SkunkWorkz

@SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Voted today. Let's go, Romania! 🇷🇴🇪🇺⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a descendant of immigrants in the Netherlands and there is definitely a small subset of 2nd and 3rd gen immigrants who is ruining it for all immigrants. PVV would have never been voted in as the biggest party if their parents (who never bothered to integrate and to learn the language) weren’t given permanent residency.

  30 years ago people who pointed out the problems these non integrated migrants could cause in the future were labeled racists by the left wing parties at the time, even though the leader of the socialist party warned about this. The labor party who was in power at the time also didn’t bother to tackle this issue, since they relied on the immigrant vote. And now since the Muslims started their own center right conservative party, labor lost a big voting block and the fascists are in power because people have had it with the inaction of the labor party.

  Same thing is happening with the refugees. The illegals who have zero chance to get a refugee status and who are committing crimes have soured people towards the real refugees. Towns that were once welcoming towards refugees want to see the refugee center in their town gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy feels less anonymous than Reddit, because there are less users and its easier to be remembered. Similar to a small town where everyone knows each other.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  can’t wait for G.I. Jane 2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Feddit.org officially announces they will ban criticism of Israel and pro-Palestinian posts and comments.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And Germany is not all of EU.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK You don't need Teflon pans for nonstick⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They still use a chemical that’s part of the PFAS family, teflon is just one of those chemicals under the PFAS umbrella. Unless you mean ceramic cookware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir CEO Alex Karp praises Saudi engineers and takes a swipe at Europe, saying it has 'given up' on AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The AI field is more than just LLM and generative AI. Like models that can detect cancer in scans are not LLMs or generative AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intergalactic actor reveals Neil Druckmann’s coaching on overcoming online harassment⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Capital G Gamers™ are the scourge of the earth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Understanding your target audience when marketing⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just insert it cap first. So you can poop it out when it slips in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨butt mogged these zoomers today⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Belle Noire ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ori Studio Head Says Review Bombing Might Force Studio Closure, Then Takes It All Back⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And

  The confusing rant then rather radically changed subject to talk about how he doesn’t want to take sides in the illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine

  And

  In 2022, VentureBeat reported that staff working for Moon Studios had told the outlet about a culture of “casual racism, sexism and bullying,” describing it as “an oppressive workplace.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep Around $26 million according to games-stats.com games-stats.com/steam/…/no-rest-for-the-wicked/

  According to Wikipedia they have at least 80 employees. Ball park cost per employee is around $10k a month (this includes more than just salary). So around $800k per month to run the studio. $9.6 million per year. So they probably spend more than a third of their earnings since launch. And Take Two got their cut before they went independent. So they have even less money left.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes of course you have to market outside of Steam. But actually most traffic to the game page will come from people discovering it through Steam. Especially for an indie who can’t afford a traditional marketing campaign. A feature on the front page will blow the traffic you’d get from a Tuber or Twitch play out of the water. But you’d only get featured if you have high sales momentum or high wishlists before launch. That’s what the pre launch marketing campaign is for. Getting on YouTube and Twitch channels is just to get the snowball rolling. The rest comes from the Steam algorithm and word of mouth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam is a marketing machine. The developers just need to do the leg work first. Steam will heavily promote games that have high wishlists and sales momentum. All those personalized recommendations you see on Steam is Valve doing marketing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My PC is tired⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They so large because they Unreal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just archive it on archive.org without an announcement. And keep the metadata sparse so it’s very hard to find.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28 years later, Lego Island's lost source code has been rediscovered – but the fans who spent nearly two years painstakingly decompiling it by hand "can't have it"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the original Mindscape is long gone and liquidated. The Dutch subsidiary that continued under the Mindscape name probably doesn’t own the code.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just months after reportedly cancelling two live service games in development, Sony announces a new PlayStation studio with a live service game in development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Funny how that almost describes several other US companies besides MS. Like Amazon keeps failing at releasing a game and when they do it’s trash. And Meta keeps losing billions in the VR space. Tech bros have no clue how the triple A gaming industry works, since games actually require creativity and you can’t simply hook people with an algorithm.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Death Stranding 2 preview: how a big dollop of Metal Gear is expanding Kojima's bizarre epic⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well I was hoping it meant indoor sneaking levels like MGS2 and not MGSV gameplay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just months after reportedly cancelling two live service games in development, Sony announces a new PlayStation studio with a live service game in development⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the only reason I’ve have bought a PS 1 to 3 was to play Metal Gear Solid. I have bought neither the 4 nor 5, since no new MGS was released on it ( I played MGSV on ps3). A modernized Syphon Filter with improved stealth gameplay would definitely make me want to buy the PS5.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The clueless people are out there among us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  For most things people bring on vacation it wouldn’t be a problem since chargers and power supplies can run on multiple voltages. It’s for things like hairdryers where you need converter. Since they are calibrated for a specific voltage to create heat. Though you could probably run them at half settings on the double voltage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The clueless people are out there among us⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope. So don’t plug a 120V hairdryer or corded drill in those things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m Asian-European and in my experience there are many Asians who are right wing racist shit heads. Not to mention all the self hating Asian women who hate every Asian man on the planet including their own family members.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harassed by Assassin’s Creed gamers, a professor fought back with kindness⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not just gamers it’s in almost every corner of geek fandom. Remember how a bunch of loser feels attacked Kelly Marie Tran because they blamed her for the new Star Wars slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a gentleman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe he’s Dutch. In Dutch “chair” is “stoel”, you pronounce it as “stool”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Codemasters confirms layoffs as EA-owned studio shifts focus away from beloved rally games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Money that’s why. Shareholders got $1.2 Billion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 291 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This game can also be played solo, for anyone curious. And even solo it’s fun to play just a bit harder since no one can revive you. It’s not like Lethal Company where it’s almost impossible to solo after the first few rounds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Liquid Trees⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And trees that are planted in cities are not seeded. They are grown in a forestry until they reach a certain height. And then dug up with machines transported with machines and then planted with machines. The CO2 produced to plant a single tree also takes quite a while to be absorbed by that tree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern day Exodia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Necromancy is haram

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some good examples of "Where the fuck do you go" kind of games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I sorta had the same problem with Ocarina of Time. Was stuck in the Deku Tree basement. Didn’t know you had to use a stick with fire to burn cobweb. I thought the game was broken and was thinking about returning the game until I accidentally solved it by fucking around. Not sure if Navi explained it or not, but my English wasn’t very good when I was 10 and the game didn’t had my native language as an option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3084: Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So neutrinos?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's invite-only Deadlock has an even more exclusive top-secret hush-hush version⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How is this news? This is always the case if a game has a public play test, even if the public play test isn’t open. There is always a play test with smaller exclusive group with a much newer version. And above that there is an even smaller group who plays the latest nightly builds, those play testers are in-house employees.