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- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 8 hours ago:
The concept makes a lot of sense and was really really cool.
I saw a playthrough and I had 3-4 problems:
- everyone seems to be better at colonizing on their own, separate from the home base, whose literal only purpose is to colonize.
- (mechanically the whole colonization thing is trivialized by mary sue story progression and deus ex machina devices)
- all the new aliens are once again roughly 2m tall humanoids
- the ending felt… very “we need setpieces” and “absolutely make it a parade of every minor character we talked to”
ME1 even had Rachni, as non-humanoid npcs, could have something like that…
(And obviously most parts of the art departments did their job well. It’s 99% a direction and writing problem.)
- Comment on What would you do if your gym trainer is 5 minutes late? 10 hours ago:
Talk to them. Then if it keeps happening, talk to their manager.
Sometimes life happens, but if it’s consistent it’s annoying, and people have to be professional about it. If they signed up for the job and the job says the gym unlocks at 7, he better be inside at 6:30, get stuff ready and then unlock at 7.
- Comment on What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you? 11 hours ago:
I think mass effect is a clear contender, the ending to mass effect 2 was a bit meh, and then it really hit the fan with mass effect 3 and for those who didn’t get message, they also made mass effect andromeda.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 Official Multiplayer Gameplay Trailer 3 days ago:
The official title is a bit misleading, it says “gameplay”, but clearly what they’re showing is carefully arranged, in engine stuff.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure I can find fictional things immoral? Why would it be unethical to have an opinion on fictional things?
Factually, all the lines that you allow to be crossed are crossed and all lines that are collectively defended are usually not crossed. That’s culture. It’s arbitrary and not absolute.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
The same way that I don’t go around killing people after playing GTA, I also don’t go around assaulting women because I played a videogame where these things happen.
Right. That’s fair and I’ll believe it.
Do you generally think there is any limit at all, in any type of media that crosses lines and shouldn’t exist? Think “liveleak” stuff from when that was around.
Or do you consider this game topic just not crossing that line?
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
I agree, but they aren’t.
I am specifically saying this, because my democratic country has laws that would also cover these things the letter mentions and would also deem them wrong. They are just dumb, “not from the internet” and overworked with other stuff.
Please check what laws your country has around the topic of glorification of crime and violence.
We also don’t know what the payment processors told itch and steam.
Itch and steam are doing what they are doing as a blanket move, to create a situation where they can stay in business for now and deal with the problem at all.
My bet would be that they “allowed nsfw stuff”, turned a blind eye, and now suddenly noticed they actually have a really big legal problem, with actual laws and the fact that it was an NGO and not an official legal institution that started this, was dumb luck and now they mostly need time and cover their own arse.
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 1 week ago:
Yes, but.
Everyone should read the open letter that’s linked in the itch statement.
There definitely is a line. Everyone can choose were they draw it. You don’t have to draw it in a way where you end up defending things that are kinda messed up.
There is definitely a hill worth fighting on in that area. I don’t think it’s this exact one.
- Comment on cookie combs 2 weeks ago:
This may be my favorite voronoi tesselation.
- Comment on Why is so hard for musicians to have a good living and be famous? 3 weeks ago:
At some point it because a binary thing.
You don’t need to just be good at something.
You need to be good at something AND do something else. AND be likeable. AND be pretty. AND have good contacts. AND …
And if any of those other things aren’t the case, you don’t become the super star.
Sometimes, it’s being at the right place at the right time. Some things can be solved with money, or being the friend or child of a celebrity, and others can’t.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
so i have to do it the hard way and mention @fediverse@lemmy.world so that I can post here. It’s a good workaround, considering it doesn’t have built-in support for communities.
That IS the built in support.
If I am wrong, then is there any way in which we can solve this issue?
Yes you are wrong, just keep doing it the way you just successfully did in this. That’s the solution.
- Comment on (PC) Chill farming games (non-Anime)? 5 weeks ago:
“Against the storm” is really really good, I’m not sure about chill. They offer different speed settings and I have a tendency to go as fast as I can.
store.steampowered.com/app/…/Against_the_Storm/
Wait. i know.
“Terra Nil” is about restoring earth’s ecosystem through building.
- Comment on Entirely too many questions about Mastodon. So sorry. 1 month ago:
If not, how do you find stuff you care about?
You go to explore, or your home instance feed and follow people and hashtags.
If you have interests, definitely try finding them in the hashtags.
And is reblogging the equivalent to upvoting?
There are no “upvotes”. The idea is that you’re in your little bubble with a handful of followers, and so is basically everyone else. When you find something neat, you boost it, to share it with your followers. If your followers also like, they can boost it as well, and that way, it can spread in a viral way and reach everyone. Or not, if it’s not that interesting and fizzles out.
There are no upvotes because there is no home page. It’s entirely right now. You pick it up, you scroll for a bit, you do something and then you put it down.
I recommend the “federated” feed, to see what I mean. Normally, your home feed is filtered to what you have followed. “Federated” is everything you device can see. All of it. Right now. Slowed down a bit so you can read something, but it’s a cool “stream of consciousness” thing.
Do they have memes there or what’s the range of content?
Everything you want. It really depends on what you filter for.
How does it compare to bluesky?
I don’t know in terms of tone, but the technical difference is that bluesky is only theoretically “independent”, with mastodon, you can have people in basements hosting servers and running communities.
Something you didn’t ask, but that I think is a major feature is filters. You can filter groups of keywords from your feed. So if you want to be informed, but you don’t really care about the specifics of [Team Rockets] Deeds, because they do something every day, you can set a filter for “Team Rocket”, “Jessie”, “James” and it will be hidden, but not completely, you can set it to appear as “team rocket did something again”. You can then still click on it, if you want, but it’s less in your face, if you don’t want to.
- Comment on Mastodon updates terms of service to ban AI model training on user data 1 month ago:
Mastodon dot SOCIAL did, the big public instance. Mastodon the software doesn’t have these restrictions.
- Comment on How would you rank the millennium prize problems based on difficulty of understanding it? 2 months ago:
Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness
Is actually every easy to understand. NS is the basic fluid dynamics equation, it describes how fluids move.
Never mind the actual equation, you can think of it as “speed” depending on “pressure” and “inertia”. We can use it in parts, in CFD, which is splitting the problem into very small pieces and calculating the pieces and then adding them up bit by bit. But that is super expensive to calculate, not as precise as we would like and difficult to understand.
We would really prefer an “analytical” equation like
position = speed * time. The process to get there is usually the integral operation. That’s what the problem is all about.The problem with the equation we have, is that “pressure” and “inertia” variables are so mixed up in the equation, that we can’t do that integral operation on the equation we have. You end up with something that’s like
y/x = (y/(x-y)) + x
and
x/y = (x/(y-x)) + y
Idk if that explains anything if I put it like that… You can just look at the whole thing en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems#N…
Both sides of that equation describe the same thing, one with forces and pressures, one with measures of speed and time. But BOTH sides contain both space and time parts.
The pieces are interlocked in a way, where we can’t isolate variables, can’t get an integral.
Understanding NS itself isn’t that hard either, but I couldn’t do it just from wikipedia, if you have a bit of help guiding you through it, it’s not that complicated.
The problem is finding / proving that an integral exists and is smooth.
- Comment on EU ruling: tracking-based advertising by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, across Europe has no legal basis 2 months ago:
2025 is a banger year for open source and internet freedom.
- Comment on Giant Bomb, a web site about video games, has been purchased from Fandom 2 months ago:
Ok, I’m looking forward to them changing this practice then. We’ll see if they do.
- Comment on Giant Bomb, a web site about video games, has been purchased from Fandom 2 months ago:
Ok, I’m looking forward to them changing this practice then. We’ll see if they do.
- Comment on Giant Bomb, a web site about video games, has been purchased from Fandom 2 months ago:
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Disgusting. I don’t demand or expect them to rewrite their website, but those people are nowhere near even “neutral” status, as long as they behave this way.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
What then?
Yeah it’ll just be over.
Meaning, people would try to barter, which is really bad because it forces extremely bad trades, because it’s so hard to establish a good value for things.
We 100% rely on consistently working electricity and network connectivity for digital currency to work.
Which is why we should never get 100% rid of cash, even if we transition to mostly cashless, people should keep an emergency stash of hard currency. The same way people should keep an emergency food and water supply, in case of power outages like the one in spain. We can secure our infrastructure against many things, but not 100% secure against everything. Keeping a few bottles of clean water, a little bit of essentially never perishing food and a little cash and a few candles really isn’t too much to ask.
- Comment on Please suggest good progression based multiplayer games 3 months ago:
Warhammer Vermintide 2, the borderlands games, the newer Space Marine 2, factorio, deep rock galactic
- Comment on Linux help and actual pros and cons 3 months ago:
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just pick any of the common recommendations. Mint. Ubuntu, Kubuntu… Just search for “which linux distro is right for me” and look at a few answers and pick one. Most of them work the same way.
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you probably can’t use autocad or adobe products. kernel level anticheat is a problem, so games that need that are out.
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Yes. …ish.
There are basically three levels, one where you only click everything and it’s basically an app / wizard as you know them.
The next level would be that it’s possible that you have manually edit a few text or config files to make things work the way you want to, or the best solution to your problem can be a command line thing. That’s very mostly “not programming”, the command line and manually editing config files can look scary, but most of the time it’s completely harmless. This happens, but it’s rare and it’s mostly simple stuff. The bigger and more used the distro is that you pick, the less you will run into this.
And then the third level would be “real programming” and basically nobody does that and nobody expects that.
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yes, you can dual boot.
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Just do it. If you’ve “built” a pc before, it’s the same deal. If you read the manual a tiny bit, it’s like lego. It looks way scarier than it is. And if you look up solutions it is extremely likely that you will find a well researched answer that does solve your problem.
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- Comment on Discord appoints former Activision Blizzard exec Humam Sakhnini as CEO 3 months ago:
please make it die faster, I want for the communities to move to matrix.
- Comment on how do I avoid becoming conformist, lazy and completely incapable of learning something new? 3 months ago:
How do I make sure not to become this kind of person?
Just focus on that and you’re good.
There are two ways to do “bad things” 1. you’re not aware of them being bad (because you never question yourself), 2. you are aware, but you excuse them somehow.
You have already cleared 1., all you need to do now, is to remain strict with yourself to never do excuse your own bad behavior.
And to be clear, I don’t mean to constantly blame yourself, I mean “finding excuses to do the bad thing anyway, because this time is an exception”. And it’s also fine to give up on this later if you find you can’t keep it up. It would be disappointing, but any effort in this direction is good, don’t let it dominate you.
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 3 months ago:
Makes sense.
Geopoliticts shifts, good idea to just stop, wait and see who’s ready to be on friendly terms.
Particularly in Europe, the result is like a few election cycles out. Could go in like 5 different directions and is impossible to predict.
- Comment on How much are additional lemmy instances needed/wanted beyond what we have at present? 3 months ago:
I don’t think there is a huge need at the moment. Things will probably develop naturally. E.g. if some communities find they would like one, they would start one, with rules, blocks, membership, financing that fits their needs.
- Comment on Path of Exile 2's disastrous new update reveals the core tension at the heart of its design: How do you make a game with meaningful combat when everyone just wants to blast monsters? 3 months ago:
The writing was on the wall for PoE2, so I’m not angry or disappointed, I’ll see where things go.
I would have wanted:
- less boss fights, not more, I find them bad and boring.
- maybe an interesting take on the gem system, but essentially removing it is lame. They also removed / didn’t reintroduce some gems that unlock certain interesting options, so I’m still waiting on what they game is like on actual full release.
- maybe a revision and tighter integration of the more interesting league mechanics (incursion? ava’s thing)
- could have done without an idiot plot in terms of writing
the slow combat isn’t bad, but the game is confused. You just can’t have both fair fights with rare mobs with white gear and white mobs and rare gear. Either one is too easy or the other is too hard, or the items lack oomph. Impossible to resolve.
I agree on the modifier stacking on mobs.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 4 months ago:
Alright. I hope that I’m wrong too, after all.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 4 months ago:
The problem is that of those 20/30% only 10% will actually get out on the streets so you are left with around 2% of the general population. And that ain’t much
So you do agree?
Getting mass protests organized is a tremendous effort. If you have 80-90% support for something, getting 30-40% on the street is a huge accomplishment. If only 30% support the idea in the first place, there is no chance.
The “mass protest” has to be at a scale, where it’s basically a general strike where society shuts down because people are protesting.
That doesn’t mean stop trying, but also
but a very loud and significant minority
This is meaningless in a country that chooses to ignore public voices. Authoritarian regimes can stay stable with 10-15% support of the population, ignoring protests and complaints.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 4 months ago:
There are protests, they are just way too small.
Trump hast at least 40% of the population behind him, and a good 20-30% don’t care. Still.
You can’t organize “mass protests” with 20-30% of the population.
I mean, you can, but they are literally a loud minority.