Duamerthrax

@Duamerthrax@lemmy.world

• ⁨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'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You know, I knew the next HL game to come out after Ep2 would be a VR title. It was the most obvious direction Valve could go considering Gabe treats the HL series as a tech demo. Seriously, I think out of anyone at Valve, he has the least respect for the franchise. What I didn’t predict that it would a a VR exclusive title and that it would recon the ending of Ep2 so a character that died(and who’s VA had died), would be alive again. Hell, they didn’t even ask one of the MC’s original VA to reprise her role(or cast into a different character if the age was an issue).

  I have way more trust in the fan community to continue the story. Entropy: Zero took some cues from Epistle 3, so I hope the breadman and the Project Borealis are sharing notes, so the can have a shared continuity. I really, really liked the voiced MC of Entropy: Zero and the combat loop, with more enemy types and weapons was superb.

• ⁨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 ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  antlion army,

  Hey, here’s this cool thing. You can summon Antlions to fight with you, but only in two areas and never again. Oh, that boss fight in Ep2 where you could have gotten it again? Nope, but here’s a Defend Against Waves set piece instead.

  What I’m saying is that the combat loop got ignored for the gravity gun. Where’s the Gluon Gun? Why is the Tau Cannon only mounted to the buggy? Why are both the SMG and AR2 full auto, spread weapons? If we’re doing wide open areas, the AR2 should really have a tighter spread for long range engagements.

  Halo did wide open environments, did vehicles with mouse or analog stick steering was a joy to drive and actually used them in more then one area before HL2. Keyboard steering sucks.

  What HL2 excels at is presentation of the story. It’s really not that deep of a story.

  Also, never liked CS or military shooters, so that’s not exactly a going to sell me. And don’t get me started on the hat shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  We do. It’s called being Smart.

• ⁨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'⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There are so many landmark games. I’d say HL1 was more influential then HL2 anyway. Hell, I’d say Portal did more for first person puzzle games then HL2 did for FPS games.

  It just handicapped itself by making the gravity gun such busy work and ignoring other aspects.

• ⁨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'⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Half-Life 2 doesn’t even have a good combat loop. Half-Life 1 has more variety in the weapons and the map team in HL1 actually talked to the AI team. Notice how the combine just stand in doorways or out in the open? It’s lost, but I once saw a video showing that the combine can flank the player and do other complex maneuvers if the maps are properly designed, but Gabe was too obsessed with the Gravity Gun and everything else suffered. The “puzzles” are all either busy work or another seesaw task. I remember being hyped when Gabe said that Ep2 would have the biggest physics puzzle in it, but it ended up just being a huge seesaw “puzzle” that was solved just by clearing the cars off of it.

  Every time I do a Half Life replay, I always end up getting bored in HL2 and skip to the community made stuff. Half-life Echoes and Entropy: Zero are musts.

• ⁨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'⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I. Do. Not. Care. About. The. Tech.

  Gabe, you created an obligation when you ended Episode 2 on a cliff hanger. You should have just let Marc Laidlaw and the game devs just make more games.

  As long as it had kept the core writers, I’m sure everyone would be happy. Hell, any “innovation” is being handled by the modding continuity. Breadman of Entropy: Zero created a more fun combat loop then any of the HL2 games have. Singularity has a better physics weapons just by being able to use it independent of the selected weapon and making the object transparent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll is Investigating Situation After Voice Actor Claims Company Opened His Mail, Gave Away Contents | ANN⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s actually common practice to inspect contents for foul play before forwarding, especially now with Airtags.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do the ultra-rich consume popular media?⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to start considering the motivation of the villains of the mainstream media that the ultra-rich are rubber stamping. The whole “Hero’s journey” lends itself to Libertarianism. Kingsman is a good example of a Libertarian morality tale, but compare how often an environmentalist is the villain vs how often they’re the hero in other media.

  I had to stop watching the Flash tv series because of the causal disregard of the rights of the villains in the first season. Why did the writers mean by having Team Flash run a private, secret prison where the inmates are in perpetual, solitary confinement with no access to a lawyer and no expectation of a trial? The writers really didn’t need to create that scenario.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How far away are we from someone using AI to create an animated TV show by themselves.⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s some slop on youtube that’s either pure AI or really close to it. You need to delved deep into baby youtube to find it though. Five Finger Family would probably be a good starting point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Marine Scientists⁩ ⁨⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure navy seal teams are trained for aquatic fire fights. But the chances of any of them interacting with aquatic guard units are probably slim and if any have happened, are going to be classified.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t. Even when it was Dorsey’s Twitter, it was too toxic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Reformatting InfoWars as a serious, unironic branch of the Onion that deals with misinformation would just be great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Academic papers yanked after authors found to have used unlicensed software⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is just the difference between science and academia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not reading all that. Learn to cope.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this practically effected at least four people at least. How many people does it need to affect for it to become a “practical” issue?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nobody asked you to sell your car. Stop taking this discussion personally.

  Also, Expected Value is irrelevant for safety features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nothing about having an EV drive train requires electric doors. Others have already said that other EVs have manual doors or manual override for panic situations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s fine then. We’re relearning why all cars with manual transmissions have the same foot pedal and shift pattern arrangement. It’s so in a panic situation, people aren’t having to orientate themselves mentally and can just go off of muscle memory to save themselves. I should be shock that Tesla didn’t hire any auto industry veterans that know that, but I’m not. This reeks of software dev shit where every new MBA coming in just has to shake things up and reinvent everything so they can leave their mark.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me_irl⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Me feigning shock when my normie friends share something “outrageous”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a lot of words to describe managing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whenever I see someone walking around in clothes with big, visible branding, I can’t help but think they paid a fortune to wear an advertisement.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Peacocking. It’s called Peacocking.

  Not only are you advertising how much money you’ve spent, but also how uncreative you are with your money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But it is better for people not to be so focused on numbers like removing number of likes on Instagram.

  Is my mental health really something I want Google managing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently Logitech does have this out now, so I wonder if they patented the “concept” and it will be another 20 years before anyone can do it. Assuming that someone else didn’t already do it 20 years ago and that patented already ran out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They should have just released a mouse pad that can charge the mouse wirelessly then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Roster Teeth was in charge of their own demise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If an Australian company has a shop or office in the US, what happens in that shop is beholden to US law. If a Japanese owned company commits US crimes while in the US, they are committing crimes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crunchyroll just Committed a Federal Crime.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  MySpace -> acquired by News Corporation -> insta death

  Also, Twitter was always crap.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please be patient.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You would need a position to do that and all you might have done is reflect it backwards in time.

  If you could “remove” it by placing it into another dimension, it might disprove the theory, but the causal domain might be larger then previous assumed.

  This is one of those Math Theories that isn’t technically a Science Theory. We can make a mathematical model, but it’s untestable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like a toy 'yota.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s a plethora of car-to-pickup projects on youtube and I love them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anime gacha sub moment⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The National Japanese government is slow. Ever single Japanese prefecture raised it up a long time ago.