BlemboTheThird

@BlemboTheThird@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'My personal failure was being stumped': Gabe Newell says finishing Half-Life 2: Episode 3 just to conclude the story would've been 'copping out of [Valve's] obligation to gamers'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Leaving it to rot for 15 years was far more unjust than a slightly less “revolutionary” game. And the concepts they show in the new doc are cool as hell! I would have loved to shoot at blobmonster! They just decided singleplayer FPS games weren’t as profitable, and that’s fine, I guess. They’re a company, they want to make money. But pretending they were somehow doing us a favor by leaving the cliffhanger for long is utter nonsense. Especially since they wound up simply retconning it so the whole wait was pointless anyway!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do the ultra-rich consume popular media?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or he watched one (1) JJ Abrams movie and is just trying to use the cool kids’ space jargon in an attempt to get people on his side

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When I look at the steam store Portal has a price tag of $9.99.

  Portal didn’t come out until 2007 with the orange box, which also had hl2: episode 2 (and tf2), but the base game of hl2 came out standalone in 2004. This giveaway is a celebration of hl2’s 20th anniversary, so maybe they’ll do a portal giveaway in 2027.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you really want it in your body???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually, that’s an avocado

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As families searched, a Texas medical school cut up their loved ones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Incredibly poor headline to blame the school for this. They didn’t know the backstory of the body. All they knew was that the state coroner had sent it to them for educational purposes. It’s the coroner’s fault!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where can I report mod abuse?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not liking something and expressing it isn’t the same as being rude. It can be done rudely, but this is about as benign as disagreement on taste gets. Can’t imagine how a mod could self justify a ban over this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That might be because they actually aren’t binding in many cases. Courts have held that if the contract can’t be reasonably expected to be read or understood by the people it “binds,” it’s not really enforceable, and 99% of EULAs are ridiculously long and legalese-heavy. But that doesn’t change the fact companies can and will treat them as such until challenged in court, and they’ll almost always be allowed to refuse service to pretty much whoever they want.

  So you’d be right here; grandma’s post about not giving Facebook the right to her data is meaningless. Don’t want Facebook to have your data? Don’t use Facebook!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  About as often as they actually release anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t get too excited. Supposedly the next headset is internally called Deckard, and it’s been “about to release” for like 3 years now? Pretty much everything people think they know about it is conjecture based off code Valve has tucked away in SteamVR; zero public statements of intent.

  As for VR on Linux… kinda? I’ve only read terrible things about it online. I have an Index and tried to use it with Mint a few months back, and while it mostly worked without any configuration issues, there was a weird white ring around the edge of the screen that I couldn’t figure out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They literally already tried and failed with the phoneification of windows when everyone shat on 8. I guess some ahole UI designer still works there and is bitter that people didn’t like their ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft formally deprecates the 39-year-old Windows Control Panel⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just 3 days ago I had to use the control panel to access the settings I needed to get my parents’ printer to work right. Even tried to use the regular settings menu for maybe 10 minutes before remembering how to access the settings I needed. Here’s hoping my parents never run into printer issues again (lol).

  FUCK YOU, MICROSOFT!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does Halo 2 look worse than Halo 1? The shadows. Or well, the *lack* of them.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed. High res is not the same thing as good graphics. The Halo 1 remaster is another great example of that; the og graphics look SO much better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Team Fortress 2 players report that Valve have carried out a ban-wave against aimbots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, it’s Valve. But it will be funny when #saveTF2 happens for the third time next year, and Valve does their now-yearly ban wave again and everyone repeats wondering if the problem is solved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another mystery solved.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s way cuter if he’s kicking his stubby ol legs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨arthropods⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It is happening now but evolution takes a long time. If there were a ton of adaptations that happened in the next 10,000 years, that would be incredibly fast on an evolutionary timescale

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ghibli Studio Food always looks so satisfying ♥⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Ruined” seems like a strong word but the yolk wasn’t supposed to break

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection used modder's work without credit⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re still taking something they didn’t make and selling it as though they did. I have every right to write and film a Batman movie, spend as much time I want making it professional, and then show it to people, as long as I don’t charge them for it. That doesn’t give Fox or whoever the right to take my movie and charge for it instead. Even if I did break the law by making people pay for it, the actual owners would only be entitled to that money, not to go make mroe money off of it themselves. It’s still my work even if it uses concepts invented by someone else.

  There’s a reason every franchise under the sun has mountains of fanart and fanfic without the companies that own them trying to take control of it: it’s blatantly illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever worry that you're secretly a psychopath that unknowingly manipulates people around you?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, that is exactly the over-broad, willy-nilly, tossed-around definition they were talking about. Gaslighting has a much more insidious context than simply making someone question themselves. It means doing it on purpose; intentionally lying to someone and trying to convince them that they’re crazy. Like if I said I was going to the grocery and then when I came back with nothing, I insisted I never said that. Or if i borrowed $50 and when it came time to pay you back, I try to tell you I only borrowed $25. It’s inherently deceptive and cruel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Calling them “the aughts” is also the best way I’ve found to refer to that decade

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanna agree but in this particular case they all had those traits even before the show started (timeline-wise)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ehh. Mighta been born that way (even that’s debatable) but definitely not anymore. Tendi is the ass-kicking heir to a pirate dynasty, Rutherford is an insanely talented and obsessive engineer, Beckett seems borderline unbearable in hand-to-hand combat and explicitly dodges promotions, and Boimler is Boimler.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happi Valintynes Dae!⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  there was a landmine around the corner. had to be done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like that part of firefox’s summary was that it’s free. Uh, yeah, they all are. Thanks Mozilla!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Notorious arcade gamer Billy Mitchell settles suit over Donkey Kong world record⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But Twin Galaxies’ own lawyer, David Tashroudian, faced misconduct claims of his own after he improperly contacted two witnesses in the case — prompting Superior Court Judge Wendy Chang, who’s overseeing the case, to consider referring him to the State Bar for discipline.

  I’m no lawyer, but this seems like small potatoes in comparison to Mitchell’s actively fabricating evidence and lying under oath. Absolutely shameful that after years of litigation TG’s case falls apart thanks to an idiot lawyer. Hope that lawyer gets paid nothing and Jobst’s lawsuit goes better; Mitchell needs to see real consequences for the years of intimidation and lies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High fashion⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I read the comment about it being a designer’s funeral, this is clearly something they requested

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨High fashion⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand why this is a shitpost. Watched the whole thing waiting for something to happen.

  Y’all just now learning that high fashion is unconventional? It’s not my bag either but at the end of the day this is pretty mundane. There’s way weirder stuff at fashion shows

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A long and distinguished family⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  dont u ever talk shit about corn dogs again

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voyagers writers and Memory Alpha don't know when Voyagers final 3 episodes are set.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trek tends to fudge the dates on purpose. It’s supposed to take place In The Future, and you’re supposed to be thinking about whatever philosophical concept the episode is about, not the exact timeline of events. From Wikipedia: “stardates were originally intended to avoid specifying exactly when Star Trek takes place.” I hate linking to Fandom wiki pages, but I’ll say the page on stardates goes on at length about how inconsistent Trek time is.

  Jumping around within a single episode is a little funny, but doesn’t surprise me. Some writers try to be consistent, but maybe only for a few connected episodes, and some don’t try at all. Sometimes a character will die, but an earlier episode or a flashback with a clearly later stardate will see them alive. There’s all kinds of technobabble about where they are in the universe, and light speed relativity, and so on, but at the end of the day the show isn’t trying to hide any serious messages in its timeline so long as the story of the episode makes some level of sense.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Redmond and blutarch are gonna be SEETHING when I collapse the gravel industry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Quick Refresher on The Fediverse Meta, Blocklists, and Everything Up to Now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, “democracy” on a platform where anyone can have as many accounts across as many instances as they want is doomed. If anything you’d just be offering those power-tripping, time-flush aholes an extra veneer of legitimacy.

  I don’t believe for a second that 90% of top posts aren’t already being manipulated to some degree, even if just by an individual with a bunch of extra accounts. It’s just too easy to do for it not to be the case.