skulblaka
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What's the greatest joy you have gotten from a video game? 3 weeks ago:
1v1 where you’re expecting Oddjob is a lot different than 4P deathmatch where one guy is Oddjob. That’s where it’s a real dick move cause he’ll catch you by surprise.
Still, though. Respect.
- Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 3 weeks ago:
The only way to get everyone to get along is to create a new, even lower underclass of citizen for the humans to all feel smug about. This is that.
This started as a joke but the more I think about it the more afraid I am that I’m right.
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 4 weeks ago:
How about protect your friends and family from a predator?
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on My cousin put a hat on their cat for new years. He doesn't seem pleased 4 weeks ago:
No text version for memeing purposes
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- Comment on Name a game game: "...and then it ends with you fighting A GOD." 1 month ago:
In fact, there are particular reasons behind this that are influenced by Japanese culture and history.
- Comment on 360 Degrees Owl 1 month ago:
This feels like secret agent training material in an alternate world
- Comment on CENSORED!!!!!!!!!!1 2 months ago:
I’m a little bit stoned and it took me like 2 solid minutes and several rereads to figure out what the fuck this was, and I still think it’s just buzzword salad
- Comment on Gandalf wants Balrog for himself 2 months ago:
Gandalf DID want the Balrog for himself. He stole all the XP for that fight and showed up next session leveled up and with a new staff and robes.
- Comment on X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit 2 months ago:
In a past life, pretty plausible.
Now that Elmo is the First Lady, this is the best TOS that’s ever been written by anyone ever. It’s perfect. It probably trumps the constitution because of how perfect it is.
- Comment on First Look: Loops, by Pixelfed 2 months ago:
You’re supposed to be celebrating the more widespread adoption of federated software and a break away from centrally controlled corpo environments in general. This is the public retaking the internet for themselves.
If you don’t like the particular content, cool, don’t go there. I don’t go on Mastodon either but I can appreciate why it’s there.
- Comment on Roses are red in North Carolina..... 2 months ago:
- Comment on Bombs Awat 2 months ago:
I definitely have not, and now I have. I’m unsure if I should thank you for this or not.
I feel like it takes the sport out of it if the fish is dead though. The whole sport of the carp throwing is that a carp absolutely can kick a grown man’s ass and flop to freedom if he isn’t careful. You leave a carp alone long enough and those things turn into damn near coelacanths. They’ll eat your dog. Manhandling one of those suckers into a parabolic arc is going to take skill, strength, planning, and luck.
- Comment on Bombs Awat 2 months ago:
I would watch carp throwing as a competitive sport, they aren’t going to make it easy
- Comment on Why? 2 months ago:
Some of this is the reason why your teleporter has an operator and isn’t automated. The teleporter knows you’re wearing shoes or skis because the operator has specified your parameters. The computer might not know where shoes end and floor begins but O’Brien does.
- Comment on burden of knowledge 2 months ago:
This explains a lot about Elden Ring, and I wish it didn’t.
- Comment on I want to feel like a bad-ass wizard 2 months ago:
Fictorum is the game that most scratches the wizard itch for me. It’s an indie game, so don’t expect AAA polish, but what is there is absolutely what you might call a “hidden gem”.
- Comment on Ads 2 months ago:
Sure they do, I’ve revoked my consent by installing an adblocker I haven’t watched a video ad in probably 8 years.
- Comment on Just beat Luigi's Mansion for the first time! Happy (almost) Halloween everyone!! 2 months ago:
Playing OOT first is not necessary, you’ll pick up all the relevant plot without it. However, Majora’s Mask was made as a sequel to OOT, and having the knowledge of the OOT world and characters will underscore a lot of subtext in MM that you’d likely miss otherwise.
(Nearly) every character in MM is a character from OOT, but shifted one timeline over. They’re the same character but they aren’t the same people. Seeing what’s different between the two iterations speaks just as much as seeing what is the same.
- Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 2 months ago:
The internet
- Comment on The Atoms Family 2 months ago:
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 2 months ago:
Yep. Spin up your own website and throw a couple YouTube ads out into the world. We’ll have legislation drafted making this illegal before your first server bill comes due.
- Comment on Tesla, Warner Bros sued for using AI ripoff of iconic Blade Runner imagery, despite the producers having previously rejected any association between their iconic sci-fi movie and Musk or his companies 3 months ago:
I mean, yeah it might have been, not because that makes it okay but because of a lack of attention on the subject. Then again he also might have gotten sued after the fact like Trump with his campaign trail music he keeps using without permission.
However, Elon did ask first, and was met with the response of “no, we absolutely do not want our product associated with you or your business in any fashion.” So he then carried on to create a barely legally distinct derivative which easily calls to mind the iconic scene in question, and then name drop Blade Runner in the accompanying speech.
Imagine for a moment, you write Bill Gates and ask him if you can use his likeness for advertisement. He tells you no, absolutely not, go kick rocks. So instead you have your local AI whip you up a character - Bull Gotes, a thin, white haired, elderly, bespectacled Caucasian man who made a lot of money on his computers, which he calls Macrosoft. This might be permissible as parody, but I don’t think you’re going to win a court case if you use it in business advertising and Bill decides he has something to say about it.
- Comment on Can someone give me an overview on the Jill Stein situation? 3 months ago:
He’s been talking up his good buddy Putin since his first election.
- Comment on I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home. 3 months ago:
We absolutely could be “there” today but the lingering aura of the Powerglove is still so powerful that nobody has tried to make a better one. It got clowned on so hard the first time that the echoes of that are still rippling through our global subconscious 35 years later.
Also, Nintendo would probably try to sue you if you sold a glove-based controller, even 35 years later.
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 3 months ago:
Higher, but it happens slower.
- Comment on Badgers 3 months ago:
Having met dachshunds, and having met American badgers, I’m going to put my bet on “poorly”
A couple hundred years of bred instincts aren’t going to save the walking hotdog from the meth bear
- Comment on Request for CRPGs recs on the current Steam sale 3 months ago:
Solasta’s campaign feels a little half baked in some ways, especially if you’re coming from Baldur’s Gate, but where it really shines is in building your own campaigns to run your friends through. It’s a perfectly reasonable platform to host online D&D 5e in, especially with mods to expand the content. And there are plenty of user-created workshop campaigns to download, but in general, I wouldn’t recommend it as a single player experience if that’s what you’re looking for. I absolutely do recommend it for group play.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 3 months ago:
In what situation do you need one?
I’ve been using Firefox for over a decade and have literally never once needed to open a different web browser. For anything, ever. This is a very common complaint that tons of people seem to have that I have never seen happen even once out in the wild.
