again. Everybody was skeptic at first until they started making cars and then everybody just couldn’t stay mad at them anymore.

  Moscow in the meantime was like “Everybody for themselves” and broke the USSR up into a bunch of countries that all look and sound the same but are irrational angry with each other.

  The US and Britain then said to Russia “OK we will not station our Suns right at your doorstep in Ukraine if you stop eyeballin in for like 5 seconds.” And Russia said “OK, hehe”.

  Then Russia was still like “Is for me ^///^” and took a big chunk of the Ukraine making it look weirdly unsymmetrical on the map. Strangely everybody was kind of Ok with that.

  Then they tried to go for doubles and take the whole thing, but this time everybody went “Nuh uh”, ordered a bunch of toy drones from Temu, superglued some grenades to them and showed them that “War really has Changed”. So this has been going on for like 3 years now.

  And this is exactly why we hate The French™

  Also somehow the Nazis have returned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rainbolt never misses⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t have to, just know that we are united by our common hate for The French™

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Will pilots-less airplanes happens first, or driver-less cars? Why?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Come to think of it we already had driverless vehicles, they were called horses. A trained horse could probably get you back home safely even if you hapoen pass out on it. But it still wasn’t common practice to take a nap on a horse back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is 'an unsafe place for teens and young adults': US senator warns Gabe Newell of 'more intense scrutiny' from the government if Valve doesn't take action against extremist content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For anyone who wants an example, go to the Helldiver’s 2 patch logs on the Steam Community Hub.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good News!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  SCENE 1

  [A woman enters the room. She’s beautiful, but doesn’t know it.]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I’m trying to say. Losing Twitter isn’t a big deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Businesses are the ones that produce food, medicine, clothes, build houses, print books, provide gas and electricity, build roads, etc. There are businesses that have outlasted monarchies and democracies. I’m not a corpo schmuck but small businesses are the soul of the soul of our society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a bad idea because of how reliant small businesses are on social media advertising. A regulation like that would essentially screw over every business that isn’t rich enough to go to bigger advertising venues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4 or more hours of daily screen time linked to more anxiety and depression in teens, data shows⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Well, you can’t just take the effect and make it the cause.”

  - The white stripes, Effect and Cause

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad news⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s put 2 on the other side.

  225 x 2

  Now 2 wears 225 as a hat. Which means x is kinda funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The grand prize⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  God, I want to drop this thing from Orbit on a populated city so much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be happy if you woke up today and your throat didn’t hurt.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a PSA Announcement:

  An orgasm instantly clears out the sinuses. Due to lack of studies doctors don’t fully know why this happens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be happy if you woke up today and your throat didn’t hurt.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Me eating something spicy: “I’ll fucking do it again!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Now could you explain it like I’m 2?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Naughty Dog’s next game will reportedly offer ‘a lot of player freedom’ | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Last of Us 1: “You have the freedom to kill this doctor, or you can just shoot him in the leg or something.”

  *Player shoots him in the leg*

  Last of Us 2:

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Preference⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The shocking part is, the whole bottle is like $2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random Screenshots of my Games #3 - Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Old people when they see a staircase without a railing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Very thankful⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As opposed to other industries, where everybody gets their fair share /s

  Expect porn doesn’t require any education.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ford Chairman & CEO Jim Farley Wakes After Decade-long Nap, Shocked By China's EVs - CleanTechnica⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There no way in Hell a country with a population in the billions has lower incarnation numbers than one with a few hundred million. That is just statistically impossible. It all comes down to what you count as incarnated. This is like the US “solving” its unemployment crisis by not counting people who think about maybe looking for work sometime as not unemployed. These numbers are self reported, so they should be taken with a big grain of salt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snow Leopard⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dagger Directive Brings The Old School Tactical Shooter Style In Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really recommended you the 2nd Misson in the Soviet Campaign in CTA Gates of Hell. It took me a good 3 days to get through it but its as close to All Ghillied Up as you can get.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dagger Directive Brings The Old School Tactical Shooter Style In Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite the contrary, I love this subgenre more than any other one regarding shooters. But I’ve never seen it done right. If you know any game that doesn’t end in frustration about the AI, please tell me.

  I’m more than OK with micromanagement in games, but that’s not how it should work in shooters. Men of War is a good example, it’s a strategy series with a notorious amount of micromanagement, but the difference is, you get all the information needed to manage your units and you as a player are not part of the battlefield. No enemy unit can look up in the sky and shoot down your birds-eye camera. But in shooters, not only do you have limited information about your enemies and your own team, you can also be killed during micromanagement. This is not how it should work. Your friendlies being a little bit more pro active is the least one could ask for.

  Like imagine you storm Osama’s hideout and every time your soldiers have to ask you - the captain if its OK to shoot the terrorist in the room, or if its OK to move onto the next room, or its OK to take cover, that’s how it feels.

  And because you’re essentially responsible for every single action of your team, you also feel responsible for every single mishap, whether it actually was your fault or not.

  Also modern shooters themselves have already fairly demanding controls, pairing that with the ability to command different units means compromises have to be made in user experience. Your commands are usually limited by line of sight, you can’t tell your units to advance behind this wall and search for cover. Arma 3 tries to address this issue with the “Command Mode” that let’s you zoom out the camera to a birds-eye view, but that’s essentially what a strategy game is anyway. You also can’t command multiple squad simultaneously, each squad needs separate attention, while the AI computer can do everything at once, putting you even more at a disadvantage.

  Developers also rarely bother implementing actual military techniques. The only 2 examples I can think of are Arma 3s combat advance (half the units cover, the other half moves) or Ready or Not’s room clearing. What ends up happening is, people just take 4 machine gunners with scopes or 4 snipers, since all units essentially behave the same AI wise, there no downside to that.

  In my opinion a squad control game should essentially play itself, meaning that if your character dies, the rest of your AI should be smart enough to finish the mission or at least retreat on their own, just like a real squad would if their commander dies. The challenge shouldn’t come from janky controls or cheating AI, it should come from having the odds stacked against you. The goal shouldn’t be to just finish the mission, but have everybody come out alive. A lot of those games become almost trivial, if you just leave the AI at spawn and run through the mission yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dagger Directive Brings The Old School Tactical Shooter Style In Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve played all the games you mentioned and I am a huge fan of squad control games. I’ve recently looked through Steam games with tags “single player” and "shooter"most recent titles are primarily arcade style shooters. One thing I’ve noticed while playing CTA Gates of Hell is that no AI, whether friendly or not has ever had any sense of self preservation, and this is true for any game. So what ends up happening is, you as a player always end up babysitting your AI. You expect a squad full of capable soldiers, but end up having one capable one and a punch of crayon eating babies. That’s why most modern titles cheat with their friendly AI, making them immortal, invisible, teleporting them and giving then wall hacks. I’ve mostly given on the Idea that a squad control game can have satisfying AI interaction. If I have to tell every single unit where to go, who to shoot and when to hide, I’m not playing a shooter, I’m playing a strategy game in first person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dagger Directive Brings The Old School Tactical Shooter Style In Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I see that nothing like this currently exists on the market, I can kind of see why. The reason old school shooters look and play like they do is because of technical limitations. There’s a reason new Ghost Recon games don’t look like Ghost Recon 1 anymore, even if Ghost Recon 1 is still available and playable today. And if you’re interested in ultra janky gameplay, we have Arma 3. I just don’t understand who this game is for exactly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Modding is pretty big" says Baldur's Gate 3 director as over 1m mods are installed in less than 24 hours⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or importing new maps and characters, imagine somebody porting the Resident Evil Mansion or Raccoon Police Station with the Resident Evil Characters. Playing Resident Evil 1 with 5e rules would certainly be something. People have already done it with Men of War Assault Squad 2.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I alleviate bitterness due to lack of intimacy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no, that’s like not me at all /s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I alleviate bitterness due to lack of intimacy?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I feel like the whole “body positivity” movement is a god damn joke. It’s mostly about women who love munching cake more than having unclogged arteries. In the last decade we got so many shows and movies where the characters can be morbidly obese and everybody should praise them for their bravery. We got even plus sized manikins in stores, wow.

  But I dare you to name a single character from a show or movie that is skinny (not jacked skinny, but skinny skinny) that isn’t a crackhead junkie, some psycho or a basement dweller with his eyes glued to a screen?

  Hell, just name a Hollywood actor that is skinny?

  I know one, DJ Qualms, who’s arguably most famous role is a disabled person. Great.

  I really don’t blame women for not preferring skinny guys, I blame Hollywood for 3 decades of horrible PR.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Starfield free update added a ground vehicle⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love to get a code break down and see how Bethesda spaghetti recoded the Skyrim horse mechanic into a vehicle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t know if it counts but, “Game of Life” (1970) on “The Powder Toy” (2008).