wizardbeard
@wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Unciv, a 4X game inspired by the Civilization series 2 days ago:
Don’t miss the built in mod browser either.
Has everything you could want, from graphics and music packs to custom civs and overhaul packs to turn it into other games.
- Comment on Same as it ever was 4 days ago:
- Comment on Same as it ever was 4 days ago:
Time isn’t holding up. Time isn’t after us.
- Comment on Little weapons 5 days ago:
You were packing joints when you were ten?
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 6 days ago:
The remake is being handled by a third party, and it’s unclear so far what they’ve been allowed to do besides replace the graphics rendering with Unreal Engine 5. It’s all reportedly still Creation Engine under the hood.
Considering that Bethesda refused to roll in the community bug fixes with their rereleases of Skyrim, it’s likely that it will have all the bugs of the original.
- Comment on Found out about this modding recently for Half Life 1 1 week ago:
Unfortunate to see that they haven’t tested with xash3d or the like. I’d be especially interested in the ray tracing fork of xash being supported.
Improved lighting does wonders for old games, imo.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 week ago:
Then who was phone?
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 week ago:
When the protests against scientology happened. Long before it was sold.
The “protests” devolved into some of the cringiest irl meetups of online communities I have ever come across (yes, worse than dashcon), and it caused so much media attention that it accelerated the “eternal september” problem the site always had exponentially.
Motherfuckers forgot the golden rule about “hiding your power level”, which at the time at least meant doing your best to appear relatively normal in public and went full “I’m a horribly socially maladjusted mess with bad hygiene who can only communicate via tired memes, look at me! Look at me! I know memes! Haha longcat is long am I right?”.
A lot of people remember the cringe of reddit’s “When does the narwhal bacon?” forced meme attempt at the world’s most embarassing “secret pass phrase” bullshit. The scientology “protests” were significant orders of magnitude more cringe.
4chan was never a secret club, but the sheer agressiveness of non-tolerance towards obviously new posters helped to maintain a very low bar of “quality”. I’d argue that’s needed to maintain any semblance of a community on an entirely anonymous image board that has minimal moderation. Shitty threads would get saged relentlessly, eating up the maximum comments a thread could have and drowning out any discussion in the shitty thread, all without bumping it back up to the top. Hit the reply limit and the thread slides off the bottom, gone forever.
But as more and more people unfamiliar with what shitty community existed came in, there hit a point where they outnumbered the old guard, and the already low quality of discussion tanked.
/b/ used to have discussion threads about all sorts of shit. Actual thought provoking stuff now and then. Funny stories. Occasionally legitimately good OC. It was the breeding ground for most of the memes and meme formats that spread to the internet at large. Mudkipz, rickrolling, EFG (the progenitor of trollface and rage comics), lolcats, advice animals. All /b/.
Now it is almost entirely people sharing photos of women they know that they’ve downloaded off the ladies’ social media accounts to jerk off to. Previously they would have been chased off to the dedicated porn (or softcore) boards using fire, pitchforks, and spam of the most digusting images the internet had until the posters got the message. Or at the very least they would have been bullied into a single thread at a time instead of taking over almost every thread on the board.
Instead it has all devolved to the absolute lowest common denominator.
/b/ (and by extension 4chan as a whole) has always been a cesspit. I’m not trying to deny that. There’s screenshots out there of it back when the post count hadn’t breached 1000 that show that it was shit even in the very very beginning. Back when it was almost exclusively m00t, W.T. Snacks, and their friends from Something Awful. That said, it used to be engaging to scroll through because you could stumble upon some legitimately good discussion. It hasn’t been worth even trying to look for good discussion on /b/ for well over a decade.
The retro videogames board was a brief shining return to quality for a few years after it was created, even managed to find, back up, and translate some things that had been lost media. The DooM threads used to be the place to be for new DooM wads. Even that board’s pretty shit now too.
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 1 week ago:
Out of curiosity I’ve tried the AI feature in Paint (on my work computer) to erase something and use AI to fill in the background
I was removing a line between two items on a flowchart, background had diagonal colored lines in a regular repeating pattern think college ruled paper at an angle.
Instead of connecting the lines in the background it seemed to just take an average of the pixel colors of the edge of what I erased and fill it in with that average color. Such intelligence!
- Comment on Regarding the Sudden Increase in User Sign-ups from a Specific Region 1 week ago:
Might help you to know that lemmy.dbzer0.com is run by the former head mod of /r/piracy who left reddit a few years ago, and it has the most active piracy community I’ve found anywhere on lemmy.
- Comment on Lost 2004 Mobile Version of King’s Field Finally Preserved | Retro Gaming News 24/7 1 week ago:
I was going to post about the lost Megaman Legends phone game, but it was recovered last year! Woo!
- Comment on AceCoding.social - Vibe coding on the social web based on the semi-formalic language ACE (Demo) 1 week ago:
The amount of domain knowledge to even begin to parse what the fuck you’re talking about is absurd.
Secondly, why would anyone want this?
I’m glad you’ve found yet another project to look nice for your github portfolio, but maybe be up front about that instead of drowning everyone in near gibberish and what seems like poorly written advertisement.
“Hey, I’ve made another quasi-social media network leveraging the fediverse, AI, and a programming language made to resemble normal english. Check it out!”
Otherwise this is just blatant buzzword salad. I’m going to guess you’re also using AI to get project idea involving the latest buzzwords? Again, more power to you if you’re trying to build a portfolio/github/resume where you can say that you’ve “created numerous projects leveraging fexerated social media and AI”, but just be up front about what you’re doing please.
- Comment on Land of the Free!* 1 week ago:
Is joke.
- Comment on If you like to have music while playing games like Elite Dangerous or No Man's Sky, try this SYNTHWAVE playlist out 2 weeks ago:
Doing trade routes in solo mode is considerably less engaging, but is still a great zen thing for me while I listen to podcasts or half watch something.
- Comment on 30 Years of PlayStation History Secured in Underground Vault with 650TB of Data | Retro Gaming News 24/7 2 weeks ago:
The composer for the OST recently did studio quality remasters of a good chunk of the Ape Escape soundtrack (split across two separare albums iirc) based off the original “before compression” demos, and he also has a big discography of music in the same style.
Soichi Terada is love. Soichi Terada is life.
- Comment on I really need these games ported to Steam. What do y'all have on your lists? 2 weeks ago:
He’s comin’ out again with a good one. Place your bets now ladies and gentleman.
- Comment on Microsoft employee disrupts 50th anniversary and calls AI boss ‘war profiteer’ 2 weeks ago:
For AI? Corporations. No question.
Microsoft has to bundle its consumer AI products in with other licenses in order to achieve their frankly abysmal adoption rates. They also have recently significantly reduceded plans for further spending on datacenters, indicating that they might already see the writing on the wall.
OpenAI, the most successful AI “corp”, hemorages money to a mind boggling degree and actually loses money per query.
It’s not profitable or sustainable. The market forces, if left alone, would not provide enough demand to cover the astronimical costs. Companies with more money than god like Microsoft and now Softbank (although they are having to take out massive loans now) are burning astronomical piles of cash to prop it up.
- Comment on Samsung’s latest stick vac can alert you to calls and text messages 3 weeks ago:
There is no world in which the barely marginal convenience outweighs the additional cost (and near certain privacy invasion of a microphone equipped dryer).
- Comment on GOG seems to be considering paid membership option 3 weeks ago:
I’m fairly sure the update cadence is set by the game dev/publisher, not GoG.
- Comment on Please let Pillars Of Eternity's surprise turn-based mode spark a wave of turn-based updates for all other games 3 weeks ago:
There are a lot of people who want the challenge and skill expression of a game decoupled from reaction time.
- Comment on Harley Quinn Fartacular: Silent Butt Deadly #1 review | Batman News 3 weeks ago:
Wow, what a surprise. This is my surprised face. The character they’ve been assassinating for use as fap bait for ages gets an honest to god fetish comic.
I had thought that the general consensus online from the moment of the announcement was that this was pretty clearly fetish material, but I guess a site named “Batman News” has to maintain an absolutely absurd level of “benefit of the doubt” lest they drive away their readers.
- Comment on Enshittification 4 weeks ago:
No, because you can literally look this shit up, or talk to most hiring managers or business owners.
Surely if that was how it worked then someone would have posted the documents, or emails, or any sort of paper trail. Come on, we’re all waiting.
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 4 weeks ago:
Or speed. Some of the homebrew mods are ridiculous.
- Comment on Eat it 4 weeks ago:
Thanks! You want some glue? I brought extra!
- Comment on One-handed games? 4 weeks ago:
XCom and XCom 2 can be played entirely with the mouse. Minor typing if you want to name your soldiers, but nothing requires quick reflexes. Everything is turn based.
Emulation opens up a lot of options for old school turn based games. RPGs, turn based strategy. Any of the Pokemon games gen 1-3 can be played one handed with some clever button mapping. Any game made to use just the Wii-mote as a pointer would also work, but I don’t know those off the top of my head.
You might want to look into one handed controllers, or something like the FLIR USB dongle that you can use to map IR TV remote signals to keyboard button presses. Just need to use a remote that doesn’t already control something.
- Comment on Any Thoughts, Ideas or Theories of the Bambu H2D that they have been teasing? 4 weeks ago:
Wait, they’re adding vinyl cutting to the extruder? What in the mad science hell?
I can’t see a world where that works well unless the cutter is on a different part. I’d imagine that a vinyl cutting head has entirely different design considerations and constraints.
- Comment on Lil silly 5 weeks ago:
So is this (unfortunately the comment was edited after Cranston responded to it).
- Comment on YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech 1 month ago:
Which is intensely frustrating for people who actually care about free speech. Can’t talk about it without setting off everyone’s “that guy is probably a nazi” alarms.
It’s absolutely an intentional trap to attempt to get people to support moves against free speech by tainting the concept through negative association.
We shouldn’t tolerate hate speech. But I’m concerned about where we end up in a few decades if the concept of free speech keeps the current connotations.
And people might consider even this comment as sealioning or something.
Meanwhile we have people unironically using phrases like unalive and censoring swear words in screenshots so they don’t trip the automated content filters on mainstream social media. That should be more concerning than people seem to take it. People joke about “literally 1984”, but unalive is blatant newspeak.
- Comment on Are you a chicken? 1 month ago:
Gonzo ass mf
- Comment on Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 remake launches in July 1 month ago:
That’s cool, but I hope they have some sort of “all in one” version with 1 and 2 as well. Isn’t the dream getting all the content in one package?
I get that wouldn’t work with the games that are more unique, and the ones with plot and RPG elements, but I would think that it would be possible with the mainline games at least.
