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- Comment on It's 2025, the year we decided we need a widespread slur for robots 3 days ago:
Why do people use a single work of fiction as “proof” of anything? Same with all the idiots yelling “Idiocracy!!11!” nowadays. Shit is so annoying.
- Comment on Are u sure? 5 days ago:
- Comment on xkcd #3124: Grounded 5 days ago:
Yes and yes.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 6 days ago:
It’s so good
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 6 days ago:
Sayonara Wild Hearts. The game itself is fantastic, as well. One of my favorites.
For anyone that does get the album, I recommend listening to it in game order over album order. Maybe it’s just cause I’m most familiar with it while playing, but it makes more sense in that order, imo.
- Comment on Things that make you go hmm... 1 week ago:
Making images worse is not a “good use of technology”.
- Comment on Things that make you go hmm... 1 week ago:
Why did you regenerate an images of already existing shots from the show? Just wasting energy to make worse copies of things.
- Comment on YSK: Bandcamp is waiving its fees today and all money is passed to the artist (until 12 a.m. PST) 1 week ago:
First Friday of the month, but not every month. They announce the next ones a few months in advance.
- Comment on Have most people never seen a full starry night sky 1 week ago:
Was lucky enough as a kid to get to visit one of those giant, astronomical telescopes one evening. The astronomer got it pointed at what he called a “star cluster” and invited me to take a look. I expected, like, a handful of stars. Ten? Twenty? I saw more stars in that cluster than I’ve ever seen in my life, and it blew my little mind. It was stunning.
- Comment on Layoffs hit CNET as its parent company goes on a buying spree 1 week ago:
“You need to cut the fat so we can buy more companies that we will use as ballast just like you.”
Like, I get some companies will feel like they don’t have a choice if they want to stay open, but man…it really feels like a terrible idea to sell out to these people. They don’t care about anything except their own bottom line, and every asset they pick up will be used and discarded with that in mind.
- Comment on Slime Rancher 2 - Release Date and Physical Pre-Order Announcement 1 week ago:
I feel that doesn’t really apply for a game that’s been playable for several years now. It’s not a triple-A preorder, it’s just the physical relase for an early-access game.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
Back to what, exactly? At what point in the past was it easier to use a computer than it was in the late 90s? Unless you’re talking about before computers, which doesn’t really have any bearing on what’s being discussed.
- Comment on Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there 2 weeks ago:
Anyone have a guess as to why these companies don’t just cut off the country being used to spearhead these attempts? Like, half the popular games are blocked already. And setting this precedent will likely lead to further fuckery in the future. Is Australlia really that profitable that it’s worth the current and future hassle?
- Comment on A Hellraiser video game. What do you all think? 2 weeks ago:
single-player survival horror action game
It’d be really interesting if you played as the Cenobytes.
I do agree an all cutscene trailer tells use basically nothing. Does some good for tone setting though, I suppose.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 2 weeks ago:
Evidence directly from the suspect(s) is basically a confession. Gender has nothing to do with it.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 2 weeks ago:
How does “We wouldn’t need [evidence] if society just trusted women” fit your argument?
- Comment on xkcd #3116: Echo Chamber 3 weeks ago:
I just wanna shout out the choice to make the “bubble” transparent so it matches every background. That’s some quality meme-ing.
- Comment on Microplastics will be the "boomers all have lead poisoning" of millennials 4 weeks ago:
Nobody said it would be.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 4 weeks ago:
To open the community center (the primary goal for the first year+) specifically takes quite a lot of money actually, and outside of talking with NPC’s once a day, money is necessary to get every other advancement I can think of. I agree that many players probably go too hard into trying to min/max things, but the game isn’t as loosey-goosey with costs as you suggest.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 4 weeks ago:
Sorry, I probably could have been more clear that I was referring more to people that play SD for irl years and have crops spread all across their farm. I can definitely sympathize with new players that spread out too much without the experience to know what that entails. Hell, I’m pretty sure did the same my first time playing. It seems petty natural to make that choice.
Fwiw, if you end up trying the game again, I found QOL mods really enhanced my enjoyment of the game, particularly the one that provided the option to change how long days were. Even just a 20% change really helped make the game less stressful for me.
- Comment on People Believe If 90% Prefer A over B, A Must Be Much Better than B. Are They Wrong? 4 weeks ago:
Same thing with RottenTomatoes ratings. “90% fresh” just means the reviewers thought it wasn’t terrible. It really doesn’t say anything about the actual quality of the movie.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 4 weeks ago:
For anyone that hasn’t seen it, Portal: Reloaded is a fan-made dlc that’s really quite good as well.
- Comment on Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game 4 weeks ago:
I never understand why anyone puts together those maybe farms. Personally, I always end up leaving the vast majority of the space unused. My farms only ever occupy the space directly in front of the house, and even that needs sprinklers asap.
- Comment on Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, I’m rich.
- Comment on Now You Can Buy In-Game DLC And Pay It Off Later 4 weeks ago:
Only if you’re right.
- Comment on Please settle a debate. A kid in the womb is better off listening to stuff like cat in the hat so it can be read to it at bedtime? Or history of the world during the womb and read it later? 4 weeks ago:
The content doesn’t matter in the slightest.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. 4 weeks ago:
Oh no. A program has output the thing it was prompted to output.
By the man in charge of one of the biggest social media site on the planet, who recently was spearheading governmental reform in the US. Yeah, that’s news. It might not be surprising, but it’s still news.
- Comment on Microsoft has never been good at running game studios, which is a problem when it owns them all 4 weeks ago:
AAA devs are finding out there’s no such thing as infinite money doesn’t mean there are no good games. Look around and you might just realize they’re actually the least interesting content out there. There are more games coming out per/day than at any other point in history. Take some initiative and you’ll find something great.
- Comment on ICE raids on US farms leaves crops rotting 5 weeks ago:
The raids are bullshit, but at least companies are finally facing some sort of consequence for their institutional, systemic exploitation of migrants.
- Comment on The Illuminator Advert - Game Boy Accessory 5 weeks ago:
I didn’t get a light until the gb color. It held into port well enough, but yeah, that thing chewed through batteries as well. I was so happy when I got an sp.
