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- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 2 hours ago:
The American Dream has given way to the American Schizophrenic Psychotic Episode.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 2 hours ago:
It’s fake gold spray paint.
- Comment on Software by the Electronic Frontier Foundation that, when linked up with the correct hardware, becomes a Stingray for detecting Stingrays. 2 hours ago:
Wait, people didn’t know about StingRays?
They’ve been around for like a decade now.
But uh, yeah, basically, they’re fake/spoof/honeypot cell towers that man-in-the-middle all nearby cell network traffic.
This is how they do the whole… everything dragnet, all the time, basically all cop cruisers have them in them, active all the time, this is why you just don’t bring your phone to a protest unless you really know what you’re doing.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 11 hours ago:
Yes, particularly MGS 2 was absurdly prescient with the entire concept of… the vast majority of the internet being unordered and uncontextualized noise and chaos, and… there needing to be a way to structure it, but also, there is essentially no way to do that that is not also going to manipulative/exploitative.
We also now do pretty much live in PMC world, it just isn’t as… stylish? I’m gonna use that word.
Our world is agruably at least as absurd as the MGS plotline, but in different ways.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 1 day ago:
Because I can’t help myself from countering:
HL2 has better, more realistic and detailed and believable mouth and facial animations than many current AAA games, they just have higher res textures and fancier lighting.
That’s not to say no game has exceeded it, thats not what I mean, some clearly have.
But… the other side of this is that a lot of modern AAA games, with 20 years of improved/new tech… still can’t figure it out.
AAA games that market themselves as being very graphically detailed/realistic/immersive.
I’m not trying to say waaagh how can you not personally have thought HL2 was amazing!
I’m trying to say that the technical advancements its made which you do not find compelling, well, a good deal of game devs still haven’t even reached that level from 20+ years ago, when they say they are trying to.
- Comment on They say word-of-mouth marketing is the most effective form of marketing. What games did you (not) enjoy that came well-recommended by friends to you, and why did they recommend it to you? 1 day ago:
Deus Ex.
I never even owned a legit copy untill it came out on Steam like a decade later.
Kid at middle school just burned it onto a CD-R, gave me a post it note with the install key.
He kept saying this game wasn’t like anything else, it was a ‘roleplaying shooter’.
I just had to provide him the blank CD-R to burn, and I think a brownie, or cookie, at lunch.
So uh yeah, that’s how I originally played ‘the most important videogame of all time’.
Beyond the gameplay and game mechanics, uh, wer are currently now more or less living in a world that more and more resemble’s its canon storyline everyday.
Back in 2001, it was a wild sci-fi/cyberpunk concept for… the entire internet to be routed through a centralized system for surveillance and archiving.
Now that building just exists in Utah and is run by the NSA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center
It was a wild concept for a prototype AI to tell you:
“The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.”
“God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment and punishment. Other sentiments towards them were secondary.”
“The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.”
“You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.”
So uh, yeah, that’s… basically currently happening, we sure are at least really trying to build AI, and more and more people are falling in love with AI bfs/gfs, tiktok/instagram/social media are the precursor data-mining algorithms that most people these days are addicted to, to feel observed and be judged, more and more people relinquish their cognitive abilities to some kind of ‘AI’ to just do all their thinking, their critical evaluating for them, their judgement formation.
Anyway, 9/10 game, pretty good but kinda janky in spots, lol.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 2 days ago:
Microsoft:
Your computer?
No.
Our computer.
That you pay for the hardware for, that you pay regular rent to use in any way, that we use for anything we want, at any time, that must be always online to function.
Innovation.
- Comment on Sam Altman prepares ChatGPT for its AI-rotica debut 4 days ago:
So… are they… rolling out a humanoid sex bot?
Are they… making a chatGPT api type thing work with wireless sex toys?
Like really, what are they even talking about, are they just also going in on erotic chatbots and porn generators?
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- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 4 days ago:
Well, given that a lot of people in this thread are basically just saying " go sight seeing / abandon storyline and embrace roleplaying "…
I’m gonna go with basically “do anything” in Kenshi.
There is no thing you are supposed to be doing, beyond possibly ‘don’t die’.
There is no main storyline to follow.
You… just exist.
You can sure find a lot of things to do, places to see, and people to meet, basically quests to undertake… but that is all entirely up to you.
So there is no wrong, or right way to play Kenshi.
The world just kind of… happens to you, and then you react.
Or, maybe you have some notion of what you want to do, and then you try to do, and then the world happens to you during that.
Imagine either a single player MMO, or an immersive sim that focuses on an immerisive world of factions and individuals, which can play out many possible ways, which you can guide and steer those outcomes… but nothing ‘has’ to happen.
You could build a city, run some kind of farm or mining operation, become a warlord, raise and command an army, wander as a trader or trading caravan, hunt for lore and artefacts, become the strongest warrior, best thief or assassin…
… or be eaten by cannibals or beak things, experience robot racism, be taken captive and forced into literal slavery at a prison camp, have your limbs peeled off, replace them with robot limbs, get incinerated by a misfiring orbital laser platform… or befriend a mentally challenged … sort of bugmanthing who has been outcast from his hive, but is very endearing…
Or just be friends with a bonedog.
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 4 days ago:
“Paintball”
Everyone is a ghost, everyone dies in one hit, FFA / All vs All, fog of war on, forested map.
People would argue that playing as green or a color close to green was an unfair advantage.
I also remember various… basically obstacle course maps, which were races to the finish, but… you had to understand various game glitches to be able to pass many of these obstacles.
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 5 days ago:
- Comment on Anti-Piracy Firm Threatens ICANN with Lawsuit Over .to Domain Piracy * TorrentFreak 5 days ago:
Wait what.
… sue… ICANN?
Has that happened before?
- Comment on Censored 5 days ago:
… nussy.
- Comment on Commercials seem to be normalizing an unhealthy work-balance more. 6 days ago:
Yeah I am still baffled that… people watch commericials.
Then I realize I’m the outlier, and the consumer/workaholic apocalpyse is what most people call “normal” or “just how it is.”
- Comment on When your father is clueless 6 days ago:
You can fuck someone aromantically, you can love someone as a very dear friend with no sexual desire toward them, platonically.
As I understand the world platonic, it essentially means “lacking a sexual and romantic component.”
I… I mean sure, there are some people who can seperate a uh, literal sexual buzz from having desirous or repulsive sexual/romantic feelings about that, but most people do not do that, many think they can, and then nope, turns out they can’t.
As to the step dad situation… uh, nope, nope thats still a hard nope from me, that’s weird.
Maybe other people disagree on that but uh nope nope nope from me.
- Comment on When your father is clueless 6 days ago:
Exactly, you detailed out exactly what I had in mind.
Though uh… I’d say maybe emphasize the idea of consent, not ‘platonic’.
Some people can seperate sex and love in their approaches to relationships, but lets be real, the vast majority of people cannot.
I would say probably don’t involve people who have uh, genealogical relationships to anyone else in the group, probably try this eith a group of explicitly consenting, open minded adults.
You’d also have to have some kind of ruleset to say like, each other person cannonly send a total of XX seconds of vibration per song, or something like that, maybe more complex rules if you want some ‘gameplay’ in that regard.
The good news though is that simple bullet/egg type wireless vibes can be pretty cheap, maybe $25 or less.
The bad news is that everyone is gonna need to be ok with potentially pissing/shitting themselves, especially if people are also drinking, and they’ve not used such vibrators before too often.
- Comment on When your father is clueless 6 days ago:
… What?
Seriously?
I don’t mean like, jam it into your neck to the point it restricts blood flow.
… Can you send me your source on this?
If what you are saying is true, than massage guns of all kinds would basically cause blood clots, and I’m pretty sure they don’t.
Like yeah you can potentially restrict blood flow if you grip or press around the wrong/right areas with enough force… but yeah, I am incredulous at the idea that vibrators being able to cause blood clots.
Maybe if you have some conditions or disorder where you have exceptionally weak capillaries, they could cause bruising, …
… but like, I’ve been using a massage gun on my neck/shoulder blade for over a year now as part of a doctor / phys therapist designed phys therapy routine for me to recover from a set of injuries, and they’ve never risen any concerns about this, and I’ve never fainted nor developed blood clots from this (get my bloodwork every couple of months).
- Comment on When your father is clueless 6 days ago:
I mean…
You can put them to your throat or neck and produce a bit of a kind of warble, sort of like yelling into certain high rpm fans.
… But uh, ‘adult’, ‘antagonistic gpod touch’ karaoke night does also sound a bit more interesting than never have I ever.
- Comment on You've all been watching the slow, downward spiral for more than 2 years now 6 days ago:
Myself, I feel I am doing reasonably ok, I am sustained by busying myself with game dev type tool/method learning/practice, and then of course an immense, immense amount of schadenfreude.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 1 week ago:
Oh, you own a house, I see, ok, that explains that.
- Comment on Happy Weekend Murica 1 week ago:
The poor always get fucked, slowly or quickly, softly or vigorously.
We are now beyond the point of an economic collapse being avoidable or probably even mitigatable.
So let the rich maybe actually suffer, let the petite bourgeoisie realize they didn’t make the cut, didn’t make it into the club, and let the poor realize its do or die time.
- Comment on People regret buying Amazon smart displays after being bombarded with ads 1 week ago:
… and all the actual tech nerds who told everyone they should avoid smart devices like the plague laugh and laugh…
- Comment on Happy Weekend Murica 1 week ago:
Correct, all in on oingoboingbingobongocoin, preferably take out as many new credit cards as you can, all at once, cash advance, throw it all in derpyschmerpylurkyjerkycoin.
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 1 week ago:
Contact your vendor’s latest TOS for clarification.
- Comment on Happy Weekend Murica 1 week ago:
Same, lol, fuck em, fuck your 401k, hope your homes get foreclosed on, hope you retire alone either homeless or in an understaffed old folks home.
This is the morally correct reward for chasing wealth accumulation at the cost of impoverishing the masses, of willingly participating in that system for personal profit.
Call it a karmic market correction.
- Comment on Happy Weekend Murica 1 week ago:
Guess what’s had a waaaaaay better return that the DJIA, over the last 12 months?
Oh, its gold, because a large chunk of the DJIA’s rise … has coincided with drops in the DXY, ie, the dollar is dying, and smart money is piling into gold so that it can later be deployed in… whatever global trade/monetary paradigm shakes out when this nonsense is over.
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 1 week ago:
You’re out of date,.the DSM 5 got a massive revision (TR), years ago.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 1 week ago:
Well, I’m not quite sure how to … intentionally create a cultural nexus … but I would say that having something like lemmy, piefed, the fediverse, is at least a good start.
Socializing, discussion, via a non corpo platform.
- Comment on The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe 1 week ago:
Yep, literal, functional idiots, as in, they keep doing easily provably as stupid things, mainly because they are too stubborn to admit they could be wrong about anything.
I used to be part of this industry, and I bailed, because the ratio of higher ups that I encountered anywhere, who were competent at their jobs vs arrogant lying assholes was about 1:9.
Corpo tech culture is fucked.
Makes me wanna chip in a little with a Johnny Silverhand solo.
