whotookkarl
@whotookkarl@lemmy.world
you’re high on mushrooms in the Viking age, the gods are everywhere
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 1 week ago:
Reminds me of this for some reason
- Comment on Why Americans Can’t Buy the World’s Best Electric Car 1 week ago:
No shit, people want cheap, reliable transport and workers would want to build them, build and work on replacement parts, build batteries, etc. The only people supported by blocking BYD in the US are executives and shareholders.
- Comment on Grok praises Hitler, gives credit to Musk for removing “woke filters” 1 week ago:
Yes, obviously Nazis are fascist. easiest block ever
- Comment on Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam 2 weeks ago:
Doesn’t matter if you wait a year or two to get it at the noon hype price with full content included
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What are your favourite single-player games without much fluff, grinding or difficulty spikes? 2 weeks ago:
Jazzpunk is not a game I’ve heard of in a long time, great silly surrealism
Manifold garden is great too
- Comment on What are some great retro games that I can play with my 5yo? 2 weeks ago:
A bunch of arcade games become much friendly to kids with infinite continues, shmups, fighters, brawlers, etc
My picks would be Bubble bobble, Kirby on SNES, ice hockey on NES, Mario 1-3, super Mario kart, Tetris, and Dr Mario, double dragon
- Comment on When the AI bubble bursts 3 weeks ago:
It’s cyclic, but each cycle builds on the last
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, nice precedent
- Comment on Tesla In 'Self-Drive Mode' Hit By Train After Turning Onto Train Tracks 3 weeks ago:
Not even a second, it’s sometimes less than 250-300ms. If I wasn’t already anticipating it to fail and disengage as it went though the 2-lane wide turn I would have gone straight into oncoming traffic
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
Tony hawk pro skater 2, played it often when it first came out and hearing about the 3/4 remake coming out soon reminded me of the games and it’s been decades, I wanted to see if it holds up. It’s showing some age in the fighter combo style tricks and arcade style levels, but the soundtrack is still good, and progression with unlocking stats and levels through goals is fun and wanting to beat a goal after failing a couple times keeps me coming back.
- Comment on My dailies 3 weeks ago:
Good stuff, og Gameboy was my first handheld I have a lot of fond memories of those games like Zelda, WrestleMania, Castlevania, etc
These days I’m less on mobile gaming I have batocera running on a raspberry pi 4 in one of those small acrylic cases and a small fan
- Comment on Do instances exist where you can be 13+? 4 weeks ago:
I suspect this is going to be true of pretty much any publicly accessible social media in general, parental controls built into the app or browser user access controls for censoring, time limits, or keeping them on a family friendly instance seems to be the right move
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Price Has Been Confirmed 4 weeks ago:
Greasybox Software
- Comment on Reddit will help advertisers turn ‘positive’ posts into ads 4 weeks ago:
Connecting ads masquerading as posts to bot posts shilling the same crap, got it
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 4 weeks ago:
It’s just a tool, like a search engine or a guillotine
- Comment on What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion? 5 weeks ago:
The first level of MegaMan x and good springs in fallout: New Vegas are really good examples of how to convey info to the player about how the game works and what you can do without pulling you out of the game itself a separate tutorial
- Comment on France Moves to Classify X as an Adult Site Amid Digital ID Crackdown 5 weeks ago:
Why use age instead of a knowledge check instead?
- Comment on FBI Wants Access To Encrypted iPhone And Android Data—So Does Europe 1 month ago:
It’s not a back door, it’s just a rear entryway
- Comment on Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse 1 month ago:
It’s been interesting seeing the changes as they happened over time working with java pretty often for a good chunk of that time. The jvm and jit performance improvements, syntax changes and additional jep features added vs what was left out, tools for running and managing jvms, Sun & Oracle shooting themselves in the foot repeatedly, new jvm languages with scala, groovy, clojure, etc and their impact on java. I prefer other languages and tool chains for some cases, but java has been pretty good for building reliable, upgradable, extendable systems that get the job done & have a good large stable library.
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 1 month ago:
It gets weird in the gaps; kilts, parachute pants, togas
- Comment on On trees... 1 month ago:
Not to be confused with Dryococelus aka the “tree lobster”
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 1 month ago:
Second hand coffins, cheap!
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 1 month ago:
Easy answer for me, chemical plant zone from Sonic the hedgehog 2
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 dev calls Randy Pitchford's $80 Borderlands 4 comments "gross" because it implies the FPS is more important than "making it day to day" 1 month ago:
Greasy Randy isn’t exactly known for being not gross prior to the comment either
- Comment on 7 for me 1 month ago:
5/10 are Donald Duck, 15 is Daisy Duck
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 1 month ago:
Strawmanning because they won’t or can’t understand your argument, mistaking the map for the place usually because of equivocating on vaguely understood or multiple definitions, non-sequetor this is where someone just yaps for awhile based on the crap that falls out of their head based on the words they heard but didn’t get the point and is barely tracking
- Comment on WARNING! 1 month ago:
A ghost who is also a dick
- Comment on How is nobody talking about the fact that The Simpsons Arcade Game got home ports to DOS and Commodore 64 but not NES, SNES or Genesis -- and didn't arrive on console until Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3? 2 months ago:
The story just broke on corporate news networks, I heard the president of video games is going to make an address
- Comment on Cloudflare CEO warns AI and zero-click internet are killing the web's business model 2 months ago:
I’m not buying whatever a billionaire nepo baby CEO monopoly owner is pedaling. Let’s hear what some labor leaders have to say about it for a change.
