ICCrawler
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- Comment on What is your favorite Metroidvania? 50 minutes ago:
I have a list of Metroidvania’s I’ve started but never completed. The only one that managed to hold my attention to completion that wasn’t an actual Metroid title was Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night. Which is a shame, because Ori and The Blind Forest is beautiful and Hollowknight is very cute, but neither could really hold my attention.
- Comment on People are playing fewer games and new releases are "struggling", say Ubisoft UK, warning of falling revenues 2 days ago:
Wonder if Ubi will eventually collapse and get bought up by UAE as well.
- Comment on Do you feel like your profile is an identity of you? 3 days ago:
No.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 3 days ago:
Nobody is flexing anything with a common fast-food brand hot sauce.
- Comment on Years later, Arkane’s Dishonored is still a modern stealth classic 6 days ago:
I played the first game way, way back. At the very least, I remember completing it, and liking it. So fast forward several years, the game goes on sale plenty, and I’ve forgotten nearly all of it, but remembered I liked it. So why not play it again right. Picked it up for cheap, and just could jot get into it. I tried a couple times even, but I just can’t for some reason.
- Comment on When "AI" content becomes indistinguishable from human-made content, is there, philosophically speaking, any meaningful differences between the two? 6 days ago:
AI music really caught me off guard. One day I was looking for something very specific to vibe to. I wanted instrumental power metal, like Dragonforce but no vocals. And I found that in Metal Mastery, a YouTube channel. I liked it so much it I looked into it more, turns out it’s AI and the guy is very upfront about it and all. But I would have never known if I wasn’t told. There’s also nothing that really fills that niche either, so I still listen to the albums now and then.
- Comment on Taking a photo to remember a moment is actually outsourcing that memory to an image, so your brain does less work and remembers it worse. 6 days ago:
Or, you just wind up having no memory, and nothing to jog your memory, cause straight up, the human brain is not capable of holding onto it all. There is certainly something to be said for living in the moment, but to condemn picture taking entirely is dumb.
- Comment on Wealthy people of color should help minorities but they choose not to 1 week ago:
Can’t help but remember that one time O.W. Gurley bought some 40 acres of land and sold it only to blacks, helping to start what would become known as Black Wall Street. Only for it to burned down in the Tulsa race massacre.
Which is not to say it shouldn’t be tried again.
- Comment on Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone? 1 week ago:
At 3 billion people, I imagine paper companies would be jumping for joy.
But yeah, that sounds like it’d be a bastard to surveil.
- Comment on 'I think we're in the fight of our lives': Fired Rockstar employees and IWGB are confident the GTA 6 developer will be held accountable for its alleged union busting 1 week ago:
It’d be cool if it were true, but I’m pressing X to doubt.
- Comment on What personal dramas have you witnessed with/among your fellow players while gaming? 1 week ago:
Back when Overwatch was fresh, had a couple randoms I wound up buddying and partnering up with pretty often for a few weeks. But one of them was a really annoying person on mic, who was just very clingy with the other guy. Then other guy wanted to drop clingy guy. Clingy guy freaked. They didn’t split but I eventually just stopped playing. Don’t know how their friendship ultimately turned out.
- Comment on A sock is just a foot bag. 2 weeks ago:
Great, then, now we have another kind of hand bag.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 2 weeks ago:
Nothing much new to say, just reiteration. A big or huge or gigantic map is fine, so long as it’s populated by meaningful content.
- Comment on We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored? 2 weeks ago:
Can you give me any more details? That’s a little vague in and of itself. Mage: The Accension, a TTRPG, is what first comes up when I google it, but really, there’s a number of things it could be.
- Comment on Shein bans sex dolls after France outrage over 'childlike' ones 2 weeks ago:
While it’s cool the major online retailers have delisted the items, somewhere out there, the group that is the actual third party shop that makes the items is still out there. These major online retailers are just distributors. It’s possible the producers may just give up and pack up, but they also may just seek other, less seen avenues of sale through websites that aren’t so pulicly at large.
- Comment on We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored? 2 weeks ago:
I can’t help but think of how the original Deus Ex existed in a world where crackpot conspiracy theories like this were just the reality. And this sounds like it would make a great setting itself as some agent works their way through a conspiracy, going on a small world tour of levels in various major powers of the world before finally ending in a boss battle in some hidden hi-tech but occultish basement of the Vatican where we find the Anti-Christ is preparing to unleash whatever high-tech equivalent is for the Mark of the Beast, and it’s our final big job to take him down to stall his coming to power for the next millenia or some nonsense.
Sorry if you take your theories seriously, I just can’t. But I’d bet they’d make a cool story.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 weeks ago:
I like you, too. Cheers, mate! 🍻
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 weeks ago:
Why, however gateful do you need to be? Tis a tease, a tease! Be as gateful as you please! Meander round it 'nd walk about, or walk right through it, in and out!
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 weeks ago:
What’s a teacher to do when the lock to the gate is in the student’s mind?
- Comment on What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell? 2 weeks ago:
Yep, sorry, that was my bad and a holdover from having that actual scenario play out and being annoyed with it. Then I second guessed myself, checked your post history, which showed your most likely legit, then deleted my comment. So nevermind, I was in the wrong.
- Comment on I wonder if K-pop Demon Hunters is so popular because it's a ready allegory for the fight against fascism and authoritarianism... 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think kids give a lick about any of that. The songs are catchy, the animation is goofy but endearing, the girls are charming and relatable despite their “stardom,” the fantastical elements still play into universal themes (feeling like one must hide the dark side of one’s self versus breaking free.) Politics is definitely not a part of it.
- Comment on What exactly is the reasoning behind Satan ruling Hell? 2 weeks ago:
The weeping and gnashing of teeth isn’t even explicitly hell.
10 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you, I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. 11 I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12 But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
It’s just a general separation from God. Which you could call a Hell, but it’s not explicitly stated as a product of that realm which is Hell.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
The fuck. I’ve never heard of this. Haven’t heard anything that interesting in pokemon since years ago back when I was using smogon university to dig into the meta and play on some online simulator where everyone just locked their pokemon at lv50 and could choose all their IV/EV distribution, natures, and move loadouts for the ultimate meta experiance.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
After playing the story through a few times, it’s hard to actually stay invested in it anymore, I also did all side quests one run two, and I’m not keen on repeating that. However, 2077 is the only game where I will start it up just to drive around and listen to some music, whether in game or something I pick myself, and then just turn it off. Usuallt for 30-45 minutes. And I played many of the GTAs and all but the first Saints Rows. But only 2077 will I drive around just for the hell of it.
- Comment on What are your favorite games from a worldbuilding standpoint? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, I go back and replay the game every few years. Its grittiness is definitely a bit silly to me now, but when I was a kid, I was enchanted by it. While the Jensen games did not have the charm of the OG, the first was still decent, and it’s a shame Square Enix drove it into the ground with the second Jensen title.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 weeks ago:
A head monk asks his disciples to describe a pitcher of water without calling it a pitcher of water. Some monks say what it isn’t. Some monks describe what it can do at length. One monk says nothing, instead, he simply kicks the pitcher over with his foot; he is declared the winner.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 2 weeks ago:
And then there’s the book of Job, the entirety of which is a story where God and Satan make a bet over a guy named Job. Satan says Job is only faithful because of the wealth God has granted him. God says Job is genuinely faithful, and tells Satan he can put Job to the test. So Satan has the entire guy’s family killed by bandits, he loses all his material possessions, and winds up plagued and homeless. Job mostly keeps his faith, yet he is persecuted by his friends (just verbally) who believe his sudden punishments are happening because he must have done something wrong and his faith must be false. Still, he holds out, mostly. Then, when he finally starts to actually crack, God shows up as a fucking whirlwind and goes on a long-ass ramble about how great he is, to which Job humbles himself. God’s response to this is to praise Job. He then chews out Job’s friends who persecuted him and demands they sacrifice 7 bulls and 7 rams and have Job pray for him because God is only gonna listen to Job, nevermind it was all a bet between God and Satan that led to this misunderstanding. Then Job is gifted twice what he had, 14000 sheep, 6000 camels, 1000 yoke of oxen, and 1000 female donkeys. A new family, with seven sons and three daughters, and of course the daughters are just the most beautiful daughters in the whole land. Then Job lived another 140 years.
Something something reading the Bible is the greatest proof you can ever need that it’s bullocks.
- Comment on i give up 2 weeks ago:
RIP. If it ever happens, please post. I’d enjoy a read.
- Comment on i give up 2 weeks ago:
Lmao. Dude, please give a follow up of the session. I’d love to hear how this goes.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
We/they are. So maybe we don’t pay then. I’ve never asked. We just have the premium package, so I assumed we paid.