groucho
@groucho@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Don't Answer Arthur 1 week ago:
Oh good it’s not just me.
- Comment on I miss console ads being this weird 1 week ago:
Yeah that’s actually funny. Calling it FRAGS is just the icing.
Now that it’s less broken, I’ve been playing Cyberpunk a lot and it feels like edgy shit done correctly. All the big tough guys are actually just weirdos enamored with the sound of their own voice, the ads are ludicrously over the top, it’s bloody, and everyone’s a human being. I haven’t felt gross with any of the content in it so far and it has at least as many strippers as Duke 3D had. I think the loud edgelords keep trying to paint it as free speech vs censorship but it’s really about not making players complicit in whatever infantile world view the director has.
- Comment on I miss console ads being this weird 1 week ago:
Lol that’s awful. 2009?!
- Comment on I miss console ads being this weird 1 week ago:
Nah this is still corpo bullshit. It’s also one of the tamer specimens of that era. The only difference is, the corpos in charge of advertising at that time were all sentient hardons who heard stories about how drugs are and peaked at 14. None of them lived in the real world and they just churned out knee-jerk sexist bullshit because they wanted to appeal to boys going through puberty and men that never left that headspace.
<rant> A lot of the ads from that era are uncomfortable. Hell, a lot of the games were. It was rare to see a female character that wasn’t ditzy and helpless, a thinly-veiled copy of the writer’s mom, or exactly like a dude but hot. Those were the options. I’m not saying I needed every game to be a work of great literature with complex and tormented characters and copious backstory; I just wanted female characters in games that didn’t like someone doing a ventriloquism act with their fleshlight.
I ended up chasing gameplay and trying to ignore how fucking awkward and immature most of the shooters were in that era and I don’t think I was alone. I think a lot of gamers grew up and drove the market in a slightly more mature direction. Some people blame woke bullshit, but for me it was just being utterly sick of how fucking juvenile everything was and voting with my money. There’s still a vocal minority out there that wants the good old days back, but I’d stop playing if the industry went back to exclusively 3xtr33m l33t 4ct10n d00d bullshit.
Sidenote: I played the demo for some Cliffy B game a decade ago on my XBox and hard-quit and deleted when the guy on my comms told me to “fire a rocket directly up the bad guy’s poop chute.” I was in my 30s and Cliff was probably pushing 40 at the time. What the hell? Are we nine years old again? Then again, he was the guy that threw his cat into his scanner and posted a picture of it every day until the internet told him to stop. Ugh. Let’s never go back there. </rant>
- Comment on welcome to the flavor quadrant 1 month ago:
A very long time ago I was on psychedelics at a Phish show. I had a blast at the show, but the venue also had an upcoming Guy Fieri event and I ended up confronted with massive posters that were just Guy Fieri’s weird head everywhere. I had a really bad time for a while until I got out of there. Just frosted tips and flames as far as the eye could see. I had welcome to flavortown on loop in my head and in that moment I experienced true cosmic horror at the idea that Guy Fieri existed in our universe and we were powerless to stop it.
This picture is like that.
- Comment on Gowron would like to see you in his office 4 months ago:
The horny brig? You mean the room Riker insists is just his satellite office?
- Comment on It's big! It's heavy! It's wood! 5 months ago:
“Who’s the guy in the back with the captain’s insignia and the log?” “We call him the Log Captain.”
- Comment on made this up for my wife earlier thought you should all suffer along with her 6 months ago:
Sex is great but have you ever tried having a captive audience for every awful joke you can think of?
- Comment on Use your own holodeck time, Beverly. 6 months ago:
“Number One, how did you find my Scrooge performance?” “Grouchy, sir. Definitely grouchy.” “Not… curmudgeonly?” “Definitely whatever that is. And mean, smelly, and ugly too.” “…”
- Comment on Why do it 6 months ago:
Two ways to find out!
- Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police 6 months ago:
It’s been ages, but we’d done rough calculations for the three controls so we roughly knew what we needed. Our teacher was big on manually tuning instead of just using formulas since he thought just running numbers “lacked artfulness.”
So we grabbed a point and started searching around manually. I think we were just tuning the derivative portion at that point, trying to get a fast response without the system without it going chaotic and noisy.
- Comment on Programmer tries to explain binary search to the police 6 months ago:
The final project in my instrumentation class was to tune a PID controller for a hot/cold mixing valve. I (CS/ENG) was paired up with an engineering student and a lot of it was throwing parameters in, seeing if weird shit happened, and then turning down or up based on the result. I had a programming final and something else I was supposed to be studying for, so I just started doing a binary search with the knobs. We got the thing tuned relatively fast and my partner acted like I was a wizard.
- Comment on RFK Jr. Presidential Candidate 7 months ago:
Gross.
- Comment on Worf struggles with /c/Risa 7 months ago:
Some Risa memes I can actually hear when I read them. This is one of them.
- Comment on My cats keep jumping on my computer desk 7 months ago:
- Comment on I... I would pay good money to see Bashir and O'brien getting trapped in this holonovel 8 months ago:
Prophet Margins: Eighteen Inches of Linear Time
- Comment on Don’t be a lurker, post and comment! 8 months ago:
Give 'em hell!
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
It is time for my brother to admit he does not remember this week’s Trial of Intelligence.
- Comment on sn74hc595n meme 8 months ago:
This is glorious.
- Comment on I accidentally removed the WHERE clause from my SQL query in a personal tool. Every row is now the same. I lost everything, have no backup, and I'm stupid. 8 months ago:
Yeah, I swear it’s part of the culture at some places. At my first full-time job, my boss dropped the production database the week before I started. They lost at least a day of records because of it and he spent most of the first day telling me why writing sql in prod was bad.
- Comment on I accidentally removed the WHERE clause from my SQL query in a personal tool. Every row is now the same. I lost everything, have no backup, and I'm stupid. 8 months ago:
Yep. If you’re in a situation where you have to write SQL on the fly in prod, you have already failed.
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 8 months ago:
Oh wow. The box is long gone and I’d rather keep it, but that’s awesome.
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 8 months ago:
Yeah it’s ridiculous how many ranges of movement they fit in. And I have no idea how I got it. I’m guessing it was a drunken stumble to the mall.
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 8 months ago:
Ninja 5-0 for the GBA. I got out my collection recently and had no idea I owned it. It’s Elevator Action, but you’re a ninja.
- Comment on What Game Boy game do you love that you never hear anyone talk about? 8 months ago:
That’s the first game I bought for my GBC. I didn’t have enough money for a playstation and was jealous of all my friends playing MGS. It’s super well done. I just got an analog pocket and I think I’ll dig MGS out again after I finish my Castlevania games.
- Comment on Tensions are escalating 9 months ago:
Yep. Our friends flew one for a 4th of July party and one of the party guests took them aside and explained what it looked like to a casual observer.
- Comment on Undercover Boss: The Next Generation 9 months ago:
“Captain’s Log, supplemental.”
- Comment on Instructions unclear, posted the Captain. 9 months ago:
I figured out what’s missing. He needs a shiny H on his forehead.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Larry Ellison from Oracle had a cameo too. It was gross.
- Comment on How do you wrap your head around large established software projects in order to contribute to them? 10 months ago:
Yep! Good point.