Adderbox76
@Adderbox76@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Russian TV companies demand 2 undecillion rubles from Google 3 weeks ago:
What is that, about tree-fiddy American?
- Comment on Why The American Dream Became Unaffordable For The Middle Class 3 weeks ago:
Reagan and “trickle down economics” ushered in the 80s and poured gasoline onto Wall Street, empowering a thousand Gordon Geckos to abandon the middle class workers in the name of greater profit.
- Comment on ‘Americans just work harder’ than Europeans, says CEO of Norway’s $1.6 trillion oil fund, because they have a higher ‘general level of ambition’ 3 weeks ago:
Or maybe, just maybe, Europe has been around for soooo much longer than America that they’ve reached the age where they realize that there are other priorities in life than just the accumulation of wealth. Like enjoying life, having a work/life balance, socializing with one’s friends and family.
Perpsectives change when your history as a country is longer than a few hundred years.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 weeks ago:
Well no shit. He figured out that as long as you never “release” a finished game, you’re not going to be blamed for “bugs” while still collecting money on in-game purchases.
There’s a reason he made sure that the in-game store was perfected and ready to go long before the game was anywhere near completed. It’s been the plan ever since he and his team realized that the ultimate scope was likely out of their reach.
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 1 month ago:
That’s because Bethesda’s Creation Engine is a decrepit old shack being held together with random patches and so-called “upgrades”. They’ve needed a completely new engine since FO4/Skyrim, or at least just adopt Unreal. Creation Engine is too old and slow to be capable of that kind of seamless play.
- Comment on Bethesda Believes Starfield Now Has "Its Own Fanbase" 1 month ago:
The greater sin for me was that Starfield laid bare all the flaws with every other Bethesda game.
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The pseudo-choice that doesn’t really make any difference to the story. You can do every faction’s quest line. Making a choice doesn’t preclude you making a different one once that quest line is done, nor does it have any effect on those other questlines going forward. Choosing the Freestar Rangers should, if not preclude you from joining the commonwealth, then at least have come up in the conversation when you’re trying to convince the Freestar Ambassador to open the archive.
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The inevitable stat building in the same direction because it’s simply the easiest way to play the game. You always end up a stealth archer. You always end up a sneak sniper, etc… You can try your best to spec for something else early on, and then quickly realize that it’s not really all that much fun.
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The impermanence of being a bad guy. Pay your bounty and suddenly everyone forgets.
In other Bethesda games, the storylines and atmosphere and sidequests were generally enough to forgive this kind of thing. But Starfield was so humdrum that you couldn’t help but be annoyed by the same quirks that you forgave in other games.
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- Comment on If Biden wanted to could he have people kill Trump since he is in office and SCOTUS said it was ok? 1 month ago:
I kind of don’t want to know, because the real answer would probably be terrifying.
- Comment on Britons ‘healthier than Americans’ but more likely to doubt health, study finds 1 month ago:
Is it that Britons are more likely to doubt their health, or is it that Americans are pathologically afraid to be sick because it can bankrupt them, so they tend to overestimate their health in order to not have to go to the doctor.
- Comment on Pager sales are probably really, really down right now, even for pagers. 1 month ago:
This will doom the industry!
- Comment on The phrase "Pics or it didn't happen" is largely meaningless now that AI is a thing. 1 month ago:
It’s depressing.
- Comment on The phrase "Pics or it didn't happen" is largely meaningless now that AI is a thing. 1 month ago:
It kind of makes me want to go live in a shack in the woods, grow a garden and live out the rest of my days growing my beard and writing increasingly more obscure poetry until it gets posthumously published after my death.
Vegetables and Trees are real at least.
- Comment on The phrase "Pics or it didn't happen" is largely meaningless now that AI is a thing. 1 month ago:
Very true. It’s the immediacy of it that struck me this morning.
If I make a post telling you that I met Elvis Presley as an old man and you respond with “Pics or it didn’t happen”. I can literally post a reply to you within a couple of minutes (If I knew where to go) of me meeting an elderly Elvis Presley. Whereas before I’d have to put some effort into it, and then respond a day later with my finished photoshop creation. The immediacy lends it credibility in the way that traditional photo manipulation didn’t.
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- Comment on Does the GOP Stick Together so tightly to hide the fact that a large majority of them are involved in Pedophilia? 2 months ago:
I think these are just the ones who get caught and that there are hundreds more
“I think” is the operative statement there. What you think is pointless. Facts are what matter. And without evidence that it IS the majority doing it, automatically lumping them all into that group makes us no better than them in terms of their rhetoric and divisiveness.
Every damn side needs to stop painting the other with broad strokes and then complaining when they do it back. It’s not helpful. Questions that are worded like this are not helpful.
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 2 months ago:
Yep. Welcome to the hell that is corporate capitalism.
- Comment on Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that? 2 months ago:
In a word. Lobbyists.
- Comment on Toilet specific plungers get the job done faster and with way less effort and mess. 2 months ago:
Ha ha. No no. I’m pretty good. No problems with the old downstairs plumbing. But it’s not just for toilets. It’s for bathtub sinks clogged with hair. Kitchen sinks, etc… It’s just handy to have around the house. I even used it once to blow the dust out of my dryer vent.
- Comment on How different would the world be if school never ended but you could leave anytime you elect to? 2 months ago:
The issue as I see it is that knowledge in any subject is protean. It changes. So if you wait to long to go back, what you learned before would be completely useless and you’d effectively have to start from the beginning.
Heck, the things I was taught in my Archaeology Degree from 2001 are at best, incomplete, and in some cases, now completely refuted. If I had left and decided to go back even ten years later, the technology that was suddenly in use alone would force me to start all over again.
- Comment on Toilet specific plungers get the job done faster and with way less effort and mess. 2 months ago:
It’s essentially a handheld air cannon. The kit comes with a handle and a suction that covers the toilet hole or whatever. You press down and yeah…it’s basically a air-gun shot to the clog.
And yeah. It works great. Not always on the first blast. But I’ve never had it fail me.
- Comment on Toilet specific plungers get the job done faster and with way less effort and mess. 2 months ago:
This little bad boy here has changed my life.
- Comment on What is going to happen when AI becomes extremely advanced? 2 months ago:
An A.I taking a job doesn’t automatically create a new one in some kind of 1:1 ratio. That’s the entire point of A.I.
You’re (incredibly naive) example of the crane is frankly stupid because a Crane still needs to be operated. Cranes didn’t replace jobs any more than hammers did. Cranes were just a new tool to use in an existing job, Hence Crane Operators.
Now let’s turn your stupid example into a good example. Let’s say autonomous A.I. controlled cranes become a thing, and 100 crane operators lose their jobs. Now (in your brain) a new job has been created “monitoring” the A.I output (whatever you seem to think that means) but because of the efficiency of A.I. it only takes a team of three to monitor all 100 cranes.
What are the other 97 going to do…in your “simple example”?
Maybe put more than two seconds of thought into an analogy before opening your mouth.
- Comment on What are the differences between unsaturated, saturated, monosaturated, polysaturated, and transaturated fats? 2 months ago:
The first four letters.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
God how badly do I want to see a remaster/remake. So under rated. With a bit more fleshing out (It’s a pretty short, pretty linear experience) it could easily compete with the mechanics in Homeworld.
- Comment on Whoever is in charge of Capybara marketing is doing a hell of a good job 2 months ago:
That’s how they stay alive in that place. Literally anything that wants to kill them just stops and goes “awwwwww”
- Comment on Whoever is in charge of Capybara marketing is doing a hell of a good job 2 months ago:
The Quokka marketing department enters the chat…
- Comment on What were your (now retro, but not at the time) gaming wow moments 3 months ago:
Storming the beach for the first time in Medal of Honor: Allied Assault back in 2002.
Even though the graphics haven’t aged well (of course), the sound design, the vibration of the controller, the beats in the pacing as you are tossed around in the boat and then thrown overboard. It was all so well done. It was also the first time (that I could recall) where you began the game and had a moment to just “look around” while the boat was heading to the shore but before you had the ability to move.
You look behind you and you see other soldiers, some puking. Someone yells, and you look up as a fighter/bomber screams over you. The controller rumbles as it drops it’s load on the landing craft next to yours, tossing you around. The game took a few moments to let you immerse yourself in the situation before the action started, which I think was an amazing choice.
Anyway, that’s my answer. And yes, I’m old.
- Comment on What is the better game...The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time or Final Fantasy VII? 3 months ago:
I’ll save you some time. The answer is always FFVII
- Comment on Almost all Windows 10 systems can be upgraded to the new version — so why are businesses holding back? 3 months ago:
Our point of sale software doesn’t work with it. So they blocked the update until it does.
- Comment on Someday soon (if it hasn't already happened) a book will be published that was written and edited entirely on a phone/table with a touch keyboard. 3 months ago:
Why? I’m not talking about age. I’m talking about typing speed.
- Comment on Someday soon (if it hasn't already happened) a book will be published that was written and edited entirely on a phone/table with a touch keyboard. 3 months ago:
You have more patience than I will ever have…
