luciferofastora
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- Comment on Iran says Strait of Hormuz open to all except US and allies 2 days ago:
Tic-Tac-Toe is a solved game, but Trump doesn’t know the solution.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces DLSS 5, and it adds... An AI slop filter over your game 4 days ago:
Me with modern AI all the time:
“This is impressive. Amazing. I love what technology can do now.
Why the fuck did you put AI in this?”
- Comment on Why conservative men repeatedly crash Grindr 5 days ago:
It’s the same with couchfucker’s eyeliner. I love eyeliner on men (I have yet to see one who didn’t make me go “I’m probably not entirely straight”), but in my perception, it definitely seems like a queercoded thing that the bigots would hate other men for. It’s the hypocrisy of whining about “weak” men while wearing visible makeup.
(And I do think it looks good on him too, just wish he’d use that mouth for better purposes than spewing hate and toxic bullshit)
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 1 week ago:
One more thing, the Israelis should be forced to use their ground forces if an invasion of Iran occurs.
Absolutely. The prospect of US soldiers dying for Zionist supremacy is despicable.
I can’t wait to read that headline and puke.
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 1 week ago:
I suspect an offense against the USA would be easy to pull off.
I suspect nothing in war is ever easy, and something the size of the US comes with certain operational challenges. Establishing air superiority would be difficult, for instance, and without it, transporting troops, supplies or equipment over longer distances is difficult. Consider the difficulties Putin has in Ukraine, and then scale that up to US proportions.
The low standards of ICE and the nature of their operation would allow just about any organized actor to have a free hand in the US, if they chose to do so.
Covert operations? Probably. Asymmetrical warfare? Possibly.
Full-scale assault, with the objective to take and hold key administrative centers to force concessions? Hardly.
- Comment on Historic Chat Control Vote in the EU Parliament: MEPs Vote to End Untargeted Mass Scanning of Private Chats 1 week ago:
Nobody said they had to be morally integer…
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 1 week ago:
I think the issue is that offense is harder than defense. A defender generally has the home advantage in terms of logistics, familiarity with the area and political will. The difference this makes is hard to estimate, and even harder so if you’re not even aware of it. Combined with delusions of grandeur, this is a recipe for underestimating the enemy.
And call me a cynic, but I suspect neither Cadet Bone Spurs nor Major “Warrior Ethos” “Signal Chat” “American Crusade” Boozeth are entirely qualified to make high-level military judgements.
(Neither is my armchair general ass whose only education in the matter is some MilHist blogs and articles, but at least I’m not an actual general charged to actually make them.)
For Putin, I’m not sure. I’m disinclined to believe he’s just ignorant about the tenacity a people under attack can develop, given Russian history, but I can only make unqualified guesses.
Either way, as you say, I wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end, because a blunt and rusty axe still hurts, and they don’t seem concerned about where they swing it and who’s in the way.
- Comment on An 18-year-old woman in Queensland faces two years in jail for wearing a shirt that says "from the river to the sea." 1 week ago:
with too much time on thier hands
“Too much”? Having time to fight for a cause is “too much”? Or is it that the rest of us have too little?
For the students, it’s their future on the line. What good does a clean record do under the boot? They have everything to win.
For retirees, it’s the most selfless thing one could ask for: to put their own wellbeing on the line for a future that won’t affect them as much any more.
The mom of two has more to lose than the retiree or the student. Her children’s immediate need for survival and care trumps the political objective. The 38 year old probably also has a family, or maybe they’re jaded and have given up on fighting for progress or simply don’t care.
But either way, it boils down to: Students and retirees have the time for activism, less attachments and the cause to make a better future. If they succeed, we all benefit from it. We should be cheering them on!
And giving censorship the finger.
- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 1 week ago:
Did my upgrade two years ago, didn’t get “top of the line” equipment because monetary constraints. I’ve got a 5600X, 32GB RAM and a GeForce 3060 with 12GB VRAM, so that shouldn’t be too bad?
- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 1 week ago:
Any consolation, ShadPS4 can run BB at 4K / 60fps right now, if you want it?
👀
Need a bit of a beast of a PC, but can confirm you can play it all the way through, not too many issues.
What level of “beast” are we talking about? I only need 1440p, personally.
- Comment on GoldenEye 007: The Accidental Masterpiece Trapped in Licensing Limbo 1 week ago:
For players who had grown up memorizing Facility spawn points or banning Oddjob in living-room arguments, it was more than a nostalgic curiosity. It was validation that even the most entangled licensing knot can, eventually, be untied.
Bloodborne fans: “Don’t do that. Don’t give me hope.”
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 2 weeks ago:
I guess I…kinda lost the plot a bit when I wrote the second part, eh?
I think I got where you were going, I was just saying that someone trying to find a way around the legal restrictions indicates they’re not actually concerned about ethics, just about not getting in trouble for it. In that context, the problem “How do I do this in an ethically acceptable manner?” is “solved” with the answer “I don’t care”.
Generally, laws are the standard solution to ambiguities. Ethics are a murky and often subjective topic, so it makes sense to form some sort of common agreement on what is okay and what isn’t. And where there are laws, there are gonna be cunts proving exactly why we had to write it down in the first place…
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 2 weeks ago:
I simplified for comedic effect. You’re absolutely right that the “compromise” would be finding some humane and ethical solution, but “The most effective and direct way of finding out is cruel and callous” isn’t quite as snappy.
I guess my point is that sometimes even if it’s illegal you can get away with it if done correctly, with ruling party aligned stated goals…or you have access to a shit tonne of money and powerful friends.
That kinda dodges the conflict by not engaging with ethical concerns at all. I feel like calling it a solution would be morbid, but it does make the problem stop being a problem…
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 2 weeks ago:
Science and Ethics — the age old enmity between “I wanna know” and “I’m not allowed to find out”
- Comment on big facts 2 weeks ago:
I’ll show you some nice vibrations ;-)
- Comment on i unapologetically love male pits 3 weeks ago:
Love that you found something that works for you, and a person to do it with!
Now I wonder what things I might like that others find gross
- Comment on Liminal Space 3 weeks ago:
Plant eyes in our brain, to cleanse this ghastly idiocy!
- Comment on Why you shouldn't annoy the butler 3 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t have recognised the guy, nor the context, nor did I know about the heisy or the damaged jewels. This is just a lot of interesting context without which the joke wouldn’t have made any sense.
In such cases, explaining the joke actually makes it funnier. Thanks!
- Comment on Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's Zionist Bar Problem 4 weeks ago:
Aside from the fact that following the law should be an understandable concession to wanting your instance to continue existing:
I don’t think I’ve seen any Anti-Palestine sentiment there. I’m also pretty sure most of us are on the same page about Zionism. This dispute is about the way that we express it, which is being framed as defending it and compared to actively perpetrating genocide.
There is a significant difference between following laws about hatespeech and following orders to actually murder people. Erasing all nuance doesn’t help the actual discourse about what we all agree is systematic genocide against the Palestinian people.
- Comment on Roblox, Reddit and Discord users compelled to use biometric ID system backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel 4 weeks ago:
Normalise it while they’re young, so they fight it less when they grow up
- Comment on the kind of dad i have tried to hook me up with a man in his 50s when i was 16 4 weeks ago:
“I want you to succeed! By selling your body! But only to one specific person, of course, otherwise that would be a bad thing.”
Something along those lines?
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 4 weeks ago:
B²G3 romances seem shallow and kind of transactional because it is a mix of characters who don’t know each other having a whirlwind romance in a relatively short period of time.
Add the sense of “we don’t know how much longer we have” and the general dramatisation of High Fantasy and you have one hell of an intense honeymoon phase.
After that, the game doesn’t really cover how your relationship plays out, aside from that short party epilogue. Sure, your shared experience may make for a strong start, but the arguments, the differences, the difficulties adjusting to one another while also grappling with the trauma of what you went through and the challenge of finding your place in this new world… there’s a lot left open that just doesn’t fit in this game’s frame.
- Comment on Video game romances need to evolve beyond lore dumps 4 weeks ago:
It would also accommodate some Aces I know that just find the concept unappealing at best and repulsive at worst. Having to click through scenes you don’t wanna see to get to the good stuff is just annoying, and the impression that your relationship is only “complete” once you do the deed obviously also isn’t great.
Conversely, decoupling sex from romance could help destigmatise it, particularly in monoamorous games. You don’t need to be fully committed to someone to do the special thing with them (though obviously cheating when you are committed is a bad thing). People who do it more casually aren’t being irreverent about something sacred. There needs to be consent, there needs to be trust, maybe make the player “earn it” in some way, but normalise the notion that it’s a thing people can do.
Either way: make it an option, not an obligation.
- Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction 4 weeks ago:
The post accurately copies the article’s headline without editorialising.
The article itself is shit though.
- Comment on Rage for the machine? 4 weeks ago:
Punk ain’t no religious cult
Punk means thinking for yourself
You ain’t hardcore when you spike your hair
When a jock still lives inside your headNazi punks, Nazi punks, Nazi punks: fuck off!
Nazi punks, Nazi punks, Nazi punks: fuck off!– Dead Kennedys
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 4 weeks ago:
But also, what’s wrong with having any of those things?
Nothing. I’d take more good games instead of fewer hyperrealistic ones, if I had to choose, but those features themselves aren’t anything bad.
The compulsion that every game has to have them, that’s what’s annoying, particularly when it comes at the price of putting developers under pressure.
I’d argue it’s better to have those things with less developer crunch.
If we are to have them at all, yes, less crunch is better.
We don’t need children to form “attachments” to video game franchises. That just breeds loyalty to corporations.
The loyalty to corporations is a bad thing, absolutely, but I can also see how forming attachments can be nice. I very much enjoy my attachments to various movie or game franchises.
The shitty part is that these franchises are linked to corporations. I like Star Wars, but fuck Disney.
We need games that are developed with love and care by developers who treat their employees and customers humanely. Whatever that looks like, we want that.
Absolutely. Grand games should get the time and care they warrant. Commercial pressure is poisoning game development and has been for way too long already.
- Comment on I saw your face in a crowded place 4 weeks ago:
I sympathise with your username. I’ve picked up a habit of using dashes too, but because LLMs are apparently trained on the same writing style that I’m compulsively imitating, that habit tends to be mistaken as an identifier for LLM-slop—an understandable confusion, given that most people don’t casually use it, but I tend to fall into linguistic patterns with little regard for the context I’m writing in. I’ll accidentally use informalities in professional writing as well, but whereas I’ll make an effort to correct my tone in professional contexts, I just can’t be arsed to apply the same diligence in a casual one.
- Comment on What dating apps are really optimizing. Hint: it isn’t love 4 weeks ago:
I feel like we ought to expand that traditional quote about the last fish being caught, the last tree being cut and all: When the last emotion is commodified, you will realise that you can’t buy happiness.
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 4 weeks ago:
a super giga 1000€ license for more than 16 Core CPUs
Year of the Linux Desktop! Any day now… any day… huffs copium
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 4 weeks ago:
I heard one guy talk about the importance of cable shielding and connector material and shit once, but the ones I actually know just talk about the other hardware (speakers, mixing pults, lots of terms I couldn’t recite).