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- Comment on Deserved honestly 1 hour ago:
I love 😬 that we’re now at the point where “is this real?” is ambiguous between:
- did the story factually occur in our shared reality?
- was this story actually posted to 4chan?
- did a human even make this image?
And at this juncture with the common addition of “chat, is this real?” we can further add:
- does the audience exist?
- does the person sharing the image exist?
- do I exist?
- Comment on Gourmet chocolate 23 hours ago:
- Comment on how did he do that? 1 day ago:
Is this gain?
- Comment on 1 day ago:
The spoken language of the native people of the Philippines; still one of the country’s official languages and spoken by a majority of the population.
- Comment on [DJ Khaled voice] Anotha one 2 days ago:
Ive never seen these before and I’m enthralled! The music and visual style reminds me a lot of Cruelty Squad. Is there an accepted name for this “genre”? It’s almost like pre-AI slop but with a pedal-to-the-floor surrealism that elevates it tremendously.
- Comment on Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery 2 days ago:
The GBA SP really was a great portable. I carried my black\silver “executive” model everywhere and felt cool as shit at the time.
Those PS2 ads though, holy shit, what was Sony smoking back then?
- Comment on M'ananas 1 week ago:
Tangerdarin’
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 1 week ago:
People are ragging on the AI art, but the message is also bland pseudo-mystic instagram-motivational word spew. Many religions and philosophies teach things like this, but even real quotes are reduced to pithy candy aphorisms when taken out of context like this.
Like it definitely is trying to riff on the genre of Zen Pencils.
And funny enough, that Thoreau quote is more in line with global views on happiness: the pursuit of it is in some ways the root of it’s nonexistence. When we focus on making a better and simpler world for all, happiness often follows.
- Comment on Krafton suddenly replace three Subnautica 2 leads with one of the execs behind Callisto Protocol 2 weeks ago:
Is this another Disco Elysium situation? I really like Unknown World’s and their games. This is a real letdown; guess Natural Selection 3 or any new titles won’t be announced any time soon.
- Comment on Hidden hands and smoke filled rooms 2 weeks ago:
Xenu makes a dollar
Don’t trust the birds or limes
Thats why I shit
In liminal spaces and times
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 3 weeks ago:
Nostalgia marketing operates on roughly 20 to 30 year cycles, so we’re dead center of 90s nostalgia. As the current decade wears on, there should be a gradual shift to 2000s era nostalgia (and another revival of the 80s, the most marketable decade). I can’t say that looming war in the middle east doesn’t give me those warm Bush 2 era vibes, though we are a bit early for it.
- Comment on i'm old graeg 3 weeks ago:
MAKE AN ASSESSMENT
- Comment on What are your favorite Tactical RPGs? 4 weeks ago:
Commandos to me is the start of a different lineage of real-time tactical stealth games, which goes on to include Desperados, Shadow Tactics, and Shadow Gambit (yes, most of those were made by the same team).
Outside of the OGRE-alikes (FO Tactics, FF Tactics, Disgea, and so on) some other options for tactical games that are a little different:
- Nexus: The Jupiter Incident - sort of a 4X game mixed with tactics, or like Homeworld with a lot fewer units
- Myth: The Fallen Lords (and sequels) - classic pre-Halo Bungie titles that mix RPG and strategy. Somewhat defining for the RTS genre too.
- UFO: Aftershock and sequels - a series that tried to revive XCom before Firaxis rebooted it. Not as good, but pretty interesting and fun, a little easier than old school xcom but not as polished as the newer ones.
- Cannon Fodder - a UK classic, very arcadey but very fun and lighter than all these other “serious” games
- Comment on Study: Remote working benefits fathers while childless men miss sense of community 4 weeks ago:
This is a good idea, but also working remote frees up time to meet new affinity groups.
Not to dump on people’s relaxation strategies, but even the most introverted person can’t survive on video games and gooning alone.
If you don’t want or like hanging with coworkers, find a local bar to hang out at and meet some folks, go to a community board game night, join a choir, attend an anime viewing night, just do something to take initiative and meet some folks that like what you like.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
This is entirely apocryphal, but my friends who are very into blind items and celebrity gossip tell me about “yacht girls.” Famous (but not too famous) women are often invited to rich guy’s yachts as soft escorts. Sometimes there’s sex, often they’re just there to be pretty and flattering. Apparently Zach Effron is frequently a yacht “girl.”
So yes, I think a fairly significant portion of minor celebrity income is from private appearances (of one kind or another). Speaking engagements for businesses or clubs are another big (legitimate) arm of this trade.
- Comment on Being Kyle Katarn - Interview with Jason Court 5 weeks ago:
I sometimes still have nightmares about those aqueducts and fuel tubes!
- Comment on Being Kyle Katarn - Interview with Jason Court 5 weeks ago:
I’m slightly on the young side for FMV games, but Jedi Knight and Command & Conquer were childhood staples that shaped my tastes in so many weird ways. JK is up there with the original trilogy for “Star Wars that is good and I care about.” Katarn is easily the coolest Jedi.
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- Comment on Undertale will be 10 years old in 3 months 1 month ago:
I feel like y’all aren’t ready to hear that Earthbound is 31 years old. The “new” thing you love, inspired by the retro thing you loved, is now retro and inspiring the next generation.
- Comment on Could You Prove You’re a US Citizen? 1 month ago:
There’s only one form of ID ICE cares about:
- Comment on RFK Jr. Poses for Weird Photos With Argentina's President as They Plot Alternative to World Health Organization 1 month ago:
What is with these lame-o fuckers and chainsaws? They’re actively making Doom less cool by association. The next time I see a ghoul and a chainsaw in the same photo, the saw better be facing the opposite direction!
- Comment on ‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24 1 month ago:
This is pretty smart! The “twist” ending of him going chaos darksided (for love!) would be great!
- Comment on ‘Elden Ring’ Movie in the Works From ’Civil War’ Director Alex Garland, A24 1 month ago:
Can you make q movie out of pure lore? Maybe a prequel, like The Fall of Hoarah Loux or Ranni’s Rebellion? Will the audience be required to parry things?
- Comment on Lies of P is getting difficulty options to make the Soulslike more accessible 1 month ago:
Works for me. I got stuck on the puppet king second phase and gave up. Not like rage quit, I just never went back to the game after like a dozen attempts, uninstalled it months later to free up space.
I love difficulty adjustments. Tuning a game to be right for every audience is impossible, better to let the end client have some control over fine tuning their experience.
Control is an excellent example of this for me. My GOTY when it came out, still an all time fav. I love the story and setting, but the combat is tedious after a while. In that case, lowering enemy health made the game less boring without being substantially easier, giving me the kind of experience I could enjoy.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 1 month ago:
Only right now. I’m sure someone will have it running on Wine or Proton by next week. Steamdeck subsystem for proton for Windows subsystem for linux
- Comment on Github Discussion: Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories #159749 1 month ago:
I doubt they’ll get anywhere with weak action like that. “Stop forcing copilot on us or we’ll be very sad and we’ll strongly consider moving some of our hosting to another site.”
GitHub is a disaster for open source software. MS controls some insane amount of all the code created on earth, and even with self-hosted forges being more prolific and easier to access than ever, people act like their projects can’t live without Big Daddy MS’s social media for coders.
I saw someone the other day, on Lemmy and in full seriousness, proclaim that the world really needed distributed version control. To avoid censorship, like how the fediverse is decentralized.
This is what GitHub has done to a generation of programmers. For those missing the joke, git is already decentralized. You don’t need a central Hub of some kind for your code. You do for your issues, releases, and all that, but not for the code. And if we’d collectively moved to a well designed, intentionally improved system like Fossil, all that woukd have been decentralized and distributed too.
But no, easier and more efficient/profitable to keep using the one C library that’s compatible with Torvald’s pile of old Perl scripts. My website can’t live without a built in Travis CI bot and nonstop PRs from dependency bot, but allowing every moron on earth to submit AI generated content, at last we’ve found the step too far.
- Comment on Grinding all ways 1 month ago:
Funny, though, cabbage (in coleslaw) is also slang for money. Fries are just fries, I think, but chicks or birds are slang for women. So really, this incel nerd should be substituting the whole box for a loaf of bread and extra sauce.
- Comment on Rub em 1 month ago:
This is an entire Chuck Tingle subgenre.
- Comment on 'End of 10' to Windows 10 Users: The Environment Wants You to Use Linux 1 month ago:
A pretty large amount of people don’t own a PC at all, though I’m finding it surprisingly hard to get a good number on it. Just anecdotally, most people I know who aren’t IT professionals have either no PC or 1 old laptop, often from college or on loan from work. Most folks use their phones for everything. People I know with kids have school issued Chromebooks, which barely counts.
As to exact numbers, I’m curious what others can find. I turned up between 74% and 94% of adults in the US owned a PC, which seems insanely high to me. But on the same page claiming that 89% of all households have a PC, I also saw
In the United States, the number of households with computers is projected to surge from 4.7 million to 120.45 million between 2024 and 2029, indicating a substantial increase in computer ownership.
Which… That’s bonkers. They expect the number of PCs (in homes) to go up by a factor of 30 in just 5 years, presumably that guess was before tariffs as well. I’m wondering if these household and per capita numbers somehow include corporate spending because businesses and schools do purchase literal tons of computers.
- Comment on Reality vs. male delusion 1 month ago:
“Hello ${Woman’s Name}. Would you like to join me for dinner on ${Select free date} at ${Restaurant with 3 or 4 dollar signs for price on Yelp}? I also have a second ticket for ${Popular sold out show at theater} if you’d like to join me?”
