LainTrain
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- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 11 hours ago:
You know when gizmodo reads like harddrive that it’s some shit lol
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 1 day ago:
True, if anything he has less of a chance of getting a coffee at the MS office because the coffee machines will be out of order… “Sorry sir its on windows”
- Comment on Students in England now graduate with average debt of £53,000, data shows 1 day ago:
Free uni was abolished over a decade ago
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 4 days ago:
Yeah, doesn’t change the fact though - it was Sony’s flagship from their oldest most well known first party studio and it effectively got cancelled and pawned off to HBO to be milked on a budget.
Most movie franchises wish they could be Star Wars but it doesn’t change the fact the sequel trilogy did immense and obvious damage to the brand due (primarily) to the controversy, though in that case those movies actually also sucked which I’m sure didn’t help things. TLOU Part 2 on the other hand was by no means as awful as any of the sequel trilogy SW flicks.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 4 days ago:
Care to elaborate? You play as the person who killed a beloved iconic video game character and last game’s protagonist for 13 straight hours - I don’t know if it’s good but I’d hardly call it anything resembling “normie writing”.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 4 days ago:
Whether the writing was garbage or not isn’t relevant to be honest - because controversy was spun by people who only knew the game’s story through hearsay of the leaks before the game even came out, and majorly it was to do with accusations of “wokeness” and other brainrot - so yes clearly it was an issue, of course it was an issue.
It wasn’t really the substance of the game that the usual outrage grifters latched onto so it’s not relevant to the discussion of the controversy.
As for more women being protagonists - sure, idk how you can say that so confidently, I suppose you have a convenient framing for what counts as “big games” to support your point, but I think the quantity was never really an issue.
Honestly more men being protags in games is okay, what I take issue with is that whenever something interesting happens, like oh I dunno, a game makes a woman kinda buff and mean looking, people bitch about it like no tomorrow.
So of course it’s an issue. It always has been.
In 2013-ish, Anita Sarkessian made some exceedingly light feminist critiques of video games in and it was an issue. In 2014-ish, A woman made an indie game that’s honestly really good even to this day (Depression Quest) and it was an issue. In 2020, a game came out where a fictional character (Abby) had muscles and it was an issue.
Nowadays I guess the most famous example would be the “FUCKING GENDER AMBIGUITY” screaming guy who didn’t like Starfield’s pronoun selection screen or some such.
Then people went truly psychotic in a deranged hate campaign against some random inclusivity consultancy Sweet Baby Inc. over games they were reportedly never involved with because there was women, or something, somewhere.
Hopefully you get the idea.
It was precisely the issue that a woman was the main character in a video game but was not in fact “Metroid from Metroid 1986” but a buff, angry, unattractive, hateful and morally grey character who does shitty things, sorta like Joel - in other words - she was something a lot more like a real person in a mature story, not a single digit frame twist from 40 years ago that amounts to an Easter egg turned geek culture cringe factoid parroted by the kinds of people who wouldn’t understand RLM’s “Nerd Crew” show is satire.
You can see some of the worst examples here, cherry-picked as they are, juxtaposed with what actual critique is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVQcZa4O01A
You can also visit the steam store page and look at the negative reviews, or peruse the cesspit subreddit /r/TheLastOfUs2 posts the time of the game’s leaks and release to see people bitching about everything from pride flags in Seattle(!) to Abby being made too likeable to accusations of this or that character being le ebil transgender or whatever else that sounds like it came out of a /pol/-themed magic 8 ball.
Hell, there are utterly deranged people in the steam reviews for this game now bitching about the show - about the actress that plays Ellie and one guy even implies she is “down syndrome representation”.
Like, what the actual fuck?
As for the game, the game is ok, I’m playing it right now, it’s less boring than the first so I like it a lot more, the AI actually lives up to the bullshit promised in the first game’s trailer, but it’s too long and yeah the writing is too on the nose sometimes, though I do like the characters and the atmosphere a lot. Idk if I “love” it, but I do find it way more fun as a game and far more interesting from a story perspective.
What it definitely is though is controversial as fuck and that’s just reality.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 4 days ago:
Killed so much that the video game franchise has been killed off and they had to make a remake of the original game using Part II’s assets and mechanics to recoup the financial damage to the brand and the saga will never see a conclusion outside of maybe the HBO show.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 4 days ago:
Can you blame them for not taking risks when these games get punished time and time again for doing so?
TLOU Part II had a mildly unlikeable character who gasp was a woman and it killed the entire franchise and sparked mass controversy so hard Naughty Dog now is making some bland and generic soulslike (but in space) GOTG ripoff slop with product placement in it.
- Comment on Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp 5 days ago:
They are probably using Xiaomi which is based in China, using AOSP with whatever mods they throw on it, which isn’t based anywhere and is open source, or it could be Huawei too.
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 5 days ago:
I will create a masto instance where this is mandatory to counter balance
- Comment on The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice 6 days ago:
I haven’t used Windows at work in years for anything, not for cloud hosting, not for on-prem, not for employee machines etc etc. until the cost-cutters came in and forced Teams and other Microsoft crap to squeeze the market during inflation. The company is just waiting to be killed off now.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Honestly - you do you and have fun! Don’t listen to those who moralize/pathologize this, it’s pure slave morality shit, especially amongst Christians. Just make sure you’re doing it for you and not for society.
- Comment on Spicy food never affects my gut and everyone thinks it's really weird. How unusual is this and what could be happening to explain why spicy food doesn't affect me? 1 week ago:
I only ever hear that in movies. I assumed it happens if you eat low grade meat or smth like in the wild west in the US back in the day and it just became an old wives’ tale turned pop culture myth.
- Comment on Gen X and millennials three times more likely to be diagnosed with appendix cancer than their parents, study finds 1 week ago:
Yeah I never had appendicitis but always found it odd there are so many who do all of a sudden. If this organ was so prone to failure all the time would it have not been gone ages ago?
- Comment on Cancers can be detected in bloodstream three years prior to diagnosis 1 week ago:
The world isn’t benefitting from your research, you benefit from the world’s research based off your own research, on and on it goes and we all get smarter and know more and strive towards bettering our condition, curing our ills and minimizing suffering and maximizing happiness for all.
At least in my opinion it’s why scientific research while a truly neutral morally activity and generally done as an end unto itself - from a broadly humanist standpoint is a ga worth pursuing, even when the immediate benefits aren’t seen by the shortsighted.
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 1 week ago:
Lmao so you include all the deals for the switch with your “mario kart upgrade”, but not the steam deck?
Ironically enough a steam deck with zero games on it is still a way more compelling device if we’re describing a generic gaming device, because all games on PC are free if you want them to be, and that’s a library of hundreds of thousands of games. Then you consider it’s also your laptop/main PC too…
Plus, if you must buy games, you’re only a few quid away from one, not £60 + online fees etc etc.
We can go in circles forever though, but over the long term of course a PC or any Steam Deck will win in terms of ownership cost due to cheaper/free games. The issue is that we can’t really calculate an objective metric of value there.
That also isn’t the point I was even disputing, it’s precisely that the ownership is more expensive because PC gamers buy more games, but either way you’re wrong.
But if we keep going, we’ll run into problems because of course it’s apples to oranges to compare the value because these are largely mutually exclusive target audiences I’d imagine.
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 1 week ago:
you made up an argument that I never made
Original comment I’m responding to states:
so the total cost of ownership for a switch 2 probably still stays under the total cost of ownership for a handheld PC.
That point is incorrect. That is the point I’m disputing.
Maybe chill out bro it’s ok to be wrong on the internet, the world goes on.
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 1 week ago:
Btw, these 9 titles would have cost a switch user just €540, if all of them were AAA games at full price. That too doesn’t factor in that the figure from Nintendo includes massively popular cheap indie titles or the fact that even Nintendo games sometimes go on sale.
Yes, I’m a heavy buyer of games, but those games cost £12 on average, not £60, nor anywhere near to that amount, even if it’s lower due to the few indie games that get console releases.
€540 for those 9 games is roughly more than half of what I spent in the last decade on 430-ish PC games. It’s literally why I even have more games in the first place.
So even though I have more games on paper, I don’t spend more paper, capische?
And I certainly don’t spend more per game than the switch user, which makes your claim misleading.
In fact the opposite is true and most PC gamers are notoriously stringent in spending on games.
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 1 week ago:
Wait, what?
First of all, PC gamers don’t buy a ton of games.
PC is the number one piracy platform for starters, seeing as it requires no jailbreaks and the like.
Secondly, PC gamers tend to own a lot of games legitimately because our gaming library doesn’t expire with a console generation, and because our steam libraries consist of many many indie games that cost a few bucks each, not a few $50 AAA releases.
My steam library is about 435-ish games. But that’s since 2013.
The total value of the account per steamdb is like £1080, this is a vast over-estimate because I used to live in a country where the entire GTA series before 5 cost £0.20, but let’s go with £1080.
If I bought £1080 worth of standard £60 games, I’d only have 18 games. That’s actually less than I even had for the PS Vita, and most people would be surprised to know that platform even has that many games.
Between the online fees and subscriptions to PS Plus etc., lacking discounts compared to steam, and the inability to pirate even an extremely high end PC tends to be far, far cheaper in the long run than a console, especially since it also doubles as the TV, the music player, the work and hobby computer, etc etc.
- Comment on Ofsted criticised over training manual linking autistic children to extremism 1 week ago:
Cut their benefits Make healthcare inaccessible And if they complain? Link em to extremism.
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 1 week ago:
Always has been.
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 1 week ago:
You can spend more on mobile game mtx than a full triple A experience including the console and in fact most people do which is why the “core” is an ever shrinking slice of the pie that to GenA probably doesn’t even make any sense.
The price doesn’t really matter, my point is that you’re not buying a Nintendo switch to play GTA 6 and you’re not buying a steam deck to play Warioware Inc…
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 1 week ago:
I think plenty do come away better people because honestly I know plenty of people who were on there when they were younger but are normal well-adjusted adults now, and also me.
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 2 weeks ago:
These are completely different devices for different use cases for different audiences with wildly different tastes. Nintendo hasn’t been in the “core” gaming space since before the Wii.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 2 weeks ago:
They taught it toxicity so it knows what they mean by “don’t be toxic”. It’s only a shame so few flesh and blood models take the same lesson away from it.
- Comment on How good are amphetamines for brain fog? 2 weeks ago:
I could see it being effective, yeah. Obviously in this situation she just needs to try it (carefully obvs) and report the effects. If it’s not/won’t be medically prescribed for her condition then she would be in somewhat untested waters, so it’s a trial and error thign obviously keep it safe and acetone wash it.
When I was self-medding with amph, I bought a scale and would pack it in capsules weighed out to 40mg each and pop two - four a day. Don’t snort that shit.
Definitely don’t do Cocaine that shit doesn’t help much of anything and even if it seems to, lasts all of 10 minutes unless you OD.
I would also suggest wellbutrin. It’s sometimes used as a generic stim, but unlike amph and etc. it’s also a smoking cessation aid - because it works on the nicotinic receptor, similar effect to nicotine but without the addiction (and in fact,.you won’t want to ever consume nicotine on it).
- Comment on Hamas doesn't hold a monopoly on Palestinian terror 2 weeks ago:
Oh that’s okay then, the kidnapping of some guy in Thailand means all my taxes should go towards turning little kids in Palestine into skeletons instead of healthcare.
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 2 weeks ago:
Also usually has an integrated LSP and Linter for the text editor.
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 2 weeks ago:
It’s a joke based on the Verge article from last year(?) that said Zoomers don’t know what files and folders on a computer are.
- Comment on Happy PrIDE Month 2 weeks ago:
I excitedly told my girlfriend who’s big into PC overclocking that my SSD does 500mb/s. Hers is one of these newfangled M.2. NVMe drives does 5000mb/s. She also asked me if a mechanical hard drive does around 500mb/s too… I’m like 25 and right there with ya.