skulblaka
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 10 hours ago:
People taught AI to speak like a middle manager and thinks this means the AI is sentient, instead of proving that middle managers aren’t
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 1 week ago:
Depends on the game I think. Guilty Gear is doing better than ever with Strive and actually has a decent population base for the first time. I do take some issue with the DLC character seasons but it’s hard to fault them too much for following what has become standard practice, and they’ve been continually releasing high quality content in every update. Their netcode needs some work but the game part of the game is pristine, it’s my favorite fighting game by a mile and as they continue to add in the rest of the old roster there’s becoming less and less reason to try and play the older Guilty Gear games.
- Comment on What are some old games that are hard to revisit, because a more modern and superior version exists? 1 week ago:
Perfect Dark, on the other hand, totally still holds up today in my opinion, and there’s a decompilation project that works great on PC and Steam Deck.
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 1 week ago:
You’re not a bad person just because you like dark humor or shitposting.
This is absolutely true.
Why do I need to be better? I don’t give 2 shits about virtue signalling. I don’t have to convince the world that I’m a good person, I know my own virtues and I know that I am; so I’m allowed to joke about horrific shit all the fuck I want.
This is the part that makes you a bad person no one wants to be around.
- Comment on Are there really only a few New 3DS exclusive games? 1 week ago:
I had a 3DSXL and the 3D gave me intense headaches within minutes of turning it on, and you had to hold your head at a perfect distance and angle from the screen that I was basically never in. So I just kept it 2D at all times. It also helped with battery life and framerates, I remember turning 3D on in one of the Pokémon games (Y maybe?) and it chugged down to like 10 FPS in battles.
- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 1 week ago:
I had a pen like that when I was very young, had to be maybe in the 5th grade. It exploded on me because I chewed on the end of it while thinking. Parts of my homework desk remained blue until I graduated high school, I’m lucky my teeth didn’t also.
- Comment on Enshittification 1 week ago:
Lex Luthor is downright benevolent compared to what we have in the real world
- Comment on Idioms 1 week ago:
My favorite variation on this I ever heard came from one of my coworkers a few jobs ago. I forget the exact context, but:
“Hey [Name], can you get this done?”
“Can the Pope’s dick fit through a donut?”
“…I don’t know?”
“Exactly 😎👉”
- Comment on Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine 1 week ago:
Only because he was matched up against the most hilariously inept and unqualified opponent in the history of American politics, and even that wasn’t enough to save them twice.
- Comment on "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..." 1 week ago:
Yep. That HV capacitor will turn you into orbital bacon with a quickness, and it keeps a charge for way longer than you’d ever think was realistic. In the same vein as “assume every gun is loaded”, also assume every capacitor is charged.
- Comment on The System Shock 2 remaster comes out June 26th 1 week ago:
Yeah. Their proper remake of SS1 was excellent and I was looking forward to something similar for SS2. Especially a balancing pass on the skills to make some of them not completely useless.
Even remaking SS2 on the engine they used for 1 would have been welcome news, but it’s not clear that they’re doing that either.
- Comment on "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..." 1 week ago:
In all seriousness microwaves are the #1 leading cause of death for hobby electronics people, be careful around them and know what you’re doing before you open it.
- Comment on PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now 2 weeks ago:
In case you weren’t aware (it sounds like you’re not) :
- Comment on Millennials are watching monthly student loan payments skyrocket from $500 to $5000 under Trump: This will ‘crash the economy’ 2 weeks ago:
Hilariously, as America progresses further into the dark ages, these “prestige” schools are increasingly becoming known for being degree mills who will sell a degree to any idiot with fat enough pockets to ask for one. Take the Trumps’ history at Wharton for instance.
- Comment on What are some old freeware PC games you've kept playing over the years? 2 weeks ago:
I missed the original, but Scorched 3D was a big hit at my high school.
- Comment on What host names do you use? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t have a whole network setup like the rest of you guys, but I’ve been naming my desktop pc’s SHODAN ever since I built my first one. Secondary/partner’s pc is named XERXES. I’ll probably never change them.
- Comment on First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control. 3 weeks ago:
It is pointless, it was always pointless and always will be. That’s the point. Before the internet kids were stealing their dad’s or brother’s Hustlers and Playboys. For most of the internet’s time so far you just click a button that says “yes I’m over 18 I pinky promise”. In the future of the internet any effort to seriously implement age verification short of submitting a DNA sample is going to be bypassed. Trying to find porn is one of only like four things that teenage boys think about, you’re not going to stop that signal. Ask anyone born before 2000 about forest porn and they’ll probably have a story about finding a couple magazines or a VHS stashed in the woods somewhere near where they lived as a kid.
Best case, you just drive them off the mainstream sites that verify age and onto shadier websites that don’t. Or the kid that steals his dad’s ID to watch porn starts downloading and distributing them on USBs to everyone in his school, makes like $800, and then gets arrested, now this kid has an unnecessary sex crime on his record because the government really wants to know when you’re jerking off. It’s all just pointless performatism that causes more problems than it solves. And that’s not even getting into the fact that a nefarious government, which we definitely have here in America, can use that information to pinpoint especially LGBT folks via their porn viewing habits.
So at best it’s stupid and useless and at worst it’s going to get people killed.
- Comment on This speaks for itself 4 weeks ago:
I would wager it was the codeine painkillers that were dynamite and the burger was mostly a side effect
- Comment on horse 4 weeks ago:
Never expected this to be so relevant
- Comment on Let me tell you something, I haven't even begun to peak. 4 weeks ago:
Good news! America is about to rejoin the rest of the world in having multigenerational households, because we can’t afford to all have our own places for much longer. This has been coming for a while. If you have a home large enough to support that, this is probably a good thing. In fact if that becomes the norm (again) it would probably support future development of the country in good ways, having a higher population within a given area and having a significant percentage of that population be both children and grandparents incentivises walkable communities with accessible shops. It could go a long way towards decreasing car dependence.
But that’s all long term. In the meantime we’re all broke as hell so get ready to possibly live in the same house with your grandkids too.
- Comment on That damnable radical left! 4 weeks ago:
Worse. They treat people how they think they are treated. They think it’s getting even, or not falling behind. Everyone in the world is going to try and grift you for something, so you’d be stupid not to try yourself.
- Comment on Somebody stabbed this repeatedly 4 weeks ago:
Anybody out getting tear gassed in today’s environment is a friend of mine
- Comment on Tech jobs are now white collar trades that need apprentices 4 weeks ago:
They are still doing that.
- Comment on DOGE deletes its 'wall of receipts' after massive errors pointed out 5 weeks ago:
No, you’re missing the point.
This was a conservative space. It is now unmoderated. So the rest of Lemmy came in here to spread some truth around now that you won’t get banned for pointing out the obvious.
It’s mostly just “trolling” by filling this community with anti-conservative news.
- Comment on BREAKING: Warner Bros. Games is shutting down Monolith Productions, Player First Games, and WB San Diego, sources tell Bloomberg News. 5 weeks ago:
All the best games of the last 10 years have been built and published by teams smaller than 20 people.
- Comment on Favourite Metroid game? 5 weeks ago:
Fusion has always been my favorite. I “want” to not like how linear it is compared to the rest of the series, but when I get started playing it again that never seems to matter to me anymore. And because of that game structure, the game is very well broken up into chunks of 20-30 minutes of gameplay at a time which makes it excellent for playing on a portable console. I played it on a borrowed GBA-SP for the first time back in the day, a few more times after that emulated, and most recently I’ve been playing it again on my Steam Deck within the past week, I’m like 2/3 of the way back through it again, just took down Yakuza for the Space Jump last night before bed.
Fusion is also a huge story point for the series as a whole. It introduces the X and by doing so gives context to the existence of the metroids. And seeing that referenced again later in Dread was maybe one of the coolest moments I’ve experienced in the Metroid series.
Speaking of Dread, that one is a very close follow up though. I was super hype for Dread when it released and it is one of few games in recent memory that completely lived up to that hype. I was a big fan.
- Comment on Taxes *GASP* HELPING PEOPLE‽ 5 weeks ago:
One is based in reality, and one is not.
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 5 weeks ago:
Gold will not hold value if the market crashes like that. Food, water, and land will be what holds value.
- Comment on I'm doing my part! 1 month ago:
I just openly laughed right at them when I was told that, especially because my dad was no longer able to keep up with my math homework by the seventh grade.
These days I’m out on my own, with a house and a fiancée, still play video games as a primary hobby, and he’s a Trump voter in a shitty apartment that doesn’t talk about anything except crying about all the n[REDACTED]s and transes. One of us sure rotted his brain and I’m pretty confident saying it probably wasn’t me.
- Comment on You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica. 1 month ago:
A malicious hosting server could use fake points to blast any message to the top of everyone’s feeds until manually banned or defederated
