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- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 17 minutes ago:
I had a semi related, IRL, Bethesda style enviornmental story telling ‘event’ involving a wall happen once.
Back in college… I wasn’t actually in this one fraternity, but was friends with almost all the guys in it, was good friends with the core group that restarted its local chapter that had been dormant for like a decadenor two.
So one day, its video games and beer, and … well, this one room needed to be renovated, so we didn’t give a fuck. One guy loses at Smash Bros, fucking fist through the wall.
… After he walks back a bit, we notice… wait wtf there’s something… on the frame…?
We tear out more of the wall, and no shit, there is a miniature time capsule in the form of a note saying basically 'Cheers to any future (fraternity name)‘s, from the class of 1982!’ … and there is also a fucking can of Rainier … from 1982.
So the dude who initially Donkey Kong’d the wall gets dibs on the 30+ year old stale beer of course, downs it immediately.
… The funny part is that this was always supposed to have been a dry fraternity, no alcohol allowed.
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says 4 hours ago:
That and Nvidia blindsiding them with ‘cool engine you’ve been working on for a decade there… you have one year to jam realtime raytracing into it.’
- Comment on Lara Croft games are the nightmare of any real archaeologist, biologist and paleontologist. 5 hours ago:
In case ya’ll don’t know about Heinrich Slchliemann…
smithsonianmag.com/…/the-many-myths-of-the-man-wh…
Now you do.
He fucking dynamited what quite likely is the actual location of ancient Troy…in the early days, the field of archaelogy had a number of basically wealthy idiot assholes who fancied themselves as ‘great men’, who went around doing nonsense like this, and of course just actually stealing the artefacts and taking them back to museums in their home countries.
Schliemann obliterated the potential Troy site so thoroughly that archaeologists spent over 100 years looking at other potential sites… only to largely (not entirely, but largely) come to the conclusion that Schiemann’s Troy site probably is the actual correct site…
… But he fucking blew it up.
- Comment on DOOM: The Dark Ages Has Reportedly Sold Less Than 1 Million Copies 2 days ago:
Dude/Dudette…
What… what the fuck is your entire account?
You have like a weeks worth of recent comments, and 90% of them you are downvoted to oblivion, just no matter what comm you are, what you are talking about, its just you being insufferable and/or contrarian and/or confidently wrong.
Then further back than that, 2, 3 months, you have some actually informative and useful comments, funny commentary most people liked.
Did you account get hacked? Did you suffer a TBI. Get fired, partner broke up with you?
Like I really am not trying to be a dick here, you good man/gal?
You come back after about 2 months of absence and you are now seemingly intentionally just trying to be shitty basically all the time.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 days ago:
A sort of corrollary to this is CIPA
verywellhealth.com/cipa-disease-when-a-person-can…
You just do not feel pain, cannot sense temperature and never sweat.
You also, as a child more often, frequently seriously injure yourself and do not even realize it.
Also the inability to sweat makes you much, much more susceptible to heat stroke.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 days ago:
This is a superpower thst could be in the orgy scene in The Boys, rofl.
- Comment on Let's play this game again 2 days ago:
Oh my god, Memento meets Animorphs.
Holy shit this is actually a good idea, I would actually read this book or watch this movie…
It could also work in a video game, but it would be very difficult to pull this off as the player character… could make for some extremely interesting NPCs in various settings.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 2 days ago:
So, to all the people freaking out and saying this is as bad as Musk and Neuralink:
starfishneuroscience.com/…/ultra-low-power-miniat…
There is here zero mention of things like ‘being able to take a phone call’ or ‘bluetooth your brain directly into a keyboard or mouse or other people’s brains’ as Musk was saying.
This seems very much intended to be aimed at legitimate medical conditions.
They didn’t steal the PhD work of an actual pioneer in the development of medical brain implants via poaching a number of grad students who worked with him (which is what happened with Neuralink, btw), they are instead partnering with basically a nonprofit cooperative of the world’s foremost experts on nanoelectronics development, who have an established track record of developing various medical devices.
…
If news comes out about GabeN electrocuting monkeys and pigs to either death, or insanity/brain damage so extreme it causes them to kill themselves to escape the pain, then I will absolutely do a 180 heel pivot and condemn the fuck out of that.
Just to be clear here, a BCI is probably the very last thing I would ever be an early adopter of as some kind of commercial, general use product. Seems absolutely insane given the rampant cybersecurity problems just basically everywhere all the time, not to mention I just don’t like the idea of an actual chip in my actual brain.
Valve and GabeN are not some paragons of virtue, they basically invented (and still widely use and encourage) half of the monetization and dark pattern bullshit that is now everywhere in the entire games industry.
… But to me at least, this seems nowhere near as openly, comically, real world supervillain levels of evil as Elon and Neuralink.
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 2 days ago:
I mean, Macs are certainly a viable alternative for many people…
But if you wanna use your PC to play games?
About 25% of Steam’s library runs on Mac.
Whereas if you look at ProtonDB, 81% of games are either gold or platinum on Linux in general.
That’s gonna be a major hangup for a lot of people who want a PC that isn’t Windows.
Oh right, that and Macs are all overpriced as fuck for the average consumer, when we are about to enter into the Second Great Depression.
- Comment on Dave2D - Windows Was The Problem All Along (Lenovo Legion Go Windows 11 vs. SteamOS) 3 days ago:
Who would have predicted, a decade ago, that the path to the actual year of the linux desktop would be taken first through the linux handheld gaming PC?
… Also LoL at SpiderMan 2, the only one that does a single frame worse, which basically at this point is just a solid indicator that game is still unoptimized as all hell.
- Comment on I got that dept in me 3 days ago:
While there is no interest charged on your BNPL … payment plan, micro loan, whatever you call it…
Making the payments on time does not help your credit scores. BNPL deals do not count as on time payments made, they don’t count as an expansion of your total available credit, nor your current debt to total credit limit, number of accounts you have, etc…
But if you don’t pay them, and you go into collections on them, now they massively hurt your credit.
And if you do, say, suddenly become very injured and miss work, can’t make payments… well now you may have many, many, many defaults on all those different BNPL agreements.
Whereas, if the same thing happened, but you only had maybe 1 or 2 credit cards with larger total credit limits, well, that would still be bad for your credit, but probably not as bad as if you had ten or tens of concurrent BNPL agreements you’d been overlapping and chaining.
Also, I am not 100% sure about this, but I am fairly confident that, generally speaking, most credit cards will give you 3 months of missed minimum payments before they send you to collections, whereas BNPL agreements can be… twice a month, once a week, and can trigger giant penalties for you if you miss even one… and then those chain and they can send you to collections even faster.
- Comment on Sleep well 5 days ago:
Ah yes, I heard about that one when I was a kid, forgot to mention it.
Damn headless chicken stayed alive for weeks… months I think?
It would walk around attempting to peck at things with a head it didn’t have… they used a little dropper to squirt some mushed up food … directly into its throat…
…and it actually died because one day it choked during this kind of feeding session, concievably it could have lived longer had that not happened.
- Comment on Sleep well 5 days ago:
Thats probably the most likely explanation for a deer attacking a tree for seemingly no reason, and messy chunks of flesh getting everywhere… but yeah, the standing on two legs thing…
… not strictly impossible, but… rather unlikely?
Deer can rear up on their hind legs, but I can’t say I’ve ever heard of one that can actually… locomote, ambulate, walk in that manner.
- Comment on Sleep well 5 days ago:
Animals, and people, can and have continued to be alive and… somewhat, or even mostly functional… with portions of their brains obliterated or removed.
Go look up Phinneas Gage, or the history of lobotomies and brain surgeries.
Now, this person could be describing bloody chunks of the skull and skin amd fur, but it is not strictly impossible that the deer could have actually managed to loose chunks of its actual brain, and still remain capable enough to keep functioning…
… for a while, at least. If it did really cave in its own skull, it would almost certainly die from cranial hemmoraghing soon afterward, if not that, infections.
- Comment on "You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" 6 days ago:
Hey, anybody remember when MGS 2 came out, and the mass of NA gamers were raging about having to play as Raiden, because he was a … well in modern parlance, a beta cuck soyboy?
Kinda flew over all their heads that Raiden was basically a more realistic reflection of the NA target demo for MGS games, and oh he also goes through legitimate character development, gains maturity and confidence, oh well now, more lately, he’s basically a badass fucking cyberninja.
… Passing the torch off to Ciri fucking entirely makes sense within the world and lore of the Witcher series… and I thought we liked having an attractive gal booty to ogle at in third person?
Or is that now gay?
- Comment on No need to hurt me, GOG :( 6 days ago:
Hah, going along with Anno 2205, I think that Civilization: Beyond Earth, is actually a competent, not perfect, but generally good spin on the Civ series.
That came out in 2014, a bit earlier.
- Comment on Some people have it worse 6 days ago:
That is very true, Japanese corporate business culture is on a whole other level.
Somewhat ironically, all my experiences with actual Japanese people are via Karate… in the Dojo, very strict, formal, no nonsense.
But uh, just casually hanging out? At least the ones I knew,… much more rowdy, haha.
Unrelated to my earlier Karate experiences, about a decadr after I’d gotten my black belt, and had since laid off Karate a bit… I once randomly befriended a Japanese man… who claimed he had been an actual Yakuza, a Yakushi… he explained to me that he had fucked up some operation, and instead of losing a finger, his superior struck him with the blunt side of the… I guess it would have been a waki-zashi?.. stuck him on the knuckle, and that finger of his was pretty messed up.
He took that, and permanent exile from Japan, over… losing a finger, and then likely just getting killed… he’d pissed off another group pretty severely.
… We then got to talking about Anime, Yokai, and of course Karate… said he was a 4th Dan, 4th Degree Black Belt and uh… yeah, he was very, very significantly skilled in a few basically play fight, not even proper sparring bs we got into a few times.
Initially, he said he wanted me to prove I wasn’t bullshitting about my black belt. Gave him my Style and as much family lineage of it that I remembered… and he then, almost totally without warning, threw a punch right at my face.
I did nothing.
His fist stopped about a half centimeter from my nose.
He laughed, said ‘You blinked’, I laughed, and he believed me after that.
- Comment on No need to hurt me, GOG :( 6 days ago:
Very first public version in 2011, Steam Early Acces in 2013, release in 2015.
- Comment on No need to hurt me, GOG :( 6 days ago:
TitanFall 2 is an incredible shooter, with really good single player campaign… came out in 2016, and since, though its official servers went down, people figured out how to run private servers and mod the client to work with them, look up Northstar.
Even works on linux, there’s a whole entire custom Proton branch just for TitanFall2/NorthStar.
FTL came out in 2012, but the Advanced Edition came out in 2014, maybe that counts?
Stardew Valley came out in 2016.
No Man’s Sky came out in 2016.
Alien Isolation came out in 2014.
Undertale, 2015.
Metal Gear Solid V, 2015.
… 2015 +/- 1 was a pretty good era for a lot of pretty great games, imo.
- Comment on No need to hurt me, GOG :( 6 days ago:
KSP is still the best ‘build an entire space program’ sim, now that KSP2 has erm, failed to launch, or maybe suffered a RUD… and KSP 1 now has a decade of quite frankly astonishing expansive mods.
Try KSP Realism Overhaul and Principa if you want to up the difficulty a bit, lol.
- Comment on Punctuation 1 week ago:
Shiba-inEWWWW!
- Comment on Some people have it worse 1 week ago:
Yeah…
I am an American but have had a lot of friends from all over the world.
We are kind of exceptional in the extent of normalized, utterly disingenuous ‘standard social interactions and phrases’ that we use.
We talk like NPCs using throwaway, canned dialogue lines, and if we don’t do NPC talk, well then that is actually viewed as antisocial…
Even though basically everyone else in the world would view this all as the opposite, inverted. Such forced bullshit conversations are generally viewed as bullshit and disingenuous.
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 1 week ago:
… No no no it all wasn’t.
The DOGE goons made up multiple logins to multiple US Gov databases that are not open to the public… inucluding the DoD’s SIPRNet…
… and we know at least some of these logins were also used from utterly unsecure personal devices, remotely, not onsite, and that they’ve been getting used by IP addresses from all over the place, all over the world, meaning said login creds have either outright been given away, or been compromised by other nation state’s hackers, or just total rando hackers.
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 1 week ago:
I potentially agree, but as a possible competitor, I submit:
Everything DOGE has done in the last 3 months.
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 1 week ago:
So this is:
'Uh guys, Discord chats leaked…"
For… what, just literally everyone who used Discord between 2015 and 2017, everyone who was an early adopter?
Dear fucking god.
I used to say ‘someday, people will learn’, but fucking no obviously not, no they won’t, almost everyone is an idiot and/or truly doesn’t care.
… I guess this’ll be fodder for a whole bunch of dramatubers / pedohunters for the next year or so…
- Comment on Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense. 1 week ago:
Ah!
I totally skipped over that revenue figure, that is much more of a precise way to nail it down.
I submit my 5% or 10% loss chance to you, whoops!
- Comment on Ground control to Major Trial: When a $130M aerospace company chooses to endlessly abuse opensource free trials instead of typing git pull, you start to question gravity, or at least common sense. 1 week ago:
90% it is SpaceX.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 1 week ago:
Linux is a standard they have Embraced.
As a for-profit tech monopolist, they will, very predictably, Extinguish the ability of people who use WSL instead of just actually Linux… to be easily able to… fully transition to a competitor (Linux).
The Extend part just looks different, because the scope of software competition offered by Linux is much more vast than just a particular standard for a particular kind of software.
… Potato, potato.
I used to work for Microsoft.
The ethos is absolutely still there: Create vendor lock in, create ecosystem dependence in every way possible, as well as in ways that 99% of people would not even think are possible.
EEE is just the term they came up with to describe their own, overarching, monopolist general strategy, and if you wanna quibble over the precise technicalities of an internal corporate slogan, well then you’d be the kind of person MSFT is filled with that made me no longer want to work for them.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 1 week ago:
literally just make the development experience on Windows less painful so people don’t switch to another OS.
You said it right there yourself and don’t seem to realize it.
Why have a laptop or a dual boot with Linux when you can now more easily stay on the proprietary OS ?
This is called market retention.
Preventing migration to another OS, another software ecosystem.
The ‘Embrace’ and ‘Extend’ parts of EEE.
And if it works, then in a few years, MSFT will figure out how to further monetize some other part of its software ecosystem that is either reliant on, or much much easier for an average user of WSL to use.
Call that EEM for ‘monetization’ if you want, or ‘enshittifying’ for another E…
…the commonly used term to describe software or services or platforms that suddenly jump over to making previously free stuff cost money, put ads everywhere, break the previously free features and put the ‘new’ working versions behind some kind of paywall…
… All after you’ve captured your market and dominated as many competitors as possible.
Standard monopolist strategy throughout the entite history of capitalism, same general concept goes back even further.
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 1 week ago:
Ah, the Linux Subsystem for Windows (MSFT has never been great at naming things) is finally open source, hooray…
Now do it with rest of the operating system, and I may, possibly have a reason to care.