Zorque
@Zorque@lemmy.world
- Comment on Everybody is fine with celebrities like Whoopi Goldberg making up fake names for themselves, but when someone chooses a name for themselves to suit their gender identity it's suddenly a problem 2 days ago:
Often they have to due to SAG rules. Only one person can have a name while being part of the union.
Like Emma Stone. Her real name is Emily Stone, but there was already one working with SAG, so she had to change it. She even prefers Emily.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 3 days ago:
If there’s only ever one avenue of attack, sure. Your example posits that encryption is the only security layer that exists, which is laughable. Most security breaches happen at the personnel level, not the technical one.
A site does not “become facebook” just because it’s not 100% decentralized from every other possible service. Countless other factors go into it. Not the least of which is the nature of the people running it. If you run a service, and make it nigh impossible for a general public (your main market) to use because you fear it will become compromised, you are basically saying that you will compromise it otherwise, and probably shouldn’t be running that service.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 3 days ago:
But only accepting one possible alternative is an extreme. You can build in safeguards… but if they’re too rigorous you will drive away potential users. Much like with freedom and security, you need to middle ground between accessibility and defensibility.
- Comment on flohmarkt a federated alternative to ebay and facebook marketplace 3 days ago:
If only there were some kind of middle ground… sadly only extremes exist 😔
- Comment on Trekmovie.com: Scott Bakula-Led ‘Star Trek: United’ Pitch Explores Archer’s Family, Romulan War Aftermath 4 days ago:
Prodigy?
- Comment on YSK about Hiring.cafe - a free job scraping site that lets you filter out Workday and other nuisance ATS 1 week ago:
Does playing Yakuza count?
- Comment on Travel back to the days of cable TV with Blippo+, a time-hopping FMV game about... I'm not entirely sure, actually 1 week ago:
If it’s anything like the game Immortality, there’s an underlying story you can figure out. The gameplay in Immortality involves clicking elements in the video to link to elements from videos from other times and in-universe media. You can fast-forward and reverse, and there’s a hidden element you can discover.
Lots of nudity and a fair amount of blood, though.
- Comment on [Any Austin] Do Red Dead Redemption 2's Power Lines Connect to Anything? 1 week ago:
But… a video isnt real life. It’d be more like “I dont need a nature documentary because I have a book on nature”.
- Comment on Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say 1 week ago:
I suspect the same is true about American Eagle’s Sydney Sweeney ad.
What the fuck…
I didn’t even know this was a thing…
- Comment on Happy Birthday! 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure when they were a hanafuda maker they were a little less litigious…
- Comment on Nintendo’s Switch Mario Galaxy collection will retail for $70 3 weeks ago:
Some publishers call it a “battle pass” or “seasons” instead.
- Comment on How did Luke Skywalker learn to communicate with Astromech droids? How did he learn the language whilst living on Tatooine? 3 weeks ago:
He spent five years with the droid between New Hope and Empire Strike’s Back.
Clearly it was the Force.
- Comment on People using fancy characters in their online username ironically makes them harder to be searched 3 weeks ago:
Like rain on your wedding day.
- Comment on Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec 3 weeks ago:
At least for video streaming services, they care more about new subscribers than retaining subscribers. That State of Decay may be a retention game, but the indie darling was the first thing they played upon subscribing. That’s likely going to hold more weight.
- Comment on Well, do you? 3 weeks ago:
Do they have to be on the feet?
- Comment on Xbox fans are compiling lists of all the Activision, Bethesda, and Microsoft games still missing from Xbox Game Pass — and it's pretty huge 3 weeks ago:
“Please drink verification can”?
- Comment on Google should have called it JIF, not WebP 3 weeks ago:
That would just mean you couldn’t use the graphic format for pictures of peanut butter. It should be fine for everything else.
- Comment on Duality 4 weeks ago:
… did he just say making fuck?
- Comment on Cyclops would be a very different character if his eyelids weren't laserproof 4 weeks ago:
He’s an omega level mutant (basically so powerful they defy classification). He literally manipulates things at the atomic level, the ice thing is just how he best comprehends his own powers.
- Comment on 18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are using 4 weeks ago:
The rule of internet polls is that the funniest answer is always over-represented.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 4 weeks ago:
Is this your first time on an internet forum? Or the internet in general? Topics often drift. Just because the post is about something doesn’t mean every single thing in the comments is going to be explicitly about that.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 4 weeks ago:
I dont understand what you’re trying to argue. The person you responded to made a point about Major studios trying to make a hit… but focusing on business principles over actual game production.
You responded by boiling it down to “Devs should make better games” which wasn’t close to approaching the point they were making.
My point was that devs are not always the ones in control, and trying to simplify a point about business majors running studios into the ground is somehow about the development team being bad is missing the point by a parser.
No one said Team Cherry was a AAA studio. At this point of the comment chain, no one had said anything about them at all until you brought it up. No one is trying to disparage your fanboyism.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 4 weeks ago:
The difference is that devs arent the ones in control in most AAA studios.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 15 minutes and counting now 4 weeks ago:
The hype for silken has been going so long that it’s become a meme🤡. Just because it’s not as obvious anymore doesn’t mean it no longer exists.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 weeks ago:
Will you buy superego, though?
- Comment on Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade 4 weeks ago:
He’s a symptom more than a cause. This isn’t a recent development, just a recent escalation.
- Comment on Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs 4 weeks ago:
Four times worse, actually!
- Comment on The cerebellum is the ballsack of the human brain 5 weeks ago:
It is 100% still a thing.
- Comment on Is this month's Humble worth it if I'm not into Persona? 5 weeks ago:
I dont recall the combat being too different. You basically smack things until they die.
The gameplay loop is roughly similar, if a little more fleshed out. Get quests from villagers, create workbench that create things over time. Grab resources from various sources with skills that increase gradually over time. Multiple levels of resource tools, like axes, pickaxes, swords, etc.
If youre looking for a heavy action game, it’s not a main focus. It’s definitely more on the resource gathering/crafting realm of gameplay.
Their next game might have more of an action combat focused gameplay loop, as it takes place closer to a cartoon area of the world. I dont imagine it’s going to get anywhere near the typical hack 'n slash action rpg model that’s typical these days.
- Comment on Is this month's Humble worth it if I'm not into Persona? 5 weeks ago:
I played Sandrock years after Portia, so take this with a grain of salt, but I think it’s an improvement. The mechanics are roughly similar, but I feel Sandrock is a little more polished.
There is an annoying water conservation mechanic that can be a bit irritating to deal with. Everything uses water, so if you run out you basically can’t do anything, but you can buy it and make moisture collectors to make things a little easier.