SnotFlickerman
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- Comment on Is Reddit in/directly attacking lemmy instances with controversial AI posts to overpower mods and reduce user experience? 59 minutes ago:
I think you vastly overestimate the cost of doing such a thing, a lot of nerds could afford to inundate us with AI slop, not just reddit.
At the same time, I think you’re also vastly underestimating the amount of complete jerkoffs on the internet and how much spare time they have to be jerkoffs.
- Comment on Why is lemmy so political?! 15 hours ago:
Even beans are political, mate.
- Comment on Shamelessly stolen and posted here for y'all 16 hours ago:
- Comment on He's tired of all the lies 1 day ago:
I know this feeling.
It’s way too easy to spot this stuff and it’s kind of embarrassing how many men seem unable to spot it.
- Comment on Dredd Sheeran 1 day ago:
I was waiting for this one because I was too lazy to do it myself.
- Comment on testing how this site handles videos 3 days ago:
I handles them fine but it doesn’t auto-repeat them, just so you know.
- Comment on Damn Led Zeppelin and their Stairway to Heaven! 4 days ago:
It’s paved with good intentions.
- Comment on Damn Led Zeppelin and their Stairway to Heaven! 4 days ago:
Yeah there’s only elevators to Hell. Also known as Hellevators.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
A thirty year old woman is reasonably an adult. You’re not going to be grooming her or anything. The older you get, the less an age difference is really an issue.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Sleep with one eye open
Clenching your butthole tight - Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
This post gives me the heebie jeebies. Yecccch. Sorry I don’t have any good advice just disgusted by the very thought which had never occurred to me.
- Comment on The value of the dollar is dropping. What does that mean for Americans and the world? 5 days ago:
or influence them
It’s not the government I’m worried about influencing Bitcoin, my friend. It’s large institutional investors who all pull out at the same time tanking the value and screwing little people. Whether the current US government is fraudulent isn’t tied to the fact that the reason people trusted the US monetary system was because it had rules that generally prevented that mass level of market fuckery, even if it allowed for more fuckery than is desired.
- Comment on The value of the dollar is dropping. What does that mean for Americans and the world? 5 days ago:
They want to replace the dollar with crypto so they can more easily do rugpulls and force us to use company scrip at company stores.
- Comment on In case you needed to hear this today 5 days ago:
Me, reading this on the toilet:
“Okay then.”
- Comment on The longer I look the less I can tell them apart 6 days ago:
War… War never changes.
- Comment on Pixar or something idk 6 days ago:
- Comment on This entire community 1 week ago:
CulturalMemetic appropriation - Comment on This entire community 1 week ago:
Even this meme was stolen.
Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
-Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle, Thesis 207.
- Comment on xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Telegram was always a bad actor with misleading claims about their communications service. Not shocking at all.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Glad to see some love for Shenmue
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Props for DE being at the top of your list.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Yeah for a third person isometric RPG with non-linear branching storylines and deep thoughtful story, Disco Elysium positively blows BG3 out of the water.
- Comment on Looking to get into Sonic games 1 week ago:
If I recall correctly it’s related to licensing issues with the person who composed the original music in Sonic 3. A lot of people see it as evidence of the rumor that Michael Jackson was involved in the Sonic 3 music development.
- Comment on Looking to get into Sonic games 1 week ago:
Best 2D Sonic (light on story, heavy on gameplay): Sonic the Hedgehog 2
Close 2nd 2D Sonic: Sonic 3 + Sonic & Knuckles
Best 3D Sonic (heavy on story and gameplay): Sonic Adventure
Close 2nd 3D Sonic: Sonic Adventure 2
3D “Sonic” with a cult following: Shadow the Hedgehog
Honorable Mention because it’s so fun in terms of gameplay and story: Sonic Generations and/or Shadow Generations
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
It actually is directly tied to the movies. The character who first gives Furiousa a chassis to build from isn’t quite as hunchbacked as in the game but he is credited as “Chumbucket!”
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
spoiler
The wild part is that he’s so good at subverting anime tropes, too. The “killing god” trope is mentioned in the first lines of the game… and then going on to battling the end credits themselves?? Literally killing the gods who created the world this all exists in? Taking it to the absurd yet logical extreme, so brilliant.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
For a moment I thought you were talking about the Newsmax host and I was very offended and confused, but it looks like there is another, lesser known Chris Plante in gaming journalism.
- Comment on What games are just objective master pieces? 1 week ago:
Holy shit somehow no one has mentioned:
Nier Automata.
It counts as a masterpiece because of how well it blends game design and story. I have played very few games as thoughtful, or that weaved the gameplay together into the story it was telling in such a meaningful way. I never thought once in my life that I would think philosophically about bullet hell but somehow Nier Automata has something profound to say and even manages to say it using bullet hell as a gameplay mechanic.
On top of all this, it also has a lot to say about classical philosophers, their works, and honestly deeply subverts things they had to say.
Further, Yoko Taro is doing something that a lot of game developers fail to manage to do: He is embracing gaming as a storytelling medium and eschewing the traditional three-act arc from film. Because gaming is not film. As Marshall McLuhan posited, “the medium is the message” and unlike other developers Taro’s writing is aimed at the medium he is working in instead of leaning on the ropes and tropes of other mediums. (Referring back to above, tying the gameplay into the story, focusing on the medium)
It’s basically impossible to not break down into tears at the ending.
Don’t write it off because of the scantily clad anime women. Stay for the depth of the human condition. It is truly a masterwork in multiple respects.
- Comment on The New York Times stands by article mentioning Chinese women small fingers. The paper says Apple engineers privately talked about this 1 week ago:
I think the keyword here that might be being missed is “young” implying child labor.
So as much as it’s probably just racism, it’s at least possible that it has more to do with them being children who are girls more than being Chinese specifically.
The reason they can’t move it to the states being child labor laws.
- Comment on I am bereaved 1 week ago:
Almost loss dangit
