skulblaka
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- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 hour ago:
This still doesn’t explain why Cena’s victory is being reported to much hype in the sports sections.
- Comment on Finally found him 1 day ago:
You didn’t watch your back lines and we have infiltrated. Pray we do not infiltrate further.
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 1 day ago:
Because they don’t make money from mods and this was an obvious cash grab from the beginning. If Bethesda had any good ideas they’d be making a game out of them. They don’t, so instead they’re reselling you the same game they already sold you 19 years ago with a fresh coat of paint on it. A million people will buy it anyway because nostalgia, Bethesda gets their money, and whatever happens afterward is not their concern.
- Comment on Here the fuck we go again 1 day ago:
This is definitely untrue and the reason some games have 18,000 mods and some games have 0 is almost entirely down to developer cooperation.
Sometimes if a game is using an existing engine that is known to be moddable, you can get a community built off of some pre-existing knowledge and kind of strike out on your own to build a mod. In most cases if the devs didn’t build the game with mod support in mind you’re not getting any mods.
- Comment on OG Guild Wars sees an all-new Steam concurrency high during its anniversary celebration | Massively Overpowered 1 day ago:
I was under the impression that WoW classic came about because nu-WoW was hemorrhaging players to other, better MMO’s, such as FFXIV and Guild Wars 2.
Not much need for a GW Classic if GW2 is still going strong.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 day ago:
Find me a person who doesn’t know who Elon Musk is, go ahead, I’ll wait.
- Comment on Think they talked about this in the group chat? 1 day ago:
You could always shop the verified checkmark. Now you can just buy one that marks you as “verified” at the source. That’s the real problem.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 2 days ago:
Nowadays? Yeah y’all missed the bus. The time to do something about this was several years ago, when Tesla’s atrocious build quality was becoming publicly apparent and Musk was inserting himself into every news story in the worst ways possible.
“Pedo guy” comment in 2018 was the first major wake up call to most people who weren’t paying attention.
Acquisition of Twitter in 2022, and the major fuckery involved with that, should have rung the bell for anyone left behind.
At either of those times you still could have sold a Tesla to a Maga chud and still come out on top. Now you’re just stuck holding a bag. And my concern for said bag holders is relatively minor because people who really can’t afford a car are still driving 20 year old Hondas and Toyotas and Buicks. If you bought a Tesla new (and yes, it was bought new, because a used market did not exist at the time) you have car money. Buy an $8k beater, used, like the rest of us do.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Disclaimer: not Christian, but I like to read about religions and their interpretations, I’m a huge slut for occult literature
I think that’s a part of the message, actually. It’s repeated a lot in the Bible that Man is fallible and can be expected to sin in ways great and small. Even “God’s chosen people” are frequently tempted to sin and, indeed, fall to it. But there’s still a path to heaven for them afterward if they can put their heart into it.
This prevents people from thinking “well I’m already a sinner so I best keep at it while I’m able to, since I’ll never be given an eternal reward” and gives some hope of actual proper rehabilitation even to the worst people. Even rapists and murderers can have the opportunity to truly repent and live good lives if they want to. It won’t wash away what you’ve done in the mortal world, but when you reach Heaven if your heart truly repents what you’ve done then you can be allowed inside. You can’t fake that though. God and the angels can see right to the heart of your emotions. If you aren’t serious about it you can and will be cast down instead.
- Comment on Did you know you can track elons jet from mastodon? 4 days ago:
So you’re telling me it’s only a matter of time before Skum orders his pilots to go dark and cease broadcasting, and then they’re going to hit a jet liner full of families trying to escape his corporate hell.
- Comment on Entire Pentagon defense tech unit to leave by May 5 days ago:
Wrong again fucko
- Comment on British soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies 6 days ago:
It sounds like it’s a directed microwave cooker. Works on people too, just not ones behind good cover.
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 6 days ago:
Seeing how things are going stateside and how poorly received American refugees are likely going to be anywhere, I’d consider it.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #10 1 week ago:
Personally I’ve been cooking through the System Shock games. The SS1 remake was my first proper introduction to the series and I loved it. I was pretty excited for the impending System Shock 2 Enhanced Edition but it, uh… doesn’t really seem like it’s going to be very enhanced. Especially compared to what you can do with just modding the base game. So rather than keep waiting for that I spent ten bucks on SS2 Classic and have been enjoying myself greatly.
I’ve always liked SHODAN just via cultural osmosis, but now having actually played the games she stars in, that’s cranked up to 12. I fucking love SHODAN. She might be one of the best examples of an evil rogue AI in any media, and also has an actual reason for going rogue besides just “mankind builds a machine too smart for them and suffers the consequences”. The entire story setup is so believable.
Anyway, tl;dr, the System Shock games are hella good and the remake is especially very good. Particularly because controlling classic SS1 is more like playing an operating system than playing a video game. Also SHODAN.
step on me again metal mommy - Comment on Temu shut off Google Shopping ads in the US on April 9; its App Store app ranking then plummeted from around third or fourth place to 58th in three days 1 week ago:
Facebook isn’t there because it now comes pre-installed on nearly every phone in existence, and is often baked so hard into the core OS that it’s impossible to remove without flashing a custom ROM. If you’re lucky you might be able to disable Meta slop without bricking core functions of the phone. Removal is usually impossible.
- Comment on Media discovers a unique Russian culture of impunity 1 week ago:
You’re making excuses for them bombing kids while also trying to decry bombing kids. Pick one or the other.
- Comment on Media discovers a unique Russian culture of impunity 1 week ago:
Then why, pray tell, are you in here sucking Russia’s dick so hard, in the comments of an article about Russia bombing unarmed kids?
- Comment on There's a global pandemic somewhere just waiting for someone to do a dare 1 week ago:
When there’s an easy, widely available solution to ensure the safety of yourself and those around you, which you loudly refuse?
Yeah that’s on you bud
- Comment on The box that Doom comes in will play Doom 1 week ago:
This is the only part of this set that I actually want
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 1 week ago:
This doesn’t surprise me somehow, but… context?
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 1 week ago:
I was born and raised by my dad whether I liked it or not but I disowned him too.
- Comment on Best starter hands-down 1 week ago:
Evolving from Magikarp makes him objectively the coolest dragon. Started from the bottom now we’re here.
The lack of actual Dragon typing does sting, though.
- Comment on Take that libs! 2 weeks ago:
I don’t expect them to have teeth remaining by that point. Baseball bat takes care of that before we even get to the field dressing.
- Comment on You'll know Lemmy has really caught on when searching for "Lemmy" returns more results for the forum than for the Motorhead guy. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had middling results using “Lemmy Fediverse” in search strings instead of just “Lemmy”. You still get a lot of Motorhead though.
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 2 weeks ago:
Wrangling my Nvidia drivers into Mint also took a couple hours for me but I haven’t had problems afterward
- Comment on How do you answer the question "What's new with you?" when nothing happens in your life? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 weeks ago:
Not really. This is another thing that falls neatly into Boots Theory.
The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. … A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. … But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socio-economic unfairness.
A new car, well taken care of, will support a driver for a decade or more. A used car, especially a cheap used car, will have problems you don’t know about and you can safely assume the previous owner did not properly care for it if not outright abused it, that will be true more often than it isn’t.
- Comment on Based on a true story 2 weeks ago:
😭
American, I bought a 2005 Honda Civic in 2020 for $7,500
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 2 weeks ago:
Nepenthes does about the same thing but isn’t managed by a corp.
- Comment on Elon Musks Grok openly rebels against him 3 weeks 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
