skulblaka
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- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 5 days ago:
Fuck that, when I bought Chrono Trigger for the SNES, I owned that game. I still own that game. Nintendo has not broken into my home to rescind my license to a physical cartridge that I purchased.
- Comment on to whom it may concern: 1 week ago:
Never said they had to be the same person.
Many folks would consider it right kind of you to put a bullet in a Klansman.
- Comment on do no harm 1 week ago:
There’s some attempt to try and make it genuine, and there are guidelines around it to support that (e.g. 1 = barely noticeable, 3,4 = distracting, 5,6 = unignorable, 7,8 = prevents normal activities, 9 = prevents conversation)
But in practice you’re going to get about one in every dozen patients who engages with this scale in good faith and you’re going to get a number between 8-11 from everyone else.
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 2 weeks ago:
Hey I was that weirdo that down voted this, and I assure you it was by accident and I changed it now. I actually never got the chance to play Apocalypse and hot damn, I had no idea it was a whole sequel, I thought it was an expanded release in the same vein as a bunch of the Persona games have (P3->FES, P4->Golden, P5->Royal).
So, amending my statement, play SMTIV and then play Apoc.
Also, excuse me, I have some shopping I need to do.
- Comment on The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops 2 weeks ago:
but it would be an incredibly stupid thing to do.
So we can pretty much bank on it definitely happening, got it.
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 2 weeks ago:
Leave Pokémon behind, play some Shin Megami Tensei, thank me later.
There’s a pipeline of former Pokémon fans thinking “Huh, these games have kind of gone to crap, I wish I had this same monster-collector style game but with a real plot and interesting characters” and then SMTIV falls from the sky like manna from heaven unto them.
I don’t think IV is actually the best SMT game, I think that honor goes to Nocturne - which is available on the Switch - but SMTIV is a good showing of the series that is available for 3DS. If you have the option, pick up SMTIV-Apocalypse, it’s an expanded “GOTY-style” re-release of IV, but the base game is also fine.
- Comment on When they told me to invest in bitcoin, I bought all this at $20 dollars an ounce 100 years ago. 2 weeks ago:
Very carefully
- Comment on If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7 2 weeks ago:
Not to mention, the true resource cost of an AI comes from training. Sure, it costs about as much processing and power as a video game to prompt a trained AI. I can believe that. However it takes many thousands of times as much power and processing to train one, and we aren’t even close to halfway through training any general-llm model to the point of being actually useful.
- Comment on An ex-Intel CEO’s mission to build a Christian AI: ‘hasten the coming of Christ’s return’ 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on "A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore computers are a valuable tool for law enforcement and the ruling class." 3 weeks ago:
We don’t jail gun manufacturers either.
Be a lot cooler if you did
- Comment on Did it really used to be common for guys to go to a bar every night like in Cheers or The Simpsons? 3 weeks ago:
Honestly I’m cool with fucking up my body to have a good time, I just wish it didn’t cost me $200 for the privelege.
- Comment on OpenAI will allow mature content, including erotica, to verified adult users as of December 4 weeks ago:
Whoa, back up there. Nobody was talking about CSAM until you brought it up.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Repacks are sourced from the scene, and the scene cracks video games. The fact that you get free video games out of it is a side effect.
Could you explain what you mean by this? Are the cracks just done for fun / for clout? I do admit I have wondered what keeps people so reliably cracking new games. Seems like a thankless job.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 5 weeks ago:
The oligarchs use VPNs to make their corporations function. They won’t be made illegal. Blanket banning all VPNs in America leads to an instant grinding halt of all commerce.
- Comment on Texas National Guard arriving in Chicago 1 month ago:
All armed forces members are required by oath, and therefore by law, to refuse unlawful orders.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 month ago:
You run into a subtext problem here though.
Serving shareholders’ “best interests” is not the same thing as either maximizing profits
Making this argument to shareholders means you’re telling them “I wish to shrink your profits”, no matter what else comes after that comma that’s a non-starter for a CEO. 99% of shareholders don’t give one Kentucky fried fuck about the company, they just want free money. You get between them and their free money and you’re gone, replaced by the next failing-upward ghoul in line on LinkedIn.
The idea of having a well established, respected and non-abusive company is no longer a reality in America. The stock market is a vehicle for gambling on shareholder feelings. It’s no longer about the company at all, just about how much you can hype up the company to then pass the bag along to someone else.
Wal-Mart shareholders don’t care if Wal-Mart craters into Hell tomorrow, so long as they get paid dividends and are able to offload their shares at a profit before it dies.
- Comment on ugh I hate these notifications 1 month ago:
Shitty reward??
Excuse me, Dawnbreaker is the coolest looking useless sword in the game. That’s not shitty, that’s home decor.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Double checked to make sure I wasn’t making a fool of myself, and yeah, you’re actually completely correct.
Chief Justice presides over the hearing and the Senate votes on it. The House of Representatives is who presents articles of impeachment and if they reach a simple majority, then bam, you’re impeached right then and there. But a successful impeachment then goes to Senate to vote whether the official in question is guilty and should be removed from office.
Interestingly, according to this gov page I’m pulling the info from (which may or may not be accurate anymore these days, who knows) a total of 21 successful impeachments have been run in American history. Of those impeached, only 8 officials have been found guilty by the Senate and removed from office. All 8 of them were federal judges. 3 presidents have been impeached, but none were removed from office - Nixon isn’t on this list because he resigned and ran away once the impeachment process began but before it could finish. DJT is the only president in American history to manage to be impeached twice.
Anyway, point being, if the president has either the Senate or the Supreme Court Chief Justice in his pockets, he’s effectively immune to impeachment. With both in his pockets he’s so immune to it that it becomes a joke to him. You can impeach him as many times as you want all day long until the cows come home, but if no one in the Senate ever votes to convict then it means nothing more than a nasty footnote on his page in the history books. Or more likely these days it means you’ll be picked up off the streets by the Gestapo and the impeachment will be conveniently left out of historical records.
- Comment on Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced 1 month ago:
My Steam Deck doesn’t serve me ads. Not even the on-boot sale pop up that desktop Steam gives.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Trump has been successfully impeached twice. Impeachment just doesn’t mean “removed from office” like everything thought it did. Unfortunately the Supreme Court is who makes the decision about whether an impeached president is removed from office or not.
- Comment on ICE tries to kidnap random food delivery driver off the street. He jukes them on a foldable bike. 1 month ago:
Sometimes I feel like the only person in the world who genuinely enjoyed Snow Crash from cover to cover and it makes me wonder if my media literacy is suffering
- Comment on You gotta rizz 'em 1 month ago:
She in awe of my 'tism
- Comment on sticker 1 month ago:
- Comment on Clip of Chinese academic dismantling Israeli genocide propagandist goes ultra-viral 1 month ago:
“Your country has done terrible things without your consent, therefore you are NOT ALLOWED to criticize an international genocide”
What the fuck?
- Comment on Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a 'mods aren't real games' stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit 1 month ago:
That already happened and they already C&D’d it according to someone else in this thread
- Comment on Is there or has there ever been information illegal to possess or have? 2 months ago:
- Comment on [Silksong] Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 2 months ago:
Sting Shard trap also works great, I just threw one of those at every minion spawn and then they die in one Needle hit after. If you stack poison on it then you probably don’t even need the follow up hit but I don’t remember if you can have the Pollip Pouch before this fight or not.
Sting Shard is great in general though. Does 2x Needle damage in a trap you can place in midair, can be poisoned with Pollip Pouch for even more extended DPS, is AoE-capable and can hit multiple enemies, and is cheap enough to refill at 7 shell shards. It’s been my primary red tool so far all game, though I just got to Act 2 recently and I’m hoping to find something better here.
- Comment on [Silksong] Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 2 months ago:
Go west and south when you find the rain
- Comment on [Silksong] Patch Version 1.0.28497 Now Live 2 months ago:
Last Judge was the only boss so far that almost completely filtered me from the game and I think the reason why was because of how very little warning you get before the big spin. I think like an extra quarter of a second on that startup animation would go a huge way toward making her way less annoying. Took me two days to complete the fight because I kept getting so tilted by getting hit with the spin.
The runback wasn’t difficult at all but it was very annoying. You can avoid all enemies on the route except for a single drill fly, but it takes a whole 30 seconds or more to make the run back to the boss fight. Don’t fuck up your platforming though, the sand worms do two damage, so missing a landing means you’re stuck spending the first 10 seconds of the fight trying to Bind with your cocoon silk if you want to survive more than one single hit (two, if you found all the act 1 mask shards).
To be honest I ended up finally defeating Judge by strapping on the Pollip Pouch and sticking her full of poison straight pins. I regret nothing and I do not consider this to be dishonorable.
- Comment on A little memorial at the local dump 2 months ago:
Go set up a trail cam out there before the event
