Hazmatastic
@Hazmatastic@lemmy.world
- Comment on Rush 5 days ago:
From what I understand they moved away from the Rand stuff pretty hard and publicly distanced themselves from it. I honestly never got anything but wholesome vibes from the dudes, even if they were a bit misguided in their early years. Their songs are usually about fostering connections with others, doing your own thing, and accepting others who are doing the same. That just translated into hyper-individualism and maybe buying into red scare propaganda in the seventies. The USSR and China really had a bad taste in everyone’s mouth when it came to communism. Not saying they’re perfect or that i agree with it, but i can see how they got there.
Oddly enough, for all its Rand influence, 2112 goes fuckin hard. Discovery was an absolute delight to me as a musician, and Priests is still raw af.
- Comment on What's your favorite case of a game making fun of you? 1 week ago:
Far Cry Blood Dragon’s tutorial section. The game is very aware of how impatient gamers are to get to the killing, and milks it for all the time it can while the PC grumbles about annoying tutorial sections. They throw in a ton of extra dialog boxes like accompanying reading recommendations, obvious tips,etc.
The whole game is meta and corny on purpose. If you like '80s action movies and sci-fi, they packed just about every trope possible into this thing. Heavily recommend if you haven’t played it.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 2 weeks ago:
It’s a bunch of stressed, impatient parents who just want to grab their kid and get out, but are apathetic to everyone else trying to do the same. If all these other people weren’t here they could do this so fast, why won’t everyone get out of their way? It’s a highly concentrated dose of the “Im gonna get mine and the rest of you can fuck right off” mentality. And, like most shitty driving behaviors, it feeds into itself. It makes good drivers make bad decisions because, if they don’t, they’re not going anywhere. “No one is letting me in, so if I dont cut someone off, I’m going to be stuck here another 15 minutes” type shit. I dont know why well-built pickup and drop-off areas aren’t required for building schools past 1990, but here we are.
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 2 weeks ago:
I find the best lore raises more questions than it answers, and Lake and his team do that in spades. And you absolutely should give it a play with some more Alan Wake under your belt. Even outside the DLC they have lore connecting the two games all over. And of course, it only leaves me with more questions than I had. Another dead letter:
To the Esteemed Members of the American Psychiatric Council,
I am writing you to inquire about the significance of dreams in relation to one’s mental health? I am aware that there are many books purporting to contain the True meanings of dreams, but I have reservations about their legitimacy.
I understand that this is not usually done, but if I would greatly appreciate your thoughts on my Condition. Ever since I was young, I have had intensely-vivid dreams. They only occur sporadically, but in them I witness very strange events. I understand dreams can seem real at the time, but these feel markedly different. They do not occur often, perhaps only one or two a year.
Last night I had one. I saw a small, empty town. It was utterly dark. There was a Lake at its center. Shadows of people moved around me, muttering odd things. A bright light woke me up. I was screaming in my sleep. My wife had been shaking me for minutes before I woke.
Because of this recent incident, I have decided to seek help. The doctor says I am physically fine, but I wanted to consult your Expertise. Thank you for your valuable time.
Yours Very Sincerely,
Richard Bowker
Like, how many people did this event affect? It clearly wasn’t limited to Bright Falls and close associates of the artists the Dark Presence is feeding off of. This is some unrelated schmuck living who knows where, and he’s having dreams of the Bright Falls event. And this wasn’t even in the DLC. The Lovecraftian web of influence of other planes of existence in these fictional games fascinate me so damn much.
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 2 weeks ago:
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- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 3 weeks ago:
Absolutely, although I’m a Containment/Panopticon fan myself. Langston’s dialogue is great, especially in the AWE dlc. Dead Letters is close behind though. The fish letter is excellent.
Playing AW2 right now after having watched a Quantum Break playthrough, so I’ve got the Remedyverse on my mind constantly and see it in everything. Such a dope company, can’t wait for the next control. I think it’s next on their development list, so hopefully soon!
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 3 weeks ago:
Write letters to the press. Ripped from Control:
Dear New York Tribune,
Airplanes aren’t real. I figured out how they do it.
The windows are TV screens. The whole thing moves on big tracks like a rollercoaster that moves through underground tunnels in the Earth. Airports are more like train stations.
They do this because the sky is full of monsters that they don’t want us to know about. The planes we see in the sky are the monsters. The government made the Earth-trains look like the monsters so they could lie to us better.
Don’t contact me.
Not real, obviously, but clearly the most effective tactic when no one takes your 100% legit theories seriously.
- Comment on Thief 1 & 2, the grandfather of the stealth genre 3 weeks ago:
Oddly enough I have a reverse relationship with this game compared to many others in the thread. I played Dishonored first, and I feel like THAT game spoiled the stealth genre for me. I tried Thief chasing that feeling and was sorely let down. I think if I’d played Thief first like a lot of you guys, I might have that attachment to it. And I know that Thief is likely a large reason why Dishonored exists to begin with, especially with the level design in mind. It just didn’t feel compelling to play, game mechanic wise or story wise. I ended up wanting to just play Dishonored halfway through. I pushed through till the end, it just felt like a worse version of a game i loved. May give the second one a shot, might stick with me more. But the first one left a not-so-pleasant taste
- Comment on Carrot 3 weeks ago:
Something something flared base
- Comment on We always take for granted that everyone's perspective on life is the same as ours 3 weeks ago:
I was kind of a shit as a kid and butted heads with my parents a bit. My step-dad, born in '68, told me he was stationed in Germany during his stint in the Army. My dumb ass asked if it was for WWII because I connected Germany and US military with WWII without even trying to do the math on time. Almost got an ass-kicking before my mom had to come to my defense about me just being a dumbass and not trying to call him old.
To be fair, it was the kind of cheek I would pull from time to time and I was at some level at odds with my step-dad most of the time, so I dont blame him at all. Point is, kids are dumb sometimes and often have no real concept of time over long periods.
- Comment on feeling fruity 4 weeks ago:
Ngl sometimes I swing by the store, buy like 5lbs of various fruit and gorge myself all evening until I feel like a fat fruit bat. I am a slut for fruit, I wish I was in an area where I could actually get some forged stuff
- Comment on feeling fruity 4 weeks ago:
Absolute fucking classic
- Comment on hedgehog 4 weeks ago:
Fun fact, urchin originally meant hedgehog, so this actually works. From Etymonline:
Urchin
c. 1300, irchoun, yrichon “hedgehog, small spiny mammal of the Old World,” from Old North French *irechon (cognate with Picard irechon, Walloon ireson, Hainaut hirchon), from Old French herichun “hedgehog” (Modern French hérisson). This is formed with diminutive suffix -on + Vulgar Latin *hericionem, from Latin ericius “hedgehog.” This is reconstructed to be an enlarged form of er, originally *her, from PIE root *ghers- “to bristle” (source also of Greek kheros “hedgehog;” see horror).
- Comment on ‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app 4 weeks ago:
To clarify, the import is through a 3rd party. I paid like 2 extra bucks to subscribe to them for the 1 month minimum, took a few more clicks to import my entire playlist library. Really easy and high-value for the effort it saved, easy to unsubscribe, it did what it said on the box. But it threw me off since it was unexpected.
Also, about 95% of the library made it over, but a small percentage either aren’t on Tidal yet or didn’t have that exact version of a song with like 4 out there. A few songs got replaced by karaoke or covers as well, but they were few and far between. Just a heads up it can happen though. Just had to track them down and replace.
But as a listener and user, my experience has been almost entirely unaffected otherwise. And I have relatively niche taste in music, so I was surprised. They have curated playlists to explore and expand my taste, almost identical playlist creation features to Spotify, lossless playback, lyrics, artist info/bio, etc. Recently added custom pictures for playlists like Spotify has. Do not regret the switch at all.
- Comment on Hardest piano piece ever. 1 month ago:
- Comment on xkcd #3147: Hiking 1 month ago:
1 other Porter is pleased with you. Likes received: 1
- Comment on Cooking 😋 1 month ago:
Not that it matters at that point but is it scaled to one LD50 per serving or nah?
- Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...* 1 month ago:
I mean, it’s not the first option I’d go with but it is certainly one of the ideas I’ve ever heard
- Comment on Rent A Girlfriend Season 5 Announced 1 month ago:
I thought this was an onion-y article at first, geez, what is going on with anime titles and premises these days
- Comment on *A clean colon is like driving on a country road on a sunny day...* 1 month ago:
You dont need to know yourself, just follow the instructions the doctor gives you before the procedure. Usually fasting, maybe a rinse.
- Comment on BBC ignores funeral of 31 Yemeni journalists murdered by Israel 1 month ago:
There’s a difference between “Two missiles hit an area, destroying several buildings including two newspapers and killing over 30” and “Israel targets Yemeni press in strikes destroying two newspaper offices, killing over 30 journalists.” One looks like a little whoopsie-daisy mistake, where they are only announcing in a small article the tragedy that has happened due to equally tragic circumstances. It is doing its bare minimum to acknowledge an event while minimizing all details. The other lays the obvious responsibility and intent at the doorstep of the people who did it.
It’s “driver struck during altercation with police” and “fleeing unarmed teen shot in back multiple times by officer during traffic stop.” They convey some of the same basic information, but with one of them sterilizing its language so much that it’s technically correct while avoiding the details that make the people in power look bad.
- Comment on Nightmare blunt rotation... or killer rotation? 2 months ago:
I had a friend who would say awkward situations were “worse than Mormons making eye contact at the liquor store,” so that tracks lol
- Comment on Nightmare blunt rotation... or killer rotation? 2 months ago:
Sounds like a mormon i (briefly) dated in high school. Couldn’t take a sip of my Arizona bc caffeine, had no problem showing up for a band competition rolling off her ass after a rave the night before. The logic leaps sound exhausting to keep going
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 2 months ago:
Doing something to make money and making enough from doing it to keep doing it full-time are two very different things, and I would argue the latter would be more difficult, not less under your proposed system. Yes, corporations do that already because they can throw enough money at the case to wear down the plaintiff into settling. But how much more do you think they would steal if they didn’t even have to do that?
Why do most people lock their doors at night? Do they really think that a piece of metal stuck in a slab of wood would stop any thief who really wants to get in? No, of course not. But the amount of effort and risk required is enough of a deterrent that most thieves won’t bother.
Copyright law is similar in my eyes. Will it stop a huge corporation that is willing to dump huge sums of money into any one case? Not really. But the effort and money involved is enough to deter them in most cases. Remove that they have no incentive not to steal work. Find a catchy song? Get one of the thousands of artists on contract to re-produce it to a T, send it to your millions of online viewers, and rack up 100k views in 12 hours. Congrats, you beat the artist to their 15 minutes of fame and any chance they could get at exposure, their potential earnings are yours now and it hasn’t even been a day. Any future web searches for the song will show you as well, so the original artist will likely be very quickly lost to time, and everyone remembers that one track the Capitol Records conglomerate put out that one time. That’s the kind of stuff I envision happening with literally no safeguards.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 2 months ago:
Not the person you responded to, but how would a recording artist earn a living in that model? If their work can get scooped up by a mega corporation and sold for pennies on the dollar due to the massive existing resources, reach, and infrastructure available to the corporation, what protections would there be against that happening?
- Comment on Trump's video on the shooting of Kirk appears to be AI 2 months ago:
You telling me this guy is our first Vtuber president?
- Comment on Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds are now suing their former execs for stealing docs and sharing them with the press 2 months ago:
Are they trying to speedrun their way to the bottom of the public opinion barrel? Already had low hopes after the takeover debacle, now even that is gone
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- Comment on Nextdoor Nightmare 4 months ago:
I use it as new Craigslist for scooping up second hand stuff, but that’s about it. I check the market maybe once a week at most.
I also live in a crime-ridden desert city, so occasionally people post about people scoping out or burglarizing their houses or cars, comes in occasionally useful if there’s repeat offenders to look out for.
But otherwise it’s the NIMBY cesspit others have described. Occasionally I’ll see a dog get back home because of it, but damn. Every time I see the comments of regular users, all I see is the desperation of Facebook moms mixed with the self-importance of LinkedIn posters
- Comment on Subnautica's Original Creators Have Been Removed From Unknown Worlds "Effective Immediately", As Krafton Makes Concerning Leadership Changes 4 months ago:
Ffs one of the few games I was actively but patiently excited for, pretty much down the drain. I can only hope they make their own studio
with blackjack and hookers
