BurgerBaron
@BurgerBaron@piefed.social
What up fellow kids, you gettin' indoctrinated on the world wide web? Radical!
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- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 2 days ago:
I don’t think it’s luck.
- Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies 2 days ago:
I’ve never witnessed an atheist making such an argument. Usually it’s the theists getting hung up on him because they are used to appealing to authority figures and project.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Press Conference 3 days ago:
Hell yeah.
- Comment on "I made a website to revive dead multiplayer games (GameDate)" by batty 3 days ago:
This is cool, maybe I can find a crew for Quake 3 instagib freeze tag with grapple hook enabled.
As an aside…If I wanted to host an event like this specifically for fediverse, where should one post it?
Let’s say I pre-pack a portable archive (so Linux users can easily just add the exe to Faugus/Lutris whatever too) for Halo Custom Edition with a bunch of maps and throw a dedi server up for a week as an example.
So not the .world instance which lied about allowing piracy after announcing they would IIRC.
- Comment on We got more games and better games when there was less money being made in the industry. 3 days ago:
It’s always interesting to hear from younger people playing games much older than themselves and what their impressions of them are without the cultural context of the time or sometimes even an understanding of hardware limitations. In my case that’s usually just hearing from youtubers, but your opinion seems the prevalent one from what I can tell, which is nice to hear.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 4 days ago:
Given one of my favorite videos from Josh is a terrible homeless simulator…yep lol.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 4 days ago:
It’s actually because my fume hood does nothing and is a piece of shit just slightly more than I am for not replacing it. At least I switched to avacado oil, higher smoke point.
- Comment on We got more games and better games when there was less money being made in the industry. 4 days ago:
Cartridge games yeah, I was alive and buying 60-80 dollar N64 games. I agree with your peak era opinion.
I think 360/PS3 middle of their lifespan was the beginning of the decline, but that was gradual.
- Comment on We got more games and better games when there was less money being made in the industry. 4 days ago:
I don’t agree. Out of 1370 games maybe 80 are good.
- Comment on We got more games and better games when there was less money being made in the industry. 4 days ago:
How many NES games are actually good?
- Comment on Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI: 4 days ago:
I’ve since learned only 5% of USA hockey players identify as Democrats so I guess this should not be shocking.
- Comment on EA invents new microtransaction nightmare as it breaks paywall promise on Skate: rent a playable area for 24 hours or buy a premium pass, bucko 5 days ago:
Thinking about it now, I haven’t bought any game with EA’s name on it since Dead Space 3.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
There is only one in my city and it’s parked in a church parking lot every Sunday.
- Comment on Cup cake 5 days ago:
That’s better than my lazy assumption that it had to do with an old trope started in the 1950’s that resurged during the early personal computer age in the form of lightning bolts, stars, smoke, animations shooting out of an instrument to show the intensity of the musician or just a banging song.
- Comment on Strange Times 6 days ago:
Lucky dinos couldn’t talk or this one would get bullied back into the ocean.
- Comment on Without hierarchies/authority figures, the bootlickers would be totally lost. 🤠 6 days ago:
I don’t debate those who lead and end with insults.
- Comment on Without hierarchies/authority figures, the bootlickers would be totally lost. 🤠 6 days ago:
I"m not convinced all our blank slate minds are all born equal but I appreciate the responses it’s good food for thought.
- Comment on Without hierarchies/authority figures, the bootlickers would be totally lost. 🤠 6 days ago:
They don’t, sadly, and what makes it worse is the endless amounts of religious indoctrination and bullshit media constantly feeding us the narrative that people in general grow and learn over time and become better people, and that sentiment has been internalized at every possible level of society at large, but (as a general rule, nothing is universal) things couldn’t be further from the truth.
I agree with you here of course, quite strongly.
I’m glad my Pop is a badass and taught me how to think and not what to think.
So that’s the thing I think about a lot. How much influence did he really truly have on you vs you both just happening to be like-minded to begin with? Ties in with my thoughts on free will vs determinism too. My belief in a weak mind being born doomed now comes into this picture. But I’m one of those annoying compatibilists because my own father has moved slowly from staunch conservative to centrist over time. Maybe only because I’m his kid, who really knows. I’m 35 and only just got him to finally admit he was pretending to be Christian to stay with my mother. I always suspected.
Here’s where I’m coming from, so the perspective can hopefully makes more sense:
born in a monocultural conservative town 1990 99.5% white people. Seriously I can only remember one black kid in school.
my mother co-founded her own Baptist church.
I wasn’t rebellious, and I even attended youth groups and bible camps regularly.
my 2nd earliest memory I can still recall is fucking surreal: In a public elementary school, the principal lead a morning prayer once a week in the morning gym assembly. Everyone. Everyone stood up student/admin/teacher/janitor. Everyone bowed their heads to repeat the principal’s prayer. Except one of my classmates one day, she remained seated. This blew my mind. I sat down with her, and she gave me a wide grin. Who knows why, but this moment was cemented into my skull surrounded by the overwhelming majority and choosing to sit out of their mindless tradition.
I never at any point believed in any gods, nor was I at any point a conservative. How could this be given the environment I was raised in?
I think it’s simply because I was born with innate critical thinking. I also did not believe what anyone not even my own parents when they told me things at face value. The early internet and the library was where I went to see if something I was told was true or not.
~80% of humans are theists, it’s incredibly sad.
- Comment on The RAM shortage is coming for everything you care about 6 days ago:
Maybe because tech has been my main hobby for so long, I don’t feel so bad about shaking things up like this yep.
- Comment on Without hierarchies/authority figures, the bootlickers would be totally lost. 🤠 6 days ago:
I think they’re born weak too, but both things can be explanations without it being an excuse.
Small town lifer here, the worst children I knew grew up very predictably. IMO, most people don’t really change much at all with age.
- Comment on Synology RAM - a shitpost of its own kind 6 days ago:
Their base hardware besides these upgrades also ballooned in price. It’s beyond a joke for what paltry hardware you get for your money from Synology now. I can and did buy 3rd party ECC RAM for mine. Works fine besides the singular snotty “how dare you” notification you get on a reboot.
In the past sure I would’ve said go for it on “last years model” which had steep discounts during holiday seasons, but they went to shit even before the AI plague.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 1 week ago:
It’s probably not entertaining to actually make those videos is my bet. He has to torture himself with insanely grindy tasks for many hours to get such unintended outcomes. Some videos, the payoff isn’t very good. I imagine there’s a lot of games he plays for days trying to break things and nothing comes of it worthy of a new video.
- Comment on "I'm so sorry I hit you... I'm so sorry..." (Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon) 1 week ago:
Did they update the game enough to make the last third any good? From what I heard this one was heavily front loaded and got worse the further you progressed including bugs, voice acting dropping off.
- Comment on (REDO) FediNSFW the announcements community for the lemmyNSFW replacement 1 week ago:
Piefed W
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 1 week ago:
I always looked down on two party consent states, but now with the spyware glasses freaks? Seems worth it.
- Comment on BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games (Demon's Souls/Shadow of the Colossus remakes) 1 week ago:
No Games Station becomes more and more true over time.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 1 week ago:
I view it less as a defense of the current situation and more people trying to find what little optimistic takes are left to take while dealing with this hobby killer greed.
- Comment on REANIMAL | Release Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Roommate and I played the demo and really enjoyed it. We’ll play when the game is on sale, the other negative reviews are about the price when it’s only 4 hours long and I agree it’s too expensive for what it is.
- Comment on Star Wars: Galactic Racer - Gameplay Trailer 2 weeks ago:
Prequel movie interest or opinion doesn’t matter, the first game on N64/Dreamcast/PC was incredible regardless. I replayed recently and it’s still good. Love the damage model/repairing and being able to buy used parts from the junkyard, and maybe controversial but I vastly prefer Racer handling and course design to Wipeout.
I didn’t watch the Disney stuff at all and won’t, potentially this scratches the same itch. I hope so anyways. I couldn’t get into the PS2 sequel so it’s possible to disappoint.
- Comment on Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol.2 - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games 2 weeks ago:
A former specialized PS3 exclusive porting to PC, I wish the developers well. I won’t be as critical about graphics settings potentially being anemic with MGS4.
