altkey

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Loid and Yor ❤️⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Dangerous but woman.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TIL Russian students are being presented with an ultra-nationalist curriculum, full of militarism and hatred toward Ukraine. 'Mr Nobody Against Putin'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It becomes harder for me not to feel bitter despise towards russian teachers, or all public school teachers in general, as a group of people.

  Since the dawn of the last century, they became uniquely positioned at the start of the grooming conveyor, thus the pressure on them, and responsibility for our future, are nearly unmatched.

  At least, not really matched by their level of preparedness, their funding, respect, etc. Idk about other country’s situation, but there it is a dead end job where a person is overworked, isn’t stimulated to pursue self-development (why are they even here lol) and is bullied into toying the line really close. There is a natural negative selection that filters out everyone but willing masochists.

  And, like, there are many reasons for sympathy with them, and some of them I already mentioned, but I personally struggle not to punch down because a big portion of people sticking there, not filtered out, are constantly groomed to the lesser level of self-respect and become regime’s avid footsolders. The system openly pisses in their months while saying how important they are, and while living in such condiditions they form an utterly complacent mindset of reusable condoms. Out of many groups that enthusiastically voted for the tzar, fucking schoolteachers were vocal of their unilateral support for the cause of mutilating neighbors and building the Reich. And as a group of people they fell in my eyes lower than even cops, even troops, because their treachery to their own is worse for it traumatize generations that are yet to act, and however this regime dies, there would be a mass of young voters who are completely brainwashed by these people.

  I feel very conflicted and uncomfortable since I do like teachers I had in years prior, and I know how bad they have it all, but my experience now is sooo negative I need to remind myself about my evergrowing bias not to put it into my judgements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks, Google. Very cool.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last.fm the website had stats for curious availiable at all times, but yearly wrap is indeed something smartphone apps invented.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Elena Kostyuchenko is an extraordinarily brave woman.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Khos tu(ne) chen ko.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Media consumption" ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While the last bit seems true and I would like to have games soften their needlessly rough edges, some games are easier to redo than the others, and most require making decisive stylistic choices, some making it either a worthy tribute or a shitshow. I think, there can be a low-tier study examining and classificating different approaches.

  Take for example Quake 1, that was aimed at delivering QoL-oriented updates without changing anything else. Or Yakuza series having a couple of generations of remasters that did have a huge benefit of reusing world scenery, animations and movesets, models across many games. Then, Pathologic 2 that required a complete recreation. And, in contrast to that, purely visual updates, sometimes of questionable value.

  From the management standpoint, remasters are more predictable and usually more streamlined than creating original content. Take Diablo II Reforged. Devs had D4 engine ready, D2 as a reference and D3 as an anti-reference since it’s presentation was rather unpopular. There were nearly no unpredictable parts and all teams in this project can start working right away. It could be easily outsourced, also one can borrow some experts from other teams short-term rather than having them full-time. This isn’t only cheaper, it also synergetic with existing projects and comfortably manageable.

  But I can see deeper remastering works being unpopular not because they are more expensive than asset swaps, but because, well, to pitch that before the board of directors, you need to, first, know the value of mechanical changes yourself, and second, having board understanding it too or at least become convinced by your rhetoric. That’s so if everything is transparent, and these changes aren’t happening under the table after securing the budget first, that, I believe, is how it sometimes happens. The board usually can’t tell the difference in handling gameplay and the only thing they can discern is graphical fidelity between original and projected result, the efficiency of the workflow, the budget. While I can tell some more involved scene like fighting games have people educated about the importance of game mechanics, frame-sync etc, I’m sure that games made for more general public get greenlit by the least curious decision-makers. That select layer of governance is probably why the word ‘remaster’ sometimes gets perceived as a pejorative.

• As new Yakuza announcements dropped, top walkthrough writing guy in anglosphere refuses to play these at allbsky.app ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Divinity - Cinematic Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Watch Gorey Gobline rise through the ranks of Larian!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The importance of protecting patient privacy in healthcare⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Itching vagina William:

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lying can be so complicated⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jerome is Big 😳

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so unfunny that the only one to contest Valve on PC monopoly is Tim Fortnite, who seemingly does the worst job everywhere yet still can still afford it. It’s almost like Gaben himself created a perfect villain for his company, so it’d never be criticized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI as an insntrument of class warfare⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If a person is perceived as a threat, purposedly adjusted GenAI can suggest them to touch live wires or mix a homemade explosive while they do a casual home fixing for the first time.

  My initial thought, although greatly blurred, is in that if we outsource our research and decision making to AI, the owners of AI can spoil it for us to either make us fall in line or sabotage our ways.

  The normal GenAI can be gated and availiable for rich persons, but the one that is cheap or free, that is used by low to middle households, can as well be used to inspire us to follow corporate agenda or even self-terminate if we aren’t in their picture of the future.

• AI as an insntrument of class warfare
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technical debt is probably one of the best dramatic tropes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking more about selling a soul to some monkey-paw style demon, but yeah, there I feel seen.

• Technical debt is probably one of the best dramatic tropes
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While most users don’t even know their Windows is paid by them - as an OEM pre-install - I can see business persons being oblivious to a concept their workhorse can be just free and good. Zorin is probably targeting that market. Top managers don’t take personal responsibility to integrate some hippy socialist bullshit, they switch from one respectable enterprise solution to the other and can show checks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Comparatively, carnivores are riskier, as they continuously collect parasites from the animals they eat, especially if they eat them not freshly killed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moisturize me⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or a .nomedia file in a folder irrc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Heal-over-time systems in CoD-like shooters lack feedback and are unreliable in terms of measuring difficulty of a task and feeling like you did something special. Everything becomes boringly average.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming Pet Peeves⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Another one is QTE in the middle of a cutscene, ugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vermintide 2 is currently free on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  EAC works on Linux, FatShark just didn’t initially choose that option, and about a year ago game became playable again. IIRC you should choose a beta workaround version in your steam client for that.

  Yet, it’s fair to feel salty about that. Versus is a fine gimmick but wasn’t worth introducing EAC, like gatekeeping mods wasn’t too. It is too heavy-handed for a game with a small, tight-knit community, that would rather play a four Bardin game than install wallhack or aimbot for whatever reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have one at home⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The logo circle is so big and vulgar it looks like a fake gucci bag. It’s great they got rid of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤔 Interesting Theory.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Double barrel Bill

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🤔 Interesting Theory.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I start to get tired of these jokes, if they are jokes at all. What’s to get from them, with them? While I don’t think it hurts his base at all, it does occupy others and stirs some of them wrong. Like that meme playing into the stereotype of gay people being grotesque and shallow movie-esque characters. Playing with that bone thrown to non-believers is not productive, even Epsteing files are irrelevant because him sucking off Clinton or diddling kids in the past does nothing to his current reign, destruction of economy, mass imprisonment. He can eat a cock, a pussy, or shoot a person on Main St., but nevertheless the damage he does right now, his cult and his friendly elites are what really matters. His supposed blowjob is a nothing-burger, but also a cutting board to break lemmy-like communities around how homophobic these, present assumptions are, and they do sound ill-biased.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Them having an office large enough to moderate in-game communications, on every popular language? They have some billions to spare. Serving kids requires a lot of work they have neglected for a very long time.

  Facebook was a vehicle for hateful, genocidal messages in Myanmar, and they seemingly got of the hook having no person understanding local language on the market they occupied.

  If Roblox primarily targets kids, they can’t go without agressive moderation, psy-help on demand, things one would find obvious, but these are never required, not to say it’s not that sexy as getting profits and cutting corners.

  I don’t know if their business model would be viable if they started things right from the beginning, but it would be more stressful to them to finally start doing something about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Anubis never worked for me on mobile. I’m afraid of mass adoption if that won’t be fixed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I've had so many projects that have been discontinued lately': Nier creator Yoko Taro says he's been working on plenty of games—but they keep getting cancelled before he can announce them⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s better not to release something than to release something weird

  He wrote wearing Emil’s head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ratioed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  BOSS HOG GETS NO CRANKING TODAY, AWOOO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My BF never bakes anything. Get up this morning and there is a sheet of these cookies on the counter. Is he trying to tell me something?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Gingerbreed that cake, now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny because trip-hop landed in pretty much elitist, conceptual album category for snobs and luxury products’ ads, with sampling being one of it’s core features. Useless gateekeping and/or mischaracterising the ‘art’ word as something well-defined.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If so, you are fucked.