qarbone
@qarbone@lemmy.world
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 3 days ago:
And that is why you must perish.
- Comment on A swing and a miss 3 days ago:
That’s not even what a “misnomer” is.
- Comment on That's interesting 2 weeks ago:
Probably but depends on whether he continued into his adulthood, where he could be served directly.
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, every country that is a world power now is looking down from a mountain of ravaged bodies.
America is only the latest, and doing so in an era where the victims can livestream back the atrocities committed in the name of the country’s “empire”.
- Comment on YSK that in most countries, traffic fatalities have been falling. But in the U.S., the opposite happened. Americans die in rising numbers 2 weeks ago:
Throughout history? Whose?
The USA’s international opinion has been on the downtrend for like 20 years, with its precipitous drop like 10 years ago.
It’s not the '90s anymore; the only people pushing American exceptionalism are ignoramuses and jingoists who will do that regardless of any facts, not normal citizens.
- Comment on Wreckreation maker Three Fields Entertainment puts whole studio on redundancy notice 2 weeks ago:
You also didn’t hear about it because it’s not great. I watched a stream of it: the gameplay looks uninspired, like a student project to mimic Burnout, and the visuals would have looked dated in 2010.
But it was functional. So it’s neither good nor bad enough to rave about. You just say “huh”, flip a coin, and either uninstall forever or play every 7 months when you remember it’s on your hard drive.
- Comment on Never count your chickens before they hatch 3 weeks ago:
Unless the kid was planning on a single shot per partner, he would need more than 3 condoms. Pharmacist should have warned him smh, lost business opportunity.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 4 weeks ago:
You are in essence gatekeeping enjoying a video game as a concept. Like people must enjoy them the way you envision.
What an incredibly inaccurate statement. I love modding video games, I spend more time modding video games than I spend playing video games. I understand that the vision developers have doesn’t often align with what I want from their product.
I don’t agree that developers should be spending dev cycles making a game functional for a user that turns off any configuration of gameplay mechanics.
Saying you can just set a variable from “
truetofalse” is so laughably misunderstanding what goes into software development much less game development that it sounds entitled. What gameplay mechanics are you even saying should be configurable? All of them? Just turn off the combat in a fighting game? At what point is a gameplay mechanic integral to the genre/experience? And who is the person or persons that decide?Developers should be free to create what they want, and the end user is free to mod it however they want. That includes, for the devs, not purposefully obfuscating things so that modding is more diffcult.
- Comment on Settings you believe ANY game should have? (This is me advocating for a restart/reboot button on ALL games) 4 weeks ago:
I disagree because it solely approaches games as some sort of “electronic commodity” and outright despises a development group’s artistry.
Sure, not every game is trying to be art. But games have long gone beyond the realm of simply “entertain me”. That opinion is like saying “books should be made in a way that allows users to change the story whenever and however they want.” It is something you can do but there’s no imperative to cater to it.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 4 weeks ago:
I’m confused why you’re confused? Their position is just don’t vet the games. That’s what they’re saying. It doesn’t presume some “magical way to tell the difference”. You just don’t check the games.
Now, this part is just my interpretation, but I believe they’re operating on a “caveat emptor” methodology. They shouldn’t let malware through obviously, but they might believe it’s on the purchaser to not buy games that look like slop.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
But the context of the Game of Throne quote is diminishing.
It might seem like I’m trying to make you out as a bad person; I apologize because that’s not my intention. That comment was just the latest one I saw using it and it stood out even more because I didn’t get the sense that you were trying to be rude.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Beyond how dreadfully overused it’s become, I think people should acknowledge how explicitly patronizing the phrase “you sweet summer child” is. If you’re not actively trying to demean someone, it’s strange to essentially tell someone “it’s cute how naive you are.” If you were trying to demean the other person, then that’s a different issue but I’m assuming you aren’t that type of person.
I decided to leave a comment instead of passively downvoting.
- Comment on Steam Machine is huge for indie development 1 month ago:
I think we should see what it’s priced at before we start making proclamations about the Steam Machine being the “standard gaming PC”.
- Comment on Also pretty poor, with shitty health care coverage...am I getting warm? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I don’t know why this would translate to mental illness?
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 month ago:
I wasn’t talking about people.
I’m talking about me.
I don’t want needles (or any sharp objects) close to my genitals.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 1 month ago:
Is the syringe in the dong? Because that’s a beeg no for me. I’m not squeamish around needles but am squeamish about the dong and dings.
- Comment on Albania what are you doing? I thought you just made peace with Aberbaijan??? 1 month ago:
What in the fuck does this even mean?
- Comment on Gotta get those tickets! 1 month ago:
I’ve seen a number of comments coming in defense of the mother but I didn’t read the OP as a critique in the first place.
The caption is just a funny “rationalization” for the scenario we’re seeing.
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 1 month ago:
Acquire food from supermarkets and then leave. They just leave it sitting around all over the place, in there!
- Comment on Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash 2 months ago:
First reaction: fear.
Second: I chuckled. Because I thought of some VP-level enforcing this joke as SOP.
And then a little more fear, as a treat.
- Comment on Amazon Allegedly Replaced 40% of AWS DevOps With AI Days Before Crash 2 months ago:
I’d believe them if they said they tested small- scale locally. Even good software/designs can implode when they get scaled up, and I doubt this was good design or software.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 2 months ago:
That’s what it seems. I try not to write everyone off immediately and gave them space to explain themself because some people’s brains are a mass of wet noodles that don’t do logic good.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 2 months ago:
Indie and AA.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 2 months ago:
I’ve gotten release copies of games for review. Unless they have another secret tier of pressers, this is nonsense. If anything, review copies are more likely to have bugs that making completing the game harder.
- Comment on Landlords are parasites 2 months ago:
It’s kinda like saying housing would be a lot better if there were more forest rangers.
How is that at all the same?
- Comment on Which game would you erase from your memory, in order to experience it fresh once again? 2 months ago:
AC2
- Comment on arborholing 2 months ago:
Then they redwoods should be sending aid to the Amazons, because they are losing hold.
- Comment on Great business idea, tbh 2 months ago:
Dom’t worry. His services are not mandatory.
- Comment on Discuss 2 months ago:
Gotta up the drone strikes to set a spectrum. More strikes is more serious.
- Comment on Western Executives Shaken After Visiting China 2 months ago:
Kill his whole family and then build my bunker for the “inevitable” apocalypse that I willfully helped to create!