EldritchFeminity
@EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone
- Comment on Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender 2 hours ago:
There was somebody crazy enough to make an entire game in Blender, I don’t doubt that somebody has at least tried to make a soundtrack in Blender.
- Comment on Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender 2 hours ago:
I refer to this as the Wind Waker effect.
Before Wind Waker was announced, Nintendo did a reel showing off the power of the GameCube that included a “realistic” (for the time) fight scene between Link and Ganondorf. So when they announced a new Zelda game, people were hyped for a gritty realistic Zelda, and when the first trailers appeared, people hated it.
For years after its release, Wind Waker’s art style was dragged on by people, but today, it’s remembered as one of the most iconic Zelda games from that time period and a major influence on the aesthetic of many Zelda games after it.
Today, its art style looks just as good as it did when the game first launched, while most other games from that time period - especially those that went for high fidelity and realistic graphics - look outdated.
A good art style is timeless and will always age better than trying to push the envelope on graphical fidelity or realism.
- Comment on Astro Boy: Omega Factor Artist Tomoharu Saito Lost A Leg Due To Working On The Game | Time Extension 4 days ago:
Is. Continues to be. And it isn’t just Japan. Worldwide, the games industry has always had horrible work-life balance (some cases being better or worse than others, of course).
I went to college to go into the industry 10 years ago and never did because of the things our professors (who were all industry veterans, some still actively working in the industry and some having been in the industry since the 80s) told us. “Nobody makes video games because they want to get rich.” Upon graduation with a 4 year degree (and a hundred thousand in debt probably), I was expected to make the same annually as I did if I worked year-round at my summer job. Everybody today talks about crunch time as a problem in industries. Video games are crunch time. We were told to expect to work on a project for 4 years, with the last few months being spent in the office 7 days a week, no holidays, and orobably eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the office. Maybe even sleeping there as well. Clocking out after 8 hours would be seen as being a traitor to the company. And after a project ships? Dust off your resume, because unless you’re senior level, you’re gonna be fired as the company downsizes until the next project.
The mass layoffs the past 3 years have been worse each year than in the 2008 recession. There are people working at the Blizzard main office who live out of their cars because they can’t afford an apartment within commuting distance of the office. The list goes on and on. And they can get away with it because they’re exploiting the passion of people who just want to make something that people will enjoy and there’s an endless stream of starry-eyed college kids ready to throw themselves into the grinder.
- Comment on Your boomer parents after giving you the most outdated job-seeking advice of your fucking life [Day 86] 4 days ago:
I’m in my 30s and still get this kind of advice occasionally when I’m job hunting from my retired parents. My mom still talks about “rising through the ranks” even though I’ve been telling her for a decade that that’s not a thing anymore. Nobody goes from mail room to CEO. And nobody gets a gold watch either.
- Comment on Not real... *for now* 5 days ago:
Ad block software doesn’t work on Twitch anymore because they embed the ads directly into the stream.
- Comment on Not real... *for now* 5 days ago:
Twitch also requires you to do a certain number of ads per hour/amount of ad time per hour in order to hit the partnership levels for decent pay. Otherwise, IIRC, Twitch puts their own ads in and the streamer doesn’t receive any revenue from the ads.
I think Thor over at Pirate Software did a video on it back when that whole “Twitch Adpocalypse” drama was happening.
- Comment on Not real... *for now* 5 days ago:
This is exactly why I stopped watching Twitch. It was the only service I tolerated ads on. Until they hit a point where the frequency and number of ads were just unbearable and I haven’t opened the site since.
- Comment on Not real... *for now* 5 days ago:
I believe there’s been a few like that. I think there was an eye contact one, but also one that required you to stand up during ads and another that counted the number of people in the room to make sure you bought the right number of pay per view tickets?
- Comment on AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs 1 week ago:
Unless they’re into that.
But this isn’t about kink shaming foot fetishists - it’s about the power dynamic and bruising Trump’s ego. It’s about as NSFW as you can get without getting into major trouble. Showing dommy mommy fElon in latex holding a leash and Trump on his knees wearing a pup mask on TVs in a government office would be hilarious and amazing, but I don’t know if you’d survive long enough to laugh about it.
- Comment on I love the future. 1 week ago:
At the height of its power, the Nazi party made up less than that percentage of the population of Germany. It doesn’t take much to ruin it for everyone.
Case in point: US President Donald Trump, whose approval rating has historically hovered around 30%.
Those of us with front row seats to the shitshow hope you’re right, because even just last week, my dad was saying, “It could never happen here!” when I brought up how the playbook Trump is using is the exact same one that Hitler used.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 1 week ago:
Depends on whether you have an Android or iPhone for 99% of people. Or, they use an email account that their ISP provider created for them when they signed up.
- Comment on Apple withdraws cloud encryption service from UK after government order 1 week ago:
They want a backdoor so they can use it, but so can everyone else if they know where it is. In some ways, that makes it worse than having no encryption at all because it gives you the illusion of safety when in reality, if people know how to jiggle the handle of your door the right way, they can walk right into your living room at any time.
- Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy 2 weeks ago:
Some instances have very different rules on them that would affect your experience. Like not allowing downvotes, for example. Blahaj users can’t see downvotes or downvote anything themselves.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 3 weeks ago:
And if you voted for Trump, you supported the Palestinian genocide and the genocide of American minorities through the silent violence of the oppression of Project 2025 (as well as everything else in there such as the destruction of the American educational system), increasing the global power of Russia by appointing a known Russian asset to the presidency of the US (and all the other Russian assets that he was going to put into power through his cabinet), and the murder of potentially millions of Americans through another pandemic event, like Trump did during COVID.
And if you voted for neither? You were okay with either option happening. You didn’t care enough about genocide to prevent other genocides from occurring as a consequence of the election.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 3 weeks ago:
Your message is true, but your stats are off. Trump only got something like 15% of the total voting population in the US and won by like 1.5% of the vote. Studies say that historically, 60% of Americans are more liberal than the government - and that includes when Democrats have been in power.
Conservatives are a minority, and the MAGA crazies even more so. They just shout really loudly to convince everybody that they’re a majority. The real issue is that 50% or so of Americans simply don’t care enough to vote against fascism or care more about maintaining the facade of order than freedom. Like MLK said, the biggest threat to equal rights isn’t the white supremacist, but the white liberal who cares more about a negative peace than true justice.
- Comment on Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps 3 weeks ago:
Very true. I was just saying that you can also blame enshittification for it going down like it has as well. Burning the candle at both and all that.
- Comment on Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps 3 weeks ago:
But how do you keep making the line go up, especially in a “market” with such a guaranteed drop-off point in user retention? You can do what these companies do and fill your apps with bots to keep engagement metrics up and users coming back as they fail to date your fake users. I’d call that enshittification, and it probably makes everything worse in this case.
- Comment on Why Gen Z Is Ditching Dating Apps 3 weeks ago:
Is Gen Z becoming the new Millennials?
“Gen Z is ruining the Dating App Market!”
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 4 weeks ago:
I might be wrong (obligatory I am not a lawyer), but I think the laws either make it so that they can’t be considered as an accomplice to a crime like that, or they’re a corporation, which means that fines are really the only way they can be punished.
Either way, the arbitration clause, I believe, means that you can’t take them to court like that in any situation. An out of court settlement is your only option, except in the case of a class action lawsuit, which let’s them get a bulk deal on how much they have to pay out.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 4 weeks ago:
No, I believe the argument they’re making is if someone else posts your private information on BlueSky (think Kiwifarms doxxing gay people and sending that info to Christian hate groups), and BlueSky moderation doesn’t take action against the account posting the info, and then somebody uses that information to find and attack you, then BlueSky is culpable in the attack because they could’ve done something, but didn’t.
A better example, I think, would be the recent issue with known transphobe Jesse Singal and his followers, who came to BlueSky around a month ago and immediately began posting bigotry and false info. When reported to the moderation team, they did nothing about it (he actually got banned by the auto-mod and then manually unbanned during that period, but that’s another story). If he were to do something like my example, posting a trans person’s private information online and telling his followers to harass them, and BlueSky did nothing to remove the posts or his account, then they’d be legally culpable for enabling anything that might happen to you. But under arbitration, you can’t sue them for it.
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 1 month ago:
- Comment on Driver stopped in Tesla Cybertruck banned in UK 1 month ago:
I think this still weighs more than 28 lbs
- Comment on "It seems likely Elon Musk has lost over half of the UK twitter daily audience by now" 1 month ago:
But there’s a difference between a political party ignoring their constituents and a social media platform where people don’t want to interact with assholes. Social interaction, in general, is a series of echo chambers. You’re not gonna invite the MAGA asshole everybody hates to your birthday to balance out the conversation because he’ll rant about out how certain groups of people don’t deserve rights when the cake comes out. You’re gonna invite your friends who you largely agree with in your opinions and interests. We used to kick those kinds of people out all the time on the internet, and nobody had any issues with “echo chambers” back when forums were still the thing people used.
Social media isn’t some public debate floor. It’s the local pub.
- Comment on "It seems likely Elon Musk has lost over half of the UK twitter daily audience by now" 1 month ago:
It’s funny how people don’t realize that social interaction in general is largely a series of echo chambers. Your group of friends all likely share common interests and opinions, but no news correspondent is writing articles about how bad that is and how you should add a fascist or two to your New Year’s Eve party to balance it out.
Social media isn’t some public debate floor. It’s a platform for social interaction, and if nobody wants to listen to you, there’s probably a reason why. This obsession with neutrality and both sides-ism is poisoning our social relationships. Progressives not only far outnumbered conservatives in posting politics, they also far outnumbered conservatives in general. These platforms see a rise in conservative views (and then extremism) as they make more left leaning people feel unwelcome and drive them off the platform.
- Comment on X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit 3 months ago:
Amazon already has their own pharmacy, btw. They even bought a prescription delivery service a few years back, called PillPack or something. Buying CVS would give them brick and mortar stores for the pharmacy they already run online.
As much as I hate Amazon and their overreach into every sector of the economy, I’d love to see them bring the full might of their lawyers against Musk.
- Comment on Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X 3 months ago:
IMO, I think creative people are at the heart of a social media platform. A big part of art is the community aspect of sharing it with others. So they interact with each other as well as create Content ™ for others. This is especially obvious with platforms like YouTube, but even Twitter is like this. If there weren’t people posting photos, drawings, music, game dev posts, and livestreams, Twitter would be a very different place. Creative people are responsible for much of the original content online. Without them, Twitter would basically be news, political rants, and reposted memes.
Twitter was largely considered the best place for artists by process of elimination, and I know plenty of artists were dying for an alternative but didn’t have one. Places like DeviantArt don’t get traffic from the general populace, and Instagram’s algorithm is horrible for discoverability. With Bluesky getting enough people to make it worth the migration, the creative people are moving over, and their followers will join them.
I know the only reason I ever made a Twitter account was because 70% of the people I followed on Tumblr left for Twitter after the porn ban. Hell, Tumblr dropped like 99.7% in value after the porn ban because they drove off almost their entire userbase.
- Comment on Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X 3 months ago:
Nor would they care if they knew about it.
- Comment on Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X 3 months ago:
I think “leave” is doing some heavy lifting, but I could see plenty of people creating accounts as the site reaches a large enough user base to attract the general public.
I saw a video recently of somebody talking about how they were posting the same thing on Twitter and Bluesky, and despite having a fraction of the followers on Bluesky, the post there had like 6x the engagement compared to Twitter. As they put it, “The creatives have moved to Bluesky.”
- Comment on There should be a term for people who never really returned from the pandemic's social isolation 3 months ago:
Fun fact(s): The COVID strains that were active at the beginning of last year were actually more infectious and deadlier than the original COVID strains. The only reason we didn’t hear much about them is because, despite RFK Jr’s beliefs, the vaccines work. 443 people died from COVID in the US during the first week of November, even with the vaccines. There were about 15 deaths from the flu in that same week.
There are plenty of immunocompromised people who can’t get vaccinated who can no longer be in public without risking death now that COVID is endemic.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 3 months ago:
The hard part would be doing it in a way that pulls in the kind of people who listened to Alex Jones.
