LostWanderer

@LostWanderer@lemmynsfw.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft launches NFT game with figures costing up to $63K⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That was a delayed grift release, no wonder they stealth launched it (given it would’ve tarnished them even more). I hope they get a lot of shit for this scammy ‘game’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As a casual user of Linux (no strong inclination or skill in coding), I tend to veer towards distros that minimize the Terminal usage in favor of graphical user interfaces for accomplishing most changes. Modern Linux is a lot friendlier in terms of installing Software from a distro store and graphic drivers via a graphical interface. You won’t ever fully be able to eliminate the terminal usage, as it’s inevitable for certain tasks like adding PPAs on Ubuntu for example. It was honestly word salad for me during my first foray into the Linux world; but now I have a basic understanding of the Linux kernel and how it functions on a very surface level. I know enough to string commands together and understand the reason why it’s necessary to do things in a certain order.

  I’m not sure if you’d have a good time with Linux, I’m hesitant to tell you to take the plunge because you will have to faff around with the terminal and use commands at times to accomplish certain things. That requires both focus and patience, which is not something which is naturally difficult for those with ADHD (unless a hyperfixation is quite strong). I’d give it a think for a while, ultimately you might be better sticking with the current OS that you’re using.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I want quality content and not the slop Ubishit and Evil, Actually are wont to create; there are several ‘AAA’ games studios that belong on the right-hand side but wouldn’t fit in the meme well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how is final fantasy XVI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm…I just think the direction they took with Lightning and the other characters wasn’t ideal and the moment to moment gameplay was not the best; I said nothing about outright hate for the game. Furthermore, I only feel disdain for real things that could actually cause harm to the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how is final fantasy XVI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the themes of slavery were so poorly handled that it shouldn’t have even been a plot point. The game would’ve been the same without them or with them; as they didn’t handle it with much nuance and doubtfully had the writing chops to do so. While the Boss Battles with summons are spectacles, they can get really dull the more you fight bosses. I would say it’s a mix of infantile oppressive fantasy to occasional brilliant scenes that made me question why this game was overall so-so. Those strong moments of writing never stuck around long enough to make a greater impact; it made me feel like two people were responsible for the writing of this game, and the worse writer won more often.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No 'Sims 5' Coming as EA Updates Franchise With Multiplayer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yikes, EA is so freaking silly! Why leave money on the table by not presenting a revamped and fresh single-player experience?! They could make it backwards compatible with The Sims 4 letting you import families from The Sims 4 to The Sims 5. If they really want to keep The Sims 4 on life support like this; they need to put in the work with a revamped and much improved engine that can support all the weight which will be put on it. As there are people who will without a doubt buy all the packs and try to run them…To mixed results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One Of The Rust Linux Kernel Maintainers Steps Down - Cites "Nontechnical Nonsense"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To a casual user of a Linux distro; I find this news to be disappointing because Linus himself saw the value of Rust for Linux, yet hostile old hats are making it difficult to manifest. From all that I read, they didn’t want or need to force anyone but the passionate to learn Rust as a programming language. Staying out of the way and letting those committed devs work without harassment would’ve been a saner way to deal with the Rust Linux Kernel project. Rust, based on my reading and unskilled interpretation, is a memory safe language that does offer some benefits for the OS that use it. It would in theory bring more interest towards the Linux Kernel, and that can only be a good thing; since Microsoft is way too comfortable and needs to be slapped with a loss of users that migrate to Linux. Hell, COSMIC is being written in Rust due to the benefits of the coding language. The hostility doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, but people will be people, and this sometimes occurs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why 🤷‍♂️ do users 👨‍💻 dislike 👎 the use ✅ of emojis 😀 on Lemmy 🐭?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t specifically seen anyone go off the rails when it comes to emoji usage on Lemmy; I can only comment on my particular feelings about emoji: Like any tool, emoji can be used in ways which are confusing. However, the value of these little images conveying additional context to written text is useful. There is so much of the personal voice which is lost with written words, unadorned with body language, tone of voice, and facial expressions. Emoji are like a written solution to this issue (for those that don’t pick up on context on words alone). I am fine with the usage of emoji.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Launch dates for upcoming Xbox games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I played The Outer Worlds; it was great story wise. I’m merely worried as delays have often been a sign that a game is flawed and needs a lot of work that will happen after launch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Launch dates for upcoming Xbox games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m most excited for Avowed, but it could end up being a stinker (unless the delay actually helps the game). The Fable trailer didn’t do enough to get me particularly interested in it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What if walk in clinics offered euthanasia services?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oof, yeah, Death By Appointment might be a better name as I couldn’t see them offering on the spot meat suit evacuation! It’s a process to get approval for getting a humane end to one’s medical suffering. They’d likely be too swamped to do it any other way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shadows of Doubt - Release Date Announce Trailer (September 26th v1.0 and consoles)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m excited to play this game on my Xbox, I’ve watched a few videos on Shadows of Doubt! The mysteries feel so organic and interconnected; as the game seems to weave a large web of intrigue the longer you play.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Space Marine 2 feels even more explosively, grimly, and hilariously authentic to the Warhammer 40,000 universe than the first game⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope it will be a good game as well, I do like the Warhammer 40K universe (fascinating, as it paints a grim dystopian future which humanity has been entrapped within). Cancelling a beta is a dire move, I feel like they’re trying to hide something as well. It’s best to wait and not let excitement overrule being wise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3 New AI Features Rolling out to Chrome Users on Linux⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This gives me the ick; this snake oil boom needs to run out of steam. 🫠

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If malls continue to shut down and decay over the next twenty years, someone should turn them into retirement communities for GenX and Millennials.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would love to see this kind of repurposing of properties to be far more common! Malls tend to be fairly central, so they make ideal locations for being nearby everything a person could need in a residential setting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard's World of Warcraft team has unionized⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazing, I love seeing the ripple of Bethesda’s own ‘Wall-to-Wall’ union taking shape in other places in game development. Corpo scum needs to be forced to play nice, unions are so useful in the pursuit of that goal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is everyone so depressed now partially because modern science has probably proven there is no god / afterlife?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Life would be better if human beings collectively worked to make life better for the previous, current, and next generation of human beings. By creating policies that positively impact the society, quality of life could be much better. Life would gain more meaning if the standard of living would increase, work wasn’t an ever free time-consuming thing, the ailments of the mind were handled much better. We need to fix the crisis that homelessness, hunger, limited or no access to healthcare can cause within a society. If people had the chance to live without worries about the immediate future, perhaps depression would not be such an issue. Right now, it feels like a select many who got theirs are desperate to make sure not many people get the same opportunities. Some want to actively dismantle democracy and destroy the very few social safety nets the USA has, I see this as another source of misery (at least in the USA in particular).

  I don’t know what you’ve been reading, but the last time I checked: Science hasn’t proven that there is no god or afterlife; this is still an open question at the moment. It’s a matter of faith, as science is chasing far more important answers. I personally neither disbelief nor believe in a God; there’s no direct proof save what people have written about said being. If anything, a serious lack of direct communication with all living beings on Earth seems to be an indication of an absence of a Creator Being. Also, given the contradictory nature of the bible; it feels like the pure work of man, with no higher power involved. Those who were desperate to control people through faith; latching on to the chance to control a faith-based narrative, since polytheism was on its way out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the last time you made Jello?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s been years since I’ve prepared Jello for consumption at home! I like Jello, but only occasionally eat it when I’ve got a craving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dictionary is more useful than Urban Dictionary⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve always felt that Urban Dictionary and a Dictionary are situationally useful. I would’ve never known what ‘eepy’ meant if I used a normal dictionary (honestly, I guessed what it meant just to test myself), which is always late to add new slang words. All the same Urban Dictionary would never be useful for finding the meaning of a well established word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I don't have AC but my apartment lease covers unlimited water usage and the water is very cold. How can I best use this to cool my home?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A swamp cooler would potentially be a solution; those could be used in conjunction with your ready access to water in order to keep your home cool! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daybreak bought Palia studio Singularity 6 and aims to bring the game to launch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, Disney Dreamlight still has a premium currency, but at least it isn’t as bad as gachapon, pay2win. Apparently, meeting weekly goals on the free Starpath and finding chests will net the player some Moonstone. Starpath is basically like a ‘battlepass’ except since this game has no combat, it’s more like a ‘living your life’ pass, free and premium in nature. I might pass on Disney Dreamlight Valley because encouraging corpos to utilize these curses in the gaming world feels…counterproductive to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daybreak bought Palia studio Singularity 6 and aims to bring the game to launch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t know that Daybreak had a history of messing up games! Huh, I’m a bit concerned now. However, Daybreak could turn their bad track record around. It remains to be seen though.

  As to their business model, yeah, Singularity 6 could never have survived on overpriced cosmetics that used fake currency to induce more spending. That was a dark pattern choice which gave me pause, I couldn’t justify buying a cosmetic item.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Daybreak bought Palia studio Singularity 6 and aims to bring the game to launch⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, I’m surprised too! I wondered if Palia was going to make it due to the financial struggles Singularity 6 had faced. I’m hoping the Palia business model gets adjusted so that it can trickle in more funding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, there is always new Kool-Aid for executives to consume. I just wish more research, discourse, and testing were done before these concepts became either a scam or a true innovation. Of all the things that you’ve mentioned, there are only a few things of which I have no knowledge of; as a lay person, my familiarity with some of these tech developments is due to the major media coverage some got. I’ll have to look into the unfamiliar tech innovations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Embracer rolls out new AI policy to 'massively enhance game development' | Game Developer⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ve gotten drunk on the hype of AI (LLM in disguise); I can’t wait for them to make a costly mistake that wakes them the fuck up. Or dissolve into a formless mass of corporate sludge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palia studio Singularity 6 confirms 36 workers have been laid off⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what I thought too…In addition, needing to buy a fake currency with real money before being able to buy a skin pack has a dark pattern vibe to it! They would’ve been better off making the skin packs cheaper (using real world money) and listing their game for a reasonable price during early access. However, their staff is paying the price for the leaders poor decision and that honestly sucks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palia studio Singularity 6 confirms 36 workers have been laid off⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was concerned about this business model from the onset and my worries have proven accurate! Buying the game while in early access would’ve given them more funding to work with instead of going with a free to play with cosmetic only purchases. I hope the affected developers are going to be okay in this layoff heavy year. 😭

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Do it and get appropriately lambasted EA, I dare you scummy bastards! Android Wilson is such a foolish individual. What would truly stimulate growth for them is making great games people would want to buy. Advertisements in games are a strong hell no from me. One of the main reasons why I avoid EA games is because of their scummy history in the gaming space, if they could let go of their shortsighted greed; I could be inclined to reward those slavering executives with a game purchase. However, they won’t until it really tanks their sales to the point of desperation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The youngest of people certainly will be I could have worded this thought better, but I didn’t. Severe weather is certainly a consequence as well as increased extremes in temperature which are currently happening. Everyone already feels the impact of irresponsible environmental decisions made by the oil industry and industrial agriculture/animal husbandry. Millennials, Gen X and Gen Z will be around to experience the worsening of conditions on Earth. I do genuinely believe that people don’t consider the fact that they aren’t going to experience the climate outcomes based on irresponsible decisions. However, based on the current growing political instability of the USA; I wonder if people are beginning to feel a desire to indulge as they don’t know if they’ll come out unscathed from the blowup which is bound to happen at some point. A bad outlook to have in a way as that will only magnify future issues, however, humans aren’t always rational! 🤪

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people still eat beef when we know it's terrible for Earth?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Humans can be weird about these facts or simply indifferent to the known effect that raising these animals for meat has on the environment. Additionally, I think the antagonistic message of a few vocal vegans triggered a powerful foolishness in the heads of certain people who are prone to acting hedonistically upon being told not to do something. A combination of apathy, chasing profits, taste for beef, and spite which fuels the industrialized beef production business. Another issue is that most of us simply won’t be around to experience the consequences of the unchecked corporations responsible for this willful harm the meat industry is causing Earth’s climate and surrounding environment. I believe in moderation, eating as little of all the meats as possible (those industries have a big impact on the environment). As an American, I see a weird pride that certain people have about eating as much meat as possible; loudly shunning and making fun of those who have either a mostly plant-based, vegetarian, or vegan diet. It’s such a selfish outlook that happens in societies that focus on the individual over the many.