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- Comment on Why Did Futuristic Japan Fall Behind Digitally? | Insight 2 days ago:
Negative birth rate. Saved y’all a click.
- Comment on ChatGPT is now a potent tool for finding the locations of photos, raising doxxing concerns 1 week ago:
“Raising”? As in, actively? As in, you’re implying that hasn’t been the case since almost the beginning?! 🤦🏼♂️ jesusfuckingchrist. It’s 2025 and we’re still astroturfing the plebs? 🤌🏽
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 1 week ago:
- Comment on Unciv by yairm210 1 week ago:
The sheer number of options for setup are incredible alone. 🤘🏼
- Comment on ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Was Denied 2-Hour Finale Movie, Says Sonequa Martin-Green 1 week ago:
Good. It was already three seasons too long.
- Comment on I feel that lines are drawn, and I'm no longer on your side. 1 week ago:
Every neighborhood’s got one, eh? 🤷🏼♂️😜
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
I’m just little-o; the big O is a life goal*
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- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
FWIW, it’s “Hear, hear” from the olden times when town criers delivered all the news fit to be yelled. 🤓🙇🏽♂️
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Stormtrooper squad-wide show sub-5% stats… Headshot three of yours, including the quest-critical NPC under heavy cover across the fucking map…
Ah, good XCOM. 🥴 More expensive than flicking yourself in the dick, but mama didn’t raise no cheapskate. 🥳
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
As an OG who grew up with “real” video games having to be entered by hand from the pages of a cherished magazine (like the mail-order seamonkeys/X-Ray glasses/etc. fad before it), please hear me when I say:
If the game you’re playing isn’t doing it for ya, alter/mod it until it is. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a noob, a child, afraid of judgment by “everyone”, or all of the above.
Do you just love the way your latest/favorite game does combat, but somehow the dialogue/narration is a drag? You’re in luck! The latter are almost always “skippable” right outta the box! But, should you instead for whatever reason prefer to not fritter away your very finite and completely unknowable number of remaining heartbeats on a slog of fetch-quests… You have your own permission to upgrade your experience until you’re happy. Full stop.
Fuck the haters (fwiw, the doubters in your head aren’t real people), play your single-player games however you want. The real “cheating” is depriving yourself of that sacred, cherished happiness because of “peer” pressure manufactured by faceless “culture”. 🤘🏼🤓
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Honestly? I just picked up Eternal Strands the other day, and have been pleasantly surprised at the thematic flow, level design, dialogue, and even the art transcends my assumptions. At first glance, it looked a bit Overwatch/Torchlighty in style, and the combat can get bouncy at higher power levels (it’s a good thing, and super fun, but no spoilers)
I’m enjoying it more and more each session. The kaiju hunting sequences have elements of a certain Colossus series with nods to Breath of the Wild, et al. Loadouts & equipment in general have a classic Monster Hunter feel, modulating elemental affinities to target mission/hunt. (eg. Optimizing weaponry for Force [grav ctrl], magic for fire, and maxing armor with fire resist is some ridiculous fun: pulling all mobs into melee, lighting the black hole effect around you on fire and immolating them in stasis? Good stuff.)
The dialogue is well done, too, and I honestly don’t miss the cutscene style conversations that’re quickly becoming standard issue. The way this team pulled it off, with talented writers and evocative voice actors, I haven’t skimmed a dialogue yet — actually look forward to them, in fact.
Anyhow, give it a try. They’re more under the surface than the trailer or any non-spoilery media’s gonna show ya. 🤘🏼
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
That series is one of the few in existence that entirely requires a trainer. “90%” my ass.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Same, only I’ve had to reinstall it for times now. The furthest I’ve gotten was the beginning of the Silverhand mission/arc, but that save got corrupted and I’ve not passed the first broker mission since… 😭🤦🏼♂️
- Comment on El Salvador's Bukele rules out returning US deportee 2 weeks ago:
“neither has the power”
Nope.
“another authority they need to ask”
Nope.
Is this just more bread & circuses whose only victims are pulled from the audience without repercussion or even the slightest ripple?
Without question.
- Comment on Amazon is testing a Buy for Me button powered by agentic AI that will let users purchase products from third-party websites without leaving Amazon's app. 3 weeks ago:
So, sucking up all the dropshipping scams that make up an enormous amount of its “sellers”? Yeah, that tracks. 🤢🙄
- Comment on Havenhold is a neat looking East Asian mythology-inspired action sandbox game that resets its world every 14 days 3 weeks ago:
I was interested until the “reset every 14 days”. Fuck that edging BS.
- Comment on Just found an interesting quote from buffy the vampire slayer for our technodystopia. 3 weeks ago:
Only 80 years ago, maths profs literally picketed calculators being allowed in schools. 🤓
- Comment on Yes, in the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio 4 weeks ago:
Came to say exactly this. 🤦🏼♂️ Kids these days.
- Comment on Two Open Source Projects Combine to 3D Print a Working Replica Key Using a Flipper Zero 4 weeks ago:
Oh yeah! I vaguely recall something similar, I think? At a hackathon, even? IIRC, a small team had figured out how to effectively “bump” RFID locks, and this method led to the greater community discovering a deeper vulnerability in an enormous number of security systems across the globe (single manufacturer/distributor?)… Ah, the many ways ADHD+THC are preternatural super-twins is often why they’re picked last for teams. 🤪
- Comment on Two Open Source Projects Combine to 3D Print a Working Replica Key Using a Flipper Zero 4 weeks ago:
Same ol’ arms race. 🤷🏽♂️
- Comment on Two Open Source Projects Combine to 3D Print a Working Replica Key Using a Flipper Zero 4 weeks ago:
Hunh. I know next to nothing of the tech itself, but I presume that means it can spoof RFIDs? I wonder how, for instance, “membership” stores’ entry scanners might be affected. Intriguing.
- Comment on Split Keyboards Are Superior And The Reason I’m The Writer I Am Today. 4 weeks ago:
Those are not mutually exclusive statements.
- Comment on 'Should be reaction from US' — Russian attack on Kherson breaks energy ceasefire terms, Zelensky says 4 weeks ago:
Yep. Should be. No idea why that’s not the case, though. What a stumper.
- Comment on US national security scandal deepens as new Signal messages revealed 4 weeks ago:
So we still do gibbets? Technically, more affordable than guillotines, at least.
- Comment on The Enshittification of 3D Printers – Are We Losing What Made Them Great? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a race to the bottom line. The endless flight of the working class: funnel-fed the products of each other’s work for the price of obedience. Viva La Revolution, coming this season everywhere you stream.
- Comment on New Civilization 7 update adds a confusing Natural Wonder plus tweaks to the UI, AI and Age mechanics 1 month ago:
Fuck the “new” Civ. Polishing a masticated shite.
- Comment on Open-source 3D Printed Pipe Fittings Reduce Water Waste, New Study Argues 1 month ago:
What kind of polymers are you using? While the z-axis issue is certainly a concern, there are adjustments that can be made to a model and/or orientation of it that may mitigate various challenges by usecase, though withstanding “a lifetime of abuse” is unlikely even then. Lastly, if you’re concerned about microplastics’ volume entering your system, I’m betting you were raised to consider recycling as a consumer-focused solution to <insert any of myriad global issues>, like many of us. 🥲😅
- Comment on Elven king Planter Head 2 months ago:
I was picturing an elvified Djimon Hounsou.
- Comment on Pod of 157 dolphins stranded on remote Australian beach 2 months ago:
fuck.
- Comment on New glowing molecule, invented by AI, would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature, scientists say 2 months ago:
